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All the World's Reward: Folktales Told by Five Scandinavian Storytellers - Paperback

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by Reimund Kvideland (Author), Henning K. Sehmsdorf (Author)All the World's Reward presents ninety-eight tales from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Swedish-speaking Finland, and Iceland. Each area is represented by the complete recorded repertoire of a single storyteller. Such a focus helps place the stories in the context of the communities in which they were performed and also reveals how individual folk artists used the medium of oral literature to make statements about their lives and their worl...

New Lives in Anand: Building a Muslim Hub in Western India - Paperback

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by Sanderien Verstappen (Author), Padma Kaimal (Editor), K. Sivaramakrishnan (Editor)In 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart towns and villages in rural parts of Gujarat, India. In the aftermath, many Muslims living in Hindu-majority villages sought safety in the small town of Anand. Following such dramatic displacement, the town emerged as a site of opportunity and hope. For its residents and transnational visitors, Anand's Muslim area is not just a site of marginalization; it has be...

Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke - Hardcover

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by Lewis Clarke (Author), Carver Clark Gayton (Introduction by)Lewis George Clarke published the story of his life as a slave in 1845, after he had escaped from Kentucky and become a well-regarded abolitionist lecturer throughout the North. His book was the first work by a slave to be acquired by the Library of Congress and copyrighted.During the 1840s he lived in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Aaron and Mary Safford, where he encountered Mary's stepsister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, along...

Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka - Paperback

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by Mythri Jegathesan (Author), Piya Chatterjee (Editor)Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of the women, men, and children who have built their families and lives in line houses on tea plantations since the nineteenth century. The tea industry's economic crisis and Sri Lanka's twenty-six year long civil war have ushered in changes to life and work on the plantations, where family membe...

Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon - Paperback

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by Peter Boag (Author)On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's consequent hanging exposed the fault lines of a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing society and revealed the burdens of pioneer narratives boys of the time inherited.In Pioneering Death, Peter Boag examines the Brownsville parricide ...

Gender Before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context - Paperback

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by Rajani Bhatia (Author)In the mid-1990s, the international community pronounced prenatal sex selection via abortion an "act of violence against women" and "unethical." At the same time, new developments in reproductive technology in the United States led to a method of sex selection before conception; its US inventor marketed the practice as "family balancing" and defended it with the rhetoric of freedom of choice. In Gender before Birth, Rajani Bhatia takes on the double standard of how si...

The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man - Paperback

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by Brett McKay (Author), Kate McKay (Author)Man up and discover the practical and inspirational information all men should know! While it's definitely more than just monster trucks, grilling, and six-pack abs, true manliness is hard to define. The words macho and manly are not synonymous. Taking lessons from classic gentlemen such as Benjamin Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt, authors Brett and Kate McKay have created a collection of the most useful advice every man needs to know to live life t...

Pop Manga Mermaids and Other Sea Creatures: A Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Camilla D'Errico (Author)From the fan-favorite Pop Surrealist painter and graphic artist, this coloring book features stunningly beautiful black-and-white images of mermaids and other legendary beasts of the ocean drawn in Camilla d'Errico's signature manga-inspired style. Following the success of her first coloring book, Pop Manga Coloring Book, artist Camilla d'Errico takes fans beneath the waves with 70 black-and-white images of beloved characters from undersea fairy tales and myths in ...

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by Malcolm X (Author)Speeches tracing the evolution of Malcolm X's views on political alliances, women's rights, intermarriage, capitalism and socialism, and more. Number of Pages: 227 Dimensions: 0.57 x 8.24 x 5.22 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1992

Resident Evil: Of Zombies and Men - Hardcover

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by Nicolas Courcier (Author), Mehdi El Kanafi (Author), Bruno Provezza (Author)Every passionate gamer knows about the Resident Evil saga. Born in 1996, the series count at least 10 major episodes mainly inspired by the work of George A. Romero. The games take place in the United States infested with zombies. The first episode was so terrifying that it inspired the birth of a new genre: the survival-horror games. As in every Third Editions' book, a video game saga is analyzed and decrypted. Mo...

