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Télécharger le livre :  Mending the World
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Mending the World


Rosemarie Robotham


The many facets of black family life have not always been fully visible in American literature. Black families have often been portrayed as chaotic, fractured, and emotionally devastated, and historians and sociologists are just beginning to acknowledge the resilience...

Parution : 2009-07-21
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  Snoop
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Snoop


Sam Gosling


Does what's on your desk reveal what's on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell true tales about you? And is your favorite outfit about to give you away? For the last ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their...

Parution : 2009-05-12
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  Can You Hear Me Now?
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Can You Hear Me Now?


Michael Eric Dyson


"Before I wanted to write the world, I sought to right it," declares Michael Eric Dyson. As one of America's most visible, inspirational, and quotable public intellectuals, Dyson has weighed in on a vast array of issues. In his books and newspaper articles, over...

Parution : 2009-05-12
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  We've Got Blog
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We've Got Blog


N.C.


Instantaneous and raw, unedited and uncensored, Weblogs are self-publishing at its best and its worst -- occasionally brilliant but often pretentious, sometimes shocking but always fascinating. We've Got Blog is the first book to explore this phenomenon, which has been...

Parution : 2009-04-29
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  Reinventing the Melting Pot
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Reinventing the Melting Pot


Tamar Jacoby


Nothing happening in America today will do more to affect our children's future than the wave of new immigrants flooding into the country, mostly from the developing world. Already, one in ten Americans is foreign-born, and if one counts their children, one-fifth of the...

Parution : 2009-04-28
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  King of Fish
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King of Fish


David Montgomery


The salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In studying the natural and human forces that shape the rivers and mountains of that region, geologist David Montgomery has...

Parution : 2009-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Selling Women Short
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Selling Women Short


Liza Featherstone


On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality is another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a 52-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores , a class action representing 1.4...

Parution : 2009-04-20
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rape of the Nile
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The Rape of the Nile


Brian Fagan


The scandalous rape of Ancient Egypt is a historical vignette of greed, vanity, and dedicated archaeological research. It is a tale vividly told by renowned archaeology author, Brian Fagan, with characters that include the ancient historian Herodotus; Theban tomb...

Parution : 2009-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Same Difference
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Same Difference


Rosalind Barnett , Caryl Rivers


From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, and even the controversial Harvard President Lawrence Summers, the message has long been the same: Men and women are fundamentally different, and trying to bridge the gender gap can only...

Parution : 2009-03-25
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  Africa's Armies
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Africa's Armies


Robert Edgerton


Africa's Armies traces the military history of sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial era to the present. Robert Edgerton begins this sweeping chronicle by describing the role of African armies in pre-colonial times, when armed forces or militias were essential to the...

Parution : 2009-03-25
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  Hate Crimes Revisited
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Hate Crimes Revisited


Jack Levin , Jack Mcdevitt


Hate crimes-violence aimed at individuals because they are members of a particular group-were once considered the rare illegal actions of a small but vocal assortment of extremists who thrived on hating minorities. No more. In this new book by two of the country's...

Parution : 2009-03-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Something Torn and New
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Something Torn and New


Ngugi Wa Thiong'o


Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In...

Parution : 2009-02-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Shattered Bonds
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Shattered Bonds


Dorothy Roberts


The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children. Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the...

Parution : 2009-02-23
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Télécharger le livre :  What Liberal Media?
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What Liberal Media?


Eric Alterman


Widely acclaimed and hotly contested, veteran journalist Eric Alterman's ambitious investigation into the true nature of the U.S. news media touched a nerve and sparked debate across the country. As the question of whose interests the media protects-and how-continues to...

Parution : 2008-12-17
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  The Hip Hop Wars
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The Hip Hop Wars


Tricia Rose


How hip hop shapes our conversations about race -- and how race influences our consideration of hip hop Hip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kendrick Lamar, hip hop has long given voice to the African American...

Parution : 2008-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The Future of Nostalgia
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The Future of Nostalgia


Svetlana Boym


Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia?Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors believed that opium, leeches, and a trek...

Parution : 2008-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Hip-Hop Generation
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The Hip-Hop Generation


Bakari Kitwana


The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century.The only in-depth study of the first generation to grow up in post-segregation America, it combines culture and politics into a pivotal work in American studies. Bakari...

Parution : 2008-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
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The Michael Eric Dyson Reader


Michael Eric Dyson


Over the past ten years, the work of Michael Eric Dyson has become the first stop for readers, writers, and thinkers eager for uncommon wisdom on the racial and political dynamics of contemporary America. Whether writing on religion or sexuality or notions of whiteness,...

Parution : 2008-08-05
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  Structural Anthropology
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Structural Anthropology


Claude Levi-Strauss


The “structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of...

Parution : 2008-08-05
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  Local Knowledge
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Local Knowledge


Clifford Geertz


In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge."...

Parution : 2008-08-04
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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