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A polemical analysis of the ways Orientalism speaks through the texts of prominent Asian American writers.Asian American resistance to Orientalism-the Western tradition dealing with the subject and subjugation of the East-is usually assumed. And yet, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816623532Author Angelita Dianne ReyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

The authors'' approach emphasises governing alignments and their agendas. Applying this perspective they compare the effects of postindustrial and urban political transformations, and link these trends in the wider political economy.'Book InformationISBN...

When a baby can be made in a test tube, when embryos can be frozen for later fertilization, when a woman can carry to term a child that shares none of her genetic material, what is natural about the creation of life? This is the question addressed by...

Examines the relationship of "woman" to issues of non-western culture.Examines the relationship of "woman" to issues of non-Western culture: ethnic spectatorship, popular literature, the construction of literary history, and the revolutionary production...

In a world ever more complex and media-saturated, what is the value of the truth? In this text, Toby Miller provides an examination of how television, magazines, film and museums influence the way our society conceptualizes such issues as citizenship,...

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Considers the cultural and philosophical assumptions underlying virtual reality, and how the technology affects the real world.Virtual reality is in the news and in the movies, on TV and in the air. Why is the technology-or the idea-so prevalent...

Making Girls into Women offers an account of the historical emergence of "the lesbian" by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women's writing. Kathryn R. Kent proposes that modern lesbian identity in the United States has...

Where can one find the world's largest prairie chicken, a restaurant shaped like a fish, a massive Paul Bunyan, or an enormous ear of corn? Roadside sculpture is a uniquely American phenomenon and these strange and wonderful figures can be found...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786139075768Author Isidoros Krastyo MorpheusFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint UtilpublishingPublisher UtilpublishingWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901097856Author Keith SumnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Centre For Policy on AgeingPublisher Centre For Policy on Ageing

Public utilities constitute a large section of Europe' economy, and they have historically been at the centre of national states and their industrial strategies. However, the recent creation of the single market and the liberalisation of European utility...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583670637Author Carl MarzaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781243829450Author Drusilla Charlene Beecher ZehnerFormat PaperbackImprint Proquest, Umi Dissertation PublishingPublisher Proquest, Umi Dissertation...

Blending history and theory, Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms offers both a historical narrative and a critical analysis of the cultural visions and experiences of China's post-Mao era. In this volume, Xudong Zhang rethinks Chinese modernism as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816635849Author Judit BodnarFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

Every day seems to bring news of legal challenges to existing marriage laws and the constitutionality of any form of union for same-sex partners. In this timely and accessible book, Michael Mello argues that the public debates and political battles that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816634576Author Judith MayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)...

Beyond its emotional resonance and cultural ramifications, citizenship provides the legal and social framework for individual autonomy and political democracy. Recently, the question of citizenship has gained renewed attention in response to major trends...

Reclaims the lost history of women's contributions to the development of American citiesIn the days between the Civil War and World War I, women rarely worked outside the home, rarely went to college, and, if our histories are to be believed, rarely put...

Harlem is used as an emblem of black progress in the candid study that takes a hard look at race, class, and gentrification among African Americans. Simultaneous.Book InformationISBN 9780816640515Author Monique M. TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count...

Globalization is transforming societies everywhere in paradoxical and contradictory ways. This book examines globalization's impact on race in the United States since the mid-1970s. On one hand, globalization is creating conditions that support...

Over the past thirty years, transnational investment, trade, and government policies have encouraged the decentralization of national economies, disrupting traditional patterns of urban and regional growth. Many smaller cities -- such as Seattle,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816633982Author Immanuel WallersteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota...

Sure to make you think twice before responding to the next telephone sales call you receive, this volume explores why telephone boiler rooms and other scams thrive and how fraudulent techniques and deception migrate to and from conventional businesses...

"A lively, readable narrative, informative to general readers and scholars alike. In its closely documented pages, one of the boldest and most iconoclastic women in Jacksonian America lives again." -- New York Times Book Review Reviews"Lively and...

In six months bridging 1989 and 1990, the German Democratic Republic underwent a transformation that took the world almost completely by surprise. Yet unlike the revolution in Poland a decade earlier, only a small percentage of workers played...

This finely detailed statistical study of lynching in ten southern states shows that economic and status concerns were at the heart of that violent practice. Stewart Tolnay and E. M. Beck empirically test competing explanations of the causes of lynching,...

Once preoccupied with Brazilian slavery as an economic system, historians shifted their attention to examine the nature of life and community among enslaved people. Stuart B. Schwartz looks at this change while explaining why historians must continue to...

Langston Hughes is well known as a poet, playwright, novelist, social activist, communist sympathizer, and brilliant member of the Harlem Renaissance. He has been referred to as the "Dean of Black Letters" and the "poet low-rate of Harlem." But it was as...

Newspapers catalyzed public opinion in the nineteenth century, and the press's coverage and practices shaped the representation of Native Americans for white audiences. John M. Coward delves into the complex ways journalism both perpetuated and created...

The richness and the range of Native American spirituality has long been noted, but it has never been examined so thoroughly, nor with such an eye for the amazing interconnectedness of Indian tribal ceremonies and practices, as in An Archaeology of the...

"Truly remarkable portraits of courage." -- John van Amerongen, editor, Alaska Fisherman's Journal "These little-known tales of women working in Alaska's commercial fishing industry make for great reading. . . . Readers will be amazed by...

Governments, Competition and Utility Regulation continues the series of annual books, published in association with the IEA and the London Business School, which critically reviews the state of utility regulation and competition policy. The book contains...

Blacks under Spanish rule in Florida lived in a more complex and international world that linked the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe with a powerful and diverse Indian hinterland. Jane Landers's pioneering study of people of the African diaspora under...

Now that privatisation of utilities is substantially complete, regulation has become a major economic and political issue. To provide an intellectual basis for utility regulation, each year the Institute in conjunction with the London Business School...

Treating Old Testament stories as the product of an oral traditional world, A Prelude to Biblical Folklore sets biblical narrative in a broad cross-cultural context and reveals much about the richness and complexity of the ancient Israelite civilization...

Sociologist Norman K. Denzin characterized Lonnie Athens's earlier work as "the most far-reaching, provocative, and profound analysis of violent conduct" available in criminological literature. In Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited, Athens...

Macmillan's Health and Family Life Education for Primary level is an exciting new course for Caribbean primary schools based on the CARICOM Regional Curriculum Framework. The course follows the four CARICOM themes; Self and Interpersonal Relationships,...