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    The Majority in the Minority

    "As a volume destined to be employed by researchers, practitioners and policy makers, "The Majority in the Minority" appears at the right time in our nation's demographic history.
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  • How Minority Students Experience College
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    How Minority Students Experience College

    Through a unique qualitative study involving seven colleges and universities considered national models of commitment to diversity, this book presents the views and voices of minority students on...
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  • Hi There, Boys and Girls! Hi There, Boys and Girls!
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    Hi There, Boys and Girls!

    Whatever happened to Bozo the Clown, to Aunt Norma, to Solomon C. Whiskers, those television celebrities who hammed it up between cartoons and contests during local kids' shows? In Hi There, Boys...
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  • Kent State Murder Day - May 4, 1970 Kent State Murder Day - May 4, 1970
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    Kent State Murder Day - May 4, 1970

    On May 4, 1970 the Ohio National Guard fired bullets into college students in a non-violent demonstration at Kent State University.  They were protesting the Vietnam War and Cambodia Campaign of...
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    Loose Cannons

    From princesses to prostitutes to movie stars and supermodels, plus a few radicals and racecar drivers, Loose Cannons showcases hundreds of female moversandshakers, including Oprah Winfrey, Maria...
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    Latinas in the Workplace

    Latinas in the Workplace highlights the stories of eight exceptional women. It is the third book in the Journeys to Leadership series that features stories about extraordinary women who have found...
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    Evaluating Sustainable Development

    This book presents the principles and the tools for participatory evaluation of sustainable development--growth that does not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their needs. It is...
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  • The Great Immigration The Great Immigration
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    The Great Immigration

    More than 750,000 Russian Jews arrived in Israel between 1988 and 1996. However, this Great Immigration, as it has been called, has gone largely unnoticed in Israeli public life. Information about...
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  • Partners in Production? Partners in Production?
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    Partners in Production?

    In Ireland, family farming retains enormous ideological and cultural significance. As a social form it is one of the last preserves of male dominance in which women's contributions and concerns are...
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  • Towards Emancipation Towards Emancipation
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    Towards Emancipation

    No doubt, the feminist movement has come a long way, even though many of its aims have not been realized or, in fact, are still debated by its supporters and critics. It is sobering andinstructive to...
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  • Identity, Gender and Poverty Identity, Gender and Poverty
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    Identity, Gender and Poverty

    Most studies of the so-called tribal communities in India stress their social, economic, and political differences from communities that are organized on the basis of caste. It was this apparent...
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  • Women and Russian Culture Women and Russian Culture
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    Women and Russian Culture

    The image of women in Russian culture has undergone profound changes: from the origins of modern Russian literature in the eighteenth century until the Revolution of 1917, when women were a source of...
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  • Vladimir Odoevsky and Romantic Poetics Vladimir Odoevsky and Romantic Poetics
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    Vladimir Odoevsky and Romantic Poetics

    Vladimir Odoevsky (1804-1869) was a fascinating and encyclopedic figurein nineteenth-century Russian culture, who in his day was mentioned in the same breath as Pushkin and Gogol. Thinker, pedagogue,...
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  • Between Utopia and Disillusionment Between Utopia and Disillusionment
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    Between Utopia and Disillusionment

    Scholarly interpretations of the collapse of communism and developments thereafter have tended to be primarily concerned with people's need to rid themselves of the communist system, of their past...
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  • A Sentimental Economy A Sentimental Economy
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    A Sentimental Economy

    On the fringe of western Europe, yet fully integrated into the capitalist market, the rural economy of the west of Ireland seems to provide a fascinating object of analysis to the student of European...
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  • Women in Contemporary Russia Women in Contemporary Russia
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    Women in Contemporary Russia

    The position of Russia has always been difficult. In spite of the Revolution in 1917, the legal, economic, social and political inequalities between men and women have remained severe. For more than...
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  • Simulated Dreams Simulated Dreams
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    Simulated Dreams

    At the core of the author's concern stands the question of cultural transmutation in an era riddled with media channels and all-embracing messages. Fragments of the Israeli experience are pieced...
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  • Placing London Placing London
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    Placing London

    London continues to fascinate a vast audience across the world, and an extensive, diverse literature now exists describing and analyzing this metropolis. The central question - what is London? - has...
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  • An Earth-colored Sea An Earth-colored Sea
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    An Earth-colored Sea

    Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power - Portugal - has not been given any attention. This book is the first to...
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  • Symbiosis and Ambivalence Symbiosis and Ambivalence
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    Symbiosis and Ambivalence

