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Doña Huevotes / Mrs. Courage - Paperback

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by Anamar Orihuela (Author)Todo lo resuelve, siempre está dispuesta y para ella nada es imposible: Doña Huevotes se encarga de tener orden en la casa, acepta las cargas más duras del trabajo y enfrenta los problemas más graves de la familia. Pero también sufre, se enferma y cae, aunque evita expresar su dolor. Pero... quién es Doña Huevotes? Por qué actúa así? Qué deseos, rencores, anhelos guarda? Es feliz o soporta todo con tal de demostrar que es la mejor? Anamar Orihuela comparte en e...

How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life - Hardcover

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by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Author), Philip Freeman (Translator), Philip Freeman (Introduction by)Timeless wisdom on growing old gracefully from one of ancient Rome's greatest philosophers Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all--and why you might disc...

Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity - Paperback

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by Steve Silberman (Author), Oliver Sacks (Foreword by)This New York Times-bestselling book upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more--and the future of our society depends on our understanding it....

The Bedtime Book of Magical Creatures: An Introduction to More Than 100 Creatures from Legend and Folklore - Hardcover

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by Stephen Krensky (Author)Get to know more than 100 mythical creatures from around the world with this delightful illustrated introduction. This is the must-have first book on the most fantastical creatures from around the world, filled with beautiful illustrations and storybook text on every page. The Bedtime Book of Magical Creatures features an amazing variety of magical creatures, from fairies and mermaids to dragons and unicorns. Children aged 3-5 can get to know more about their favour...

More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion - Paperback

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by Manuel A. Vasquez (Author)This book challenges the traditional idea that religions can be understood primarily as texts to be interpreted, decoded, or translated. In More Than Belief, Manuel A. Vásquez argues for a new way of studying religions, one that sees them as dynamic material and historical expressions of the practices of embodied individuals who are embedded in social fields and ecological networks. He sketches the outlines of this approach through a focus on body, practices, and ...

The Realness of Things Past: Ancient Greece and Ontological History - Paperback

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by Greg Anderson (Author)The Realness of Things Past proposes a new paradigm of historical practice. It questions the way we conventionally historicize the experiences of non-modern peoples, western and non-western, and makes the case for an alternative. It shows how our standard analytical devices impose modern, dualist metaphysical conditions upon all non-modern realities, thereby authorizing us to align those realities with our own modern ontological commitments, fundamentally altering the...

Chicano Folklore: A Guide to the Folktales, Traditions, Rituals and Religious Practices of Mexican Americans - Paperback

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by Rafaela G. Castro (Author)Did you know that barrio is a term for a Chicano neighborhood, and that some of the oldest barrios can be found in major U.S. cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago, El Paso, and San Antonio? Or that menudo is actually a soup-type dish made with tripe, the stomach lining of a cow, and typicallyeaten early in the morning after big holiday celebrations to cure a hangover? Chicano Folklore is replete with such interesting and often surprising facts about Mexican American ...

Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance - Paperback

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by Andrea J. Pitts (Editor), Mariana Ortega (Editor), José Medina (Editor)"A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives all fuse to create a politic born of necessity," writes activist Cherríe L. Moraga. This volume of new essays stages an intergenerational dialogue among philosophers to introduce and deepen engagement with U.S Latinx and Latin American feminist philosophy, and to explore their "theories in the flesh." It explores specific intellectual contributio...

The Curse of the Self: Self-Awareness, Egotism, and the Quality of Human Life - Paperback

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by Mark R. Leary (Author)Despite its obvious advantages, our ability to be self-reflective comes at a high price. Few people realize how profoundly their lives are affected by self-reflection or how frequently inner chatter interferes with their success, pollutes their relationships with others, and undermines their happiness. By allowing people to ruminate about the past or imagine what might happen in the future, self-reflection conjures up a great deal of personal suffering in the form of ...

Qualitative Disaster Research - Paperback

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by Brenda D. Phillips (Author)The Understanding Research series focuses on the process of writing up social research. The series is broken down into three categories: Understanding Statistics, Understanding Measurement, and Understanding Qualitative Research. The books provide researchers with guides to understanding, writing, and evaluating social research. Each volume demonstrates how research should be represented, including how to write up the methodology as well as the research findings...

Expressive Arts for Social Work and Social Change - Paperback

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by Tuula Heinonen (Author), Deana Halonen (Author), Elizabeth Krahn (Author)How can social workers integrate expressive arts methods as a complement to their work to better support individual, group, and community growth? Expressive Arts for Social Work and Social Change explores the values and benefits of expressive arts (i.e., visual arts, movement and dance, expressive forms of writing and narrative, music, and performance) and the role they can play in social work practice and inquiry. Al...

Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers - Paperback

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by David Wright (Author), David Zoby (Author)Fire on the Beach recovers the heroic, long-forgotten story of the only all-black crew in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1871 the Life-Saving Service, the precursor to the Coast Guard, was created by Congress to assure the safe passage of American and international shipping and to save lives and salvage cargo. Although it was decommissioned in 1915, a century ago the LSS boasted some two hundred stations, and the adventures of the now forg...

Future in Ruins: Unesco, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace - Paperback

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by Lynn Meskell (Author)Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 as an intergovernmental agency aimed at fostering peace, humanitarianism, and intercultural understanding. Its mission was inspired by leading European intellectuals suc...

I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde - Paperback

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by Rudolph P. Byrd (Editor), Johnnetta Betsch Cole (Editor), Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Editor)Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the arts, parenting, and resistance, and they have served as a transformative and important foundation for theorists and activists in considering questions ...

