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Explores the ethical implications behind the issues related to metropolitan growth and environmental change. This book describes the decisions people make that shape the built environment, from the everyday concerns of homeowners and commuters to grand gestures of national policy.

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Van den Berghe contends that intergroup relations are reducible to individuals competing for scarce resources. While social classes are grouped according to common material interests, ethnic groups are organized by real or punitive common descent--ultimately on the basis of common interests.

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This book discusses existing problems with Black maternal health and the rhetorical implications of ethos in American society.

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Offers an informative look at the popularity of the Renaissance in 19th- and 20th-century America. This book explores the kinship that modern Americans feel with the period and the concept, and how they admire its creativity, beauty, and elegance. It also shows how Americans have embraced the 16th century as a model of culture and sophistication.

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This revealing volume explores recent historical perspectives on the modern euthanasia and assisted-suicide debate and the political arenas in which it has unfolded.

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The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality explores urban inequality through detailed case studies. By focusing on situated experiences of displacement, belonging, and difference, the contributors to this edited collection demonstrate the power of multidisciplinary ethnographic research to illustrate how inequalities affect city residents worldwide.

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Using a cross-cultural perspective, The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity draws on ethnographic data to examine how heteronormativity is constructed and operates in diverse contexts.

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The Evil Twins of American Television examines evil-twin depictions in over fifty years of television. Employing the schizophrenic split theory of Betty Friedan, Humphreys analyzes the ways in which these alter ego characters embody the desire for a separate self and independence.

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Providing an introduction to the evolution of communication media, this book offers a treatment of both mass media and interpersonal media. It describes the history and development of media technology and also aims to develop a taxonomy for media. It compares their technological requirements, applications, and other significant elements.

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The Evolution of the Ancient City is an interdisciplinary look at how cities developed from Hunter-Gatherer societies to centers of vast empires in the Fertile Crescent between 21,500 BCE and 1,200 BCE. The reader is guided through each stage of social evolution and its conseq...

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This book explains the racial construction of mixed-race Latinxs in the Americas, centring an intersectional analysis in the theory of coloniality. It explores the first person experience with an analysis of semiotic structures and connects theory and history to action.

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Examines extremity as a political and cultural phenomenon in the late 20th and early 21st century. It argues that we can discern a continuum of extremes/extremity on which we may locate practices as diverse as Abu Ghraib, extreme sports, biomedical TV series and horror films.

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Examines extremity as a political and cultural phenomenon in the late 20th and early 21st century. It argues that we can discern a continuum of extremes/extremity on which we may locate practices as diverse as Abu Ghraib, extreme sports, biomedical TV series and horror films.

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An astonishing look at the tenuous state of women's rights and issues in America, and a call to action for the young women who have the power to change their situation.

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Was there ever such a beast as the monstrous Kraken Did a Welsh prince discover America, centuries before Columbus What happened to the missing crew of the Mary Celeste This title deals with these questions.

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Documents the extent, character, and implications of race and sex discrimination at work and in housing, drawing from a rich body archived discrimination suits themselves. This book grounds the reader in the reality of discrimination as it is played out in the actual jobs, neighborhoods, and lives of real people.

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On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently ""unequal"" and, as such, violate the 14th Amendment.

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Charting the decline and recent resurgence of the landed gentry in British public life, The fall and rise of the English upper class explores how traditionalist worldviews, centred on kinship, inheritance, and the image of the house, have come to shape our politics and culture.