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With studies on the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia, this collection presents a theoretical framework on the study of women's empowerment amid the transformations that have shaped the social and political fabrics of Arab...

An 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...

This 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...

Vaudeville 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...

This 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...

This 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...

Arizona 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...

Apologies 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.

Apologies 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

How 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...

Two 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...

This 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...

This 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...

On 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...

This 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...

Apologies 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

In 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...

This 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...

Exploring 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...

Not 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...

The 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...

Apologies 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

In 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...

This 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...

This 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...

Franz 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...

The 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...

China'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...

Women 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...

Apologies 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

This 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,...

Research 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...

This 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...

Apologies 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...

Forget 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...

This 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

This 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...

Although 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...