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The Explanation of Social Action: With a New Preface by the AuthorThe Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear foundation and provoke an...
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Collective Wisdom in the West: Beyond the shadows of the EnlightenmentThis book contemplates current crises guided by a core Buddhist teaching: the roots of deepest suffering lie in what we grasp most tightly. Thus, tightly held ideas from 'the enlightenment' - rationality, individuality, equality and secularity - are considered as sources of suffering: technocracy,...
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Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and HorrorContributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey...
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Addiction Recovery and Resilience: Faith-Based Health Services in an African American CommunityWe live in an era of substance misuse colliding with public health shortcomings. Consequences of mass incarceration and other racial disparities of the drug war are felt acutely in the neighborhoods and communities least equipped to deal with them. More than 600,000 people are...
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Strange Tales from Virginia's Mountains: The Norton Woodbooger, the Missing Beale Treasure, the Ghost Town of Lignite and MoreThe stunning mountains of Virginia offer spectacular views and endless outdoor activities, yet they also hold secrets. A nineteenth-century cache of gold is buried in the hills. Nine-foot giants once walked the ridges, pre-Columbian explorers built homes on isolated mountaintops and a ghost town...
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Many Urbanisms: Divergent Trajectories of Global City BuildingNow, for the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities. But urbanization is accelerating in some places and slowing down in others. The sprawling megacities of Asia and Africa as well as many other smaller and medium-sized cities...
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Wine Markets: Genres and IdentitiesThe world of wine encompasses endless variety. Consumers want to understand what makes one bottle of wine different from another; vintners need to know how to communicate what makes their product distinctive. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in Italy and France as well...
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Ten Thousand Shells and Counting: A MemoirSarajevo 1992: a page-turning witness account of teenage life in a city at war that will immerse you in a world where survival is the only thought.At the age of 14, Nadija watches from her window as tanks roll into the airport across the...
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Fixing Food: An FDA Insider Unravels the Myths and the SolutionsAn FDA economist discovers that solutions for food safety and nutrition lie in the hands of entrepreneurs--not government regulation and education. With about half of the U.S. population expected to be obese by 2030 and one out of six Americans getting sick every year,...
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Thinking Clearly with Data: A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and AnalysisAn engaging introduction to data science that emphasizes critical thinking over statistical techniques An introduction to data science or statistics shouldn't involve proving complex theorems or memorizing obscure terms and formulas, but that is exactly what most introductory quantitative textbooks emphasize. In contrast, Thinking...
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Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the ArtsAn in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitan Two centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture--museums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras--to mirror European art. But today's American arts scene...
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Mortal Kombat: Games of DeathUpon its premiere in 1992, Midway's Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent "fatality" moves performed by photorealistic characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series directly inspired the creation of an industrywide rating system for...
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Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in NigeriaHow does social media activism in Nigeria intersect with online popular forms--from GIFs to memes to videos--and become shaped by the repressive postcolonial state that propels resistance to dominant articulations of power? James Yékú proposes the concept of "cultural netizenship"--internet citizenship and its aesthetico-cultural...
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Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and OursThe sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell's major books--The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural...
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Awesome Riddles For Smart Kids: 200 Greatest Riddles And Brain Stumpers For Smart KidsThis kids book is a collection of 200 brain teasing riddles and puzzles. Our purpose is to make children think and stretch their minds. These riddles and puzzles are designed to test logic, lateral thinking as well as memory and to engage the brain...
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Perseverance Through Severe Dysfunction: Breaking the Curse of Intergenerational Trauma as a Black Man in AmericaBook DescriptionIn Reggie Ford's bold reassessment of the Black experience in America, he demonstrates that a new understanding of PTSD is required. PTSD, Perseverance Through Severe Dysfunction, as Ford defines it, underlines the darkness of mental health illnesses and behaviors that impact young Black...
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Jewish Experiences Across the Americas: Local Histories Through Global LensesThis volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives...
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Safeguarding Children, Young People and FamiliesKeeping children and young people safe is everybody's responsibility. This requires health, social care and education professionals to make sense of complex family situations that are placing a child or young person at risk of harm. This is no easy feat. The actions we...
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What Do We Know and What Should We Do about Slavery?Slavery is a live issue today, but the people who talk about it as such are not all of a piece. Some insist the world is now plagued by the contemporary equivalent of transatlantic slavery, and call on us to combat "modern slavery". Others...
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Therapy Tech: The Digital Transformation of Mental HealthcareA pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it Proponents of technology trumpet it as the solution to the massive increase in the mental distress that confronts our nation. They herald the arrival of algorithms,...
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