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The Anthropological Lens: Harsh Light, Soft Focusby James L. PeacockISBN 0521004594 (0-521-00459-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching: A Description and Analysisby Jack C. Richards, Theodore S. RodgersISBN 0521008433 (0-521-00843-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching: A Description and Analysis'Book summary:This new edition surveys the major approaches and methods in language teaching. This new edition is an extensive revision of the first edition of this successful text. Like the first edition, it surveys the major approaches and methods in language teaching, such as grammar translation, audiolingualism, communicative language teaching, and the natural approach. This edition includes new chapters on topics such as whole language, multiple intelligences, neurolinguistic programming, competency-based language teaching, cooperative language learning, content-based instruction, task-based language teaching, and the Post-Methods Era. Teachers and teachers-in-training will discover that this second edition is a comprehensive survey and analysis of the major and minor teaching methods used around the world. [via]
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The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asiaby Himanshu Prabha RayISBN 0521011094 (0-521-01109-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Australians and Globalisation: The Experience of Two Centuriesby Brian Galligan, Winsome Roberts, Gabriella TrifilettiISBN 0521010896 (0-521-01089-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal Cityby Arlene DavilaISBN 0520240936 (0-520-24093-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Careby Fitzhugh Mullan, John MosesISBN 0520243315 (0-520-24331-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Biolinguistics: Exploring the Biology of Languageby Lyle JenkinsISBN 0521003911 (0-521-00391-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Mothers and Infants Firstby Marsden WagnerISBN 0520245962 (0-520-24596-2)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and the Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties Ans Seventiesby Jeremy VaronISBN 0520241193 (0-520-24119-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940sby David PlotkeISBN 0521034590 (0-521-03459-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Winby Steven S. SkienaISBN 0521009626 (0-521-00962-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win'Book summary:You could just as easily call this book How to Bet at Jai-Alai and Win! But that's only half the story. While Calculated Bets might indeed help you make a buck down at the fronton, it's as much concerned with the power of mathematical modeling and computer programming. The story of accomplished mathematician Steven Skiena's longtime obsession with this obscure Basque sport, Calculated Bets uses straightforward mathematics and real-world examples to divine the statistical mysteries behind playing--and, more important, wagering on--jai alai. (Which goes a long way toward explaining why Cambridge University Press is publishing what's basically a book about gambling.)
A self-styled "mild-mannered professor," the conversational Skiena (The Algorithm Design Manual) delivers on his book's many promises, from explaining how mathematical models are "designed, built, and validated" to providing lucid discussions of such topics as market efficiency and the difference between correlation and causation. Even better are his riffs on why real programmers hate Microsoft (hint: it's not jealousy) and the beauty behind interesting curves. In the end, Skiena even puts his money where his mouth is: using a modem, he sets loose an auto-dialing program called Maven that he and his grad students cooked up, sending it off in the wee hours of the morning to cull the Web for stats, play each match a half-million times, and then automatically wager a $250 stake. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientistsby Margaret Millar, David Millar, John MillarISBN 0521000629 (0-521-00062-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicineby Roy PorterISBN 0521002524 (0-521-00252-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine'Book summary:Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this lavishly illustrated volume traces the chronology of key developments and events, while at the same time engaging with the issues, discoveries, and controversies that have beset and characterized medical progress. The authors weave a narrative that connects disease, doctors, primary care, surgery, the rise of hospitals, drug treatment and pharmacology, mental illness and psychiatry. This volume emphasizes the crucial developments of the past 150 years, but also examines classical, medieval, and Islamic and East Asian medicine. Authoritative and accessible, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine is for readers wanting a lively and informative introduction to medical history. Roy Porter is professor of the social history of medicine at the Wellcome Insitute for the History of Science. He has written or edited numerous books about the history of medicine, including Western Medical Tradition (with L. Conrad, Cambridge, 1995), Drugs and Narcotics in History (with M. Teich, Cambridge, 1995), The Greatest Benefit to Mankind (Norton, 1999), and The Creation of the Modern World (Norton, 2000). [via]
