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From Bomba to Hip-Hop

From Bomba to Hip-Hop


Juan Flores



From Library Journal Flores (black and Puerto Rican studies, Hunter Coll.; sociology, CUNY Graduate Ctr.) has written wid...
Enabling the Information Society by Stimulating the Creation of a Broadband Environment in Europe: Analyses of Evolution Scenarios for Future Networking Technologies and Networks in Europe

Enabling the Information Society by Stimulating the Creation of a Broadband Environment in Europe: Analyses of Evolution Scenarios for Future Networking Technologies and Networks in Europe


Maarten Botterman



Enabling the Information Society by Stimulating the Creation of a Broadband Environment in Europe: Analyses of Evolution Scenarios for Future Networking Technologies and Networks in Europe...
If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways.

If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways.


Daniel Quinn



From Publishers Weekly This slender volume—a place marker in Quinn's philosophical oeuvre about mankind's relations...
Letter to a Christian Nation

Letter to a Christian Nation


Sam Harris



Letter to a Christian Nation...
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream


Arianna Huffington



Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream...
The Hot Zone

The Hot Zone


Richard Preston



The Hot Zone...
World Population

World Population


Geoffrey Gilbert



From Library Journal These two new volumes in the "Contemporary World Issues" series share the strengths of other series volume...
Living It Up

Living It Up


James B. Twitchell



From Publishers Weekly As the author of works on advertising, materialism and modern culture, University of Florida professor Tw...
Muhajababes

Muhajababes


Allegra Stratton



From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Two-thirds of the Middle East—a quarter of a billion people—are 25 or younger...
Consumer Culture: A Reference Handbook

Consumer Culture: A Reference Handbook


Douglas Goodman



This book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a mor...
Women in Prison: A Reference Handbook

Women in Prison: A Reference Handbook


Cyndi Banks



This innovative text emphasizes how communicative processes develop, are maintained, and change throughout the life span. Topics c...
The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power

The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power


David E. Sanger



Readers of The New York Times know David Sanger as one of the most trusted correspondents in Washington, one to whom presidents, s...
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure


Daniel Quinn



Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure...
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1873-1987

Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1873-1987


David Ross, Richard Hook



Today the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has 18,000 members and a budget of more than $1 billion with which to enforce federal laws...
A Trial by Jury

A Trial by Jury


D. Graham Burnett



A Trial by Jury...
Global Warming - Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology

Global Warming - Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology


Patrick J. Fitzpatrick



In the global-warming debate, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects remain elusive. In Global Warming:...
Genetic Engineering

Genetic Engineering


Harry Levine Iii



Genetic Engineering...
The 10 big lies about America: combating destructive distortions about our nation

The 10 big lies about America: combating destructive distortions about our nation


Michael Medved



“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings re...
Policing Post-Conflict Cities

Policing Post-Conflict Cities


Alice Hills



Policing Post-Conflict Cities...
Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace, Second Edition: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities

Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace, Second Edition: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities


Laura Zittrain Eisenberg, Neil Caplan



"Nothing in my library comes close to Eisenberg and Caplan's unique and balanced treatment of the peace process....