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| Freedom Bound |
Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America. It is a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War.
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| Kirsteen |
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| Tacit and Explicit Knowledge |
Much of what humans know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we know how to ride a bike when we can't explain how we do it? Abilities like this were called 'tacit knowledge' by Michael Polanyi. This work anal
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| The State Library and Archives of Texas |
Looks at how the Texas state library has fulfilled its mission that encourages policymakers and the public to value the library and archival service of government and give it the support it needs to be even more effective in the digital future.
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| Democracy and the Limits of Self-government |
The book analyzes the sources of widespread dissatisfaction with democracies around the world and identifies directions for feasible reforms.
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| Learning Capitalist Culture |
Building on the author's thirty-six years of experience with North Town, Texas, this second edition presents an ethnographic study of the ways the town's youth learn traditional American values through participation in sports, membership in formal an
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| Toward a Rhetoric of Insult |
From high school cafeterias to the floor of Congress, from "The Daily Show" to every comments section on the internet, insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous cultural practice with a long and earthy history. This title deals with the subject of i
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| Dreamland |
What do you call a place where people are tortured, murdered and buried in the backyard of a nice, middle-class condo? Where are the meanings of words like 'crime' and 'justice' are emptying out into the streets and flowing down into the sewers? This
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| Seafarers' Voices, A Privateer's Voyage Round the World: No. 2 |
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| The Best Transportation System in the World |
This book focuses on the role of government in organizing the nation's transportation industries. As the authors show, over the course of the twentieth century transportation in the United States was as much a product of hard-fought politics, lobbyin
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| Toward a Rhetoric of Insult |
From high school cafeterias to the floor of Congress, from "The Daily Show" to every comments section on the internet, insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous cultural practice with a long and earthy history. This title deals with the subject of i
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| Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel |
The Latin American Literary Boom was marked by complex novels steeped in magical realism and questions of nationalism, often with themes of surreal violence. Subsequently, those revolutionary projects of the sixties and seventies have given way to a
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| Wild Sardinia |
Shared concern for nature can be a way of transcending national, ethnic, religious, and cultural boundaries, yet conservation efforts often pit the interests of historically rooted or indigenous people against the state and international environmenta
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| Austerity |
Third in the Stratton series: a tale of grotesque horror based on the true story of the two most sensational and controversial murder trials of the 1950s.
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| Laughing Saints and Righteous Heroes |
Why do people keep fighting for social causes in the face of consistent failure? Why do they risk their physical, emotional, and financial safety on behalf of strangers? How do these groups survive high turnover and emotional burnout? This title prov
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| A Gringa in Bogota |
To many foreigners, Colombia is a nightmare of drugs and violence. Yet normal life goes on there, and, in Bogota, it's even possible to forget that war still ravages the countryside. This book presents an account of the city of Bogota. It also covers
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| Wild Sardinia |
Shared concern for nature can be a way of transcending national, ethnic, religious, and cultural boundaries, yet conservation efforts often pit the interests of historically rooted or indigenous people against the state and international environmenta
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| Dodgy Football Fashion |
They might know how to look good on a pitch but superstar footballers haven't always known how to dress off it. Right?
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| Laughing Saints and Righteous Heroes |
Why do people keep fighting for social causes in the face of consistent failure? Why do they risk their physical, emotional, and financial safety on behalf of strangers? How do these groups survive high turnover and emotional burnout? This title prov
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| Escaping the Fire |
During the height of the Guatemalan civil war, the author, a Mayan evangelical pastor, led more than two hundred fellow Mayas out of guerrilla-controlled Ixil territory and into the relative safety of the government army's hands. This book relates th
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