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Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
Jack Hamilton · Harvard University Press
Pages: 340
Format: Print book
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By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become "white"? Just around... |
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Health Without Borders: Epidemics in the Era of Globalization
Paolo Vineis · Springer
Pages: 108
Format: Paperback
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This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health. The population of the world grew from 1 billion in 1800 to 7 billion in 2012, and over the past 50 years the mean temperature has risen faster than ever before. Both factors continue to rise, as well as health inequalities.... |
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In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis
Casey Schwartz · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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"Everywhere I looked it seemed that we were being defined by what our brains were doing . . . Everywhere, there were hucksters and geniuses, all trying to colonize the new world of the brain." "I'd never been a science person," Casey Schwartz declares at the beginning... |
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McGraw-Hill Education 1,715 ACT Practice Questions
Drew Johnson · McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Format: Book
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The most ACT practice questions available in a single book! Practice, practice, practice! Its the only way to succeed on a test like the ACT--and theres nowhere better to get the practice you need than McGraw-Hill Educations 1,715 ACT Practice Questions. With this book, youll master essential... |
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The Seventh Sense: How Flashes of Insight Change Your Life
William Duggan · Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Flashes of insight--the Eureka! moments that produce new and useful ideas in a single thought--are behind some of the worlds most creative and practical innovations. This book shows how to cultivate more and better flashes of insight by harnessing the science and practice of the seventh... |
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Unlocking Greatness: The Unexpected Journey from the Life You Have to the Life You Want
Charlie Harary · Rodale Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A guide to successfully getting the life you want by changing your perspective and discovering your ideal self. More often than not, our own mental obstacles are holding us back from the joy, fulfillment, and meaning that we all crave, but by retooling our perspectives, we gain the ability... |
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Mastering the Art of Quitting: Why It Matters in Life, Love, and Work
Peg Streep · Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
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Find out why the happiest, most successful people have the ability both to persist and to quit. In a culture that perceives quitting as a last resort and urges us to hang in, Mastering the Art of Quitting tackles our tendencies to overanalyze, ruminate, and put a positive spin on goals... |
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Map to the Stars
Adrian Matejka · Penguin Books
Pages: 128
Format: Print book
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A resonant new collection of poetry from Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Map to the Stars, the fourth poetry collection from National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adrian Matejka, navigates the tensions between... |
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Cannibal
Safiya Sinclair · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 126
Format: Print book
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Winner of the 2016 Whiting Award Publishers Weekly Poetry Top 10 for Fall 2016Winner of the 2015 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in PoetryColliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history,... |
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The Great Heresies
Hilaire Belloc · Ignatius Press
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
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In this new edition of a classic work, the great Catholic apologist and historian Hilaire Belloc examines the five most destructive heretical movements in Christianity: Arianism, Mohammedanism (Islam) , Albigensianism, Protestantism, and Modernism. Belloc describes how these movements... |
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