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Gods in Everyman Reissue: Archetypes That Shape Men's Lives
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Gods in Everyman Reissue: Archetypes That Shape Men's Lives
by Jean Shinoda Bolen

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In this challenging and enlightening companion volume to the bestselling Goddesses in Everywoman, Jean Shinoda Bolen turns her attention to the powerful inner patterns--or archetypes--that shape men's personalities, careers, and personal relationships...
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Uncommon Ground : Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (96 Edition)
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Uncommon Ground : Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (96 Edition)
by William (ed.) Cronon

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Uncommon Ground is the best kind of book, one that shocks the reader into entirely fresh ways of seeing. Perhaps the most important work facing us over the next several years involves the reconception of nature and our relationship to it. This...
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Sociology the Essentials 4TH Edition
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Sociology the Essentials 4TH Edition
by Margaret L Andersen

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SOCIOLOGY: THE ESSENTIALS, Fifth Edition, uses the theme of debunking myths to look behind the facades of everyday life; challenge ready-made, common-sense assumptions; and help students develop critical thinking skills and better understand how society...
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Life At the Bottom : the Worldview That Makes the Underclass (01 Edition)
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Life At the Bottom : the Worldview That Makes the Underclass (01 Edition)
by Theodore Dalrymple

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This is a searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England. Dr. Dalrymple's key insight is that long-term poverty is caused not by...
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Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
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Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
by Ck Prahalad

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Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense untapped buying power. Prahalad's global bestseller shows why companies can't afford to ignore "Bottom of the Pyramid" (BOP) markets. Now available in paperback, it offers a blueprint for...
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Unequal Childhoods
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Unequal Childhoods
by Annette Lareau

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Unequal Childhoods uses actual observations from black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families to provide a vivid account of the importance of social class, and the relative unimportance of race, in shaping parents' and children's lives....
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Discourse on Colonialism (00 Edition)
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Discourse on Colonialism (00 Edition)
by Aime Cesaire

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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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Abnormal Psychology 4TH Edition
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Abnormal Psychology 4TH Edition
by Martin E Seligman

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"Abnormal Psychology" explores the interactions between the psychological and biological influences on human behaviour. This 4th edition contains 1800 new references and highlights important contemporary trends in the field. This resource also includes a...
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Amusing Ourselves To Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business ((Rev)05 Edition)
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Amusing Ourselves To Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business ((Rev)05 Edition)
by Neil Postman

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Postman takes an enlightening look at the long-term effects of mass media--how it transforms the world, and the ways in which the media onslaught can be challenged....
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The Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
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The Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
by Clayborne Carson

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A record of one of the greatest and most turbulent movements of this century, The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader is essential for anyone interested in learning how far the American civil rights movement has come and how far it has yet to go...
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The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families
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The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families
by Mary Pipher

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In The Shelter of Each Other, Mary Pipher does for the American family what she did for adolescent girls and their parents in her bestselling book Reviving Ophelia: she opens our eyes wide to the desperate realities we are facing and shows us a way out...
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Family Violence in United States : Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse (05 Edition)
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Family Violence in United States : Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse (05 Edition)
by Denise A. Hines

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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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Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (07 Edition)
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Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (07 Edition)
by C. J. Pascoe

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High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, "Dude, You're a Fag "sheds new...
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Portraits of 'The Whiteman': Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache
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Portraits of 'The Whiteman': Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache
by Keith H Basso

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'Drawing on current theory in symbolic anthropology and sociolinguistics, this interpretive essay investigates a complex form of joking based on material collected in a Western Apache community wherein Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo...
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The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women
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The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women
by Sherry R Anderson

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The eagerly anticipated paperback edition of a pioneering look at women's spirituality that has helped thousands of women redefine traditional beliefs and rediscover their own unique spiritual heritage. Drawn from workshops and interviews conducted...
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Rebirth of Classical Polit. Rationalism (89 Edition)
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Rebirth of Classical Polit. Rationalism (89 Edition)
by Leo Strauss

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This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss's thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work. Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss's previously unpublished lectures and five hard-to-find published...
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
by Neil Postman

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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Black Man (97 Edition)
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Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Black Man (97 Edition)
by Henry Louis Gates

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"This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates...
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Sociology Matters (3RD 07 Edition)
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Sociology Matters (3RD 07 Edition)
by Richard T. Schaefer

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Richard Schaefer's "Sociology Matters" is a very concise introduction to the discipline of sociology. Its straightforward style, streamlined design, and highly focused coverage make it the perfect short, affordable, introductory text for instructors who...
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Book of Tea
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Book of Tea
by Kazuko Okakura

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Minor classic of the Orient. Perhaps the most entertaining, most charming explanation and interpretation of traditional Japanese culture in terms of the tea ceremony. Introduction, notes by E. F. Bleiler....
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