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Race And Religion Among The Chosen People Of Crown Heights

by Henry Goldschmidt

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 In August of 1991, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights was engulfed in violence and became a symbol of racial and religious division. Yet few have paused to examine the nature of Black-Jewish difference in Crown Heights. In Race and Religion among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights, Henry Goldschmidt explores the everyday realities of difference in Crown Heights.
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Emerging Voices - Experiences Of Underrepresented Asian Americans

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 While a growing number of popular and scholarly works focus on Asian Americans, most are devoted to the experiences of larger groups such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian Americans. This book presents discussion of underrepresented groups, including Burmese, Indonesian, Mong, Hmong, Nepalese, Romani, Tibetan, and Thai Americans.
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Horrors Of Slavery - Or, The American Tars In Tripoli

by William Ray

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 Tells the tale of a sailor, captured during the United States' first military encounter with the Islamic world, the Tripolitan War.
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New Jersey In The American Revolution

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 Sheds fresh light on the rich and turbulent late eighteenth-century period in New Jersey. This volume explores topics including New Jersey as the "Crossroads of the Revolution," important military campaigns, the 1776 Constitution, and the significant contribution of blacks, Native Americans, and women to the fighting and to the homefront.
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Inventing Great Neck - Jewish Identity And The American Dream

by Judith Goldstein

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 Great Neck, New York, is one of America's most fascinating suburbs. This work is about the allure of suburbia, including the institutions that bind it together, and the social, economic, cultural, and religious tensions that may threaten its vibrancy.
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The Hasheesh Eater - Being Passages From The Life Of A Pythagorean

by Fitz Hugh Ludlow

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 Offers a full-length American example of drug literature. This book positions Fitz Hugh Ludlow's work as not just a chronicle of drug use, but also as a window into the budding American bohemian literary scene. It is suitable for classroom use, as well as for general readers.
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Engaged Spirituality - Social Change And American Religion

by Gregory C. Stanczak

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 Based on over one hundred interviews with individuals of diverse faith traditions, this book shows how prayer, meditation, and ritual provide foundations for activism. It argues that spirituality plays an important role in the making of activists and has the potential for changing the social order.
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Living With Cancer - A Practical Guide

by Dave Visel

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 Drawing on the author's expertise during his wife's battle with lymphoma, this book provides an overview of the varieties of cancer as well as patients' perspectives on all the basic types of treatments available, from surgery and radiation to chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant.
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American Families Past And Present - Social Perspectives On Transformations

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 American families are often noted for their variety of guises. This interdisciplinary anthology examines variation within family experience, especially as it has evolved across racial, ethnic, social, gender, and generational lines. It is suitable for courses focusing on family composition, trends, and controversies in the United States.
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The Road

by Jack London

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 In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. This book features several stories that London told about his hoboing days. It presents a collection of nine essays, with accompanying illustrations.
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The Road

by Jack London

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 In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. This book features several stories that London told about his hoboing days. It presents a collection of nine essays, with accompanying illustrations.
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To Change The World - My Years In Cuba

by Margaret Randall

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 Chronicles the author's decade in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. This work gives readers an inside look at her children's education, the process through which new law was enacted, the ins and outs of healthcare, employment, internationalism, culture, and ordinary people's lives.
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Flatlined - Resuscitating American Medicine

by Guy L. Clifton

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 Examines the causes and consequences of the breakdown of American health care, the plight of millions of uninsured families, and the vicious cycle of high prices and low-quality treatment.
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Christmas Trees For Pleasure And Profit

by Robert D. Wray

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 Offers guidance for choosing species suitable for the grower's situation, where and how to get planting stock, and how to care for it. This work describes the planting process in detail, including both hand and machine methods. It also presents useful techniques for protecting the growing trees from weeds, animals, fire, insects, and disease.
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Living Between Danger And Love - The Limits Of Choice

by Kathleen B. Jones

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 Using the murder of Andrea O'Donnell, who was killed by her boyfriend, and her own experiences as a launch pad, the author examines the dichotomy between love and power. The text looks at the "unreasonable choices" women feel they have to make between care for themselves and care for another.
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The Alphabet In My Hands - A Writing Life

by Marjorie Agosin

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 This text is a journey of discovery that is as much internal reflection as an exodus across continents and decades. It recounts the events that forced the Agosin family to emigrate to America, and the author addresses her residence in New England and the role of writing and literature in her life.
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Hot Twins - The Future Of The Fastest Growing Communities In America

by Peter M. Wolf

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 This text focuses on the growth of American towns - boom towns that grow in jobs and population at two or three times the national average. It examines the choices that people make to accommodate growth and ensure their economic future, and demonstrates how to protect the area from deteriorating.
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Living In The Lightning - A Cancer Journal

by Natalie Robins

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 The story of the author's struggle to live with a diagnosis of cancer. Robins writes frankly of her personal journey of learning to live with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Thai Women In The Global Labor Force - Consuming Desires, Contested Selves

by Mary Beth Mills

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 This text is an ethnographic examination of young women migrants in rural and urban Thailand. The author focuses on the hundreds of thousands of young women who fill the factories and sweatshops of the Bangkok metropolis, following them as they travel from the village of Baan Naa Sakae.
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By Airship To The North Pole - An Archaeology Of Human Exploration

by P. J. Capelotti

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 By Airship to the North Pole chronicles the adventures of Swedish engineer Salomon August Andree, who made the first failed attempt to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon in 1897, and of American journalist Walter Wellman who organized and led three unsuccessful air expeditions from 1907 to 1909.
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What If You Could Unscramble An Egg?

by Robert Ehrlich; Illustration: Gary Ehrlich

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 Composed of short essays separated into topics, this popular science book is written in the form of a conversation between two people. It provides an understanding of the physical world by using such examples as the problem of unscrambling eggs, which leads into considerations of thermodynamics.
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Stunted Lives, Stagnant Economies - Poverty, Disease, And Underdevelopment

by Eileen Stillwaggon

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 Describes in detail the living conditions of the poor in developing countries and the diseases and injuries that result from this environment of need. This text offers practical, low-cost solutions to promote human development and economic growth, using Argentina as a case study.
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Horrors Of Slavery - Or, The American Tars In Tripoli

by William Ray

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 Tells the tale of a sailor, captured during the United States' first military encounter with the Islamic world, the Tripolitan War.

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