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#1 I was trying to be humane, by creating a different awful situation, by telling my new husband to divorce me. I didn't want to ruin his life.
#2 The wedding is often the most important thing in a woman's life, eclipsing all of her accomplishments. And while we've made great strides in America to not be obsessed with weddings, we're still a society that loves them.
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L'objectif principal du livre L'Amérique du Nord : une histoire des identités et des solidarités est d'explorer l'histoire transnationale des trois partenaires nord-américains au cours des XIXe, XXe et XXIe siècles. Les réflexions proposées dans cet ouvrage permettent de voir que, si l'intégration s'avère fragile sur certains terrains, elle laisse entrevoir également des liens nord-américains beaucoup plus durables, ainsi que des contacts...
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What is it like to grow old? Only the elderly can tell you. John Doyle is 88.What is it like to live in an elderly retirement community. Only one who lives there can tell you. John Doyle does.These are questions of great interest to some 37 million people in the U.S. over 75 and many times that number of children and grandchildren. The latter may be stunned to learn what kind of life their beloved parents and grandparents are experiencing.These questions...
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El cóndor americano sobrevuela a gran altura la Cordillera de los Andes. Desde allí mira con calma el paisaje; casi sin mover las alas recorre esa geografía espectacular. En su observación domina la totalidad del conjunto. Solo cuando algo le interesa, apunta, desciende y apoya sus patas en la tierra.
De la misma manera, Identidad de la mujer Latinoamericana contempla el vasto paisaje femenino; sobrevolando la fisiología, la historia, las luchas...
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This book is a primer to inspire and inform those persons working to change America's political and social culture from its white supremacy conditioning posture by advancing America's ideals of a culture that truly attempts to build a land of equal opportunity and equal justice for all Americans.
These essays provide information to help both Black and White people to understand how they have been affected by America's White Superiority Syndrome...
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#1 I was always trying to prove my national and cultural origins. When I told the kids at my public school that my family was from Palestine, the response was always the same: Palestine. Where's that.
#2 If you are Black in America, you visibly belong to a particular group. You can claim your culture with pride, and no one questions you. But me, I was so ambiguous that...
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Este libro tiene como objetivo la reflexión teórica y metodológica sobre los imaginarios sociales. Esta obra es el resultado de tres propuestas de investigación autónomas e independientes, cuya articulación genera una lectura multidisciplinar sobre los diversos contextos de aplicación y análisis que se pueden encontrar en una sociedad como la colombiana, la cual se enfrenta a la coexistencia de diversos imaginarios sociales al momento de representar,...
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"Winner of the 2010 Theory Prize, American Sociological Association" John Levi Martin is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.
Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies associated...
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Este libro es una crónica del funesto capítulo que está escribiendo Europa sobre la inmigración y de cómo el intento de conseguir una vida mejor por parte de los subsaharianos se ha convertido en el último holocausto europeo. En los últimos años más de 16.000 personas han muerto en el Mediterráneo cuando intentaban alcanzar Europa. El libro analiza los motivos que hacen que los inmigrantes se embarquen en un viaje de futuro incierto y por...
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Foreclosures are hitting record highs; Americans are declaring bankruptcy at rates ten times that during the great Depression; more college students drop out because of debts than due to poor grades; reports of debtor suicides proliferate in the media. In other words, it's a great time to be in the banking business.
Maxed Out takes us on a road trip that is sometimes hysterical and often horrifying: from Las Vegas to the Bible Belt, from the backwoods...
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Amitai Etzioni is University Professor at The George Washington University. A past President of the American Sociological Association, he is the author of nineteen books, including The Moral Dimension (The Free Press), The Limits of Privacy (Basic Books), and The New Golden Rule (Basic Books), which won the Simon Wiesenthal Center's 1997 Tolerance Book Award. He was recently awarded the Sociological Practice Association's Outstanding Contribution...
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There are moments when the normal flow of time catches, hesitates, and shifts direction.
2020 was one of these moments.
Now, at this critical juncture, a new generation is coming of age and demanding a reckoning: Generation Z. Three billion strong, they're at the center of the most pivotal issues of our time, from reimagining how we live on our changing planet to enacting a new mandate for racial equity. The following decade will bring unparalleled...
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#1 Raisuddin worked at a mini-mart in Dallas, selling Americans three tamales for a dollar. The economy around the store was desolate, and it wasn't the economy of the legendary firms where third-world boys like him fantasized about working.
#2 Raisuddin grew up with America on his television screen, and thought of the place as a land of opportunity. But when he first...
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Los textos reunidos en este volumen fueron escritos originalmente para la primera edición del Coloquio El cuerpo femenino y sus narrativas, conformado por mesas de diálogo y una conferencia magistral. Las cinco ponencias seleccionadas corresponden a Nuria Gómez Benet, Mónica Lavín, Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Rosa Beltrán y Sara Sefchovich. El material fue adaptado por sus autoras para este volumen con el propósito de potenciar la fuerza natural...
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#1 In October 1978, I was an Intelligence Unit detective for the Colorado Springs Police Department. I was assigned to scan the two daily newspapers for any reports of information concerning any hint of subversive activity that might impact the safety and well-being of Colorado Springs.
#2 I answered an ad placed by the KKK, and two weeks later I spoke to Ken O'Dell,...
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#1 The Nazis were not simple nationalists, and their nationalist propaganda was directed toward their fellow-travelers and not their convinced members. The Nazis had a genuine and never revoiced contempt for the narrowness of nationalism, the provincialism of the nation-state, and they repeated time and again that their movement was more important than any state.
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Este es un extenso estudio sobre las diversas juventudes que habitan y transitan amplios conglomerados urbanos y rurales, dividido en dos volúmenes: el primero se concentra en una muestra de las y los jóvenes de la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México (ZMVM); el segundo, abarca a otra muestra de jóvenes, mujeres y hombres que serían afectados por la construcción de un megaproyecto, a saber, el Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de México (NAIM)....
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If you want to know why our nation's leaders have failed to solve America's crime problem, these essays expose a number of areas where either not enough thought is being given, or the thinking is just wrong. While crime dominates America's media and political scene, there is very little intelligent insight on the topic coming from those who would know most about it, criminals. These essays change that. The essays begin by addressing crime as part...
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Social organism (MEMES) surround us - Families, corporations, religions, nations. One of the specific tasks of our memes is to captivate each of us into surrendering to our role in the Meme thus abandoning our own soulful self. This is why as you read news accounts of a happening you respond "How could he do such a thing?" in the past our answer was "The devil made me," or "God did it." BUT it's not so, the Meme demanded it and we respond - ITS MEME...
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This book urges respect for solitary dissent rather than censure. It equips a wide audience to understand what previously seemed unimaginable, much less comprehensible. It shows the reader how to reach beyond those first conclusions and into the heart of the matter.
The lone voice explains that something has been hidden away, something which the individual now dissenting can no longer acquiesce in. It raises the possibility that more may be seriously...
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