Epub Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu

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The average individual is far more likely to die in a car accident than from a communicable disease...yet we are still much more fearful of an epidemic. Even at our most level-headed, the thought of an epidemic can inspire terror. As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in question - or the actual risks of contagion - but by the unknown, the undesirable, and the misunderstood.Alcabes examines epidemics through history to show how they reflect the particular social and cultural anxieties of their times. From Typhoid Mary to bioterrorism, as new o

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Epub Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

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The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new introduction by the author.Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, Always Running is the searing true story of one man&#8217  life in a Chicano gang&#8212 and his heroic struggle to free himself from its grip.By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests and then watched with increasing fear as gang l

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Download Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence

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The award-winning author of  Grateful  goes beyond the culture wars to offer a refreshing take on the comprehensive, multi-faceted nature of Jesus, keeping  his teachings relevant and alive in our daily lives.How can you still be a Christian?This is the most common question Diana Butler Bass is asked today. It is a question that many believers ponder as they wrestle with disappointment and disillusionment in their church and its leadership. But while many Christians have left their churches, they cannot leave their faith behind.  In  Freeing Jesus, Bass challenges the idea that Jesus can only be understood in static, one-

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Read Mothers & Daughters

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The award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time and her photographer daughter, Maria Rooney, have joined to create a loving tribute and celebration of the most unique relationship: mothers and daughters. Wonderful black and white photography of mothers and daughters from all races, and the words by L'Engle, make this a very special gift to both give and receive.

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Read American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

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The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation on the often-asked question  What would the Founding Fathers think?  He examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of particular topics, using the perspective of the present to shed light on their views and, in turn, to make clear how their now centuri

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Epub For the Love of Cities: Revisited

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The Award-Winning Book Returns &#8211  Updated, Revised and Expanded!The mutual love affair between people and their place is one of the most powerful influences in our lives, yet rarely thought of in terms of a relationship. As cities come to think of themselves as engaged in a relationship with their residents, and residents begin to consider their emotional connections with their places, we open up new possibilities in community, social and economic development by including the most powerful of motivators &#8211  the human heart &#8211  in our toolkit of place-making. Here we will explore what makes cities lovable, what motivates ordinary people to do extraordinary things fo

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Ebook The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West

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The award-winning history of the women who went West to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe railway&#8212 and went on to shape the American Southwest  From the 1880s to the 1950s, the Harvey Girls went west to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe railway. At a time when there were  no ladies west of Dodge City and no women west of Albuquerque,  they came as waitresses, but many stayed and settled, founding the struggling cattle and mining towns that dotted the region. Interviews and historical research help recreate the Harvey Girl experience. The accounts are personal, but laced with the history the women lived: the dust bowl, the de

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Read Introduction to Social Work: An Advocacy-Based Profession (Social Work in the New Century)

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The award-winning Introduction to Social Work: An Advocacy-Based Profession takes students on an exploration of what social work is, what it was historically, and how to be an effective advocate as a social worker moving forward. Built on a unique advocacy practice and policy model comprised of four components&#8213 economic and social justice, a supportive environment, human needs and rights, and political access&#8213 the book provides a crucial lens for viewing today&#8217  social issues. Best-selling authors Lisa E. Cox, Carolyn J. Tice, and Dennis D. Long emphasize advocacy throughout all sectors of social work, with

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Ebook The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart

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The award-winning journalist reveals the untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided in this groundbreaking book.    Armed with startling demographic data, Bill Bishop demonstrates how Americans have spent decades sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities&#8212 not by region or by state, but by city and neighborhood. With ever-increasing specificity, we choose the communities and media that are compatible with our lifestyles and beliefs. The result is a country that has become so ideologically inbred that people don't know and can't understand those who live just a few miles away. In  The Big S

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Ebook Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

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The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a  prodigiously researched and engrossing  (New York Times) book that  shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history  (Denver Post).Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previ

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Download Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

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The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart    Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he me

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