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empireby P. J. MarshallISBN 0521002540 (0-521-00254-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Cambridge Latin Course: Unit 2by Patricia E. Bell, Stephanie Pope, Stan Farrow, Richard Popeck, Anne ShawISBN 0521004306 (0-521-00430-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cambridge Latin Course: Unit 2'Book summary:The Fourth Edition Cambridge Latin Course is an introductory program organized into four well-integrated units. Cambridge's proven approach includes a stimulating continuous story line, interwoven grammatical development and cultural information, supportive illustrations and photographs, and a complete Language Information section. Reading is the heart of the Cambridge Latin Course, and all the elements of the program - illustrations, vocabulary, grammar and syntax, cultural contexts and references, activities - are carefully introduced and arranged to provide students with the skills they need to read with comprehension and enjoyment from the very first page. Student Book The most effective tool for students and teachers of Latin! A continuous and motivating story line captures and holds students' imagination. . . The logical pattern of each Stage and careful integration among Stages and Units train students to read Latin with ease and to understand the culture of the Romans. . . Clear language explanations and examples and ample practice insure student mastery of Latin. . . And rich illustrations bring the works and experiences of the Romans to life. [via]
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The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Taleby Geoffrey Chaucer, Maurice HusseyISBN 0521046238 (0-521-04623-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, And Diplomacyby Peter Hays GriesISBN 0520244826 (0-520-24482-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Cities of the World: A History in Mapsby Peter WhitfieldISBN 0520247256 (0-520-24725-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Colonialism In Question: Theory, Knowledge, Historyby Frederick CooperISBN 0520244141 (0-520-24414-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Cosmology and Political Culture in Early Chinaby Aihe Wang, Patrick Hannan, Denis TwitchettISBN 0521027497 (0-521-02749-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empireby Cynthia EnloeISBN 0520243811 (0-520-24381-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire'Book summary:In this collection of lively essays, Cynthia Enloe makes better sense of globalization and international politics by taking a deep and personal look into the daily realities in a range of women's lives. She proposes a distinctively feminist curiosity that begins with taking women seriously, especially during this era of unprecedented American influence. This means listening carefully, digging deep, challenging assumptions, and welcoming surprises. Listening to women in Asian sneaker factories, Enloe reveals, enables us to bring down to earth the often abstract discussions of the global economy. Paying close attention to Iraqi women's organizing efforts under military occupation exposes the false global promises made by officials. Enloe also turns the beam of her inquiry inward. In a series of four candid interviews and a new set of autobiographical pieces, she reflects on the gradual development of her own feminist curiosity. Describing her wartime suburban girlhood and her years at Berkeley, she maps the everyday obstacles placed on the path to feminist consciousness--and suggests how those obstacles can be identified and overcome.[via]
The Curious Feminist shows how taking women seriously also challenges the common assumption that masculinities are trivial factors in today's international affairs. Enloe explores the workings of masculinity inside organizations as diverse as the American military, a Serbian militia, the UN, and Oxfam. A feminist curiosity finds all women worth thinking about, Enloe claims. She suggests that we pay thoughtful attention to women who appear complicit in violence or in the oppression of others, or too cozily wrapped up in their relative privilege to inspire praise or compassion. Enloe's vitality, passion, and incisive wit illuminate each essay. The Curious Feminist is an original and timely invitation to look at global politics in an entirely different way.More editions of The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire:
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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920by Andrew C. IsenbergISBN 0521003482 (0-521-00348-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwideby Pippa NorrisISBN 0521002230 (0-521-00223-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Discarded Imageby NISBN 0521055512 (0-521-05551-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Discarded Image'Book summary:C.S. Lewis' The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the "image" discarded by later ages as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe." This, Lewis' last book, was hailed as "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind." [via]
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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economyby Kevin BalesISBN 0520243846 (0-520-24384-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Genderby Ronald L. Numbers, John StenhouseISBN 0521011051 (0-521-01105-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Dynamics of Contentionby Charles Tilly, Doug McAdam, Sidney G. TarrowISBN 0521011876 (0-521-01187-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dynamics of Contention'Book summary:Dissatisfied with the compartmentalization of studies concerning strikes, wars, revolutions, social movements, and other forms of political struggle, McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly identify causal mechanisms and processes that recur across a wide range of contentious politics. Critical of the static, single-actor models (including their own) that have prevailed in the field, they shift the focus of analysis to dynamic interaction. Doubtful that large, complex series of events such as revolutions and social movements conform to general laws, they break events into smaller episodes, then identify recurrent mechanisms and proceses within them. Dynamics of Contention examines and compares eighteen contentious episodes drawn from many different parts of the world since the French Revolution, probing them for consequential and widely applicable mechanisms, for example, brokerage, category formation, and elite defection. The episodes range from nineteenth-century nationalist movements to contemporary Muslim-Hindu conflict to the Tiananmen crisis of 1989 to disintegration of the Soviet Union. The authors spell out the implications of their approach for explanation of revolutions, nationalism, and democratization, then lay out a more general program for study of contentious episodes wherever and whenever they occur. [via]
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The Early Neolithic in Greece: The First Farming Communities in Europeby Catherine Perles, Gerard MonthelISBN 0521000270 (0-521-00027-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Egypt As a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politicsby Beth BaronISBN 0520251547 (0-520-25154-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Egypt As a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics'Book summary:This original and historically rich book examines the influence of gender in shaping the Egyptian nation from the nineteenth century through the revolution of 1919 and into the 1940s. In Egypt as a Woman, Beth Baron divides her narrative into two strands: the first analyzes the gendered language and images of the nation, and the second considers the political activities of women nationalists. She shows that, even though women were largely excluded from participation in the state, the visual imagery of nationalism was replete with female figures. Baron juxtaposes the idealization of the family and the feminine in nationalist rhetoric with transformations in elite households and the work of women activists striving for national independence.[via]More editions of Egypt As a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics:
Elizabeth I: Her Life in Lettersby Elizabeth, Felix PryorISBN 0520241061 (0-520-24106-1)
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Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, And U.S. Interests In The Middle East Since 1945by Melani McAlisterISBN 0520244990 (0-520-24499-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Evolution Vs. Creationism: An Introductionby Eugenie C. Scott, Niles EldredgeISBN 0520246500 (0-520-24650-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evolution Vs. Creationism: An Introduction'Book summary:Almost eighty years after the Scopes trial, the debate over the teaching of evolution continues to rage. There is no easy resolution--it is a complex topic with profound scientific, religious, educational, and legal implications. How can a student or parent understand this issue, which is such a vital part of education? Evolution vs. Creationism provides a badly needed, comprehensive, and balanced survey. Written by one of the leading advocates for the teaching of evolution in the United states, this accessible resource provides an introduction to the many facets of the current debate--the scientific evidence for evolution, the legal and educational basis for its teaching, and the various religious points of view--as well as a concise history of the evolution-creationism controversy.[via]
Each of the four sections of Evolution vs. Creationism provides a resource that will assist the reader in better understanding these issues. The first section addresses the nature of how evolution works as part of the scientific enterprise, as well as a summary of the relationship between religious beliefs and science. A section on the history of the controversy provides a handy synopsis of the lengthy struggles, from before Darwin to the present day, between advocates of creationism and the proponents of evolution. A collection of primary source documents addressing cosmology, law, education, and religious issues from all sides of the debate constitute the third section. The book concludes with a selection of resources for further information for those who wish to study the topic in more depth.More editions of Evolution Vs. Creationism: An Introduction:
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Experiment in Criticismby Lewis C.S.ISBN 0521055539 (0-521-05553-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Experiment in Criticism'Book summary:Professor Lewis believed that literature exists above all for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He doubted the use of strictly evaluative criticism, especially its condemnations. Literary criticism is traditionally employed in judging books, and 'bad taste' is thought of as a taste for bad books. Professor Lewis's experiment consists in reversing the process, and judging literature itself by the way men read it. He defined a good book as one which can be read in a certain way, a bad book as one which can only be read in another. He was therefore mainly preoccupied with the notion of good reading: and he showed that this, in its surrender to the work on which it is engaged, has something in common with love, with moral action, and with intellectual achievement. In good reading we should be concerned less in altering our own opinions than in entering fully into the opinions of others; 'in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself'. As with all that Professor Lewis wrote, the arguments are stimulating and the examples apt. [via]
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Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biologistsby Gerry P. Quinn, Michael J. KeoughISBN 0521009766 (0-521-00976-6)
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Finite Volume Methods for Hyperbolic Systemsby Randall J. LevequeISBN 0521009243 (0-521-00924-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finite Volume Methods for Hyperbolic Systems'Book summary:This book contains an introduction to hyperbolic partial differential equations and a powerful class of numerical methods for approximating their solution, (including both linear problems and nonlinear conservation laws). These equations describe a wide range of wave propagation and transport phenomena arising in nearly every scientific and engineering discipline. Several applications are described in a self-contained manner, along with much of the mathematical theory of hyperbolic problems. High-resolution versions of godunov's method are developed, in which riemann problems are solved to determine the local wave structure and limiters are applied to eliminate numerical oscillations. The methods were orginally designed to capture shock waves accurately, but are also useful tools for studying linear wave-progagation problems, particulary in heterogenous material. The methods studied are in the clawpack software package. Source code for all the examples presented can be found on the web, along with animations of many of the simulations. This provides an excellent learning environment for understanding wave propagation phenomena and finite volume methods [via]
