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The Pottery Industries of the Roman East

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth A. Murphy (Author)What was the social experience of work in the ancient world? In this study, Elizabeth Murphy approaches the topic through the lens offered by a particular set of workers, the potters and ceramicists in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. Her research exploits the rich and growing dataset of workshops and production evidence from the Roman East and raises awareness of the unique features of this particular craft in this region ...

Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown

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Report copyright infringementby Laurie Parsons (Author)A hard-hitting exposé that reveals how rich countries outsource the climate crisis to poor ones. Around the world, leading economies are announcing significant success in the struggle against climate change. Heads of government proclaim their commitment to tackling the crisis, pointing to data that shows the progress they have made. Yet the atmosphere is still warming at a record rate. Are we being deceived? In Carbon colonialism, Laurie...

The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy - Hardcover

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by Jessica Pishko (Author)Shortlisted for Columbia Journalism School's J. Anthony Lukas Prize A Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book Named Most Anticipated by Los Angeles Times A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics. The figure of the American sheriff has loomed large in popular imagination, though given the outsize ju...

The Japanese Myths: A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits - Hardcover

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by Joshua Frydman (Author)While people around the world love Japan's cultural exports--from manga and anime to Zen--not everyone is familiar with Japan's unique mythology that shapes these interests, which is enriched by Shinto, Buddhism, and regional folklore. The Japanese Myths is a smart and succinct guide to the rich tradition of Japanese mythology, from the earliest recorded legends of Izanagi and Izanami with their divine offspring and the creation of Japan, to medieval tales of vengefu...

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by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Author)The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man--available for the first time in the United States "i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative." Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is "a prayer against breaking," writes trans Anishinaabe and M tis poet Gwen Benaway. "By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with th...

Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure

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Report copyright infringementby Jody Lyneé Madeira (Author)On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a two-ton truck bomb that felled the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. On June 11, 2001, an unprecedented 242 witnesses watched him die by lethal injection. In the aftermath of the bombings, American public commentary almost immediately turned to "closure" rhetoric. Reporters and audiences alike speculated about whether victim's family members and survi...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher L. Myers (Editor)Through a collection of curated readings and narratives written by practitioners in the field, Brand Marketing introduces readers to crucial aspects of modern-day marketing and decision-making. In sharing real-world stories and examples from veteran marketers, readers are invited to benefit from their vast knowledge and experiences, including successes as well as situations that did not go as planned but provided learning opportunit...

The Sisterhood Paradox: The psychology of female aggression at work

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Report copyright infringementby Vanessa Vershaw (Author)"Vanessa Vershaw has exposed yet another example of where those who've made it may be failing those who are coming behind them." - Mark Pownall, Senior Editor - Business News Step into the world of "The Sisterhood Paradox" where Vanessa Vershaw, a renowned Workplace Psychologist and High-Performance Coach, unravels the complexities of female dynamics in professional settings. This groundbreaking book tackles the rarely discussed yet perv...

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Hann (Editor), Don Kalb (Editor) Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore the ways in which finance inserts itself into relationships of class and kinship, how it adapts to non-Western religious traditions, and how it reconfigures legal and ecological dimensions of social organization,...

Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society

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Report copyright infringementby Gareth Stedman Jones (Author)At the time the largest city in the world, Victorian London intrigued and appalled politicians, clergymen, novelists and social investigators. Dickens, Mayhew, Booth, Gissing and George Bernard Shaw, to name but a few, developed a morbid fascination with its sullied streets and the sensational gulf between London classes. Outcast London explores the London economy, in particular its vast numbers of casual and irregular day labourers...

African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa, Second Edition Revised

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Report copyright infringementby David E. Maranz (Author)African Friends and Money Matters started as notes for Westerners when they traveled and worked in Africa by providing a lens to understand customs and cultures outside of their home culture. Maranz uses his experiences in Africa to discuss how different cultures manage money, time, and personal relationships, and how these differences sometimes result in friction and misunderstanding. He prompts the reader to reflect on the different go...

