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In this study of devotional hagiographical texts and contemporary ritual performances of the Shi'a of Hyderabad, India, Karen Ruffle demonstrates how traditions of sainthood and localized cultural values shape gender roles. Ruffle focuses on the annual mourning assemblies held on 7 Muharram to commemorate the battlefield wedding of Fatimah Kubra and her warrior-bridegroom Qasem, who was martyred in 680 C.E. at the battle of Karbala, Iraq, before...
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Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats is the first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture, was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behavior, dress, and language for mass consumption and cheap thrills. From the juvenile delinquent gangs of the early 1950s through the beats and hippies, on...
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Even before the Revolutionary War, American colonists feared and fought "merciless Indian savages," and through the following centuries, American law and policy have been molded by the relentless tradition of Indian-hating. From proportional representation and restrictions on the right to bear arms, to the break-up of tribal property rights and the destruction of Indian culture and family, the attacks on tribal governance and people continue and remain...
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This fascinating story influenced by Native American folktales explains why the moon changes shape and helps children deal with bullies. After the sun insults and bullies her, the moon feels so badly hurt that she shrinks and leaves the sky. The moon turns to a comet and her many friends on earth to comfort her. Her friends include rabbits and Native Americans. Then she regains her full shape, happiness, and self-esteem. The moon also returns...
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Who is the lady who floated to the moon? Did a monkey really hatch from an egg? Did tears bring down the Great Wall of China? Does the sky rest on the legs of a turtle?
In Explore Ancient Chinese Myths! With 25 Projects, readers ages 7 to 10 soar on a journey through ancient China to learn about history, geography, science, and art through stories that have been told and retold for thousands of years. They learn the tales of past heroes and wise...
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The Embrace of Buildings provides an overview of the key factors, topics, and issues in Anglo-American urbanism: the origins and development of the suburban ideal, the role of federal policies and spending priorities in shaping the built environment, the rise of the private automobile as the primary mode of transportation, the effects of functional zoning laws, the relation between the public realm and the quality of civic discourse, the influence...
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The theory of information emerged at the end of World War II in the 1940s. It was initiated by Claude E. Shannon through an article published in the Bell System Technical Journal in 1948, entitled A Mathematical Theory of Communication. At that time, the aim was to use communication channels more efficiently, sending a quantity of information through a given channel and measuring its capacity; the optimal transmission of messages was sought.
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"Mommy, What Makes Me Special?" is an empowering children story that every young girl needs. Through a heartwarming tale between a mother and her two daughters, this beautifully illustrated book weaves together the essential themes of confidence, self-love, identity, and self-esteem.
In a world where it's easy for young girls to feel insecure or doubt their worth, "Mommy, What Makes Me Special?" serves as a beacon of light, guiding them towards embracing...
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"Winner of a Washington Post Abu Aardvark 2015 Middle East Book Award" "Winner of the 2017 Hubert Morken Award for Best Book, Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" "Co-Winner of the 2016 Book Award, Religion and International Relations Section, International Studies Association" Avi Max Spiegel is associate professor of political science and international relations at the University of San Diego.
How the competition...
39530) Snug as a Bug?
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Snug as a Bug is the hilarious tale of a bug who wants to be tucked up in bed but instead finds himself on a wild adventure-everybody's chasing him!
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In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds the transatlantic slave trade in politics, not economic forces, analyzing the ideological arguments of the RAC and its opponents in Parliament and in...
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Social Sustainability HANDBOOK for Community-Builders clearly describes the two sub-divisions of sustainability. Material sustainability is quantity-object based. Social Sustainability.is quality-value based. Material sustainability is, improved by increasing the quantity available while decreasing usage, reusing, recycling and re-purposing material resources. Social sustainability is, improved by improving the individual's ability to participate...
39533) A Place for Pauline
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As the eldest child in a large family, Pauline struggles to find her niche, and she longs for peace and quiet - a charming graphic novel.
Pauline lives with her mother, father, little brother and sister, and there's a new baby on the way. Her friends tell her she's lucky to be the eldest - she's the one who gets new clothes and can stay up late - but Pauline isn't so sure. In her busy, crowded, noisy house, she never knows what she's supposed to...
39534) The Rookie Spellslinger
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Succeeding in her quest might be a monstrous mistake. Alexandra isn't a monster magnet, not really, no matter how willingly magical critters obey her or how often fanged things creep from the shadows to follow her home. They're usually not man-eaters, after all! But she's tired of her outsider status, both in her own half-human family and at the academy of magic. Alex has a plan to remake her reputation. An impossible plan. A plan so crazy that even...
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Housing has become a hot topic. The media is filled with stories of individual housing hardship and of major property-related financial crises: of crippling personal debts, rundown social housing, homelessness, mass demolition, spiralling prices, unaffordability and global recession.
This book links all of these through a radical analysis that puts housing at the heart of critical economic and political debate. The authors show that these problems...
39536) Bing, Bop, Bam: Time to Jam!
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A joyful, rhyming celebration of music and community
Sounds soar!
Tunes galore.
Music trance . . .
Gotta dance!
This upbeat picture book-a companion to Ride, Roll, Run: Time for Fun!-follows the nine children from the first book as they help plan a big, musical block party. Author and educator Valerie Bolling's rhyming text makes for a rollicking read-aloud and features instruments from all around the world including the agog, banjo, daegeum,...
39537) Diego's Visit to the Dentist
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In Diego's Visit to the Dentist, beginning readers learn about the thoughts, emotions, and body sensations associated with new situations and relationships and how we can mindfully address them. Follow along as Diego confronts his fears of the dentist and learns healthy coping mechanisms to handle the situation. Vibrant illustrations and carefully leveled text will engage young readers in a supportive educational fiction reading experience about a...
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Our culture and tradition are fading away with great speed. As one of our culture's components and ingredients, the original procedure for customary marriage is seriously on the verge of collapse. The practice of our traditional marriage procedures is diminishing by you and me mainly because of the introduction of western ideologies, and also by self-denial, our idleness, negligence, copy and paste ideology, abandonment of our vernacular, unwillingness...
39539) Damn You Anxiety
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Throughout our years of working to empower people, especially teenagers and young people, we have seen, time and time again, that the term anxiety gets thrown around like it's a disease that someone has and cannot ever get rid of. This just isn't the case. Anxiety is a normal, natural response that every human being experiences at particular times in their lives.
It's also important to note that anxiety is an emotion of the future. We can either...
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Anne Phillips is Professor of Political and Gender Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of The Politics of Presence andWhich Equalities Matter?
Public opinion in recent years has soured on multiculturalism, due in large part to fears of radical Islam. In Multiculturalism without Culture, Anne Phillips contends that critics misrepresent culture as the explanation of everything individuals from minority...
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