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Frozen Earth: The Once And Future Story of Ice Agesby Doug MacdougallISBN 0520248244 (0-520-24824-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The General Prologue to the Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny, Maurice Hussey, A. C. Spearing, J. E. SpearingISBN 0521046297 (0-521-04629-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Geology of the American Southwest: A Journey Through Two Billion Years of Plate-Tectonic Historyby W. Scott BaldridgeISBN 0521016665 (0-521-01666-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Germany in the 18th Centuryby W.H. BrufordISBN 0521043549 (0-521-04354-9)
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Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movementby Rick Fantasia, Kim VossISBN 0520240901 (0-520-24090-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement'Book summary:This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries. Packed with valuable analysis and information, Hard Work explores historical perspectives, examines social and political policies, and brings us inside today's unions, providing an excellent introduction to labor in America.[via]
Hard Work begins with a comparison of the very different conditions that prevail for labor in the United States and in Europe. What emerges is a picture of an American labor movement forced to operate on terrain shaped by powerful corporations, a weak state, and an inhospitable judicial system. What also emerges is a picture of an American worker that has virtually disappeared from the American social imagination. Recently, however, the authors find that a new kind of unionism--one that more closely resembles a social movement--has begun to develop from the shell of the old labor movement. Looking at the cities of Los Angeles and Las Vegas they point to new practices that are being developed by innovative unions to fight corporate domination, practices that may well signal a revival of unionism and the emergence of a new social imagination in the United States.More editions of Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement:
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Hey, Waitress: The USA from the Other Side of the Trayby Alison OwingsISBN 0520242246 (0-520-24224-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hey, Waitress: The USA from the Other Side of the Tray'Book summary:Most of us have sat across the tray from a waitress, but how many of us know what really is going on from her side? Hey, Waitress! aims to tell us. Containing lively, personal portraits of waitresses from many different walks of life, this book is the first of its kind to show the intimate, illuminating, and often shocking behind-the-scenes stories of waitresses' daily shifts and daily lives.[via]
Alison Owings traveled the country--from border to border and coast to coast--to hear firsthand what waitresses think about their lives, their work, and their world. Part journalism and part oral history, Hey, Waitress! introduces an eclectic cast of characters: a ninety-five-year-old Baltimore woman who may have been the oldest living waitress, a Staten Island firebrand laboring at a Pizza Hut, a well-to-do runaway housewife, a Native American proud of her financial independence, a college student loving her diner more than her studies, a Cajun grandmother of twenty-two, and many others.
The book also offers vivid slices of American history. The stories describe the famous sit-in at the Woolworth's counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, which helped spark the civil rights movement; early struggles for waitress unions; and battles against sexually discriminatory hiring in restaurants.
A superb and accessible means of breaking down stereotypes, this book reveals American waitresses in all their complexity and individuality, and will surely change the way we order, tip, and, most of all, behave in restaurants.More editions of Hey, Waitress: The USA from the Other Side of the Tray:
History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Centuryby T. Ivan BerendISBN 0520245253 (0-520-24525-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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A History of Modern Tunisiaby Kenneth J. PerkinsISBN 0521009723 (0-521-00972-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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A History of Thailandby Chris Baker, Pasuk PhongpaichitISBN 0521016479 (0-521-01647-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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A History of the Spanish Languageby Ralph PennyISBN 0521011841 (0-521-01184-1)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineeringby Roger Straughan, Michael J. ReissISBN 0521008476 (0-521-00847-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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In Search of Myths & Heroes: Exploring Four Epic Legends of the Worldby Michael WoodISBN 0520251709 (0-520-25170-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Introducing Phonetic Scienceby Michael Ashby, John MaidmentISBN 0521004969 (0-521-00496-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Phonetic Science'Book summary:This accessible new textbook presents a practical introduction to phonetics, the study of speech. Assuming no prior knowledge of the topic, it introduces students to the fundamental concepts in phonetic science, and equips them with the essential skills needed for recognizing, describing and transcribing a range of speech sounds. With numerous graded exercises enabling students to put these skills into practice, Introducing Phonetic Science provides a solid foundation in phonetics, and will be invaluable to students beginning courses in linguistics, speech sciences, language pathology and language therapy. [via]
