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The Nightly News Nightmare, Third Edition, examines news coverage of presidential nomination and election campaigns from 1988 to 2008. Farnsworth and Lichter find that the news media, despite the wide variety of outlets, have consistent problems in terms of fairness and focus ...

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This study of the problem of Catholic and Protestant discord in Northern Ireland was written under the sponsorship of the Irish Association for Cultural, Economic, and Social Relations.

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Looks at the art of political satire as practiced in democratic, monarchical, and authoritarian societies around the world over. This book also examines the efforts by governmental, religious, and corporate authorities to suppress political satire by censorship, intimidation, policy, and fatwa.

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The Open Covenant examines two opposing trends in contemporary American culture: an adherence to traditional, rigid structures, institutions, and lifestyles;

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This definitive study concentrates on one fundamental aspect of complex organizations, the organization-environment relationship. Numerous theoretical frameworks are described and evaluated which are directly or indirectly relevant to this focus, and included are several chapters that deal with various aspects of this complex relationship.

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The last quarter of the 20th Century saw political and military upheavals in the Persian Gulf area which included, among other things, an epochal revolution in Iran, a very long and bloody war between Iran and Iraq, a second war between Iraq and an American-led United Nations ...

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Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, the author asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty.

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The bloody, mass sacrifices of the Aztec empire have been documented and decried since the 16th century when the Spanish began using violence to justify their own domination of the Mesoamerican Indian population.

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The Oromo people are refugees who have fled continued persecution in Ethiopia and by the year 2002, more than 1500 of them had found their way to Australia. In this volume, Greg Gow offers an insight into the values and meanings of lives that could easily be seen as marginal.

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Despite their growing presence, research on Caribbean and, especially, African immigrants has been scant. This work provides historical and contemporary information on African and Caribbean individuals and families. Here, each chapter addresses a particular topical area covering the most salient issues facing these immigrants to the US.

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Even so, minimal attention has been given to practices beyond the boundary of acceptable sexuality, namely sexual deviance or stigmatized sexual behavior.

The primary aim of this volume is to provide a compact and selective perspective on sexual deviance as one dimension of American societal history.

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Even so, minimal attention has been given to practices beyond the boundary of acceptable sexuality, namely sexual deviance or stigmatized sexual behavior.

The primary aim of this volume is to provide a compact and selective perspective on sexual deviance as one dimension of American societal history.

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Offers a comparative study of both internal and external Others in Arab society through an analysis of a selection of literary works

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Thousands of people have lived knowing the devastation of incest and other abuses. Thousands of people have been affected by these abuses and have no idea what was wrong, just as I did it for thirty years. As I shared my experiences in the book, I hope that you can come to the realization it was NEVER your fault.

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The plight of the poorest around the world has been pushed to the forefront of America's international agenda for the first time in many years by the war on terrorism and the formidable challenges presented by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

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Retrieves the forgotten feminism of the working women, illuminating the ideas that inspired them and the reforms they secured from employers and the state. This book contains stories of labor reformers who wanted equality and "special benefits," and who argued that gender differences must be accommodated.

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Behind the glittering image of 'Marvellous Melbourne' there existed in the popular imagination another, very different, picture of the colonial metropolis. This was the city of 'low life', of crowded slums, poverty, disease and vice. The nine essays in The Outcasts of Melbourne attempt to reveal the social realities behind this picture.

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Develops a theory of prejudice integrating personality, realistic conflict, and social identity approaches. This book focuses on Italy partly because it has experienced two different waves of immigration, from Northern Africa and Eastern Europe, and considers to what extent the color of immigrants' skin imposes a special burden of prejudice.