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Loving animals
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Kathy Rudy |
" The contemporary animal rights movement encompasses a wide range of sometimes-competing agendas from vegetarianism to animal liberation. For people for whom pets are family members--animal lovers o… |
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September 12
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Gregory Smithsimon |
Until September 11, Battery Park City had been a secluded, wealthy enclave just west of Wall Street in downtown Manhattan, one with all the opulence of the surrounding corporate headquarters yet with… |
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Investigating culture
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Carol Lowery Delaney |
"In its new Second Edition, the innovative and ever-popular Investigating Culture has been updated and revised to incorporate new teacher and student feedback. Carol Delaney and Deborah Kaspin provid… |
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The indistinct human in Renaissance literature
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Jean E. Feerick,Vincent Joseph Nardizzi |
"This volume argues for the necessaity of a re-articulation of the differences that separated man from other forms of life. Building on the increased attention paid in recent criticism to both plant … |
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A cultural approach to interpersonal communication
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Leila Frances Monaghan,Jane E. Goodman,Jennifer Meta Robinson |
"The Second Edition of A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication presents key readings from the fields of cultural and linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and communication studies th… |
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Weimar film and modern Jewish identity
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Ofer Ashkenazi |
"This book argues that Weimar genre film was a site where the complexities and challenges of Jewish identity were envisioned and negotiated. In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid … |
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Witchcraft and a life in the new South Africa
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Isak A. Niehaus |
"Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa reconstructs the biography of an ordinary South African, Jimmy Mohale. Born in 1964, Jimmy came of age in rural South Africa during apartheid, then stud… |
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A poetics of relation
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Odile Ferly |
"A Poetics of Relation fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispa… |
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Fair trade from the ground up
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April Linton |
"Fair Trade promises to raise living standards in developing countries through: - worldwide minimum prices for commodities - support for democratically governed cooperatives - requirement of minimum … |
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Body Style
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Theresa M. Winge |
"Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body … |
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Running with the Kenyans
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Adharanand Finn |
""A dusty road stretches into the distance like a pencil line across the arid landscape. Lions, rhino, and buffalo roam the plains on either side. But I haven't come to Kenya to spot wildlife. I've c… |
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What's left of Blackness?
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Tracy Fisher |
"What's Left of Blackness analyzes the political transformations in black women's socially engaged community-based political work in England from the late 1960s until the 2000s. Tracy Fisher situates… |
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A companion to moral anthropology
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Didier Fassin |
"A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals, morality, and ethics. Original essays by international experts explore the variou… |
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Culture and dignity
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Laura Nader |
"In Culture and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship betwe… |
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Homoeroticism in Imperial China
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Mark Stevenson,Cuncun Wu |
"Bringing together over sixty pre-modern Chinese primary sources on same-sex desire in English translation, Homoeroticism in Imperial China is an important addition to the growing field of the compar… |
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To repair the world
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Paul Farmer |
"Here are highlights from Paul Farmers' speeches to a variety of audiences, from Princeton to Harvard to Notre Dame to Berkeley. Paul is a rock star of the academy who has a large following among man… |
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Rethinking narcissism
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Craig Malkin |
"Harvard Medical School psychologist and Huffington Post blogger Craig Malkin addresses the 'narcissism epidemic' by illuminating the spectrum of narcissism [and] ways to control the trait, and expla… |
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Alex Through the Looking-glass
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Alex Bellos |
From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, Bellos takes readers on a journey of mathematical discovery. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively per… |
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Slavery through the ages
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Don Nardo |
Provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on the important dates in history regarding slavery; human beings held against their will. |
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Transgender History (Seal Studies)
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Susan Stryker,María Teresa Sánchez,Matilde Pérez,María Teresa Sánchez,Matilde Pérez,María Teresa Sánchez,Matilde Pérez |
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering maj… |
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