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Introduction to Theoretical Linguisticsby John LyonsISBN 0521056179 (0-521-05617-9)
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Life on the English Manorby H. S. BennettISBN 0521041546 (0-521-04154-6)
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Literacy in American Livesby Deborah BrandtISBN 0521003067 (0-521-00306-7)
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Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversityby Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. VittISBN 0520248473 (0-520-24847-3)
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The Making of Revolutionary Parisby David GarriochISBN 0520243277 (0-520-24327-7)
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Masculinitiesby R. W. ConnellISBN 0520246985 (0-520-24698-5)
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The Mathematics of Oz: Mental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edgeby Clifford A. PickoverISBN 0521016789 (0-521-01678-9)
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Maths: A Student's Survival Guideby Jenny OliveISBN 0521017076 (0-521-01707-6)
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Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Developmentby Daniel C. Levy, Kathleen Bruhn, Emilio ZebaduaISBN 0520246942 (0-520-24694-2)
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Moorish Spainby Richard FletcherISBN 0520248406 (0-520-24840-6)
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Mosaics of the Greek and Roman Worldby Katherine DunbabinISBN 0521002303 (0-521-00230-3)
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Native Treasures: Gardening With the Plants of Californiaby M. Nevin SmithISBN 0520244265 (0-520-24426-5)
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Opera As Drama: 50th Anniversaryby Joseph KermanISBN 0520246926 (0-520-24692-6)
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The Origins And Evolution Of Islamic Lawby Wael B. HallaqISBN 0521005809 (0-521-00580-9)
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Our Parents, Ourselves: How American Health Care Imperils Middle Age And Beyondby Judith Steinberg TurielISBN 0520245245 (0-520-24524-5)
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The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959-December 1960by Martin Luther King, Ralph E. Luker, Penny A Russell, Peter Holloran, Clayborne CarsonISBN 0520242394 (0-520-24239-4)
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Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future Updated With a New Prefaceby Peter SchragISBN 0520243870 (0-520-24387-0)
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Paul Dirac : The Man and his Workby Abraham Pais, Maurice Jacob, David I. Olive, Michael F. AtiyahISBN 0521019532 (0-521-01953-2)
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Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and its Sense Part II, On Logic and Mathematicsby Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rush Rhees, Anthony KennyISBN 0520245024 (0-520-24502-4)
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Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angelesby Eric AvilaISBN 0520248112 (0-520-24811-2)
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Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hopby Guthrie P. RamseyISBN 0520243331 (0-520-24333-1)
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Reading the Holocaustby Inga ClendinnenISBN 0521012694 (0-521-01269-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading the Holocaust'Book summary:Decades after the end of World War II, the Holocaust remains as inexplicable and morbidly fascinating as ever. Countless books have been written about it--accounts of survivors, biographies of Hitler and his cronies, poetry and fiction informed by an event no poet or novelist could have imagined for him- or herself. Along with the deluge of responses to the horror, there have arisen two assumptions: first, that it was a unique event in world history; and, second, that it is impossible to understand the motivations of the Nazi perpetrators. Australian anthropologist Inga Clendinnen challenges both these suppositions in her controversial revisiting of the Holocaust.
It is understandable that earlier chroniclers (and survivors) of the Nazi genocide, such as Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, would have difficulty approaching it with the scholar's objectivity or compulsion to examine all sides of the issue--indeed, in Levi's mind, trying to understand the motivations of the Nazis was tantamount to endorsing them. Clendinnen, an expert in ancient Mayan and Aztec cultures, carefully differentiates between comprehending one's subject and identifying with it. She suggests that only by understanding the minds behind the Final Solution--and not just Hitler and Himmler but the average man in the street and buck private in the army, as well--can we hope to place the Holocaust in historical context. The author divides her study into three parts: in the first (and perhaps most controversial), she discusses the problems inherent in eyewitness accounts; in the second, she examines Nazi psychology; and in the last section, she looks at artistic representations of the Holocaust. Throughout, she amply represents the views of important Holocaust commentators and the many theories that abound. Best of all, she does it in highly readable prose. Reading the Holocaust is a thoughtful, provocative look at an old and troubling question. [via]
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Representations and Characters of Groupsby Gordon James, Martin W. LiebeckISBN 052100392X (0-521-00392-X)
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Rising Life Expectancy: A Global Historyby James C. RileyISBN 0521002818 (0-521-00281-8)
