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The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology - Paperback

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by Umberto Albarella (Editor), Mauro Rizzetto (Editor), Hannah Russ (Editor)Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites--zooarchaeology--has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past. The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology offers a cutting-edge compendium of zooarchaeology the world over that transcends environmental, economic, and social approaches, seekin...

The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World - Paperback

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by Alan Downs (Author)This groundbreaking and empowering book examines the impact of growing up and surviving as a gay man in a society still learning to accept all identities. In The Velvet Rage, psychologist Alan Downs draws on his own struggle with shame and anger, contemporary research, and stories from his patients to passionately describe the stages of a gay man's journey out of shame and offers practical and inspired strategies to stop the cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior...

Negro Employment in Public Utilities: A Study of Racial Policies in the Electric Power, Gas, and Telephone Industries

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Report copyright infringementby Bernard E. Anderson (Author)This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Number of Pages: 288 Dimensio...

Negro Employment in Basic Industry: A Study of Racial Policies in Six Industries

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Report copyright infringementby Herbert R. Northrup (Author), Richard L. Rowan (Author)Founded in 1921 as a separate Wharton department, the Industrial Research Unit has a long record of publication and research in the labor market, productivity, union relations, and business report fields. Major Industrial Research Unit studies as published as research projects are completed. This volume is Study no. 46. The industries covered are these six: automobile, aerospace, steel, rubber tire, petrole...

Religion Is Not Done with You: Or, the Hidden Power of Religion on Race, Maps, Bodies, and Law - Hardcover

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by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst (Author), Megan Goodwin (Author)A smart, irreverent, and accessible guide to thinking more deeply about how religion permeates and shapes the world around us -and why you need to understand the work it's doing Religion lurks in the floorboards of our daily lives, whether we want it to or not. A departure from more traditional approaches to "Religion 101," Religion Is Not Done with You gives thought-provoking context to the basics of religious studies by challenging...

Ozark Folk Magic: Plants, Prayers & Healing - Paperback

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by Brandon Weston (Author)Discover the Healing Power of Plants and Prayers Bring traditional methods of healing and magic into the modern world with this impressive book on Ozark folk magic. Providing lore, verbal charms, healing plants, herbal recipes, magical tools and alignments, and more, folk healer Brandon Weston sheds light on the region's secretive culture and shows you how to heal both yourself and others. Ozark Folk Magic invites you to experience the hillfolk's magic through the ey...

Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Staples (Author) While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese American Nisei Leagues, or of their most influential figure, Kenichi Zenimura (1900-1968). A talented player who excelled at all nine positions, Zenimura was also a respected manager and would become the Japanese American community's baseball ambassador. He worked tirelessly to promote the game at home and abroad, leading goodwill trips...

Primitive Mythology (the Masks of God, Volume 1) - Paperback

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by Joseph Campbell (Author)The first volume in Joseph Campbell's monumental four-volume The Masks of God series, originally published in 1959 and now revised with up-to-date science and new illustrations in this Collected Works of Joseph Campbell paperback edition In this first volume of The Masks of God, the world's preeminent mythologist explores and illuminates the wellsprings of myth. Showing his exemplary combination of scholarly depth and popular enthusiasm, Joseph Campbell looks at th...

Infant Mortality, Population Growth, and Family Planning in India

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Report copyright infringementby S. Chandrasekhar (Author)This study surveys the level, causes, and course of infant mortality in India during the last seventy years. Besides this historical survey, the book examines the implications of high and low infant mortality on the country's major problems of population growth and the current population policy designed to reduce the birth rate through family planning.Originally published 1972.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions ...

Democracy at Work in an Indian Industrial Cooperative

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Report copyright infringementby Richard W. Franke (Author), Pyralal Raghavan (Author), T. M. Thomas Isaac (Author)The authors tell the story of a democratic workers' cooperative that makes hand-rolled cigarettes, known as "beedis," in the unorganized sector of a fiercely competitive capitalist economy in India. For decades, beedi workers have been among the most exploited and impoverished of India's work force. In 1969, in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala, several thousand workers band...

A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Fred Bateman (Author), Thomas Weiss (Author)In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a mas...

The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Paperback

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by Anonymous (Author), Anne Birrell (Translator), Anne Birrell (Introduction by)This major source of Chinese mythology (third century BC to second century AD) contains a treasure trove of rare data and colorful fiction about the mythical figures, rituals, medicine, natural history, and ethnic peoples of the ancient world. The Classic of Mountains and Seas explores 204 mythical figures such as the gods Foremost, Fond Care, and Yellow, and goddesses Queen Mother of the West and Girl Lovely, as...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Jacobs (Author)By showing how environmental concerns can be made central to economic policy, this book aims to fill a critical gap in the literature and create a new economic paradigm. The authors suggest that current contradictions in capitalism are a hopeful sign that change is possible. In the process, they clarify the continuing debates on planning, markets and ownership - and on economic growth and sustainability.Author BiographyZoe Young has resea...

Follow the Money: Path to Our Inevitable Economic Ruin or the End of Global Poverty

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Gray (Author)Is it Really Possible to End Global Poverty? Every generation of people puts forth a prescription for handling poverty. To date, every antidote for poverty has been a miserable failure. Follow the Money looks at the history of failures, both liberal and conservative, in the United States and declares if the real causes aren't addressed we are headed for a catastrophic economic collapse. Daniel is an emotionally reclusive and secretive mathem...

Plan A: The Transformation of Argentina's Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Gunter Pauli (Author), Jurriaan Kamp (Editor)Argentina is a nation at crossroads. The country is a very successful food exporter. At the same time, Argentina faces major challenges including high unemployment, malnutrition in certain portions of society while Internet connectivity remains a privilege of a few. Economic success fails to reach all layers of society. The good news is that Argentina has a huge potential to increase its productivity using waste and...

