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Sports and Aging: A Prescription for Longevity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Sports and Aging a wide-ranging group of physically active people, including many scholar-athletes, discuss sports in the context of aging and their own athletic experiences.
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History of Theory and Method in Anthropology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This volume emphasizes theory schools, institutional connections, social networks, and collaborative research with Indigenous communities in North... Læs mere
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All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
All My Relatives demonstrates the significance of a new animist framework for understanding North American indigenous culture and history and how an expanded notion of personhood serves to connect otherwise disparate and inaccessible elements of Lakota ethnography.
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Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A study of the role blood quantum played in the assimilation period between 1887 and 1934 in the United States.
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The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings Into Space (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The story of the X-15, the pioneering research flight program in the fifties and sixties, and its pilots.
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Bandits and Liberals, Rebels and Saints: Latin America Since Independence (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In seven substantial essays, previously unpublished, Alan Knight offers a distinct perspective on several overarching themes in Latin American history, spanning approximately two centuries, from 1800 to 2000.
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Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Writer and anthropologist C. Thomas Shay traces the key roles of plants since humans arrived in the northern plains at the end of the Ice Age and began to hunt the region’s woodlands, fish its waters, and gather its flora.
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The Great Plains (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region of the Great Plains.
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The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Settler Sea is an environmental history of Southern California’s Salton Sea, the state’s largest inland body of water, and the complex politics of environmental and human health in the West.
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The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Horse Lover is H. Alan Day’s personal history of the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary, with its surprises and pleasures and its plentiful dangers, frustrations, and heartbreak.
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If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, If This Were Fiction takes on gender-based violence, trauma, recovery, and motherhood, focusing an open-hearted, frequently funny, clear-eyed feminist lens on Jill Christman’s first fifty years.
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Woman Pissing (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Elizabeth Cooperman celebrates artists who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty, while she reflects on her own life, grappling with questions of creativity, womanhood, and motherhood.
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