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This book provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago. Tracing the roots of political corruption that afforded protection to gambling, prostitution, and other vice activity in Chicago and other la... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | This timely book reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. As she explores questions of culture that play out in broadly accessible local and foreign film and television, Katrina... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | The Metis of Senegal is a history of politics and society among an influential group of mixed-race people who settled in coastal Africa under French colonialism. Hilary Jones describes how the metis carved out a niche as middleman traders for European merchants. As t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections on both sides of the US-Mexico border. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued by people in vario... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | During the 1970s, when jazz clubs all over America were folding under the onslaught of rock and roll and disco, San Francisco's Keystone Korner was an oasis for jazz musicians and patrons. Tucked next to a police station in the city's North Beach area, the Keystone b... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | Decisions underpin everything we do. On a day-to-day basis they allow us to shape how we spend our time and on a broader scale they are the driving force behind all aspects of change. Being able to make confident, considered decisions is an essential skill in life an... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | Why should we care about climate chaos and global warming? Because, among other risky outcomes, they may seriously harm our health! Scientists around the world are in agreement that global warming, more aptly named climate change, is occurring and human activity is t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | Written by a combat veteran who also served on the faculty of the Naval War College, Waging War to Make Peace: U.S. Intervention in Global Conflicts is a thought-provoking analysis of the decision to make war in the modern world. The subject is examined through the l... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | Religion is in competition with the leisure and entertainment industries. The postmodern generation is open to spirituality, but young adults have not been born into faith communities that embrace them fully and command their allegiance over a lifetime. Studies sugge... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:33 | Repeatedly in the twentieth century, the United States has been involved in confrontations with other countries, each with the potential for widespread international and domestic upheaval, even disaster. In this book Michael Hunt focuses on seven such crises, present... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:33 | One of the most colorful and controversial figures in American intelligence, Herbert O. Yardley (1889-1958) gave America its best form of information, but his fame rests more on his indiscretions than on his achievements. In this highly readable biography, a premier ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:34 | In this absorbing book, George McKenna ranges across the entire panorama of American history to track the development of American patriotism. That patriotismâshaped by Reformation Protestantism and imbued with the American Puritan belief in a providential âerrand... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | David Ben-Gurion cast a great shadow during his lifetime, and his legacy continues to be sharply debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder of modern Israel, but this new biography by emi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | The first (and maybe last, depending on sales) anthology of the hugely popular website CollegeHumor.com! Since 1999, CollegeHumor.com has been home to some of the best comedy online. From its humble, dorm room origins, CollegeHumor has grown to attract over ten milli... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | In this revealing, in-depth look at the NFL's greatest quarterback controversy, Adam Lazarus takes readers into the locker room and inside the huddle to deliver the real story behind the rivalrywhen Joe Montana and Steve Young battled on and off the field and forged ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:40 | Layoffs have become a fact of life in todays economy; initiated in the mid 1970s, they are now widely expected, and even accepted. It doesnt have to be that way.In The Disposable American, award-winning reporter Louis Uchitelle offers an eye-opening account of layoff... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:40 | In middle age, debt has become the most significant relationship in Harry Salter's life. He was born to wealthy parents in leafy and privileged Rosedale, at a time when the city was still defined by its WASP elite. But nothing in life has turned out the way Harry was... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:42 | The health-sciences equivalent of Thomas Friedman's bestseller The World is Flat, this inspiring and revelatory book by two of today's finest scientists shows how advances in global health will transform lives -- particularly in the developing world -- over the next ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:44 | Dr. Bryce Wylde, one of Canada's most popular and respected health care practitioners, gives us individualized step-by-step treatment plans to fight disease and stay healthy.In The Antioxidant Prescription, homeopathic doctor and nutritionist Bryce Wylde addresses wh... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:44 | An essential survival guide both to pandemic influenza, and to the hype surrounding it.Written by an emergency physician and a public health physician, The Flu Pandemic and You is a frank and clear book about how to prepare for the next influenza pandemic, and how to... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:50 | This first and only authoritative mass market bestseller on cholesterol contains the most up-to-date, medically sound information on diet, nutrition, exercise and lifestyle--and their impact on coronary problems. Includes the latest information on determining a coron... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:52 | Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own mast... Полное описание |
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