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness - Paperback

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by Da'shaun L. Harrison (Author), Kiese Laymon (Foreword by)**The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction**Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing. To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people ...

African American Readings of Paul: Reception, Resistance, and Transformation - Hardcover

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by Lisa M. Bowens (Author), Emerson B. Powery (Foreword by), Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Afterword by)The letters of Paul--especially the verse in Ephesians directing slaves to obey their masters--played an enormous role in promoting slavery and justifying it as a Christian practice. Yet despite this reality African Americans throughout history still utilized Paul extensively in their own work to protest and resist oppression, responding to his theology and teachings in numerous--often starkly d...

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by Michael Hardt (Author), Antonio Negri (Author)In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders, the furthering of progressive policy, and checks on repressive state forces. They have also been, at times, derided by journalists and political analysts as disorganized and ineffectual, or suppr...

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction - Paperback

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by Philip E. Tetlock (Author), Dan Gardner (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST "The most important book on decision making since Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow."--Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week's meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton...

Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age - Paperback

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by Charles Hapgood (Author)Charles Hapgood's classic 1966 book on ancient maps is back in print after 20 years. Hapgood produces concrete evidence of an advanced worldwide civilization existing many thousands of years before ancient Egypt. He has found the evidence in many beautiful maps long known to scholars, the Piri Reis Map that shows Antarctica, the Hadji Ahmed map, the Oronteus Finaeus and other amazing maps. Hapgood concluded that these maps were made from more ancient maps from the v...

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History - Paperback

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by Ned Blackhawk (Author)National Bestseller Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction - Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History - Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction - Winner of the 2024 Mark Lynton History Prize Named a best book of 2023 by New Yorker, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Barnes & Noble A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 - A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2023 - An NPR "Book We Love" for 2023 "Eloquent and...

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by John Hooper (Author)Washington Post bestsellerLos Angeles Times bestseller A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper's entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Fifteen y...

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle - Paperback

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by Chris Hedges (Author)A prescient book that forecast the culture that gave rise to Trump -- a society beholden to empty spectacle and obsession with image at the expense of reality, reason, and truth. An instant bestseller, Empire of Illusion is a striking and unsettling exploration of illusion and fantasy in contemporary American culture. Traveling to the ringside of professional wrestling bouts at Madison Square Garden, to Las Vegas to write about the pornographic film industry, and to ac...

Fatal Strategies, New Edition - Paperback

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by Jean Baudrillard (Author), Dominic Pettman (Introduction by)An early work in which Baudrillard became Baudrillard.When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers, utterly bizarre book that offered a theory as proliferative, ecstatic, and hallucinatory as the postmodern world it endeavored to describe. Arguing against the predetermined outcomes of dialectical thought with his renowned...

Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing - Paperback

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by Robert Wolff (Author)- Explores the lifestyle of indigenous peoples of the world who exist in complete harmony with the natural world and with each other. - Reveals a model of a society built on trust, patience, and joy rather than anxiety, hurry, and acquisition. - Shows how we can reconnect with the ancient intuitive awareness of the world's original people. Deep in the mountainous jungle of Malaysia the aboriginal Sng'oi exist on the edge of extinction, though their way of living may ul...

The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood - Hardcover

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by James Boyle (Author)How AI will challenge our ideas about personhood. Chatbots like ChatGPT have challenged human exceptionalism: we are no longer the only beings capable of generating language and ideas fluently. But is ChatGPT conscious? Or is it merely engaging in sophisticated mimicry? And what happens in the future if the claims to consciousness are more credible? In The Line, James Boyle explores what these changes might do to our concept of personhood, to "the line" we believe separ...

