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Jews form only a tiny proportion of the Australian population, yet they have made outstanding contributions and have influenced Australian society immeasurably. Stories such as that of Sir John Monash, Australian commander-in-chief during World War I,...

The Greeks have made an enormous contribution to Australian cultural and social life, and this book vividly tells their story. Beginning with an examination of the conditions in Europe that led to migration, it details the role of the Greeks in...

Nominated for the 1995 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology A provocative, insightful volume, Black Women in America offers an interdisciplinary study of black women's historic activism, representation in literature...

The recent Los Angeles race riots exposed the depth and persistence of the race problem in the United States and symbolized the despair and hopelessness felt in North America's cities. The key question remains: Are African-Americans making any progress...

The children of an influential Ojibwe-Anglo family, Jane Johnston and her brother George were already accomplished writers when the Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft arrived in Sault Ste. Marie in 1822. Charged by Michigan's territorial governor with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615803753Author Marc LombardoFormat PaperbackImprint Exousia PressPublisher Exousia PressWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873518208Author Betty A. BerglandFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692620274Author Zoe PielFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Entertaining Diversity, Inc.Publisher Entertaining Diversity, Inc.Weight(grams) 122g

This is a bibliography listing and describing approximately two thousand book and periodical titles on the subject of race generally and white-black relations in American in particular. Although the main interest is upon the more serious studies of...

Daniel A. Rodriguez's history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the U.S. occupation focuses on the intersection of public health and politics in Havana. While medical policies were often used to further American colonial power, in Cuba, Rodriguez...

Part history, part memoir, Outliving the White Lie: A Southerner's Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey charts conflicting narratives of American and southern identity through a blend of public, family, and deeply personal history. Author James...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992808327Author Victoria BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Neville House PublishingPublisher Neville House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393093032Author S N EisenstadtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996051132Author Paulo da CostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Boavista PressPublisher Boavista PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970340399Author Ernest IalongoFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint John D. Calandra Italian-American InstitutePublisher John D. Calandra...

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The continuation of China's successful rise depends considerably on the capacity of the Chinese government to prevent and manage a wide range of potential and actual crises, which could, if mishandled, have serious adverse consequences for China. These...

This book offers an innovative perspective on Muslim family life in British society. Drawing on recent debates, the book considers how theories of family have overlooked Muslim families and offers a comprehensive framework to address this oversight. ...

Bringing together multi-award-winning author Hazel Carby's most important and influential essays, Cultures in Babylon addresses the political dilemmas of representing Black women as sexual subjects, considers how far female sexuality is exploited by...

The Northwest Coast of North America was home to dozens of Native peoples at the time of its first contact with Europeans. The rich artistic, ceremonial, and oral traditions of these peoples and their preservation of cultural practices have made this...

What does it mean to be Black in Scotland today? How are notions of nationhood, Scottishness, and Britishness implicated in this? Why is it important to archive and understand Black Scottish history? Reflecting on the past to make sense of the present,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788126129270Author R. S. TiwariFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Anmol Publications Pvt LtdPublisher Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825365752Author Mita BanerjeeFormat HardbackPage Count 423Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams)...

Reveals the historical and political significance of “The Divine Nine”—the Black Greek Letter Organizations In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his studies at Cornell University. Despite their academic pedigrees, Callis and his fellow African American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496028093Author Christian KaufmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dietrich ReimerPublisher Dietrich ReimerWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496028031Author Erna FiorentiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 241Imprint Dietrich ReimerPublisher Dietrich ReimerWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496027683Author Erich KastenFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Dietrich ReimerPublisher Dietrich ReimerWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 135mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921816628Author Hunjia JuanFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921816550Author Jiqieng JuanFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 454g

This edited collection evaluates indigenous community-based initiatives from around the world. Examples include programmes among Maori in New Zealand, Sami in Norway, Aboriginal People in Australia, Innu in Canada, and Native Americans in the mainland...

When a young white child growing up in Tanzania discovers why her family's African gardener so dislikes the chameleon she spots in a tree, she is plunged into a puzzled awareness of the complexities of race, colour and difference.As the 'I' of the...

The Kora: A Contextual Reclamation of the African Perspective is a collection of readings curated to facilitate a dynamic interest in African American studies and African American history. The anthology emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the...

The growing mobility of people within and into the Asia Pacific region has created environments of increasing diversity as nations become hosts to both permanent and temporary multicultural societies. How do we begin to gauge the impact of mobility and...

Using digital storytelling-a new media genre that began in California in the late 1990s and that proliferated across 'the West' in the 2000s-as a site of analysis, this book asks, 'What is done in the name of the everyday?' Like everyday...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588263988Author David L. BrunsmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Lynne Rienner Publishers IncPublisher Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc

This book systematically and consistently analyses a wide range of symbols for Europe, critically interpreting their often contradictory or ambiguous dimensions of meaning and uncovering several astonishing aspects of how Europe is currently identified -...

Modern Argentine Masculinities gathers essays that explore the social construction of gender from the nineteenth century to the present. Authors analyze literary and cinematic texts, as well as contemporary popular songs, and offer a wide-ranging picture...

Contrary to today's widespread emphasis on "cultural diversity," the United States has become not a multicultural society but the world's first post-cultural society. Cultures, Christopher Clausen argues, have lost power over both public and...

Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation, one being the Akan village in Ghana called Adamorobe. Annelies Kusters traveled to Adamorobe to conduct...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536171105Author Thomas MoellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 232g