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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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Challenge of Local Femini (Social Change in Global Perspective)
by Amrita Basu Publisher Comments This pathbreaking book provides for the first time an overview of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of women’s movements worldwide. Unlike most of the literature, which focuses on the industrialized Western world, this volume devotes greater...
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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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Looking Beyond the Highway: Dixie Roads and Culture
by Claudette Stager Synopsis Looking beyond the Highway is an examination of road history and roadside attractions specific to the South. Focused in part on numerous aspects of the material culture landscape of the Dixie Highway, the essays consider the politics of roadbuilding...
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Race Is Race
by Laurence Parker Publisher Comments The field of critical race theory has gotten increasingly more attention as an emerging perspective on race, the law, and policy. Critical race theory examines the social construction of the law, administrative policy, electoral politics, and political...
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Practical Spirituality: Reflections on the Spiritual Basis of Nonviolent Communication
by Marshall B., Ph.d. Rosenberg Publisher Comments According to Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D., our most basic spiritual need is to contribute to the well being of others and ourselves. His brief, unscripted reflections on the spiritual basis of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) will inspire you not only to...
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All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families
by Rene Denfeld
Publisher Comments James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. Rejoined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group — they called themselves a family — was...
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Feminism and World Religions (99 Edition)
by Arvind (ed.) Sharma Synopsis Leading women scholars address their own traditions as they explore seven world religions in this unprecedented feminist treatment....
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