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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Religious division and social conflict	Peggy Froerer	Study based on Oraons, Indic people; with reference to Mohanpur, a village in Korba District, India.	OL11780553W
BUSINESS OF SOME HEAT: THE UNITED NATIONS FORCE IN CYPRUS BEFORE AND DURING THE 1974 TURKISH INVASI…	FRANCIS HENN	xxvi, 550 p., [16] p. of plates : 24 cm	OL13633584W
The big sort	Bill Bishop	America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. We've built a country where we can…	OL13850935W
The argument culture	Deborah Tannen	The author examines the way we communicate in public--in the media, in politics, in our courtrooms, and classrooms -- once again letting us see in a new way forces that have powerfully shaped our liv…	OL15841541W
Red Hook Road	Ayelet Waldman	After John Tetherly and Becca Copaken die in a freak car accident an hour after their wedding, their families are left to bridge stark class and cultural divides, and eventually forge deep-rooted bon…	OL15926311W
Reclaiming the nation	Paris Yeros,Sam Moyo	"This book compares the trajectories of states and societies in Africa, Asia and Latin America under neoliberalism, a time marked by serial economic crises, escalating social conflicts, the re-milita…	OL16017942W
Walking with the comrades	Arundhati Roy	In early 2010, Roy traveled into the forests of Central India, homeland to millions of indigenous people, dreamland to some of the world's biggest mining corporations. The result is this... report fr…	OL16184157W
State, economy, and society in post-military Nigeria	Said Adejumobi	"The nature of the state and the ideological thrust of state policies continue to shape the character of the economy and social relations in Nigeria.This book analyzes how neo-liberal state economic …	OL16974779W
I wouldn't start from here	Andrew Mueller	What is a jaded rock journalist doing dodging landmines to talk to mercenaries and terrorists? And what kind of conversation can a man who prefers hunting for perfect three-minute pop songs and tubes…	OL17916357W
Crazy Rich Asians	Kevin Kwan	(Description comes from the 2013 Anchor Books edition) When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees on a summer in Singapore to visit her boyfriend's "traditional" Chinese family, she expects the visit to be…	OL17924837W
Social threat and social control	Allen E. Liska	This book examines the conflict theory of social control, particularly the threat hypothesis. It asserts that deviance and crime control are responses to social threats such as criminal acts and riot…	OL17988452W
God save Ireland!	Patricia Bunning Stevens	Examines the history of the English-Irish, Protestant-Catholic conflict in Ireland with emphasis on the events and people that have intensified this struggle during the twentieth century.	OL1811775W
Encyclopedia of violence, peace & conflict	Jennifer E. Turpin,Lester R. Kurtz	"This outstanding three-volume set seeks to answer basic questions about modern warfare, conflict, violence, and peace, but also covers current topics such as police brutality, aggression in sports, …	OL18272885W
Social capital and peace-building	Michaelene Cox	Introduction / Michaelene Cox -- Part I. Social Capital as an Instrument of Violence -- 1. Shades of orange and green: Civil society and the peace process in Northern Ireland / Roberto Belloni -- 2. …	OL18349440W
The hidden injuries of class	Richard Sennett,Jonathan Cobb	This book deals with class not as a matter of dollars or statistics but as a matter of emotions. Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb isolate the “hidden signals of class” through which today’s blue-col…	OL1870898W
Social conflict	Satish Saberwal,N. Jayaram	Contributed articles.	OL19230260W
The age of acquiescence	Steve Fraser	"From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and politic…	OL19662210W
Gaza	Jean-Pierre Filiu	"Through its millennium-long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed while simultaneously and paradoxically enduring prolonged neglect. Squeezed between the Negev and Sinai desert on the one…	OL19664541W
Solutions to political polarization in America	Nathaniel Persily	"This volume assembles several of the nation's top analysts of polarization in American politics. However, unlike the many other volumes written on this subject, this book focuses on solutions to pol…	OL20002934W
Path of Stars	Erin Hunter,Wayne McLoughlin,Allen Douglas	A new era dawns in the forest.... After moons of deliberation and strife, the forest cats have settled into five camps, following the spirit cats' advice to spread out like the petals of the Blaz…	OL20484488W