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In this book, Carolyn K. Lesorogol examines community-based wildlife conservation in Kenya and its complex effects on local communities. Lesorogol argues that this approach to conservation creates new land use institutions, brings both benefits and costs to conservancy members, and at times heightens social conflict.

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This work argues that Africology represents an oasis of innovation in progressive venues. It brings together some of the most discussed theorists and intellectuals in the field of Africology and offers new interpretations and analysis while challenging the predominant frameworks in philosophy, social justice, literature, and history.

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In this text, scholars of the Argentine Academia and others address the contemporary issues facing the native peoples of Pampa, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego as they struggle to maintain a sense of cultural difference.

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Argues that the most elementary form of religious life in many Western societies and other societies around the world, is situational, mundane and concerned with helping people to cope with their day to day lives.

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This book highlights the significance and consequences of globalization in the sociopolitical and religious experience with African worldviews, both nationally and throughout its diaspora. Through a multi- and interdisciplinary discourse, the diversity of opinions captures the complexity and plurality of global dynamics on African globalization.

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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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Cosmopolitan Love and Individuality outlines the quest for an ethic of social recognition and inclusion based on shared humanity rather than membership of fictional social, and cultural groupings such as religions and ethnicities. The book proposes love as the glue for social inclusion, where love is the emotional recognition of others.

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Explains how Americans' cultural forgetfulness is eating away at America's soul.

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The latest edition of a major literature guide provides citations and informative annotations on a wide range of reference sources, including manuals, bibliographies, indexes, databases, literature surveys and reviews, dissertations, book reviews, conference proceedings, awards, and employment and grant sources.

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Clementine K. Fujimura and Simone Nommensen discuss the ethical treatment of animals and provide an overview of current and past uses of animals to enhance human well-being in Germany, the United States, Japan, and Russia.

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Clementine K. Fujimura and Simone Nommensen discuss the ethical treatment of animals and provide an overview of current and past uses of animals to enhance human well-being in Germany, the United States, Japan, and Russia.

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A text aimed at the general reader who is interested in agriculture, which offers a historical overview of the two major periods of agriculture, the neolithic revolution and the neoclaric revolution.

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In the chapter on Religion and Religious Thought, the predominant Islamic religion is largely intertwined with political events that have brought Afghanistan such attention.

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In each topical chapter, examples from ethnic groups are presented to give some sense of the variety of experiences.

Cameroon has had a turbulent and eventful modern history with German, English, and French incursions, and students and general readers will be able to understand the current struggle for democracy post independence.

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The volume is further enhanced by a chronology, guide to pronunciation, glossary, suggested readings, numerous photos, and volume map.

China is ever-important on the global stage as the world's second-largest and most populous country.

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Examines Chinese religious rituals, literature, performing arts, fine arts, food, clothing, architecture, housing, family life, holidays, festivals, and social customs.

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An insider's portrait of diverse nations in Latin America.

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Culture and Customs of Ecuador celebrates the extraordinary cultural, geographic, and ethnic diversity that has made this small country one of Latin America's most unique.

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Culture and Customs of Ecuador celebrates the extraordinary cultural, geographic, and ethnic diversity that has made this small country one of Latin America's most unique.

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El Salvador, the smallest Hispanic country in the Western Hemisphere, has had a lion's share of international attention with its civil war of the 1980s.

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El Salvador, the smallest Hispanic country in the Western Hemisphere, has had a lion's share of international attention with its civil war of the 1980s.

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The decades of independence in Ghana have strengthened the idea of a national Ghanaian culture.