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Far from simply vanishing in the face of modernity, Orthodox Jews in the United States today are surviving and flourishing. Samuel C. Heilman and Steven M. Cohen, both distinguished scholars of Jewish studies, have joined forces in this pathbreaking book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788183242608Author Sahoo H. DashFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint Mittal PublicationsPublisher Mittal PublicationsDimensions(mm) 241mm * 184mm * 20mm

A long-awaited update of this essential and popular book. In The Promise of America, historian Odd S. Lovoll tells the story of the thousands of Norwegian immigrants who gambled on a fresh start in the United States. Now, Lovoll has carefully revised...

In fascist Italy between the wars, a woman was an exemplary wife and mother or else. The "or else", mostly forgotten or overlooked in accounts of feminity under fascism, is the focus of this study. Reading works by women of the period, the author shows...

The first examination of the role of the laborer in media history.What most of us know about media history begins and ends with Citizen Kane. The exploits of media moguls and visionary business leaders-these are the tales that fill media histories in the...

The first major study of Asian American representation on U.S. television.Early in the movement of Asian labor to the United States, immigrants from the Far East were viewed by the dominant Euro-American society as a peril to a white, Christian nation...

Harold Lasswell is one of America's most distinguished political scientists, a man whose work has had enormous impact both in the United States and abroad upon not only his own field but also those of sociology, psychology and psychiatry, economics, law,...

One of the most urgent tasks for gay studies today, James Creech argues, is the retrieval of a repressed, "closeted" literary heritage. But contradictions and problems cloud even the most basic theoretical questions: What does a lesbian or gay reading of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789380574585Author Manmohanjit Singh HundalFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bookwell PublicationsPublisher Bookwell Publications

Knowledge is one of the important components that took human beings onto the path of civilization, enlightenment, and modernization. It is interesting how humans have used knowledge as a tool to develop from hunting to gathering society and civilizations...

The volume, Who were the Shudras? by Ambedkar is one of the most popular sociological works on the Indian caste system. This is a study based on Ambedkar's hypothesis on the formation of Shudra varna or caste in the chaturvarna (four classes) order in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788497420358Author Ana Maria AfricaFormat PaperbackImprint Biblioteca NuevaPublisher Biblioteca Nueva

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788474966060Author C Campos LuqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Universidad de MalagaPublisher Universidad de Malaga

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788474323849Author Professor Jeffrey C AlexanderFormat PaperbackImprint Gedisa EditorialPublisher Gedisa Editorial

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788183822336Author Ahuja SimarFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint Lotus BooksPublisher Lotus BooksDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798211365469Author Gustave Le BonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

These three novellas, by a writer who has earned her place in the forefront of Central American literature, explore three critical stages in a woman's life and are an extraordinary example of Claribel Alegria's ability to weave the magical and the real,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807612798Author Adina BackFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint George BrazillerPublisher George BrazillerWeight(grams) 1120gDimensions(mm) 268mm * 224mm...

The next volume in the Common Threads book series, Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship assembles fourteen articles from the Journal of American Ethnic History . The chapters discuss the divisions and hierarchies confronted by immigrants to...

Anthropologist Fran Markowitz interviewed more than one hundred Russian teenagers to discover how adolescents have been coping with their country's seismic transitions. Her findings present a substantive challenge to near-axiomatic theories of human...

In the mid-1970s, David M. Schneider rocked the anthropological world with his announcement that kinship did not exist in any culture known to humankind. This volume provides a critical assessment of Schneider's ideas, focusing particularly on his...

This fifth volume in the series covers a variety of topics in the field of advances in investment and portfolio management.Reviews"Twelve papers address topics in investment analysis and portfolio management. Papers focus on an option-based approach to...

The International Encyclopedia of Educational Technology presents a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art reports which cover the whole field of educational technology throughout the world. This Encyclopedia consists of articles which have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765741993Author Nahanni FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765741733Author Healing Thine Hearts MinistriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986446103Author S Lucia Kanter St AmourFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Pactum Factum PressPublisher Pactum Factum PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798823373005Author Juan Javier PescadorFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Cognella Academic PublishingPublisher Cognella Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

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In 1775, a young Philadelphia Quaker was sent by his father to gather detailed information on business conditions in the British Isles. Fisher's travels took him throughout Britain and Ireland, even across the English Channel, and the journals that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788446015840Author Walter MignoloFormat PaperbackImprint Akal EdicionesPublisher Akal Ediciones

"We may either smother the divine fire in youth or we may feed it," Jane Addams writes. Suffused with Addams's abiding compassion, tempered with her pragmatism and humor, and shot through with anecdotes of her own experiences with young people, The...

'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,...

Along with the concepts of social role, social group, social network, social class, and social structure, the notion of impersonality is one of the pillars of the sociological imagination: the ability to think beyond individuals and see them as members...

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: A collection of articles by Russian and Western experts on nationalism. The objective of the work is to give an overview of the new Russian identity-building and of the historical continuities that lie behind this...

This title was first published in 2000: The theme of this collection of essays is "technology transfer". The topic has three major aspects: the interchange of technologies between military and civilian applications - "spin-off", "dual use", "conversion"...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783849174071Author W (William) RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Tredition GmbhPublisher Tredition GmbhWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...