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Off the Books : Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (06 Edition)
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Native North American Art (98 Edition)
by Janet Catherine Berlo Publisher Comments This exciting new investigation explores the indigenous arts of the US and Canada from the early pre-contact period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of...
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The Seasons of a Man's Life
by Daniel J Levinson Publisher Comments The first full report from the team that discovered the patterns of adult development, this breakthrough study ranks in significance with the original works of Kinsey and Erikson, exploring and explaining the specific periods of personal development...
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Our Own Snug Fireside
by Jane C Nylander Publisher Comments This charming book portrays domestic life in New England during the century between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Drawing on diaries, letters, wills, newspapers, and other sources, Nylander provides intimate details about domestic duties...
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Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler
by Thomas C Frank Publisher Comments From the pages of The Baffler, the most vital and perceptive new magazine of the nineties, sharp, satirical broadsides against the Culture Trust. In the "old" Gilded Age, the barons of business accumulated vast wealth and influence from their railroads...
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Marriage in Culture : Practice and Meaning Across Diverse Societies (02 Edition)
by Janice Stockard Publisher Comments MARRIAGE IN CULTURE is an innovative text that makes accessible to a broad audience the rich insights anthropology provides into the meaning of marriage in different cultures. Marriage practices in the four societies discussed contrast with each other in...
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Discourse on Colonialism (00 Edition)
by Aime Cesaire Publisher Comments This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the...
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Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i
by Garrett Hongo Publisher Comments Part memoir, part Japanese American family chronicle, part luminous work of natural history, Volcano tells what happened when Hongo returned to his birthplace in Hawai'i, as a young man, to reclaim its dreamlike landscape and his own elusive past. A...
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Sociology : a Critical Approach (96 Edition)
by Mary Alice Neubeck Publisher Comments This text offers students a lively, provocative introduction to the principles of sociology. It encourages students to develop what C. Wright Mills called a "sociological imagination," enabling them to see how their position in society and in history...
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Ecologies of the Heart: Emotion, Belief, and the Environment
by Eugene N Anderson Publisher Comments There is much we can learn about conservation from native peoples, says Gene Anderson. While the advanced nations of the West have failed to control overfishing, deforestation, soil erosion, pollution, and a host of other environmental problems, many...
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Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm
by David Mas Masumoto Publisher Comments As pleasurable as a perfect peach, Epitaph for a Peach tells the passionate story of one farmer's attempt to rescue one of the last truly sweet and juicy fruits from becoming obsolete in a world that increasingly values commerciality over quality. The...
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Women and Social Protest (90 Edition)
by Guida West Publisher Comments Bringing together eighteen thought-provoking articles--most of them written especially for this volume--Women and Social Protest addresses a long-neglected area in social history and politics, showing how in recent years feminist social scientists have...
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Networks and Netwars : the Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy (01 Edition)
by John Arquilla Publisher Comments Netwar--like cyberwar--describes a new spectrum of conflict that is emerging in the wake of the information revolution. What distinguished netwar is the networked organizational structure of its practitioners and their quickness in coming together in...
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Introduction To Sociology (00 Edition)
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Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal (Kodansha Globe)
by Desmond Morris Publisher Comments How does city life change the way we act? What accounts for the increasing prevalence of violence and anxiety in our world? In this new edition of his controversial 1969 bestseller, The Human Zoo, renowned zoologist Desmond Morris argues that many of the...
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American Paradox : Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty (00 Edition)
by David G. Myers Publisher Comments In this compelling book, a well-known social psychologist asks why, in an era of great material wealth, America suffers from such a disturbing array of social problems that reflect a deep spiritual poverty. Illustrations....
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Politics of Masculinities (97 Edition)
by Michael A. Messner Publisher Comments Michael A. Messner provides a sociological framework to understand the responses of men to the changes, challenges, and crises in the social organization of gender. By examining not only what certain groups of men say about gender, but what they do...
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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
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White Collar American Middle Class 50TH Edition
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Family Violence in United States : Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse (05 Edition)
by Denise A. Hines Publisher Comments Family aggression - whether in form of physical violence or verbal abuse - has touched most of us in our lifetime. Most of us have witnessed it, experienced it, or used it at one point or another. In order for us to eliminate aggressive and abusive...
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