Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea
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In the 18th century, the Royal Navy's own physician found that sailors were seven times more likely...
Russian Music Since 1917: Reappraisal and Rediscovery
Marina Frolova-Walker and Patrick Zuk
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This ground-breaking collection of essays, which arises from a unique collaboration between leading...
Subverting Consumerism: Reuse in an Accelerated World
Robert Crocker and Keri Chiveralls
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The dominant understanding of reuse for sustainability is a technical one, which assumes reuse's...
The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence
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American food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible-and most popular-means of providing...
Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual
Jeffers Engelhardt and Philip Bohlman
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Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading...
The Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living
Nora Haenn, Richard Wilk and Allison Harnish
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The Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an...
Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands
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In recent years, journalists and environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a...
Apollo Pilot: The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele
Donn Eisele, Francis French and Susan Eisele Black
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In October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth...
The Economics of Language Policy
Michele Gazzola and Bengt-Arne Wickstrom
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In an era of globalization, issues of language diversity have economic and political implications....
The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice
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Diversity these days is a hallowed American value, widely shared and honored. That's a remarkable...