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Staging China: New Theatres in the Twenty-First Century by Li Ruru 9781137567475
RRP: £99.99£99.71An insightful analysis of more than a dozen Chinese stage productions, Staging China illustrates how Chinese society is reflected by and even constructed through theatre. Scholars from around the globe explore wide-ranging topics including recent... -
Democratizing Health Care: Welfare State Building in Korea and Thailand by Illan Nam 9781137537119
£101.61This book provides an account of milestone health insurance reforms that took place in Korea and Thailand, which significantly advanced equitable access and redistribution in health care. Thai and Korean welfare champions were deeply informed by their... -
Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905 by Jennifer T. Mooney 9781137482648
£102.99Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using primary archival material, Mooney argues that the vaudeville stage was an... -
Studies in Symbolic Interaction by Norman K. Denzin 9780762308514
£103.55This volume emphasizes interpretive interactionist work on race, media, culture and identity. Experimental, autoethnographic performance texts are privileged, as are recent theoretical developments in symbolic interaction theory involving critical... -
Japanese Wartime Zoo Policy: The Silent Victims of World War II by M. Itoh 9780230108943
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book examines Japanese wartime zoo policy during World War II, analyzing the reasons why the Home Ministry destroyed more than 300 showpiece animals throughout Japan well before U.S. air strikes were anticipated, with international comparisons of... -
Latino Politics and Arizona's Immigration Law SB 1070 by Lisa Magana 9781489993489
£101.39Arizona has one of the fastest growing communities of Latino immigrants in the United States. In response to accusations that the Federal government was hampering the immigration enforcement actions of Arizona police, state Senator Russell Pearce... -
How to Pass History: Basic Skills to Pass a College History Course by Andres Tijerina 9780757578489
£54.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757578489Author Andres TijerinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. -
A Companion to the Almanack for the Year 1752, (with an Account of Time, and the Difference of the Old and New Style) Containing, I a Curious Account of the Antient Britons, to Which Are Added by Multiple Contributors 9780699129466
RRP: £16.99£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780699129466Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g -
East Asian Cinema and Cultural Heritage: From China, Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan and South Korea by Yau Shuk-Ting Kinnia 9780230116955
£93.20How do East Asian cultural heritages in shape film? How are these legacies being revived, or even re-created, by contemporary filmmakers? This collection examines the dynamic interactions between East Asian culture heritages and cinemas in mainland... -
Governance after Neoliberalism in Latin America by Jean Grugel 9780230604421
RRP: £44.99£44.97Two decades of neoliberalism in Latin America have left legacies of uneven growth, inequity and lackluster democracy. This book offers an original and grounded discussion of what governance after neoliberalism means in Latin America and examines how... -
Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity: From Sensuality to Bloodshed by Hector Dominguez-Ruvalcaba 9780230600447
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the... -
The Informal Economy and Employment in Brazil: Latin America, Modernization, and Social Changes by Diego Coletto 9780230618176
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex... -
Secular State and Religious Society: Two Forces in Play in Turkey by Berna Turam 9780230338616
RRP: £44.99£44.97On the basis of original, empirically rich, and theoretically sound social research, the chapters in this volume reveal and analyze the complex relations between the secular government of Turkey and the religious persons and society within the Turkish... -
Turkish Foreign Policy: Islam, Nationalism, and Globalization by Hasan Kosebalaban 9780230109537
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book explores how Turkey's contested national identity has affected its foreign policysince the late Ottoman era. The book takes a constructivist approach, asserting that identity matters for foreign policy decisions, but it separates itself from... -
Power and Democracy in America by Peter Ferdinand Drucker 9780313223198
£65.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313223198Author Peter Ferdinand DruckerFormat HardbackPage Count 181Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Centralization and Power in Social Service Delivery Systems: The Cases of England, Wales, and the United States by J.R. Hollingsworth 9780898381429
RRP: £89.99£89.87In the United States and other western nations, debates rage over whether welfare, medical care, educational programs, and many other aspects of public policy should be the responsibility of central govern ment, local government, or the private sector... -
Changing Work and Community Identities in European Regions: Perspectives on the Past and Present by John Kirk 9780230249547
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe, opening the way to a deeper understanding of the intensity of change and of how work... -
When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States by Jocelyne Cesari 9780312294014
RRP: £44.99£44.97Exploring the woefully neglected reality of Islam as a major cultural and relgious facet of American and European politics and societies, Cesari examines how Muslims in the West are challenging the notion of an inevitable clash or confrontation. With... -
Ending Hunger: An Idea Whose Time Has Come by Hunger Project 9780275918095
£41.09Not too long ago, only poets and dreamers imagined a world without hunger and starvation. Today, the world's expert community--scientists, agricultural specialists, development professionals, working with governments, the UN and private voluntary... -
Northeast Asia's Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory by Mikyoung Kim 9780230237476
RRP: £44.99£44.97The problem of memory in China, Japan and Korea involves a surfeit rather than a deficit of memory, and the consequence of this excess is negative: unforgettable traumas prevent nations from coming to terms with the problems of the present. These... -
