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Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, & Money
by Erik Marcus  Publisher Comments Meat Market elevates the debate over animal agriculture. Erik Marcus exposes and clears away the exaggerated claims and counterclaims put forth by the meat industry and its opponents. In the process, Marcus presents a thorough examination of animal...
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Queer Studies
by Robert J Corber Publisher Comments Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of essays that over the past two decades have helped to establish sexuality as one of the most vital and important areas of study in both the humanities and social sciences....
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The Museum of Lost Wonder: A Graphic Guide to Reawakening the Human Imagination
by Jeff Hoke Publisher Comments The Museum of Lost Wonder is a book with a mission, simply stated: To illuminate life's mysteries. The execution is nearly indescribable. Think McSweeney's production values and design pyrotechnics. Think traditional esoteric symbols in a childhood...
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From Altoids to Zima: The Surprising Stories Behind 125 Famous Brand Names
by Evan Morris Publisher Comments The author of the syndicated newspaper column and award-winning Web site "The Word Detective" offers the fascinating origins of the names of some of the world's most famous products and brand names, handled with Morris's trademark wit and humor....
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African Wisdom: 101 Proverbs from the Motherland
by Tokunboh Adelekan Publisher Comments "It takes a whole village to raise a child." "If you wash yourself with anger you never have clean hands." These are just a few of the more than 100 inspiring proverbs contained in this book. Many people, unfortunately, merely associate the continent of...
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India's Popular Culture: Iconic Spaces and Fluid Images
by Jyotindra (edt) 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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Paradigm Conspiracy : Why Our Social Systems Violate Human Potential-and How We Can Change Them (96 Edition)
by Denise Breton Publisher Comments Drawing from the success and wisdom of the Iroquois Peace Confederacy, Twelve Step recovery programs, and the poetry of Rumi, The Paradigm Conspiracy provides an analytical framework of our current social systems and presents suggestions for change that...
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The Meaning of Sociology
by Joel M. Charon Publisher Comments This classic reader captures the excitement inherent in the field of sociology with 65 carefully chosen classic and contemporary selections from a wide variety of authors and sources. The reader is better organized around basic sociological concepts and...
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Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country (1914-1932) (with a Foreword by Albert Hourani)
by Peter Sluglett Synopsis After the end of World War I, international pressures prevented the Allies from implementing direct colonial rule over the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Instead, the Allies created a system of mandates for the governance of the Middle East....
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Unknown City : the Lives of Poor and Working-class Young Adults (98 Edition)
by Michelle Fine About the Author Michelle Fine is professor of social psychology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York and lives in Montclair, New Jersey. She is author of several books, including Framing Dropouts, coauthor with Lani Guinier and...
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Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper
by Laurel Leff Publisher Comments How The New York Times failed in its coverage of European Jews from 1939-1945....
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Century: Mini Format
by Bruce (edt) Bernard From Powells.com "Century is a beautiful, eternally fascinating book. To peruse its pages is to feel connected to the entire range of humanity, in all our glory and vainglory." Georgie Lewis, Powells.com (read the entire Powells review)...
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Introduction to Visual Culture
by Nicholas Mirzoeff Publisher Comments The emerging field of visual culture poses rough terrain for beginners with its nuanced distinctions and reliance on postmodern theory. Not until "An Introduction to Visual Culture" has any book attempted to present a comprehensive and accessible...
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The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts
by Judith S Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee Publisher Comments Ours is a culture of divorce, yet some couples have happy, long-lasting marriages. What is their secret? When so many marriages fail miserably, why do others succeed? This book has the answers. Judith Wallerstein, coauthor of Second Chances, the...
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The Goddess Re-Awakening: The Feminine Principle Today (Quest Book)
by Shirley Nicholson Publisher Comments The feminine principle in spirituality today; essays by Riane Eisler, June Singer, and others....
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On the "Clean" Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm (Speaker's Corner)
by Willie Nelson Publisher Comments Country music legend Willie Nelson confronts one of the most significant problems facing America today: dependency on foreign oil as a source of energy....
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Confounding Color Line : Indian-black Experience in North America (02 Edition)
by James F. Brooks Publisher Comments Confounding the Color Line is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Blacks in North America. Since the days of slavery, the lives and destinies of Indians and Blacks have been...
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To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife
by Caitlin Flanagan 
Powells.com Staff Pick Caitlin Flanagan is stirring the pot once again with her provocative take on modern motherhood. Drawn from articles written for the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly, Flanagan's musings range from the irony of a white wedding to the odd rise in sexless...
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The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550--1870: A Geohistorical Approach
by Faruk Tabak Publisher Comments Conventional scholarship on the Mediterranean portrays the Inner Sea as a timeless entity with unchanging ecological and agrarian features. But, Faruk Tabak argues, some of the traditional and olden characteristics that we attribute to it today are...
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Wine & Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking
by Fritz (edt) Allhoff Publisher Comments Wine & Philosophy offers a collection of essays which explore a range of philosophical topics related to food; it joins Food & Philosophy and Beer & Philosophy in in the Epicurean Trilogy. Essays are organized thematically and written by philosophers...
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