    In Poland and elsewhere there has been a noticeable increase of interest in various aspects of the Polish-Jewish past which can be explained, the author argues, in terms of a broader intellectual...
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  • Keys to the 21st Century Keys to the 21st Century
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    Keys to the 21st Century

    Are we prepared for the 21st century? There is room for doubt. The future seems increasingly uncertain, hard to decipher, ambiguous in its very indeterminism, sometime frankly illegible. If it is...
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  • Echoes of Narcissus Echoes of Narcissus
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    Echoes of Narcissus

    In Greek mythology the beautiful Narcissus glimpsed his own reflection in the waters of a spring and fell in love. But his was an impossible passion and, filled with despair, he pined away. Over the...
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  • Women, Power, and the Academy Women, Power, and the Academy
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    Women, Power, and the Academy

    Many nations affirm the principle of gender equality. As women continue to advance in most walks of life, the impression that equality has been reached and that gender issues no longer pose real...
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  • The Politics of Cultural Performance The Politics of Cultural Performance
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    The Politics of Cultural Performance

    The line between what is regarded by people as "traditional" and "modern" is constantly being altered by new configurations of power. These essays examine the ways in which such changes are both...
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  • German Minorities in Europe German Minorities in Europe
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    German Minorities in Europe

    The study of ethnic minorities and their role in the domestic politics of their host states has long attracted scholars from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. By...
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  • Power Shift in Germany Power Shift in Germany
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    Power Shift in Germany

    Germany's landmark 1998 election saw for the first time in the Republic's fifty-year historyan incumbent Chancellor and his entire government replaced. In this collection fourteen distinguished...
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  • Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany
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    Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany

    This book focuses on the popular fiction of Weimar Germany and explores the relationship between women, the texts they read, and the society in which they lived. A complex picture emerges that shows...
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  • Migrants, Refugees, and Foreign Policy Migrants, Refugees, and Foreign Policy
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    Migrants, Refugees, and Foreign Policy

    Foreign policies have always played an important role in the movements of migrants. A number of essays in this volume show how the foreign policies of the United States and Germany have directly or...
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  • Different Restorations Different Restorations
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    Different Restorations

    This book responds to the frequently heard call for more comparative history .It does so by focusing on the problem of reconstruction in the national experience of the United States and Germany...
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  • Communities of Faith Communities of Faith
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    Communities of Faith

    Most studies of modern religious change have viewed it as a process of secularization in which the advance of science and technology discredits religious beliefs and destroys religious institutions...
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  • The Many Faces of Germany The Many Faces of Germany
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    The Many Faces of Germany

    With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the shifting of American foreign policy away from "old" Europe, long-established patterns of interaction between Germany and the U.S. have come under review...
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  • Jewish Explorations of Sexuality Jewish Explorations of Sexuality
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    Jewish Explorations of Sexuality

    Every religious community has been affected by the "sexual revolution". The conflict between contemporary attitudes and traditional practices has led to major divisions and controversies,...
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  • Europe After Maastricht Europe After Maastricht
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    Europe After Maastricht

    During the era following the Second World War world peace was largely assured through American-European cooperation on the political, military, and economic level. This status quo was upset by the...
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  • History and Modernity in Latin America History and Modernity in Latin America
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    History and Modernity in Latin America

    Why is it that Japan, with few natural resources, has become one of the world's leading economies but not Latin America, which is so rich in natural resources? This anthropological essay questions...
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  • Martin & Malcolm & America Martin & Malcolm & America
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    Martin & Malcolm & America

    This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Luther King, Jr., saw America as essentially a dream . . . as...
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  • Models and Mirrors Models and Mirrors
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    Models and Mirrors

    Ritual is one of the most discussed cultural practices, yet its treatment in anthropological terms has been seriously limited, characterized by a host of narrow conceptual distinctions. One major...
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  • Women in Russian History Women in Russian History
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    Women in Russian History

    A survey of the history of women in Russia, this book is the result of the collaboration of leading Russian and American specialists on Russian women's history. It is divided into four chronological...
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  • Interest Group Politics in America Interest Group Politics in America
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    Interest Group Politics in America

    Interest-group lobbying is a controversial activity in American politics and this book provides a study of group power. This edition includes expanded coverage of the changing dynamics of power...
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  • Do Elections Matter? Do Elections Matter?
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    Do Elections Matter?

    This text provides an analysis of the variety of consequences that elections may have for the operation of American political institutions and the formulation and administration of policy.
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  • Health Care of the Aged Health Care of the Aged
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    Health Care of the Aged

    Focusing on the need for developing new service delivery models for the aged, Health Care of the Aged examines fiscal, political, and social criteria influencing this challenge of the 1990s. From...
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