The Consistent Consumer Revised and Expanded

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Report copyright infringementby Ken Beller (Author), Steve Weiss (Author), Louis Patler (Author)Behavior-based demographics are dead. Instead, values-based systems are what will ensure the success of your next marketing campaign. The authors of The Consistent Consumer say values, not past behaviors, will help you better define and understand today's diverse consumer groups and more accurately anticipate how these distinct populations are likely to behave in the future-and what they are likely...

Accounting for Managers: A Skill-building Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Jency Treesa (Author)This book presents fundamental aspects of financial accounting, its basic terminology, the accounting process, and the preparation of a journal, ledger, trial balance, income statement, and balance sheet.Author BiographyJency Treesa is Assistant Professor in Commerce at St Teresa's College (Autonomous), Ernakulam (NAAC A++ and 45th Position in NIRF). Currently, she teaches Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Security Analysis and P...

Muster Dogs from Pups to Pros: A New Companion Book to the Heartwarming Show for Fans of Back Roads and the Flying Vet

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Millar (Author)How ten dogs stole the hearts of millions and changed lives forever, for fans of the TV show now streaming on ABC iview and Netflix. When Muster Dogs first hit screens in 2022, viewers were enchanted. Five lively kelpie pups adopted into farming homes across Australia and put on an intensive training program became instant stars. Could they learn to herd and muster within a year? Could they show that working with dogs was a better way to far...

Goodbye, Great Britain: The 1976 IMF Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen Burk (Author), Alec Cairncross (Author)In this authoritative and gripping book--the first full account of the 1976 International Monetary Fund crisis--Kathleen Burk and Alec Cairncross peel back the surface of the most searing economic crisis of postwar Britain to reveal its historical roots and contemporary context. During the spring of 1976, the plummeting value of the British pound against the U.S. dollar triggered a traumatic economic and political...

Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Andrew Light (Author), Kathryn R. L. Rand (Author)Choice Outstanding TitleFrom Connecticut to California, Native American tribes have entered the gambling business, some making money and nearly all igniting controversy. The image of the "casino Indian" is everywhere. Some observers suspect corruption or criminal ties, or have doubts about tribal authenticity. Many tribes disagree, contending that Indian gaming has strengthened tribal governments and vast...

The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century: Global Processes, Antisystemic Movements, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge

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Report copyright infringementby Ramã3n Grosfoguel (Editor), Ana Margarita Cervantes-Rodrã-Guez (Editor)An important building block for further advancing world-system theory, this book considers the theory from the perspectives of global processes and antisystemic movements, feminist theory, and the aftermath of the colonial system. The volume addresses three myths tied to Eurocentric forms of thinking: objectivist and universalist knowledges, the decolonization of the modern world, and develo...

Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy D. Lytton (Author)Generating over $12 billion in annual sales, kosher food is big business. It is also an unheralded story of successful private-sector regulation in an era of growing public concern over the government's ability to ensure food safety. Kosher uncovers how independent certification agencies rescued American kosher supervision from fraud and corruption and turned it into a model of nongovernmental administration.Currently, a network of ove...

A Small Baskets of Chips From the Quarries: Some Practical Thoughts on an Every Day Working Freemaso

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Report copyright infringementby William Frederick Kuhn (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is i...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Josiah Galpin (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is im...

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin L. Brown (Author)More fundraising itself can't fix your fundraising.Too many nonprofits are unseen, unheard, and underfunded. And to break this nonprofit starvation cycle, we must tackle the problem differently.So if your income has stalled, stop chasing donations. Gather your leadership team and do this instead: To get funding, be fundable internally (theory of change and strategic plan) and findable externally (positioning strategy and marketing communi...

