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The Genealogical SublimeSince the early 2000s, genealogy has become a lucrative business, an accelerating online industry, a massive data mining project, and fodder for reality television. But the fact remains that our contemporary fascination with family history cannot be understood independently of the powerful technological tools...
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In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in General Nonfiction Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Winner of the 2018 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeIn a Day's Work is a . . . much-needed addition to the literature on sexual harassment in...
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People in My NeighborhoodA neighborhood has teachers and doctors. There are police officers too. Do you know who your neighbors are?Author: Gail Saunders-Smith, Shelly LyonsPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 01/01/2013Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.90w x 0.30dISBN: 9781620658833Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 1.7Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower...
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Freemasons at GettysburgAlthough it has been traced to the 10th Century, BC, history indicates that the fraternity of Freemasons was introduced into England in 926 AD. As an association that continues to thrive today, the brotherhood was confronted with a difficult conflict when the Civil War...
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Shadows in the Woods: A Chronicle of Bigfoot in MaineEver since the first pathways were cleared through Maine's forested wilderness, something we now call Bigfoot has haunted the edges of civilization. The difference between a contemporary cryptozoological sighting and an encounter with a Wild Man in the eighteenth century is the modern presence...
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York2015 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published in 1890, this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. "How the Other...
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Albert Pike's The Meaning of MasonryA biting lecture read at the request of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana, by Albert Pike in 1858. The lecture was subtitled, "The Evil Consequences of Schisms and Disputes for Power in Masonry, and of Jealousies and Dissensions Between Masonic Rites" and is a...
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Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief about RacismBy beginning a conversation that encourages self-examination and compassion, Combined Destinies invites readers to look at how white Americans have been hurt by the very ideology that their ancestors created. Editors Ann Todd Jealous and Caroline T. Haskell, both experienced psychotherapists skilled at facilitating...
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Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the LawAlison Bass weaves the true stories of sex workers with the latest research on prostitution into a gripping journalistic account of how women (and some men) navigate a culture that routinely accepts the implicit exchange of sex for money, status, or even a good...
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three ActsA comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic -- devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions The opioid epidemic has been described as one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine. But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the...
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Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal StrategiesFirst published in 1985, this classic of law and society scholarship continues to shape the research agenda of today's sociology of punishment. It is now republished with a new Preface by the author. Punishment and Welfare explores the relation of punishment to politics, the...
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Reducing Crime, Reducing Incarceration: Essays on Criminal Justice InnovationA new collection of compelling and challenging essays from one of the nation's leading voices on criminal justice reform, Reducing Crime, Reducing Incarceration makes the argument that sometimes small changes on the ground can add up to big improvements in the criminal justice system....
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ThanksgivingOver 60 images relating to Thanksgiving in a full-color paperback. Part of Applewood's Pictorial America series, the book features images drawn from historical sources and include prints, paintings, illustrations, and photographs. This small gem is the ideal gift for anyone interested in a concise...
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Social Structures of Direct Democracy: On the Political Economy of EqualityNeoliberalism has pushed capitalism to its limits, hollowing out global economies and lives in the process, while people are left with no voice. Asimakopoulos addresses this problem with a theory to practice model that attempts to reconcile Marxism with democratic theory, and offers a...
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Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information OverloadAmid the hand-wringing over the death of true journalism in the Internet Age-the din of bloggers, the echo chamber of Twitter, the predominance of Wikipedia-veteran journalists and media critics Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel have written a pragmatic guide to navigating the twenty-first century...
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UFO'S Nazi Secret Weapons?BANNED IN 22 COUNTRIES . . . THE AUTHOR CLAIMS TO BE A POLITICAL PRISONER FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS PARTLY DUE TO THE PUBLICATION OF HIS CENSORED BOOK. Conspiracy Journal Presents The New Expanded Edition Of A Book That Has Caused Considerable Controversy...
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An Anthology of Legends and Poems of ArmeniaThe tile is a translation of selected Armenian poems and legends. Included in those are a number of episodes from the chronicles of Moses of Khorene, a fifth century Armenian historian, which recount legendary incidents of ancient Armenian history. The book concludes with a...
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Armenian Mythology: Stories of Armenian Gods and Goddesses, Heroes and Heroines, Hells & Heavens, Folklore & Fairy TalesArmenian mythology was strongly influenced by Zoroastrianism, with deities such as Aramazd, Mihr or Anahit, as well as Assyrian traditions, such as Barsamin, but there are fragmentary traces of native traditions, such as Hayk or Vahagn and Astghik. According to De Morgan there are...
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America's Blessings: How Religion Benefits Everyone, Including AtheistsA few years ago, a debate between atheists and religious believers spilled out from the halls of academia and the pews of America's churches and into the public spotlight. A crop of atheist manifestos led the charge, surmounting and holding the tops of the...
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Cartels at War: Mexico's Drug-Fueled Violence and the Threat to U.S. National SecurityNow in its sixth year, the conflict in Mexico is a mosaic of several wars occurring at once: cartels battle one another, cartels suffer violence within their own organizations, cartels fight against the Mexican state, cartels and gangs wage war against the Mexican people,...
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