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Myths Of Gender


Anne Fausto-Sterling


By carefully examining the biological, genetic, evolutionary, and psychological evidence, a noted biologist finds a shocking lack of substance behind ideas about biologically based sex differences. Features a new chapter and afterward on recent biological breakthroughs.

Parution : 2008-08-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Not Like Us
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Not Like Us


Richard Pells


Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the face of American...

Parution : 2008-08-04
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Télécharger le livre :  A Geography Of Time
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A Geography Of Time


Robert N. Levine


In this engaging and spirited book, eminent social psychologist Robert Levine asks us to explore a dimension of our experience that we take for granted—our perception of time. When we travel to a different country, or even a different city in the United States, we...

Parution : 2008-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Captains Of Consciousness Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture
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Captains Of Consciousness Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture


Stuart Ewen


Captains of Consciousness offers a historical look at the origins of the advertising industry and consumer society at the turn of the twentieth century. For this new edition Stuart Ewen, one of our foremost interpreters of popular culture, has written a new preface that...

Parution : 2008-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Comeback Cities
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Comeback Cities


Paul Grogan , Tony Proscio


Comeback Cities shows how innovative, pragmatic tactics for ameliorating the nation's urban ills have produced results beyond anyone's expectations, reawakening America's toughest neighborhoods. In the past, big government and business working separately were unable to...

Parution : 2008-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Intercourse
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Intercourse


Andrea Dworkin


From one of the boldest, "most shocking" (Germaine Greer), and "uncompromising" (Mary Daly) feminist writers of the 20th century, Intercourse is the book that enraged, inspired, and ultimately split apart the feminist movement when it first published...

Parution : 2008-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Is Bill Cosby Right?
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Is Bill Cosby Right?


Michael Eric Dyson


Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault on the black poor when he received an NAACP award in the spring of 2004. The comedian-cum-social critic lamented the lack of parenting, poor academic...

Parution : 2008-07-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Debating Race
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Debating Race


Michael Eric Dyson


Whether chronicling the class conflict in the African-American community or exposing the failings of the government response in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Michael Eric Dyson has never shied away from controversy. No stranger to intellectual combat, Dyson has always...

Parution : 2008-07-31
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Télécharger le livre :  A Land on Fire
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A Land on Fire


James Fahn


The future of Earth's environment will be decided in Asia, home to 60 percent of the world's population and some of the world's fastest-growing economies. As an award-winning investigative journalist based in Bankok, James Fahn spent a decade grappling with the...

Parution : 2008-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Women Changing Science
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Women Changing Science


Mary Morse


An eye-opening and honest look at the enduring sexism within the scientific community and what women are doing to change it.

Parution : 2008-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Jane Addams Reader
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The Jane Addams Reader


Jean Bethke Elshtain


Jane Addams was a prolific and elegant writer. Her twelve books consist largely of published essays, but to appreciate her life work one must also read her previously uncollected speeches and editorials. This artfully compiled collection begins with Addams's youthful...

Parution : 2008-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Male on Male Rape
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Male on Male Rape


Michael Scarce


A groundbreaking examination of a vastly unrecognized though widely prevalent form of violence. Male on Male Rape shatters the silence and offers concrete strategies for prevention and recovery.

Parution : 2008-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Who Really Cares
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Who Really Cares


Arthur C. Brooks


We all know we should give to charity, but who really does? In his controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks shatters stereotypes about charity in America-including the myth that the political Left is more compassionate than the Right. Brooks, a...

Parution : 2007-12-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Religion Explained
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Religion Explained


Pascal Boyer


Many of our questions about religion, says the internationally renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, were once mysteries, but they no longer are: we are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" and "Why is religion the way it is?"...

Parution : 2007-03-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Postethnic America
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Postethnic America


David A Hollinger


Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist alternative does nothing...

Parution : 2006-02-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Widening Gap
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The Widening Gap


Jody Heymann


This hard-hitting book draws on the first systematic national research on how the need to meet family obligations is affecting working Americans of all social classes and ethnic groups. What happens when kids get sick? When an elderly parent is hospitalized? How do poor...

Parution : 2001-11-08
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  Skull Wars
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Skull Wars


David Hurst Thomas


The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones.The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as...

Parution : 2001-04-05
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Télécharger le livre :  In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
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In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse (Tenth Anniversary Edition)


Michael B Katz


With welfare reform a burning political issue, this special anniversary edition of the classic history of welfare in America has been revised and updated to include the latest bipartisan debates on how to “end welfare as we know it.”In the Shadow of the...

Parution : 1996-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Fables Of Abundance
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Fables Of Abundance


Jackson Lears


Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern...

Parution : 1995-11-03
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