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Josiah Kidwell
The Megachurch-Industrial Complex

A Las Vegas megachurch transforms faith into spectacle to attract the unchurched, even as its iconoclastic approach strains longstanding religious and cultural traditions.Drawing on critical theory, media…

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Nick Mcdonell
The Civilization of Perpetual Movement

From the Chinese Emperors to the Romans and the Byzantines, from British Foreign Office agents in the Great Game to today's hippies, backpackers and aid workers, a long line of "civilized", sede…

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Lopita Nath
Bhutanese Refugee Resettlement in the United States

A definitive account of one of the twenty-first century's most consequential yet frequently overlooked humanitarian stories. Drawing on a decade of oral histories, archival research, and community immersi…

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Geraldine Manson, Nancy J. Turner
Plant Teachings from My Auntie

New Society Publishers

What if learning about plants meant learning how to relate to land, language, and living knowledge?Plant Teachings from My Auntieoffers a rare opportunity to engage with Snuneymuxw (Coast Salish) plant kn…

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Jelena Cvorovic
Child Marriage

Discover the social, economic, demographic, and public health impacts that child marriage has within the cultures and countries that practice it.Around the globe, one in five girls under age 18 are marrie…

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Michael J Madson
The Rise and Fall of Original Oxycontin

The United States opioid crisis has wrought devastation on a massive scale. With closure elusive, much of the blame has fallen on a single pill, a long-acting oxycodone tablet called OxyContin. Perhaps on…

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Lennard J. Davis
Enforcing Normalcy

In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against "ableist" discourse and for a complete …

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Ian Hamnett
Chieftainship and Legitimacy

First published in 1975, Chieftainship and Legitimacy by Ian Hamnett is a seminal work in the anthropology of law. Hamnett argues that law should be recognized as a distinct social category rather than me…

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Megan Bang, Bryan Brayboy, Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Across Lands and Waters

Experts from the field of indigenous education offer vital perspectives and resources for transforming the future for Native studentsAcross Lands and Waters is the first book to offer a vision for the fut…

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Yanfei Sun
Religious Change in Post-Mao China

"A sweeping examination of how the religious landscape has changed in post-Mao China. In Religious Change in Post-Mao China, sociologist Yanfei Sun examines the transformation of major religions and …

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Korean Immigrants in Latin America

Korean Immigrants in Latin America: Home Away from Home is a multidisciplinary volume exploring the evolution of transnational Korean communities, tracing migration experiences, processes of cultural adju…

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Parul Baxi
Aadhaar Beyond the Numbers

What can the world's most acclaimed yet controversial state-led universal biometric identification program, Aadhaar, reveal about contemporary Indian society and citizenship? This book studies Aadhaar's j…

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Parul Baxi
Aadhaar Beyond the Numbers

What can the world's most acclaimed yet controversial state-led universal biometric identification program, Aadhaar, reveal about contemporary Indian society and citizenship? This book studies Aadhaar's j…

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Andrew Littlejohn
We Live with the Sea

In We Live with the Sea, Andrew Littlejohn addresses the implementation and controversy surrounding safety infrastructures following the March 2011 tsunami in northeastern Japan. While the Japanese govern…

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Haijing Dai
Beyond Market Meritocracy

Beyond Market Meritocracy investigates how employers evaluate and treat male and female employees with varied family care responsibilities in three different labor regimes of Chinese societies - the neo-l…

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Adekeye Adebajo
The Splendid Tapestry of African Life

The 145 essays in this comprehensive, concise, and highly readable book represent three decades of Adekeye Adebajo's reflections and writing on the history, regional integration, politics, military rule, …

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Lori Latrice Martin
From Black Wall Street to the Story of O.J.

Explores race, class, and identity in relationship to wealth inequality in America.From Black Wall Street to the Story of O.J. explores the relationship between race and class in the United States, with a…

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Courtney T Wittekind
City of Speculation

In 2018, amidst a celebrated political transition, Myanmar's first democratically elected government since 1962 proposed a built-from-scratch "new city" just outside Yangon, the country's former…

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Naomi Haynes
A Divine Season

How Zambian Pentecostal activists worked to transform their country into a self-styled "Christian nation"In 2015, Zambia began an ambitious program to "actualize" the country's constit…

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Driving the Change

A Royal Rescript issued in 1817 by Rani Gouri Parvati Bayi, queen of Travancore (Kerala), proclaimed that the state would defray the entire cost of education. She envisioned that only free and universal e…

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