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"For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things a"

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Using contemporary as well as archival sources, this text explores a series of questions: why has the Titanic disaster affected the way we think about ourselves; how has the media made it into a morality play and what impact has the story had on 20th-century communications

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Traces the origins, development, and consolidation of patriotic cultures in the United States from the latter half of the nineteenth century up to World War I, a period in which the country emerged as a modern nation-state.

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This insightful and balanced chronicle of the author's education at Yale Medical School provides a personal, yet universal, portrait of the unique passage from student to healer.

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To Free A People describes the earliest beginnings of the influential Jewish lobby: the efforts of Jewish leaders to generate an American response to the oppression of Jews in Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.

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Cathy and John married 20 years ago. Over the years, angry fights developed, followed by verbal and gestured threats of violence, followed by actual physical attacks and injuries. This work introduces us to the incidence of "intimate partner violence," abuse that takes place behind closed doors inside marriages and other "loving" relationships.

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The cult of the dead, centered on Todos Santos, the All Saints Day-All Souls Day celebration, is one of the most important aspects of Mesoamerican Indian and mestizo religion. Focusing on rural Tlaxcala, in Mexico, Hugo Nutini presents a thorough description and analysis of the cult in its syncretic, structural, and expressive dimensions and descri

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Examines the treatment of cultural and religious diversity - indigenous and immigrant - on both sides of the Irish border to analyse the current state of tolerance and the kinds of policies that need to be developed to respect diversity -- .

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That's a big mistake considering women spend $3.3 trillion annually on consumer products. Too Busy to Shop explains what marketers need to know about multi-mindinga word coined by Skoloda and Ketchumand its implications for companies seeking to speak to women buyers.

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Extreme poverty exhausts institutions, depletes resources, weakens leadership, and ultimately contributes to rising insecurity and conflict. Just as poverty begets insecurity, however, the reverse is also true.

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Although Mexican Americans comprise the United States' second largest minority group, most studies have provided only a historical perspective on Chicano issues.

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Their research spotlights neighborhood-based child protection systems and provides a comprehensive approach for creating procedures that meaningfully address child maltreatment.

The volume discusses the challenges of moving toward such a system within the current legal, political, and cross-cultural contexts of child protection.

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Moving the focus away from the exposition of one particular thinker, this unique book offers a constructive, postmodern approach to contemporary Jewish thinking combined with analysis of modern Jewish thought, reflections on Jewish law, mysticism, history, and theology.

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Derek Phillips presents a strong case for the importance of normative theories about the just social organization of society. Most sociologists urge the avoidance of value judgments, but Professor Phillips argues for a notion of a just social order that reflects a twin concern with explanatory and normative thinking. Originally published in 1986.

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Cheap, plentiful food is an American tradition. We spend a smaller percentage of our income on food than any other nation. We feed much of the world with our surpluses.

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His social science papers were the basis for the United States Supreme Court's landmark decision of May 17, 1954, that state-sponsored segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.

Dr. John Hope Franklin, the nation's most prestigious black historian, provides a Foreword.

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This text moves the controversy over multiculturalism in higher education from primarily an ideological debate to practical and concrete considerations. It outlines the demographic and historic realities that will make some form of multicultural education necessary in the coming century.

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Twenty professional women assess the extent of change in women's roles in many areas of modern life.