In this two-volume work, hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries survey contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer American literature and its social contexts.

The cliche is that prostitution is the oldest profession. This book contains wide-ranging entries related to prostitution and the sex industry, both worldwide (mostly in the West) and in the United States. It is targeted to the general reader, to help gain an insight into the human race through time via its sex industry and prostitution.

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Marvin Kalb, an award-winning American journalist with more than six decades of experience both as a journalist and media observer, writes with passion about why we should fear for the future of American democracy because of the unrelenting attacks by the Trump administration on the press.

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Today, the Japanese nation faces an identity crisis as it attempts to contend with the misfortunes endured in the 1990s: a downward economic spiral, a renewed crime wave, political corruption, and the failure of the government to take bold, new steps in response.

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This book rhetorically analyzes discourses of the current genderblind system of social control that seeks to render gender as irrelevant in public life. The author reveals the functioning of genderblindness as ideology through examining discourse on the gender wage gap, abortion rights, rape culture, and tech culture.

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Iris van der Tuin redirects the notion of generational logic in feminism away from its simplistic conception as conflict towards a more nuanced conception of the methodology's useful structures. Experimenting with generational logic as an impetus for a new materialism, this book advances feminist politics for the twenty-first century.

This three-volume work exposes myths and debunks misinformation about global migration, an issue generating emotional debate from the highest levels of power to kitchen tables across the United States, Europe, and worldwide.

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In an age where most everything is mass-produced and technology has become the filter through which we experience much of life, there is a growing appreciation of the handmade.

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Today, weed is en vogue and has evolved into a good-looking book business. High on Design showcases the new brands, designs and creators behind this revolution.

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When is food addictive, and under what circumstances And what can be done to cope with or, in the case of kids, avoid food addictions

As American-style processed foods transform the culture and habits of eating all over the world, Michael Moss explores food addiction and the obesity epidemic.

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This is essential Margaret Atwood on Twitter She's one of the most acute and perceptive analysts of the furtive growth of fascism. Everyone should know about this Philip Pullman Vibrates with outrage The Times

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Written by a self-confessed quizaholic, How To Win Your Pub Quiz is a glorious celebration of a great British institution the pub quiz and will help turn your team, however bad it is, into a winning machine!

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Politics, academia & corporations now bow to the new orthodoxies around gender, race & identity. How Woke Won explores woke's intellectual roots and how, what poses as radical-left, is embraced by the privileged. In this powerful critique Joanna argues that those interested in a free, egalitarian & democratic society must tackle wokeness head-on.

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Organized into ten broad chapters reflecting types of humor and topics of humor research, it provides extensive bibliographies on forty-five fields of humor study, each introduced by an essay outlining trends and pointing to major findings.

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A visually stunning narrative--told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novels--"I Live Here" bears witness to the lives of refugees and displaced people throughout crisis zones in four corners of the globe.