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Compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. This book identifies similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements.

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Provides a view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. This title demonstrates that kinship and gender identities in Greece are not unitary and fixed: kinship is organized in several highly specific forms, and gender identities are plural.

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This exploration of 15 different controversial issues within the medical profession challenges students to use critical thinking skills to draw their own conclusions. Topics covered include the medical use of marijuana, organ donations, animal testing and end-of-life issues.

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There are no recipes for what the Indians ate in Colonial times, but this cookbook uses period quotations to detail what and how the foodstuffs were prepared.

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Offers recipes to complement the most-studied historical periods. This book includes an introduction to the period and then an overview of the type of foodstuffs, cuisine, and style of eating. Organized by course, typical meal, or food group, each recipe is introduced and placed in its proper social context; some, merely for historical interest.

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Lynda Ann Ewen offers the first thoroughgoing Marxist-Leninist analysis, based on primary research, of the structure and dynamics of class relations and corporate power in a major U.S. metropolitan area. She contends that Detroit's urban crisis is not a temporary aberration in a good system run amuck, but the logical result of years of social plann

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"Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven;"

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Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French national decline. Originally published in 1984. The Pri

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A thoroughly revised edition, providing full coverage of online sources, the techniques of electronic searching, and using the Internet, as well as traditional resources.

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This is the first study to make a detail case for the Frankfurt Schools relevance to understanding contemporary populism. It reconstructs their analysis of modern demagogy and demonstrates its advantages over orthodox populism studies and the work of Laclau. The book also extends the Institutes analysis to assess counter-demagogic forces.

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This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume analyzes how cinema can help critical theory repoliticize culture and society.

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This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume analyzes how cinema can help critical theory repoliticize culture and society. >

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This book explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and the disabled people's Independent Living movement. The book helps strengthen critiques of the state, the market, and the family by grounding them in the struggles of disabled people for self-determination.

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Axel Honneths critical theory of recognition has failed the Frankfurt School. A new social-theoretical foundation is urgently needed. As this book argues, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm are crucial allies in this task.

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He assesses their contribution to key areas of contemporary debate, including morality, interest, individual and collective identity and the analysis of authoritarian and democratic states.

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Despite the increased number of interracial marriages in recent years, Black/White couples still experience a host of problems in American society, particularly in the South.

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Despite the increased number of interracial marriages in recent years. Black/White couples still experience problems in American society, particularly in the South. This ethnographic study describes the issues and obstacles these couples have to face and documents their sense of social isolation.