The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels - Hardcover

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by Pamela Prickett (Author), Stefan Timmermans (Author)"A rare and compassionate look into the lives of Americans who go unclaimed when they die and those who dedicate their lives to burying them with dignity."--Matthew Desmond, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Poverty, by America"A work of grace . . . Both cleareyed and disturbing, yet pulsing with empathy."--The New York Times (Editors' Choice) For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters' fields--a Dicken...

The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained - Paperback

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by Sarah Tomley (Author), Mitchell Hobbs (Author)Learn about how we organize our society in The Sociology Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sociology in this overview guide to the subject, great for beginners looking to learn and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Sociology Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to...

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration - Paperback

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by Alejandra Oliva (Author)A 2023 Indie Next List Pick A Summer/Fall 2023 Adult Indies Introduce Pick A 2023 Roxanne Gay Audacious Book Club Pick Winner of the 2022 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. In Rivermouth, Oliva focuses on the physical spaces ...

Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite - Paperback

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by Suki Kim (Author)A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea h...

Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio - Paperback

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by Jessica Abel (Author)A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 Go behind the scenes of seven of today's most popular narrative radio shows and podcasts, including This American Life and RadioLab, in graphic narrative. Every week, millions of devoted fans tune in to or download This American Life, The Moth, Radiolab, Planet Money, Snap Judgment, Serial, Invisibilia and other narrative radio shows. Using personal stories to breathe life into complex ideas and issues, these beloved programs help us...

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Report copyright infringementby Amanda Cachia (Author)Hospital aesthetics: Disability, medicine, activism argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where health and care are being taken into their own hands and body-minds. Hospital aesthetics is defined as artwork that explores the ever-subjective experience of illness, set apart from and outside of a clinical or therapeutic setting, and in opposition to the medical model of disability. The author exami...

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul - Paperback

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by Eddie S. Glaude (Author)A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society. America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by the Great Recession, it is clear that black America faces an emergenc...

Globalismo: Ingeniería Social Y Control Total En El Siglo XXI - Paperback

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by Agustin Laje (Author)Desvela los mecanismos ocultos de la dominación mundial con Globalismo: Ingeniería social y control total en el siglo XXI. El exitoso autor Agustín Laje desentraña magistralmente la malvada realidad de nuestro mundo moderno e ilumina las tinieblas de las fuerzas de poder que tratan de controlar a la humanidad. El globalismo no es globalización, sino una demoledora ideología que supone el más ambicioso proyecto de ingeniería social y control total en curso. Instituciona...

Social Work Licensing Clinical Exam Guide: Comprehensive ASWB Lcsw Exam Review with Full Content Review, 500+ Total Questions, and Practice Exams - Paperback

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by Dawn Apgar (Author)Includes 6 months' free ExamPrepConnect digital access with print purchase! Social Work Licensing Clinical Exam Guide, Fourth Edition, provides everything you need to successfully pass the ASWB LCSW exam and become fully licensed to practice. This bestselling guide from Dawn Apgar is now updated with more practice questions and features to help you study for and pass the LCSW exam. Chapters fully cover the 4 exam content areas and all Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KS...

How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century - Paperback

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by Erik Olin Wright (Author)What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it? Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values--equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity--can provide both the basis for a critique of capitalism and help to guide us toward a socialist and democratic society. Erik Olin Wright has distilled decades of work into this concise and tightly argued ma...

Cambie Su Mundo: Todos Pueden Marcar Una Diferencia Sin Importar Dónde Estén - Paperback

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by John C. Maxwell (Author), Rob Hoskins (Author)Dos de los líderes más respetados hoy en día y que han cambiado al mundo, el experto en liderazgo John C. Maxwell y el líder de desarrollo global Rob Hoskins, comparten sus experiencias en el mundo real ayudando a transformar millones de vidas, comunidades y empresas en todo el mundo para mostrar a la gente cómo ser el cambio que el mundo necesita y ayudar a otros a hacer lo mismo. Vemos la pobreza, la falta de vivienda, la violencia, las enfer...