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The marijuana grown today is exceptionally potent. It is many times more powerful than the marijuana sold in the 1960s and 1970s, due to genetic engineering. Yet many people still subscribe to the bel
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“A refreshing view of the British-Indian frontier in which Indians figure as prominently within the walls of the fort as beyond them.”—Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College “By showing the inf
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"At long last a fresh theological map that charts unexplored terrain--the racialized border separating Latino and black theologies."--Luis Leon, University of California at BerkeleyThe first book to c
Scattered from South Carolina down to Florida, then across the Gulf coast to eastern Texas are surviving pockets of longleaf pine woods the evaporation of which Reichling (biology, U of Memphis, Tenne
From Civil War to civil rights, from Spanish colonization to the twentieth-century founder of Coral Gables, from Florida natives to famous visitors, intriguing monuments and memorials stretch from Pe
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An original study of the Qur'anic foundations of women’s identity and agency, this book is a bold call to Muslim women and men to reread and reinterpret the Qur'an and to discover within its revelatio
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