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Modern Persecution V2: Or Married Woman's Liabilities (1873)

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard (Author)Modern Persecution V2: Or Married Woman��s Liabilities is a book written by Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard and published in 1873. The book is a continuation of Packard's previous work, Modern Persecution, and focuses on the legal and societal restrictions placed on married women at the time. Packard was a prominent advocate for women's rights and mental health reform, and she used her personal experiences of being inv...

Parker Pillsbury: Radical Abolitionist, Male Feminist

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Report copyright infringementby Stacey M. Robertson (Author)Parker Pillsbury--one of the most important and least examined antislavery activists of the nineteenth century--was a man of intense contradictions. Was he a disruptive eccentric who lashed out at authority (proclaiming Lincoln the worst president in the nation's history) or a sensitive visionary committed to social justice? In the first full-length biography of this remarkable American, Stacey M. Robertson depicts a man who became a...

The Stories That Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West: An Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby James Hepworth (Author), Teresa Jordon (Author), Theresa Jordan (Editor)For sheer richness and diversity of voice, The Stories That Shape Us is unbeatable. This book gives the widest possible perspective on what it means to grow up female in the West. Susan Lyman-Whitney, Deseret News Number of Pages: 400 Dimensions: 0.94 x 8.44 x 5.6 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1999

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Report copyright infringementby Rien Poortvliet (Illustrator), Wil Huygen (Author)Enter the magical realm of gnomes with this captivating book that unveils their hidden secrets. This companion volume to the runaway international bestselling Gnomes takes you on a journey through lush forests, mystical gardens, and cozy underground homes, revealing the fascinating lives of these elusive creatures. The 200 hand-illustrated pages overflow with the authors' on-the-scene sketches and firsthand ob...

Prince Among Slaves (Anniversary) - Paperback

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by Terry Alford (Author)In this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship's surgeon as the son of an African king who had saved his life many years earlier. "The Prince," as he had become known to local Natchez, Mississippi residents, had been captured in war when he was 26 years old, sold to slave traders, and shipped to America. Slave though he was, Ibrahima was an educated, aristocratic man, and he ...

Fair Play: Reese's Book Club: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) - Paperback

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by Eve Rodsky (Author)AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way... It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family--and then sent that list to her husband, asking for things to change. His response wa...

Families and Faith: How Religion Is Passed Down Across Generations - Paperback

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by Vern L. Bengtson (Author), Norella M. Putney (With), Susan Harris (With)Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from American Sociology Association Sociology of Religion SectionWinner of the Richard Kalish Best Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America Few things are more likely to cause heartache to devout parents than seeing their child leave the faith. And it seems, from media portrayals, that this is happening more and more frequently. But is religious change between ...

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by Alim Et Al (Author)Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in our rapidly changing world. Combining the innovative, cutting-edge approaches of race and ethnic studies with fine-graine...

Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s

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Report copyright infringementby Michael O'Hanlon (Editor), Robert L. Welsch (Editor) Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this volume. The contributors to this tightly-integrated volume take these collectors, and the collecting institutions,...

Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Us Imperial Project in the Philippines

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Report copyright infringementby Diana Jean S. Martinez (Author)During US colonial rule in the Philippines, reinforced concrete was used to the near exclusion of all other building materials. In Concrete Colonialism, Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the motivations for and lasting effects of this forgotten colonial policy. Arguing that the pervasive use of reinforced concrete technologies revolutionized techniques of imperial conquest, Martinez shows how concrete reshaped colonialism as a proje...

The Labor of Architecture: Creativity, Design, and the Building of a New Class Consciousness

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Report copyright infringementby C. G. Beck (Author)The Labor of Architecture examines the social and historical narratives that led to the illusory division between the "working class" and the "creative class." In popular imagination, as author C.G. Beck observes, the architect is a singular genius, obsessively working alone in the studio. Surrounded by beautiful drawings and intricate models, the architect wrestles only with themselves and the purity of their design. This is certainly no lon...

Slow Planning?: Timescapes, Power and Democracy

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Dobson (Author), Gavin Parker (Author)A deep exploration on how questions of time and its organisation affect planning practice, this book is aimed at public and private planning practitioners, national and local politicians and policy makers involved in planning, academics and students studying planning and related disciplines. It presents time as a pervasive form of power that is used to shape democratic practices, and questions 'project speed' where ti...

Cities of Love: Roadmap for Sustaining Future Cities

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Siang Tai (Author), Valerie Ang (Author)Earth's environmental problems are far from being resolved. A large part of these are due to ever-growing cities. Despite more efforts made to improve cities, it has been difficult to change cities. One of the fundamental reasons is that people are not motivated to help change their cities. Apathy is now the number one obstacle to positive change. There is hope and Love is the antidote.What you love, you will sustain....

Control: Mkultra, Chemtrails and the Conspiracy to Suppress the Masses - Paperback

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by Nick Redfern (Author)A compelling look at the hidden schemes to control the massesFreedom of speech. Free exercise of religion. The right to peacefully assemble and to bear arms. Free will is an integral part of democracy, but how free are we really? The NSA, computer chips, surveillance cameras, search engines, social media and major corporations spy on our every move and try to influence our every decision. Big Ag and Big Pharma sell us food, medication and drink of dubious benefits. The...

