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Health Care In Peru: Resources And Policy by Dieter K. Zschock
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book examines an important aspect of health care in Peru in considerable depth, based on intensive analysis of data from Peruvian sources. It offers a number of recommendations that can help bring the allocation of health sector resources into line... -
Betrayed: A History Of Presidential Failure To Protect Black Lives by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
RRP: £135.00£117.28In this timely and eye-opening book, noted political analyst and media commentator Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson traces the root cause of the White House's failure to protect the rights of African Americans. Drawing extensively from public and private... -
Agricultural Stability and Farm Programs: "Concepts, Evidence, and Implications" by Daniel A. Sumner
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book attempts to contribute to a fuller understanding of perennial issues underlying farm problems and agricultural policies in the United States thus contributing to better projections of policy effects, to better forecasts of policy changes, and... -
Laughter At The Foot Of The Cross by M.a. Screech
RRP: £135.00£117.68"Christian laughter is a maze: you could easily get snarled up within it." So says Michael A. Screech in his note to readers preceding this collection of fifty-three elegant and pithy essays. As Screech reveals, the question of whether... -
Ethics And The Gulf War: Religion, Rhetoric, And Righteousness by Kenneth L. Vaux
RRP: £135.00£117.28The war on the ground and in the air over Kuwait and Iraq was not the only Gulf War being fought in early 1990. George Bush and Saddam Hussein were also battling for public opinion and for the perception of legitimacy for their actions. In this effort,... -
Rebuilding the Local Landscape: Environmental Management in Burkina Faso by Chris Howorth
RRP: £32.99£29.16First published in 1999, this volume emerged in the context of a recent willingness to understand what Africa's peasant farmers are designing and building in their local landscapes, in contrast to the meta-narratives which were relatively distant from... -
Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott by Kim E. Nielsen
RRP: £16.99£15.07Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician's wife and then as the only female doctor in Madison. Throughout her first marriage, attempts to divorce her abusive... -
Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority by Eleanor Ty
RRP: £23.99£20.84Eleanor Ty's bold exploration of literature, plays, and film reveals how young Asian Americans and Asian Canadians have struggled with the ethos of self-sacrifice preached by their parents. This new generation's narratives focus on protagonists... -
Politicizing Creative Economy: Activism and a Hunger Called Theater by Dia da Costa
RRP: £23.99£20.84Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local economies, and nurturing a new type of all-inclusive politics. Dia Da Costa delves into these ideas with a... -
Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s by Stefan M. Bradley
RRP: £24.99£21.67In 1968-69, Columbia University became the site for a collision of American social movements. Black Power, student power, antiwar, New Left, and Civil Rights movements all clashed with local and state politics when an alliance of black students and... -
Beyond Bondage: FREE WOMEN OF COLOR IN THE AMERICAS by David Barry Gaspar
RRP: £21.99£19.19Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black women held property in places like Suriname and New... -
Genetic Diseases And Development Disabilities: Aspects Of Detection And Prevention by Tamah L Sadick
RRP: £135.00£117.28Advances in medical genetics during the past two decades have made possible the detection and prevention of many genetic disorders and developmental disabilities. The emphasis of this book is on the application of these new developments to real-life... -
Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio by Derek W. Vaillant
RRP: £91.00£78.92In 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and... -
Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South by Sarah H. Case
RRP: £91.00£78.92Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah H. Case examines the transformative processes involved at two Georgia schools--one in Atlanta for African-American girls and young women,... -
My Curious and Jocular Heroes: Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia by Loyal Jones
RRP: £91.00£78.92We were going down the road, and we came to this house. There was a little boy standing by the road just crying and crying. We stopped, and we heard the biggest racket you ever heard up in the house. /What (TM)s the matter, son? /Why, Maw and Paw are up... -
Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age by Nilda Flores-Gonzalez
RRP: £103.00£89.54To date, most research on immigrant women and labor forces has focused on the participation of immigrant women on formal labor markets. In this study, contributors focus on informal economies such as health care, domestic work, street vending, and the... -
We, Too, Are Americans: African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54 by Megan Taylor Shockley
RRP: £35.00£30.74During World War II, factories across America retooled for wartime production, and unprecedented labor opportunities opened up for women and minorities. In We, Too, Are Americans, Megan Taylor Shockley examines the experiences of the African American... -
Improving the Life Chances of Children at Risk: Cornell University Medical College Sixth Conference on Health Policy by David E. Rogers
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book discusses how to identify those children who are at hazard of becoming less than they might be as adults. It explores critical policy issues in broadening access to health care services and reassessing results of major intervention efforts for... -
Computer-supported Cooperative Work by Stephen A R. Scrivener
RRP: £110.00£95.11Published in 1994, this work supplies an up-to-date view of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and its role in empowering groups to achieve better solutions faster. The enabling technology and group organizational and behavioural aspects of CSCW... -
Beyond Aid: From Patronage to Partnership by Stephen Browne
RRP: £32.99£29.16First published in 1999, Browne creates a comprehensive assessment of post war development assistance in developing countries. Browne suggests that a better managed global environment, developing counties could further advance themselves and thus... -
Metaphysics and the Disunity of Scientific Knowledge by Steve Clarke
