Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
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Cemetery Citizens: Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial GroundsAcross the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, clean headstones, and research silenced histories, they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of belonging in life and in death. Cemetery Citizens...
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Calvinism's Answer to the Problem of Evil"Calvinism's Answer to the Problem of Evil" by Stephen Charnock offers an insightful and deeply theological exploration into one of Christianity's most profound questions: How can a good, omnipotent, and omniscient God allow evil to exist? In this meticulous exploration of theodicy, Charnock navigates...
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African Paleoecology and Human EvolutionAuthor: Sally C. ReynoldsPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 06/09/2022Pages: 594Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.20lbsSize: 11.20h x 8.80w x 1.21dISBN: 9781107074033Review Citation(s): Choice 04/01/2023About the AuthorReynolds, Sally C.: - Sally C. Reynolds is Principal Academic in Hominin Palaeoecology and Head of the Institute for Studies of Landscape...
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What Was Bolshevism?How did the Bolsheviks see themselves? What grand narrative gave meaning to their revolutionary aspirations? The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, answers these questions in the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Sharply focused case studies allow...
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Walking on Fire: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history of resistance. Women in Haiti have played a large role in changing the balance of political and social power, even as they have endured rampant and devastating state-sponsored violence, including torture,...
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Three-Dimensional Tree Reconstruction Based on Archaeological Evidence: Seeing trees in ship timbersThis research focuses on the development of digital methodologies to identify evidence of timber supply and selection for traditional shipbuilding through the examination of the archaeological ship timbers. Traditions of archaeological ship timber recording are reviewed and developed, with particular reference to the capture...
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The Hands of God at Work: Islamic Gender Justice Through Translingual PRAXISThis book explores how Indonesian writers circulate knowledge between the Indonesian, English, and Arabic languages to enact Islamic gender justice. Drawing from ethnographic data collected in Indonesia from 2009 to 2022, this book weaves a vivid account of how scholars at an Indonesian Ph.D....
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The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, QatarAs Andrew M. Gardner explains in The Fragmentary City, in Qatar and elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula, nearly nine out of every ten residents are foreign noncitizens. Many of these foreigners reside in the cities that have arisen in Qatar and neighboring states. The...
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Soulmate DogSOULMATE DOG takes readers gently through the messiness of grief on a raw healing journey.SOULMATE DOG is a memoir of a unique twenty-first century love story. It is much more than that, though; as the title implies, animal communication and a philosophical examination of...
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Soulmate DogSOULMATE DOG takes readers gently through the messiness of grief on a raw healing journey.SOULMATE DOG is a memoir of a unique twenty-first century love story. It is much more than that, though; as the title implies, animal communication and a philosophical examination of...
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Silk Road CThe Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from...
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Religious Sensibilities in Pursuit of Sexual Well-Being: African Diasporic Communities in the NetherlandsThe self-identifying Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch communities residing in the Randstad area of the Netherlands are deeply impacted by religious beliefs and cultural factors in their approach towards sexual health practices, well-being and pleasure. This book shows how religious sensibilities shape the physical activities, beauty...
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Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and CultureA sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and...
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Obstetricians Speak: On Training, Practice, Fear, and TransformationFor the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation in this the first of the 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession....
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Language in Culture: Lectures on the Social Semiotics of LanguageLanguage enables us to represent our world, rendering salient the identities, groups, and categories that constitute social life. Michael Silverstein (1945-2020) was at the forefront of the study of language in culture, and this book unifies a lifetime of his conceptual innovations in a...
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Incarnational Humanism: A Philosophy of Culture for the Church in the World2013 CCED Book Prize winner Incarnational Humanism in an updated edition with a new foreword and preface. Having left its Christian roots behind, the West faces a moral, spiritual and intellectual crisis. It has little left to maintain its legacy of reason, freedom, human...
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Incarnate Spirits: An Introduction to Philosophical AnthropologyAuthor: Rodderick EsclandaPublisher: Scepter PublishersPublished: 04/08/2024Pages: 146Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31dISBN: 9781594175213This title is not returnable
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Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope, and AimsAuthor: Francis GaltonPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublished: 07/01/1904Pages: 60Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.14dISBN: 9781646797141
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Enlightenment Anthropology: Defining Humanity in an Era of ColonialismIn this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how the knowledge transfer between an international array of natural historians and public intellectuals--including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Voltaire; Denis Diderot; Johann Friedrich Blumenbach; Immanuel Kant; and...
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Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian BargainA devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyond ... From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain--the exchange of one's soul in return for untold riches and power--has exerted a...
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