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Catherine Cater
An Elegant Rise Above Race and Gender as Scholar and Professor
Catherine Cater was born in New Orleans and spent her youth in Alabama. Diverse influences, from exposure to the Ku Klux Klan to immersion in Great Books, came together in the creation of this enigma who was a great lady.

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Consumer Culture in America
Spectacle, Deception, Simulation, and Illusion in the Marketplace
Wilber W. Caldwell observes that we are seduced, lured into a sparkling web so enticing that we perceive no reason to struggle.

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Coping with Freedom
Reflections on Ephemeral Happiness
An approachable essay on personal freedom, this lively book is inspired by the author’s own 20 th century life experience as well as 18th century philosophers, and literary and historical references.

Chantal Thomas Price range: $9.95 through $21.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Crimes of Punishment
America's Culture of Violence
This groundbreaking book by an award-winning psychoanalyst and forensic psychiatrist presents a comprehensive exploration of a timely but often taboo topic: the failure of punishment to deter crime and violence, an issue that affects us both…

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Culture, Evolution, and Menopause
The Deceptive Dichotomy Between Nature and Nurture
In Culture, Evolution, and Menopause, Prof. Kiaris focuses on the crossroads of anthropology, the history of civilization, and evolutionary biology. Culture is usually seen as opposing biological imperatives.

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Daemon in the Sanctuary
The Enigma of Homespace Violence
Edmund Husserl, oft-named the ‘Father of Phenomenology,’? affirms the prior nature of phenomenological experience, explaining that even the ‘objective’? scientist is first of all a ‘subject’?

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Desertion and the American Soldier
1776 ' 2006
Military desertion, its reasons and consequences, are not commonly known in America. In most cases, the reasons soldiers desert are inherent in the military system itself.

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Developing the Global South
A United Nations Prescription for the Third Millennium
In this unique book Dr. Milkias places the focus on the United Nations contribution to the development of the nations of the Global South and summarizes what the UN has accomplished in advancing development during the last half century.

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Doctors Without Borders in Ethiopia:
Among the Afar
This book describes the function of a Doctors Without Borders program at the ground level, at the TB mission they established in eastern Ethiopia during 2001.

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Eating the Ashes: Seeking Rehabilitation within the US Penal System
Written from prison, the book contrasts penal programs focused on counseling and rehabilitation vs punishment, with case studies of successful, but increasingly scarce, programs.

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Eternal Inequality
A History of Humanity and Hierarchy during the Last 4 Million Years
Taking inequality as a concept and as an actuality, Dr. Cumo set out to explore the disparity between rich and poor throughout prehistory and history.

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Exceptionally Backward
Economic, Racial, Gender, and Generation Inequality In a Neo-Colonial US
R.C. De Prospo’s insightful work “Exceptionally Backward” is an deep examination of the intertwined layers of economic, racial, gender, and generational disparities that continue to challenge the notion of equality and opportunity in the United States.

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Facial Hair and Cleavage Culture
In The Facial Hair and Cleavage Culture , Stan Robinson offers a compelling exploration of the profound cultural shifts shaping modern American society.

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Famous – But No Children
Choosing to remain ‘child-free’ or ‘childless’ is something that sparks various reactions. This issue engages feminists, ecologists, the religious right, the child-free community and parents who take offense at the child-free community.

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Freud for Thought
On Forging the Philosophical Life
Can one live a philosophical life in a world that has killed God and given the reins of society to what Nietzsche called “the last men”?

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Gender, Sex and Status
Turmoil in America
By attaining more and more education, and thus gaining entry to a wider variety of jobs and more economic independence, American women have proved that the centuries-old subjection of women to men was never rooted in biological differences.

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