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By: Arthur Asa Berger
ISBN: 9780759107243
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Publication Date: Jul 2004
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Looks into why people travel, examining travel and tourism as a cultural phenomenon through social, cultural, psychological, and economic forces. This book explores the role of travel in contemporary lives, from university travel-abroad programs to package tours and family vacations.
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By: Mirra Komarovsky
ISBN: 9780759107304
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Publication Date: Oct 2004
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Examines the impact on masculinity of the women's movement. This book is informed by research carried out during 1969-1970. It offers insight into the early impact of the women's movement on college-aged men.
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By: Beatrice Medicine
ISBN: 9780759105713
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Publication Date: Nov 2006
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"Drinking and Sobriety Among the Lakota Sioux".
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By: Eugene F. Provenzo
ISBN: 9780759102002
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W E B Du Bois was one of the most significant educational thinkers of the twentieth century. This volume collects Du Bois' major writings on education. It demonstrates Du Bois' commitment to racial educational equality and his contributions to educational thought.
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By: Phil Zuckerman
ISBN: 9780742504219
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Gathers together Du Bois' writings on religion. This title includes selections from Bois' works such as "The Souls of Black Folks" to poems, prayers, stories and speeches. It traces Du Bois' move from church-attending Christian to relentless critic of religion and evaluates Du Bois' contributions to the study of religion.
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By: Adrian Praetzellis
ISBN: 9780759104075
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Publication Date: Aug 2003
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Hannah Green has been asked to manage a contract archaeology project and needs to teach her team about research design, survey methods, archival research, professional ethics, curation and field safety. This textbook-as-novel introduces the hows and whys of field methodology in an entertaining way.
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By: Dougald J.W. O'Reilly
ISBN: 9780759102798
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Publication Date: Dec 2006
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Using the archaeological record, the author traces the rise of the state in Southeast Asia in a general synthesis.
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By: Victor Roudometof
ISBN: 9780759105379
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Publication Date: Mar 2006
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Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age brings together fresh and nuanced understandings of the Orthodox churches - inside and outside of Eastern Europe - as they negotiate a networked world. This book is suitable for those interested in the role of Eastern Orthodoxy in the 21st century.
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By: Sing C. Chew
ISBN: 9780759104549
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Publication Date: Jun 2008
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Ecological Futures argues that history can be used as a guide to possible socioeconomic, political, and ecological scenarios that will transform our globalized world.
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By: Lisa Cliggett
ISBN: 9780759111172
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Publication Date: Dec 2007
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Economies and the Transformation of Landscape explores both the general and specific ways in which local economic ventures around the world, such as mining, ranching, and farming, affect the environment.
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By: Michael E. Stevens
ISBN: 9780761989608
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Publication Date: Oct 1997
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A diverse collection of examples of current documentary practice with full citations to the sources used as examples. With an emphasis on the descriptive rather than the prescriptive, this guide shows the range of options available to editors as they make the choices that will affect their editions and determine the policies and styles.
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By: Joel J. Orosz
ISBN: 9780759109872
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Publication Date: Sep 2007
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This book examines the most common reasons that foundation managers fail, and details the steps they must take in order to succeed. In overcoming the seven vexing challenges and strategizing the seven inescapable trade-offs, foundation managers can learn to maximize their positive social impact and avoid unintended lousy results.
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By: Daniel F. Detzner
ISBN: 9780759105775
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Publication Date: Jan 2004
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Forty life histories of Southeast Asian elders are gathered in this volume. Collectively they reveal insider personal perspectives on new immigrant family adaptation to American life at the end of the 20th century.
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By: Beth Krensky
ISBN: 9780759110687
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Publication Date: Dec 2008
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The book combines case studies with diverse groups across the country that are using different media - including mural arts, dance, and video - with an informed introduction to the theory and history of community-based art. It is a perfect handbook for those looking to transform their communities through art.
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By: Michael Blim
ISBN: 9780759106888
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Publication Date: Nov 2004
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Using equality as a measure for policy, this book demonstrates how taking equality seriously changes how our economies could function to provide wellbeing both in the United States and worldwide. It is suitable for readers concerned with transnational economies, global anthropology, and the study of work and labor.
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By: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
ISBN: 9780759103382
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Publication Date: Dec 2002
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Presents the challenge to anthropologists to engage in a dialogue concerning their commitment to professional ethical conduct. This title redefines what it means to conduct anthropological research ethically, as the discipline comes to terms with the global changes that affect its practice.
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By: Francisco Jimnez
ISBN: 9780759111011
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Publication Date: Aug 2007
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This book consists of fourteen interviews with Mexican-American community activists of various stripes in San Jos.
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By: Lola Romanucci-Ross
ISBN: 9780759109735
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Publication Date: Jun 2006
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Examines ethnic identities in countries around the globe, including Africa, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, the US, Thailand, and the former Yugoslavia. This title is a useful teaching tool for courses in race and ethnic relations, and anthropology and ethnic studies.
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By: Timothy P. Fong
ISBN: 9780759111424
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Publication Date: May 2008
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An invaluable resource for students and service practitioners alike, Ethnic Studies Research reflects on important trends in ethnic studies offering a breadth of understanding on critical topics pertaining to the discipline.
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By: Johnny Saldaa
ISBN: 9780759108134
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Publication Date: Jan 2005
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With a focus on the personal, immediate and contextual, this work presents plays about marginalized identities, abortion, street life and oppression that manage a unique balance between theoretical research and everyday realism.
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By: Matt Edgeworth
ISBN: 9780759108455
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Publication Date: Apr 2006
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Collection of original studies on the contemporary practice of archaeology as a professional and scholarly endeavor.
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By: Oded Borowski
ISBN: 9780761989196
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Publication Date: Apr 1999
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In this comprehensive treatment, Borowskisy nthesises what is known about the use of animals for clothing, transportation, food and cult practices in biblical times. Essays on pastoral systems and agricultural economics are included.
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By: Paul Atkinson
ISBN: 9780759101401
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Publication Date: Feb 2006
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Explores the world of opera through the author's fieldwork with the Welsh National Opera company. This book demonstrates how cultural phenomena are produced and enacted by taking readers on stage and behind the scenes into the collective social action that goes into the realization of an opera.
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By: Loring C. Brace
ISBN: 9780742502635
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Publication Date: Feb 2000
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This text presents research on Darwinism, race, cladistics, phylogeny, Neanderthals, dentition, craniometry, fossil evidence and cultural ecology that raise questions for the entire discipline of evolutionary anthropology.
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