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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.35
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Manufacturer: Joshua Odell Editions
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jos Antonio Burciaga
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Publisher: Joshua Odell Editions
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.86872073
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Publication Date: 1992-07-01
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Reading Level: 140
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $46.80
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Manufacturer: University Alabama Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Adair
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Publisher: University Alabama Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.25
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Publication Date: 2005-01-23
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Reading Level: 608
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Description: James Adair was an Englishman who lived and traded among the southeastern Indians for more than 30 years, from 1735 to 1768. During that time he covered the territory from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River. He encountered and lived among Indians, advised governors, spent time with settlers, and worked tirelessly for the expansion of British interests against the French and the Spanish. Adair's acceptance by the Creeks, Choctaws, Cherokees, and Chickasaws provided him the opportunity to record, compare, and analyze their cultures and traditions. Adair's written work, first published in England in 1775, is considered one of the finest histories of the Native Americans. His observations provide one of the earliest and what many modern scholars regard as the best account of southeastern Indian cultures. This edition adheres to current standards of documentary editing, following the original closely, and provides fully annotated and indexed critical apparatus.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.94
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Manufacturer: MoreMindful Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nashieqa Washington
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Publisher: MoreMindful Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 031
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Publication Date: 2006-07-01
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Reading Level: 87
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Description: This book is a clever approach to race relations wherein the author answers commonly asked questions about African-Americans in a non-judgmental and sometimes comical matter of fact tone.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $3.50
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Andrew Sullivan
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.766
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Publication Date: 1996-09-17
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: In a dizzyingly short period of time, homosexuality has gone from being the love that dare not speak its name to the one that shouts it. Refreshingly, in this wide-ranging discussion of the moral and political status of homosexuals, Sullivan, the gay former whizbang New Republic editor, prefers the middle register. On the one hand, he shuns the liberal tendency to give gays victim status but, on the other, advocates the legalization of gay marriage because he views it as the public recognition of a gay's basic human right to fully love another member of his/her group -- a right that, Sullivan notes, even bigots generally grant those they hate.
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Price: $34.98
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Sale: $20.10
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Manufacturer: Humanity Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Philip Carl Salzman
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Publisher: Humanity Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.60956
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Publication Date: 2008-02-27
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: In an era of increasing interaction between the United States and the countries of the Middle East, it has become ever more important for Americans to understand the social forces that shape Middle Eastern cultures. Based on years of his own field research and the ethnographic reports of other scholars, anthropologist Philip Carl Salzman presents an incisive analysis of Middle Eastern culture that goes a long way toward explaining the gulf between Western and Middle Eastern cultural perspectives Salzman focuses on two basic principles of tribal organization that have become central principles of Middle Eastern life--balanced opposition (each group of whatever size and scope is opposed by a group of equal size and scope) and affiliation solidarity (always support those closer against those more distant). On the positive side, these pervasive structural principles support a decentralized social and political system based upon individual independence, autonomy, liberty, equality, and responsibility. But on the negative side, Salzman notes a pattern of contingent partisan loyalties, which results in an inbred orientation favoring particularism: an attitude of my tribe against the other tribe, my ethnic group against the different ethnic group, my religious community against another religious community. For each affiliation, there is always an enemy. Salzman argues that the particularism of Middle Eastern culture precludes universalism, rule of law, and constitutionalism, which all involve the measuring of actions against general criteria, irrespective of the affiliation of the particular actors. The result of this relentless partisan framework of thought has been the apparently unending conflict, both internal and external, that characterizes the modern Middle East.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Future Horizons
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Eustacia Cutler
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Publisher: Future Horizons
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Dewey Decimal Number: 649.154
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Publication Date: 2004-12-15
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Reading Level: 228
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Description: The mother of the most famous person with autism today, Temple Grandin, Ph.D., tells the story of her death-lock struggle with medical authorities and her husband to keep her daughter from being warehoused in an institution, delving into myth and reality, angst and guilt, family and society ultimately defining the travails of all of humanity.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.98
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Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: asha bandele
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Publisher: Washington Square Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
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Publication Date: 2000-08-01
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: As a favor for a friend, a bright and talented young woman volunteered to read her poetry to a group of prisoners during a Black History Month program. It was an encounter that would alter her life forever, because it was there, in the prison, that she would meet Rashid, the man who was to become her friend, her confidant, her husband, her lover, her soul mate. At the time, Rashid was serving a sentence of twenty years to life for his part in a murder. The Prisoner's Wife is a testimony, for wives and mothers, friends and families. It's a tribute to anyone who has ever chosen, against the odds, to love.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $22.43
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jake Kosek
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7509789
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Publication Date: 2006
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Reading Level: 408
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Description: Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent struggles over forests in the southwestern United States. Rather than reproduce traditional understandings of nature and environment, Jake Kosek shifts the focus toward material and symbolic “natures,” seemingly unchangeable essences central to formations of race, class, and nation that are being remade not just through conflicts over resources but also through everyday practices by Chicano activists, white environmentalists, and state officials as well as nuclear scientists, heroin addicts, and health workers. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival research, he shows how these contentious natures are integral both to environmental politics and the formation of racialized citizens, politicized landscapes, and modern regimes of rule. Kosek traces the histories of forest extraction and labor exploitation in northern New Mexico, where Hispano residents have forged passionate attachments to place. He describes how their sentiments of dispossession emerged through land tenure systems and federal management programs that remade forest landscapes as exclusionary sites of national and racial purity. Fusing fine-grained ethnography with insights gleaned from cultural studies and science studies, Kosek shows how the nationally beloved Smokey the Bear became a symbol of white racist colonialism for many Hispanos in the region, while Los Alamos National Laboratory, at once revered and reviled, remade regional ecologies and economies. Understories offers an innovative vision of environmental politics, one that challenges scholars as well as activists to radically rework their understandings of relations between nature, justice, and identity.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $6.99
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Manufacturer: Bold Strokes Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jane Fletcher
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Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
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Publication Date: 2006-06-30
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Reading Level: 335
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $11.83
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Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Vennum
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796.34708997
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Publication Date: 2007-07-17
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Reading Level: 184
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Description: An ancient Native American sport, lacrosse was originally played to resolve conflicts, heal the sick, and develop strong, virile men. In Lacrosse Legends of the First Americans, Thomas Vennum draws on centuries of oral tradition to collect thirteen legends from five tribes -- the Cherokee, Ho-Chunk (Winnebago), Seneca, Ojibwa, and Menominee. Reflecting the game's origins and early history, these myths provide a glimpse into Native American life and the role of the "Creator's Game" in tribal culture. From the Great Game in which the Birds defeated the Quadrupeds to high-stakes contests after which the losers literally lost their heads, these stories reveal the fascinating spiritual world of the first lacrosse players as well as the violent reality of the original sport. Lacrosse enthusiasts will learn about game equipment, ritual preparations, dress, and style of play, from stick handling to scoring. They will discover how the "coach" -- a medicine man -- conjured potions to prevent game injuries or make the opponent's leg cramp as well as how early craftsmen identified the perfect tree -- marked by a lightning strike -- from which to carve a lacrosse stick. The game is no longer played by large numbers of men on mile-long fields, and plastic, titanium, and nylon have replaced hickory and ash, leather, and catgut. As lacrosse continues to evolve, this collection will help us remember and understand its rich and complex history.
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