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This book examines the history of racial segregation in America and many of the heroic battles that were waged against the system. From the 1930s to the 1960s court challenges were won and laws were enacted that killed Jim Crow. However, despite considerable advances, substantial barriers to racial equality persist.

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This book examines the history of racial segregation in America and many of the heroic battles that were waged against the system. From the 1930s to the 1960s court challenges were won and laws were enacted that killed Jim Crow. However, despite considerable advances, substantial barriers to racial equality persist.

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The book looks through five generations of Chinese students since the May Fourth Movement in 1919, explains how their ideas, actions, and impact ran like a thread through many governments and institutions that have shaped modern China, and indicates where China came from and what the country became.

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A broad overview of the history of Welsh myth in children's literature, from the 19th century to the present.

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An analysis of the ideologies and artistic conventions of American movies includes examinations of films such as Casablanca, Taxi Driver, and The Godfather.

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On Teach For America's twentieth anniversary, its founder offers an inspiring summation of the lessons learned: The achievement gap can be closed, and there's nothing elusive about what it will take

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This study of Sino-Tibetan northern Sichuan provides a framework for understanding changes in western Chinas landscape and among its indigenous populations from late imperial to contemporary times.

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The powerful, dramatic story of how a successful Hollywood set designer whose identity was deeply rooted in his homosexuality came to be suddenly and utterly transformed by the power of the gospel.

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Turkey is a longstanding ally of the United States and Europe. After the demise of the Soviet empire, Turkey's strategic importance has changed but not diminished.

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A simple story of a rain season in Thailand and a young man at the intersection of two cultures

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Guides you safely along the sometimes rocky road of pubescence as your child heads toward adolescence. This book takes on the difficult things parents face with their kids, such as dating relationships, sexual activity and 'rite of passage' attitudes, STDs, and molestation.

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Goran Sonnevi is one of Sweden's most celebrated, respected, and prolific poets. This book presents the works of Sonnevi written between 1971 and 1989.

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Stories of women who mother are central to this book. The women come to mothering through birth and adoption, as birth mothers, placing mothers, adopting mothers and teen mothers.

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Stories of women who mother are central to this book. The women come to mothering through birth and adoption, as birth mothers, placing mothers, adopting mothers and teen mothers.

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"Originally published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company in 1995"--Title verso page.

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A Christian Approach to Work and Family Burnout provides a Christian spiritual model to prevent and cope with burnout caused by the workplace and conflict with family. This model combats psychological depletion through its focus on intrinsic motivation and redefinition of work as a calling and means to care for others.

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This book explores challenging doctrines dealing with womens bodies and rebirth in Shin Buddhism, and relates those teachings to similar concerns around womens bodies in Christianity.

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In the tradition of his Silent Night and Pearl Harbor Christmas , historian Stanley Weintraub presents another gripping narrative of a wartime Christmas season- the epic story of the 1950 holiday season in Korea, when American troops faced extreme cold, a determined enemy, and long odds. A Military Book Club main selection