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This book offers a bold reinterpretation of monogamy, framing it not as a reflection of romantic desire but as a calculated effort to secure exclusivity from a partner.

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Stridentism (estridentismo) was a literary, artistic, and cultural movement founded in Mexico in the 1920s by poets Manuel Maples Arce, GermOn List Arzubide, and Salbador Gallardo, prose writer Arqueles Vela, painters Fermin Revueltas, Ram-n Alva de la Canal, Leopoldo MZndez, ...

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This study is a portrayal of the political, economic, and cultural history and present community gardens in a New York City neighbourhood, the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It provides a basis for an understanding of urban community gardens in the United States.

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The first book-length study about the Taiwanese Americans and their role in contemporary American life.

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This book is an anthropological exploration into the enduring conundrum of the human condition in dialogue with Japanese culture and society. Through a hermeneutic phenomenological lens, it examines tradition, place, and human finitude, emphasizing the fundamental aspects that precede and ground subjectivity and reflexivity.

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A history of American popular taste in art, architecture, and interior decoration, with short sketches of the men and women responsible for the trends.

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Demonstrates how at each historical turn, Siberian experiences shed new light on old debates concerning colonialism, conversion, revitalization, ethnicity, and nationalism.

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One fundamental premise of democratic theory is that social policy, group choice, or collective action should be based on the preferences of the individuals in the society, group, or collective. Using the tools of formal mathematical analysis, Peter C. Fishburn explores and defines the conditions for social choice and methods for synthesizing indiv

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Aims to teach theorizing as a skill. After analyzing the process of theorizing into a set of steps, this book shows how the theories of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Mead were constructed following these steps. It links their theories with contemporary ones in the same research tradition.

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Both specialists and the general public assume that evolution is good and desirable, but Kitahara's analysis suggests the opposite: that evolution itself is tragic.

In his analysis of human evolution, Kitahara discusses deviant and criminal behavior, social conflict, liberalism, and the nature of Western civilization.

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A respected futurist advances an argument sure to cause debate--in a wired world, the best way to preserve our freedom will be to give up our privacy.

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This unique and fascinating study centers on the experiences of expatriate American women married to French men, residing in France, and struggling to maintain American language and culture in their French-American children.

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From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity - that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident - is ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754 coinage into the twentieth century.

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For the first time, European professional deregulation is the focus of reflection by social scientists. This book explores how professional associations act as pressure groups and highlights the democratic regime that is prevailing and the potential convergence problems that Europe may face.

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Measuring matters, but what does it mean A fun and erudite exploration of how men have attempted, and still attempt, to count the unquantifiable.

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Now in an updated and revised edition, the definitive book on the Boston Mafia, by the authors of the bestselling, Edgar Award-winning true crime thriller Black Mass