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Building Relationships uses an apparatus approach to media analysis in order to determine whether the synchronic logic of online dating is compatible with the historically diachronic logic of marriage.

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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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This edited volume explores the interconnections between care work, travel, and healthcare, placing an emphasis on the emotional dimensions of seeking care away from home.

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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 invites readers on a journey through time, to explore the multifaceted history of Central Asia. Through transcontinental passages such as the Silk Road, the book provides links among the major civilizations of China, India, Persia, and the Mediterranean, which in turn influences the characteristics of the region and beyond.

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This book documents the prehistoric and ancient cultural accomplishments influencing the Golden Ages of Inner Eurasia in the medieval era.

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With fifty percent new material, the second edition of Central Asian Cultures, Arts, and Architecture explores the prehistoric and ancient cultural accomplishments that influenced the Golden Age of inner Eurasia during the medieval era.

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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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This book reconstructs the revolutionary Bolivarian ideology in Chavez's movement through a historical analysis of its ideological principles and revolutionary scholastic institutions. Differing from many journalistic publications about Chavez, this book uncovers the deep social dynamics of Venezuelan politics using a strict empirical analysis.

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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.

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This book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty in ethnic studies, multicultural studies, Hispanic Studies, Sociology, and Women's Studies.

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Consult this handy reference work when you need accurate, up to date information on subjects ranging from the effects of work on children's education to the use of child labor in Eastern Europe.

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This book examines the experiences of orphaned child survivors of Guatemalas 36-year internal armed conflict and genocide who were raised in an in-country permanent residential home. Now adults, they have faced long-term consequences but also have become resilient, well-adapted adults with a strong sense of identity and belonging.