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Understanding Ethnic Conflict provides all the key concepts needed to understand conflict among ethnic groups. Including approaches from both comparative politics and international relations, this text offers a model of ethnic conflict’s internationalization by showing how domestic and international actors influence a country’s ethnic and sectarian divisions. Illustrating this model in five original case studies, the unique combination of theory and application in Understanding Ethnic Conflict facilitates more critical analysis of contemporary ethnic conflicts and the world’s response to them.

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There are few media issues more pressing, or potentially more consequential, thatn the representation of ethnic minorities. This authoritative text therefore brings together leading international researchers to examine some of the latest processes of change (and continuity) informing the field of ethnic minorities and the media. After an introductory essay mapping recent approaches in the field, chapters are structured thematically to address key processes of change such as media representations, media production, and cultures of identity. ... Read more

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Sociologist Stephen Steinberg argues that traits which are often considered "ethnic" may well be more directly related to class, locality, and other social conditions. Updated with a lengthy epilogue on recent immigrants and a penetrating reappraisal of the black underclass.

"An exciting yet level-headed critique . . . a clear, well-written and often provocative analysis."
-Herbert Gans, Columbia University ... Read more

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Myrna Thomas
This is a fascinating book. It explains the historical experiences of specific ethnic groups, shedding light on the truth, and smashing stereotypes along the way. Truly enlightening.

A differnt realm of thinking
Forget about social science. Why do I have cystic fibrosis? Why does she have sickle cell anemia? Why does he have Tay sachs? Therein lies the answer.

The Ethnic Myth
Well wrritten, incisive and designed to make the reader critically think about this issue.I recommend this book to all who are working toward cultural competency.

Read for Class
I had to read this book for a class I was taking on racial and cultural minorities.I think Steinberg makes a few good points but watch out for opinion related text.

A Great Book
A great book by Sociologist StephenSteinberg. The author combines Elegant WritingWith a powerful analysis of a major contemporary problem. This indepth investigation of the economic and historical factors affectingvarious American minority groups also provides fresh insight into why someAmerican immigrants succeed and others fail.I will definately reccomendthis book. ... Read more

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"New theoretical propositions, original data, and rigorous empirical tests are what one looks for in cutting-edge social science. Fortunately, all three are apparent in Ethnic Cues. The author has pushed his thinking to develop new ways of understanding and explaining patterns of Latino voting behavior."
---Luis Ricardo Fraga, University of Washington, Seattle

"Matt Barreto investigates some of the ramifications of two new related developments in American political life: the stunning growth of the Latino immigrant population in recent decades and the accompanying exponential explosion in the number of Latino candidates running for political office at the local, state, and national levels."
---Reuel R. Rogers, Northwestern University

Until recently, much of the research on political participation has resisted the idea that Latino voters rely on ethnic cues. The discussion has become increasingly salient as political strategists have learned to define individual voting blocs and mobilize them in support of a candidate. Nourished by the debate over immigration, the search for the Latino voter has now blossomed into a national political obsession.

Against this background, Matt A. Barreto assays the influence of ethnic identification on Latinos' voting behavior. Barreto asks whether the presence of co-ethnic candidates actually does mobilize Latino voters in support of these candidates. His analysis of in-depth candidate interviews, public opinion surveys, official election results, and statistics finds that it does. He goes on to describe the dynamic of voting in the Latino community and sharpens our appreciation of how ethnic considerations influence the electoral choices of Americans more generally. In a time of intensely focused campaign appeals, Barreto's work has much to tell us about the mechanics of public opinion and the role of race and ethnicity in voting behavior.

Matt A. Barreto is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington and Director of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Sexuality (WISER).

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"Exiles and Islanders" describes Irish settlement in Prince Edward Island from 1763 to 1880. By tracing the history of these early settlers, Brendan O'Grady demolishes the myth that the Island's Irish settlers were largely refugees from the Great Potato Famine. Using a wide variety of sources, including folklore, newspaper reports, personal interviews, letters, shipping records, and historical data, O'Grady goes beyond mere statistics. We learn about settlers' hometowns in Ireland, why they left, when and how they came to Prince Edward Island, where they settled, and how they adapted to living in PEI. Over ten thousand Irish settled in PEI in the nineteenth century; by 1850 they comprised about a quarter of the Island's population. They were mainly pre-Famine immigrants and mostly Catholic. They came from all thirty-two counties of Ireland and settled in all sixty-seven townships of PEI. They took up farming, fishing, and rural occupations; raised large families; and retained their Irishness for several generations. "Exiles and Islanders" includes family names and places of origin that will be of particular interest to the Island's Irish descendants.An intriguing cultural history, the book provides new insight into the early settlers of Prince Edward Island. ... Read more

