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Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in ShowbizHe's the porn world's Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he's starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and over the last twenty years has become porn's biggest ambassador to the mainstream. He's appeared in 60 regular...
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Rioting in America" . . . a sweeping, analytical synethsis of collective violence from the colonial experience to the present." --American Studies"Gilje has written 'the book' on rioting throughout American history." --The Historian". . . a thorough, illuminating, and at times harrowing account of man's inhumanity...
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Retiring Right: Smart Steps for Exiting Corporate AmericaEvery day brings you closer to retirement. Are you ready?You've got a comfortable routine, colleagues who like and respect you, and days filled with purpose. But what will happen when you retire? Can you afford healthcare? Will the money you've saved and invested be...
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Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe: Performing Borders, Identities and TextsThe 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major influx of refugees, redefining notions of borders and national identity. This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading international scholars of migration from perspectives as varied...
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Ray Hicks: Master Storyteller of the Blue RidgeRay Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's experiences in the remote section of the North Carolina mountains where they have...
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Rainbow Pie: A Redneck MemoirRainbow Pie is a coming-of-age memoir wrapped around a discussion of America's most taboo subject -- social class. Set between 1950 and 1963, Joe Bageant uses Maw, Pap, Ony Mae, and other members of his rambunctious Scots-Irish family to chronicle the often-heartbreaking post-war journey...
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Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little HellJoin Karen Walrond, author of The Lightmaker's Manifesto, in this intriguing investigation into how we can reclaim aging, cultivate joy, and resist ageism.During her own year of transition--a milestone birthday, a wedding anniversary, the emptying of the nest--Walrond, in the buoyant and luminous style...
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Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and SubjectivityQueering Desire explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women's, and non-binary people's experiences of identity and desire. Taking an intersectional feminist and trans-inclusive approach, and incorporating new and established identities such as non-binary, masculine of centre (MOC), butch, and...
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Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces BetweenWe love and strongly recommend this beautifully curated book. Celebrating the massive and lasting global impact of LGBTQI+ artists, a book like this is long overdue! Russell Tovey & Robert Diament, co-hosts of Talk Art podcast.Celebrate the LGBTQI+ community with this vivid collection of...
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Queer Adolescence: Understanding the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual YouthIn this book, personal accounts mingle with factual information and sensitive analysis to provide a snapshot of the joys and concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual adolescents. Whether you're a parent, a clinician, a teacher, or a queer person, this...
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Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society Across BordersProtest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Ousseina Alidou examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society are using their creative works to effect social...
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Profiles in Wisdom: Native Elders Speak about the EarthAuthor: Steven McFaddenPublisher: iUniversePublished: 12/20/2000Pages: 260Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.14h x 5.96w x 0.64dISBN: 9780595144846This title is not returnable
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Presidents and Mass Incarceration: Choices at the Top, Repercussions at the BottomTaking an innovative approach, this book looks at how U.S. presidents and their administrations' policies from the late 1960s to 2017 have led to rampant over-imprisonment and a public policy catastrophe in the United States. Mandatory minimum sentencing, "three-strikes-and-you're-out" legislation, harsher sentences, and less...
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Portrait of a Nation: Culture and Progress in EcuadorA case study of why Third World countries are still poor, the premise of this book is that while some progress has been made in transforming the political economy of Ecuador, certain behaviors, beliefs and attitudes have kept the country from developing in ways...
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Policing Gun Violence: Strategic Reforms for Controlling Our Most Pressing Crime ProblemIn many US cities, gun violence is the most urgent crime problem. High rates of deadly violence make a city less livable, dragging down quality of life, economic development, and property values. How can police departments find the right balance between over- and under-policing...
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Political Cyberbullying: Perpetrators and Targets of a New Digital AggressionPolitically motivated attacks are the newest type of aggression to erupt in the cyberworld, making Political Cyberbullying's analysis of the psychology of cyberbullying adult perpetrators, the effects on their victims, and ways we can reduce the damage an essential read.Although cyber-aggression is not a...
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Pedaling Resistance: Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan CyclingVegans and cyclists are often outsiders, negotiating food systems and built environments that tend to prioritize omnivores and motor vehicles by default. Pedaling Resistance: Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan Cycling examines the relationship between veganism and cycling through the journeys, experiences, and reflections of a...
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Parisiennes: City Women in French CinemaEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema examines French films that screen women as main characters in the city of Paris from 1957 to the present day. The book investigates how women...
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Pana: The Crossroads of CrisisAt the turn of the 20th Century, labor, political reforms and imperialistic expansion along with their problems and conflicts dominated the headlines of American newspapers. The growth of labor unions that wanted a better life for their members and other workers were pushing against...
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Ovarian Reboot: A Personal Journey to Hormone & Fertility RenewalOVARIAN REBOOT Even if you're a morning person, the ovary's biological clock starts ticking way too early. Before that very first ovulation, your egg count is already silently slipping away. It's so unfair But what if there were a way to turn that clock...
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