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Everyone Is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race - Paperback

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by Daniel J. Fairbanks (Author)What does science say about race? In this book a distinguished research geneticist presents abundant evidence showing that traditional notions about distinct racial differences have little scientific foundation.In short, racism is not just morally wrong; it has no basis in fact.The author lucidly describes in detail the factors that have led to the current scientific consensus about race. Both geneticists and anthropologists now generally agree that the human sp...

Continents: What You Need to Know - Paperback

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by Jill Sherman (Author)From Africa, to Asia, to North America, take a tour of our world's continents. Find out all the need-to-know facts about climates, landforms, and unique features of each of these large land masses. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.1 x 7.7 x 7.7 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: August 01, 2017 Accelerated Reader: Quiz Name: Continents: What You Need to Know Interest Level: Lower Gr...

First Scalp for Custer: The Skirmish at Warbonnet Creek, Nebraska, July 17, 1876 - Paperback

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by Paul L. Hedren (Author) Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.6 x 9.5 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2005

Theories of Delinquency: An Examination of Explanations of Delinquent Behavior - Paperback

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by Donald J. Shoemaker (Author)Theories of Delinquency is a comprehensive survey of the theoretical approaches towards understanding delinquent behavior. Donald Shoemaker aptly presents all major individualistic and sociological theories in a standard format with basic assumptions, important concepts, and critical evaluations. Theories covered include biological and psychological explanations, anomie and social disorganization, differential association, drift theory, labeling theory, critical...

The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism - Paperback

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by Lila Abu-Lughod (Editor), Rema Hammami (Editor), Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (Editor)The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs. Combating violence against women and gender-based violence constitutes a highly visible and powerful agenda enshrined in international governance and law and embedded in state violence and global securitization. Case studies on Palestine, Bangladesh, Iran, India, Pakistan, Israel...

Media and Gender Adaptation: Regendering, Critical Creation and the Fans - Hardcover

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by Lucy Irene Baker (Author)Media and Gender Adaptation examines how fans and professionals change the gender of characters when they adapt existing work. Using research into fans, and case studies on Sherlock Holmes, Ghostbusters and Doctor Who, it illustrates the foundation of the process and ways the works engage with and critique media and gender at a political level. The default maleness of narratives in media are reworked to be inclusive of other points of view. Regendering as an adapta...

No Longer Welcome: The Epidemic of Expulsion from Early Childhood Education - Hardcover

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by Katherine M. Zinsser (Author)For over 15 years, researchers have described a crisis in our nations' early learning classrooms. Hundreds of children are expelled from childcare and preschool every day; a rate nearly three times that of kindergarten-12th grade students. While policymakers have taken steps to mitigate this crisis, disparities in who is expelled persist. Boys and Black children are routinely over-represented among those pushed out of the exact environments that are supposed to...

JFK: The Cia, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy - Paperback

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by L. Fletcher Prouty (Author), Oliver Stone (Introduction by), Jesse Ventura (Foreword by)With an Introduction by Oliver Stone, the director of the hit movie JFK and a Foreword by Jesse Ventura, author of the New York Times Bestseller, They Killed our President, here is an insider's view of JFK, the CIA, Vietnam and the plot that led to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, the former CIA operative known as "X," offers a history-shaking perspective on th...

Seeing Stars: A Complete Guide to the 88 Constellations - Hardcover

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by Sara Gillingham (Artist)A graphically stunning, comprehensive introduction to the constellationsThis artful and accessible introduction to constellations equips readers with the information they need to locate, name, and explain all 88 internationally recognized constellations. Each cluster of stars is featured alongside the "story" (mythological or historical) behind its naming, tips on how to find it, what times of year it is visible, and key stars and asterisms within its grouping. Comp...

The Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps - Paperback

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by Heinz Heger (Author), Sarah Schulman (Preface by), Klaus Müller (Introduction by)Finally back in print, the classic, powerful first-hand account of Nazi persecution of gay people.Author BiographyHeinz Heger was the pen name of Hans Neumann, a writer who recorded the experiences of Josef Kohout, an Austrian survivor of the Holocaust who died in 1994.Sarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty works of fiction, nonfiction, and theater, and the producer and screenwriter of several featur...

