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Title: The natural history of stupidity
Author: Tabori, Paul
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Title: The psychology of happiness : a good human life
Author: Franklin, Samuel S
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Title: The Dead Sea scrolls deception
Author: Baigent, Michael
Summary: "Why a handful of Biblical scholars conspired to suppress the revolutionary contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls"--Jacket subtitle.
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 Title: Sinister yogis
Author: White, David Gordon
Contents: Tales of sinister yogis -- Ceci n'est pas un yogi -- Embodied ascent, meditation, and yogic suicide -- The science of entering another body -- Yogi gods -- Mughal, modern, and postmodern yogis.
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Title:The Spanish Inquisition : its rise, growth, and end
Author: Plaidy, Jean
Contents:The rise of the Spanish Inquisition -- The growth of the Spanish Inquisition -- The end of the Spanish Inquisition.
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 Title:The Iraq War : origins and consequences
Author: James DeFronzo
Contents:Culture and history of Iraq: ancient Mesopotamia to the British mandate -- From the British mandate to the 1958 revolution -- The Iraq revolution, post-monarchy political conflict and the establishment of the Baathist Regime -- Saddam Hussein, the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War -- The invasion of Kuwait and the 1991 Persian Gulf War -- The Iraq War: causes, invasion, and post-invasion policies -- Iraq in the context of previous US interventions and the Vietnam War -- Post-invasion Iraq: occupation and reaction; Government and economy; Insurgency -- Counterinsurgency and U.S.corporate presence -- Impacts of the Iraq War.
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Title: The Arab conquest of Egypt and the last 30 years of the Roman dominion
Author: Butler, Alfred Joshua
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Title: Memphis chronicles : bits of history from the Best times
Author: Harkins, John E.
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Title: Identity economics : how our identities shape our work, wages, and well-being
Author: Akerlof, George A.
Contents:Introduction -- Identity economics -- Identity and norms in utility -- Where we fit into today's economics -- Identity and the economics of the workplace -- Identity and the economics of education -- Gender and work -- Race and minority poverty -- Identity economics and economic methodology -- Five ways identity changes economics and conclusion.
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Title:Keynes : the rise, fall, and return of the 20th century's most influential economist
Author: Clarke, P. F.
Contents:Introduction : A roller-coaster reputation -- 'A religion and no morals' : John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1924 -- 'On the extreme left of celestial space' : John Maynard Keynes, 1924-1946 -- 'In the long run we are all dead' : rethinking economic policy -- 'Animal spirits' : rethinking economic theory -- Epilogue : British and American Keynesianism.
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Title: Population and society : an introduction to demography
Author: Poston, Dudley L.
Contents:"We are all population actors" : an introduction to demography -- The sources of demographic information -- Fertility -- Contraception and birth control -- Mortality -- Internal migration -- International migration -- Age and sex composition -- World population change over time -- Population change in the United States -- Population distribution -- Cultural adaptation and growth -- Population policy -- The future of planet Earth.
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Title: NGOs and corporations : conflict and collaboration
Author: Yaziji, M. (Michael)
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Title: OECD employment outlook 2009 : tackling the jobs crisis
Author: Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development
Contents:Editorial: Preventing the jobs crisis from casting a long shadow -- The jobs crisis: what are the implications for employment and social policy? -- How do industry, firm and worker characteristics shape job and worker flows? -- Is work the best antidote to poverty? -- Pathways onto (and off) disability benefits: assessing the role of policy and individual circumstances -- Statistical annex.
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Title:Core concepts of accounting
Author: Raiborn, Cecily A.
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Title: Debt relief and beyond : lessons learned and challenges ahead
Author:Edited by Carlos A. Primo Braga, Dörte Dömeland
Notes:"This book is the outcome of a conference titled 'Debt relief and beyond: a World Bank conference on debt and development,' held in October 2008 at the World Bank in Washington, D.C."--Preface.
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Title: Childhood in a global perspective
Author:Wells, Karen C.
Contents:Childhood in a global context -- Policy and practice -- Race, class and gender -- Children and families -- School and work -- Children and politics -- Children and youth at war -- Rescuing children and children's rights.
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Title: Why we kill : understanding violence across cultures and disciplines
Author: edited by Nancy Loucks, Sally Smith Holt, and Joanna R. Adler
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Title: The enough moment : fighting to end Africa's deadliest war crimes
Author: Prendergast, John
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Title:Trilateralism : the Trilateral Commission and elite planning for world management
Author: Edited by Holly Sklar
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Title: Put it in writing! : creating agreements between family and friends
Author: Hutchison, Deborah
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Title: Implementing evidence-based academic interventions in school settings
Edited By:Sylvia Rosenfield and Virginia Berninger.
