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The Borders of Privilege: 1.5-Generation Brazilian Migrants Navigating Power Without Papers - Paperback

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by Kara Cebulko (Author)Because whiteness is not a given for Brazilians in the U.S., some immigrants actively construct it as a protective mechanism against the stigma normally associated with illegality. In The Borders of Privilege, Kara Cebulko tells the stories of a group of 1.5-generation Brazilians to show how their ability to be perceived as white-their power without papers-shapes their everyday interactions. By strategically creating boundaries with other racialized groups, these immig...

We Tried to Tell Y'All: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives - Paperback

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by Meredith D. Clark (Author)Author BiographyMeredith D. Clark, (@MeredithDClark; she/her/hers), is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, where she also serves as founding director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change. Clark is a two-time graduate of Florida A&M University, and earned her Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her r...

Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation - Paperback

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by John Ehle (Author)A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th century, some of their lead...

Emily Post's Etiquette, the Centennial Edition - Hardcover

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by Lizzie Post (Author), Daniel Post Senning (Author)This centennial edition of Emily Post's classic guide to etiquette has been completely rewritten with up-to-date and comprehensive advice on the need-to-know manners, customs, and best practices of today. For the past one hundred years, Emily Post has been America's definitive source for how to navigate--and enhance--every social interaction. In an increasingly diverse and intersectional world, the need for a trusted primer on how to put pe...

In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis - Paperback

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by Peter Marcuse (Author), David Madden (Author)Author BiographyPeter Marcuse is Emeritus Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He has written extensively in English as well as German, in the US, the UK and various other European countries. His work has also appeared in newspaper and magazines such as the Nation, New York Newsday, Monthly Review, Shelterforce and many others. David Madden is Assistant Professor in the ...

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by Adventure Publications (Prepared by)This outer-space-themed board book introduces our solar system's planets, through full-color photographs and concise text.Author BiographyAdventure Publications is renowned for its informative, user-friendly products, such as the best-selling, state-by-state birding guides. With a focus on regional nature titles, travel books, field guides, and children's books, Adventure Publications features a rich backlist of top-selling titles for every US state. Gre...

Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home - Paperback

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by Fida Jiryis (Author)After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them. This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey, which is also the story of Palestine, from the Nakba to the present-a seventy-five-year tale of conflict, exodus, occupation, return and search for belonging, seen through the eyes of one writer and her family. Jiryis reveals how her father, Sabri, a PLO l...

Beginning Research in Political Science - Paperback

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by Carolyn Forestiere (Author)Beginning Research in Political Science covers both research design and data analysis and takes a learn-by-doing-approach to guide students through all of the steps needed to complete a research project on one of 14 potential topics concerning differences in public opinion for important contemporary issues, such as views on income or gender inequality or support for the death penalty or abortion. Each chapter builds from the previous chapter with step-by-step ins...

A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches - Paperback

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by Martin Luther King (Author)"We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."These prophetic words, uttered the day before his assassination, challenged those h...

An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World - Paperback

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by Patrisse Cullors (Author)From the Co-Founder of the #BlackLivesMatter, a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to being a modern-day abolitionist In An Abolitionist's Handbook, New York Times bestselling author, artist, and activist Patrisse Cullors charts a framework for how everyday artists, activists, and organizers can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like f...

The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos - Hardcover

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by Jaime Green (Author)*An NPR Science Friday Book Club Pick**A "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must Read**A Gizmodo New Release Pick for April**A BookRiot Science Book to Add to Your TBR**A Wired Book to Read for Spring**A TODAY Show Summer Book**A Washington Post Book to Read This Summer**One of the Chicago Tribune's 52 Books for Summer 2023*"A dazzling feat of imagination and synthesis."--Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of An Immense WorldA spellbinding exploration of alien life and t...

