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by Frances Densmore (Author), Nina M. Archabal (Introduction by)Chippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Chippewa (Ojibway) Indians of the United States and Canada.Praise for Chippewa Customs"Densmore . . . has done a valuable piece of work for posterity by collecting this material."--Minnesota History Number of Pages: 218 Dimensions: 0.67 x 8.97 x 5.78 IN...

How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds - Hardcover

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by Alan Jacobs (Author)"Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." --David Brooks, New York TimesHow to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume--but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life bel...

Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America

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Report copyright infringementby Bridget Read (Author)A groundbreaking work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing: a massive money-making scam and radical political conspiracy that has remade American society. "Gripping and instructive . . . lucid and engaging . . . [Bridget Read] sketches a vivid portrait of a cultish culture."--The Washington PostCompanies like Amway, Mary Kay, and Herbalife advertise the world's greatest opportunity: t...

They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

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Report copyright infringementby Mariah Blake (Author)A landmark investigation of the chemical industry's decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals, told through the story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic public health crisis In 2014, after losing several friends and relatives to cancer, an unassuming insurance underwriter in Hoosick Falls, New York, began to suspect that the local water supply was polluted. When he tested his tap water, he discovered dangerous...

The Relationship is the Project: A Guide to working with Communities

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Report copyright infringementby Jade Lillie (Editor), Kate Larsen (Editor), Cara Kirkwood (With)Author BiographyCara Kirkwood is a national advocate and influencer for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, art, culture and creative industries. Currently the Head of Indigenous Engagement and Strategy with the National Gallery of Australia, Cara has previously worked with the Department of Parliamentary Services, Creative Australia, AGSA's Tarnanthi Festival and Desart in Mparntwe (Alic...

Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs: America's Best Investment

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Report copyright infringementby Linda J. Bilmes (Author), John B. Loomis (Author)This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of US National Parks (including Monuments, Seashores, Lakeshores, Recreation Areas, Historic sites) and National Park Service Programs.Author BiographyLinda J. Bilmes is the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, U.S.A.John B. Loomis is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural an...

The Age of Discontent: How Workers and Farmers Reinvented American Democracy

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph Brauer (Author)This revisionist view of late-nineteenth-century history credits Main Street, not Wall Street, with laying the foundations of modern AmericaIn American history, the prevailing narratives of the tumultuous late-nineteenth century focus on wealthy individuals and tycoons while downplaying the very high social and economic stresses they caused.The Age of Discontent reveals that it was not the tycoons, but rather the laborers and farmers, who i...

Chicago House Music: Culture and Community - Paperback

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by Marguerite L. Harrold (Author)An inside look at the music born, bred, and perfected in Chicago.Chicago house music originated in the city's Black, gay underground in the late seventies and became one of the most popular musical genres in the world by the end of the century. In Chicago House Music: Culture and Community, Marguerite Harrold tells the story of the genre's rise and the prolific creators who have sustained it for decades. You'll learn about house music's early innovators, like ...

Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid - Paperback

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by Shayda Kafai (Author)In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to acknowledge the power and resilience of the disabled community, and to call out ableist culture wherever it appears. Crip Kinship explores the art-activism of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco Bay Area-based performance project, and its radical imaginings of what disabled, queer, trans, and gender nonconforming bodyminds of color can do: how they can rewrite oppression, and how th...

The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t

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Report copyright infringementby Janet M. Stovall (Author), Kim Clark (Author)Once upon a time, companies stayed out of social justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) situations. Today, customers and employees expect to be seen, heard, and valued. They expect businesses and their leaders to be transparent about DEI efforts, take a stand on social justice issues, and demonstrate how they're making the world a better place. Misalignment between what a company says and what it actually...