Digital Inclusion: An International Comparative Analysis

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Report copyright infringementby Massimo Ragnedda (Editor), Bruce Mutsvairo (Editor), Gerard Goggin (Afterword by)This collection examines the risks and social opportunities created by the growth of information and communication technologies. In particular, the contributors analyze how digital inclusion is affected by the social and cultural contexts of access around the world.Author BiographyMassimo Ragnedda is senior lecturer of mass communication at Northumbria University. Bruce Mutsvairo i...

The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative - Paperback

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by Thomas King (Author)Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous. In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture's deep ties to storytelling. With wry humor, King deftly weaves events from his ow...

Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place - Paperback

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by Coll Thrush (Author), William Cronon (Foreword by)This updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the experiences of local indigenous communities on whose land Seattle grew, accounts of Native migrants to the city and the development of a multi-tribal urban community, as well as the role Native Americans have played in the narrative of Seattle.A...

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Report copyright infringementby John Berger (Author)Why should an artist's way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist's intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of historical artists as well as that of near contemporaries such as Picasso, L?ger and Matisse, he explores the ro...

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence - Paperback

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by Carol Berkin (Author)A groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that "vividly recounts Colonial women's struggles for independence--for their nation and, sometimes, for themselves.... [Her] lively book reclaims a vital part of our political legacy" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this book, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the ...

I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime - Paperback

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by Joe Kenda (Author)Detective Lt. Joe Kenda, star of Homicide Hunter, shares his deepest, darkest, and never before revealed case files from his 19 years as a homicide detective. Are you horrified yet fascinated by abhorrent murders? Do you crave to know the gory details of these crimes, and do you seek comfort in the solving of the most gruesome? In I Will Find You, the star of Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda shares his deepest, darkest, and never-before-revealed case files from his two dec...

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Hardcover

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by Matthew Desmond (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic "has set a new standard for reporting on poverty" (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review). In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as "wrenc...

Thor & Loki: Epic Tales from Marvel Mythology

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Report copyright infringementby Delilah S. Dawson (Author), Gabriel Hernández Walta (Illustrator)In this officially licensed collection, Marvel Comics heroes Thor and Loki regale us with engaging and fantastical retellings of the classic tales of Norse mythology. It's a beautiful day in New York City and the Avengers have arranged a surprise birthday picnic for Peter Parker in Central Park--but the celebration is violently interrupted when a menacing rainbow suddenly crystalizes in the sky, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Sacco (Author)NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, THE BROOKLYN RAIL, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, POP MATTERS, COMICS BEAT, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYFrom the "heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman" (The Economist), a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene,...

Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America - Paperback

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by Charles V. Hamilton (Author), Kwame Ture (Author)An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published.A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting ord...

Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition - Paperback

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by Marie-Louise Von Franz (Author)A renowned psychologist examines fairy tales through a Jungian lens, revealing what they can teach us about the darkest sides of human behavior Fairy tales seem to be innocent stories, yet they contain profound lessons for those who would dive deep into their waters of meaning. In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz uncovers some of the important lessons concealed in tales from around the world, drawing on the wealth of her knowledge of folklore, her experienc...

Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide - Paperback

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by Tony Horwitz (Author)The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an unde...

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by James Baldwin (Author)At once a powerful evocation of his childhood in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the Civil Rights movement, stands as one of the essential works of our literature. (Vintage)FebruaryAuthor BiographyJames Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published in 1953 to ex...

The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Volume 2: Into the Multiverse

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Carnes (Editor), Lilly J. Goren (Editor)A new volume of essays exploring the on-screen politics and real-world implications of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's expansion into the multiverse.As the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) moved on from the Thanos storyline, it became more political than ever--both on screen and off.Following up on their first volume about the politics of the MCU, editors Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren are back with a new volu...

This Is Washington, D.C.: A Children's Classic - Hardcover

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by Miroslav Sasek (Author)Continuing the success of the runaway best sellers This is New York and This is London comes the latest title from M. Sasek's beloved and nostalgic children's travel series. Sasek's This is Washington, D.C. is a facsimile edition of his original book, which was first published in 1969. The brilliant illustrations have been meticulously preserved, with the facts updated for the twenty-first century. The charming illustrations, coupled with Sasek's playful narrative, m...

The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography - Paperback

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by John Swanson Jacobs (Author)A full description of this book will be provided by the publisher when the publication date nears.Author BiographyA full author bio will be provided by the publisher when the publication date nears. Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 21, 2024

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by Various (Author), Jeffrey Gantz (Translator), Jeffrey Gantz (Introduction by)First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world--part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods. From the vivid adventures of the great Celtic hero Cu Chulaind, to the stunning "Exile of the...

Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures - Paperback

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by Adam Zmith (Author)Adam Zmith reveals the long history of the quick rush from sniffing poppers. 3, 2, 1... inhale, deep. From the Victorian infirmary and the sex clubs of the 1970s, poppers vapour has released the queer potential inside us all. This is the intriguing story of how poppers wafted out of the lab and into gay bars, corner shops, bedrooms and porn supercuts. Blending historical research with wry observation, Adam Zmith explores the cultural forces and improbable connections beh...