The Space of Sex: The Porn Aesthetic in Contemporary Film and Television - Paperback

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by Shelton Waldrep (Author)As film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic gaze of the camera, the human body undergoes a metamorphosis, becoming both landscape and building, part of an architectonic design in which the erotics of the body spread beyond the body itself to influence the design of the film or televisual shot. The body becomes the mise-en-scène of contemporary moving imagery. Opening The Space of Sex, Shelton Waldrep sets up some important tropes for the book...

The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas - Paperback

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by Maria Garcia Esperon (Author), Amanda Mijangos (Illustrator), David Bowles (Translator)Batchelder Award Honor BookSchool Library Journal Best of the YearKirkus Best of the YearBooklist Editors' ChoiceEvanston Public Library's 101 Great Books for KidsChicago Public Library's Best of the BestABC Group Best Books for Young Readers "Hypnotizing...Provocative...Disarming"--The New York Times "Evocative and stirring...mesmerizing to read aloud."--The Wall Street Journal ★ "Visually striking...fu...

Vegetal Sex: Philosophy of Plants - Hardcover

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by Stella Sandford (Author)This book introduces the reader to the exciting new field of plant philosophy and takes it in a new direction to ask: what does it mean to say that plants are sexed? Do 'male' and 'female' really mean the same when applied to humans, trees, fungi and algae? Are the zoological categories of sex really adequate for understanding the - uniquely 'dibiontic' - life cycle of plants?Vegetal Sexaddresses these questions through a detailed analysis of major moments in the hi...

Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life - Paperback

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by Louise Aronson (Author)Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionWinner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award The New York Times bestseller from physician and award-winning writer Louise Aronson--an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life, as revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That ...

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by Nico Medina (Author), Who Hq (Author), Stephen Marchesi (Illustrator)The Berlin Wall finally came down in 1989. Now readers can find out why it was built in the first place; and what it meant for Berliners living on either side of it. Here's the fascinating story of a city divided. In 1961, overnight a concrete border went up, dividing the city of Berlin into two parts - East and West. . The story of the Berlin Wall holds up a mirror to post-WWII politics and the Cold War Era when the Unit...

Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk - Paperback

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by Sasha Lapointe (Author)Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent home Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe has always longed for a sense of home. When she was a child, her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics...

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 - Paperback

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by Taylor Branch (Author)In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a "compelling...masterfully told" (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King's early years and rise to greatness. Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American Civil Rights Movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to...

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure - Paperback

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by Greg Lukianoff (Author), Jonathan Haidt (Author)New York Times Bestseller - Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction - A New York Times Notable Book - Bloomberg Best Book of 2018 "Their distinctive contribution to the higher-education debate is to meet safetyism on its own, psychological turf . . . Lukianoff and Haidt tell us that safetyism undermines the freedom of inquiry and speech that are indispensable to universities." --Jonathan Marks, Commentary "The ...

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by Pekka Hamalainen (Author)From the author of Lakota America, an award-winning history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire "Cutting-edge revisionist western history."--Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books "A landmark study that will make readers see the history of southwestern America in an entirely new way."--David J. Weber, author of Bárbaros In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely conteste...

Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays - Paperback

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by Randall Horton (Author)Dead Weight chronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become the only tenured professor in the United States with seven felony convictions. Horton's visceral essays highlight the difficulties of trying to change one's life for the better, how the weight of felony convictions never dissipates. The memoir begins with a conversation between...

The Side-By-Side Declaration of Independence: With Side-By-Side Plain English Translations, Plus Definitions and More! - Hardcover

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by David Miles (Author)"An absolute necessity for anyone looking for a kid-friendly history book."--Time for Kids, Kid Reporter"This engaging and surprisingly entertaining effort seems like the perfect choice to accompany and expand lesson plans. A hardworking addition to U.S. history shelves."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred)"This book introduces students to the Declaration in an informative and well-rounded manner. They are not just told what the document says but asked to think about it and quest...

