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Gods And Men In Egypt - 3000 Bce To 395 Ce

by Christiane Zivie-Coche e Francoise Dunand

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 In their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egypt, FranÃ§oise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche explore how, over a period of roughly 3500 years, the Egyptians conceptualized their relations with the gods. Drawing on the insights of...
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Beggars, Iconoclasts, And Civic Patriots - The Political Culture Of The Dutch Revolt

by Peter Arnade

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 A new history of the Dutch Revolt that shows how the act of rebellion forged a political identity through ritual, symbol, and public action.
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Japan Works - Power And Paradox In Postwar Industrial Relations

by John Price

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 The postwar miracle, says John Price, made Japan and its corporations the toast of the global village, with scholars across the United States pointing to Japan as the model for future enterprise. The economic bubble burst, however, in 1989, and Price...
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A Culture'S Catalyst - Historical Encounters With Peyote And The Native American Church In Canada

by Fannie Kahan

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 In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to a peyote ceremony of the Native American Church. Afterward, journalist Fannie Kahan was enlisted to write a book on peyote and its historical relationship with Indigenous people in North America. A Culture's Catalyst encourages us to consider how peyote in Canada has been understood and how its appearance in 1950s Saskatchewan tested Native-newcomer relations and attitudes toward Indigenous religious and cultural practices.
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Ã¯Â¿Â½Chili Texano? Ã¯Â¿Â½Ay Dios! (Spanish)

by Patricia Vermilion; Illustration: Kuleigh Smith

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 This version of the "Three little pigs" is set in South Texas, and uses local and emblematic animals and plants in the story to present information about Texas.
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Virgin Martyrs - Legends Of Sainthood In Late Medieval England

by Karen A. Winstead

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 Stories of the torture and execution of beautiful Christian women first appeared in late antiquity and proliferated during the early Middle Ages. A thousand years later, virgin martyrs were still...
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Industrial Valley

by Ruth Mckenney

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 This novel vividly portrays an industrial city crippled by the country's economic failures and also provides a stirring example of fiction predicated on social and political principles
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Strategies For Employee Assistance Programs - The Crucial Balance

by Harrison M. Trice e William J. Sonnenstuhl

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Detachment And The Writing Of History - Essays And Letters Of Carl L. Becker

by Carl L. Becker

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 First published in 1958, Detachment and the Writing of History collects essays and letters by Carl L. Becker in which the noted historian outlines his views on the study of history...
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The Unions And The Democrats - An Enduring Alliance

by Taylor E. Dark

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 Illuminates the inner dynamics of labor's relationship to the American political system over the past generation.
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We'Ll Call You If We Need You - Experiences Of Women Working Construction

by Susan Eisenberg

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 "For my very first day in union construction I was sent to a bank in downtown Boston where a journeyman needed a hand pulling wire. Arriving early with my new tools and pouch, I knocked on the glass door in the high-rise lobby and explained to the...
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The Spectacular Past - Popular History And The Novel In Nineteenth-Century France

by Maurice Samuels

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Steelworker Alley - How Class Works In Youngstown

by Robert Bruno

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 For retired steelworkers in Youngstown, Ohio, the label "working class" fits comfortably. Questioning the widely held view that laborers in postwar America have adopted middle-class values, Robert Bruno shows that in this community a blue-collar...
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The 100 Most Notable Cornellians

by Glenn C. Altschuler, Isaac Kramnick e R. Laurence Moore

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 "Cornell is unique among American research universities and in the Ivy League.... It aspires to the ideals of Ezra Cornell, who founded an institution 'where any one person could find instruction in any study.'... Cornell has played a...
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Architect Of Justice - Felix S. Cohen And The Founding Of American Legal Pluralism

by Dalia Tsuk Mitchell

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 A major figure in American legal history during the first half of the twentieth century, Felix Solomon Cohen (1907â€"1953) is best known for his realist view of the law and his efforts to grant Native Americans more control over their own cultural...
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Copper Crucible - How The Arizona Miners' Strike Of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations In America

by Jonathan D. Rosenblum

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 An in-depth and gripping account of the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983.
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Safety In Numbers - Nurse-To-Patient Ratios And The Future Of Health Care

by John Buchanan, Suzanne Gordon e Tanya Bretherton

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 The first book to examine the arguments for and against mandated nurse-to-patient ratios, utilizing survey data, interviews, and other original research to focus on two case studies (California and the Australian state of Victoria).
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Dispersing The Ghetto - The Relocation Of Jewish Immigrants Across America

by Jack Glazier

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 In the early twentieth century, the population of New York City's Lower East Side swelled with the arrival of vast numbers of eastern European Jewish immigrants. The teeming settlement, whose inhabitants faced poverty and frequent unemployment...
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Unions And Legitimacy

by Barbara Bigelow e Gary N. Chaison

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 Legitimacy is vital to unions. Without it, they lose political and ideological support, members, and access to funds. Gary Chaison and Barbara Bigelow use the concept of legitimacy as a lens through which to understand the steady decline in union size.
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Age Of Contradiction - American Thought And Culture In The 1960s

by Howard Brick

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 Howard Brick offers a context for understanding historical events, cultural tensions, political figures, artistic works and trends of intellectual life. Putting ideas at the centre of an assessment of the 1960s, Brick explores the dilemmas, promise and legacy of American thought at that time.
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The Master Is Calling - Discovering The Wonders Of Spirit-Led Prayer

by Lynne Hammond

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Why Energy Conservation Fails

by Herbert Inhaber

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 This work addresses the question: Do government energy conservation programmes hinder or help the nation? It includes chapters on how conservation is applied in the electric utility world, whether waste truly exists, and the economic aspect of conservation.
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Worlds Of Shadow - Teaching With Shadow Puppetry

by David Wisniewski

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 The Wisniewskis, codirectors of the acclaimed Clarion Shadow Theatre, have modernized and simplified the techniques of the ancient art of shadow puppetry and created this easy step-by-step guide.
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A Few Local Topographical Notes Suggeste

by John Cook

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