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Description not available.An introduction to parrots, a taxonomic order of birds, that includes descriptions of fifteen species and recommendations for finding, identifying, and observing them. AUTHOR: Mark J. Rauzon
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Pets & Animals 
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 | Sensible Justice by David Anderson
A journalist evaluates a variety of programs in the criminal justice system that offer alternatives to incarceration. AUTHOR: David Anderson
PUBLISHER: New Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Mexican Pet by Jan H. Brunvand
Together, these new wives` tales merge as an American picaresque, a compilation of myths that keep the telephone wires humming and cocktail parties doubly fueled .--Time. AUTHOR: Jan H. Brunvand
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Essential Shih Tzu by Bane Harrison
Description not available.Discusses the history of the breed and offers tips on grooming, training, feeding requirements, health care, and breeding AUTHOR: Bane Harrison
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Pets & Animals
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 | Tolerance by Lucia Raatma
Description not available.Describes tolerance as a virtue and suggests ways in which it can be recognized and practiced AUTHOR: Lucia Raatma
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes
One of the most far-reaching examinations of militant Islam written to date. Unnoticed by most Westerners, Daniel Pipes wrote in 1995, referring to militant Islam, war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States. Pipes, director of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, was one of the very few Americans to understand the significance of what to many appeared to be no more than isolated cases of violence. Long before September 11, 2001, Pipes publicly warned Americans that militant Islam had gone to war against America. Now Americans are listening to him. Pipes presents here the results of his research, dividing his work into two key subjects. First, he explains what militant Islam is and stresses the large and crucial difference between Islam, the faith, and militant Islam, the ideology. He demonstrates that it is not a clash of civilizations underway, but a battle for the soul of Islam among Muslims themselves. He shows that militant Islam is not caused mainly by poverty and that its adherents, far from being the dispossessed, tend to include the more talented and Westernized elements. Militant Islam strikingly has much in common with fascism and communism. Pipes also demonstrates how, at variance with our traditional separation of church and state, high officials of both the Democratic and Republican parties have had the effect of endorsing Islam. Secondly, Pipes takes up the relatively new subject of Islam in the United States, and how it has rapidly developed in the last decade. Significant elements within American Islam, for example, seek to replace the Constitution with the Qur'an. Americans can write far more candidly now about Jesus than about Muhammad, as various writers and journalists have learned to their surprise. Despite widespread claims that American Muslims face discrimination, they enjoy a higher socioeconomic standing than the national average. Jamil Al-Amin (the former H. Rap Brown), despite being sentenced t AUTHOR: Daniel Pipes
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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