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Chinese Research Perspectives on Society volume Volume 2
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Brill
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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June 26, 1947. Headlines across America report that an aviator from Idaho witnessed nine pulsating lights flying over the Cascade Mountains at speeds surpassing any aircraft built by humankind. Days later, a desperate Chicago pool hustler, inspired by the news, hitchhikes west in a fever-dream search for a possible extraterrestrial sign. A chance incounter with Saul Penrod, an Idaho farmer, and his family sets in motion the birth of "The Seekers"--a...
48) The outsiders
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Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the kids involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy.
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Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"Looking at the social, political and legal changes in Oman since 1970, this book challenges the Islamic and tribal traditional cultural norms relating to marriage, divorce and women's rights which guide social and legal practice in the modern Omani state. The book argues that despite the establishment of legal instruments guaranteeing equality for all citizens, the fact that the state depends upon Islamic and tribal elites for its legitimacy invalidates...
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Routledge library editions. Education volume 202
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2012,c1977
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English
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Rumours and gossip are the lifeblood of London... Olivia Bevelstoke, the only daughter of the Earl of Rudland, is beautiful, wealthy, twenty-one and unmarried, making her the subject of much gossip: 'What is she waiting for? A prince?' But Olivia isn't stuck up, and neither is she hopeless. She is simply waiting for something - or someone. enter Sir Harry Valentine, her intriguing new neighbour... Sir Harry Valentine is not a spy, but he's had all...
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Post-Western Social Sciences and Global Knowledge volume Volume 1
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Cairo papers in social science volume 28, no. 1, spring 2005
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American University in Cairo Press
Pub. Date
2007
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English