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Servants in the House of the Masters
by Signe M Kastberg  Publisher Comments Change the world Why not? Social class is an under-recognized sorting mechanism in the United States that determines where you will go to school, whether you will go to college, and if you will work in a professional career or a low-level service...
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African American Thought
by Wilson Jeremiah Moses Publisher Comments Building upon his previous work and using Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition as a model, Professor Moses has revised and brought together in this book essays that focus on the complexity of, and contradictions in, the thought of five...
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And in the End: The World's Weirdest Funerals
by Keith R. Lindsay Publisher Comments Full of anecdotes on the weirdest funerals and final resting places the world over, this guidebook is a tongue-in-cheek romp to an aspect of life that frightens most people. Discussing the burial practices of the past—from the embalming practices...
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State Feminism and Political Representation
by Joni Lovenduski Publisher Comments How can women maximise their political influence? Does state feminism enhance the political representation of women? Should feminism be established in state institutions to treat women's concerns? Written by experts in the field, this book uses an...
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No Place Left To Bury the Dead: Denial, Despair and Hope in the African Aids Pandemic
by Nicole Itano Publisher Comments In this haunting investigation, acclaimed journalist Itano eats, sleeps, and lives with women in Africa who suffer daily from the raging epidemic of AIDS. This work not only puts a human face on the impact of the disease, but also increases global...
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In Praise of Nepotism
by Adam Bellow Publisher Comments Certain to be one of the most controversial books of the year, In Praise of Nepotism is a learned, lively, and provocative look at a practice we all deplore — except when we’re involved in it ourselves. Nepotism, the favored treatment of one&#...
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Culture And Anarchy
by Matthew Arnold Publisher Comments From a man without a philosophy no one can expect philosophical completeness. Therefore I may observe without shame, that in trying to get a distinct notion of our aristocratic, our middle, and our working class, with a view of testing the claims of each...
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New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gender
by Rosa Ainley Publisher Comments Unravels the stereotypical images of gender and space, presenting a series of new explorations into both 'lived' and 'imagined' spaces and experiences....
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Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt
by Robert Marks Publisher Comments Groundbreaking study of the correlations between economic and environmental changes in imperial Chinese Lingnan from 1400 to 1850....
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Of Crimes and Punishments
by Cesare Beccaria Publisher Comments In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort, and to diffuse their...
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Jewish Passages: Cycles of Jewish Life
by Harvey E. Goldberg Publisher Comments American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life--however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage. The interplay...
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Hip: the History
by John Leland Publisher Comments Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland...
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Robben Island Prisoner Apartheid
by Fran Lisa Buntman Publisher Comments Robben Island prison in South Africa held thousands of black political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela, who opposed apartheid. This book reconstructs the inmates' resistance strategies to show how these men created a political and social order behind...
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Swift Solutions!
by Carkan Moil Publisher Comments Written by Carkan Moil, a man of moderate spleen and a great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandvotery of Jonathan Swift, Swift Solutions is an homage to Jonathan Swift that offers original insights using macabre Swiftian solutions to many of...
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Relocation in Later Years
by PhD, Michael A. Fornaro Publisher Comments American society will soon be overwhelmed with the number of older adults over the age of sixty-five. The question is, where will they live? The answer is many will live in urban neighborhoods by choice or by default. American Society has a long history...
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On the Internet
by Hubert Dreyfus Synopsis Thinking in Action is a major new series that takes philosophy to the public. Each book in the series is written by a major international philosopher or thinker, engages with an important contemporary topic and is clearly and accessibly written. The...
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Rethinking Geopolitics
by Simon Dalby Synopsis Using insights from contemporary cultural theory, the contributors of this book address questions of political identity and popular culture, state violence and genocide, speed machines and militarism, gender and resistance, cyberwar and mass media....
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Class Practices
by Fiona Devine Publisher Comments This important new book is a comparative study of social mobility based on qualitative interviews with middle-class parents in America and Britain. It addresses the key issue in stratification research, namely, the stability of class relations and middle-...
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Life after Death
by Richard Bessel Publisher Comments Novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War....
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Punching In
by Alex Frankel Publisher Comments Curious to know just what happens behind the "employees only" doors of big companies, journalist Alex Frankel embarked on an undercover reporting project to find out how some of America's well-known companies win the hearts and minds of their retail and...
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