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A Lone Star Reader is a Texas state history anthology designed for students and general readers alike. In its pages, readers will find the work of leading academics and lay historians. They will encounter a wide variety of writing styles and a broad...

Albert Hoffman first synthesized LSD on November 16, 1938. When he accidentally absorbed a small quantity through his fingertips in 1943, he began a wave of experimentation that would reach its cultural heights in the academic and political mischief of...

PTSD Growth in Police, Military and Medical Professions Workbook offers an overview of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as well as the less familiar concept of Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) to students and practitioners who work in high-stress fields...

An interdisciplinary effort of scholars from history, women's studies, and family and consumer sciences, Remaking Home Economics covers the field's history of opening career opportunities for women and responding to domestic and social issues. Calls to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816633401Author Marta Lopez-GarzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

Calvin Thomas's Male Matters reveals the act and production of writing as a bodily, material process that transgresses the boundaries of gender. Wise and quirky, sophisticated and coarse, serious and hilarious, this look at...

"An accessible and entertaining read, useful to anybody interested in the ethnographic method." - Paul Miller, University of Cumbria "A very good introduction to ethnographic research, particularly useful for first time researchers."...

This work constitutes an analysis of the political economy of the global communications revolution.Book InformationISBN 9780853459897Author Robert W. McChesneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U...

This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization-the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we...

Today in thirty-nine states, employers may legally fire workers simply because they are known or thought to be gay. Clearly, the struggle against workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation has a long way to go. In Out at Work, a distinguished...

Ah, the Wild West! Wide open plains, beautiful sunsets, and thundering herds. Days when the cowboy was king, and good guys always wore white. The love affair with the American West has stood the test of time and survived competition from sports,...

Langston Hughes called it "a great dark tide from the South": the unprecedented influx of blacks into Cleveland that gave the city the nickname "Alabama North." Kimberley L. Phillips reveals the breadth of working class black experiences and activities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825430701Author STEWARTFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 45g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934675611Author Dennis BaroneFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856306069Author Ann Belford UlanovFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 264g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433962409Author Rafael RojasFormat PaperbackPage Count 505Imprint AnagramaPublisher AnagramaWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 143mm * 27mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847116806Author Joanna SzafranFormat HardbackPage Count 149Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 218g

Albert Hofman first synthesized LSD on November 16, 1938. When he accidentally absorbed a small quantity through his fingertips in 1943, he began a wave of experimentation that would reach its cultural heights in the academic and political mischief of...

Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic detail, Stephanie Bjork offers the first study on the messy role of clan or tribe in the Somali diaspora, and the only study on the subject to include women's perspectives. Somalis Abroad illuminates the ways clan is...

What is youth? How do we understand youth in its social and cultural context? Mark Cieslik and Donald Simpson here provide a concise and readily accessible introduction to the interdisciplinary field of youth studies. Drawing upon the latest research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543501407Author Abby ColichFormat HardbackImprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 249g

Privacy on the internet is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, whose entire business models are based on privacy invasion, through the developing technologies of facial recognition, to the desire of governments to...

Aimed directly at those who aspire to be university leaders in these turbulent times, and written as an academic counterpart to Machiavelli's The Prince, The Academic Caesar explores four themes that are central to the contemporary university: its...

On the surface, the relationship between comics and the 'high' arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to...

Risk is a part of life. How we handle uncertainty and deal with potential threats influence decision making throughout our lives. In The Risk Society Revisited, Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn, and Aaron M. McCright offer the first book to present an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250254870Author Christopher IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm...

The profound disruption of family relationships caused by industrialization found its most dramatic expression in the steel mills of Pittsburgh in the 1880s. The work day was twelve hours, and the work week was seven days - with every other Sunday for...

A provocative exploration of the impact of the human sciences on literature, politics, and cultureThe post-Darwinian theory of atavism forecasted obstacles to human progress in the reappearance of throwback physical or cultural traits after several...

Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it is so much in line with our expectations that we find it difficult to call into question. Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of Kabyle society provides...

This is the intimate and richly informative diary kept in 1910 by the young wife of a bustling merchant household in Kyoto. Makiko's husband was the had of his family's pharmaceutical business, and because the store and the family's living quarters were...

Media, Structures, and Power is a collection of the scholarly writing of Canada's leading communication and media studies scholar, Robert E. Babe. Spanning almost four decades of scholarship, the volume reflects the breadth of Babe's work, from media and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791466629Author William A. GortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Academic Careers and the Gender Gap will appeal to aspiring and established academics in a variety of fields, particularly sociology and gender studies, and will also be of interest to education policy makers.Book InformationISBN 9780774823975Author...

This ethnography studies how, when, and under what circumstances culture change occurs. It is author Hsain Ilahiane's conviction that culture change directly affects resource use and community building processes. This study investigates the relationship...

Uncertain Safari deals with the contours and complexities of African life today. Based on author Allan Winkler's personal experiences living and working in Kenya and traveling to many other parts of the continent, the book focuses primarily on East...

Have the nations of the world begun to converge with respect to drug policy? Which countries have remained apart from the international dialogue? Which have taken steps to forge new, more liberal policies stressing education, treatment, and alternative...

Using a fourfold approach derived from symbolic anthropology, sociology, semiotics, and philology, Joy Hambuechen Potter focuses on the cornice, or frame tale, of the Decameron, its purpose, and its relationship to the stories. Originally published in...

Nita Kumar offers an evocative and sensitive portrayal of rarely explored aspects of Hindu culture through her analysis of the way leisure time is used by Hindu and Muslim artisans of Banaras--the weavers, metalworkers, and woodworkers. Music, festivals,...

The author traces 19th-century origins of sociology in post-Revolutionary Europe, and contrasts European and American approaches to sociological data. Using the concepts of mass behavior and mass society as case studies, he suggests the continuing...

While the statisticians are trying to knock a few tenths off the statistical error, says Mr. Payne, errors of tens of percents occur because of bad question wording. Mr. Payne's shrewd critique of the problems of asking questions reveals much about the...