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'Freya India's writing is compassionate, gripping, and deeply psychological' Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation Coming of age has always been a time of angst and inner turmoil, especially for girls. But today girls have to contend with...

This book enriches Latin American Science and Technology Studies by making a pioneering contribution to theories from its geopolitical margins. Rather than merely challenging Northern dominance, it fosters dialogue between Northern and Southern scholars,...

In this book, Magali Roy-Féquière casts new light on the Generación del Treinta, a group of Creole intellectuals who situated themselves as the voice of a new cultural nationalism in Puerto Rico. Through a feminist lens, she focuses on the interlocking...

This title was first published in 2000. The result of an international meeting organized by the European Centre, this book reports from economists, social scientists and experts from government and inter-governmental institutions who came together to...

'A must-read' - Dr. Robert Cialdini'Transformative' - Daniel Pink'A culture-shifting manifesto' - Jonah BergerWhy is it so hard to speak up, even when we know something's wrong?This is the definitive book on defiance, a clear-eyed dissection of the...

A vital feature of American culture in the nineteenth century was the growing awareness that the literary marketplace consisted not of a single, unified, relatively homogeneous reading public, but rather of many disparate, overlapping reading communities...

Those who despair of our age will find in this stimulating book heartening answers to their questions about the fate of Western civilization and indications of the course humanity should follow if it is to save itself and the world. The course is not...

Deadly Worlds offers an original analysis of one of the unsolved questions of the current age: what are the emotional costs and possibilities of globalization? Lemert and Elliott challenge the dominant interpretations of the late modern world by delving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592218301Author Ute RoschenthalerFormat PaperbackPage Count 594Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 1230g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738552115Author Michael SheehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Irish Mancunian MediaPublisher Irish Mancunian Media

The Many Lives of the Batman (1991) was a pioneer within cultural and comic book scholarship. This fresh new sequel retains the best of the original chapters but also includes images, new chapters and new contributions from the Batman writers and editors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788196847159Author Sandeep BalakrishnaPage Count 312Imprint UnknownPublisher Unknown

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433926210Author Julia GuillamonFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint AnagramaPublisher AnagramaWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 140mm * 33mm

Does a civil society actually exist in Cuba today and if so what are its nature and role? In seeking answers to this hotly contested and highly politicized question, Alexander Gray and Antoni Kapcia have assembled an impressive and diverse group of...

Delineating 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 predominant...

In the midst of the Vietnam war, sit-ins, counter-culture, and campus rallies, the 1966 graduating class of a South New Jersey coast high school came of age on the margins of political and cultural upheaval. Rather than presenting the stereotype of...

War in the Tribal Zone, the 1991 anthropology of war classic, is back in print with a new Preface by the editors. Their timely and insightful essay examines the occurrence of ethnic conflict and violence in the decade since the idea of the 'tribal zone'...

Wars over natural resources have been fiercely fought in the Humboldt Bay redwood region of Northern California, a situation made devastatingly urgent in recent decades of timber war that raised questions of economic sustainability and ecological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783962033545Author Annemieke Akkermans-WapperomFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Galda VerlagPublisher Galda VerlagWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788197349416Author Jay JinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Bluone Ink Private LimitedPublisher Bluone Ink Private LimitedWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961225602Author Lyle L SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Lyle L. SimpsonPublisher Lyle L. SimpsonWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386432155Author KS NarendranFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 191g

Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands...

How musicians can be disabled and how musicality itself can be disablingHow musicians can be disabled and how musicality itself can be disablingAbout the AuthorAlex Lubet is Morse Alumni/Graduate and Professional Distinguished Teaching Professor of...

Law and the Social Sciences was first published in 1966. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The...

This title was first published in 2001. Aiming to open up a new perspective on the study of threats and risks, this text combines insights from the thematically linked but academically disassociated fields of security studies, risk studies and crisis...

The Wat Thai Buddhist Temple in Silicon Valley was founded in 1983 by a group of predominantly middle-class men and women with different ethnic and racial identities. The temple, which functions as a religious, social, economic, educational, and cultural...

How sexuality and sexual orientation intersect with gender, race, ethnicity, and religion in the ongoing formation of national identityHow sexuality and sexual orientation intersect with gender, race, ethnicity, and religion in the ongoing formation of...

Investigating how the fraught political economy of migration impacts people around the world, Donald Martin Carter raises important issues about contemporary African diasporic movements. Developing the notion of the anthropology of invisibility, he...

A critic of the art of technology, Paul Virilio has taught us that much media image is a strategy of war and that accident is becoming indistinguishable from attack. In these times of fierce conflict over which kind of capitalism is to take over the...

This book explores Soundpainting, a multidisciplinary sign language for live composition and conducted improvisation, highlighting its role in facilitating creative, social interactions in music and other performative arts. Examining the meaning of...

On a grey winter morning in Seattle, in February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For five days, workers from all trades and sectors-streetcar drivers, telephone...

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Questioning the commonplace view of the late nineteenth century as a period of passionless women and so-called Victorian sexuality, this study examines the spread of sex radical thought and notions of free love through American society in the second half...

How do unions around the world respond to issues raised by sexual minorities? Much as been written on labor's response to issues raised by women and racial minorities, but there has been little work done on labor's engagement with gays, lesbians,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838218601Author Kateryna PylypchukFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag,...

On a grey winter morning in Seattle, in February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For five days, workers from all trades and sectors-streetcar drivers, telephone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783849171957Author W S (William Shuler) HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint tredition GmbHPublisher tredition GmbHWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

'An unflinching examination of contemporary culture's quest for the quick fix to emotional pain' LAURA DELANOWhy do so many of us need drugs to make it through the day? What is wrong with us?In August 2017 a car ploughed into a crowd of peaceful marchers...