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Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man Volume 8In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive...
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Einstein's Essays in ScienceHis name is synonymous with genius, but these essays by the renowned physicist and scholar are accessible to any reader. In addition to outlining the core of relativity theory in everyday language, Albert Einstein presents fascinating discussions of other scientific fields to which he...
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When Egypt Ruled the EastHere, adequately presented for the first time in English, is the fascinating story of a splendid culture that flourished thirty-five hundred years ago in the empire on the Nile: kings and conquests, gods and heroes, beautiful art, sculpture, poetry, architecture. Significant archeological discoveries are...
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Self Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative SocietyGardner's is not a 'how-to-do-it' book for the conduct of modern society. It is something rarer these days and more basic: a 'why-to-do-it' book. Its impact on many readers is bound to be challenging and stimulating and even inspirational. Clark Kerr, ScienceAuthor: John W....
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In Defense of ElitismFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of America." Americans have always stubbornly clung to the...
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Boystown: Sex and Community in ChicagoFrom neighborhoods as large as Chelsea or the Castro, to locales limited to a single club, like The Shamrock in Madison or Sidewinders in Albuquerque, gay areas are becoming normal. Straight people flood in. Gay people flee out. Scholars call this transformation assimilation, and...
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Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance, and Wraparound Incarceration Volume 2From home, to school, to juvenile detention center, and back again. Follow the lives of fifty Latina girls living forty miles outside of Los Angeles, California, as they are inadvertently caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline. Their experiences in the connected programs between "El...
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic AnthropologistFrom a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, prominent forensic anthropologist Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In...
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Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society: The New Science of MemesFans of Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Bennet, and Richard Dawkins (as well as science buffs and readers of Wired Magazine) will revel in Aaron Lynch's groundbreaking examination of memetics -- the new study of how ideas and beliefs spread. What characterizes a meme is its...
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A Practical Guide to Evaluation, Second EditionEvaluation of social and education services leads to better practice, however many practitioners find the language of evaluation difficult to conceptualize. A Practical Guide to Evaluation presents the mechanisms and processes of evaluation with a clear eye toward the impact evaluation has for the...
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Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of GatheringsErving Goffman effectively extends his argument in favor of a diagnosis of deviant behavior which takes account of the whole social situation.Author: Erving GoffmanPublisher: Free PressPublished: 09/01/1966Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.49w x 0.63dISBN: 9780029119402About the AuthorGoffman, Erving: - Erring Goffman was...
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South Bronx Battles: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and RenewalCommunity activist Carolyn McLaughlin takes us on a journey of the South Bronx through the eyes of its community members. Facing burned-out neighborhoods of the 1970s, the community fought back. McLaughlin illustrates the spirit of the community in creating a vibrant, diverse culture and...
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'Illegal' Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of BordersBased on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers Illegal Traveller offers a narrative of the polysemic nature of borders, border politics, and rituals and performances of border-crossing. Interjecting personal experiences into ethnographic writing it is 'a form of self-narrative that places the self...
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Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our CommunitiesBased on a groundbreaking theory of crime prevention, this practical and empowering book shows how citizens, business owners, and police can work together to ensure the safety of their communities. George Kelling, one of America's leading criminologists, has proven the success of his method...
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Intellectual Disability: A Guide for Families and ProfessionalsApproximately 2.5 million people in the United States--one percent of the population--have an intellectual disability (previously referred to as mental retardation). These conditions range from genetic disorders such as Down syndrome to disabilities caused by infectious diseases and brain injury. Intellectual Disability: A Guide...
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Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central AmericaAn excellent resource, Handbook of Mesoamerican Mythology introduces readers to the mythology of Mexico and Central America. Its chief focus is on Mexican Highland and Maya areas, as they were, and are, of utmost importance to Mesoamerican history. An extensive and edifying introduction defines...
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California in the 1930s: The Wpa Guide to the Golden StateAlive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction, "anecdotal, opinionated, and altogether habit-forming." Describing the history, culture, and roadside...
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The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala Volume 57A woman with hypertension refuses vegetables. A man with diabetes adds iron-fortified sugar to his coffee. As death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes in Latin America escalate, global health interventions increasingly emphasize nutrition, exercise, and weight loss--but much goes awry as ideas...
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The Condition of ManA study of the development of the personality and the community. With a preface by the author. 16 pages of illustrations.Author: Lewis MumfordPublisher: Houghton MifflinPublished: 03/21/1973Pages: 467Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 8.42h x 6.46w x 1.06dISBN: 9780156215503
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The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-SeventyA pioneer in women's studies and long-term activist for women's issues, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians, Gerda Lerner is one of the founders and foremost scholars of Women's History. The Creation of Patriarchy, the first book in her two-volume...
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