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  • The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Sennett, Richard
    Richard Sennett

    The Performer: Art, Life, Politics

    An acclaimed sociologist's exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics In The Performer, Richard Sennett explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics, and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than...
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  • With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic by Hoff, A. Ashley
    A. Ashley Hoff

    With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic

    When she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age--until publication the following year of her daughter's memoir, Mommie Dearest. Christina Crawford's book was an immediate bestseller, addressing the infrequently discussed topic of child abuse. When Paramount Pictures...
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  • The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Sennett, Richard
    Richard Sennett

    The Performer: Art, Life, Politics

    An acclaimed sociologist's exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics In The Performer, Richard Sennett explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics, and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than...
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  • How Would You Like Your Mammoth?: 12,000 Years of Culinary History in 50 Bite-Size Essays by Seeburg, Uta
    Uta Seeburg

    How Would You Like Your Mammoth?: 12,000 Years of Culinary History in 50 Bite-Size Essays

    Did you know that Egyptians mummified beef ribs for their dearly departed to enjoy in the afterlife? That Roman gladiators were relegated to a vegan diet of grains and beans? That the fast-food hamburger was a result of a postwar, high-efficiency work ethic? This...
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  • Trilogy: Three True Stories of Scoundrels and Schemers by Adler, Peggy
    Peggy Adler

    Trilogy: Three True Stories of Scoundrels and Schemers

    In 1991, Peggy Adler, author of Trilogy: Three True Stories of Scoundrels and Schemers, was retained by self-proclaimed CIA agent, arms dealer and money launderer, Richard Brenneke, to co-author his autobiography. She soon discovered evidence in his files contradicting claims regarding his presence at...
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  • Beyond Ethnic Loneliness: The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging by Verma, Prasanta
    Prasanta Verma

    Beyond Ethnic Loneliness: The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging

    "So what are you? Go back where you belong!" Majority white American culture has historically marginalized people of color, who at times feel invisible and alienated and at other times are traumatized by oppression and public discrimination. This reality leads to a particular kind...
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  • Beyond Ethnic Loneliness: The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging by Verma, Prasanta
    Prasanta Verma

    Beyond Ethnic Loneliness: The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging

    "So what are you? Go back where you belong!" Majority white American culture has historically marginalized people of color, who at times feel invisible and alienated and at other times are traumatized by oppression and public discrimination. This reality leads to a particular kind...
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  • Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers by Barr, Jason M.
    Jason M. Barr

    Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers

    From one of the world's top experts on the economics of skyscrapers--a fascinating account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildings across the globe.The world's skyscrapers have brought us awe and wonder, and yet they remain controversial--for their high costs, shadows, and overt...
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  • Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith by Holloway, Beth
    Beth Holloway

    Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith

    In May of 2005, Beth Holloway received the worst phone call a parent can imagine. Her beautiful daughter, Natalee, had vanished without a trace in Aruba during her high school senior class trip. Four years later, Beth Holloway steps forward to tell the story...
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  • The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy by Ravallion, Martin
    Martin Ravallion

    The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy

    There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than thirty years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in...
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  • Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy by Carbone, June
    June Carbone

    Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy

    A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back.In the #MeToo era, when gender equality is at the forefront of...
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  • They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Hixenbaugh, Mike
    Mike Hixenbaugh

    They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

    The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America--from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize...
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  • The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life by Greenberg, Jeff
    Jeff Greenberg

    The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life

    Author: Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, Sheldon SolomonISBN-13: 9798200024650Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2015Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.50d
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  • Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America by Bryant, Joan L.
    Joan L. Bryant

    Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

    Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing, grouping, and ranking humans into races became commonplace facets of activism in anti-colonization and emigration campaigns, suffrage and civil rights initiatives,...
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  • Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America by Bryant, Joan L.
    Joan L. Bryant

    Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

    Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing, grouping, and ranking humans into races became commonplace facets of activism in anti-colonization and emigration campaigns, suffrage and civil rights initiatives,...
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  • Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States by Khabeer, Su'ad Abdul
    Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

    Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States

    This groundbreaking study of race, religion, and popular culture in the twenty-first century United States focuses on a new concept, "Muslim Cool." Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim--displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships...
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  • Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States by Khabeer, Su'ad Abdul
    Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

    Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States

    This groundbreaking study of race, religion, and popular culture in the twenty-first century United States focuses on a new concept, "Muslim Cool." Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim--displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships...
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  • Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Montgomery, Charles
    Charles Montgomery

    Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

    Author: Charles MontgomeryISBN-10: 1982588195ISBN-13: 9781982588199Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2015Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d
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  • Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves by Burton, Arthur T.
    Arthur T. Burton

    Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves

    Author: Arthur T. BurtonISBN-10: 1982669578ISBN-13: 9781982669577Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2015Format: CDWeight: 0.48lbs
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  • The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Fairies: Your Complete Guide to the Magick of the Fae by Alexander, Skye
    Skye Alexander

    The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Fairies: Your Complete Guide to the Magick of the Fae

    Interact with magical fairy folk and incorporate them into your own witchcraft practice with this detailed account of the ancient wisdom and traditions of fairies and witchcraft.Fairies have long been a part of witchcraft traditions, especially Celtic and Norse witchcraft, paganism, and other traditions...
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  • It Wasn't about Slavery: Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War by Mitcham, Samuel W.
    Samuel W. Mitcham

    It Wasn't about Slavery: Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War

    Was the Civil War really about slavery? Or was it a war fought over money? Civil War historian Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. (Vicksburg, Bust Hell Wide Open) opens his fascinating new book, It Wasn't About Slavery, with Dr. Grady McWhiney's claim that "what passes...
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  • Norse Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Vikings to Valkyries, an Epic Who's Who in Old Norse Mythology by Fuller-Shafer, Kelsey A.
    Kelsey A. Fuller-Shafer

    Norse Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Vikings to Valkyries, an Epic Who's Who in Old Norse Mythology

    Discover the gods, goddesses, and heroes from Norse mythology with this beautiful handbook that captures the ancient stories that captivated the Vikings.Learn more about your favorite Norse gods, goddesses, and heroes with this collection of profiles that share the real stories behind the characters....
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  • Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence by Graffin, Greg
    Greg Graffin

    Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence

    Author: Greg GraffinISBN-10: 8200001466ISBN-13: 9798200001460Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2015Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.30lbs
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  • Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Taylor, Brandon
    Brandon Taylor

    Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

    Edited and with an introduction written and read by Roxane Gay, the New York Times best-selling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays read by all 30 contributors including Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, and Lyz Lenz, tackles...
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  • Fire on the Levee by Fishman, Jared
    Jared Fishman

    Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice After Hurricane Katrina

    "A riveting tale told with care and expertise." --David Simon, creator of The Wire The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting...
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  • Fire on the Levee by Fishman, Jared
    Jared Fishman

    Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice After Hurricane Katrina

    "A riveting tale told with care and expertise." --David Simon, creator of The Wire The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting...
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  • Grow the F*ck Up: How to Be an Adult and Get Treated Like One by Knight, Sarah
    Sarah Knight

    Grow the F*ck Up: How to Be an Adult and Get Treated Like One

    A no-bullsh*t bible for the modern adult--the newest "No F*cks Given Guide" in the multi-million copy bestselling self-help series Whether you're freshly of-age or you've been at this adulting gig for a while and haven't quite gotten the hang of it, this collection of...
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  • The 48 Laws of Power by Greene, Robert
    Robert Greene

    The 48 Laws of Power

    The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.Author: Robert GreeneISBN-10: 1665182776ISBN-13: 9781665182775Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2007Format: CDWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 5.67h x 6.14w x 1.89d
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  • Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Philpott, Mary Laura
    Mary Laura Philpott

    Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

    From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink and writer of singular spark and delight (Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author) comes a poignant and powerful new memoir-in-essays that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear...
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  • Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section by Somerstein, Rachel
    Rachel Somerstein

    Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

    An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America--the cesarean section--and an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical careWhen Rachel Somerstein had an unplanned C-section with her first child, the experience was anything...
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  • Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section by Somerstein, Rachel
    Rachel Somerstein

    Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

    An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America--the cesarean section--and an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical careWhen Rachel Somerstein had an unplanned C-section with her first child, the experience was anything...
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  • Fifteen Cents on the Dollar by Story, Louise
    Louise Story

    Fifteen Cents on the Dollar

    A sweeping, deeply researched narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America's financial system through public and private actions that created today's Black-white wealth gap. The early 2020s will long be known as a period of racial reflection. In the...
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  • Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America by Hagerman, Margaret A.
    Margaret A. Hagerman

    Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America

    Provides a child's-eye perspective on how the culture wars are playing out in our nation's schoolsKids are at the center of today's "culture wars"--pundits, politicians, and parents alike are debating which books they should be allowed to read, which version of history they should...
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  • The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public by Thorson, Emily
    Emily Thorson

