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Examines Chinese American funerary rituals and cemeteries from the late nineteenth century in order to understand the importance of Chinese funerary rites and their transformation through time. This volume discusses the meaning of funerary rituals and their normative dimension and the social practices that have been influenced by tradition.

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How networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society.

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I tremble to say theres good in death, because Ive looked in the eyes of the grieving mother and Ive seen the heartbreak of the stricken widow, but Ive also seen something more in death, something good.

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Surveys the major Obama players - from the president's affiliation with radical theology to his advisers' history of Marxist activism, repression of the media, support for leftist dictators, and worse. This title exposes their resulting campaign to dismantle the American free-market system and forfeit our national sovereignty.

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Since the U.S. Constitution first instructed that a slave be counted as only three-fifths of a person, the census has been caught up in America's racial dilemmas.

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This publicationis an essential single-volume source for Census 2020 information. This easy-to-read edition provides the most up-to-date census data for each state, county, metropolitan area, congressional district, and all cities with a population of 25,000 or more. It complements the popular and trusted annual edition of County and City Extra.

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This book explores the common characteristics of the communal celebrations displayed by cultures from all parts of the world and throughout history.

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Democratizing finance is the means by which we can democratize our economy

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Recent approaches to economic demography, investigating the effect of the transition to low mortality and low fertility on economic development.

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A comprehensive, introductory text that emphasizes the major techniques, methods, and data sources of contemporary population studies. Written by a sociologist and a demographer, the book's principal aim is to improve students' skills primarily as consumers and secondarily as producers of demographic information.

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Race is once again a contentious topic in America, as shown by the divisive rise of Donald Trump and the activism of groups like Black Lives Matter. Yet Diversity Explosion argues that the current period of profound racial change will lead to a less-divided America than today's older whites or younger minorities fear.

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An obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.

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Emerging from Turbulence tells the stories of Boeing workers whose lives underwent dramatic shifts as a result of recent changes in the American economy. Workers' own words show the shifting landscape of the American workplace as pension funds evaporate, corporations buy each other out, and companies like Boeing stop seeing themselves as a family.

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Emerging from Turbulence tells the stories of Boeing workers whose lives underwent dramatic shifts as a result of recent changes in the American economy. Workers' own words show the shifting landscape of the American workplace as pension funds evaporate, corporations buy each other out, and companies like Boeing stop seeing themselves as a family.

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Hair we all have it, but have you ever really thought about it

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"Explores the making of regulatory objects as a political and economic operation as relates to the European Union and especially the impacts following Brexit"--

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Bestselling author Julia Serano offers a transformational approach to fighting sexism

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The sixth edition of Fair and Foul features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction, and a chapter on big-time college sport. The book explores our love of sport as well as its darker side, with new material throughout on topics such as injuries in youth sports, fantasy sports, homophobia, and more.

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Based on a major three-year research project, this book makes clear how planners have frequently failed to understand real human needs. It also provides a portrait of the resilience and generosity of spirit which went at least some way to compensate for the deprivations of inner-city working-class life.