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The Orchestration of Joy and Suffering
Understanding Chronic Addiction
Is it possible that an extraordinary experience in our childhood can change the course of a person’s life? Can such “singular episodes” (or a series of episodic experiences) have as much significance in childhood development as hereditary and environmental influences?

Corinne F. Gerwe Price range: $21.95 through $28.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Rape of the American Working Woman
How the Law and the Attitude Violate Your Paycheck
Working women in the USA suffer some rather under-appreciated injustices due to antiquated laws and attitudes. They are often cheated in regard to Social Security benefits and get unfair treatment in divorce or child support actions because they work.

Nyla Jo Hubbard Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Temptation of Innocence
Living in the Age of Entitlement
In The Temptation of Innocence , the author investigates a peculiar paradox of the modern age: as we gain more individual freedom, we become increasingly desperate to shed the responsibility that comes with it.

Pascal Bruckner $19.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Weathermen on Trial
A Bombshell Story About Bringing the War Home
The Weathermen On Trial: A Bombshell Story About Bringing the War Home is a gripping historical novel that intertwines a legal thriller with the real-life political unrest of the 1970s anti-Vietnam War movement.

Caleb Stewart Rossiter Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Through Alien Eyes
A View of America and Intercultural Marriages
The American dream has been part of world mythology for generations now. As the land of opportunity, America still entices people from around the world to taste it for themselves.

Elena Popova Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
True Jew
Challenging the Stereotype
From the time of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem to 500 CE, the world’s Jewish population had shrunk from 4.5 million to 1.1 million; then the Jewish population increased at more than five times the global growth rate. Are the numbers real?

Bernard Beck Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
US Immigration Laws under the Threat of Terrorism
When the United States tightened its immigration policies in response to concerns over terrorism, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and General Electric’s Jeffrey Immelt warned that some of these restrictions were harmful to US economic interests.

Julie Farnam Price range: $21.95 through $27.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Vitality
A Psychiatrist's Answer to Life's Problems
Exploring some of the most destructive and dismaying elements of living, a psychiatrist of international stature shows that the best and worst aspects of living are closely related.

Richard Esser Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
When All Roads Lead to the Standoff
How Corporate Governance Fuels White Supremacy
By offering a psycho-social theory on the basis of political economics, this book explains militant white movements and how such events as the Ruby Ridge standoff and the Branch Davidian siege were symptoms of the broader battle between the goals of…

Jeanne M. Haskin Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Whistling Dixie
A Linguistic Journey
Most literature that deals with languages, dialects, and accents is quite dry, taking a broad, analytical approach, often attempting to organize a region into geographical, social, ethnic, and other groupings, and then examining the speech of entire…

Wilber W. Caldwell Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Women, Immigrants, and the Working-Class Battle in Little Falls, New York: The Textile Strike of 1912-1913
The Little Falls Textile Strike of 1912-1913 was a pivotal but long-neglected event in American labor history.

J. N. Cheney Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
World Government – Utopian Dream or Current Reality?
Arguing that a world government may be the best hope for addressing major problems facing the world, that is, poverty, global warming, global trade, the lack of financial regulation, and others, the author approaches the reasons for a world…

Raymond W. Converse Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Youth Culture and the Generation Gap
The Youth Culture is certainly dominant n the world, and the United States is its champion. Has this cultural emphasis widened the generation gap, or is it just a natural by-product of the generational differences that exist in all societies?

Ursula A. Falk Price range: $22.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page