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Beyond the Enlightenment makes accessible important ideas that helped shape twentieth-century thought. These ideas still have a great deal of significance today and affect all people interested in the social world. The book is a mixture of biographical and historical ideas, written to introduce social theory to a broad audience.

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Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture. This work seeks to understand mania's appeal and how it weighs on the lives of Americans diagnosed with manic depression. It takes us into the fascinating and sometimes disturbing worlds of mental-health support groups, mood charts, psychiatric rounds and psychotropic drugs.

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Focuses on the importance of women's childbirth care choices and on the effects of such choices on their pregnancy and birth experiences.

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This book analyses the world of selective reproduction interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproductive violence, and repro-genetic technologies.

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This book analyses the world of selective reproduction interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproductive violence, and repro-genetic technologies.

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Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. This title considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles.

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Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. This title considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles.

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This work departs from other important sociological studies of voluntary associations in its use of occupation, rather than status and social class, as the clue to the nature of work conditions that directly affect participation in community voluntary associations.

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An excellent resource on the changing population distribution of antebellum Black Americans, this book covers census data by region and state. The book opens with a discussion of the limitations of the census data, then goes on to provide an overview of the progress of manumission, abolition, and restrictions on black migration.

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An in-depth analysis of contemporary anarchist movements, focusing upon who anarchists are, and where they may be found. -- .

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An in-depth analysis of contemporary anarchist movements, focusing upon who anarchists are, and where they may be found. -- .

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This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle class cultural consumption, incorporating insights from critical race theory and cultural sociology. -- .

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"Black Rebellion, a fascinating account of five slave insurrections, among them the story of the Maroons, escaped slaves in the West Indies and South America who successfully resisted larger British a"

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Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century Britain.

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Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century Britain.

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Explores how women who give birth at home use religion to make sense of their births. This book investigates why women whose religious affiliations range from Old Order Amish to Reform Judaism defy the medical establishment, and sometimes the law to have their babies at home. It challenges both feminist and traditionalist accounts of childbearing.

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Beginning with the myth of origin that joins every young Zaramo woman to her origins as she is initiated into the secrets of life and womanhood, the book then provides us with an historical account of the Tanzanian coast around Dar es Salaam as a background to the persistence of the cultural institutions to which the reader is introduced.

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A sweeping cultural history of American Modernism in the 1920s, viewed through the prismatic lens of jazz

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By drawing on geologys approaches to studying porosity, the book takes an innovative approach arguing that similarly to rocks and minerals that only appear solid and impermeable, seemingly impenetrable borders are inevitably traversed by different forms of passage.

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