From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation (Expanded Second Edition) - Paperback

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by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Author), Angela Y. Davis (Foreword by)This updated and expanded edition of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 's groundbreaking book features a new chapter and a foreword by Angela Y. Davis.Author BiographyKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, which won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is...

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Paperback

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by Caitlin Doughty (Author), Landis Blair (Illustrator)Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world's funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry--especially chemical embalming--and sug...

America's Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger Than Fiction

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Report copyright infringementby Leanna Renee Hieber (Author), Andrea Janes (Author)From the Bram Stoker nominated author team who penned A Haunted History of Invisible Women, the first book of its kind to investigate gothic tropes that define American lore. Here is the hidden, dark history of what frightens us - and why. The Gothic. Brooding, atmospheric, chilling, and not always the outpouring of a feverish imagination. Reality can be even stranger as borne out in this lush and ghostly look ...

An Agricultural Household Model for Burkina Faso West Africa

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Report copyright infringementby Charles May (Author)Abstract: An econometric model employing panel data from Burkinabe farms in West Africa's Sahel region accounting for goods both supplied and demanded by the household to determine the supply and demand elasticities for staple cereals. Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "An Agricultural Household Model f...

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Awaken Your Roots: Reclaim Your Ancestry and Sovereignty by Heeding the Jaguar's Call

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Report copyright infringementby Lorena Saavedra Smith (Author)From Pacha philosopher and ecopsychologist Lorena Saavedra Smith comes a guide to recover agency and belonging through the medicine of Nature, cultural connection, and ancestral wisdom. Have you felt disconnected from your family story and traditions, lost for a sense of home and belonging? While circumstance may have forced this detachment, a new path is yours to forge, one that leads you back to what's rightfully yours. Reclaim y...

The Book of Witches: The History, Ancient Magic, and Origins of the Witch

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Report copyright infringementby Oliver Madox Hueffer (Author), Richard Folkard (Introduction by)A compelling study of myth, fear, and folklore, The Book of Witches examines the origins, ancient magic, and enduring power of the witch throughout history. Witches have haunted the human imagination for centuries, feared, revered, hunted, and misunderstood. From the sacred temples of ancient goddesses to the burning pyres of witch trials, Oliver Madox Hueffer follows the evolution of the witch acr...

Yule: Traditional Magic, Recipes, and Tales for the Winter Solstice

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Report copyright infringementby Wyrd Books (Author), Lizzie Stoddart (Editor)A magical guide to the most festive Sabbat celebration, Yule. Gather in the heart of Winter and explore the ancient traditions and practices Yuletide has to offer as we honour the rebirth of the Sun. Yule, also known as the Winter Solstice or Midwinter, is a Sabbat of rest and reflection as the land lies barren and still. It marks the longest night of the year and is a sign of returning light and warmth as the days b...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Highsmith (Author)Growing up in a patriarchal society has left many young women with low self-esteem. Girls, Goddesses & Growing Up helps us understand how our egos have been conditioned to be critical of ourselves, to lack confidence and to find fault with ourselves even when we have been successful. Highsmith explains "ego programming" and resurrects Goddess imagery to reveal the archetypes that have been hidden in plain sight for millennia. Goddess...

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by Virginia Woolf (Author), Lauren Groff (Introduction by)Virginia Woolf's classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever. In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using powerful images and memorable thought experiments--such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not--Woolf analyzes the m...

Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory - Paperback

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by Marilyn Frye (Author)Politics of Reality includes essays that examine sexism, the exploitation of women, the gay rights movement and other topics from a feminist perspective. "This is radical feminist theory at its best: clear, careful and critical."--SIGNS "For anyone first coming to feminism, these essays serve as a backdrop . . . for understanding the basic, early and continuing perspectives of feminists. And for all of us they provide a theoretical framework in which to read the prese...

Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization - Paperback

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by Graham Hancock (Author)Could the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed? Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths, Graham Hancock presents a compelling case to suggest that it is. Graham Hancock is featured in Ancient Apocalypse, a Netflix original docuseries."A fancy piece of historical sleuthing . . . intriguing and entertaining and sturdy enough to give a long pause for thought."--Kirkus Reviews In Fingerprints o...

Strange Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground: Authentic Accounts of Restless Spirits, Haunted Honky Tonks, and Eerie Events in Tennessee

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Coleman (Author)In 1775 Cherokee leaders sold most of Tennessee and Kentucky to the recently arrived white settlers, but Dragging Canoe, a proud chief, said that the sacred land should not be defiled by the white man's ax and plow. "This is the Dark and Bloody Ground!" he proclaimed to the assembled chiefs.Perhaps it is the abundance of decaying mansions that harbor dark and sinister secrets, or perhaps it is Tennessee's tragic heritage of war and d...

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Report copyright infringementby E. J. Glave (Author)Fetishism In Congo Land is a book written by E. J. Glave that examines the practice of fetishism in the Congo region of Africa. The book provides a detailed exploration of the religious beliefs and practices of the people in this region, including their use of fetishes, charms, and other objects believed to have supernatural powers. Glave also discusses the role of fetishism in the social and political structures of the region, and how it ha...

The Meaning of Masonry: A Lecture Read at the Request of the Grand Lodge 1858

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Pike (Author)""The Meaning of Masonry"" is a book written by Albert Pike, a prominent American Freemason and writer. Originally a lecture read at the request of the Grand Lodge in 1858, the book explores the esoteric and philosophical aspects of Freemasonry. Pike delves into the symbolism, allegory, and teachings of the Masonic order, providing a comprehensive understanding of its origins and purpose. He also addresses the criticisms and misconceptions s...

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Report copyright infringementby Elbert Bede (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of P...