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Considers the cultural and philosophical assumptions underlying virtual reality, and how the technology affects the real world.Virtual reality is in the news and in the movies, on TV and in the air. Why is the technology-or the idea-so prevalent...

An expose of the realities facing poor black children in our consumer society.What does it mean to be young, poor, and black in our consumer culture? Are black children "brand-crazed consumer addicts" willing to kill each other over a pair of the latest...

Reclaims the lost history of women's contributions to the development of American citiesIn the days between the Civil War and World War I, women rarely worked outside the home, rarely went to college, and, if our histories are to be believed, rarely put...

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...

Challenging the gay rights movement and labor unions to join forces in order to advance workplace rights for all.Today in thirty-nine states, employers may legally fire workers simply because they are known or thought to be gay. Clearly, the struggle...

Tracks the shifting views of the Lower East Side from ghetto to desirable urban niche.The Lower East Side of Manhattan is rich in stories-of poor immigrants who flocked there in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; of beatniks, hippies, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816633982Author Immanuel WallersteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota...

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,...

"Truly remarkable portraits of courage." -- John van Amerongen, editor, Alaska Fisherman's Journal "These little-known tales of women working in Alaska's commercial fishing industry make for great reading. . . ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews"Should find an interested audience." -- Library JournalBook InformationISBN 9780252062803Author Jon ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Illinois...

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...

This collection of humorous stories and anecdotes, indexed by topic and subject, is an excellent tool for speechwriters and an enjoyable resource for anyone who appreciates a humorous perspective of human character. After Eric Johnson published his first...

In "Making Toast", Roger Rosenblatt shared the story of his family in the days and months after the death of his 38-year-old daughter, Amy. Now, in "Kayak Morning", he offers a personal meditation on grief itself. Everybody grieves he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825430701Author Gary P. StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 1800g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934675611Author Dennis BaroneFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Italian Americana PublicationsPublisher Italian Americana PublicationsWeight(grams)...

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

Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma is an examination of the factors that shaped demographic change in Burma between 1852 and 1941. Despite increasing contemporary interest in the historical demography of the non-European world, there has been...

With respect to the developing and threshold economies, it is no longer the poor who are the only focus of media attention. Today, the new middle classes are about to take centre stage, too. With their lifestyles and attitudes, the new middle classes are...

Western scholars have long studied China, Japan and Korea (among other Asian countries). However, in recent years we have seen the study of western societies launched at certain Asian universities while an interesting new development is the establishment...

What does childhood mean in contemporary Thailand? What constitutes childhood in a slum? How does childhood figure in the construction of national citizenships? Rich in ethnographic detail, this fascinating, engaging and illuminating study explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788496375147Author Eduardo SubiratsFormat PaperbackImprint LosadaPublisher Losada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120337930Author Sunanda GhoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint PHI LearningPublisher PHI LearningDimensions(mm) 241mm * 184mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847116806Author Prof. Dr. Joanna SzafranFormat HardbackPage Count 149Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 341gDimensions(mm)...

This title was first published in 2003. The media is an important influence on how a company or organization is perceived. This is an insider's guide to media handling, showing readers what needs to be done to achieve media success and offering them the...

In the United States, the "right to choose" an abortion is the law of the land. But what if a woman continues her pregnancy because she didn't really have a choice? What if state laws, federal policies, stigma, and a host of other obstacles push that...

Recent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship on the history of photography, cinema, digital media, and video games, yet less attention has been devoted to earlier forms of visual culture. The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic proliferation of...

Country music evokes a simple, agrarian past, with images of open land and pickup trucks. While some might think of the genre as a repository of nostalgia, popular because it preserves and reveres traditional values, Jeremy Hill argues that country music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622573424Author Earl J CurtisFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 356g

An exploration of women's place in the U.S. political economyAn exploration of women's place in the U.S. political economyAbout the AuthorChristine E. Bose, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University at Albany, SUNY, is author or editor of...

Merengue-the quintessential Dominican dance music-has a long and complex history, both on the island and in the large immigrant community in New York City. In this ambitious work, Paul Austerlitz unravels the African and Iberian roots of merengue and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555972486Author Sven BirkertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543501407Author Abby ColichFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 183mm * 8mm

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...

This supplementary book for the social, behavioral, and health sciences helps readers with no prior knowledge of IBM (R) SPSS (R) Statistics, statistics, or mathematics learn the basics of SPSS. Designed to reduce fear and build confidence, the book...

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...

In Cop Watch, renowned social psychologist Hans Toch takes stock of the vast changes in police procedures that have occurred over the last half-century by examining the evolving role of spectators to police-citizen interactions. This sympathetic and...

When cases of domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) by predatory men are reported in the media, it is often presented that a young, innocent girl has been abused by bad men with their demand for sex and profit. This narrative has shaped popular...

For most sociologists, their life's work does not end with retirement. Many professors and practitioners continue to teach, publish, or explore related activities after leaving academia. They also connect with others in the field to lessen the isolation...

In this last book by the late Donald Pitkin, author of The House that Giacomo Built, comes a story of the Schorcht family, through whose fortunes and struggles one can see the transformations of Germany through the long twentieth century.Each chapter of...