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Download this eBook The Interpretation of Cultures
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The Interpretation of Cultures


Clifford Geertz


One of the twentieth century's most influential books, this classic work of anthropology offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture is With The Interpretation of Cultures, the distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz developed the concept of thick...

Publication date: 2017-08-15
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City on the Verge


Mark Pendergrast


What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century Atlanta is on the verge of tremendous rebirth-or inexorable decline. A kind of Petri dish for cities struggling to reinvent themselves, Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the...

Publication date: 2017-05-16
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Born Digital


Urs Gasser , John Palfrey


"An excellent primer on what it means to live digitally. It should be required reading for adults trying to understand the next generation." -- Nicholas Negroponte, author of Being Digital The first generation of children who were born into and raised in the digital...

Publication date: 2016-07-12
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Lactivism


Courtney Jung


Social scientist and mother Courtney Jung explores the ever-expanding world of breastfeeding advocacy, shining a new light on the diverse communities who compose it, the dubious science behind it, and the pernicious public policies to which it has given rise Is breast...

Publication date: 2015-11-24
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Rosa Lee


Leon Dash


Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. For...

Publication date: 2015-06-02
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Shame


Shelby Steele


The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia, the promise of the 1960s -- when we came together as a nation to fight...

Publication date: 2015-02-24
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Harlem Nocturne


Farah Jasmine Griffin


As World War II raged overseas, Harlem witnessed a battle of its own. Brimming with creative and political energy, the neighborhood's diverse array of artists and activists took advantage of a brief period of progressivism during the war years to launch a bold cultural...

Publication date: 2013-09-10
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Thinking About Crime


James Q. Wilson


As crime rates inexorably rose during the tumultuous years of the 1970s, disputes over how to handle the violence sweeping the nation quickly escalated. James Q. Wilson redefined the public debate by offering a brilliant and provocative new argument—that criminal...

Publication date: 2013-05-14
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Bending Toward Justice


Gary May


When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls...

Publication date: 2013-04-09
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Intellectuals and Race


Thomas Sowell


Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in AmericaIntellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is...

Publication date: 2013-03-12
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Getting Better


Charles Kenny


As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. Getting Better, in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist...

Publication date: 2012-12-04
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Manning Up


Kay S Hymowitz


In Manning Up, Manhattan Institute fellow and City Journal contributing editor Kay Hymowitz argues that the gains of the feminist revolution have had a dramatic, unanticipated effect on the current generation of young men. Traditional roles of family man and provider...

Publication date: 2012-03-06
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Letters to a Young Journalist


Samuel G. Freedman


Over the course of a thirty-year career, Samuel Freedman has excelled both at doing journalism and teaching it, and he passionately engages both of these endeavors in the pages of this book. As an author and journalist, Freedman has produced award-winning books,...

Publication date: 2011-11-08
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Girls on the Edge


Leonard Sax


Girls are cutting themselves with razors.Girls are convinced they're fat, and starve themselves to prove it. Other girls are so anxious about grades they can't sleep at night—at eleven years of age. What's going on? InGirls on the Edge, Dr. Leonard Sax...

Publication date: 2011-07-12
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In Defense of Flogging


Peter Moskos


Prisons impose tremendous costs, yet they're easily ignored. Criminals -- even low-level nonviolent offenders -- enter our dysfunctional criminal justice system and disappear into a morass that's safely hidden from public view. Our "tough on crime" political rhetoric...

Publication date: 2011-05-31
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A Strange Stirring


Stephanie Coontz


In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were...

Publication date: 2011-01-04
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Tradition and the Black Atlantic


Henry Louis Gates


Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline's roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory, Gates leaps...

Publication date: 2010-08-24
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Dark Days, Bright Nights


Peniel E. Joseph


The Civil Rights Movement is now remembered as a long-lost era, which came to an end along with the idealism of the 1960s. In Dark Days, Bright Nights, acclaimed scholar Peniel E. Joseph puts this pat assessment to the test, showing the 60s -- particularly the...

Publication date: 2010-01-05
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The Culture of Fear


Barry Glassner


The bestselling book revealing why Americans are so fearful, and why we fear the wrong things-now updated for the age of Trump In the age of Trump, our society is defined by fear. Indeed, three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today than they did only a...

Publication date: 2010-01-05
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Born to Use Mics


Sohail Daulatzai , Michael Eric Dyson


At the age of nineteen, Nasir "Nas" Jones began recording tracks for his debut album -- and changed the music world forever. Released in 1994, Illmatic was hailed as an instant masterpiece and has proven one of the most influential albums in hip-hop history....

Publication date: 2009-12-29
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