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Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and tradition inform post-war Canadian and American Jewish literature, A House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel, Mordecai Richler, Chava Rosenfarb, Philip Roth, and Nathanael West. Norman Ravvin highlights the concerns that these disparate writers share as Jewish writers, as well as placing their work in the context of the broader traditions of multiculturalism, post-colonial writing, and critical theory. At once scholarly and poetic, A House of Words will appeal to the general reader of Canadian, American, and Jewish literature and history, as well as to specialists in these fields. ... Read more

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Revival of religious practices of all sorts in China, after decades of systematic government suppression, is a topic of considerable interest to scholars in disciplines ranging from religious studies to anthropology to political science. This book examines contemporary religious practices among the Premi people of the Sichuan-Yunnan-Tibet area, a group of about 60,000 who speak a language belonging to the Qiang branch of Tibeto-Burman. Koen Wellens's ethnographic research in two Premi communities on opposite sides of the border, and his analysis of available historical documents, find multiple advocates and rationales for the revival of both formal Tibetan Buddhism and the indigenous Premi practices centered on ritual called anji.

Wellens argues that the variety in the shape the revitalization process takes-as it affects Premi on the Sichuan side of the border and their counterparts on the Yunnan side-can only be understood in a local cultural context. This full-length study of the Premi, the first in a language other than Chinese, makes a valuable contribution to our ethnographic knowledge of Southwest China, as well as to our understanding of contemporary Chinese religious and cultural politics.

Koen Wellens is a researcher in the China Program of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo.

"A much-welcomed book on the topic of religious revival in reform-era China and on the Premi people, as well as on the broader themes of identity politics and the politics of incorporation." -Adam Yuet Chau, University of Cambridge ... Read more

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Through personal stories, proven experience and a thorough analysis of the biblical text, Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church illustrates both the biblical mandate for the multi-ethnic church as well as the seven core commitments required to bring it about. Mark DeYmaz, pastor of one of the most proven multi-ethnic churches in the country, writes both from his experience and his extensive study of how to plant, grow, and encourage more ethnically diverse churches. He argues that the "homogenous unit principle" will soon become irrelevant and that the most effective way to spread the Gospel in an increasingly diverse world is through strong and vital multi-ethnic churches. ... Read more

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Cultivating Church Diversity
This book makes a very important and challenging contribution to contemporary thinking about church life and health. If heaven is going to be filled with people of diverse ethnicities and languages, shouldn't we be practising for that now? Have most churches nowadays somehow forgotten the lessons learnt by the early church in the book of Acts about welcoming the Gentiles into their congregations?

According to DeYmaz, a healthy multi-ethnic church has seven core commitments. These are: embrace dependence; take intentional steps; empower diverse leadership; develop cross-cultural relationships; pursue cross-cultural competence; promote a spirit of inclusion; and mobilise for impact. Many of the larger churches in Melbourne including Syndal Baptist Church have been heading down the multi-ethnic path for some years, with Chinese and other Asian-language congregations; however DeYmaz's preferred model involves fully integrated multi-lingual worship services, rather than separate services in separate languages.

When a church makes a deliberate choice to be multi-ethnic, it is definitely not making the easiest available choice. It needs to be ready for plenty of conflict and intercultural misunderstanding. It won't necessarily be the fastest growing church in town, and it might scare away some people. But a multi-ethnic church does seem to be more reflective of God's plan for the church than a mono-ethnic church.

The Multiethnic Church: Biblical Mandate?
Mark DeYmaz writes my type of book, a list of seven-core commitments "that preach," a clear biblical mandate for building a healthy multiethnic church, and testimony from the field of the three primary situations that pastors find themselves in: planting, revitalizing, and transforming churches to live into the multiracial future that we imagine, and God is preparing for us in Glory.

I found refreshing DeYmaz' connection of the biblical mandate for transforming the homogeneous church and the follow through with a testimony from Village church in Oregon. Real pastors in places where the church may not be healthiest, but is experiencing fruit, need more than just a prophetic word, or denominational edict to be the healthiest they can be, they need to be convinced by the word of God. As with all three testimonies, the reader will be encouraged, and identify with real struggles along the road to revitalization, planting, or transforming.

My favorite part of DeYmaz' book is the exposition of the John 17 prayer of Christ. This identification with the glorification events of Christ in the final week, to building a healthy multiethnic church, I must admit, caught me completely by surprise. Basically, Jesus prays that we may all be one, most remember or exegete that part fine. DeYmaz goes to the next step asking the question, "Why does Christ pray so fervently for future followers to be completely united as one?" The point is that Jesus isn't just making a high-priest statement of fact rather a declaration of what the healthiest church would look like, and the source of the power to fulfill the Great Commission - being one.