Your Name Is Renée: Ruth Kapp Hartz's Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France - Paperback

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by Stacy Cretzmeyer (Author), Beate Klarsfeld (Foreword by)In Nazi-occupied France in 1941, four-year-old Ruth Kapp learns that it is dangerous to use her own name. "Remember," her older cousin Jeannette warns her, "your name is Renee and you are French!"A deeply personal book, this true story recounts the chilling experiences of a young Jewish girl during the Holocaust. The Kapp family flees one home after another, helped by simple, ordinary people from the French countryside who risk their ...

The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil - Paperback

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by Al Ridenour (Author), Sean Tejaratchi (Designed by)With the appearance of the demonic Christmas character Krampus in contemporary Hollywood movies, television shows, advertisements, and greeting cards, medieval folklore has now been revisited in American culture. Krampus-related events and parades occur both in North America and Europe, and they are an ever-growing phenomenon.Though the Krampus figure has once again become iconic, not much can be found about its history and meaning, thus c...

The Day of the Dead / El D?a de Los Muertos: A Bilingual Celebration - Paperback

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by Bob Barner (Author)Follow two children as they celebrate their ancestors in this bilingual introduction to el D a de los Muertos-- the Day of the Dead They prepare offerings of flowers, sugar skulls, and special bread, and make delicious foods to eat and share. By spreading marigold petals, they guide the dead home to join the festivities. After hours of singing, dancing, and reminiscing, it's time for bed. The festivities are described in brief, lyrical text, presented in both Spanish an...

Small Loans, Big Dreams, 2022 Edition: Grameen Bank and the Microfinance Revolution in Bangladesh, America, and Beyond - Paperback

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by Alex Counts (Author)Microfinance-providing low-interest loans and other financial services to help the poorest people lift themselves out of poverty-was pioneered by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. In 2006, the bank and its founder, Muhammad Yunus, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and microfinance has since gone on to serve over 100 million people-mostly women-on five continents.First published in 1996, Small Loans, Big Dreams is the classic account of the origins and developmen...

From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It - Paperback

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by Simon N. Whitney (Author)Medical research saves lives-yet all too often, it is thwarted by a review system supposed to safeguard patients that instead creates needless delays and expense. Institutional Review Boards, which exist at every hospital and medical school that conducts medical research, have ended up imposing such complex, draconian conditions that research is frequently damaged, delayed, and distorted. This is why medical miracles like the COVID-19 vaccines, which were developed...

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by Lee McIntyre (Author)How we arrived in a post-truth era, when "alternative facts" replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of "fake news," from our psycholog...

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick M. Hunter (Author)The Regius Manuscript: A Poem On The Constitutions Of Freemasonry is a book written by Frederick M. Hunter. The book is a detailed exploration of the Regius Manuscript, which is the oldest known Masonic document in existence. The manuscript is a poem that outlines the history and principles of Freemasonry, and it is believed to have been written in the early 14th century. Hunter's book provides a thorough analysis of the manuscript, ...

Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent - Paperback

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by Dipo Faloyin (Author)So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa's rich diversity, communities, and histories.Starting with an immersive description of the lively and complex urban life of Lagos, Faloyin unearths surprising truths about many African countrie...

Defense Of General Sidney Sherman: Against The Charges Made By General Sam Houston, In His Speech Delivered In The United States Senate (1885) - Paperback

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by Sidney Sherman (Author)Defense of General Sidney Sherman: Against the Charges Made by General Sam Houston, in His Speech Delivered in the United States Senate (1885) is a book written by Sidney Sherman. The book is a response to the accusations made by General Sam Houston against Sherman in a speech he delivered in the United States Senate. Houston accused Sherman of being a traitor during the Mexican-American War and of being responsible for the loss of the Battle of San Jacinto. In this ...

On A Method Of Investigating The Development Of Institutions: Applied To Laws Of Marriage And Descent (1889) - Paperback

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by Edward Burnett Tylor (Author)On A Method Of Investigating The Development Of Institutions: Applied To Laws Of Marriage And Descent (1889) is a seminal work by Edward Burnett Tylor, a prominent anthropologist and ethnographer of the late 19th century. The book presents a comprehensive method for studying the evolution of social institutions, specifically focusing on the laws of marriage and descent across various cultures and societies. Tylor argues that by examining the similarities and di...

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) - Paperback

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by Dean Spade (Author)Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to--or actively engineer--each crisis, ordinary p...

What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense - Paperback

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by Sherif Gergis (Author), Ryan T. Anderson (Author), Robert P. George (Author)Until very recently, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male-female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage as something other than the conjugal union of husband and wife is a mistake. Originally published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, this book's core argument quickl...

365 Days of Walking the Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day - Paperback

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by Terri Jean (Author)Make a pilgrimage into your soul... 365 Days of Walking the Red Road captures the priceless ancient knowledge Native American elders have passed on from generation to generation for centuries, and shows you how to move positively down your personal road without fear or doubt. Special highlights: Inspiring quotations from Native Americans, such as Tecumseh, Black Hawk, Geronimo, and Chief Joseph A monthly Red Road spiritual lesson The proper uses of dreamcatchers and oth...

Being Ethnographic: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Ethnography - Paperback

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by Raymond Madden (Author)An inventive, applied guide to doing research in the field with a clear framework for planning, conducting and writing about ethnography. Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.49 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2022

Goldfish And Their Culture In Japan (1910) - Paperback

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by Shinnosuke Matsubara (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: 44 Dimensions: 0.11 x 11 x ...

The MacDowell Memorial Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire (1914) - Paperback

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by Edward MacDowell (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 ...

Scandinavian Mythology: The Religion Of Our Forefathers (1892) - Paperback

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by Rasmus Bjorn Anderson (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...

Societies Of The Kiowa (1916) - Paperback

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by Robert Harry Lowie (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: 24 Dimensions: 0.06 x 11 x 8....