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Invention of Tradition (83 Edition)
by Eric Hobsbawm  Publisher Comments Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of...
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Oral History Manual (02 Edition)
by Barbara W. Sommer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-125) and index....
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The Geography of Rural Change
by Brian W. Ilbery Synopsis This text examines the processes and outcomes of rural change as a result of a period of major reconstruction in developed market economies. Emphasis is placed on relevant principles, concepts and theories of rural change, supported by case studies....
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Negotiating Ethnicity: Second-Generation South Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational World
by Bandana Purkayastha Publisher Comments Purkayastha's work disentangles the effects of race and class. . . . Her findings suggest that ethnic identity is fluid and multi-layered and that the meanings and boundaries of these multiple layers constantly diverge, intersect, and clash. --Min Zhou...
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Obedience To Authority (74 Edition)
by Stanley Milgram Publisher Comments A modern classic with a new foreword by Stanley Milgram's former teacher and friend, author Jerome S. Bruner, Obedience to Authority emerges, even on the thirtieth anniversary of its publication, as a timely book for this age of war and terrorism. Half a...
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Better Day Coming : Blacks and Equality 1890-2000 (01 Edition)
by Adam Fairclough Synopsis From the end of postwar Reconstruction in the South to an analysis of the rise and fall of Black Power, acclaimed historian Adam Fairclough presents a straightforward synthesis of the century-long struggle of black Americans to achieve civil rights and...
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Unchosen : Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels (05 Edition)
by Winston Publisher Comments When Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was surprised to be covertly introduced to Hasidim unhappy with their highly restrictive way of life and sometimes desperately struggling to...
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Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression (History of Communication)
by David Welky Publisher Comments As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative...
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Reinventing Womanhood
by Carolyn G Heilbrun Synopsis Heilbrun's important investigation into issues of identity for 20th-century American women probes the problem with past models and the ongoing task of creating new ones today. "Essential reading for anyone interested not only in the future of womanhood...
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Space and Place : the Perspective of Experience (77 Edition)
by Yi-fu Tuan Synopsis In the 25 years since its original publication, Space and Place has not only established the discipline of human geography, but it has proven influential in such diverse fields as theater, literature, anthropology, psychology, and theology. Eminent...
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Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West
by Clemens P. Work Publisher Comments Two weeks after the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, the town of Lewistown, Montana, held a patriotic parade. Less than a year later, a mob of 500 Lewistown residents burned German textbooks in Main Street while singing The Star Spangled...
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Uninsured in America : Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity (2ND 07 Edition)
by Susan Sered Publisher Comments Reaching beyond statistics and prevalent assumptions, Uninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people...
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Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
by Judith Levine Publisher Comments Many of us have tried to call a halt to our spending at one time or another. But what if we decided not to buy anything for a whole year? Obviously, we would need necessities like food and soap, but how would be manage without new clothes, treats...
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The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - a New Approach
by The Iraq Study Group 
Publisher Comments On March 15, 2006, members from both parties in Congress supported the creation of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group to review the situation on the ground and propose strategies for the way forward. For more than eight months, the Study Group met with...
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Work Anf Society : an Introduction To Industrial Sociology (2ND 96 Edition)
by Curt Tausky Publisher Comments This brief text provides students with the essentials of industrial sociology, emphasizing the issues, theories, and data needed to understand work and workplaces in today's global economy. The opening chapter discusses hunting-gathering, early...
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Mexican Lives
by Judith Adle Hellman Synopsis A moving and insightful look into the daily struggles of a cross-section of Mexicans....
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Sleeping With Extra-terrestrials : the Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety (99 Edition)
by Wendy Kaminer Publisher Comments In Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, social critic Wendy Kaminer illuminates the various ways in which society has come to value emotion over reason, faith over fact, and argues that declarations of intense belief have largely taken the place of rational...
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Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (Writing in Latinidad)
by Rigoberto Gonzalez Publisher Comments Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable. ...
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Hispanic Condition : the Future Power of a People (Rev 01 Edition)
by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments “ A landmark study that explores with defiance and originality the convoluted Latino identity.”...
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Pad: The Guide to Ultra-Living
by Matt Maranian
Powells.com Staff Pick This is the book to aid you in your quest for your own personal life of eXceSs. A compilation of insanely dedicated, obsessive people who with the help of way too much paint-fur-glitter-bamboo-colored lights-animal print fabric-taxidermy-Catholic...
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