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link to catalog page ADDAMS, My Friend, Julia Lathrop Author: Jane Addams
Pub Date: 2004

The biography of one Jane Addams' best friends, written after Julia Lathrop’s death   learn more...

link to catalog page GANZ, Pots of Promise

Pots of Promise

Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-40

Author: Edited by Cheryl R. Ganz and Margaret Strobel
Pub Date: May 2004

Presenting the Mexican artisans of Hull House and the history of its kilns and pottery   learn more...

link to catalog page BAUER, Science or Pseudoscience

Science or Pseudoscience

Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies

Author: Henry H. Bauer
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2004

A book that all scientists should read, and a book that all who are interested in the unexplainable will want to read, Bauer explores how examining anomalies have profited humankind and restores the respectability--and necessity--of such pursuits in a fascinating overview of science and the pursuit of the unknown.   learn more...

link to catalog page HERRING, Skin Deep

Skin Deep

How Race and Complexion Matter in the "Color-Blind" Era

Author: Edited by Cedric Herring, Verna M. Keith, and Hayward Derrick Horton
Pub Date: 2004

A collection of essays questioning the truth of American’s color-blind society from outside and inside communities of color.   learn more...

link to catalog page WAETJEN, Workers and Warriors

Workers and Warriors

Masculinity and the Struggle for Nation in South Africa

Author: Thembisa Waetjen
Pub Date: June 2004

Using South Africa as a case study this book explores how the politics of masculinity and gender power are at the heart of tensions in nation building   learn more...

link to catalog page MAUSS, All Abraham's Children

All Abraham's Children

Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage

Author: Armand L. Mauss
Pub Date: April 2003

Example of Mormon beliefs and behavior towards minorities   learn more...

link to catalog page BATES, Lost Legacy

Lost Legacy

The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch

Author: Irene Bates and E. Gary Smith
Pub Date: 2003

New in paper. The history of the inherited office of Presiding Patriarch in the Mormon Church from its creation by Joseph Smith in 1833 to its demise in 1979.   learn more...

link to catalog page REDDING, Making Race, Making Power

Making Race, Making Power

North Carolina's Road to Disfranchisement

Author: Kent Redding
Pub Date: July 2003

The how, why, and when of black disfranchisement in the American South   learn more...

link to catalog page FINE, Morel Tales

Morel Tales

The Culture of Mushrooming

Author: Gary Alan Fine
Pub Date: 2003

How people and groups attempt to give meaning to the natural world that surrounds them   learn more...

link to catalog page ADDAMS, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams

vol. 1: Preparing to Lead, 1860-81

Author: Edited by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury
Pub Date: December 2003

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