The Idealist.Org Handbook to Building a Better World: How to Turn Your Good Intentions Into Actions That Make a Difference

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Report copyright infringementby Idealist Org (Author), Stephanie Land (Author)From the world's largest nonprofit networking website?a resource that gives readers the tools they need to make a difference. Part career guide, part activist's handbook, The Idealist.org Handbook to Building a Better World provides tools and inspiration for anyone who wants to make a difference but doesn't know where to start. Inspired by Idealist.org's 600,000-member online community and their ongoing search for w...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew McDougall (Author)Data Analytics and Statistics provides students with a comprehensive survey of the field, equipping them with the knowledge they need to understand and apply statistics across a broad spectrum of disciplines. Featuring a highly practical approach, the text guides students through the process of statistical analysis utilizing the software JMP and unique datasets.The opening chapter provides readers with an introduction to the book's appr...

Knight-Service In Normandy In The Eleventh Century (1907) - Paperback

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by Charles Homer Haskins (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 Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.12 x 11 x...

Society For Ethical Culture (1893) - Paperback

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by Felix Adler (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 Pages: 20 Dimensions: 0.05 x 11 x 8.5 IN Pu...

The Tribe Of Ishmael: A Study In Social Degradation (1891) - Paperback

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by Oscar Carleton McCulloch (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 Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.12 x 1...

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by Riane Eisler (Author)Now with an updated epilogue celebrating the 30th anniversary of this groundbreaking and increasingly relevant book. "May be the most significant work published in all our lifetimes." - LA WeeklyThe Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It shows that warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. It provides verification that a better future is possible--and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting dramas of ...

The Slave Trade, Domestic And Foreign: Why It Exists, And How It May Be Extinguished

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Charles Carey (Author)NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS The Slave Trade, Domestic And Foreign: Why It Exists, And How It May Be Extinguished This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting...

Green Growth: Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives

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Report copyright infringementby Gareth Dale (Editor), Manu V. Mathai (Editor), Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira (Editor)The discourse of 'green growth' has recently gained ground in environmental governance deliberations and policy proposals. It is presented as a fresh and innovative agenda centred on the deployment of engineering sophistication, managerial acumen and market mechanisms to redress the environmental and social derelictions of the existing development model. But the green growth proje...

A Living: Working-Class Americans Talk to Their Doctor

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Report copyright infringementby Michael D. Stein (Author)From a leading public health expert and physician, and in the style of Studs Terkel's Working, comes an eye-opening look at what it's like to have to work physically hard for your money in America . . . A Living is a vivid portrait of the working lives of the patients who visit Dr. Michael Stein, a primary care doctor in urban America. What makes his patients unique is that they, by and large, do demanding manual labor. Very few have th...

Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India

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Report copyright infringementby Shankar Ramaswami (Author)How migrant workers in contemporary India strive toward, and at times realize, elements of a good life The economic development process in India is one that has induced new difficulties and hardships into the lives of poor and working people despite its alleged achievements. In villages, farming families confront an agrarian crisis, with rising costs of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides; low prices for crops in the face of grave indeb...

TV on Strike: Why Hollywood Went to War Over the Internet

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Report copyright infringementby Cynthia Littleton (Author)TV on Strike examines the upheaval in the entertainment industry by telling the inside story of the first writers' strike--the hundred-day writers' strike that thwarted Hollywood in late 2007 and early 2008. The television industry's uneasy transition to the digital age was the driving force behind what seemed then to be the most significant labor dispute of the twenty-first century. Now, in 2024, we know it was only the first battle. ...

A Guide to Third Generation Coaching: Narrative-Collaborative Theory and Practice

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Report copyright infringementby Reinhard Stelter (Author)Third generation coaching proposes a form of dialogue where coach and coachee are focused on creating space for reflection through collaborative practices and less concerned with fabricating quick solutions. Aspiring to achieve moments of symmetry between coach and coachee, where their dialogue is driven by a strong emphasis on meaning-making, values, aspirations and identity issues. Coach and coachee meet as fellow-humans in a genuine ...

