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This is the first book to provide readers with an overall understanding of changing patterns in the extended and conjugal family relationships of the second largest ethnic minority group in the United States.Book InformationISBN 9780930390259Author Norma...

Mexico is becoming increasingly important as a focus of U.S. immigration policy, and the movement of people across the U.S.-Mexico border is a subject of intense interest and controversy. The U.S. approach to cross-border flows is in flux, the economic...

Tong Shao-Yi and His Family presents a biography of the Chinese statesman Tong Shao-Yi, one of the first hundred boys sent from China in the 1870's to live with American families and attend American schools. Tong returned to China in 1881 to become a...

This book examines the political parties which emerged on the territories of the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only took over government power but merged with government itself. It discusses how these parties, disillusioned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783741124389Author Georgia SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint HansebooksPublisher HansebooksWeight(grams) 59g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789967252721Author Richard HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sonoon JerPublisher Sonoon JerWeight(grams) 60g

Uninformed and reactionary responses in the years following the events of 9/11 and the ongoing 'War on Terror' have greatly affected ideas of citizenship and national belonging. In Securitized Citizens, Baljit Nagra, develops a new critical analysis of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786205513248Author Eric KariukiFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

This is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race - not just ethnicity - and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects...

The detektiv, Russia's version of the murder mystery, has conquered what in Soviet days loved to call itself 'the most reading nation on earth.' Most Russians don't read much Tolstoy, but they devour the lurid covers and cheap paper of the detektivs by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725265691Author Damasus C OkoroFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985300965Author Umberto MucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Few groups face as many misconceptions within their new countries as do Muslim immigrants. This book challenges the common misperceptions of Muslim immigrants as a homogeneous, religiously driven group and identifies the tensions they experience within...

Canadian Sikhs have seen great changes in the lives of their communities, which are primarily concentrated in larger urban centres, especially Vancouver and the British Columbia lower mainland. In The Sikh Diaspora in Vancouver, Kamala Elizabeth Nayar...

Written by established and emerging Indigenous intellectuals from a variety of positions, perspectives and places, these essays generate new ways of seeing and understanding Indigenous Australian history, culture, identity and knowledge in both national...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783348029247Author Alexander CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint HansebooksPublisher HansebooksWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789518580686Author Clifford SatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Suomen Kirjallisuuden SeuraPublisher Suomen Kirjallisuuden SeuraWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498570251Author Ashmita KhasnabishFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

The Outsider Within contains ten articles written by new and veteran scholars of Japanese women writers, both from the U.S. and abroad, with a focus on their fictional works available in English translation. Preceded by a general introduction, which...

Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam steps beyond the limitations of the traditional scholarly framework used to evaluate the politics of Islamic societies, and assembles a selection from the best available English-language writings on a matter of...

During the early decades of the twentieth century, Thailand's capital, Bangkok, took on an increasingly cosmopolitan character-a development fueled both by global economic forces and a local revolution in communications. The 1920s were a particularly...

This timely study is the first to examine the relationship between competition for energy resources and the propensity for conflict in the Caspian region. Taking the discussion well beyond issues of pipeline politics and the significance of Caspian oil...

This timely volume provides an in-depth analysis of recent events surrounding the conflict between Taiwan and China over Taiwan's sovereignty. After a thoughtful discussion of the origins of the dispute, Copper examines the hallmark 1996 election in...

Vision and Time is a wake up call for Africans and people of goodwill that the academic enterprise cannot continue knowledge creation with a business as usual attitude. There has to be a major transformation of the intellectual perspectives regarding...

The Constitutional History and Law of Sierra Leone (1961-1995) is a legal analysis of the complex interaction between constitutional norms and institutional and societal forces. Sierra Leone, a new Commonwealth state once regarded as a model of British...

This text deals with Chinese art during the Tang Dynasty, from 618 to 907. It presents the artistic findings from the last ten years of archaeological excavation in China-findings that have never before been published in the West. Court Art of the Tang...

This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects...

The detektiv, Russia's version of the murder mystery, has conquered what in Soviet days loved to call itself "the most reading nation on earth." Most Russians don't read much Tolstoy, but they devour the lurid covers and cheap paper of the...

How are histories of racial oppression dealt with in contexts of diversity? Chana Teeger tackles this question by examining how young South Africans, born into democracy, confront their country’s racist apartheid past in high school history lessons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783741199837Author Reg G of Mar Bir & Deaths in IrelandFormat PaperbackImprint HansebooksPublisher HansebooksWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783741122194Author Central Statistics OfficeFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint HansebooksPublisher HansebooksWeight(grams) 82g

This book, based on extensive original research, examines the practice by women in a university sport setting of kendo, the Japanese martial art which, using bamboo swords as well as protective armour, and descended from traditional swordsmanship,...

Power, Autonomy and Division of Labor in Mexican Dual-Earner Families examines the levels of decision-making power and autonomy of Mexican married women within the household, and the effect that several individual and context characteristics have on each...

Tainted Perceptions asserts that beginning with the pre-Tiananmen Square incident of 1989, American popular and institutional images of China focused on the reformist nature of the government, but following the military crackdown in June 1989, this...

This book introduces major philosophical theories and issues in the context of the contemporary debate about the so-called culture wars in American society. It is designed to make these theories come alive as they are related to these vital contemporary...

In this first book to explore the Chinese diaspora from geographical perspectives, leading scholars in the field consider the profound importance of meanings of place and the spatial processes of mobility and settlement for the Chinese overseas. They...

Ethnic and religious differences, a widening socio-economic divide, tension between foreigners and locals. These are some of the contemporary challenges to integration in Singapore. How we navigate them will determine the type of society we become. This...

Redistricting and Minority Representation brings together expert research and analysis of the past and present status of minority representation as influenced by the effects of redistricting and the changes that need to be made. It begins with an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206154655Author Besim MuhadriFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783942883146Author Tatiana BulgakovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Verlag Der Kulturstiftung SibirienPublisher Verlag Der Kulturstiftung...