The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained - Paperback

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by Colin Dickey (Author)America's favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a "thought-provoking and delicoiusly unsettling" (Publisher's Weekly) tour of the country's most persistent "unexplained" phenomena In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational--in fringe--is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known...

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains - Hardcover

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by Alexa Hagerty (Author)New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. "Absorbing . . . multifaceted and elegiac . . . Still Life with Bones captures the ethos that drives the search--often tireless and against the odds--for truth...

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt - Paperback

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by Albert Camus (Author)By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout hist...

Understanding the Mental Health Problems of Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Social Workers - Paperback

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by Kirstin Painter (Author), Maria Scannapieco (Author)Understanding Mental Health Problems of Children and Adolescents is a practical guide to identifying, diagnosing, and treating mental health and substance abuse challenges in children and adolescents. In the book, Kirstin Painter and Maria Scannapieco take on ADHD, childhood trauma, anxiety disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, bipolar disorder, the spectrum of schizophrenia, psychosis, and substance abuse. For each ...

Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life - Paperback

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by Natasha Lennard (Author)An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today Being Numerous shatters the mainstream consensus on politics and personhood, offering in its place a bracing analysis of a perilous world and how we should live in it. Beginning with an interrogation of what it means to fight fascism, Natasha Lennard explores the limits of individual rights, the criminalization of political dissent, the myths ...

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Lost and the Found - Paperback

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by Elvira Basevich (Author)W.E.B. Du Bois spent many decades fighting to ensure that African Americans could claim their place as full citizens and thereby fulfill the deeply compromised ideals of American democracy. Yet he died in Africa, having apparently given up on the United States. In this tour-de-force, Elvira Basevich examines this paradox by tracing the development of his life and thought and the relevance of his legacy to our troubled age. She adroitly analyses the main concepts tha...

Is This Wi-Fi Organic?: A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online (Science Myths Debunked) - Paperback

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by Dave Farina (Author)How to Separate Real Scientific Truths from Fake News"Scientific literacy is our best defense in an age of increasing disinformation." ―Kellie Gerardi, Aerospace Professional and Author of Not Necessarily Rocket Science #1 New Release in Safety & First Aid, Education, Essays & Commentary, Scientific Research, and EthicsWe live in the internet age, where scams, frauds, fake-news, fake stories, fake science, and false narratives are everywhere. With the knowledge ...

Styling South Asian Youth Cultures: Fashion, Media and Society - Paperback

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by Lipi Begum (Editor), Elizabeth Wilson (Editor), Rohit K. Dasgupta (Editor)For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cultures. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have all, in related and distinctive ways, been producing confident young fashion consumers, who are proving to be an important market for fashion.This book explores South Asian yout...

Legendary Children: The First Decade of Rupaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life - Paperback

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by Tom Fitzgerald (Author), Lorenzo Marquez (Author)A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo NPR's Best Books of the Year 2020 pickA New York Times New & Noteworthy bookOne of Logo/NewNowNext's "11 Queer Books We Can't Wait to Read This Spring" From the singular voices behind Tom and Lorenzo comes the ultimate guide to all-things RuPaul's Drag Race and its influen...

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by Corinne A. Grinapol (Author), Who Hq (Author), Gregory Copeland (Illustrator)Learn about one of the most influential leaders in the fight for gay rights. Although he started out as a teacher without aspirations to be an activist or politician, Harvey Milk found himself captivated by the history-making movements of the 1960s. He would eventually make history of his own by becoming the first openly gay elected politician in California. While in office, Harvey Milk advocated for equal rights ...

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by Lynn Nottage (Author)Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Nominee for 3 Tony Awards including Best Play "Lynn Nottage's best work. She offers a powerful critique of the American attitude toward class, and how it affects the decisions we make. Sweat has fraternity at its heart, but also the violence, and the suspicion that can result from class aspirations." -Hilton Als, New Yorker Lynn Nottage has written one of her most exquisitely devastating tragedies to date. In one of the poore...