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"Based on interviews with family members, colleagues, lovers, and the previously silent William Burroughs, this unsparing yet evenhanded biography guides the reader through the many personas, crises, a"

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A guide for adolescent girls by a father and the author of 'Beer Blast' shares straightforward advice on how to navigate the dating scene, manage bullies, resist peer pressure, build on one's faith, form healthy friendships, and develop greater self-awareness.

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"This book demonstrates how, since the 1920s, fantasies and practices of seeing the 'brain at work' were and still are fundamentally impacted by the rise of new media technologies"--

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An account of American colonial settlement of English female felons in Virginia and Maryland and French female convicts in Louisiana.

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Britain today is falling apart, with Brexit's break from the European Union, looming Scottish independence, deepening inequalities and reinvigorated racism. How has it come to this Britain in fragments traces how the historic pillars of democracy have begun to crumble, from their apex in the post-war welfare state to the present day.

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This book delves into an in-depth discussion around dress and languages and how they have shaped the changes in the British Bangladeshi Muslim community in the East End of London.

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Developed specifically as a professional guide and reference, this unique handbook demystifies demographic analysis for the business person and shows how its principles may be profitably applied in any type of corporate or institutional setting.

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Providing an introduction to campus legends, this book explores rumors, pranks, rituals, and other related folklore types. It begins with an overview of college and university folklore. It presents some 50 examples of college and university legends, including ghost stories, urban legends, drinking tales, murders and suicides, and others.

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Tells the story of four communities, each irrevocably transformed by the opening of an industrial plant. From the company's first factory in Camden, New Jersey, RCA continued to search for desirable sources of labour, relocating to areas where cheap, pliable workers were available.

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The 25th anniversary edition of a sociology classic-a groundbreaking look at the history of advertising and consumer culture as defining forces in American life

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This text provides instruction on doing a case study. It includes information on defining a case, discussion of why case studies are carried out, direction on collecting evidence, constructing a case narrative and writing up the case study.

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Plantation membership, an important association that continues to carry meaning in today's African-American communities on the Sea Islands, depends on one's residence between the ages of two and 12.

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This volume celebrates the cultural diversity of the United States as it is articulated through ritual performance.

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This book presents the results of the first major study to examine people's attitudes to family formation and childbearing in Ireland. Based on a nationwide representative sample of 1,404 men and women in the childbearing age group, the study was carried out against a backdrop of changing gender role attitudes and behaviour as well as significant demographic change.

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Using the scanty information available from all manner of sources and comparing it with contemporary accounts of life in the Yemen today, Michael Weingarten relates the changes in the physical and psychological health of the Yemenite Jews to the various components of their new environment.

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Drawing on the author's own experience as "the other woman" in an affair with am otherwise-committed man, this contemporary feminist study is the first to label the role of the two-timing male as "sexual terrorist."

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The Cherokees, the most important tribe in the formative years of the American Republic, became the test case for the Founding Fathers' determination to Christianize and 'civilize' all Indians and to incorporate them into the republic as full citizens. This title tells the dramatic success story of the renascence of the tribe.