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English social history
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George Macaulay Trevelyan |
This is volume 3 of 4 volumes. I actually loathe Trevelyan but even so he does come in useful (not to say indispensible) at times |
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India unbound
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Gurcharan Das |
"India today is a vibrant free-market democracy and has begun to flex its muscles in the global information economy and on the world stage. Now, acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das traces India's recen… |
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Kidfluence
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Beth Thompson,Anne Sutherland,Anne Sutherland |
Strategies for reaching today's most important, influential market--the kids who drive family purchase decisionsKids today possess product knowledge and buying influence far beyond their years, and… |
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A man with no talents
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Shirō Ōyama |
"San'ya, Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for twelve years when he took up his pen and began writing about his life as a resident of Tok… |
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Disorderly conduct
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Carroll Smith-Rosenberg |
Essays look at feminist history, female friendships, Davy Crockett, sex roles, the feminine cycle, hysteria, abortion, and androgyny in nineteenth-century America. |
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Being Arab
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Paul Eid |
xvi, 255 pages ; 24 cm |
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Bitter dawn
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Irena Cristalis |
"Few new nations have endured a birth as traumatic as that of the world's youngest country, East Timor." "Born amid the flames, pillage and mayhem that surrounded Indonesia's reluctant withdrawal in … |
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Daisy sisters
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Henning Mankell |
Henning Mankell (Estocolmo, 1948-Göteborg, 2015) ha sido conocido en todo el mundo por su serie de novelas policiacas protagonizadas por el célebre inspector Kurt Wallander, traducidas a cuarenta y d… |
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Outlaw Culture
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Bell Hooks |
Bell hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, is also one of our most clear-eyed and penetrating analysts of culture. Outlaw culture--the culture of the margin, of women, of the disenfran… |
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Aftershock
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Robert B. Reich |
When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He … |
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Blaming the victim
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Ryan, William |
Includes material on education, illegitimacy, health care, housing, criminal justice, repression, and reform. |
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Tides of change on Grand Manan Island
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Joan Marshall |
Grand Manan Island, a 200-year old fishing village in the Bay of Fundy, has been overwhelmed by globalization, technology, and changing government policies. Changes on the island call into question t… |
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Peoples of the world
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Joyce Moss |
An exploration of ethnic groups in Latin America, discussing culture, family structure, dress, nutrition, education, industry, religion, history, population, land, and climate. |
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Afghanistan's endless war
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Larry P. Goodson |
"Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned fundamentalists, Larry Goodson combines Taliban interviews and field research with concise analysis to expla… |
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Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico border
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Kathleen A. Staudt,Julia Estela Monárrez Fragoso |
"At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million people whose livelihoods depend on global ma… |
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Servants
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Lucy Lethbridge |
From the immense staff running a lavish Edwardian estate and the lonely maid-of-all-work cooking in a cramped middle-class house to the poor child doing chores in a slightly less poor household, serv… |
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Two Gentlemen From London
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Fenella-Jane Miller |
When Colonel Robert Sinclair and his friend Major Simon Dudley arrive unannounced, Annabel Bentley is greatly displeased. She and her mother, Lady Sophia, have been hiding from her stepfather, Sir Ra… |
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Bonheur d'occasion
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Gabrielle Roy |
Dans le quartier montre alais de Saint-Henri, un peuple d'ouvriers et de petits employe s canadiens-franc ʹais est de sespe rement en que te de bonheur. Florentine croit avoir trouve le sien dans l'… |
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A fair country
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John Ralston Saul |
Saul argues passionately that Canada is a Métis nation heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas. |
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Tar sands
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Andrew Nikiforuk |
""A scathing critique." Green Inc. The New York Times" ""An astonishingly entertaining read that raises your hackles while raising your awareness." Sustainablog" ""Required reading for every citizen.… |
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