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First published in 1974, The Bantu-Speaking Peoples of Southern Africa is a revised and rewritten version of I. Schapera’s ethnographical survey of the Bantu-speaking tribes of South Africa. New South African contributors place on record all the known...

This title was first published in 2002. This two volume set collects in a conveniently accessible form the most influential articles by leading authorities in the study of China. It provides an international reference work, combined with an authoritative...

150 Things You Should Know about Security, Second Edition covers the essential tips and techniques for the latest trends in physical security. This indispensable guide further covers the latest technological trends for managing the security needs of all...

Contemporary Security Management, Fourth Edition, identifies and condenses into clear language the principal functions and responsibilities for security professionals in supervisory and managerial positions. Managers will learn to understand the mission...

An Introduction to Bibliometrics: New Development and Trends provides a comprehensible, readable and easy to read introduction to bibliometrics. Importantly, the book surveys the latest developments of bibliometrics (such as altmetrics, etc.) and how the...

Fundraising: How to Raise Money for Your Library Using Social Media introduces the phenomena that many members, supporters and fundraisers are not using social media to fundraise for their libraries, and may not be aware of its strengths and pitfalls...

Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities lays the foundations for a theoretical framework to understand the value of crowdsourcing, an avenue that is increasingly becoming important to academia as the web transforms collaboration and communication and...

With the rapid development of information and communication technology and increasingly intense competition with other organizations, information organizations face a pressing need to market their unique services and resources and reach their user bases...

First published in 1999, The Nenets' Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Northern Eurasia, an area which is also the homeland of such widely known epics as the Finnish Kalevala and Yakut...

Published in 1999. The liberalization process in Latin America during the 1990s resulted in the increase and diversification of trade in the region. Brazil, as a major player, strengthened its insertion into the world economy through the adoption of...

Through insightful, high-paced commentary this book directs attention south, towards Argentina. Current events, political debates, and the cultural production of artists, authors and public figures, including Cesar Aira, Maria Moreno, Naty Menstrual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087605708Author Rachael DupreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Teacher Created MaterialsPublisher Teacher Created Materials

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903400879Author Solly,Baron ZuckermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint The Menard PressPublisher The Menard Press

Social scientists have long recognized many apparent contradictions in the Minangkabau. The world's largest matrilineal people, they are also strongly Islamic and, as a society, remarkably modern and outward looking. Focusing on Minangkabau proper, and...

Half of Indonesia's massive population still lives on farms, and for these tens of millions of people the revolutionary promise of land reform remains largely unfulfilled. The Basic Agrarian Law, enacted in the wake of the Indonesian revolution, was...

This book describes some of the most innovative and successful strategies that have produced housing that working families can afford.About the AuthorRichard Haughey is the director of multifamily development at the Urban Land Institute in Washington, DC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865977372Author Anthony JasayFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 624g

When "The Who"s Pete Townshend donned a union jack jacket in the 1960s, it was a satirical statement from a young English reactionary railing against an Establishment soaked in an archaic notion of Britishness. Now, Townshend has become part of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853457329Author James PainterFormat PaperbackPage Count 167Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248462Author Robert HindeFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247137Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248066Author Robert HindeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247892Author John StewartPage Count 52Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833041890Author Martin C LibickiFormat PaperbackPage Count 193Imprint RANDPublisher RAND

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833046567Author Greg RidgewayFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 481g

Vigorous historical exploration has increased across the social sciences in the past two decades. Originally published as a series of articles in the journal Social Science History, the essays in this volume provide a guide to historical social science...

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 Mississippi River flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, reshaping the social and cultural landscape as well as the physical environment. Often remembered as an event that altered flood control policy and elevated the...

A critical look at the globally dominant development strategy of "empowerment"Celebratory news features about India's thriving middle class tell only part of the story of the country's recent economic rise, frequently glossing over the 300 million...

Look Away! considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States-including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave...

"Hybridity" is a term that has been applied to Latin American politics, literature, and intellectual life for more than a century. During the past two decades, it has figured in-and been transfigured by-the work of prominent postcolonialist writers and...

When reporters asked about the Bush administration's timing in making their case for the Iraq war, then Chief of Staff Andrew Card responded that "from an marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August." While surprising...

Recovers an important dimension of the work of the renowned African American artistWhile Zora Neale Hurston and her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God have become widely celebrated, she was also a prolific stage director and choreographer. In the...

"Alien"has a double meaning in the United States, suggesting both "foreigner"and "extraterrestrial creature."In Alienhood, Katarzyna Marciniak explores this semantic duality. Interrogating the dominant images of aliens in...

Contributors: Carolyn B. Aldana, California State U, San Bernadino; Carol S. Armstrong; Michael Dear, U of Southern California; Gary Dymski, U of California Riverside; Steven P. Erie, USC; Gregory Freeman; William Fulton; Elizabeth Gearin, USC; Genevieve...

An interpretation of the ideologies and kinships of detective fiction in Cuba and MexicoThe transplanted, inherently modern detective genre serves as an especially effective lens for exposing the fissures and divergences of modernity in post-1968 Mexico...

Why did affirmative action programs implemented during the sixties and seventies suffer vicious assaults in the nineties? How were culturally resonant appeals to individualism and colorblindness turned around during the nineties to epitomize a...

Alongside the O.J. Simpson trial, the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky now stands as the seminal cultural event of the 90s. Alternatively transfixed and repelled by this sexual scandal, confusion still reigns over its meanings and...

Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of...

The global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstream economic predictions. At the same time, it showed the vulnerability of the world's richest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones. China, India, Brazil and other countries...