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In 1989, the rape and beating of a white female jogger in Central Park made international headlines. Many accounts reported the incident as an example of /u201cwilding/u201d-episodes of poor, minority youths roaming the streets looking for trouble...

Seeing Indian dancers as gendered labour highlights the politics of Asian American racialization, migration, and citizenshipBook InformationISBN 9781439904305Author Priya SrinivasanFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Temple University Press,U.S...

This book updates the 1989 volume 'Caribbean in World Affairs' providing a comprehensive and theoretically-grounded account of diplomatic developments in the Caribbean. The new material includes attention to the changed global setting, updated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781385496008Author W EffordFormat HardbackPage Count 20Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 213g

This book was published in 2003.The "International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy" explores the influence of economics on the development of environmental and natural resource policy. In a series of 25 volumes, the most...

This title was first published in 2002: This collection of essays marks the formal launch of the Centre for Instalment Credit Law at the University of Wales, Swansea. Divided into three sections, it examines the concept of security within domestic law;...

Nietzsche worked to comprehend the nature of the individual. Richard White shows how Nietzsche was inspired and guided by the question of personal sovereignty and how through his writings sought to provoke the very sovereignty he described. White...

This title was first published in 2002: Drugs: Synonyms and Properties provides comprehensive coverage of the 10,000 drugs currently in common use worldwide. Its overall organization and inclusion of detailed chemical information fills an important gap...

A comparative history of Chinese and Western Civilization from the dawn of agriculture to the dawn of modernity in Europe, China and the West to 1600 explores the factors that led to the divergent evolution of two major cultures of the ancient world, and...

First published in 1985, Corporations, Classes and Capitalism raises some crucial questions – how important are large multinational companies? Who really controls the economy? Is government policy able to influence business activities? John Scott...

First published in 1978, Social Work is concerned with relating social methods and objectives to political ideology. Social work grew out of the fertile tradition of mainstream Liberal radicalism in the nineteenth century, and to appreciate its largely...

First published in 1988, He and She is about male attitudes to sex and gender in the 1980s. It examines the extent to which men consider themselves to be different from women in a number of areas, including interests, aptitudes, friendships and intimate...

From ‘People’ to ‘Citizen’ brings together social theory with policy practice to enlarge our understanding of the difference that democracy makes to the life of a nation. Unlike nationalism, democracy takes our attention away from the past to the future...

This book explores the idea of Muslim diaspora in context of Muslim communities in the United Kingdom. It critically looks at the notion of ummah and presents a comprehensive account of South Asian Muslims in London.Employing qualitative research methods...

Fully updated using the latest version of ArcGIS Pro and open-source platform KNIMEIncludes many compelling examples and real-world case studies related to social science, urban planning, and public policy with clear step-by-step instructionsProvides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919618091Author Dimitrios RoussopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966730Author Charles H HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 585g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966723Author Charles H HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 787g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913543221Author Dr. Jawanza KunjufuFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint African American ImagesPublisher African American ImagesWeight(grams) 453g

In a world desperate to comprehend and address what appears to be an ever-enlarging explosion of violence, this book provides important insights into crucial contemporary issues, with violence providing the lens. Violence: Analysis, Intervention, and...

Insurance is affordable protection for ourselves, our loved ones, and our belongings. As most people maintain some kind of insurance, it is also an extremely lucrative industry, generating billions of dollars annually. Investigative reporter Kenneth D...

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) was one of the founders of modern sociology. Ethics and the Sociology of Morals (La science positive de la morale en Allemagne) laid the foundation for Durkheim's future work. More than a review of current thought, it was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877227861Author KandiyotiFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853459644Author Leo PanitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833045157Author Greg RidgewayFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833037183Author James ChowFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833028426Author Thomas S. SzaynaFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833027894Author William SchwabeFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 131g

Utopia Limited is an original, engaging account of how postmodernism emerged from the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s. Marianne DeKoven argues that aspects of sixties radical politics and culture simultaneously embodied the full, final...

As the initial US observer, David Rawson participated in the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha, Tanzania. Later, he served as US ambassador to Rwanda during the last months of the doomed effort to make them hold. Despite the intervention of concerned...

The post-Darwinian theory of atavism forecasted obstacles to human progress in the reappearance of throwback physical or cultural traits after several generations of absence. In this original and stimulating work, Dana Seitler explores the ways in which...

With a low rate of immigration and a high rate of interracial marriage, Japanese Americans today compose the Asian ethnic group with the largest proportion of mixed-race members. Within Japanese American communities, increased participation by mixed-race...

In this major work, Carolyn Dever considers the ambivalence or outright hostility many feminists feel toward theory, arguing that a fundamental skepticism toward abstraction has been vital to the development of the movement. Dever analyzes the politics...

This book brings together some of the most prominent scholars working across the spectrum of Latin American and Latino studies to explore their changing intellectual undertaking in relation to global processes of change. Critical Latin American and...

A grounded and instructive analysis of the ways globalization affects a border city. Every marker of social difference can be easily interpreted in the fashionable language of "borderlands"--and if so, as Victor M. Ortiz-Gonzalez reveals, the...

An ambitious reassessment of the political uses of masking.Does the mask reveal more than it conceals? What, this book asks, becomes visible and invisible in the masking practiced in Caribbean cultures-not only in the familiar milieu of the carnival but...

A long-overdue study of the workplace movement, Raeburn's analysis focuses on the mobilization of lesbian, gay, and bisexual employee networks over the past fifteen years to win domestic partner benefits in Fortune 1000 companies. Drawing on surveys of...

Exposes complex intersections between genders and other identities in medieval cultures.Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about "men" and "women" of the medieval period, this volume demonstrates how the idea of gender-in the...

Shangri-La, the Bermuda Triangle, Transylvania, the Golden Triangle--far-flung in popular conception, these anomalous places nonetheless occupy the same mysterious zone, a mythography of unruly cartographic practices. And because this mythography becomes...

A revelatory examination of 150 years of sexuality-based discrimination against immigrants to the United States.Lesbians, prostitutes, women likely to have sex across racial lines, "brought to the United States for immoral purposes," or "arriving in a...