Jesus broke down the dividing wall not just between God and Man, but between Jew and Gentile, male and female, slave and free. Do we believe it enough to transform, revitalize, and plant the places where we gather to conform to the prayer of Christ? Is the God we propagate powerful enough to make a way for this complete image of unity of which Jesus prays? Or will we continue living with an impotent God only able to create worship spaces of ethnic homogeneity. I believe this is part of the challenge of DeYmaz' book.

A very good buy.
I heard about this book and searched the web for very the best buyand delivery time. This book is a great book and because of a rapid delivery, I was able to gain tremendous insight on the issue of building a healthy multiethnic church.

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A church for all people?Tell me where!
Most of us only dream of attending a church where all people worship as one. Mark has not only written a great book (both theologically sound and highly instuctive on how to make it happen), but he is living it out as a Pastor in a part of the country where churches are still highly segregated.My wife and I attend the same multi-ethnic church... we love it! And if we ever had to move, we would be very intentional about joining another church "for all people" so that we can worship as one.

Churches Need to Consider the Picture we are Painting!
This is a must read for every Pastor or Teacher/Professor!Unity in the Church must be a top priority!This is a great foundation for us to start to change the perception of a Church still segregated.Let's role up are sleeves as Pastors and Teachers/Professors and get dirty cleaning up our reputation. ... Read more

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RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS: AMERICAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, Eighth Edition, explores race and ethnic relations in a global context, while extensively covering groups and issues in the United States. The text?s unique comparative approach is increasingly important and relevant in light of the growing ethnic diversity in a variety of societies, as well as the prominence of ethnic conflicts throughout the world. ... Read more

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Quite possibly the most boring textbook ever written
I'm using this textbook for a Sociology class on Race and Ethnicity, and while the textbook itself is very informative, I don't think Marger could have written a more boring textbook if he tried. Sure, the information contained within the book is valuable but it's presented in the most dry way possible and the entire textbook itself is drab - nothing but black walls of text on white pages. This book has made me despise this class because I have to devote (read: waste) hours just to get through one boring chapter after another every week.Students beware, this is a very informative textbook but you'll die trying to read it. It really does nothing to keep your attention on the subject matter or even increase your interest in the subject.

*Note* This is only my opinion. You may actually enjoy this textbook and the author's writing style. I would suggest reading the first chapter on Google books before purchasing just to make sure.

Cheap textbook for college class
I bought this edition of the textbook because there are little differences from the most current edition.With the money saved, you can photocopy the new content.

Academic Textbook Reads Like One
Although this book is informative, it is a bit dense. If, however, you are interested in the subject, it does have a wide array of articles and topics that are helpful for study in the field.

Worst Text Book EVER
Sadly I had to purchase this book for the full amount of $116.00 recently and I have such a hard time getting through each chapter. I wish that I would have picked a better class to take so I wouldn't have to go through this dull, boring book. The subject regarding race and ethnic relations is a great topic to study but not with this book.

Very dull
this book itself is plain and boring this coming from a sociology nerd. My entire class has a hard time following along because it lacks a way to keep the reader interested. race and ethnicity are a very important subject to sociology and this book does not do the topics justice. ... Read more

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Critical addtion to one's library on the Osage Nation
Rollins obviously did complete research on the Osage Nation & is able to communicate this information in an easily readible format. Maps compliment content & of all books I've read on the Osage Nation, this is the best. Rollins walks the reader through time, in a sequential manner, from when trappers first arrived in the Osage peoples territory to the 1840s, when their way of life & culture were overwhelmed & destroyed by the white man's "arrival" in the area.

If you desire just one, but most complete book on the Osage Nation, this is it!

Fantastic Book
Meticulously researched and easy to read study of the rise and fall of the Osage tribe from the 16th through the 18th centuries. This book explains on both a human and a global level the economic and political processess at work in the prairies and southern plains during this period of history.

carlwr@mail.ultraweb.net
A very scholarly written book. An excellent reference source for those researching the Osage Indian. However, the Author or publisher goofed on one of the References/Source cited: He cites " Wiggers, Robert "Osage Culture Change Inferred from Contact and Trade with the Caddo and Pawnee" an unpublished PH.D Dissertation, University ofMissouri 1985. The Author of this Dissertation is Robert Wiegers, Professor of History, Central Methodist College, Fayette, MO. I am a former student of his and have a copy of the Dissertation. This is probably a typographical error, but it would confuse the researcher. ... Read more

