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Compiled by one of the greatest Hebrew writers of the 20th century and first published in 1948, Days of Awe is the long-acknowledged classic companion to the High Holy Days prayer book. Here in one volume are readings and meditations from the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Zohar, to deepen the spiritual experience of the holiest days of the Jewish year.

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Explores the tempo and shifts in mores and style of a dynamic decade - the 70s - in Australias cultural development. Deftly interweaving literature and documentary history, the author traces, the sub- cultural movements towaqrds sexual liberation, cultural identity and a new creative and intellectual confidence.

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This volume is the first major attempt to systematically examine the etiology of violence in American Indian communities.

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Bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson collects his previously unpublished intellectual encounters-cordial and combative-with some of today's most influential thinkers and politicians

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This study is an intellectual and cultural history of the French nobility in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It examines attitudes toward sexuality and gender and analyzes the origins of the stereotype of the French libertine.

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From tax rebels to religious dissidents, it's amazing that the United States of America haven't fallen apart, though it has not been for lack of trying.

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Although the human genome exists apart from society, genomicists thinking is informed by their inability to escape the wake of the race concept. The book reveals that genomicists preoccupation with raceregardless of good or ill intentcontributes to its perception as a category of differences that is scientifically rigorous.

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Although the human genome exists apart from society, genomicists thinking is informed by their inability to escape the wake of the race concept. The book reveals that genomicists preoccupation with raceregardless of good or ill intentcontributes to its perception as a category of differences that is scientifically rigorous.

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A landmark exploration from indigenous scholars and activists into how indigenous storytelling practices can decolonize the research of indigenous societies.

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Deconstructing Dads is an interdisciplinary collection that examines the changing images of fathers in the United States. In this collection, prominent scholars explore a variety of media, including ads, magazines, television, and film to provide historical and current example...

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Deconstructing Dads explores a variety of media, including ads, magazines, television, and film, to provide historical and current examples of shifts from the bumbling dad to new types of participatory fathers, questioning just how revolutionary these new images are for families.

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While the romantic notions of social and economic equality once espoused by the socialist movement have been overshadowed by the realities of government power, bureaucractic inefficiency, and class divisions, Glassman claims that the quest for equality and social justice can and must be pursued within legal-democratic societies.

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Suburbanization is often blamed for a loss of civic engagement in contemporary America. How justified is this claim Just what is a suburb How do social environments shape civic life Looking beyond stereotypes, this title answers these questions by examining how suburbs influence citizen participation in community and public affairs.

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A look at the origins, evolution and demise of the aristocracy and what we can expect to replace them.

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"The most critical dimension of desegregation in our region is found in the attitudes of members of the dominant white communities. Melvin Tumin, a sociology professor at Princeton University, and eleven associates...have done a first-rate job mapping this vital dimension in an opinion study of citizens of Guilford County, North Carolina...the best

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The countries selected represent a wide range of social, political, geographic, and economic conditions, and ten new countries are included in this edition.

Each chapter provides current information on the unique features of the country profiled;

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