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Engineering Culture is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book-which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew-has been revised to bring it up to d...

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Migration journeys are arduous, with migrants tormented by risk, abuse, threats, and xenophobia. Shelters, staffed by humanitarian workers and volunteers, provide safe spaces for those in transit. Shelter on the Journey examines how these sites, o...

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Katrina Hazzard-Gordon offers the first analysis of the development of the jookan underground cultural institution created by the black working classtogether with other dance arenas in African-American culture. Beginning with the effects of Africa...

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The first book to explore the effects of dramatic changes in the delivery of medical care

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A comprehensive survey of the American lawn and how caring for it impacts people's lives

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A philosopher proposes a pragmatic approach to tackle contemporary moral problems

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Influential sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld founded Berlin's Institute of Sexual Sciences in 1919 as a home and workplace to study homosexual rights activism and support transgender people. It was destroyed by the Nazis in 1933. Thi...

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New Third Edition! The Gender Knot, Allan Johnson's response to the pain and confusion that men and women experience by living with gender inequality, explains what patriarchy is and isn't, how it works, and what gets in the way of under...

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Illuminating the moral views on violence, from the moral restraint of the just-war tradition through pragmatic nonviolence to principled variations of pacifism

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The autobiography of a legendary swing dancer

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Exploring the limits of and contradictions of transitional justice

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Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. In the contemporary United States, this dire outlook drives a...

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When The Phenomenology of Dance was first published in 1966, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone asked: When we look at a dance, what do we see? Her questions, about the nature of our experience of dance and the nature of dance as a formed and performed art, ...

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Throughout her work, Octavia E. Butler explored, critiqued, and created religious ideology. Her prescient thoughts on the synergy between politics and religion in America are evident in her 1993 dystopian novel, Parable of the Sower, and its 1998 ...

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From the author of the classic Black Feminist Thought, a book on the nature and value of the public intellectual

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A persuasive argument against "forgive and forget"

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This is a textbook for teachers that demonstrates how philosophical thinking can be used in teaching children. It begins with the assumption that what is taught in schools is not (and should not be) subject matter but rather ways of thinking. The ...

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Author's note: Alfred J. Kahn is Project Director of cross-national Studies of Social Service Systems at the Columbia University School of Social Work. He also teaches social policy and social planning at the Columbia University School of Soc...

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The movement that changed religion and social policy in America is presented through primary resources

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Various perspectives in the increasingly complex field of social work

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Joan W. Moore is Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of "Mexican Americans" and co-author (with Leo Grebler) of "The Mexican American People."

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The Mahapuranas embody the received tradition of Hindu mythology. This anthology contains fresh translations of these myths, only a few of which have ever been available in English before, thus providing a rich new portion of Hindu mythology. The ...

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"Sufficiency of Hope."

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The essays in "Ethical Issues in Government", written specifically for this volume by nationally known philosophers, consider four questions of the sort that will face America in the coming years: Should legislators serve constituents or...

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A theoretical and practical guide for human service professionals who seek to influence administrative decision-making

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All the facts about common and uncommon birds in the Delaware Valley

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This volume in the series "Policy and Politics in Industrial States" examines British effectiveness in planning and implementing government programs. In the British system, parliamentary supremacy rests on the widely accepted elite conse...

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This volume in the series "Policy and Politics in Industrial States" examines British effectiveness in planning and implementing government programs. In the British system, parliamentary supremacy rests on the widely accepted elite conse...

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