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In this perceptive and revealing study, Mary Waters explores the "reinvention" of ethnicity in the lives of the grandchildren and great grandchildren of European immigrants, asking how their ethnic heritage is lived, maintained, and celebrated. Through in-depth interviews with sixty third and fourth generation white ethnics in suburban California and Pennsylvania, the author discovers a surprisingly resilient sense of ethnicity among people who could reasonably label themselves simply "American."Mary Waters' research brings to light a fascinating history of American immigration, revealing aspects of a shared culture and ideology and the unique ways in which ethnic identities fulfill very American needs. Describing the "symbolic ethnicity" of later generation white ethnics as a quintessential American phenomenon, she argues that ethnicity has retained its importance in our lives precisely because it allows people to reconcile the contradictory American values of choice, individuality, and community.In addition to her exploration of the symbolic ethnicity of later generation middle-class whites, Mary Waters addresses its cost to society, contrasting it with the optionless ethnicity of non-white Americans. Her conclusions in Ethnic Options constitute an invaluable contribution to our understanding of contemporary American life. ... Read more

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Interesting read, flawed analysis
While I found the book to be an interesting study of suburban Catholics I did not find its conclusions to be valid.

Mary C. Waters did a study of 60 suburban Catholics and applied her findings to every white American. She was trying to remove religion as a factor in her study which is a laudable goal. She forgot to take into account that the Catholic church is a very traditional/conservative institution. People attracted to the Catholic church are more likely to be concerned about family history and values and therefore their ethnic background. At no point did the book discuss this flaw in the study.

The last chapter of the book has a discussion on racial issues that are not covered in other chapters. The discussion seems out of place for a book on the ethnicity of white europeans. At one point in the last chapter she uses a Dear Abby column to prove Asian ethnicity is not equivalent to Irish ethnicity.

The book seems to be a product of academic curiosity combined with academic laziness.

Ethnic Options
Mary Waters provides a provoking analysis and presentation of ethnic identity in American society. How people come to "choose" to identify in terms of ethnicity through influences of surnames, culturalpractices and even diet are essential to understanding race/ethnicity.While the focus of the book is on Caucasians, I would consider EthnicOptions as a valid source for those looking to explore issues of ethnicidentity.

Ethnic Options
Mary Waters provides a provoking analysis and presentation of ethnic identity in American society. How people come to "choose" to identify in terms of ethnicity through influences of surnames, culturalpractices and even diet are essential to understanding race/ethnicity.While the focus of the book is on Caucasians, I would consider EthnicOptions as a valid source for those looking to explore issues of ethnicidentity. ... Read more

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Combining text and readings in a single book, this volume (a joint venture by the authors and the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) of the American Sociological Association) includes a comprehensive theory section and a wide variety of applications of the theory to the experiences of different groups. ... Read more

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An average textbook
This book was used for a sociology class on American Minority Peoples, the book was rather dry and uninteresting in the begenning, but the reports themselves held average interest. It was an average textbook. ... Read more

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Costa Rica: A Global Studies Handbook offers readers an authoritative tour of a remarkable country, tracing its historical development from pre-Colombian inhabitants and Spanish colonization through rising prosperity in the mid-19th century to current struggles to define itself economically and politically.

Costa Rica combines narrative chapters on the nation's history and the current state of its political, social, and cultural institutions with alphabetically organized entries covering important people, places, and events in its development. Throughout, the authors, drawing on extensive research and their own experiences, highlight the many ways Costa Rica is different from its neighbors, as well as the challenges the country faces in the 21st century's globalized world.

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An annotated bibliography and an index round out this down-to-earth, highly readable primer.
Part of the Global Studies: Latin America & The Caribbean series, Costa Rica: A Global Studies Handbook is a solid educational text written for students, travelers, businesspeople, and anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of this beautiful nation. Costa Rica: A Global Studies Handbook is divided into a narrative section (which relates the history of the land along with information about its politics, institutions, society, and culture) and a reference section (which has a timeline of key events in Costa Rican history, a listing of significant Costa Rican organizations, and entries of key Costa Rican historical figures, places, and events). An annotated bibliography and an index round out this down-to-earth, highly readable primer. ... Read more

