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The medieval legend of the Grail, a tale about the search for supreme mystical experience, has never ceased to intrigue writers and scholars by its wildly v...

From the award-winning author and Globe columnist Doug Saunders, a short, powerfully argued, debunking of the myth of the Muslim tide, which is being deploy...

As Knowledge Of Exotic Languages Became Important For Colonial Power, Linguistic Scholarship Became A Crucial Contributing Element To Colonial Regimes. Ling...

the Central Focus Of This Book Is The Decline Of Traditional Western Culture And Its Transcendent View Of Man In The Face Of Relentless Attacks By The Force...

Exploring power and participation in a connected world.Social media are all around us. For many, they are the first things to look at upon waking and the la...

How To Become A Great Leader People Are Yearning To Make An Impact And Create Much Needed Change. Building A Business, Starting A Movement, Generating A New...

Collection Of Essays By ... Experts On What The New Global Elite Needs To Know About Modern India-- Reimagining -- Politics & Policy -- Business & T...

An illustrated celebration of romance details celebrity instances of love at first sight with anecdotes from such happy couples as Carly Simon and Jim Hart,...

Carolyne Larrington has gathered together a uniquely comprehensive collection of writing by, for and about medieval women, spanning one thousand years and ...

Includes Information On Adverse Affects, Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis Treatments, Buddhism, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease & Health, Cognitive ...

This meticulous study examines the rhetorical foundation that motivated Deaf people to work for social change during the past two centuries. In clear, conci...

'being Alive Well': Health And The Politics Of Cree Well-being Is A Critical Medical Anthropological Analysis Of Health Theory In The Social Sciences With S...

A survey of the past 300 years of theorizing on myth, this book takes into account the work of such prominent thinkers as Albert Camus, Claude Lévi-Strau...

Introducing a clear path toward event excellence A comprehensive guide to essential competencies for event coordinators, Professional Event Coordination e...

Peter Laslett. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 204-209.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesGerontology

Here, for the first time, the world's two leading authorities—Tom Regan, who argues for animal rights, and Carl Cohen, who argues against them—make their ...

For the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. They are bag...

Canada Security Intelligence Service Was Set In The Early 90's Was Supposed To Squeaky- Clean After The Excess Of The Rcmp. One Reporter Delivers Stories Th...

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Asking Provocative And Profound Questions About Human Motivation And Contemporary Living And Reaching Some Astonishing Conclusions, 'freakonomics' Will Make...

In October 2004 Amnesty International Released A Report Titled Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response To The Discrimination And Violence Against Indigenous...

We are all fascinated by lives led outside mainstream society. Photographer Carl Hiebert spent seven years documenting the Mennonite way of life for this ...

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'the Politics Of Food' Raises Provocative Questions About How We Relate To Food In The 21st Century. Through Ethnographic Case Studies It Reveals How Food H...

For more than three years, British psychologist David Chantry followed the daily activity on the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) Listserve, recogniz...

A chilling true story of deception and survival set amidst the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic. In 1922 the Irish-American explorer Robert Flaher...

The Future of Aging book presents answers and opportunities to rich and provocative questions related to aging. Each of the books 5 chapters highlights a ke...

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Highly acclaimed when the first edition appeared in 1989, "Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens" is the first comprehensive account of Indian-white relations throu...

The arguments in this book are informed at once by the moral-political implications of how knowledge is produced and circulated and by issues of gendered ...

Legacy And Promise For Social Justice Funding : Charitable Foundations And Progressive Social Movements, Past And Present / Susan A. Ostrander -- Liberal Fo...

Why Bureaucracy? -- Managerial Ideologies And The Origins Of The Human Relations Movement? -- The Human Relations Model -- The Neo-weberian Model: Decision ...

Based, In Part, On Dr. Brian Goldman's Personal Search Around The World, From Canada To Brazil, India To Japan, To Rediscover And Rekindle His Own Capacity ...

commercial Breaks, Radio Spots, Product Placements, Billboards, Pop-up Ads—we Sometimes Take For Granted How Much Advertising Surrounds Us In Our Daily Li...

Preface -- The Good Red Road -- Anodynes And Amulets -- Keep The Drum Playing -- Recovery And Transformation -- From The Inside: Looking At You -- Physical ...

Integrating theory with real-world practice, THE HUMAN SERVICES INTERNSHIP: GETTING THE MOST FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE, 3e helps students make meaningful connect...

Key Terms in Language and Culture is a new collection of 75 short original essays written by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology and related fields...

This unique volume of 27 readings includes works by leading Canadian and international scholars.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

The Eighth Edition of CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ACTION places you in the center of the action and helps you learn about criminal justice. You'll explore vivid rea...

In vivid detail he describes his years of intermittent schooling, his entry into life in the fishing industry at the age of ten, his marriage, at thirteen, ...

Police services across the country have undertaken major organizational reforms, significantly altering the structure and delivery of policing services. As ...

Details what ordinary life was like during the extraordinary years of the reign of Soviet Union. Thirty-six illustrations, thematic chapters, a glossary, ti...

Investigating The Causes And Consequences Of Ethnic Conflict, The Authors Argue That The Most Effective Responses Are Those That Take Into Account Factors A...

Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn't make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with...

this Book Explores A Widely Lived Yet Little Remembered Facet Of America's Cultural And Political History: The Cold War As Experienced At The Grassroots L...

The Author Scales The Mountain Of Names, The Great Pyramid Of Ancestry And Relationship That Unites All Human Beings. Part I: A History Of The Human Family:...

During his first year at Howard University, Claude Brown wrote an article for the magazine Dissent about growing up in Harlem. The piece attracted the atte...

In his new book G. William Domhoff provides the most thorough critique to date of state autonomy theory as it has been applied to the American federal gover...