May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases--And What We Can Do about It

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Edmans (Author)Adam Grant's "8 New Idea Books to Start Spring" Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books for May 2024 "A wonderful litany of the myriad ways in which we can be deceived, and deceive ourselves."--The Guardian "Entertaining, thorough and full of current examples. . . . It's excellent." --The Wall Street Journal How our biases cause us to fall for misinformation--and how to combat it. Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through ...

Ally Is a Verb: A Guide to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples

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Report copyright infringementby Rose Lemay (Author)Your next step on the journey of reconciliation starts here. What can you do to be a better ally for your Indigenous colleagues, community members, and friends? By actively listening to the history and current lived experiences of Indigenous peoples, you can take steps to address the inequities they continue to face. Author Rose LeMay notes that if you continually educate yourself, you will see many opportunities to be an ally. This insightfu...

Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences

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Report copyright infringementby Jr. (Author)The convergence of the politics of representation and Black fan cultures Boldly going where few fandom scholars have gone before, Fandom for Us, by Us breaks from our focus on white fandom to center Black fandoms. Alfred L. Martin, Jr., engages these fandoms through what he calls the "four C's" class, clout, canon, and comfort. Class is a key component of how Black fandom is contingent on distinctions between white, nationally recognized cultural pr...

Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine S. Newman (Author), Elisabeth S. Jacobs (Author)This timely investigation reveals how sustained tight labor markets improve the job prospects and life chances of America's most vulnerable households. Most research on poverty focuses on the damage caused by persistent unemployment. But what happens when jobs are plentiful and workers are hard to come by? Moving the Needle examines how very low unemployment boosts wages at the bottom, improves benefits...

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Report copyright infringementby Don Slater (Author)This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context. Thematically organized, the book shows how the central aspects of consumer culture - such as needs, choice, identity, status, alienation, objects, culture - have been debated within modern theories, fro...

Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It

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Report copyright infringementby Andre M. Perry (Author)From the creator of "a unified field theory of racism" (NPR's Planet Money), a dollars-and-cents reckoning of the state of Black America and a new framework to close the power gap Historically, Black Americans' quest for power has been understood as an attempt to gain equal protections under the law. But power in America requires more than basic democratic freedoms. It is inextricably linked with economic influence and ownership--of one's...

Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy That the History Books Left Out - Hardcover

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by Jennifer Ashley Tepper (Author)The first-ever book to tell the stories of over 300 inspiring women who wrote Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals that Publishers Weekly calls "an exhaustive tribute to women whose contributions to Broadway musical history have often been overlooked." Library Journal praises the book, saying, "Tepper has fashioned a winning book on the unsung heroines of Broadway musicals that will be appreciated by readers of women's studies and theater lore." Kirkus Reviews ...

Spectrum Science, Grade 3: Volume 55 - Paperback

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by Spectrum (Author)Third Grade Science Book for kids ages 8-9Support your child's educational journey with Spectrum Grade 3 Science Workbook that teaches basic science skills to 3rd grade students.3rd Grade Science Workbooks are a great way for students to learn essential science skills surrounding space, life science, Earth science, science and technology, and more through a variety of activities that are both fun AND educational!Why You'll Love This Science Book Engaging and educational a...

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Practical Guide

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Jr. James (Author)Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): A Practical Guide provides readers with an effective model for fostering DEI within a variety of contexts, including education, corporate settings, nonprofit agencies, social organizations, and more. It equips any grouping of individuals with a desire to advance issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion with the ability to clearly articulate their goals and then strategically move toward them.Ea...

Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity

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Report copyright infringementby Cedric de Leon (Author)Revealing the central role of Black activists in spurring interracial solidarity in the US labor movement. Most accounts of interracial solidarity focus on white union activists. In Freedom Train, Cedric de Leon, a former organizer and elected leader in the US labor movement, argues that we can't comprehend the history of workers' triumphs in the United States without investigating the role of Black liberation. This book shows that, from...