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Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.
by Alex Boese  Publisher Comments Can you grow a bonsai kitten? Should you stock up on dehydrated water? Is it easy to order human-flavored tofu? Or is this all just B.S.? In a world of lip synching, breast implants, payola punditry, and staged reality shows, it's hard to know the...
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Absinthe: History in a Bottle
by Barnaby Conrad Publisher Comments Crystal clear in the bottle, potent emerald green in the glass, and 144 proof — absinthe is as illicit as it is intoxicating. It's also among history's most notorious liquors — romanticized and maligned in equal measure. Here for the first...
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The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory (Theory, Culture & Society)
by Mike Featherstone Publisher Comments This challenging volume re-asserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. At a theoretical level, the volume explores the origins of a social theory of...
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The season :inside Palm Beach and Amerca's richest society
by Ronald Kessler Synopsis Award-winning investigative journalist Kessler peels away Palm Beach society's protective layers to reveal the games played by the world's wealthiest people. 16-page photo insert....
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The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
by Scott E. Page Publisher Comments In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better...
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Handbook of Communication and Social Interaction Skills
by John O. Greene Publisher Comments Providing a thorough review and synthesis of work on communication skills and skill enhancement, this Handbook serves as a comprehensive and contemporary survey of theory and research on social interaction skills. Editors John O. Greene and Brant R...
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Cuba: A Global Studies Handbook (Global Studies: Latin America & the Caribbean)
by Ted A. Henken Book News Annotation Henken (sociology, Black and Hispanic studies, Baruch College, city U. of New York) provides narratives and references in this review of Cuban history, politics, and society. He reviews Cuba's geography and history, beginning with indigenous cultures...
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India's Popular Culture: Iconic Spaces and Fluid Images
by Jyotindra Jain Synopsis The volume surveys the production and reception of popular visual culture in India from historical and contemporary perspectives (especially images from the print-cultures of the mid-19th-mid-20th centuries visual turn that emerged from the new media te...
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Material Culture in America: Understanding Everyday Life
by Helen Sheumaker and Shirley Teresa Wajda Book News Annotation Sheumaker (American studies, Miami U., Ohio) and Wajda (history, Kent State U., Ohio) have compiled an encyclopedic survey of American cultural studies topics and how they are expressed and understood through material culture. Approximately 200...
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Everything She Ever Wanted
by Ann Rule Publisher Comments WAS SHE A SWEET SOUTHERN CHARMER? OR A COLD-BLOODED KILLER? For their wedding portrait, petite Pat Taylor and handsome Tom Allanson posed as Rhett and Scarlett. Both came from fine Southern families, and dreamed of the Tara-like plantation where they...
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I Love You Phillip Morris: A True Story of Life, Love, and Prison Breaks
by Steve Mcvickers Synopsis Steven Russell possessed unusual talents---he was a jailhouse Houdini with a specialty in fraud. This is the hilarious true story of his life as a brilliant criminal and the devotion to his true love that kept landing him in the pen....
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New Communitarian Thinking: Persons, Virtues, Institutions, and Communities (Constitutionalism & Democracy)
by Amitai Etzioni Synopsis Amitai Etzioni has collected a sterling list of contributors who bring communitarian thinking to bear on such timely and contentious issues as abortion, homosexuality, free speech, and personal autonomy....
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Women in Ancient Egypt
by Gay Robins Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-199) and index....
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
by Joe Bageant Publisher Comments After thirty years spent scratching together a middle-class life out of a "dirt-poor" childhood, Joe Bageant moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, where he realized that his family and neighbors were the very people who carried George W...
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Making It Personal - Individualising Activation Services in the Eu
by Book News Annotation Individualization--efforts to provide tailor-made or personalized social services--is fast becoming a core feature of European social service provision, according to the editors (researchers of comparative social and labor market policies at the U. of...
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Struggle for Black Equality 1954-1992 (Rev 93 Edition)
by Harvard Sitkoff Publisher Comments The Struggle for Black Equality is an arresting history of the civil-rights movement--from the pathbreaking Supreme Court decision of 1954, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, through the growth of strife and conflict in the 1960s to the major...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser 
Publisher Comments Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened...
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Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
by Gary Paul Nabhan Publisher Comments In Why Some Like It Hot, an award-winning natural historian takes us on a culinary odyssey to solve the puzzles posed by "the ghosts of evolution" hidden within every culture and its traditional cuisine. As we travel with Nabhan from Java and Bali to...
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Costume and Fashion : Concise History (4TH 02 Edition)
by James Laver Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 292) and index....
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Conservatize Me: A Lifelong Lefty's Attempt to Love God, Guns, Reagan, & Toby Keith
by John Moe Publisher Comments We always hear how everyone in America is firmly planted in red or blue. They're permanently conservative or irreversibly liberal. But are we all really that locked in to the left or the right? Is America still a place where it's possible to change...
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