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The book explores the previously under-researched patterns and practices that fashioned a modern consumer society, charting the evolving habits among English men and women across three centuries. -- .

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McKnight shows how the experts' best efforts to rebuild and revitalize communities can actually destroy them and celebrates the ability of neighborhoods to heal from within.

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Digitisation makes the physical properties of books disposable; e-book readers and mobile phones render them portable and accessible almost everywhere. The author is a unique authority, whose work on this subject has helped invent the discipline of the "History of the Book". This title assembles the writings he has done on this subject.

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On the 75th anniversary of the Harrison Narcotic Act that unleashed the federal anti-drug crusade, historian Richard Lawrence Miller explores the origins, purposes, and effects of America's drug war.

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* From the filmmaker behind the award-winning film of the same name comes a profoundly moving story, beautifully illustrated in 24pp of colour, that sheds light on the lives of the last of the Mongolians nomads

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Journalist's report of a conference on the problems of industry as they affect the individual and the community.

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Points out how the increasing need for scientists in the USA can be lessened by utilizing a long overlooked pool of scientific talent in those persons who are scientifically oriented but who happen to have physical or sensory disabilities.

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Focuses on the two famine emergencies in the Sudan in the 1980s - the great African drought-related famine of 1984-86 and the conflict-related famine that afflicted the southern Sudan in 1988-91. Francis Deng and Larry Minear analyse the historical and political setting and the response by Sudan authorities and the international community.

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Looking at football at a national level, this book traces the history of racism, and its impact on the contemporary game. It emphasises on the changing role of racial and ethnic identity in football over the years. It is suitable for those interested in football, sport, race and ethnic studies.

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Provides an account of the role of race, nation and identity within contemporary football cultures. Focused around the four clubs on which the authors did their research, this book shows how different clubs understand and experience race in different ways. It is aimed at those interested in football, sport, race and ethnic studies.

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This title is an historical overview and a then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama. -- .

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Here the late Raphael Patai (1910-1996) re-creates the world of Jewish seafaring from Noah's voyage through the Diaspora of late antiquity. Patai weaves together a variety of sources to bring alive the world of these ancient mariners.

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The volume begins with an overview of China in the Late Qing period, setting the stage for the successive waves of Chinese immigration to the United States.

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This is the first anthropological study of the contemporary Chinese fashion and textile industries from high-end designer clothing to mass manufacture.

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In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, the bestselling author of "The Rape of Nanking" tells of a people's search for a better life--the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and to find success.

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In this period of upheaval of our nation's health care system, this timely work serves to increase awareness of and knowledge about the problems of societal living among the chronically disabled elderly.

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The widely acclaimed, award-winning history of the cigarette.