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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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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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"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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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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Drawing on key concepts and ideas from animal studies, this is the first study of how Welsh literature explores relationships among animals and between humans and animals. Approaching Welsh writing from the perspective of a universe in which all living things are connected, it examines how Welsh authors depict subjects such as intelligence, sensibility and knowledge from an animal perspective.

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An innovative, interdisciplinary assessment of the origins and operations of anxiety in modern life.

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A New Age author expresses that people need to reclaim their personal sovereignty--taking responsibility for their own actions and relying on their own "radical common sense"--to create a new freedom and carry it out into the world.

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"A monumental account of one migrant community's everyday lives, struggles, and aspirations"--

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"A monumental account of one migrant community's everyday lives, struggles, and aspirations"--

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Employing a combination of psychology, philosophy, sociology and dog training theory, this true story recounts the authors experiences with Bandit, a dog deemed so dangerous that the state of Connecticut condemned him to death. It also provides sharp commentary on the volatile issue of breed-specific "vicious dog" legislation.

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