The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel

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Report copyright infringementby Paige McClanahan (Author)"A genuinely helpful framework for thinking about our own voyages" (The Atlantic), The New Tourist explores how tourism has shaped the world, for better and for worse, and offers essential reading for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the implications of their wanderlust.Through deep and insightful dispatches from tourist spots around the globe--from Hawaii to Saudi Arabia, Amsterdam to Angkor Wat--The New Tourist shines a li...

The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Page (Author)In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that make each of us unique? The answers lie in diver...

Human Trafficking and the Tourism Industry

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Report copyright infringementby Peter E. Tarlow (Author), Andrew Spencer (Author)Although human trafficking has long been a tragic part of history, in recent years it has become an ever-growing problem globally, and in many cases facilitated a modern form of slavery. In the twenty-first century, human trafficking is not only intertwined with international drug cartels but also, although rarely mentioned, with the tourism industry. Human Trafficking and the Tourism Industry uncovers the traged...

Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet

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Report copyright infringementby McKay Jenkins (Author)Are GMOs really that bad? A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us. In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding that can help feed an ever-increasing global population and adapt to a rapidly changing environment. Critics, meanwhile, call for their banishment, ins...

Canaries in the Code Mine: Precarity and the Future of Tech Work

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Report copyright infringementby Max Papadantonakis (Author)The idea that the tech industry is a secure field with jobs and opportunities for growth is a myth. There is widespread precarity among software developers, who experience uncertainty, anxiety, and imposter syndrome as technological advancements threaten job security. Max Papadantonakis investigates this phenomenon in his revealing study, Canaries in the Code Mine. He indicates that precarity is not just about the risk of losing one's...

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Report copyright infringementby Elaine O. Nsoesie (Author), Blessing U. Mberu (Author)Explores Africa's rapid urbanization and its crucial implications for health, prosperity, and sustainability.Africa is home to many of the world's fastest-growing cities. In this book, editors Elaine O. Nsoesie and Blessing U. Mberu bring together a diverse group of scholars to explore the critical impacts of rapid urbanization on the health and prosperity of Africans. Through compelling case studies, contri...

From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth - Hardcover

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by Darren Walker (Author)Andrew Carnegie wrote his original "Gospel of Wealth" in 1889, during the height of the gilded age, when the country's 4,000 richest families held almost as much wealth as the other 11.6 million American families combined. His essay laid the foundation for modern philanthropy. Today, we find ourselves in a new gilded age--defined by levels of inequality that far surpass those of Carnegie's time. The widening chasm between haves and have-nots demands our immediate att...

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Report copyright infringementby Terry McSween (Author), Adam Hockman (Author)Behavioral safety expert, Terry McSween, teams up with trusted learning adviser, Adam Hockman, to bring you The New Values-Based Safety, an essential reference for leaders and safety professionals in any industry. The authors expand on McSween's original works on Values-Based Safety, an approach to behavior-based safety grounded in aligning organizational behaviors with a clearly defined set of organizational values ...

Spirit Builders: A Free Illuminist Approach to the Antient & Primitive Rite of Memphis+Misraïm, Volume Two

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Report copyright infringementby Palamas (Author), Allen H. Greenfield (Afterword by) Number of Pages: 408 Dimensions: 1.25 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: September 08, 2025

Spirit Builders: A Free Illuminist Approach to the Antient & Primitive Rite of Memphis+Misraïm, Volume One

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Report copyright infringementby Palamas (Author), Nicholaj De Mattos Frisvold (Foreword by), Allen H. Greenfield (Afterword by) Number of Pages: 408 Dimensions: 1.25 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: September 08, 2025

The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, 50th Anniversary Edition

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Report copyright infringementby John Porter (Author)John Porter's landmark study of social and ethnic inequality, The Vertical Mosaic, became an instant classic when it was first published in 1965. A national best seller that sold more than 100,000 copies, the book was the first major study of Canada's class structure and one of the foundational texts in Canadian sociology. Sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz described it as "the sociological study of present-day Canada."Fifty years later, the ...