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Meeting at an African American college in North Carolina in 1959, a group of black and white Episcopalians organized the Episcopal Society for Cultural and ...

Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institution...

Cutting-edge thinkers on the origins of civilization, the Giza pyramids, pre-Columbian and early America, and the power of human consciousness • With co...

With Pulitzer Prize Winners Nicholas D. Kristof And Sheryl Wudunn As Our Guides, We Undertake An Odyssey Through Africa And Asia To Meet The Extraordinary W...

A Sharp, Funny, And Honest Collection Of Real-life Stories From Kelly Ripa, Showing The Many Dimensions And Crackling Wit Of The Beloved Daytime Talk Show H...

The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. "You are invited to anonymously con...

Examines Ethical Dilemmas Found Within The Field Of Medicine In Canada. The Author Includes Real-life Stories As Well As His Own Experiences As A Patient Wi...

A queer minister, politician and staunch activist for LGBTQ rights, Cheri DiNovo went from living on the streets as a teenager to performing the first leg...

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Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher’s salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in the mids...

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In Her Most Revealing And Powerful Book Yet, The Beloved Activist, Speaker, And Author Of The Bestselling Sensations Love Warrior And Carry On, Warrior Expl...

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A healing antidote to our divisive culture, full of evocative storytelling, spiritual wisdom, and nine essential daily practices--by the first female, Black...

To thousands of young people, emigration has been the golden bridge by which they have passed from an apparently hopeless childhood to lives of useful serv...

If you’ve ever cringed at the sight of your ten-year-old waltzing through the neighbor’s front door without an invitation, or struggled to teach your te...

based On Over A Decade Of Field Research, Righteous Dopefiend Is A Searing Portrait Of The Lives Of Homeless Injection Drug Users In San Francisco And An ...

End Those Power Struggles and Begin Connecting with Your Child Noted family educator Mary Sheedy Kurcinka struck a national chord with her bestselling Rai...

An Affecting Memoir From The Country's Youngest Sommelier, Tracing Her Path Through The Glamorous But Famously Toxic Restaurant World At Just Twenty-one, Th...

Powerful tools for spreading peace in your community Unfounded beliefs and hateful political and social divisions that can cascade into violence are thr...

Where Will Your Daughter Turn for Answers About Sex? Girls are bombarded with messages about sex–from friends, advertisers, media icons, and more. All of...

One Hot Summer Night In 1945, Three Young American Writers, Each An Enfant Terrible, Came Together In A Stuffy Manhattan Apartment For The First Time. Each ...

Euphoric will guide you on your journey to an alcohol-free lifestyle, putting the focus on happiness, well-being and self-love to create the life you want.\...

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It Happened This Way: I Fell In Love And Then, Because The Love Was Ruining Everything I Cared About, I Had To Fall Out. So Begins Drinking: A Love Story, J...

In This Definitive And Meticulously Researched Account Of The Jewish Experience In Canada, Award-winning And Critically Acclaimed Author Allan Levine Docume...

Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies is a text-reader that offers instructors a new way to approach an introductory course on women’s and gender studies....

after Six Multiplatinum Albums, Seven Consecutive Billboard Top 20 Albums, And Four Billboard Top Ten Singles, Mötley Crüe Are The Undisputed Heavyweight C...

The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s gr...

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V. 1. Issues And Strategies For Elementary Teachers -- V. 2. Issues And Strategies For Secondary Teachers. Roland Case, Penney Clark, Editors. Includes Bibl...

Covering everything from hate groups and extremist exploits to Black church arsons and the fall out violence from 9/11; this is an important collection th...

Rick Mercer Is Back—again!—with The Eagerly Awaited Sequel To His Bestselling Memoir At The End Of His Memoir Talking To Canadians, Rick Mercer Was Pois...

From one of the most trusted names in medical references comes an accessible, all-inclusive guide for older adults that shares what measures to take to opt...

Part I. Introduction / Gordon Bazemore And Mara Schiff 1 -- Part Ii. Foundations Of Restorative Community Justice 19 -- What And Why Now : Understanding Res...

An eloquent, dramatic story of an adolescent girl's first glimpse into the problems of prejudice and the redeeming power of friendshipsFOR THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD...

A story-based guide to the techniques of shamanic healing• Details indigenous medicine tools and soul healing techniques, including diagnosis and energy c...

For Anyone With An Interest In The Early History Of Islam, This Erudite Anthology Will Prove To Be Informative And Enlightening. Scholars Have Long Known Th...

This pioneering bestseller has become a rallying cry for a movement of radical self-love--the second edition shows readers how to grow the movement from sel...

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in gover...

Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of tele...

This book introduces the inter-disciplinary study of childhood and youth and the multi-agency practice of professionals who serve the needs of children, you...

I'm Scared And Scarred But I've Survived Tom Wilson Was Raised In The Rough-and-tumble World Of Hamilton--steeltown-- In The Company Of World War Ii Vets, F...

The sharp and surprising true story of a woman who finally sets out to understand her past, and the mother she had one day hoped to forget. Full of unexpect...

the Word Love Is Most Often Defined As A Noun, Yet...we Would All Love To Better If We Used It As A Verb, Writes Bell Hooks As She Comes Out Fighting And ...