The Book of Tea Classic Edition - Hardcover

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by Kakuzo Okakura (Author), Elise Grilli (Foreword by)Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "object d'art" will be sure to add grace and elegance to tea shelves, coffee tables and bookshelves. A keepsake enjoyed by tea lovers for over a hundred years, The Book of Tea Classic Edition will enhance your enjoyment and understanding of the seemingly simple act of making and drinking tea. In 1906 in turn-of-the-century Boston, a small, esoteric book about tea was written with...

Prison Ramen: Recipes and Stories from Behind Bars - Paperback

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by Clifton Collins (Author), Alvarez (Author), Samuel L. Jackson (Foreword by)"These recipes make me smile and laugh out loud with joy, memory, and awe at their total culinary genius. All born from a bond of pure hunger?"--Samuel L. Jackson, from the Foreword When you're in prison, a little money in the commissary can mean the difference between a life of flavorless misery and the pleasure of re-creating a taste of childhood. And it starts with Ramen. Filled with contributions from anonymous...

The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet - Paperback

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by Henry Fountain (Author)New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history--the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega--and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place. At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2. earthquake--the second most powerful in world history--struck the young state of Alaska. The violent shak...

This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto - Paperback

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by Suketu Mehta (Author)A 2019 NPR Staff PickA timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it? In This Land Is Our Land, the renowned author Suketu Mehta attacks the issue head-on. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and on years of reporting around the world, M...

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by Philip Howell (Author), Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In this unique book, Philip Howell takes the public house as an object, or rather as a series of objects: he takes the pub apart and examines its constituent elements, from pub signs to the bar staff to the calling of "ti...

The Cannabis Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to Cultivation & Consumption of Medical Marijuana - Paperback

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by Jorge Cervantes (Author)A definitive guide to medical marijuana cultivation and consumption & explains all the essential techniques to grow cannabis. 2,000+ beautiful color images illustrate this book. Medical cannabis history, cannabinoid measurement & medical varieties provide a background for medical patients & caregivers. The Medicinal Concentrates & Cooking with Medicinal Cannabis chapters feature different methods to concentrate & consume cannabis. Each stage of ...

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective - Paperback

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by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." -Combahee River Collective StatementAuthor BiographyKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. Her book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation won the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book. Her articles have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Cultur...

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt - Paperback

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by Kara Cooney (Author)This riveting paperback explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra, and shines a piercing light on perceptions of powerful women today. Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, women reigned supreme. Regularly, repeatedly, and with impunity, queens like Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra controlled the totalitarian state as power-brokers and rulers. But throughout human history, women in ...

The Tea Book: Experience the World's Finest Teas, Qualities, Infusions, Rituals, Recipes - Hardcover

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by Linda Gaylard (Author)The Tea Book helps you explore the blends, tastings, and ceremonies from around the world and create your own delicious tea traditions. Where does tea come from? In The Tea Book learn where in the world tea is cultivated and how to drink each variety at its best, with steeping notes and step-by-step recipes. The Tea Book is your world tour of the art of tea. Visit tea plantations from India to Kenya and explore maps of the world's most important growing regions. Learn...

Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love - Paperback

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by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (Author)The bestselling author of Seinfeldia offers a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the City, in a "bubbly, yet fierce cultural dissection of the groundbreaking show" (Chicago Tribune). This is the story of how a columnist, two gay men, and a writers' room full of women used their own poignant, hilarious, and humiliating stories to launch a cultural phenomenon. They endured shock, slut-shaming, and a slew of ...

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by Brandon Stanton (Author)Based on the blog with more than four million loyal fans, a beautiful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring collection of photographs and stories capturing the spirit of a city Now an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Humans of New York began in the summer of 2010, when photographer Brandon Stanton set out to create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all in an attempt to...

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by Elizabeth Gilbert (Author)Finalist for the National Book Award From the New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls comes a riveting exploration of manhood and all its complicated meanings through the portrait of an American Mountain Man. In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left ...

Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrative - Paperback

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by Rocío del Aguila (Editor), Vanesa Miseres (Editor)Food Studies in Latin American Literature presents a timely collection of essays analyzing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the lens of food studies. Topics explored include potato and maize in colonial and contemporary global narratives; the role of cooking in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's poetics; the centrality of desire in twentieth-century cooking writing by women; the relationship among food, recipes, and national ident...

The Big Book of Conspiracy Theories: History's Biggest Delusions and Speculations, from JFK to Area 51, the Illuminati, 9/11, and the Moon Landings - Hardcover

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by Tim Rayborn (Author)Did America fake the moon landing? Was 9/11 an inside job? What is the government hiding at Area 51? From secret societies to aliens and assassinations, decode history's greatest cover-ups and decide for yourself.Humanity has long been obsessed with the unexplained, and we have ascribed many mysteries to underground groups and secret schemes. With seeming coincidences piling up around significant events, it's no wonder so many theories have emerged over the years. But h...

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by Allison Kelley (Author), Danielle Kraese (Author), Kate Herzlin (Author)A modern, feminist take on the classic joke book to amuse and empower readers who are tired of being the punchline. A man walks into a bar. It's a low one, so he gets a promotion within his first six months on the job. Four comedy writers transform classic joke setups into sharp commentary about the everyday and structural sexism that pervades all facets of life. Jokes to Offend Men arms readers with humorous quips to...

Queering Sexual Violence - Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement - Paperback

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by Jennifer Patterson (Author)Often pushed to the margins, queer, transgender and gender non-conforming survivors have been organizing in anti-violence work since the birth of the movement. Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement locates them at the center of the anti-violence movement and creates a space for their voices to be heard. Moving beyond dominant narratives and the traditional "violence against women" framework, the book is multi-gendered, mu...

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought - Paperback

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by Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Editor)The timeless and essential anthology of Black Feminist thought--showing that Black women have always understood the need for feminism to be intersectional"In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. . . . She has refused to cut off contemporary African American women from the long line of sisters who have righteously struggled for the liberation of African American women from the...

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by Chris Hedges (Author)Now with a new preface for the paperback edition by the author, an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents. Drawn from experience and interviews by Pulitzer-prize-winner Chris Hedges, a devastating look the hidden costs of war, what it does to individuals, families, communities and nations. "A remarkable record of reporting and analysis. . . A contribution of great significance in these troubled times." --Noam C...

Mystical Mushrooms: Discover the Magic & Folklore of Fantastic Fungi - Hardcover

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by Aurora Kane (Author)Mystical Mushrooms defines the beauty of mushrooms by focusing on their magical connections and symbolic meanings through folkloric tales and superstitions throughout the world. Go for a walk in the woods on any given summer day and you may find yourself surrounded in fungi galore as they lay nestled among the ferns and trees. After a rainstorm, peek out in your backyard and you may see tiny spores sprouting from the grass, forming what is known as a fairy ring. Mushro...

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by Hala Alyan (Author)Wandering from Detroit to Haifa, Tripoli to Brooklyn, the poems of FOUR CITIES reveal the underbelly of cities, bearing witness to narratives of love, occupation and faith. These testimonies are harvested from displaced landscapes, histories and languages, revealing the unsettled lives of immigrants. Using urgent, haunting language, Alyan evokes the unlikely backdrop of Palestinian bazaars and Midwestern junkyards, policed checkpoints and boisterous nightclubs. A Lebanes...

Hanna-Barbera, the Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age to Meddling Kids - Paperback

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by Greg Ehrbar (Author), Tim Matheson (Foreword by), Leonard Maltin (Preface by)Featuring the first extensive Hanna-Barbera discography ever published and over 140 photos and illustrations! Whether it's Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, the Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, Huckleberry Hound, or hundreds of others, the creations of the Hanna-Barbera studio continue to delight generations worldwide. The groundbreaking company employed thousands in the art and business of animation. Some of them were vinta...