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In the fifty-five years since World War II ended in Europe, there has never been a detailed book published in any country pertaining to the German police warrant discs (Erkennungsmarke-Dienstmarke) of the Third Reich era. Warrant discs were used in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780736846691Author Heather AdamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press

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Despite the persistence of the fraternal form of association in guilds, trade unions, and political associations, as well as in fraternal social organizations, scholars have often ignored its importance as a cultural and social theme. This provocative...

The disproportionate criminalisation and incarceration of particular minority ethnic groups has long been observed, though much of the work in criminology has been dominated by a somewhat narrow debate. This debate has concerned itself with explaining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894384391Author William J HulgaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, fieldwork, and empirical...

This collection of articles by sociologically minded historians and historically minded sociologists highlights both the long-term persistence and the continuing instability of home country connections. Encompassing societies of origin and destination...

This book explores the long history in China of Chinese Muslims, known as the Hui people, and regarded as a minority, though in fact they are distinguished by religion rather than ethnicity.Book InformationISBN 9781032236636Author Jianxiong MaFormat...

Meta-regulation presents itself as a progressive policy approach that can manage complexity and conflicting objectives better than traditional command and control regulation. It does this by 'harnessing' markets and enlisting a broad range of...

Inner speech, also known as self-talk, is distinct from ordinary language. It has several functions and structures, from everyday thinking and self-regulation to stream of consciousness and daydreaming. Inner Speech and the Dialogical Self provides a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170360101Author John WynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 54g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140889304Author Catharine MacaulayFormat PaperbackImprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 100g

This book explores the ways in which medieval Christians sought to memorialize the deceased: with tombs, cenotaphs, altars and other furnishings connected to a real or symbolic burial site.Reverent memorial for the dead was the inspiration for the...

Does racial hybridity offer a future beyond racial difference?At a time when the idea of a postracial society has entered public discourse, The Amalgamation Waltz investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and...

Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is...

An expose of Argentina's attempts to whitewash its national history.Argentina is the only country in the Americas that has successfully erased the presence of Indians, Africans, and mestizos from its national story. Official documents, reports, and...

Traces the influence of Oscar Wilde as the precursor of twentieth-century artists of self-performanceBy printing the title "Professor of Aesthetics" on his visiting cards, Oscar Wilde announced yet another transformation-and perhaps the most significant...

A critical exploration of the user's perspective on drug consciousness-now in paperback!Engaging, articulate, and brilliantly argued, On Drugs is destined to become a revolutionary classic that redefines what it means to be "high." Calling for the...

Now with SAGE Publishing! The Tenth Edition of The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives addresses the crucial issues in this field with over 45 readings (1/3 of which are new to this edition) from the scholarly literature on health...

The book presents an in-depth and theoretically-grounded analysis of urban gardening practices (re)emerging worldwide as new forms of bottom-up socio-political participation. By complementing the scholarly perspectives through posing real cases, it...

Do social classes really exist? Is disinterested action really possible? What do the family, the church, and the intellectual world have in common? Can morality be founded on hypocrisy? What is the "subject" of action? In this new volume, one...

At what age do girls gain the maturity to make sexual choices? This question provokes especially vexed debates in India, where early marriage is a widespread practice. India has served as a focal problem site in NGO campaigns and intergovernmental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780699135603Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531614Author David RothkopfFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

The definition of what a "family" is has changed dramatically over the past few decades...Family Communication: Relationship Foundations features traditional as well as emerging diverse family types in the application and analysis of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551521169Author Bruce GrenvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 814g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620480871Author Mokokoma MokhonoanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Two WayPublisher Two WayWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170527436Author Richard Lovell EdgeworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams)...

This book presents a linear track-by-track musical analysis of Kate Bush's albums released between 1978 and 2005. It focuses on the 1985 album Hounds of Love and explores several important critical issues raised by the artist's work and position as a...

This book, first published in 1908, is a result of Helen Barrett Montgomery's visits to Japan, and the way in which she experienced Japanese life and culture. This book thoroughly examines aspects such as religion, language, trade and education in Japan...

Using qualitative research methods and evidence gathered from interviews, this work explores and highlights contradictions between Japanese immigration and immigrant policies as they relate to ethnic Japanese "returnees."Book InformationISBN...

This title was first published in 2002: Pamela Hammons' study contributes to the booming field of early modern women writers by contextualizing and analyzing a unique configuration of underexamined women's texts. By examining how 17th-century English...

This title was first published in 2002. Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as Abrahamic religions, share much theological common ground and the momentum for dialogue between them at theological levels has greatly increased in recent decades. This book...

This title was first published in 2000. Super-optimizing analysis deals with public policy problems by finding an alternative that enables conservatives, liberals and other viewpoints to come out ahead of their expectations simultaneously. This text...

This title was first published in 2001. The central characteristics of political ethnicity and its dysfunctional attributes in African politics is vexing to Africa's policy makers. Moreover, as a conflictive ideology in national and international...

This title was first published in 2002: Very little is known on the Australian underground economy. Only speculation has offered estimates of its size - around ten per cent of GDP. This book provides comprehensive research on the topic for Australia,...

This title was first published in 2001. A discussion of information technology (IT) in developing countries. The contributors can be considered to share the following set of broad premises: information and communication technologies, and related systems,...

This title was first published in 2001. The central theme of this book is the activity of the multifarious agencies, local and central government departments, private companies and organizations, which act as prosecutors in the branch of the criminal...

This title was first published in 2001. Management of the employment relationship changed markedly in the last two decades of the 21st century, and a major part of this has been the extension of employee involvement and participation in the workplace...