Letters from a Farmer, in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies by John Dickinson 9781140712299
RRP: £14.99£13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140712299Author John DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 277g -
Brothers Among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660 by Cynthia Van Zandt 9780195181241
RRP: £67.00£54.85In the past generation, scholars' understanding of relations among the peoples in the eastern portion of the North American mainland during the colonial era has been transformed by studies that have put the Native Americans' experiences at the center of... -
Competitiveness of Chinese Firms: West Meets East by Richard Li-Hua 9780230222465
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book addresses the multi-facet competitiveness of firms in China from an angle of strategic management of technology and innovation. The Chinese vanguard companies have been excellent in identifying strategic position and appropriately making... -
Global Englishes in Asian Contexts: Current and Future Debates by Kumiko Murata 9780230221024
RRP: £89.99£89.87This volume explores the global spread of English or global Englishes, and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), focusing specifically on Asian Englishes. It is unique in the range of diverse perspectives across the languages and cultures by its contributors... -
Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition by George W. Stocking 9780299145545
RRP: £24.95£23.33Franz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This volume in the History of Anthropology series explores the extent and significance of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and... -
Small is Powerful: The Future as if People Really Mattered by John Papworth 9780275954253
£39.49The author has found the true villain of the 20th century, and it is a concept-bigness. The answer to such disparate questions as why do we experience global wars, mass dictatorships, economic tornadoes, a population explosion and a mounting resource... -
The United States, China and Southeast Asian Security: A Changing of the Guard? by Wayne Bert 9780333995655
RRP: £89.99£89.87China's growing economy and military power may allow it to challenge US influence in East and Southeast Asia. Wayne Bert examines the likelihood of this and the impact it would have on Southeast Asian security. The approach taken by both the US and China... -
What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live by Celinda C. Lake 9780743273831
RRP: £13.99£13.09Women are the most powerful force reshaping the future of America. Stronger than political parties, mightier than religious differences, able to leap cultural schisms in a single bound, women are quietly exerting a unified power to make changes in our... -
One Hundred Years of Anthropology by J O Brew 9780674734173
£55.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674734173Author J O BrewFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 576g -
Alternative Lifestyles: A Guide to Research Collections on Intentional Communities, Nudism, and Sexual Freedom by Jefferson P. Selth 9780313247736
£87.67This bibliography describes, in comprehensive detail, thirty-six special collections in the United States that are rich in published and unpublished research materials in the fields of intentional communities (communes), nudism, and sexual behavior,... -
The Declining Significance of Homophobia by Mark McCormack 9780199990948
RRP: £40.99£32.28Research has traditionally shown high schools to be hostile environments for LGBT youth. Boys have used homophobia to prove their masculinity and distance themselves from homosexuality. Despite these findings over the last three decades, The Declining... -
How to Analyse Talk in Institutional Settings: A Casebook of Methods by A. W. McHoul 9780826454645
£80.04This title introduces three approaches to analyzing institutional talk: conversation analysis, discursive psychology and critical discourse analysis. The main section of the book ("Applications") illustrates these approaches by taking the... -
Biofuture: Confronting the Genetic Era by Burke K. Zimmerman 9780306413155
RRP: £44.99£44.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306413155Author Burke K. ZimmermanFormat HardbackPage Count 305Imprint Kluwer Academic/Plenum PublishersPublisher Springer Science+Business... -
A Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation by Veronica Chambers 9780743271578
RRP: £12.99£12.37Forget the stereotypes. Today's Japanese women are shattering them -- breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. Shopping-crazed schoolgirls in Hello Kitty costumes and the Harajuku girls Gwen Stefani helped make so... -
Perspicuous Presentations: Essays on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology by Daniele Moyal-Sharrock 9780230527485
RRP: £89.99£89.87This anthology focuses on the extraordinary contributions Wittgenstein made to several areas in the philosophy of psychology. Daniele Moyal-Sharrock translates papers by eminent French Wittgensteinians, and brings them together with more familiar... -
A Report on the Sugar Cane Mosaic Situation in February, 1924, at Soledad, Cuba by Edward M East 9780674866423
RRP: £54.95£54.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674866423Author Edward M EastFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 485g -
Migration from the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports. Volume 4: January 1888-May 1889 by Ira A Glazier 9780806315409
RRP: £56.72£49.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806315409Author Ira A GlazierFormat PaperbackImprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 739g -
South Africa's Foreign Policy: Dilemmas of a New Democracy by J. Broderick 9780333734032
RRP: £95.00£94.80This edited collection provides a timely assessment of the foreign policy dilemmas faced by the 'new' South Africa as it reemerges into the community of nations following its transition to democracy. As such the book will appeal not only to students and... -
The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism by Thomas Robertson 9780813552712
RRP: £124.00£88.73Although Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of... -
Thinking and Psychotherapy by Harley C Shands 9780674421660
£55.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674421660Author Harley C ShandsFormat HardbackPage Count 335Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 644g