    The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public

    In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for false beliefs to flourish,...
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  • The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public by Thorson, Emily
    Emily Thorson

    The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public

    In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for false beliefs to flourish,...
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  • Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control by Vanatta, Sean H.
    Sean H. Vanatta

    Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control

    American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation...
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  • Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control by Vanatta, Sean H.
    Sean H. Vanatta

    Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control

    American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation...
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  • Mythologies Without End: The Us, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020 1st Edition by Slater, Jerome
    Jerome Slater

    Mythologies Without End: The Us, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020 1st Edition

    The history of modern Israel is a fiercely contested subject. From the Balfour declaration to the Six-Day War to the recent assault on Gaza, ideologically-charged narratives and counter-narratives battle for dominance not just in Israel itself but throughout the world. In the United States...
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  • Mythologies Without End: The Us, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020 1st Edition by Slater, Jerome
    Jerome Slater

    Mythologies Without End: The Us, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020 1st Edition

    The history of modern Israel is a fiercely contested subject. From the Balfour declaration to the Six-Day War to the recent assault on Gaza, ideologically-charged narratives and counter-narratives battle for dominance not just in Israel itself but throughout the world. In the United States...
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  • Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam by Cherribi, Sam
    Sam Cherribi

    Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam

    Fridays of Rage provides a glimpse into how Al Jazeera strategically cast its journalists as martyrs in the struggle for Arab freedom while promoting itself as the mouthpiece and advocate of the Arab public. In addition to heralding a new era of Arab democracy,...
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  • Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam by Cherribi, Sam
    Sam Cherribi

    Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam

    Fridays of Rage provides a glimpse into how Al Jazeera strategically cast its journalists as martyrs in the struggle for Arab freedom while promoting itself as the mouthpiece and advocate of the Arab public. In addition to heralding a new era of Arab democracy,...
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  • The Sixth Extinction Tenth Anniversary Edition: An Unnatural History by Kolbert, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Kolbert

    The Sixth Extinction Tenth Anniversary Edition: An Unnatural History

    The tenth-anniversary edition of the multiaward-winning book The Sixth Extinction features a new epilogue. Elizabeth Kolbert blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.Over the last half a billion years, there have...
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  • Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption by Wellington, Rebecca
    Rebecca Wellington

    Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption

    Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, the renewed debate over women's reproductive rights places an even greater emphasis on adoption. Wellington's timely--and deeply researched--account amplifies previously...
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  • Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption by Wellington, Rebecca
    Rebecca Wellington

    Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption

    Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, the renewed debate over women's reproductive rights places an even greater emphasis on adoption. Wellington's timely--and deeply researched--account amplifies previously...
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  • Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia by Ferrante, Louis
    Louis Ferrante

    Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia

    The culmination of Louis Ferrante's exhaustive research delving deep into Sicily's socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and why this infamous secret society formed inside Sicilian culture. Ferrante then engages in the art of storytelling by carefully selecting stories...
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  • The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us During Outbreaks by Tassier, Troy
    Troy Tassier

    The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us During Outbreaks

    When an epidemic outbreak occurs, the most physical and financial harm historically falls upon the people who can least afford it: the economically and socially marginalized. Where people live and work, how they commute and socialize, and more have a huge impact on the...
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  • The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us During Outbreaks by Tassier, Troy
    Troy Tassier

    The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us During Outbreaks

    When an epidemic outbreak occurs, the most physical and financial harm historically falls upon the people who can least afford it: the economically and socially marginalized. Where people live and work, how they commute and socialize, and more have a huge impact on the...
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  • Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia by Ferrante, Louis
    Louis Ferrante

    Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia

    The culmination of Louis Ferrante's exhaustive research delving deep into Sicily's socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and why this infamous secret society formed inside Sicilian culture. Ferrante then engages in the art of storytelling by carefully selecting stories...
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  • American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota by Keeler, Kasey R.
    Kasey R. Keeler

    American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota

    Nearly seven out of ten American Indians live in urban areas, yet studies of urban Indian experiences remain scant. Studies of suburban Natives are even more rare. Today's suburban Natives, the fastest-growing American Indian demographic, highlight the tensions within federal policies working in tandem...
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  • American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota by Keeler, Kasey R.
    Kasey R. Keeler

    American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota

    Nearly seven out of ten American Indians live in urban areas, yet studies of urban Indian experiences remain scant. Studies of suburban Natives are even more rare. Today's suburban Natives, the fastest-growing American Indian demographic, highlight the tensions within federal policies working in tandem...
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