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  • The Latino/a American Dream

    by Matthew Green, Daniel Martinez, Jeremy Slack, Alex E. Chavez, Scott Whiteford, Enrique S. Pumar, Steven A. Tuch, Maria Mazzenga, Todd Scribner, Jessica Hamar Martinez, Phillip Connor ...
    The “American Dream” means many things to many people, but in general it can be said that it connects the idea of freedom to the opportunity for prosperity and upward social mobility.Sandra L. Hanson and John K. White have joined together with a group of social scientists to explore the attitudes, experiences, and expectations of Latinos in their quest for the American Dream. The Latino/a American ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    All the Wrong Places

    A Life Lost and Found

    by Phillip Connors ...
    Narrated by Adam Verner ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    The prize-winning author of Fire Season returns with the heartrending story of his troubled years of flight.Phillip Connors's Fire Season, an account of the decade he spent working in a fire-lookout tower high above the remotest part of New Mexico, won the Banff Mountain Book Grand Prize and the Reading the West Book Award, and Amazon named the Best Nature Book of the Year. Now Connors returns ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Immigrant Faith

    Patterns of Immigrant Religion in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe

    by Phillip Connor ...
    Immigrant Faith examines trends and patterns relating to religion in the lives of immigrants. The volume moves beyond specific studies of particular faiths in particular immigrant destinations to present the religious lives of immigrants in the United States, Canada, and Europe on a broad scale.Religion is not merely one aspect among many in immigrant lives. Immigrant faith affects daily ... Read more

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  • Orange County

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  • Those Who Forget the Past

    The Question of Anti-Semitism

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    Something has changed.After the horrors of World War II, people everywhere believed that it could never happen again, but today the evidence is unmistakable that anti-Semitism is dramatically on the rise once more. The torching of European synagogues, suicide terror in Israel, the relentless comparison of the Israelis to Nazis, the paranoid post–September 11 Internet-bred conspiracy theories, the ... Read more

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  • Leaving Christianity

    Changing Allegiances in Canada since 1945

    by Brian Clarke, Stuart MacDonald ...
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    Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even higher than in the United States, but the following decade witnessed emptying pews. What happened? In Leaving Christianity Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald quantitatively map the nature and extent of Canadians’ disengagement with organized religion and ... Read more

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  • Whose Streets?

    The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest

    Edited by Tom Malleson, David Wachsmuth ...
    In June 2010 activists opposing the G20 meeting held in Toronto were greeted with brutal and arbitrary state violence. Whose Streets? is a combination of testimonials from the front lines and analyses of the broader context, an account that both reflects critically on what occurred in Toronto and looks ahead to further building our capacity for resistance.Featuring reflections from activists who ... Read more

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