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Taking a different path, Miriam Meyers celebrates the positive role that food plays in women's lives, and in the relationship between mother and daughter.

Despite the changes wrought by modern technology, the provision of food remains necessary to sustain physical, social, religious, and familial life.

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The book challenges and dispels the myth that Black progress has led to equality for African American women in the academy.

The results of this study make it even more critical that the voices of African American women be heard and their experiences in the academy be expressed.

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The third and final book in my A City in the Sand series. The story of Akin and Akil's parents, Abubakar, the captain of the Kush Army and the Goddess Hathor. A story of discovery, kindness, love and war, and how it all began.

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Culture shapes every aspect of the relationship between God and the believer in Islam - as well as among believers, and with those beyond the fold.

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What is the extraordinary text that is the Quran - and how does it relate to the life and times of the Prophet Muhammad This book offers a journey into the full range of experience - past and present, secular and sacred - of the diverse peoples and cultures of the Muslim world.

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The rural fuse has been lit. The countryside is tinder-dry. Post offices and banks, shops and schools are closing. Farmers are going out of business. Houses are becoming unaffordable as prices soar ad poverty grows. Pollution and over-exploitation are destroying landscapes. This book offers an evidence of the background to the crisis.

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The essays in this text challenge conventional thinking about sexuality and pedagogy, with sections on myth-making, identity, globalization and education. A range of perspectives are brought to bear on how we position ourselves and are positioned by "master narratives" of sexuality and gender.

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Includes entries for various elements of Southern African American folklife, along with a bibliography of works on the subject.

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An exploration of why both the right and left of politics have so failed remote Aboriginal Australians and why until policymakers and researchers take into account both cultural difference and inequality, we will not come anywhere near closing the gap.

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This study deals with the effects of the neighborhood stabilization movement, which was formed to maintain community racial integration. In Part Three, the national level of the movement is discussed in terms of its development and its interaction with local movement organizations.

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Presents the history of love and desire between men in Britain. Covering nearly a thousand years from the Norman Conquest to the internet age, this book talks about not only public figures like Richard the Lionheart or Derek Jarman, but also little-known individuals such as 'Eleanor', a cross-dresser in Chaucer's England, and many others.

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This glossary provides an account of the feminist movement's development across time, geography, multiple identities, and various disciplines. The authors provide cross-referenced and readable definitions of the material.

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This work investigates how ethnic minority groups in the United States suffer and die from disease at higher rates than the general population. It also offers bibliographic data. Such groups include African-Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Americans, Hispanics and Pacific Asian Americans.

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A History of Children investigates the treatment of children throughout the millennia, examining and comparing, in the timeline from prehistory to the present, cultural codes, and societal laws.

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Offering the six historical essays from the out-of-print Bicentennial volume originally published by the U.S. Department of Labor, this book tells the richly dramatic and rewarding story of the working men and women who built the nation, from colonial settlement and the beginning of the republic through the modern labor movement and the space age.

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The work gives special attention to what Washington calls Destiny Studies, an approach which allows a people to concentrate on their past, present, and future possibilities, and to view the experience of a race as a coherent unity, rather than a set of fragmented historical happenings.