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The River of Timeby Igor D. Novikov, Vitaly KisinISBN 0521008484 (0-521-00848-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The River of Time'Book summary:The nature of time has long fascinated physicists and the general public. As an irresistible flow into which all events are embedded, time cannot be slowed or accelerated, nor can it be undone or turned back. In The River of Time , Igor Novikov describes how the thinkers throughout history have defined time and how these discoveries demonstrate that humans may influence time's flow. He describes how time flows in specific regions of the Universe, how it stops in black holes and splashes over the brim in white holes, and how time may convert into space and vice versa. Exploring time's genesis at the Big Bang, Novikov details how recent discoveries indicate that time machine travel might be possible. Igor Novikov is the Director of the Theoretical Astrophysics Center and Professor of the Astronomical Observatory of Copenhagen University. He began his scientific career at the Moscow State University and has since been affiliated with the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, the Space Research Institute, Moscow, and Copenhagen University. He has published more than 250 scientific papers and 150 articles and is the co-author of Edwin Hubble: Discoverer of the Big Bang (Cambridge, 1993) and Black Holes and the Universe (Cambridge, 1993). Previous paperback edition (1998) 0-521-46737-3 [via]
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The Roman Empire And Its Germanic Peoplesby Herwig Wolfram, Thomas DunlapISBN 0520244907 (0-520-24490-7)
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A Seat At The Table: Huston Smith in Conversation with Native Americans on Religious Freedomby Huston Smith, Gary RhineISBN 0520244397 (0-520-24439-7)
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Silence and Voice the Study of Contentious Politicsby Charles Tilly, Jack A. Goldstone, Sidney Tarrow, William H. Sewell, Elizabeth J. Perry, Doug McAdam, Ronald AminzadeISBN 0521001552 (0-521-00155-2)
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Smile Of The Buddha: Eastern Philosophy And Western Art; From Monet To Todayby Jacquelynn Baas, Robert A.F. ThurmanISBN 0520242084 (0-520-24208-4)
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Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Themeby Martin JayISBN 0520248236 (0-520-24823-6)
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Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Ageby Benjamin BarberISBN 0520242335 (0-520-24233-5)
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Struggle And Survival In The Modern Middle Eastby Edmund Burke, David N. YaghoubianISBN 0520246616 (0-520-24661-6)
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Summa Theologiae: Christian Theologyby Aquinas Thomas, Thomas GilbyISBN 0521029090 (0-521-02909-0)
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There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, And FBI Counterintelligenceby David CunninghamISBN 0520246659 (0-520-24665-9)
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Toshie: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japanby Simon PartnerISBN 0520240979 (0-520-24097-9)
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Typology and Universalsby William CroftISBN 0521004993 (0-521-00499-3)
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Uninsured In America: Life And Death In The Land Of Opportunityby Susan Starr Sered, Rushika J. FernandopulleISBN 0520244427 (0-520-24442-7)
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Unspeakable Love: Gay And Lesbian Life in the Middle Eastby Brian WhitakerISBN 0520250176 (0-520-25017-6)
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Visual Thinkingby Rudolf ArnheimISBN 0520242262 (0-520-24226-2)
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War Land on the Eastern Front : Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War Iby Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Jay Winter, Paul Kennedy, Antoine Prost, Emmanuel SivanISBN 0521023904 (0-521-02390-4)
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What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctorsby K. M. Takakuwa, Nick Rubashkin, Karen E. Herzig, Joycelyn EldersISBN 0520246810 (0-520-24681-0)
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Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles And the Remaking of Its Mexican Pastby William DeverellISBN 0520246675 (0-520-24667-5)
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Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approachby Martha C. NussbaumISBN 0521003857 (0-521-00385-7)
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Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from Itby Robert Borofsky, Bruce AlbertISBN 0520244044 (0-520-24404-4)
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The Yanomami controversy came to public attention through the publication of Patrick Tierney's best-selling book, Darkness in El Dorado, in which he accuses James Neel, a prominent geneticist who belonged to the National Academy of Sciences, as well as Napoleon Chagnon, whose introductory text on the Yanomami is perhaps the best-selling anthropological monograph of all time, of serious human rights violations. This book identifies the ethical dilemmas of the controversy and raises deeper, structural questions about the discipline. A portion of the book is devoted to a unique roundtable in which important scholars on different sides of the issues debate back and forth with each other. This format draws readers into deciding, for themselves, where they stand on the controversy's--and many of anthropology's--central concerns.
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Ying-Yai Sheng-Lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' [1433]by Huan Ma, John Vivian Gottlieb Mills, Chengjun FengISBN 0521010322 (0-521-01032-2)
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