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    Bull City Summer: A Season At The Ballpark unites a group of documentarians around the 2013 season of minor league baseball in Durham, North Carolina, evoking an atmosphere described by The New York Times as lazing out on the porch of a summer’s night and meditating to your favorite ball team.” For a printed version with photographs, please visit 978-0-9889831-6-8. ... Leer más

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South.This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, ... Leer más

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  • A Pitcher's Story

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    Baseball's best writer offers an extraordinarily candid and thorough exploration of the inner craft of pitching from one of the game's best, David Cone.There is no big league pitcher who is more respected for his skill than David Cone.In his stellar career Cone has won multiple championships andcountless professional accolades. Along the way, the perennial all-star has had to adjust to five ... Leer más

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  • A Social History of Women in Ireland, 1870–1970

    An Exploration of the Changing Role and Status of Women in Irish Society

    A Social History of Women in Ireland is an important and overdue book that explores the role and status of women in Ireland from 1870 until 1970, looking at politics, sociology, marriage patterns, religion, education and work among other topics. It provides a vital missing piece in the jigsaw of modern Irish history. Using a combination of primary research and published works, A Social History of ... Leer más

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  • Village Japan

    Everyday Life in a Rural Japanese Community

    In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast.Ritchie weaves together anecdotes, conversations, lyrical verses, and unforgettable character studies to vividly and hauntingly evoke the rhythms of life in a ... Leer más

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  • The Quality of Home Runs

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    In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. The Quality of Home Runs is Carter’s lively ethnographic exploration of the interconnections between baseball ... Leer más

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  • Social Development (Routledge Revivals)

    Its Nature and Conditions

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    Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of sociological thought. Of particular interest to the modern sociologist is his delineation of the struggle of the human mind towards rationality in thought and action and his insistence on the principle that in all social investigations it is necessary to ... Leer más

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  • Five Plays

    "An important new voice in the American theater."—Los Angeles Times"If there's a soul adrift—physically or spiritually—in the Gem State, chances are good he sprang from the fertile pen of Samuel D. Hunter."—Playbill"Mr. Hunter . . . writes with unusual insight into, and empathy for, people whose lives have settled into sad stasis, or strategic withdrawal . . . [He is] sure-footed when it comes to ... Leer más

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  • In the Blood

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    Fatherhood is gaining ever more public and political attention, stimulated by the increasing prominence of fathers’ rights groups and the introduction of social policies, such as paternity leave. Intimate Fatherhood explores discourses of contemporary fatherhood, men’s parenting behaviour and debates about fathers’ rights and responsibilities.The book addresses the extent to which fatherhood has ... Leer más

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  • Negotiating Adolescence in Rural Bangladesh

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