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Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music and the culture that inspires it....
Play Money explores a remarkable new phenomenon that's just beginning to enter public consciousness: MMORPGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments the size of...
Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers "age out" of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decision for them. Suddenly, they are on their own, with no one to count on. What does it mean to be eighteen and on...
Our national conversation about race is ludicrously out-of-date. Hip-hop is the key to understanding how things are changing. In a provocative book that will appeal to hip-hoppers both black and white and their parents, Bakari Kitwana deftly teases apart the culture of...
Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist alternative does nothing...
Are the stars of the Civil Rights firmament yesterday's news? In Living Black History scholar and activist Manning Marable offers a resounding "No!" with a fresh and personal look at the enduring legacy of such well-known figures as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
How does a reporter go about researching a story on the Internet and how does one fact check and cite online sources? What are the copyright issues involved in quoting Internet sources?How does one go about selling a story to Internet sites?How does one physically file...
This hard-hitting book draws on the first systematic national research on how the need to meet family obligations is affecting working Americans of all social classes and ethnic groups. What happens when kids get sick? When an elderly parent is hospitalized? How do poor...
The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones.The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as...
Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern...
FOR children who grew up in France before the Second World War, memorizing the fables of the 17th century poet Jean de La Fontaine was a ritual as familiar as daily snacks of bread and bitter chocolate, placing bulletins under the tree for Santa's reading, or at...
"Anak Lakan, Children of the Gods" is a short collection of myths and legends from Pampanga, a province of the Philippines, written and illustrated by Josephine G.K. Hempen from the narrations of Michael Raymon M. Pangilinan, an expert on Kapampangan culture and...
This is a conjugation booklet with tables for filling in the regular and irregular verbs in the forms(Presente, Indefindido, Subjuntivo, Perfecto, Konditional, Imperfecto and Imperativo). It is good for learning the irregular verbs and also contains the solutions in...
The year 2023 is over and what conflicts and arguments there will be in the coming year. Weren't there already enough military conflicts and disasters? But just as it happens on a small scale, it also happens on a large scale. There are just a few people who present...
Events happen every day that can be seen from a different perspective. Here I try to document such views. Whether they can agree or not is up to their point of view.
Women all over the world awaken to their responsibility. Many women are active in the Non Governmental Organisations and politics. However, are you aware of the fact that violence towards women up to today constitutes by far the most frequent violation of human rights?...
Here I address daily topics in society, politics and the economy, where I present my own view of things. It may be that some things don't exactly agree with what the general view is, but you can look at everything from different sides.
A book about Wales, a land rich with history. Find out what is so special about this small nation and meet some of the people who formed it and changed the world in doing so. The book is written for English learners at level CEFR B1
What makes hygge-happy Danes, their humour, society and language so 'special'? Explore useful insights and toe-curling incidents with professor emeritus Lita Lundquist, language and humour researcher at Copenhagen Business School, and British-born, Danish-based Helen...
Young people who say goodbye to school education because they do not feel addressed by the learning forms and structures there. Many no longer even learn the absolute basics. Learning groups in daycare centers and schools overloaded with social problems. Shortage of...
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