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Black Bride Of Christ - Chicaba, An African Nun In Eighteenth-Century Spain

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 This volume, the first English translation of the <Compendio de la Vida Ejemplar de la Venerable Madre Sor Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo, is a hagiography, an example of a biographical genre that recounts the lives and describes the spiritual practices of holy people.
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Bodies, Pleasures, And Passions - Sexual Culture In Contemporary Brazil, Second Edition

by Richard G. Parker

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 An ethnographic study of the social, cultural, and historical construction of sexuality and sexual diversity. Using ethnographic methods focusing on sexual meanings as an alternative to traditional surveys of sexual behavior, it argues that sexual life can only be fully understood through an analysis of the cultural logics that shape experience.
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We Boys Together - Teenagers In Love Before Girl-Craziness

by Jeffery P. Dennis

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 Explores romantic relationships between teenage boys as they were portrayed before, during, and immediately after World War II. This work takes the reader through a landscape of media - sci fi pulps, comics, adventure stories, tales of teen sleuths, boys' serial novels, wartime bestsellers, and movies populated by many types of male adolescents.
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Playing The Past - History And Nostalgia In Video Games

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 Brings together an eclectic group of young scholars to examine the complementary notions of history and nostalgia as they are expressed through video games and in gaming culture. By focusing on specific games, historical periods and media ecologies, this work looks at the related topics of nostalgia for classic gaming.
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Why Do They Kill? - Men Who Murder Their Intimate Partners

by David Adams

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 Profiles different types of wife killers, and examines the courtship patterns of abusive men. This work shows that wife murders are not ""crimes of passion,"" but culminations of lifelong predisposing factors of the men who murder, and that many elements of their crimes are foretold by their past behavior in intimate relationships.
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Maximilian, Mexico, And The Invention Of Empire

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 The Second Mexican Empire refers to the brief period (1864-1867) during which Napoleon III sought to consolidate his control in Mexico by installing an Austrian archduke as Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. This title examines the cultural legacy of the Second Empire as essential to modern understandings of empire and nation.
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The Ghosts Of Harlem - Sessions With Jazz Legends

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 Features interviews and portraits of forty-two jazz legends who made music in Harlem during its heyday and decline. This title features Cab Calloway, Milt Hinton, Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Tate, Eddie Barefield, and Illinois Jacquet.
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Playing The Changes - Milt Hinton'S Life In Stories And Photographs

by David G. Berger, Holly Maxson e Milt Hinton

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 Tells life story of legendary African American jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton (1910-2000) and illustrates it with more than 260 of his photographs.
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Talking Trash - Cultural Uses Of Waste

by Maite Zubiaurre

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 Much has been written about landfills and the monumentality of rubbish, but little attention has been paid to "litter", the small trash that soils the urban pavement. Talking Trash looks at refuse in its early stages, when it is still tiny and unassuming, and has yet to grow, leave the metropolis, and accumulate in landfills.
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Cesar Chavez And The Common Sense Of Nonviolence

by José-Antonio Orosco

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 Long overshadowed by Martin Luther King and Gandhi, Cesar Chavez conducted his protests following a strong belief in nonviolent action to achieve the goal of equal opportunity for all.
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Activist Archives - Youth Culture And The Political Past In Indonesia

by Doreen Lee

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 Doreen Lee tells the origin, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end Suharto's thirty-two year dictatorship in May of 1998, showing how student activists claimed their rich political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of activist youth.
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The Brink Of Freedom - Improvising Life In The Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

by David Kazanjian

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 In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatan, showing how they disrupted liberal formations of freedom.
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Rashi'S Daughter, Secret Scholar

by Maggie Anton

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 The tale of a young girl who challenges conventions to engage in Jewish learning. Set in 11th-century Troyes, France, Rashi's Daughter, Secret Scholar tells the story of Joheved, eldest daughter of Salomon ben Isaac (known as Rashi), one of the great medieval Jewish Bible commentators.
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Lilith'S Ark - Teenage Tales Of Biblical Women

by Deborah Bodin Cohen

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 Melds text, biblical commentaries, and historic details about the ancient world with the experiences of modern girls and women and the author's own imagination. A discussion guide for each story enriches the reading experience. This is a book that will speak across time to the anxieties and aspirations of today's growing girls.
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Ilan Ramon - Jewish Star

by Devra Newberger Speregen

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 Ilan Ramon was a bold fighter pilot, Air Force colonel in the Israeli army, and payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia. He was a role model for many young Israelis. Young readers will be captivated by this biography - with its rich portrait of Ramon in words and photographs - it celebrates the life of an extraordinary man and pays tribute to his enormous courage.
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Teaching Peace - Students Exchange Letters With Their Teacher

by Colman Mccarthy

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 A lived experiment with truthful teaching inside and outside the classroom
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Democracy'S Education - Public Work, Citizenship, And The Future Of Colleges And Universities

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 New possibilities for democratic revitalization with educators as agents and architects, not victims, of change
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Writing Beat And Other Occasions Of Literary Mayhem

by John Tytell

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 The story and history of the Beats couldn't be found in the traditional libraries or archives of academic research. For preeminent historian of Beat culture John Tytell, it had to be found in the bars, towns, roads, and hangouts of these writers and figures. And as Writing Beat demonstrates, the same techniques apply to new and future writers.
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Medicine And Nation Building In The Americas, 1890-1940

by Jose Amador

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 As medical science progressed through the nineteenth century, the US was at the forefront of public health initiatives across the Americas. This wasn't a purely altruistic enterprise, however, as Jose Amador reveals in Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890-1940. Rather, these efforts almost served as a precursor to modern American interventionism.
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Varieties Of Civic Innovation - Deliberative, Collaborative, Network, And Narrative Approaches

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 Hopeful and hard-headed analyses of innovative forms of democratic practices in communities
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Varieties Of Civic Innovation - Deliberative, Collaborative, Network, And Narrative Approaches

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 Hopeful and hard-headed analyses of innovative forms of democratic practices in communities
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Evening Out - Stories

by Dr. David Walton

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 David Walton's collection of eight stories, five of which are set in Pittsburgh, offers darkly humorous meditations on modern life. In the title story, a dinner party attended by a struggling academic begins with the toast "No more angst or ennui" only to end in hostility and disaster.
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Ice Age - Stories

by Robert Anderson

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 The ten stories in Robert Anderson's debut collection are an inventive and daring foray into the world of the absurd. As we are tossed from one bizarre circumstance to the next, Anderson's sophisticated, sometimes playful prose combines the concrete with the surreal to convince us that we know very little about the world we complacently inhabit.
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John Oliver Killens - A Life Of Black Literary Activism

by Keith Gilyard

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 Killens is recognized as the spiritual father of the Black Arts Movement. In this first major biography of Killens, Keith Gilyard examines the life and career of the man who was perhaps the premier African American writer-activist from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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