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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 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...

Imposing Fictions aims to ameliorate the growing problem of what Martin Heidegger refers to as psychological and cultural "homelessness" by diagnosing the nature of the latter's current manifestations and offering readings of literature that seek to...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617619953Author Janice E ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 181Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 418g

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...

After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and '90s. Unsettled chronicles the unfinished odyssey of Bronx...

Insufficient attention has been given to the environment in Africana studies within the academy. In Greening Africana Studies, Rubin Patterson initiates an important conversation explaining why and how the gap between these two disciplines can and should...

How native-born rural adolescents adapt to new immigrants in their communities.How native-born rural adolescents adapt to new immigrants in their communities.About the AuthorJ. Celeste Lay is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane...

Seeing Indian dancers as gendered labour highlights the politics of Asian American racialization, migration, and citizenshipSeeing Indian dancers as gendered labour highlights the politics of Asian American racialization, migration, and citizenshipAbout...

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...

First published in 1978, Social Work is concerned with relating social methods and objectives to political ideology. Social work grew out of the fertile tradition of mainstream Liberal radicalism in the nineteenth century, and to appreciate its largely...

First published in 1988, He and She is about male attitudes to sex and gender in the 1980s. It examines the extent to which men consider themselves to be different from women in a number of areas, including interests, aptitudes, friendships and intimate...

From 'People' to 'Citizen' brings together social theory with policy practice to enlarge our understanding of the difference that democracy makes to the life of a nation. Unlike nationalism, democracy takes our attention away from the past to the future...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913543528Author Eugene WinslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 29Imprint African American ImagesPublisher African American ImagesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913543221Author Jawanza KunjufuFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint African American ImagesPublisher African American ImagesWeight(grams)...

This latest volume in the "Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change" series contains three sections of data-driven articles that address topics central to scholarship on social movements and conflict resolution. Section One contains two papers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853459644Author Leo PanitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 318g

The terrible events afflicting Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tajikistan fill the news, commanding the world's attention. This timely volume offers rare insight into the background of these catastrophic conflicts. First published in German on the eve...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816690121Author Paul AmarFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

What happens over time to Indians who spend their working hours answering phone calls from Americans-and acting like Americans themselves? To find out, the authors of Answer the Call conducted long-term interviews with forty-five agents, trainers,...