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Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation
Daniel F. Chambliss, Russell K. Schutt
Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
Marita Sturken, Lisa Cartwright
One Big Table: A Portrait of American Cooking: 600 recipes from the nation's best home cooks, farmers, pit-masters and chefs
Molly O'Neill
When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka
A Place on the Corner (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
Elijah Anderson
I Speak English: A Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages-Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Ruth J. Colvin
Classic Vegetarian Cooking from the Middle East & North Africa
Habeeb Salloum
Cultural Sociology: An Introduction
Les Back, Andy Bennett, Laura Desfor Edles, David Inglis, Ron Jacobs, Ian Woodward, Margaret Gibson
Violence in the City of Women: Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil
Sarah J. Hautzinger
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
Grace Llewellyn
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October 2013
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BookLikes Reading Challenge: staciebnsn wants to read 100 books in 2013.
staciebnsn has read 81 book(s) out of 100 books in
2013 Reading Challenge
October 2013
14
reviewed: The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City
Not terrible, and some interesting information, but I personally prefer ethnographies to be a little more rich with personal ...
The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City - Matthew C. Gutmann
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October 2013
13
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MIND. BLOWN.
The Golden Mean - Nick Bantock
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October 2013
12
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I have a habit of buying books I remember wanting to read, letting them sit on the shelf for quite a while, and then when I f...
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
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October 2013
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September 2013
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I can see the potential for criticism but I still felt intensely as I was reading which to me indicates that the author has d...
Hikikomori and the Rental Sister: A Novel - Jeff Backhaus
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September 2013
14
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Highly readable, despite being written by an academic; addresses many of the questions I had as a person new to anarchism and...
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology - David Graeber
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September 2013
13
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Sad/creepy. Not exactly what I expected but to be fair by the time I got it out of the library I didn't even remember what it...
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
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August 2013
31
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Very eerie; I couldn't put it down.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ott, Jonathan Lethem
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August 2013
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August 2013
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reviewed: Homemade Root Beer, Soda & Pop
Might add (or remove) a star after we've tried out some recipes. A fun book to read even if you don't decide to try any of th...
Homemade Root Beer, Soda & Pop - Stephen Cresswell
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August 2013
13
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This book was a pile of shit and I feel stupider for having read it. Ugh. Trying way too hard.
Punk Land - Carlton Mellick III
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August 2013
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August 2013
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Depressing and emotionally difficult, but extremely well-written, particularly the combination of events in the novel and som...
The Round House - Louise Erdrich
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August 2013
09
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Good story, but basically detestable characters and overly descriptive at times. I didn't need the entire recipe every time s...
Lonesome Animals - Bruce Holbert
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August 2013
07
reviewed: Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
I enjoyed reading this, but strongly disagree with certain premises taken for granted by the contributors - namely the statis...
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry: (University Center for Human Values) - Michael Ignatieff, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Amy Gutmann, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, Diane F. Orentlicher
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August 2013
06
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Will be desperately awaiting the release of the sequels. What an awesomely twisted book. Horrible but in that great dystopian...
Shades of Grey: A Novel - Jasper Fforde
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