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Uncle Sam's Family: Issues and Perspectives on American Demographic HistoryThis work introduces readers to the basics of demographic history, touching on issues of interest to anyone concerned with understanding how we have come to live as we do and what the future may bring. It also focuses directly on matters of birth, death,...
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Womens Shoes in America, 1795-1930"Many a man's heart has been kept from wandering by the bow on his wife's slipper."--Demorest's, 1883 In an engaging narrative history, the beautifully illustrated Women's Shoes in America investigates an aspect of American material culture not previously examined and provides a detailed reference...
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Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale EmergenciesFrom floods to fires, tornadoes to terrorist attacks, governments must respond to a variety of crises and meet reasonable standards of performance. What accounts for governments' effective responses to unfolding disasters? How should they organize and plan for significant emergencies? With fifteen adapted Kennedy...
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Coyote Tales from the Indian PueblosOne of the most constant symbols of North American Indian mythology is coyote, a figure that has not only persisted but successfully crossed cultural barriers. Coyote survives both as an animal and a myth in literature and art. Why have coyote stories lasted so...
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High-Maintenance RelationshipsHow do I handle a friend who saps my energy? When do I love without limit? We've all asked these questions. And too often our responses are either to back out of relationships or to give up on impossible people. Dr. Les Parrott shows...
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Celebrating the Jewish Year, 3-Volume SetThis set includes all three volumes in the Celebrating the Jewish Year series, for less than the cost of buying each book separately Included in the set: The Fall Holidays: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot; The Winter Holidays: Hanukkah, Tu B'Shevat, Purim; and the...
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Food and Poverty: Food Insecurity and Food Sovereignty among America's PoorFood insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched thin, and states are imposing new restrictions on programs like SNAP that are preventing people from getting crucial government assistance. At the same time,...
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Arab MediaEver since the events of 9/11, great attention has been paid to Arab mass media by politicians, experts and journalists around the world. Many have argued that Arab media has been the catalyst for various political and social developments ranging from democracy to political...
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Lo Que Mi Abuela Me Dijo / What My Grandmother Told Me: Practical Wisdom from Spanish Proverbs and SayingsDichos, or proverbs, offer a daily source of strength and inspiration in Spanish-speaking households all over the world. In this book about growing up in Manila with a Filipina grandmother, Maria Paz Eleizegui Weir shares the centuries-old dichos she learned from her abuelita: wisdom...
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Spider Woman: A Story of Navajo Weavers and ChantersThis lively account of a pioneering anthropologist's experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the author's desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside. In 1930, when Gladys Reichard came to...
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Navaho Folk TalesWhen Water Monster caused the Great Flood, the thirty-two clans of the first people left the summer land of the Fourth World and migrated to the fifth World through an enormous hollow reed. In this marvelous collection, Franc Newcomb recounts some of the many...
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Media Psychology 101"This book provides a thoughtful and balanced look at some of the hot topics generating headlines, such as media violence, body image, social representation and sex in the media.Media Psychology 101 will be a valuable addition to introductory courses and the public as a...
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Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees: Legal Issues, Clinical Skills, and AdvocacyPraise for the First Edition: "This book is an optimal tool for instructors and students of graduate classes in social work and related disciplines." Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health "This book is a major contribution to social workers and their clients as it...
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Restorative Justice Dialogue: An Essential Guide for Research and PracticeAlthough Restorative Justice Dialogue is not a long text, it is an impressive achievement. Each chapter is rich in content, as Umbreit and Armour blend theory, practice, empirical research, and case studies to discuss a range of topics from specific models of restorative justice...
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The Social Work Field Placement: A Competency-Based ApproachHelps students to integrate social work education with field placement learning experiences in a purposeful, reflective, and unified manner This authoritative text is designed to help BSW and MSW students structure their field placement learning around the nine CSWE profession social work competencies to...
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Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial TimesIn Migrant Futures Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction. While financial speculation creates a future based on predicting and mitigating risk for wealthy elites, the wide range of speculative novels,...
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The Critical Surf Studies ReaderThe evolution of surfing-from the first forms of wave-riding in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas to the inauguration of surfing as a competitive sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics-traverses the age of empire, the rise of globalization, and the onset of the digital age,...
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Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital TechnologiesWhile digital media give us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In Finite Media Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the...
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How Would You Like to Pay?: How Technology Is Changing the Future of MoneyFrom Bitcoin to Apple Pay, big changes seem to be afoot in the world of money. Yet the use of coins and paper bills has persisted for 3,000 years. In How Would You Like to Pay?, leading anthropologist Bill Maurer narrates money's history, considers...
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Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship StudiesThe essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors-a group...
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