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Despite implicating ethnicity in everything from civil war to economic failure, researchers seldom consult psychological research when addressing the most basic question: What is ethnicity? The result is a radical scholarly divide generating contradictory recommendations for solving ethnic conflict. Research into how the human brain actually works demands a revision of existing schools of thought. At its foundation, ethnic identity is a cognitive uncertainty-reduction device with special capacity to exacerbate, but not cause, collective action problems. This produces a new general theory of ethnic conflict that can improve both understanding and practice. A deep study of separatism in the USSR and CIS demonstrates the theory's potential, mobilizing evidence from elite interviews, three local languages, and mass surveys. The outcome is a significant reinterpretation of nationalism's role in the USSR's breakup, which turns out to have been a far more contingent event than commonly recognized. International relations in the CIS are similarly cast in new light. ... Read more

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This book presents a comprehensive survey of the complex indigenous religions of the Americas, both North and South, as they were in the past and as they still exist in some societies. ... Read more

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Unfortunately Mostly for Academics
This well-researched and balanced survey of mostly North American Indian religions, attempts to introduce the reader to the most basic of notions and knowledge of these religions, in summary typological and phenomenological form, and to provide him with general conceptual categories for grouping them according to their similarities. It is the first such compendium that has been done in over a century.

Part I of the book deals with primitive Indian religions that relied on, and continue to rely on, verbal histories to record their religious, rites, myths and ceremonies. While many of the rituals and myths still remain in the verbal form, many have now been transcribed into written form and have been carefully collated. Like those of the more advanced tribes, these religions too link beliefs and rituals to social organization, social structure, to the environment, and to the social morphology of their respective societies, that is to an ideological system and conception of society that is basically holistic in its approach. In this way, and unlike normal non-Indian religions, this view of religion is not necessarily "God-centered," nor is it to be thought of as being divorced from society or from the larger ecological environment. In short, there is no "pie-in-the-sky," in most Indian religions, as the heavens and the earth are viewed as one continuous "this worldly" whole. Neither or these religions about personal rewards and punishments as much as they are about an interchange between their respective groups and the gifts the earth provides for their sustenance.

Part II treats the "so-called" high religions of the more advanced tribes. And here the author is referring mostly to the Mayans, the Incas and the Aztecs. Unlike the more primitive Indian religions, these religions relied on the written from, and like their non-Indians counterparts are scripturally-based. Unfortunately, the author's research deviates from that used in the study of the more primitive religions, as here he begins to draw on archeology and ethnology.

This deviation in methodology raises questions about the comparability of the two parts of the analysis, since it is clear from the overall analysis that both groups drew from each other. That is to say, the distinction drawn between them was not only arbitrary but arbitrary in a way that arguably could have done violence to the analyses themselves. Despite this, the book provides answers to many long standing questions: For instance, how religions sprang up at about the same time in history in vastly different areas? How interchanges across vast distances may have occurred? And, about the main benefits of religion in the context of both the more primitive and the more advanced Indian civilizations?

Altogether, this is an academic book, and not for the causal reader, primarily interested in understanding Indian religions, as was the case with my interests.

Three Stars.

Very interesting and thorough
The history of the world is in large part a history of its religions.Hultkrantz's book is an excellent resource on the religions and history of the American indigenous peoples.

The book is divided into two parts.Part one covers the religions of the tribal cultures.Hulkrantz also does a great job in explaining all of the anthropological terms used in the descriptions.Also very interesting is the analysis of broad themes found throughout North and South America that links the beliefs of all the tribes from their origins.

Part Two covers what Hultkrantz calls "Nuclear America" or the region extending from Mexico to Peru including the religions of the high cultures or advanced civilizations of the Inca, Maya, and Aztec.

Readers of this book will finish with a very broad understanding of American Indian history, culture, and religion.A re-reading will give an in-depth knowledge of these cultures.

Excellent Overview
The book has achieved its goal of overviewing the religious belief systems of Native American tribes of north and south america. Excellent resource book for religious comparative studies and Native American tribal studies. Easily readable. Recommended! ... Read more

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Ethnic diversity has marked the United States from its inception and is now experiencing watershed changes in its social, cultural, and ethnic/racial geographies. Considering the impact of these transformations, this unique text examines a range of ethnic groups in both historical and contemporary context. The contributors present a rich set of case studies of key ethnic and racial communities_including those of long-standing significance such as Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexican Americans, along with the Latin American and Asian groups that make up the vast majority of newer immigrants. Each case offers a brief historical overview of the group's immigration experience and settlement patterns and discusses how it has transformed-and been transformed by-the places in which they have settled. Exploring changing communities, places, and landscapes, this book offers a nuanced understanding of the evolution of America's ethnic geographies. ... Read more

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On time and in good condition
The service was fast and it arrived clean there was no problem with that.My only gripe is the amount of highlighting I had in the first chapter.Along with that, the fact that this person doesn't know what they were highlighting.But, despite that fact it was great. ... Read more