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Housing Transformation: Shaping the Space of Twenty-First Century Living (Housing and Society)
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Housing Transformation: Shaping the Space of Twenty-First Century Living (Housing and Society)
by Bridget Franklin

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The turn of the century has seen a proliferation of concepts and models in relation to the development of new residential environments in the UK. Housing Transformations describes these concepts and models and accounts for their emergence at the present...
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To Have and to Hurt to Have and to Hurt: Recognizing and Changing, or Escaping, Patterns of Abuse in Recognizing and Changing, or Escaping, Patterns o
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To Have and to Hurt to Have and to Hurt: Recognizing and Changing, or Escaping, Patterns of Abuse in Recognizing and Changing, or Escaping, Patterns o
by Angela Browne Miller

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Every year, nearly 2 million injuries and some 1,300 deaths result from so-called intimate partner violence. In this work, psychotherapist Browne-Miller uses vignettes, as well as standing and emerging research, to detail both healthy and hurtful...
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Close-Up: How to Read the American City (Phoenix Book; P863)
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Close-Up: How to Read the American City (Phoenix Book; P863)
by Grady Clay

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"Grady Clay looks hard at the landscape, finding out who built what and why, noticing who participates in a city's success and who gets left in a 'sink,' or depressed (often literally) area. Clay doesn't stay in the city; he looks at industrial towns...
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Motherhood by Choice: Pioneers in Women's Health & Family Planning
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Motherhood by Choice: Pioneers in Women's Health & Family Planning
by Perdita Huston

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To honor the 40th anniversary of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, journalist Perdita Huston travelled the world to gather this remarkable collection of oral histories of and about the often unknown leaders of a worldwide movement to bring...
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Back to Methuselah - A Metabiological Penateuch
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Back to Methuselah - A Metabiological Penateuch
by Shaw Bernard Shaw

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METHUSELAH A META BIOLOGICAL PENTATEUCH BERNARD SHAW -- The Infidel HaK Century . The Dawn of Darwinism . . The Advent of the Neo-Darwinian5 . Political Inadequacy of the Human Animal . Cowardice of the Irreligious . Is there any Hope in Education...
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If I Die: The Truth about Life After Death
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If I Die: The Truth about Life After Death
by Nancy Lou Garcia

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All Your Questions Answered About Life After Death This book will help you understand what happens the instant after we die. Inside you will learn about what Heaven is like, as well as Hell and the eternal state after death. This book explores the...
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The Housing Battlefield
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The Housing Battlefield
by Peter Hutchinson

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Traces the trends, developments and policies in the housing market during the last twenty years....
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Strangers To These Shores : Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States - With Research Navig. (8TH 06 - Old Edition)
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Strangers To These Shores : Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States - With Research Navig. (8TH 06 - Old Edition)
by Parrillo

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"We are invited to read in "Strangers to These Shores" the story of a resilient society that is struggling to achieve unity out of diversity and, at the same time, guarantee the right to be different. . . . Robert Park, who taught sociology at the...
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Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
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Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
by Eric Marcus

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From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage.Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition...
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Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology (Politics, History, and Culture)
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Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology (Politics, History, and Culture)
by Julia (edt) Adams

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A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity assesses the field's past accomplishments and peers into the future, envisioning changes to come. The seventeen essays in this collection reveal the potential of historical sociology...
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Carolina Piedmont Country (Folklore in the South Series)
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Carolina Piedmont Country (Folklore in the South Series)
by John M. Coggeshall

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A comprehensive view of the fascinating folklife in the Appalachian foothills of North and South Carolina....
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Detroit I Do Mind Dying 2ND Edition
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Detroit I Do Mind Dying 2ND Edition
by Dan Georgakas

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Since its publication in 1975, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying has been widely recognized as one of the most important books on the black liberation movement and labor struggles in the United States. It tells the remarkable story of the Dodge Revolutionary...
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The Facts of Life ... and More: Sexuality and Intimacy for People with Intellectual Disabilities
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The Facts of Life ... and More: Sexuality and Intimacy for People with Intellectual Disabilities
by Leslie Walker-hirsch

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Making good decisions about sexuality is a critical part of adulthood, but sometimes people with intellectual disabilities dont get the support or education they need to navigate this complex issue. Professionals will change that with this highly...
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Music of the Civil War Era (American History Through Music)
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Music of the Civil War Era (American History Through Music)
by Steven H. Cornelius

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As divisive and destructive as the Civil War was, the era nevertheless demonstrated the power that music could play in American culture. Popular songs roused passion on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, and military bands played music to entertain...
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Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them
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Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them
by David Anderegg

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A lively, thought-provoking book that zeros in on the timely issue of how anti-intellectualism is bad for our children and even worse for America. Why are our children so terrified to be called nerds? And what is the cost of this rising tide of anti...
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Evolution of Culture: an Interdisciplinary View (UK Edition)
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Evolution of Culture: an Interdisciplinary View (UK Edition)
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This work explores what contemporary evolutionary thinking reveals about the origins and earliest history of the peculiarly human phenomenon of symbolic culture, including language, ritual, religion and art....
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First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
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First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
by Carolyn L Karcher

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In this biography, Carolyn L. Karcher explores the key role Julia Maria Child played in shaping American culture at a formative moment in its development. She also takes readers into the private life of a complex woman, driven by deep contradictions and...
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Treat People Like Dogs!: Six Tasks for Passionate Leaders
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Treat People Like Dogs!: Six Tasks for Passionate Leaders
by Robert Norton

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Treat People Like Dogs! takes you on a mythic and epic journey that reveals six tasks for passionate leaders. It begins with Frank Turner in the Yukon Territory. He and 14 dogs run the Yukon Quest, a 1000-mile race up the Yukon River from Whitehorse to...
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Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts
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Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts
by Gary Paul Nabhan

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The landscapes, cultures, and cuisines of deserts in the Middle East and North America have commonalities that have seldom been explored by scientists—and have hardly been celebrated by society at large. Sonoran Desert ecologist Gary Nabhan grew up...
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Sodom and Gomorrah
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Sodom and Gomorrah
by Bernd-ulrich Hergemoller

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Sodom and Gomorrah provides a meticulously researched account of the lives, suffering, and everyday reality of homosexual men in Europe, between AD 500 and AD 1500. The author begins by tracing the development of relevant criminal law from the Romans to...
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