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Title: Rewarding strivers : helping low-income students succeed in colleg
Edited By: Richard D. Kahlenberg
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Title: Getting started with middle school chorus
Author: Freer, Patrick K.
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Title: Michelangelo : the artist, the man, and his times
Author: Wallace, William E.
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Title: Rembrandt drawings
Author: Slive, Seymour
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Title: American quilts : the democratic art, 1780-2007
Author: Shaw, Robert
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Title: Shaped by stories : the ethical power of narratives
Author:Gregory, Marshall W.
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Title:The satanic verses : a novel
Author:Rushdie, Salman.
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Title:T.S. Eliot : a short biography
Author:Worthen, John.
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Title: Illusions : the adventures of a reluctant Messiah
Author:Bach, Richard
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Title: Houses fly away : poems
Author:Couch, Leigh Anne
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Title: Basic statistics : understanding conventional methods and modern insights
Author:Wilcox, Rand R.
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Title:Down to the wire : confronting climate collapse
Author:Orr, David W.
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Title: Mountains beyond mountains
Author: Kidder, Tracy
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Title: Diabetes : the biography
Author: Tattersall, Robert
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Title: Nutrition, health, and safety for young children : promoting wellness
Author: Sorte, Joanne
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Title:Why NATO endures
Author: Thies, Wallace J.
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Title: To make our world anew : a history of African Americans
Edited By:Robin D.G. Kelley and Earl Lewis.
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Title:The agitator's daughter : a memoir of four generations of one extraordinary African American family
Author:Cashin, Sheryll
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Title: Love Cemetery : unburying the secret history of slaves
Author:Galland, China
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Title:The ties that bind : a memoir of race, memory, and redemption
Author:Berry, Bertice
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Title:Notable Black Memphians
Author: DeCosta-Willis, Miriam
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Title:Great gardens of America
Author: Richardson, Tim
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Title: The Routledge companion to the study of religion
Edited By: John R. Hinnells
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Title: The Oxford handbook of business ethicsEdited By:George G. Brenkert, Tom L. Beauchamp
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Title: Encyclopedia of social work
Author:Terry Mizrahi; Larry E Davis; Oxford University Press.; National Association of Social Workers
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Title: A dictionary of education
Edited By: Susan Wallace
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Title: Handbook of rehabilitation psychology

Edited By: Robert G. Frank, Mitchell Rosenthal, and Bruce Caplan
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SWEENEY COLLECTION

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Title:The Egyptian philosophers : ancient African voices from Imhotep to Akhenaten
Author: Asante, Molefi K.
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 Title: Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South
Author:Rose, Anne C.
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Title: The Moses mystery : the African origins of the Jewish people
Author:Greenberg, Gary
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Title:African civilization revisited : from antiquity to modern times
Author: Davidson, Basil
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Title:The Egyptian philosophers : ancient African voices from Imhotep to Akhenaten
Author: Asante, Molefi K.
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Title: African presence in early America
Editor:Ivan Van Sertima
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Title: Black sexualities : probing powers, passions, practices, and policies
Editor: Juan Battle, Sandra L. Barnes
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 Title:Why We Hate Black Women Deconstructing the Paradox of Black Female Masculinity
Author: Hasani Pettiford
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Title:Real role models : successful African Americans beyond pop culture
Author: Spearman, Joah
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Title:Uncommon ground : archaeology and early African America, 1650-1800
Author: Ferguson, Leland G.
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Title:David Walker's appeal, in four articles : together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America : third and last edition, revised and published by David Walker, 1830
Author:Walker, David
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Title:Runaway slaves : rebels on the plantation
Author:Franklin, John Hope
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Title:Hard driving : the Wendell Scott story : the American odyssey of NASCAR'S first black driver
Author:Donovan, Brian
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Title:Pops : a life of Louis Armstrong
Author:Teachout, Terry
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Title:Cuttin' up : how early jazz got America's ear
Author:Carney, Court
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Title: The songs of blind folk : African American musicians and the cultures of blindness
Author: Rowden, Terry
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Title: African American writers and classical tradition
Author:Cook, William W. (William Wilburt)
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Title:Wench : a novel
Author:Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
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