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Africa has internal cultural resources that have positively influenced its development. Community in Motion explores the relationship between theatre and Freirian pedagogy. It underscores the urgency of refocusing development strategies on human rather...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837173573Author Oskar K. RabinowiczFormat HardbackPage Count 231Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313236921Author Ben Zion GoldbergFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The inspiration for this book was the predicament of the Union of South Africa, the author's own country. Based on his study of St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei, Brookes has written a book neither wholly theological nor wholly political, considering not...

A pioneering contribution to the study of negotiation theory, this volume takes as its central organizing principle the thesis that national leaders are generally the key actors in international politics and conflict management. Therefore, the editors...

This groundbreaking study fills a significant gap in educational research literature as it explores the problem of persistent and pervasive underachievement by African-American students in the public schools of the United States. Teacher quality, school...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313255700Author Gregory U. RigsbyFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313248870Author Mitchell F. RiceFormat HardbackPage Count 133Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Provides a comprehensive annotated bibliography of work on African American women published between 1975-1999. The book focuses primarily on the scholarly literature and annotates journal articles, book chapters, and books that cover the lives of African...

Black women have a long history of collective struggle to create welfare organizations, schools, orphanages, and health centers for African Americans. Their clubs evolved for many reasons, including self-education, community improvement, and to raise the...

This is the first book to document thoroughly the lifestyle and collective experience of the many thousands of black sailors during this time period. Numerous illustrations in the form of original charts, tables, crew lists, and customs records support...

Although much has been written about African development since the beginning of independence, officials in government have contributed very few studies directly involved in development work. This book fills that gap by providing a practically-oriented...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313213748Author Donald M. JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

The melting pot is a myth, according to Fernandez, who shows that the United States is and always has been a banquet of cultures. As he argues, the best way to deal with the more than 20 million new immigrants since 1965 is to accept, recognize, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275905729Author Willaim ZartmanFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313232800Author Sylvia M. JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 255Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313234583Author Virginia E. Sanchez KorrolFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313232824Author Richard NewmanFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorgoffBook InformationISBN 9780313208812Format HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313236761Author John David SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 994Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Israeli history textbooks in the past contained many biases, distortions, and omissions concerning the depiction of Arabs and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Today these misrepresentations are gradually being corrected. This study encourages...

The authors of the narrative chapters represented in this volume have in common that they are dedicated to the realization of a critical, multicultural, democratic society. Individually, they are female and male, from diverse ethnicities, socio-economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837194769Author Ann M. PescatelloFormat HardbackPage Count 301Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The primary aim of New Directions in Celtic Studies is to focus on contemporary issues and to promote interdisciplinary approaches within the subject. Written by international scholars and practitioners in fields such as folklore, ethnomusicology, art...

Despite all the medical and media attention focused on the rate of overweight and obesity in the African American population, African American images and body types are greatly influencing changes in the fashion, fitness, advertising, television and...

Nigeria's Stumbling Democracy and its Implications for Africa's Democratic Movement is the first book to recount and analyze Nigeria's controversial general elections of April 2007. Because Nigeria's immense and diverse population of 140 million people...

Provides an accessible account of the social construction of racialized groups. Using both primary (in-depth interviews) and secondary data, four nations are examined: the UK, US, South Africa and Jamaica. Little attention has traditionally been given to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837163666Author Robert DickFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The most critical need second only to military support for the State of Israel is the economic expansion of its science-based industry--an industry that exploded in the 1970's due to a flood of public support for technological advancement. Industrial...

This book addresses the complex issue of incarceration of Latino/as and offers a comprehensive overview of such topics as deportations in historical context, a case study of latino/a resistance to prisons in the 70s, the issues of youth and and girls...

As the pioneering work in its field, Jewish Serials of the World brings together a diverse body of literature essential to the study of the Jewish press from 1674 to the present. It identifies pertinent primary source materials and provides comprehensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authoreval /f Gershon /i R.Book InformationISBN 9780313233258Author Gershon KievalFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780837197616Author George P. RawickFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

How can the culturally diverse communities of America live justly and fruitfully together? Not by assimilation into the dominant culture - nor by fighting for the freedom to pursue our own self-interest at the cost of our repressing both the wounds and...

Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison and Bob Marley each inhabited the shared but contested space at the frontiers of race. Gregory Stephens shows how their interactions with mixed audiences made them key figures in a previously hidden interracial...

Anti-Black Racism and the AIDS Epidemic: State Intimacies argues that racial disparities in HIV rates reflect the organization of racialized poverty and structural violence. Challenging the popular perception of HIV, black vulnerability to HIV in the US...

In the past two decades much attention has been focused on two major issues facing Soviet Jews: their struggle to emigrate and their efforts to practice their religion and culture within the Soviet Union. Altshuler's study provides the statistical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authoreeden /f James /i O.Book InformationISBN 9780313206580Author James O. BreedenFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837185224Author Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Are the relationships between minority groups as significant as those between dominant and minority groups? Phillips argues that they are in this innovative analysis of the relationships between the African American and the Jewish American communities...