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Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of PlaceIncreasingly, women and minorities are entering fields where white male power is firmly entrenched. The spaces they come to occupy are not empty or neutral, but are imbued with history and meaning. This groundbreaking book interrogates the pernicious, subtle but nonetheless widely held view...
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Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards 2nd EditionThe LEGS process grew out of the recognition that livestock are a crucial liveli¬hood asset for people throughout the world - many of whom are poor and vulnerable to both natural and human-induced disasters - and that livestock support is an important component of...
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Social Psychology: Fourth EditionUsing an engaging narrative, this textbook demonstrates how social processes are inherently interconnected by uniquely applying underlying and unifying principles throughout the text. With its comprehensive coverage of classic and contemporary research-illustrated with real-world examples from many disciplines, including medicine, law, and education-Social Psychology...
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Assaulting the Past: Violence and Civilization in Historical ContextThis book offers an important contribution to the comparative history of interpersonal violence since the early modern period, a subject of great contemporary and historical importance. Its overarching theme is Norbert Elias's theory of the civilizing process, and the chapters in the book recognise,...
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John and PostcolonialismAn exciting collection of essays connecting postcolonialism and the Gospel of John, written by a group of international scholars, both established and new, from Hispanic, African, Jewish, Chinese, Korean and African-American backgrounds. It explores important topics such as the appropriation of John in settler...
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Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland: Contributions to Irish Lore"Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland" is an interesting compilation that mixes a bit of religious lore with straight occult folklore and some civics and politics to boot. It contains a large number of odd supernatural stories, especially regarding fairies and the dead,...
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Norse Mythology: Tales of the Gods, Sagas and HeroesThe myths and legends of the Norseman have entertained the young and old for hundreds of years. Collated here in this thrilling treasury, these tales will transport you to the magical realms of Asgard, Midgard and J tunheim. Full of dramatic stories of dark...
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Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as MethodologyFrom Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term 'indigenous storywork' has come to encompass the sheer breadth of ways in which indigenous storytelling serves as a historical record, as a form of teaching and...
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Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School"Marvelously entertaining, exciting and informative." --Guardian"An engaging and accessible history." --New York Review of Books This group biography is "an exhilarating page-turner" and "outstanding critical introduction" to the work and legacy of the Frankfurt School, and the great 20th-century thinkers who created it (Washington...
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Sawney Bean: Dissecting the Legend of Scotland's Infamous Cannibal Killer FamilySawney Bean: Dissecting the Legend of Scotland's Infamous Cannibal Killer Family is the first major non-fiction historical investigation to explore one of the most heinous crimes in 16th-century Scotland, the legend of Sawney Bean and his cannibal family. For centuries, the story of Bean...
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Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life After Sexual AssaultPersonal stories of surviving after the trauma of sexual assault. In the era of #MeToo, we've become better at talking about sexual assault. But sexual assault isn't limited to a single, terrible moment of violence: it stays with survivors, following them wherever they go....
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Strangers in the House: A Prairie Story of Bigotry and BelongingA renowned author investigates the dark and shocking history of her prairie house.When researching the first occupant of her Saskatoon home, Candace Savage discovers a family more fascinating and heartbreaking than she expectedNapol on Sureau dit Blondin built the house in the 1920s, an...
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The Fruitful City: The Enduring Power of the Urban Food ForestWinner of the 2019 Heritage Toronto Book Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize "Moncrieff eloquently reminds readers of the bounty and beauty that surround them." --Publishers Weekly Our cities are places of food polarities -- food deserts and farmers' markets, hunger...
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The Anatomy of Organized Hate: Stories of Former White Supremacists - and America's Struggle to Understand the Hate MovementThe Anatomy of Organized Hate looks behind the curtain of the modern-day hate movement. The book merges two conflicting universes: the world that exists inside hate groups and the external sphere of government agencies and research organizations working to monitor and stop hate crimes....
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Viriah: 1.3 million (13 lakh) Indians were shipped as indentured laborers to sugarcane plantations in British colonies to replSlavery was abolished in the British empire in 1835. The demand for sugar was exploding with people consuming increasing amounts of sugar in chocolates, tea and sweets. To fuel the growing first-world sugar industry of the late 1800s, 1.3 million Indians were shipped to...
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The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study2017 Reprint of 1899 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of African Americans in Philadelphia written by W. E. B. Du Bois. Commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania and published...
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Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and ConversationRules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation began as a school exercise in 1744 for George Washington, who became the first president of the United States of America. Washington copied a translation of these rules by Francis Hawkins', which was first...
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The Super Couple: A Formula for Extreme Happiness in MarriageHer own marriage was so painful and troubled that author Dr. Christine Bacon actually prayed for her husband to die. During the four-year separation and her husband's pursuit of reconciliation, she realized that reunification would mean changing everything: ineffective communication styles, bad habits, attitudes...
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Manual of the Eastern Star: Containing the Symbols, Scriptural Illustrations, Lectures, etc. Adapted to the System of Speculative MasonryThe secret cyphers and ritual books of the Eastern Star as well as of other fraternal societies inevitably make their way to the shelves of antiquarian book dealers. Efforts to get families to return documents and regalia when a member dies are more often...
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Asking Questions about How the News Is CreatedWhere does the news that students hear--on television, the radio, and online--come from? And who decides what's news? Asking Questions about How the News is Created discusses how an event becomes a story, and how the biases of the gatekeepers of the news media...
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