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This book analyzes the music that young portenas/os (the inhabitants of Buenos Aires, Argentina) actually listen to nowadays, which, contrary to well-entrenched stereotypes, is not tango but rock nacional, cumbiaand romantic music. Chapters examine the...

Why did an atheist like Carl Sagan talk so much about God? Why does NASA climatologist James Hansen plead with us in his recent book not to waste "Our Last Chance to Save Humanity"? Because science advisors are our new prophets, Lynda Walsh...

What is 'authoritarian rule' and is it best studied? Using the Dominican Republic, this book investigates new methods of analysis, arguing that it should be imperative to approach authoritarian histories - like other histories - on the basis of detailed...

Fronteras No Mas examines the range of officials, non-government organizations, networks and remaining organizational vacuums that span the U.S. - Mexico border. Since NAFTA, more binational institutions and policies have emerged around the environment,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807079157Author Gilbert HerdtFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 383g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837186993Author Algernon D. BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Through a gender, ethnicity, and sexuality lens, Perez demonstrates that queer Chicana/o and Latina/o identities are much more prevalent in cultural production than most people think. By claiming a variety of characters and texts as queer, he expands the...

Winner of the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Awards. Utilizing an ethnographic study of a public university and its users, Cicalo analyzes the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress...

Vampires are back - and this time they want to be us, not drain us. This collection considers the recent phenomena of Twilight and True Blood, as well as authors such as Kim Newman and Matt Haig, films such as The Breed and Interview with the Vampire,...

The four authors of this book recognize that no one on the common human journey to the 21st century can pick the best route without consulting a map-that is to say, an interconnected set of understandings about what in a given situation is important,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408135Author Alicja IwanskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

A progressive plan to solve the problem of housing affordabilityBook InformationISBN 9781566390927Author Michael StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint 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 9781556710872Author Gloria KindellFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556710858Author Marcelino SosaFormat PaperbackImprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global PublishingWeight(grams) 222g

In this completely revised and updated edition of ""America and the Americas"", Lester D. Langley covers the long period from the colonial era into the twenty-first century, providing an interpretive introduction to the history of U.S...

Volume 29 of "Studies in Symbolic Interaction" honors Ron Pelias' contributions to symbolic interaction and performance studies. The work of Patricia Ticineto Clough is also honored. New theoretical developments in the areas of race, identity,...

In Fire and Power William D. Atwill maps the cultural contours of space-age America through readings of some of the era's most popular and influential narratives: Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet, John Updike's Rabbit Redux, Norman Mailer's Of a Fire...

How often has an American or European businessman been astonished to have his Mexican or Brazilian counterpart break off discussions without explanation and refuse to return his calls? This book helps non-Latin American businessmen or MBA students...

Examines contemporary cinematic representations of Argentine masculinities, the social construction of gender, and the financing of domestic film production following Argentina's 1990 change to a neo-liberal economic model.Book InformationISBN...

By assuming it is possible to understand regression analysis without fully comprehending all its underlying proofs and theories, this introduction to the widely used statistical technique is accessible to readers who may have only a rudimentary knowledge...

This is the first book-length analysis of the rise in power of the Bolivian party Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) and its leader, President Evo Morales.Book InformationISBN 9780230608191Author Betilde Munoz-PogossianFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint...

This book explores the challenges and obstacles faced by dissident leaders in Asia seeking to introduce reforms into regimes that are either imperfectly democratic or frankly hostile to democratic practices and institutions.Book InformationISBN...

Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again...

This book provides a detailed analysis, within an EU setting, of what we may mean by the phrase 'consumer citizen'. It examines the characterizations of the consumer in EU law and policy and argues the case for a limited conflation of the hitherto...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674419087Author Roberto Da MattaFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 463g

The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the integration of a strategy for integrating the use of open-ended scenario based curriculum that focuses on problems with a multidisciplinary curriculum model. Developing a problem-based curriculum in this way...

What do ordinary women in an African city do in the face of "serious enough" infections in themselves and signs of acute illness in their young children? How do they manage? What does it take to get by? How do they maintain the wellbeing of the...

An investigation of the origins of the Angolan civil war of 1975-76. By looking at the interaction between internal and external factors, it reveals the domestic roots of the conflict and the impact of foreign intervention on the civil war. The formative...

Revolutionary Social Transformation focuses on the visions and analysis culled from the writings of Karl Marx, Paulo Freire, and Antonio Gramsci. Marx's theory of critical praxis and his dialectical conceptualization of capitalism are discussed together...

Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the 'new Argentine cinema' phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674592988Author Ssu-Yu TengFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755206087Author Mel BixleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 430g

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The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume reflect the full range of Raymond Williams's interests and concentrate not only on the exposition and evaluation of his ideas, but also on how they have influenced teachers, writers, and other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757572678Author Alex LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Relations across the Taiwan Strait were unstable for decades before May 2008. Several acknowledged "crises" raised the possibility of war between China and the US and/or Taiwan and at times political disputes wracked the US-Taiwan relationship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757579936Author Mark D. KellandFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint 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 9780977861712Author Ed, D'AngeloFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Library Juice PressPublisher Library Juice PressWeight(grams) 192g

A book was missing about New Caledonia, a general book in english language - accessible to all audiences - studying the 3200 years of human history, since the arrival of Austronesian until today. This analysis combines a detailed chronological...

This is the first systemic investigation of the various efforts to promote the expansion of American culture via major religious, social, political and governmental institutions. Christian missionaries, secular cultural elite, and the government have...