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In every land, various traditions, customs, and legends have developed around food. Culturally and ethnically inclusive, from soul food to Navaho fry bread, the volume looks at basic Jewish and Islamic food traditions and Asian, Latin, and European influences on the foods of America.

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Discusses how and why self-deception takes place, and its subtle and profound effects on our everyday lives. This book explains how and why self-deceptions occur in three areas - politics, religion, and terrorism - and also how to recognize and reduce the frequency of fooling ourselves. It is of interest to readers drawn to politics and religion.

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Expert contributors provide alphabetically arranged entries for some 60 fools and jesters ranging from Woody Allen, Lucille Ball, and the Marx Brothers to Falstaff, Hephaestus, and Loki.

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Examines how groups of young male fans come to be identified as football 'hooligans, and challenges the assumption that violence is wholly central to the match-day experience for these supporters. This book is for undergraduates of social anthropology, sociology and criminology, and also for the general reader with an interest in football culture.

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This book explores the cultural, economic, and political history behind French football's development throughout the twentieth century and up to the present day.

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This book explores the extraordinary cultural, economic, and political history behind French football's development throughout the twentieth century and up to the present day.

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"Football Italia examines the development of Italian football in relation to the wider global transformations impacting football, and addresses the reasons for Serie A's initial success and current malaise"--

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The New Deal placed security at the center of American political and economic life by establishing an explicit partnership between the state, economy, and citizens. This history of the American reliance on employment-based benefits examines the interwoven politics of social provision and labor relations from the 1910s to the 1960s.

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Is government justified This question is central to political philosophy. These essays address the question of political authority, using up-to-date analytical tools such as game and decision theory and hindsight provided by history since the classic discussions of this question.

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It covers the whole spectrum of American political and cultural influences ranging from the material benefits of American influence to the violence which can be found in American life.

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Arguing for renewed attention to "common things", Purdy gives a ringing and heartfelt plea for commitment to--and faith in--American civic and political life. This paper edition includes a new Afterword.

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These sociologists and theorists, long concerned with the critical role in society of the middle class, trace its historical, structural, and cultural links with democracy since ancient times.

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This book philosophically explores changing conceptions of race and equality in Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Equal Protection Clause since the enactment of the 14th Amendment. It traces these changing conceptions alongside the gradual elimination of the social equality of racialized persons from the Supreme Courts list of priorities.

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This book philosophically explores changing conceptions of race and equality in Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Equal Protection Clause since the enactment of the 14th Amendment. It traces these changing conceptions alongside the gradual elimination of the social equality of racialized persons from the Supreme Courts list of priorities.

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The authors present provocative new perspectives on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.

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Steven Clemente describes how conservative traditions and artistocratic values were preserved in the selection and training of German army officers prior to World War I despite changing times and the influx of many middle-class recruits into the army.

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For Love of a Soldier contains the stories of 29 people whose family members_spouses, siblings, children_are serving or have served in the American military during the Iraq War. The families tell their stories and explain why they believe that taking action to end American mil...

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Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

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This unique social history spans the last half century, when developments in birth control and the education of women have increased opportunities for women to have successful careers.

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Charles Young served as the highest-ranking African American officer in the U.S. Army until 1917.

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It is also the only one to propose an entirely new structure for the child welfare system.

For Reasons of Poverty begins with a historical review of child welfare through the twentieth century and then examines the crusade against child abuse.

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Beginning with its origins in the English Civil War, the author traces the development in the US of "the right to keep and bear arms" through the Constitutional Convention, the ratification debates that followed, its inclusion in the Bill of Rights, to present controversy over gun control.

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Documents, through the words of League leaders, the impact of the League of Women Voters on voter education and advocacy.