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Vacation Stories - Five Science Fiction Tales

de Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

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 Discusses the nature, allure, and danger of scientific curiosity.
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Contesting Identities - Sports In American Film

de Aaron Baker

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 Shows that sports films tackle socially constructed identities such as class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. In addition to discussing the genre's recurring dramatic tropes, this book looks at the social and cinematic impacts of real-life sports figures from Jackie Robinson and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.
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Behind The Scenes - Formerly A Slave, But More Recently Modiste, And Friend To Mrs. Lincoln; Or, Thirty Years A Slave, And Four Years In The White House

de Elizabeth Keckley

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 Written in a conversational, first-person narrative, it is the personal testimony of a woman who went from being a slave, to being the friend and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln during the Civil War, to finally become a proprietor with more than twenty employees of her own, only to spend her last days in a home for the destitute. Possible Sleeper!
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Japanese American Midwives - Culture, Community, And Health Politics, 1880-1950

de Susan L. Smith

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 Reveals the dynamic relationship between welfare state and the history of women and health. This book demonstrate the impossibility of clearly separating domestic policy from foreign policy, public health from racial politics, medical care from women's care giving, and the history of women and health from national and international politics.
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Law In Film - Resonance And Representation

de David A. Black

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 The courtroom, like the movie theater, is an arena for the telling and interpreting of stories. Drawing on both film studies and legal scholarship, this title explores the implications of representing court procedure, as well as other phases of legal process, in film.
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Moving Images - Photography And The Japanese American Incarceration

de Jasmine Alinder

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 An in-depth analysis of photography during the Japanese American incarceration during World War II
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The Japanese In Latin America

de Daniel M. Masterson

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 Japanese migration to Latin America began in the late nineteenth century, and today the continent is home to 1.5 million persons of Japanese descent. Combining detailed scholarship with personal histories, this title offers a study of the patterns of Japanese migration on the continent as a whole.
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The Moral Menagerie - Philosophy And Animal Rights

de Marc R. Fellenz

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 A look at the limitations of the philosophy behind animal rights and why it matters
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Citizen Spielberg

de Lester D. Friedman

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 Provides a systematic analysis of the various genres in which Steven Spielberg has worked, including science fiction, adventure, race films, and war films. This work concludes that Spielberg's films present a sustained artistic vision combined with a technical flair matched by few other filmmakers.
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Racing To A Cure - A Cancer Victim Refuses Chemotherapy And Finds Tomorrow'S Cures In Today'S Scientific Laboratories

de Neil Ruzic

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 Provides a scathing critique of the chemotherapy culture as well as of unscientific "alternative" therapies and endorses molecularly based technologies, making it an illuminating and necessary read for anyone interested in cancer research, especially patients and their families and physicians.
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Black And Mormon

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 Features essays that look at the mechanisms used to keep blacks from full participation in the church, the motives behind the ban, and the kinds of changes that have - and have not - taken place within the church since the revelation responsible for its end.
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Holding Up More Than Half The Sky - Chinese Women Garment Workers In New York City, 1948-92

de Xiaolan Bao

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 In 1982, 20,000 Chinese American garment workers - mostly women - went on strike in New York's Chinatown and forced Chinese garment industry employers in the city to sign a union contract. This study explains how this militancy and organized protest, seemingly so at odds with traditional Chinese female behavior, came about.
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Dictations - On Haunted Writing

de Avital Ronell

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 Considers Goethe as the undead core of German literary and theoretical production, the basis of a poignant code of symptoms that the author tracks and traces.
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Fortress California, 1910-1961 - From Warfare To Welfare

de Roger W. Lotchin

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 Analyzing the growth of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco from 1910 to 1961, the author discredits the assumption that the industrialization of the Sunbelt was a result of a partnership between industry and the military. He argues that municipalities used federal resources to build urban empires and metropolitan-military complexes.
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Mr. Dooley In Peace And In War

de Finley Peter Dunne

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 This reprint makes one of America's greatest humorists--and one of America's greatest humorous characters--available again to the public.
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Melting Pots And Rainbow Nations - Conversations About Difference In The United States And South Africa

de Alison Bernstein

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 A passionate, intelligent commentary. This book is an invigorating look at the implications of difference and diversity in two contrasting but similar societies: the United States and South Africa. It addresses how differences--of gender, race, culture, biology, and sexual orientation - are variously understood and acted on in both countries.
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Very Special Agents - The Inside Story Of America'S Most Controversial Law Enforcement Agency--The Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco, And Firearms

de James Moore

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 From Chicago's Al Capone to Waco's David Koresh, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms has taken on America's most ruthless criminals and single-minded fanatics. This title delivers the disclosure of the bureau's controversial exploits.
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The Long Road Of Woman'S Memory

de Jane Addams

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 Presents a musing on the role of memory and myth in women's lives. This title explores the catalytic function of cautionary tales in reviving older women's sense of agency. Through conversations with women who had lost sons on the battlefield, it emphasizes the importance of voicing a female perspective on war.
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Culture, Environment, And Conservation In The Appalachian South

de Benita J. Howell

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 Focusing on the mountainous area from northern Alabama to West Virginia, this title explores the historic and contemporary interrelations between culture and environment in a region that has been plagued by land misuse and damaging stereotypes of its people. This collection contributes to debates over land use and conservation.
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Wisconsin - A History

de Richard Nelson Current

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 A haven for summer tourists, Wisconsin is famed for its physical beauty and its prodigious production of cheese and dairy products. This title chronicles how Wisconsin's homegrown ideas, from the 'Wisconsin Idea' of efficient state government to ski-tows and speedometers, made their way into the broader marketplace of American culture.
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Between Science And Literature - An Introduction To Autopoetics

de Ira Livingston

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 Introduces the fundamentals of cultural and literary theory. This title constructs an alternate framework in which complex, self-organizing processes occur at various scales, cutting across traditional divisions between words and things, culture and nature.
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False Papers - Deception And Survival In The Holocaust

de Robert Melson

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Passing And The Rise Of The African American Novel

de M. Giulia Fabi

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Survivors - Cambodian Refugees In The United States

de Sucheng Chan

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 Presents a multidisciplinary study of why and how Cambodians have come to the US and how they have fared since. Drawing on interviews with more than fifty community leaders, government officials, and staff members in volunteer agencies, this book synthesizes the literature on the refugees, many of whom come from varying socioeconomic backgrounds.
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