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The United States has a long-maintained strong affiliation with South Korea. On the other hand, North Korea, a country on President Bush's 'axis of evil' list, and the United States have been negotiating for years about preventing North Korea from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517906146Author Simona SawhneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

A comparative analysis of women's struggle for change in India.The women's movement in India has a long and rich history in which millions of women live, work, and struggle to survive in order to remake their family, home, and social lives. Whether...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252060267Author Peter RachleffFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams)...

If culture is suspect, what of cultural theory? At a moment when culture's traditional caretakers -- humanism, philosophy, anthropology, and the nation-state -- are undergoing crisis and mutation, this volume charts the tensions and contradictions in the...

"A major contribution in women's studies and in other disciplines dealing with issues of agency. The authors raise issues that are very important . . . and they raise them as they must be raised--by bridging theory and action...

Population Policies Reconsidered brings together a rare combination of scholars, feminists, social activists, and policy-makers across many disciplines to critically reexamine the scientific foundation of contemporary population policies. This book...

Trained in both classics and computer science, Bolter considers the cultural impact of computers on our age, comparing the computer to earlier technologies that redefined fundamental notions of time, space, language, memory, and human creativity...

Contemporary cultural historians have located the Counter-Reformation as the most significant point in the material, intellectual, and spiritual development of Spain. Robust and full of productive contradictions, Spanish culture took a critical turn in...

Regulation is on the rise across the world as the state steps back from public ownership. However, as the authors highlight, the style of political delegation to regulatory authorities has not followed a uniform trajectory but rather institutional...

This book is the latest annual review of utility regulation and deregulation, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School. It contains a series of chapters from leading practitioners in the field which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461232431Author Henry HallamFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint Hardpress PublishingPublisher Hardpress PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

A compelling study of the origins of racial conflict and violence in America."We'll just be hanging out, partying. And somebody will say, 'Hey, let's go on a mission.' That's when you go looking for people who don't belong in the neighborhood, and you...

"The Making and Breaking of the Australian Family" is concerned with the Australian social history and the theory of the family. The book places the debate in its historical context, pointing out that the family is not a pre-given institution,...

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A hard-hitting look at the story behind California's famous scenery.The beauty of the California landscape is integral to its place in the imagination of generations of people around the world. In The Lie of the Land, geographer Don Mitchell looks at the...

Qualitative Research is changing as a result of postmodern influences which have changed the way research is interpreted and understood. This has prompted questions which have been knocking at the door of qualitative research for some time now: Who is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564323286Author Corinne A CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Human Rights WatchPublisher Human Rights Watch

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564322449Author Human Rights WatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Human Rights WatchPublisher Human Rights WatchWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854891150Author Willie ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Rivers Oram PressPublisher Rivers Oram Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919618978Author Rita ArdittiFormat HardbackPage Count 398Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

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The author discusses the nature of the Social Conscience and the moral values that it embodies. Seeking to do what is right, motivated by a sympathetic awareness of others, driven by the instinct to care and acknowledging the necessity to share, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780799215151Author Ian BuntingFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint University of Cape Town PressPublisher Juta Academic

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919618107Author Dimitrios RoussopoulosFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300059939Author Human Rights WatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Human Rights WatchPublisher Human Rights WatchWeight(grams) 550g

California's San Gabriel Valley has been called an incubator for ethnic politics. Located a mere fifteen minutes from Los Angeles, the valley is a brave new world of multiethnic complexity. Here Latinos and Asian Americans are the dominant groups, rather...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087937106Author Troy BronsonFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Indy PubPublisher Indy PubWeight(grams) 127g

Persistent Disparity provides a comprehensive examination of the magnitude and scope of racial economic disparity in the United States. The authors directly assess the extent of black economic progress in the US since World War II and address the...

A fascinating and haunting exploration of the bound foot in Chinese culture.Why did so many Chinese women over a thousand-year period bind their feet, enduring rotting flesh, throbbing pain, and hampered mobility throughout their lives? What compelled...

This book provides a balanced presentation of international trends in infrastructure regulation and financing. Based on recent developments in microeconomic theory, it comprehensively discusses the role of the state and the private sector in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816632626Author Michelle CitronFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)...

Mark Kleinman's new book explains what has happened to housing policy in Europe over the last two decades, and what housing policy can tell us about welfare development more generally over the period. Housing, Welfare and the State in Europe identifies a...

This book examines the ongoing transformation of public utilities, also known as network-based industries, in Western Europe and the United States. Examples are telecommunications, energy, and water distribution. Most of these network-based industries...

This major work, the result of collaboration among scholars who worked at dozens of sites from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, is the first volume in English to summarize the massive quantity of archaeological data on the Paleolithic occupation...

The collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union requires a major rethink of many sociological theories of social integration and change. Drawing on a wide range of social theory, Social Theory and the Crisis of State...

Economic science has extensively studied the creative power of individuals and social groups, but it has largely ignored the destructive power of economic agents. This highly original book redresses the balance and, for the first time, looks at how much...

If our so-called culture war seems all on the side of the right, there's no reason. It is all in their heads. From the beleaguered - some would say baffled - silence on the left, this book at long last emerges with a devastating diagnosis of the...

This book examines the discourse surrounding the wireless, created by the Anglo-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless excited early twentieth-century audiences before it even became a viable black box technology. The wireless adhered to...