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Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change
by Rene J Dubos  Synopsis 'Complete freedom from disease and from struggle is almost incompatible with the process of living, ' Rene Dubos asserted in this classic essay on ecology and health. All the accomplishments of science and technology, he argued, will not bring the...
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Spliffs
by Nick Jones Publisher Comments Spliffs (the Jamaican word for joints) is more than just a book about marijuana (cannabis) and getting high. It's a celebratory trip that explores the versatility of cannabis and the profound influenceit has had on cultures throughout history. Special...
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Social Inequality (5TH 04 - Old Edition)
by Charles Hurst Synopsis This text explores how social inequality in the United States can be explained, how it affects us, and what can be done about it. The book is based on the assumptions that social inequality is multidimensional and that in order to deal with inequality...
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Seduction (Culturetexts)
by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments Examines modern critical theory, feminism, and psychoanalysis, and discusses the modern concept of sex roles and the political aspect of human sexuality....
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Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to Al Qaeda (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)
by Mark Juergensmeyer Publisher Comments Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building...
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Postmodernity (UK Edition)
by David Lyon Synopsis In this edition, postmodernity is seen as the social condition of the 21st century, in which some features of the modern world are called into question and undermined by novel trends. Postmodernity is a way of describing a society in-the-making without...
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Hazards of Nature, Risks to Development: An IEG Evaluation of World Bank Assistance for Natural Disasters (Operations Evaluation Studies)
by Not Available (na) Synopsis The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group examined the Bank's experience in disaster prevention and response over the past 20 years and found that the scale of Bank operations has grown over the period. The report found that the Bank has demonstrated...
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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide: Six Volumes]
by Irving (edt) Epstein Publisher Comments From the skyrocketing AIDS rate in Haiti to child marriages in India, this six-volume set examines the most critical issues facing the world's children today....
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Talk Dirty to Me: An Intimate Philosophy of Sex
by Sallie Tisdale Publisher Comments We live in a world in which almost every public image--every interaction--carries an element of sexual desire. And yet it is nearly impossible for us to talk openly and honestly about sex. Talk Dirty to Me is author Sallie Tisdale's frank, funny, and...
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As They Saw It: A Half-Century of Conversations from the Open Mind
by Richard D Heffner Publisher Comments Richard D. Heffner is the producer and host of public television's prize-winning The Open Mind—the nation's longest-running public television interview program—which he began in 1956. Now he draws on nearly fifty years of his broadcast...
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The Frail Elderly: Problems, Needs, and Community Responses
by Carole B Cox Synopsis Most individuals in the growing elderly population very much want to remain independent. But many, due to the higher rates of illness or incapacity in the later decades of life, will require some degree of support or assistance in order to do so. Some...
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Peoples of the Rain Forest (Peoples and Their Environments)
by Robert Low Synopsis The new social studies curriculum calls for students in the elementary levels to study people, places, and environments, which will help them to create new geographical perspectives of the world. This is the perfect supplementary material with which to...
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Music and the Making of a New South
by Gavin James Campbell Publisher Comments Startled by rapid social changes at the turn of the twentieth century, citizens of Atlanta wrestled with fears about the future of race relations, the shape of gender roles, the impact of social class, and the meaning of regional identity in a New South....
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Sociologies of Disability and Illness: Contested Ideas in Disability Studies and Medical Sociology
by Carol Thomas Publisher Comments Cutting across a disciplinary divide, Sociologies of Disability critically reviews and compares the conflicting perspectives on disability and chronic illness found in disability studies and medical sociology. Thomas carefully outlines the historical...
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The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era (Media and Power)
by Janice Peck Publisher Comments Over the last two decades Oprah Winfrey's journey has taken her from talk show queen to - as Time Magazine has asserted - one of the most important figures in popular culture. Through her talk show, magazine, website, seminars, charity work, and public...
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As If Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East
by Ehud R. Toledano Publisher Comments This groundbreaking book reconceptualizes slavery through the voices of enslaved persons themselves, voices that have remained silent in the narratives of conventional history. Focusing in particular on the Islamic Middle East from the late eighteenth to...
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Pharaoh's Shadow: Travels in Ancient and Modern Epypt (UK Edition)
by Anthony Sattin Synopsis Many cultures and races have left their mark on Egypt, but none have eclipsed the surviving customs from ancient Egypt. Guided by writers from the past and the unpublished papers of Winifred Jackman and Om Seti, Sattin has tracked down extraordinary...
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Filtering the News: Essays on Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model
by Jeffery (edt) Klaehn Publisher Comments Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model'argues that there are five classes of filters'in society that determine what is news; in other words, what gets printed in newspapers or broadcast by radio and television. They are: ownership(is the story in line...
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More Than Neighbors: Catholic Settlements and Day Nurseries in Chicago, 1893-1930
by Deborah A Skok Book News Annotation Skok (history, Hendrix College) recounts the history of Chicago's Catholic settlement houses and day nurseries that were run by laywomen from 1893 to 1930. She describes the work of these women, who were from different classes, with a focus on how...
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Sexual Abuse by Health Professionals
by P. Susan Penfold Synopsis The author of this book is a psychiatrist, and the survivor of sexual and emotional abuse by her first psychotherapist, also a psychiatrist. Penfold employs two voices in the writing of her book: the first, which starts each chapter, is that of the...
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