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Cheap
Amusements
Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Kathy Peiss
The dilemmas of work and leisure for women at the turn-of-the-century |
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The
Eagles Encyclopedia
Ray Didinger and Robert S. Lyons The first comprehensive
history of the Philadelphia Eagles |
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Historical
Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
Charting the Future of Teaching the Past
Sam Wineburg How do historians know what they know? |
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We
Make the Road by Walking
Conversations on Education and Social Change
Myles Horton and Paulo Freire, edited by Brenda Bell, John Gaventa
and John Peters
Two pioneers of education discuss their diverse experiences and
ideas |
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Still
Philadelphia
A Photographic History, 1890-1940
Fredric M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel and Allen F. Davis
Photographic memories of Philadelphia, volume 1 |
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Philadelphia
Murals and the Stories They Tell
Jane Golden, Robin Rice and Monica Yant Kinney, photographs by David
Graham and Jack Ramsdale
The most important public art program in the United States |
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Classical
Hindu Mythology
A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas
edited by Cornelia Dimmit, translated by J. A. B van Buitenen
Fresh translations of the Mahapuranas, many available in English
for the first time |
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Philadelphia
Stories
A Photographic History, 1920-1960
Fredric M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel and Allen F. Davis
Photographic Philadelphia memories, volume 2 |
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Why
Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It
A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs
Judge James P. Gray
A devastating indictment of the War on Drugs |
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Caribbean
Currents
Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
Peter Manuel with Kenneth Bilby and Michael Largey
A fascinating wide-ranging survey of Carribean music forms |
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The
Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics
George Lipsitz
In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz probes
into the ways that race determines life chances and structures experience
in the contemporary United States |
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The
Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia
Russell Schneider
Everything you wanted to know about the Indians from 1869 to 1995 |
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Larry
Kane's Philadelphia
Larry Kane, foreword by Dan Rather
A first-hand look at Philadelphia's important events and people |
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Framing
Blackness
The African American Image in Film
Ed Guerrero
A challenge to Hollywood's one-dimensional images of African Americans |
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The
Afrocentric Idea
Molefi Kete Asante
Asante's spirited engagement with culture warriors, neocons, and
postmodernists updates this classic |
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The
Gender Knot
Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
Allan G. Johnson
A compelling approach to gender inequality that empowers both men
and women to be part of the solution instead of just part of the
problem |
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The New American History
Revised and Expanded Edition
Edited for the American Historical Association
edited by Eric Foner
Leading historians define key trends in the field of history and reflect on how the experience of previously neglected groups has fundamentally redefined U.S. history
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Agency-Based
Social Work
Neglected Aspects of Clinical Practice
Harold Weissman, Irwin Epstein and Andrea Savage
A guide by which practitioners can expand their repertoire of organizational
roles |
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Bass
Line
The Stories and Photographs of Milt Hinton
Milt Hinton and David G. Berger
Experience the jazz world from the lens of Hinton's camera |
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Birding
the Delaware Valley
A Comprehensive Guide to Birdwatching in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
Central and Southern New Jersey, and Northcentral Delaware
John J. Harding and Justin J. Harding
All the facts about common and uncommon birds in the Delaware Valley |
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AFSCME's Philadelphia Story
Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century
Francis Ryan
A history of the largest union in the AFL-CIO and its growth in a major American city
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