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The author of Armchair Nation and On Roads examines shyness in a"sparkling cultural history rang[ing]from Jane Austen to Silicon Valley" ( The Guardian ). Shyness is a pervasive human trait: even most extroverts know what it is like to stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group or flush with embarrassment at being the unwelcome center of attention. And yet the cultural history of shyness has remained largely unwritten -- until now. With...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. "Everything belonging to the Highlands of Scotland has of late become peculiarly interesting. It is not much above half a century since it was otherwise."-Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott placed the Scottish Highlands on the map of popular tourist destinations. This timeworn work-consisting of the 1816 essay "Manners, Customs and History of the Highlanders of Scotland"...
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Cutting through the myths about the white trade, this is the story of cocaine as it's never been told before.
Cocaine is big business and getting bigger. Governments spend millions on a losing war against it, yet it's still the drug of choice in the West.
In Cocaine Nation, Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston, and Tijuana to London and New York. Cutting through the myths about the white trade, this is the story...
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Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a time of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. From the hardships and fear of a World War, with Britain's towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, to the trauma of being parted from one's parents and sent away to the country to live with complete strangers. For...
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From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning....
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¿Qué es el Trabajo Social Clínico? ¿El Trabajo Social puede hacer terapia? ¿Quién reconoce y legitima estas funciones y competencias? En este libro encontrarás las respuestas a estas preguntas y muchas otras.
El Trabajo Social Clínico se encuentra en plena fase de desarrollo y expansión en España. El notable desarrollo en la última década está generando reacciones tanto dentro como fuera de la profesión, en su mayoría muy positivas...
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Mizuko: True Spirit is an epic American-immigrant tale of hardship, assimilation, and the eventual triumph that ensued. When the Takahashi's, one of the wealthiest families in western Japan lost their great fortune in 1900, five-year old Mizuko Takahashi went from riches to rags.
Mizuko's lifetime in Japan and America offers the reader an intimate look into the world of an Asian immigrant. This book is the story of one woman's efforts to surmount...
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Georges Vigarello maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and public health campaigns in shaping these views. While hefty bodies were once a sign of power, today those who struggle to lose weight are considered poor in character and weak in mind. Vigarello traces the eventual equation of fatness with infirmity and...
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When travel journalist Sophie Campbell squeezed into heels and a hat to investigate the English social season, she got more than she bargained for. Why, she wondered, were events such as the Chelsea Flower Show, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Derby at Epsom, Royal Ascot, the Henley Royal Regatta, Wimbledon Fortnight and Glorious Goodwood so formal, so fashionable and so famous?
Her hectic and sometimes hilarious journey through the English...
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Charata, paradójicamente, en gran medida debe su origen a la obstinación de pobladores pioneros intrusos, los cuales a pesar de no tener garantizada la regularización de su situación, decidieron permanecer en la zona, pues las tierras vírgenes de Charata representaban un rápido progreso material dinamizando con su actividad una incipiente producción local.
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Since the beginning in 1943, the mission of the Gamma Sigma Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority has been to cultivate scholastic and ethical standards, to promote unity and friendship among college women, and to be of service to all mankind. Timeless Service in Gamma Sigma Omega Chapter chronicles the history of the women who sojourned in the life of one chapter of the first Black female Greek letter organization and the events that impacted...
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Selected testimonies to living history-speeches, letters, poems, songs-offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.
New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square;...
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Tomando como hilo conductor la historia del Casino de Madrid desde su fundación hasta el advenimiento de la Guerra Civil, esta brillante monografía analiza el papel desempeñado por el ocio en la configuración social: el Casino se presenta como un lugar de encuentro que permitió construir una identidad para la nueva clase alta, consustancial a la construcción del Estado contemporáneo. Así, consciente o inconscientemente, criados, carruajes,...
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Sage Hall: Experiments in Coeducation and Preservation at Cornell University tells the story of Sage Hall, built as a women's residence in 1874, which made coeducation at Cornell possible. The history of the building, which was financed and endowed by Henry Sage on the condition that the University would provide an education for women equal to that of Cornell men, reflects the early feminist movement in upstate New York, and the social reformism of...
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Los proyectos editoriales de Germán Arciniegas y de Arturo Zapata contribuyeron a la modernización de la industria editorial colombiana, al proponer nuevos autores y temas, así como nuevas formas de acercamiento a los ya conocidos, legitimando la figura del editor al mismo tiempo como hombre de letras y de negocios. Igualmente, contribuyeron a desarrollar la edición como un espacio relativamente diferenciado de la creación literaria, la impresión...
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Resistir a la violencia es un libro en el que se cuenta la historia de una comunidad, de más de 250 familias que desde su fe cristiana deciden enfrentarse a un enemigo muy poderoso que buscaba desplazarlos de sus tierras e, incluso, exterminarlas. Es la historia de un proceso que aún no termina, pero que ha librado ya muchas batallas exitosas, que es singular y representativo a la vez, y que se ha constituido en un ejemplo para otras comunidades...
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Many people in Britain have not thought that much about Britishness until now, just when we fear it is being snatched away. When our liberty is at stake do we just lie down and roll over? Bombarded by the media of what we should and shouldn't do, are we forgetting what is really important in life? We all want so much, yet need so little. The British people have always had a unique character but are we becoming a risk averse nation afraid of our own...
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For over three-hundred years, the Qafa family name has been synonymous with fighting for Albanian independence. Since the 1600's, Qafa men have lost their lives and taken lives fighting against the Ottoman Turks, the Yugoslavian Serbs, and the communists. Simon Qafa tells the story of Pjeter Cup Qafa, his father who was known as "the legend of the mountains" for his role as one of the most important freedom fighters of his day. Simon's life is chronicled...
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"Political power," says Howard Zinn, "is controlled by the corporate elite, and the arts are the locale for a kind of guerilla warfare in the sense that guerillas look for apertures and opportunities where they can have an effect." In Artists in Times of War, Zinn looks at the possibilities to create such apertures through art, film, activism, publishing and through our everyday lives. In this collection of four essays, the author of A People's History...
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A survey in 1776 recorded almost 2,000 parish workhouses operating in England, while the number in Wales was just nineteen. The New Poor Law of 1834 proved equally unattractive in much of Wales — some parts of the country resisted providing a workhouse until the 1870s, with Rhayader in Radnorshire being the last area in the whole of England and Wales to do so.
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