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Lakota Way (01 Edition)
by Joseph M. Marshall  Publisher Comments Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and imparts the path to a fulfilling and meaningful life. Joseph Marshall is a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux and has dedicated his entire...
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Taking Charge of Breast Cancer
by Julia A. Ericksen Synopsis ""Taking Charge of Breast Cancer" incorporates many components of the experience of breast cancer, from personal illness to political economic factors. Based on her very extensive data from interviews and content analysis, Ericksen's fine writing offers...
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Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die
by Michael Largo Publisher Comments To die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet under—whatever death is called, it's going to happen. In 1789 Ben Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing is...
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Black Skin, White Masks (67 Edition)
by Frantz Fanon Publisher Comments A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was...
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Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Lllusion of an Islamic State
by Tarek Fatah Publisher Comments A leading moderate Muslim looks into the heart of Muslim/Islamic identity The terrorist attack on 9/11 and subsequent attacks in Bali, Madrid, and London were for much of the non-Muslim world a brutal introduction to a religion and culture that it had...
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Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America
by Kathleen Rooney Publisher Comments Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, Oprah's Book Club has been at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since it began in 1996. Reading with Oprah explores the club's revolutionary fusion of books, television, and...
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The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social
by Patricia Tic Clough Synopsis The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of...
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
by Howard W. French Publisher Comments In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history–from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor...
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The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange Between China and Europe (China Program Book)
by N. Standaert Synopsis The death of Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci in China in 1610 was the occasion for demonstrations of Western rituals appropriate for a Catholic priest and also of Chinese rituals appropriate to the country hosting the Jesuit community. This book explores the...
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
by Stephanie Coontz Publisher Comments The Way We Never Were examines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths and half-truths that burden modern families. Placing current family dilemmas in the context of far-reaching economic, political, and demographic changes...
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On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
by Robert A. Burton Publisher Comments You recognize when you know something for certain, right? You know the sky is blue, or that the traffic light had turned green, or where you were on the morning of September 11, 2001--you know these things, well, because you just do. In On Being Certain,...
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The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten Publisher Comments *Sweeping survey of world history offering a new understanding of the key challenge of our time *Offers a positive message of hope for a sustainable and just future and a practical strategy for getting there In The Great Turning, David Korten argues that...
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Ishi in Three Centuries
by Karl (edt) Kroeber Publisher Comments Ishi in Three Centuries brings together a range of insightful and unsettling perspectives and the latest research to enrich and personalize our understanding of one of the most famous Native Americans of the modern era—Ishi, the last Yahi. After...
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Dances with Dependency: Out of Poverty Through Self-Reliance
by Calvin Helin Synopsis Solutions are offered to the poverty inherent in indigenous cultures, developing nations, and inner city populations, which have become disempowered by long-term overreliance on mainstream political, social, and economic programs developed for their...
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Cultural Creatives (00 Edition)
by Paul H. Ray Publisher Comments ARE YOU A CULTURAL CREATIVE? Do you dislike all the emphasis in modern culture on success and “making it,” on getting and spending, on wealth and luxury goods? Do you care deeply about the destruction of the environment and would pay higher...
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Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments “Important and provocative . . . There are many tempting reasons to pick up Global Woman.” —The New York Times Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are...
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China Boy
by Gus Lee Synopsis Warm, funny, and deeply moving, Gus Lee's semi-autobiographical account of growing up in a conflict-ridden family, unable to fully embrace either American or Chinese culture, is an enthralling story of family relationships, the perils of boyhood, and the...
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The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 7, 1899 - 1924: Essays, Books Reviews, Encyclopedia Articles in the 1912-1914 Period, and Interest and Effort i (Collected Works of John Dewey)
by John Dewey Publisher Comments Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. Dewey's dominant theme in these pages is war and its after-math. In the Introduction, Oscar and Lilian...
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Eros and Civilization (55 Edition)
by Herbert Marcuse Publisher Comments A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud "A philosophical critique of psychoanalysis that takes psychoanalysis seriously but not as unchallengeable dogma. . . . The most significant general treatment of psychoanalytic theory since Freud himself ceased...
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Mothers Without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform
by Lynn Fujiwara Publisher Comments In August 1996 President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act that fulfilled his campaign promise to “end welfare as we know it,” and one month later the Illegal Immigration Reform and...
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