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Supermedia Saving Journalism So It Can S
by Charlie Beckett  Publisher Comments SuperMedia is a lively, engaging, and refreshingly-opinionated text offering informed discussion on the importance and future of liberal journalism as a healthy part of a flourishing society. Examines the profound changes journalism is undergoing for...
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Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison
by Megan Comfort Publisher Comments By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation’s two million inmates. But what of the...
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Secret Diary of a Call Girl
by Anonymous Publisher Comments This internationally celebrated memoir is now a new Showtime original series. Belle couldn't find a job after University. Her impressive degree was not paying her rent or buying her food. But after a fantastic threesome with a very rich couple who gave...
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Prophecy and the Fundamentalist Quest: An Integrative Study of Christian and Muslim Apocalyptic Religion
by Farzana Hassan Publisher Comments This work traces the origins of apocalyptic prophecy in Christianity and Islam through in-depth examinations of several texts found within the Bible, the Quran, and the Hadith. The author contends that Christianity and Islam, often seen as two of the...
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Museums, Libraries and Urban Vitality: A Handbook
by Roger L. (edt) Kemp Synopsis This volume documents the growing trend for cities and towns throughout America to use museums and libraries as vehicles for economic development....
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Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence
by Norman K. (edt) Denzin Publisher Comments What is evidence in qualitative inquiry and how is it evaluated? What is true or false in research is strongly influenced by socially defined criteria and by the politics of academia. In providing an alternative to conservative science, qualitative...
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Horror at the Drive-In: Essays in Popular Americana
by Gary D. (edt) Rhodes Publisher Comments This book is a collection of eighteen essays by various scholars on the classic drive-in horror film experience. Those in Section One emphasize the roles of the drive-in theater in the United States??????and its cultural cousin, Australia. Section Two...
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Icons of the American West [Two Volumes]: From Cowgirls to Silicon Valley (Greenwood Icons)
by Gordon Morris (edt) Bakken Publisher Comments The American West is rich in lore, cultural roots, and iconic images. The subject of countless movies, books, and songs, in many ways it embodies the American spirit. This lively two-volume set presents the stories of some of the most influential and...
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Living with Djinns: Understanding and Dealing with the Invisible in Cairo
by Barbara Drieskens Publisher Comments The djinn is an invisible spirit with a will of its own that may lurk at the bottom of your teacup or seep through your pores to possess you. Djinns have long been an explanation for illness and misfortune or an excuse for unconventional behavior...
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Two Hamlets in Nam Bo: Memoirs of Life in Vietnam Through Japanese Occupation, the French and American Wars, and Communist Rule, 19401986
by David Lan Pham Synopsis In this memoir readers will learn about a people who have endured separation, dictatorship, carnage, persistent suffering and poverty, all the while yearning for independence and prosperity. Included are many stories--some funny, some heartbreaking--that...
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Food Culture in Germany (Food Culture Around the World)
by Ursula Heinzelmann Publisher Comments The grown-up Germany of today is able to explore its cultural identity, including its food culture. For some years now, German food has seen a return to regionalism, and beloved traditional dishes have been rediscovered and revived, counteracting to some...
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Coming of Age at the End of History
by Camille De Toledo Publisher Comments Enfant terrible Camille de Toledo recently burst onto Paris’ intellectual scene with this controversial manifesto that examines counterculture movements from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present. He asks what exactly his generation is...
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El Reino de Las Mujeres: El Ultimo Matriarcado
by Richardo Coler Publisher Comments En un viaje a un mundo desconocido y sorprendente, el prestigioso periodista argentino Ricardo Coler se adentra en el ultimo matriarcado que queda en el mundo, la comunidad china de los Mosuo. Alli las mujeres son quienes detentan el poder y no existe ni...
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Don Pacifico: The Acceptable Face of Gunboat Diplomacy
by Derek Taylor Book News Annotation This book reconstructs the events of the Don Pacifico Affair, which was sparked in 1847 when an anti-Semitic mob in Athens, Greece, attacked the house of one David Pacifico, the Portuguese consul in Athens. Having unsuccessfully lobbied the Greek...
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Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research)
by Jan E. Stets Publisher Comments For almost thirty years, sociologists have increasingly theorized about and conducted research on human emotions. Surprisingly, it was not until the 1970s that the sociology of emotions emerged as a coherent field of inquiry. What makes this late date...
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The Taxi-Dance Hall: A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life (University of Chicago Sociological)
by Paul G. Cressey Publisher Comments First published in 1932, The Taxi-Dance Hall is Paul Goalby Cressey’s fascinating study of Chicago’s urban nightlife—as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire who frequented the city’s notoriously seedy...
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Members Only: Elite Clubs and the Process of Exclusion
by Diana Elizabeth Kendall Synopsis Members Only addresses how exclusive private clubs maintain and perpetuate class-based privilege and racial/ethnic and religious segregation, and how such patterns of social exclusion heighten social inequality. Members Only continues Kendall's study of...
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Spring Salmon, Hurry to Me!: The Seasons of Native California (California Legacy)
by Margaret Dubin Synopsis Celebrating the seasons in California Indian life and thoughtForty-one pieces drawn from the pages of News From Native California....
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Biobanks
by Herbert (edt) Gottweis Publisher Comments Taking a different approach to biobanks - genetic databases that combine genetic information derived from blood samples with personal data about environment, medical history, lifestyle or genealogy, this book draws attention to their political and...
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Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
by Peter D Norton Publisher Comments Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as...
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