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Coming together from across several disciplines, the contributors to this book reflect on the considerable problem of inequality in Zambia, comparing it with other countries both in the region and more broadly. The World Bank consistently ranks Zambia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032135700Author Smriti SrinivasImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

This is Volume II of fourteen in the India: Language and Literature Series. Originally published in 1878, this book offers information on the Languagesof the East Indies, that include the language families of Aryan, Dravidian, Kolarian, Tibeto-Burman,...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138981010Author J. MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 780g

Containing some 1500 entries, this new bibliography will be widely welcomed for its comprehensive brief, and for the sub-section profiling principal NRMs convering history, beliefs and practices, main publications, braches worldwide and membership...

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Contributions by Lisa Abney, Patricia Anderson, Albert Camp, Katie Carmichael, Christina Schoux Casey, Nathalie Dajko, Jeffery U. Darensbourg, Dorian Dorado, Connie Eble, Daniel W. Hieber, David Kaufman, Geoffrey Kimball, Thomas A. Klingler, Bertney...

A popular, if erroneous, conception of Buddhism has been that of self-negation or even nihilism, that is to say a religion that is negative in its basic attitude. In this classic work, Professor Tachibana instead argues that Buddhism is an essentially...

When in 1997 golfer Tiger Woods described his racial identity on Oprah as "cablinasian," it struck many as idiosyncratic. But by 2003, a New York Times article declared the arrival of "Generation E.A."-the ethnically ambiguous. Multiracial had become a...

History will remember Desmond Tutu, who has been called South Africa's Martin Luther King, Jr., as a great leader in the struggle against apartheid. In this new biography, which includes original quotations from the author's interviews with Tutu, readers...

This book critically engages with the contemporary breakdown of trust between Muslim and non-Muslim communities in the West. It argues that a crisis of trust currently hampers intercultural relations and obstructs full participation in citizenship and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783738622034Author Andrea SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504032414Author Joan Steinau LesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Open Road DistributionPublisher Open Road DistributionWeight(grams) 140g

The Young Lords, who originated as a Chicago street gang fighting gentrification and unfair evictions in Puerto Rican neighborhoods, burgeoned into a national political movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with headquarters in New York City and...

Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought revisits the activism and arguments in support of separate black statehood from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, detailing the ways black nationalism historically mirrors broader currents in US...

Kings of Mississippi examines how a twentieth-century black middle-class family navigated life in rural Mississippi. The book introduces seven generations of a farming family and provides an organic examination of how the family experienced life and...

This interdisciplinary collection addresses the position of minorities in democratic societies, with a particular focus on minority rights and recognition. For the first time, it brings together leading international authorities on ethnicity, nationalism...

The Unfinished Politics of Race argues that the past few decades have seen important transformations in the politics of race. Contending that existing accounts have focused narrowly on the mainstream political sphere, this study argues that there is a...

This book is intended to fill in a gap in the study of modern ethno-national diasporas. Thus, against the background of current trends - globalization, democratization, the weakening of the nation-state and massive transstate migration, it examines the...

The topic of 'illegal' immigration has been a major aspect of public discourse in the United States and many other immigrant-receiving countries. From the beginning of its modern invocation in the early twentieth century, the often ill-defined epithet of...

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There is an urgent need for a book which combines the approaches of political science/sociology and history and particularly comparative politics with ethnic studies. There are currently many rapid and significant changes taking place in the world...

The last two decades saw Vietnam largely isolated in the world, but during this time economic reform and development slowly gathered pace. Recent events have led to Vietnams rapid re-emergence into the world and an escalation of economic changes. A...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415868938Author Arthur Coke BurnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 635g

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415865739Author Edward ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

Contention has surrounded the status of minorities throughout Indonesian history. Two broad polarities are evident: One inclusive of minorities, regarding them as part of the nation's rich complexity and a manifestation of its 'Unity in Diversity'...

First Published in 1995. The Russian original of the present work was posthumously published in 1962 in the revived Bibliotheea Buddhiea series and edited by G. N. Roerich. Improvements have been made to this title: the end-of-book notes are now arranged...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138862173Author Albrecht WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

The essays in this volume address the industrial, commercial, urban and regional reforms of China's planned economy during the 1980s. The emphasis is on the dominating institutional and bureaucratic presence of the state even as it sought to loosen the...

Immigration has been a controversial and contentious area of public policy since the Commonwealth Immigration Act ended most primary immigration in 1962. This study looks in detail at the work of practioners in the court-system that hears appeals from...

Blackdom, New Mexico, was a township that lasted about thirty years. In this book, Timothy E. Nelson situates the township’s story where it belongs: along the continuum of settlement in Mexico’s Northern Frontier. Dr. Nelson illuminates the set of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666705027Author Jeanne C DefazioFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 82g

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780367604769Author Satoshi IkedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 317g

This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting edge of racial theory, who address both the American concept of race and the specific problems experienced by those who do not fit neatly...

This title was first published in 1992: This book compares stability and change in the political culture of the relatively new Asian democracy Japan and the much older Western democracy Britain. While the democratic polity emerged incrementally and...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415865746Author Ralph T. H. GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

First Published in 2000. This is Volume I of five of a series on China, written in 1887 this is a collection of notes and observations from the author's time in China and includes topics such as the First Emperor, the Fifth Prince, Taoist Hermits and the...

With the resurgence of 'new Protectionism', international trade and trade relations are once again prime topics for study. This book, first published in 1997, examines in detail the different ways to answer the questions: What are the causes of trade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783962030476Author Iman MahranFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Galda VerlagPublisher Galda VerlagWeight(grams) 163g