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It has been our nature as humans to be curious since birth, eager to learn, and to gain a comprehensive understanding of everything. There may be differences in our clothing styles and food preferences, but there are some things we all share in common. In our minds, this is the question we all ask regarding the creation of the universe. As a result of our desire to uncover when and how things all began, we are likewise curious about the exact moment...
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Émile Durkheim is often referred to as the father of sociology. Along with Karl Marx and Max Weber he was a principal architect of modern social science and whose contribution helped established it as an academic discipline. "The Division of Labor in Society", published in 1893, was his first major contribution to the field and arguably one his most important. In this work Durkheim discusses the construction of social order in modern societies, which...
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"Junk has become ubiquitous in America today. Who doesn't have a basement, attic, closet, or storage unit filled with stuff too good to throw away? Or, more accurately, stuff you think is too good to throw away. When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying her late parents' overloaded basement, a job that dragged on for months, it got her thinking: How did it come to this? Why do smart, successful people hold on to old Christmas...
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The Linden Triangle: Linden Avenue and Linden Place, Hempstead, Long Island. At this blighted intersection, seemingly forgotten by the middle and upper class communities that surround it, the dream of suburban comfort and safety has devolved into a nightmare of flying bullets and bloodshed. Here, a war between the Bloods and Crips has torn a once-peaceful neighborhood apart.
The book tells the true story of one year in the life of a suburban village-turned-war-zone....
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"A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. The Roaring Twenties -- the Jazz Age -- has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland...
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The most popularly read, adapted, anthologized, and incorporated primer on sociology ever written for modern readers Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger lays the groundwork for a clear understanding of sociology in his straightforward introduction to the field, much loved by students, professors, and general readers. Berger aligns sociology in the humanist tradition-revealing its relationship to the humanities and philosophy-and establishes...
47) Making a Mummy
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IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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What happens after death? That was a big question for ancient Egyptians. They believed that a person needed his or her body in death as much as in life. So they did all they could to preserve and protect the body. For them, preparing for life after death was an important part of life! Learn about the science behind mummification with this book created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution. This Smithsonian Informational Text builds students'...
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"Revelations of Divine Love" is a text of Julian of Norwich's dream visions that she had when she was near death. Then, after being miraculously healed, Julian of Norwich dedicated the rest of her life to writing her series of sixteen visions for all to read and understand. During her life, Norwich had suffered through three different bouts of the Black Death. Julian of Norwich remained optimistic in her faith, though; she denied that the plagues...
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From Roger Rosenblatt, author of the bestsellers Making Toast and Unless It Moves the Human Heart, comes a moving meditation on the passages of grief, the solace of solitude, and the redemptive power of love
In Making Toast, Roger Rosenblatt shared the story of his family in the days and months after the death of his thirty-eight-year-old daughter, Amy. Now, in Kayak Morning, he offers a personal meditation on grief itself. "Everybody grieves,"
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"How come I can never find my keys? Why don't I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. [This book], by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts, and the prescription to age well, in his signature engaging style. With so many discoveries over the years, science is literally changing our minds about the optimal care and feeding...
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Although Sir Isaac Harman didn't think much of the suffragette movement, his female employees certainly did, and he thought it prescient that he too should do his bit for women's rights. His wife totally agreed, so he locked her up. However, this gesture was to have far-reaching reverberations as Sir Isaac's wife becomes the absolute embodiment of women's independence. "The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman" is a novel by H. G. Wells, first written in 1914....
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Learn to solve problems together with this nonfiction book. Ideal for young readers, the book includes a fiction story related to the topic, a connected project, glossary, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color book explores real-world problems and how individuals have come together to find solutions. It also covers key topics like creative problem-solving and brainstorming, and includes an extension activity for grade...
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Dave Hollis, CEO of the Hollis Co. and husband of #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hollis, refutes the lies many men believe but don't talk about, topples the phony ideas about what 'real men' do, and points the way for men to finally start living the best versions of their lives.
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This is H. G. Wells' 1915 novel, 'The Research Magnificent'. The story is presented as the efforts of one Mr. White to compile, collate, and preserve the life's work of his deceased academic friend, William Porphyry Benham. The tale centers around the recounting of Benham's attempts to live a noble life-an endeavor that brings him into conflict with his friends, his mother, and his wife. The Research Magnificent is widely considered as being among...
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#1 The Georgia Guidestones is a monument in Elbert County, Georgia, composed of four sixteen-foot-tall stones that have been called the American Stonehenge. It was commissioned in 1979 by a man using the pseudonym R. C. Christian, and it was completed in 1980.
#2 The stones' first admonition is the most disconcerting to many, as the world population in mid-2014 stood...
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#1 The 2008 financial crisis was a result of many financial manipulations that ordinary people did not understand, and in which they played no part. It cost millions of Americans their livelihoods and their homes and bankrupted many businesses.
#2 Americans' well-justified anger is affecting our political discourse, and it is important to understand the why and the what...
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#1 Americans are fascinated by the law. And why not. The law is important, intellectually challenging, and sometimes outrageous. Consider some cases that have made front-page news: Stella Liebeck, who bought a cup of coffee at McDonald's and spilled it on herself, was awarded $2. 7 million in damages.
#2 The law has pervaded our society from the beginning. It is...
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"En las siguientes páginas el lector va a comprender la relevancia de la Comunicación para el entendimiento de los temas que constituyen el sentido del nuevo orden mundial: el resurgir de los movimientos sociales, la lucha por la igualdad de género; la necesidad de volver a los saberes ancestrales, a la interacción con la naturaleza."
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#1 The word burnout occurred to me as a possible explanation for my angry dread toward my career. I was a scholar at heart, and I spent my lame-duck semester researching burnout to understand my life.
#2 Burnout is when you are constantly drained of energy, see your clients or students as problems rather than people you're meant to help, and feel that your work accomplishes...
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#1 The first wave of Chinese emigration to the United States began in the mid-nineteenth century, when China was still an imperial state ruled by the surviving members of the Qing dynasty. The Qing, originally from Manchuria, had held power for two hundred years, but their power was waning.
#2 The Chinese civilization was centered around the two rivers that flowed from...
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