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You Can't Afford to Get Sick by Andrew Weil
epub |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Andrew Weil

Until fairly recently Americans regarded tobacco as a good thing, and our government saw no reason to discourage its use. (It included cigarettes in the emergency rations of soldiers right ...
( Category: Green Housecleaning July 14,2019 )
The Culture of Surveillance by David Lyon
epub |eng | 2018-01-11 | Author:David Lyon

Conclusions This chapter has explored some ways in which items that start life as attractive, even seductive, novelties end up contributing to a process of normalization of surveillance. In everyday ...
( Category: Sociology July 10,2019 )
Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Lyman Tower Sargent
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Lyman Tower Sargent [Sargent, Lyman Tower]

China Chinese utopianism is the best known of the traditions outside the West. It has roots in Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, followed by Neo-Confucianism and, in more popular form, various ...
( Category: History & Theory July 5,2019 )
Gulp by Mary Roach
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Roach [Roach, Mary]

12 Inflammable You FUN WITH HYDROGEN AND METHANE LONG BEFORE ANYONE put a cautering wand up anyone else’s bum, the dangers of flammable81 bowel gas were well known. If you ...
( Category: Anatomy July 4,2019 )
Why Have Kids? by Valenti Jessica
epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Valenti, Jessica [Valenti, Jessica]

THE SICK SENSE When Jenny McCarthy came on to the anti-vaccination/parenting scene, everything changed. The former Playboy bunny turned nineties MTV personality turned anti-vaccination superstar has used the idea of ...
( Category: Parenting June 25,2019 )
Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? by Jesse Bering
epub |eng | | Author:Jesse Bering

Studying the Elusive “Fag Hag”: Women Who Like Men Who Like Men As a decades-long fan of The Golden Girls, I was saddened to learn of the death of Rue ...
( Category: Physiology June 25,2019 )
When and Where I Enter by Paula J. Giddings
epub |eng | | Author:Paula J. Giddings

The year 1935 marked a critical juncture in the direction Black activists would take in the racial struggle. Should their energies be channeled toward interracialism or toward the strengthening of ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 25,2019 )
Philosophical Elements of a Theory of Society by Adorno Theodor W.;
epub |eng | 2018-11-14 | Author:Adorno, Theodor W.;

Notes 1 The first sentences of the lecture seem to be missing in the transcript of the recording. 2 The statement which Adorno mistakenly attributes to Engels was made by ...
( Category: Sociology June 25,2019 )
White Boy by Tom Graves
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tom Graves [Graves, Tom]

I knew I was doomed when Ken Burns swanned into town. The esteemed documentary filmmaker was promoting his upcoming PBS series on jazz and part of his promotional tour involved ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 23,2019 )
Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century by Katherine S. Newman & Hella Winston
epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Katherine S. Newman & Hella Winston [Newman, Katherine S.]

German Apprentice in ZF ZF is a worldwide producer of auto parts; its most important product is the chassis for automobiles; the company supplies Mercedes and BMW, among other auto ...
( Category: Reform & Policy June 23,2019 )
All In by Josh Levs
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Josh Levs [Levs, Josh]

PART IV Fatherlessness The Truth About Fatherlessness It’s the central irony of modern parenthood and one of the biggest problems our nation faces. Although it’s true that never before have ...
( Category: Fatherhood June 23,2019 )
A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley
epub |eng | 2019-06-19 | Author:William Melvin Kelley

* * * — SHE WAS BACK IN A WEEK. We all missed her a lot, even Tucker. He didn’t say so, especially not to me, but I could tell. ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 21,2019 )
Grace Will Lead Us Home by Jennifer Berry Hawes
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Berry Hawes

* * * Each year, upon December’s onset, the city of Charleston looks as if peace has indeed come to Earth. Snow remains a stranger most years, but red bows ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 21,2019 )
A Word a Day by Anu Garg
epub |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Anu Garg [Garg, Anu]

pervious (PUR-vee-uhs) adjective 1. Permeable; open to passage or penetration. 2. Open to suggestions, arguments, reason, change, and so forth. From Latin pervius, from per- (through) + via (way). • ...
( Category: Word Lists June 19,2019 )
Surviving Genocide by Jeffrey Ostler;
epub |eng | 2019-06-16 | Author:Jeffrey Ostler; [Ostler, Jeffrey]

Fig. 35. First and Second Seminole wars THE SECOND SEMINOLE WAR With a removal treaty in hand, U.S. officials moved to implement it. In October 1834 government agent Wiley Thompson ...
( Category: Native American Studies June 17,2019 )

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