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A riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: these are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.

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This volume details the philosophical propositions of technology, illustrates its impact on various facets of social life, and demonstrates how the disruptive effects of technology can be reduced by providing it with a new philosophical base.

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This is a wonderful book: curious and insightful Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Travellers Guide to Medieval England

We know what happens to the body when we die, but what happens to the soul

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A compendium of information on issues, makeup, and trends in the American workforce.

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Addresses the problem of untouchability by providing an overview of the subject as well as insights into its social and religious origins. This book demonstrates that untouchability is a deeply ambiguous condition: neither inside nor outside society, reviled yet indispensable, untouchables constitute an original category of social exclusion.

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Addresses the problem of untouchability by providing an overview of the subject as well as insights into its social and religious origins. This book demonstrates that untouchability is a deeply ambiguous condition: neither inside nor outside society, reviled yet indispensable, untouchables constitute an original category of social exclusion.

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This book provides a novel approach towards the urban life of working-class communities, using the example of Russias post-industrial cities. Focusing on the sensual, imaginary and practical aspects of everyday struggles, this approach helps explain how workers produce micro-change in urban space under neoliberal neo-authoritarianism.

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Chavkin tests the theory that there is a relationship between organizational structure and the use of research recommendations in school social work.

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The distinction between understanding sight as a natural faculty - vision - and understanding it as an historical and social construct - visuality - has had significant impact in the visual arts.

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How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life This book analyzes arguments in literary, cultural, and political theory, with special attention to the ways in which theorists understand ideals of critical distance, forms of subjective experience, and the determinants of belief and practice.

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This is a guide to the causes and consequences of today's family trends, demonstrating that a historically informed perspective can be as helpful in sorting through many family dilemmas as going into therapy and much more help than listening to today's political debates.

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Shows that punishment gave the community an opportunity to establish a shining myth of harmony and cleanliness: that the city of Athens could be purified of anger and social struggle, and perfect order achieved. This book shows that anger, honor, reciprocity, spectacle, and social memory constantly prevailed in Athenian law and politics.

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Reveals what Anthropology is and what anthropologists do. This book explains the remains of traditional Anthropology. Describing the key ideas and methods which underpin the subject, from fieldwork through to the construction of knowledge itself, this work offers an insight into and overview of Anthropology.

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Reveals what Anthropology is and what anthropologists do. This book explains the remains of traditional Anthropology. Describing the key ideas and methods which underpin the subject, from fieldwork through to the construction of knowledge itself, this work offers an insight into and overview of Anthropology.

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Points of view of scholars, lawyers, and representatives of international institutions on the conflict between the growth of the human race and the insufficient increase in the resources required to support mankind.

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This one-volume encyclopedia examines key topics, major world players, and imminent problems pertaining to the world's ever-growing population.

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This provocative critique of the youth sports movement examines the various issues surrounding children in sports and provides a plan for reform based on a change in philosophy and practice.