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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita made landfall less than four weeks apart in 2005. Months later, much of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast remained in tatters. As the region faded from national headlines, its residents faced a dire future. Emmanuel David...

In this first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, Leilani Nishime traces the codes that alternatively enable and prevent audiences from recognizing the multiracial status of Asian Americans. Nishime's perceptive readings of...

Amid immigrant narratives of assimilation, Indian Accents focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television. Exploring key examples in popular culture ranging from Peter Sellers' portrayal of Hrundi...

In this book, Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three...

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European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule. Arriving in the 1890s, white settlers never comprised more than a tiny minority...

European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule. Arriving in the 1890s, white settlers never comprised more than a tiny minority...

Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms, this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which...

It is well known that political, economic, and social power in the British Isles in the Middle Ages lay in the hands of a small group of domini-lords. In his final book, the late Sir Rees Davies explores the personalities of these magnates, the nature of...

Food and its many aspects - production, consumption, marketing, labeling, procurement, safety - have become a mainstay of both popular discourse and the practice of public health. As topics such as GMO labeling, food-borne illness outbreaks, soda bans,...

An interdisciplinary book by one of the most respected scholars in what is broadly development economics but encompasses the most recent insights from philosophical research and empirical work on resource allocation, nutrition science, and anthropology...

Libraries have historically played a role as a community builder, providing resources and spaces where knowledge can be archived, shared and created. They can also play a pivotal role in fostering the public's understanding of science and scientific...

Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships brings forward ideas and reflections that stay fresh beyond the changing technological landscape. The book encapsulates a cultural shift for libraries and librarians and presents a collection of authors who...

Finance and Risk Management for International Logistics and the Supply Chain presents a detailed overview of financial and risk management tools, activity-based costing, and multi-criteria decision-making, providing comprehensive guidance for those...

Economic Role of Transport Infrastructure: Theory and Models helps evaluate the economic effects of transport infrastructure investments within a cost-benefit framework for maximum economic impact. The book analyzes the primary empirical approaches used...

Implementing Automated Road Transport Systems in Urban Settings provides valuable, objective, often difficult-to-obtain data, gleaned from the largest demonstration project on automated road transport systems (ARTS) in the world to date. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorWilliam H. Tucker is a professor of psychology at Rutgers University-Camden. He is the author of The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology and The...

The book presents an interdisciplinary collection of analyses that discuss the impact of market economy on our culture in the post-Berlin Wall era. It contains two parts. The first focuses on the commercialisation of science and education. The second...

An understanding of the uniquely human behavior of stone tool making tackles questions about hominins' ability to culturally transmit and expand their base of social and practical knowledge and their cognitive capacities for advanced planning. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789055380114Author Paul van LindertFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint Thela ThesisPublisher Thela Thesis

Recent years have witnessed a rapidly growing interest in the use and construction of "qualitative" indicators of labour standards. This volume results from a seminar that was organized to address these and related questions. The contributions...

ROBERT C. GRANGER William T. Grant Foundation During the past 10 years or so, a number of researchers, policymakers, and prac- tioners have made important progress on the identi?cation and use of indicators of children's well-being. The United States...

Food and agricultural standards have recently risen to the top of both national and international agendas. Popular concerns about the power of the World Trade Organization focus on the intertwined relationships between environmental protection, labor and...

Collaborative decision making processes are a form of communication inside organizations. Their functioning can teach lessons for the design of electronic office systems. Those processes are open ended and therefore decide themselves on their form. Like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772889139Author Ole BorreFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Over the last decades a large number of organisation concepts have been introduced in the theory and practice of organisation. This book aims to scrutinise the quality of organisation concepts, such as the "learning organisation",...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788186921562Author Indrani SanyalFormat HardbackPage Count 357Imprint Decent BooksPublisher Decent Books

Disability has emerged as an utmost concern of emerging India. The number of this most disadvantaged group is over 100 million and they have been under the twin discrimination from the state and society. Bringing the disabled into the mainstreaming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129129178Author M. RajaramFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788126908882Author Neeru TandonFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Atlantic Publishers & Distributors Pvt LtdPublisher Atlantic Publishers &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120603196Author Samuel MateerFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Asian Educational ServicesPublisher Asian Educational Services

The book presents inside perspectives of women's and gender studies programs from a great variety of countries. It analyses how societal transitions influence the emergence and further development of such programs and by doing this reflects the...

This book, authored by a multi-national team, draws a complicated, yet logically evolving picture of the problems in the security sector reform field of South-East Europe, examining the post-totalitarian and post-conflict challenges to be faced.Book...

This book analyzes the social capital of the growing knowledge economy, from both theoretical and empirical points of view. The theoretical section discusses social capital as an economic concept, developing a theory of the social capital of the...

The 21st Century Academic Library: Global Patterns of Organization and Discourse discusses the organization of academic libraries, drawing on detailed research and data. The organization of the library follows the path of a print book or journal:...

When I ?rst came across the term data mining and knowledge discovery in databases, I was excited and curious to ?nd out what it was all about. I was excited because the term tends to convey a new ?eld that is in the making. I was curious because I...

This book contributes to the theoretical and methodological discussion about how the diverging experiences of generations and their historical memories play a role in the process of national identity formation. Drawing from narratives gathered within the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503540764Author Mats OlssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 307Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782810623464Author Daniel PerretFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm...