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Cover of "Butterfly Boy" featuring a boy with wings
Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Rigoberto Gonzalez

Heartbreaking, poetic and intensely personal, "Butterfly Boy" is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first- ...



Cover of "Edgar & Ellen: Pet's Revenge" featuring an illustration of two pale children and a monster with one eye
Charles Ogden

Two twins, one eyeball, no surrender.

Pet has long endured the trickery of its ...



Cover of "The Early History of Greed" featuring medieval illustrations of men and beasts
The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature
Richard Newhauser

In this full-length study of the early history of greed, Richard Newhauser challenges the traditional view that avarice only became a ...



Cover of Pornography
Edited by Peter Lehman

Porn is big business. By some estimates, it grosses more revenue per year than the entire "legitimate" film and entertainment industry. Most ...



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Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century (Fourth Edition)
Edited by Lola Romanucci-Ross, George De Vos, Takeyuki Tsuda

In this thoroughly revised fourth edition with ten new chapters, Lola Romanucci-Ross and her co-editors provide thought-provoking ...



Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
Robert Boyd

Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our ...



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Rhetoric and Fundamentalism
Sharon Crowley

"Toward a Civil Discourse" examines how, in the current political climate, Americans find it difficult to discuss civic issues frankly and openly ...



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Production and Consumption of Household Ceramics among the Maros Villagers of Bronze Age Hungary
Konstantina-Eleni Michelaki

This work examines the interrelationship between technology and society, using as its cultural-historical focus the Early and Middle Bronze ...

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