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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781711679570Author Barak LurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 426g

Bringing the concerns of queer theory and postcolonial studies to bear on Chaucer s Canterbury Tales, this ambitious book compels a rethinking not only of this most canonical of works, but also of questions of sexuality and gender in pre- and postmodern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807000007Author Viktor E FranklFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 662g

The history of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities in 20th century AmericaBook InformationISBN 9781592136971Author Allison C. CareyFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781260672886Author Gloria FieroPage Count 504Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 1506g

The book is a social history and sociology of American Jewry. It provides an up-to-date analysis of the contemporary American Jewish community, an analysis that includes educational, occupational, income, and political patterns of American Jews; the...

Henry Abelove, literary critic, astute historian, and pioneer in queer studies, offers interdisciplinary views on the connections between politics, culture, and sexuality. Deep Gossip addresses the willful misreading of Freud's views on homosexuality...

Reviving the tradition of critical, analytical scholarship developed by the 1970s and 1980s editions of the South African review, this first volume of the New South African review offers a collection of original surveys of key issues and problems...

Until around 1990, Shanghai was China’s premier but sluggish industrial center. Now at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the joint impact of global forces and state power has turned Shanghai into a dynamic megacity. Shanghai’s remarkable growth...

Vietnamese diasporic relations affect-and are directly affected by-events in Viet Nam. In Transnationalizing Viet Nam, Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde explores these connections, providing a nuanced understanding of this globalized community. Valverde draws...

This book surveys whether and how social classes differ in their views on important social issues, such as work and family, the economy and politics, rights and morals, and the distribution of justice. What accounts for such differences in opinion? Are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804714914Author Erick D. LangerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press

The flourishing fast food industry represents one particular blueprint of how to live. Reiter analyses the profound consequences of this blueprint for many spheres of life: women's work, youth employment, the labour movement, the family, and the...

Along the Streets of Bronzeville examines the flowering of African American creativity, activism, and scholarship in the South Side Chicago district known as Bronzeville during the period between the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and the Black Arts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558442115Author Jy ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublisher Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyWeight(grams) 592g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680538601Author Robert HauptmanFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Academica PressPublisher Academica PressWeight(grams) 152g

There have been few book-length engagements with the question of sexuality in Africa, let alone African homosexuality. African Intimacies simultaneously responds to the public debate on the "Africanness" of homosexuality and interrogates the...

The economic boom of the 1990s that led to the rapid rise of computer hardware and software companies (on both sides of the Pacific Rim) also led to the rise of a trans-Pacific commuter culture, a culture in which thousands of Taiwanese-born high-tech...

From the slot machine trust of the early 1900s to the prolific Prohibition era bootleggers allied with Al Capone, and for decades beyond, organized crime in Chicago Heights, Illinois, represented a vital component of the Chicago Outfit. Louis Corsino...

Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197519172Author Series Editors Joel M SipressFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Since the early 1980s, Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) have represented the development policy most often pursued in developing countries. Global Restructuring and Peripheral States addresses SAPs and their implications for Third World states...

In a dual-earner marriage, why is a wife' s paid employment much less likely to be defined as "breadwinning" than her husband's? This book uses data from a study of 153 dual-earner couples to examine the allocation of responsibility for...

When in 1808 members of the Portuguese royal entourage arrived in Rio de Janeiro, the capital of a colony most had previously known only through administrative reports and balance sheets, they encountered a hostile and dangerous population that included...

A wide-ranging and provocative new interpretation of the biological foundations of sociocultural evolution, this book is a challenge both to the extremes of sociobiology and to traditional sociological assumptions about human nature and modern societies...

Extending the understanding of race and ethnicity in the South beyond the prism of black-white relations, this interdisciplinary collection explores the growth, impact, and significance of rapidly growing Asian American populations in the American South...

The Andean nation of Ecuador derives much of its revenue from petroleum that is extracted from its vast Upper Amazonian rain forest, which is home to ten indigenous nationalities. Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten have lived among and...

Up to 2012, Mali was a poster child of African democracy, despite multiple signs of growing dissatisfaction with the democratic experiment. Then disaster struck, bringing many of the nation's unresolved contradictions to international attention. A...

A framework for stabilizing and strengthening inner-city neighbourhoods through the public interpretation of historic landscapesBook InformationISBN 9781439902295Author Andrew HurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Temple University Press,U.S...

Take Cover is a priceless collection of the most provocative and hilarious covers of The Spectator Australia magazine from 2014 to the present day, all of them the brainchild and creation of multi-award-winning creative Sarah Dudley. From the 'coup de...

Bringing together the work of sociologists, historians and political scientists, this book explores the increasing importance of the politics of memory in central and eastern European states since the end of communism, with a particular focus on...

Dennis Bark offers an in-depth examination of the deteriorating relationship between America and Europe: our differences and similarities, the reasons behind our conflicts, and the future of our alliance. He shows that, by learning what our essential...

Migrating to reunite with family members is one of the most common forms of migration in the world today. This book focuses on the family reunion migration that takes place between mainland Chinese wives and their Hong Kong husbands in post-1997 Hong...

The Virtual Mummy is a thoroughly readable introduction to the nondestructive techniques used by contemporary researchers to analyze the artifacts and culture of ancient Egypt. It tells the captivating story of the "virtual unwrapping" of an...

This captivating volume brings together case studies drawn from four post-Soviet statesRussia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. The collected papers illustrate how the events that started in 1985 and brought down the USSR six years later led to the rise of...

A history of the re-emergence of midwifery in AmericaBook InformationISBN 9781439902202Author Christa CravenFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

Do you consider yourself a member of the middle class? Eighty percent of Americans describe themselves in those terms; working-class citizens who are neither rich nor poor.Book InformationISBN 9780819184597Author William J. QuirkFormat HardbackPage Count...

Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an Asian American feminist vantage point to examine ways of looking at indigenous Japanese Ainu women...

This volume offers the first theoretical and experiential translation of Napo Runa mythology in English. Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy present and analyze lowland Quichua speakers in the Napo province of Ecuador through...

University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to translate into support for women of color graduate students. Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental...