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Details how Americans have traditionally relied on narratives to address what it means to be strong, morally responsible individuals and to explain why some people are more successful than others - in short, to help us make sense of our lives. This title argues that these narratives have done little to help Americans confront new challenges.

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Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War. This book explores the reasons behind the remarkable changes to American refugee policy, laws, and programs.

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AMONG THE MERMAIDS is an enchanting collection of classic stories, facts and tales of mermaids from around the world that will thrill every lover of this romanticised mythological creature.

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An exploration of urban Italian politics, immigration, and European identity, this work investigates how migrants and Italians struggle over meanings and negotiate social and cultural identities. It examines grassroots interethnic spatial politics among female migrants and Turin feminists in Northern Italy.

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WEH Stanner was a public intellectual whose work reached beyond the walls of the academy, and he remains a highly significant figure in Aboriginal affairs and Australian anthropology. This title provides an historical context for Stanner's work, and demonstrates the continuing relevance of his writings in the contested field of Aboriginal affairs.

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"An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America's racial unconscious is not so unconscious"--

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"An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America's racial unconscious is not so unconscious"--

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Essays examine the conceptual nature of racism, and trace the history of its attempts at scientific, philosophical, political, legal, and cultural expression.

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Explores Kaufman's career within a broader discussion of the ideology of the American dream. Taking as it's starting point the 1999 biopic "Man on the Moon", this book seeks to decode Kaufman in a way that makes it possible to grasp his radical agenda beyond avant-garde theories of transgression.

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Explores Kaufman's career within a broader discussion of the ideology of the American dream. Taking as it's starting point the 1999 biopic "Man on the Moon", this book seeks to decode Kaufman in a way that makes it possible to grasp his radical agenda beyond avant-garde theories of transgression.

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Animal is a timely overview of the many ways in which we live with animals. Examining novels such as Charlotte's Web, films such as Old Yeller and Babe, science and advertising, fashion and philosophy, the book evaluates the ways in which we think about animals and challenges a number of the assumptions we hold.

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Offers animal anecdotes written in poetic style. Through entertaining stories about cats, horses, an ornamental carp, a scorpion, tortoises and other animals, the author focuses on how each of these various creatures experiences happiness in its own special way. She also considers the process of mourning a loved dog's death.

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In the early twenty-first century animals are news. This title looks at the cultural and social role of animals from 1800 to the present at the way in which visual images and myths captured the popular imagination and encouraged sympathy for animals and outrage at their exploitation.

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Animal Welfare in Australia will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of public policy, those interested in issues of animal welfare, and anyone wishing to understand how competing interests interact in the contemporary Australian policy landscape.

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Surveys all aspects of animals in film, from their role in the advancement of early cinema technology to their portrayal in films, to issues of censorship and animal rights.