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This book explains in detail what it is like to be losing sight, legally blind, or fully blind, and also documents why today's exciting technological advances and medical solutions are lifting limitations for the visually impaired.

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Explores post colonial relationships with "the wild" in the US and Russia, using spaceships, horoscopes and dolphins as examples.

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Responding to the growing number of displaced people throughout the world, Bemak (counseling and development, George Mason U.) and a host of colleagues in various countries focus on major contemporary issues regarding the mental health of refugees as they attempt to adjust to new cultures, and prese

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As long as there has been culture, there has been counterculture. This study identifies the characteristics of countercultures, delving into history and myth to establish beyond doubt that countercultures share underlying principles: individualism, anti-authoritarianism and a belief in the possibility of personal and social transformation.

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A fun, fact-filled, and thoroughly researched journey of country and western dancing from the roots of Western Swing to Hank Williams, the Urban Cowboy two-step of John Travolta, and the nationwide sensation of country line dancing.

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In this book, Mackenzie also weighs in on celebrity cases, analyzing how they and their lawyers used the media to their advantage, or how they failed to do so.

Mackenzie is a consummate expert in the use of media relations in the court of law.

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This volume examines how the "Christian Science Monitor", an influential newspaper of the era, covered Joseph R. McCarthy and "McCarthyism" from the Senator's Lincoln Day speech in February 1950 through to his censure in December 1954.

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An anthropologist speculates on the origins of bizarre and mysterious human lifestyles, customs, and institutions throughout history.

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An authority on anti-drug policy and crack since it became a popular street drug in the mid-1980s, Belenko traces the development of America's policy response in the context of changes in policy that were underway when crack first appeared.

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In Cracking the Freemason's Code, Robert Cooper explains exactly who the Freemasons are and what they do.

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Americans believe economic opportunity is as fundamental a right as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. More concerned about a level playing field for all, they worry less about the growing income and wealth disparity in our country.

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This book looks at schooling in segregated America.

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Landman studies four communally-oriented settings in Washington's urban environment. Landman shows how the participants in these economically related activities are socially bound together in a web of relations considered unusual in large American cities, and how these exceptionally connected urban lives prove very satisfactory.

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The National Organic Program regulates the current U.S. organic food and agriculture market, but states started adopting organic regulations in the 1970s. This book examines the diffusion of state organic food and agriculture legislation from 19762010 and identifies the consequences for state involvement in this policy domain.

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Who decides how, when, and where Americans fall in love and get married This book shows that Hollywood has often had the most powerful voice in demonstrating socially sanctioned ways of becoming a couple.

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In his eye-opening book Why, world-renowned social scientist Charles Tilly exposed some startling truths about the excuses people make and the reasons they give. Now he's back with further explorations into the complexities of human relationships, this time examining what's really going on when we assign credit or cast blame. Everybody does it, bu

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This book examines cricket and race in England over the past century and a half.

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This book examines cricket and race in England over the past century and a half.

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Illustrates how the genre has reflected our ideas of crime and crime solving through the decades. This work provides a history of detective and police shows on television, along with production histories of seminal programs, and interviews with some of the most important writers and producers of crime television.