RRP: £96.99£84.05First published in 1998, this volume's primary concern is to demonstrate how a metaphysics can be developed which enables us to make do in an uncertain world and to develop a pragmatic alternative to postmodernism. Opposing unificationist view of... -
Critical Issues In U.s. Health Reform by Eli Ginzberg
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book provides a thorough and careful examination of fate of public programs and specialty providers, academic health centers, and graduate medical education related issues in U.S. health reform.Book InformationISBN 9780367016876Author Eli... -
Health Policy And The Hispanic by Antonio Furino
RRP: £39.99£35.06Exploring the many dimensions of Hispanic health issues, this book offers a view of the depth, scope, and complementarity of the challenges of providing adequate health care. It addresses the conceptual, institutional, and policy elements of Hispanic... -
Tensions in the American Dream: Rhetoric, Reverie, or Reality by Roderick D. Bush
RRP: £26.99£23.32Could the promise of upward mobility have a dark side? In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask, how does a "nation of immigrants" pledge inclusion, yet marginalize so many citizens based on race, class, and gender? The... -
Reencounters: On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory Critique by Crystal Mun-hye Baik
RRP: £82.00£71.26In Reencounters,Crystal Mun-hye Baik examines what it means to live with and remember an ongoing war when its manifestations-hypervisible and deeply sensed-become everyday formations delinked from militarization. Contemplating beyond notions of inherited... -
Civic Intimacies: Black Queer Improvisations on Citizenship by Niels van Doorn
RRP: £86.00£74.67Black queer lives often exist outside conventional civic institutions and therefore have to explore alternative intimacies to experience a sense of belonging. Civic Intimacies examines how-and to what extent-these different forms of intimacy catalyze the... -
From Confinement to Containment: Japanese/American Arts during the Early Cold War by Edward Tang
RRP: £91.00£78.92During the early part of the Cold War, Japan emerged as a model ally, and Japanese Americans were seen as a model minority. From Confinement to Containment examines the work of four Japanese and Japanese/American artists and writers during this period:... -
The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption by Matthew Hughey
RRP: £75.00£68.03The cinematic trope of the white savior film-think of Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves, or Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai--features messianic characters in unfamiliar or hostile settings discovering something about... -
How We Die Now: Intimacy and the Work of Dying by Karla A. Erickson
RRP: £76.00£66.15As we live longer and die slower and differently than our ancestors, we have come to rely more and more on end-of-life caregivers. These workers navigate a changing landscape of old age and death that many of us have little preparation to encounter. How... -
Immigrant Agency: Hmong American Movements and the Politics of Racialized Incorporation by Yang Sao Xiong
RRP: £124.00£107.04Through a sociological analysis of Hmong former refugees’ grassroots movements in the United States between the 1990s and 2000s, Immigrant Agency shows how Hmong, despite being one of America’s most economically impoverished ethnic groups, were able to... -
Fighting Invisibility: Asian Americans in the Midwest by Monica Mong Trieu
RRP: £124.00£107.04In Fighting Invisibility, Monica Mong Trieu argues that we must consider the role of physical and symbolic space to fully understand the nuances of Asian American racialization. By doing this, we face questions such as, historically, who has represented... -
Scientific, Technological And Institutional Aspects Of Water Resource Policy by Yacov Y. Haimes
RRP: £135.00£111.30This volume addresses water policy issues related to water resources research, ground water, water conservation, urban water systems, water resource planning, supply and demand interaction, principles and standards, and cost-benefit analysis, as well as... -
The Rustication of Urban Youth in China: A Social Experiment by Peter J. Seybolt
RRP: £35.99£31.69In the 1960s and 70s, the government of China conducted a rather unusual social experiment called ‘Up to the mountains and down to the village’ which sent urban youths to the countryside in an attempt to reverse the flow of the rural population migrating... -
Cancer and Elders of Color: Opportunities for Reducing Health Disparities: Evidence Review and Recommendations for Research and Policy by John A. Capitman
RRP: £36.99£32.53Originally published in 2005. The prevention, detection and treatment of cancer has received enormous scientific and clinical attention in the US and in other developed countries. However, there has been no comprehensive review of the racial/ethnic... -
Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period by Naomi Yavneh
RRP: £32.99£29.56This title was first published in 2001. Focusing attention on the neglected area of relations between brothers and sisters during the early modern period, this volume explores the sibling dynamics that shaped family relations in Italy, England, France,... -
Reframing the Environment: Resources, Risk and Resistance in Neoliberal India by Manisha Rao
RRP: £135.00£117.28This volume unravels the underlying power relations that are masked in the present discourse of ecological sustainability and conflicts over natural resources. Current discussions on environment emphasise the use and abuse of the environment in various... -
Primitive Games by James A Schellenberg
RRP: £145.00£115.99This book shows how primitive games relate to the broader framework of the theory of games and provides a general discussion of the different types of primitive games. It deals with applications of primitive games to particular areas of social research... -
Systems Of Health Care by Douglas R. Mackintosh
RRP: £130.00£107.64This comprehensive introductory text describes health systems in the United States and in other countries, with emphasis on their ability to deliver goods and services, their cost, and their operation within a legal framework. Included is a discussion of... -
Living on the Margins: Social Access to Shelter in Urban South Asia by Navtej K. Purewal
RRP: £29.99£26.64This title was first published in 2000. The privatization of former social state housing through recent public-private partnerships is becoming increasingly prevalent in Third World as well as in Western countries. In most Third World countries, this... -
International Economic Regulation by Jane Kelsey
RRP: £47.99£41.81This title was first published in 2002. Debates about the desirability, feasibility and appropriate form of international economic regulation are now a heavily contested domain. This selection of recently published essays reflects the diversity of...