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Managing A Nation: The Microcomputer Software Catalog--second Edition by Gerald O. Barney
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book is a collection of reviews of microcomputer programs of special relevance to those people around the world who are responsible for the management of the current and future affairs and business of their countries.Book InformationISBN... -
Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature And Culture In Contemporary South Africa by Grant Farred
RRP: £135.00£117.28A timely exploration of and intervention into the South African ideological landscape from the perspective of the colored community. In Midfielders Moment, Grant Farred explores the ways in which political fissures are being articulated in the new South... -
Instructor's Manual To Accompany Criminology by Kimberly Cook
RRP: £135.00£117.68The goal of this resource manual is to help students understand crime, the origins of criminological theory, the emergence of sociological criminology and the subcultures of delinquency. It also provides information on the different types of crimes that... -
Multinational Corporations And The Third World by C.J. Dixon
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book, an outcome of the conference in 1983 held at the University of Birmingham, examines the varied roles played by multinational corporations in the economies of the Third World countries and concentrates more closely on regional, national,... -
Agribusiness And The Small-scale Farmer: A Dynamic Partnership For Development by Simon Williams
RRP: £135.00£117.28Based on case histories from nine Third World countries, this study examines the successful cooperation between private agribusiness firms and small farmers to increase agricultural production and income in developing countries. In such ventures, small... -
Careers And Creativity: Social Forces In The Arts by Harrison C. White
RRP: £135.00£117.68How much does art provide escape from everyday life, and how much does it aid in controlling life? How are art worlds built and maintained? Are new styles the creations of whim or genius? Or are stylistic changes the product of the social and political... -
In the Company of MEDIA: Cultural Constructions of Communication, 1920s-1930s by Hanno Hardt
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book explores the imaginative construction of a cultural history of the media in a series of essays that draw on various artistic and intellectual narratives of Western societies and trace incidental encounters with the means of social communication... -
Reconciliation Via the War Crimes Tribunal? by Aleksandar Fatic
RRP: £32.99£29.16First published in 2000, this volume is an examination of the issues of reconciliation after civil wars and the role international war crimes tribunals play in facilitating that reconciliation, apart from enforcing justice against perpetrators of war... -
Many Faces Inform Scienc/h by Anita Weiss
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book reviews the current status of information science and explores possibilities for breakthroughs. It will be of interest to basic and applied researchers in the fields of information and computer science, to system developers and operators, and... -
Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture by Mark R. Villegas
RRP: £20.99£18.37An obscured vanguard in hip hop Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the culture's early days. But despite the success of artists like Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo, the genre's... -
Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i: Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case by Jonathan Y Okamura
RRP: £21.99£19.19On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikiki. Fukunaga, a nineteen-year-old nisei, or second-generation Japanese American, confessed to the crime. Within three weeks,... -
The Mexican Revolution in Chicago: Immigration Politics from the Early Twentieth Century to the Cold War by John Flores
RRP: £21.99£19.19Few realize that long before the political activism of the 1960s, there existed a broad social movement in the United States spearheaded by a generation of Mexican immigrants inspired by the revolution in their homeland. Many revolutionaries eschewed U.S... -
Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago by Robert Weems
RRP: £23.99£20.84From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United... -
Maya Market Women: Power and Tradition in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala by S. Ashley Kistler
RRP: £20.99£18.37As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their... -
Self-Help Books: WHY AMERICANS KEEP READING THEM by Sandra K. Dolby
RRP: £21.99£19.19Understanding instead of lamenting the popularity of self-help books Based on a reading of more than three hundred self-help books, Sandra K. Dolby examines this remarkably popular genre to define "self-help" in a way that's compelling to academics and... -
Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital by Adrienne D. Davis
RRP: £91.00£78.92A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The essays highlight alternative and deviant gender and sexual... -
Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental" by Amy Sueyoshi
RRP: £91.00£78.92Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titillating narratives on topics such as high divorce rates, mannish women, and extramarital sex centered... -
James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era by Joseph Vogel
RRP: £91.00£78.92By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987. Indeed, his work throughout the decade pushed him into new areas, in particular an expanded... -
Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India by Deepti Misri
RRP: £91.00£78.92In Beyond Partition, Deepti Misri shows how 1947 marked the beginning of a history of politicized animosity associated with the differing ideas of "India" held by communities and in regions on one hand, and by the political-military Indian... -
Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities by Karma R. Chavez
RRP: £91.00£78.92Delineating an approach to activism at the intersection of queer rights, immigration rights, and social justice, Queer Migration Politics examines a series of "coalitional moments" in which contemporary activists discover and respond to the... -
"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £103.00£89.54"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades of... -
Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-tube Babies in Interwar Britain by Angus McLaren
RRP: £60.00£57.55Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a... -
Perspectives On Behavioral Science: The Colorado Lectures by Richard Jessor
RRP: £86.99£72.68The behavioral sciences-anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, geography, political science-have reached a turning point as we enter the decade of the 1990s. Freed from a strict emulation of classical science methodology, while benefiting from... -
Global Trends of Smart Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Geography, City Size, Governance, and Urban Planning by Tooran Alizadeh
RRP: £97.99£91.72Global Trends of Smart Cities provides integrated analysis of 135 cities that participated in the IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge in 2010-2017. It establishes evidence-based benchmarking of city geographies, city sizes, governance structures, and local... -
The European Yearbook of Business History by T. R. Gourvish
RRP: £66.99£57.83This title was first published in 2001. A collection of research and review articles, in English, on the history of private enterprise based in European countries, as well as studies of transnational, public and state corporations. The period of interest... -
British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics: The Post-war Compromise, 1945-1964 by John Mcllroy
RRP: £120.00£104.01First published in 1999, this volume describes the political climate and state of trade unions after the second world war in Britain. Detailing the transition of individuals who had survived in the war or had taken part in the war effort to going back a... -
Dictionaries: British and American by James Root Hulbert
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book presents a detailed explanation of the essential facts of dictionaries in general. It includes information on the origin of English dictionaries and the authority and choice of a dictionary.Book InformationISBN 9780367004804Author James Root... -
Overcoming Child Abuse: A Window on a World Problem by Michael Freeman
RRP: £120.00£104.01Published in 2000. Child abuse is endemic, it comes in many forms and its categories are not closed. This book looks at responses to aspects of child abuse in all five continents. The definitions are different, though not all that different, the legal... -
Contemporary History of Cantonese Migrants in Yokohama Chinatown: A Case Study of Shatenki and the Xie Family by Yee Lam Elim Wong
RRP: £99.99£55.96This book vividly portrays the past, current, and future development of Yokohama Chinatown through the context of its Cantonese residents, grounded through a family history. It is useful for both academic and non- academic readers who are interested in... -
Media in China, China in the Media - Processes, Strategies, Images, Identities by Adina Zemanek
RRP: £35.00£29.45Mass media play a significant role in the production and reproduction of identities and lifestyles, values and world-views. They also convey information about the world we live in, as they reflect elements of the broader context within which they come... -
Defining America: Through Immigration Policy by Bill Ong Hing
RRP: £39.00£34.52From the earliest days of nationhood, the United States has determined who might enter the country and who might be naturalized. In this sweeping review of US immigration policies, Bill Ong Hing points to the racial, ethnic, and social struggles over who... -
Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage by William DiFazio
£70.61At St. John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, more than a thousand people line up for breakfast and lunch five days a week. During the twelve-year era of welfare reform, William DiFazio observed the daily... -
Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism by Schneur Zalman Newfield
RRP: £82.00£71.26Those who exit a religion-particularly one they were born and raised in-often find themselves at sea in their efforts to transition to life beyond their community. In Degrees of Separation, Schneur Zalman Newfield, who went through this process himself,... -
Giving Back: Filipino America and the Politics of Diaspora Giving by L. Joyce Zapanta Mariano
RRP: £82.00£71.26Many Filipino Americans feel obligated to give charitably to their families, their communities, or social development projects and organizations back home. Their contributions provide relief to poor or vulnerable Filipinos, and address the forces that... -
Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South: Enforcement and Resistance at the Borderlands of Illegality by Meghan Conley
RRP: £78.00£67.86Every day, undocumented immigrants are rendered vulnerable through policies and practices that illegalize them. Moreover, they are socially constructed into dangerous criminals and taxpayer burdens who are undeserving of rights, dignity, and respect... -
Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown: Space, Place, and Struggle by Kathryn Wilson
RRP: £23.99£20.84Philadelphia's Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which to form a community to raise families and conduct business. But this enclave for expression, identity,... -
Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities: The Cold War of Chinese American Narrative by Heidi Kim
RRP: £91.00£78.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439919019Author Heidi KimFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 152g -
Tortilleras: Hispanic & U.S.Latina Lesbian Expression by Lourdes M. Torres
RRP: £28.99£26.91The first anthology to focus exclusively on queer readings of Spanish, Latin American, and US Latina lesbian literature and culture, Tortilleras interrogates issues of gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class to show the impossibility of... -
Owning Land, Being Women: Inheritance and Subjecthood in India by Amrita Mondal
RRP: £71.00£53.30Owning Land, Being Women enquires into the processes that establish inheritance as a unique form of property relation in law and society. It focuses on India, examining the legislative processes that led to the 2005 amendment of the Hindu Succession Act... -
Integrating Immigrants in the Netherlands: Cultural Versus Socio-Economic Integration by Wilma Vollebergh
RRP: £29.99£26.64This title was first published in 2003. Using a behaviourist and quantitative approach, this study examines the vexed questions surrounding the economic and cultural integration of immigrants into the Netherlands. The authors use the Dutch case as a...