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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006813511Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Flannery recounts Smallboy's childhood at Lake Kesagami, her father's early death and the effect of this tragedy, her marriage to Simon Smallboy and move to French River, and her old age at Moose Factory. Through Smallboy's anecdotes and episodes in her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674731417Author Lloyd Cabot BriggsFormat HardbackPage Count 315Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 644g

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,...

Successful survivors speak for themselves in this exhaustive study of the lives, attitudes, and lifestyles of more than 500 centenarians. A product of the late pioneer gerontological researcher Belle Boone Beard's over forty years of teaching, study,...

Technoscientific developments often have far-reaching consequences, both negative and positive, for the public. Yet, because science has the authority to decide which judgments about scientific issues are sound, public concerns are often dismissed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984216499Author Kurt A RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ISCE PublishingPublisher ISCE PublishingWeight(grams) 348g

This book is a timely evaluation of how a harmonious business environment can be created and managed successfully in an increasingly turbulent era. It illustrates how diversity within East-West business is valuable to the development of new approaches in...

This book explores what happened in the transition economies of China, Vietnam and Myanmar from both macro and micro perspectives, and questions whether the governments of these countries are capable of implementing effective reform and transformation...

This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. The essays offer bold and insightful...

A profound study of the nebulous Creoles. . . . Dominguez's use of original sources . . . is scholarship at its best. . . . Her study is fascinating, thought-provoking, controversial, and without a doubt, one of the most objective analyses of Creole...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674187443Author Athelstan George HarveyFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 621g

Vegetarianism is not a diet trend, or the flavor of the month. Instead, it is a philosophy and practice with roots in antiquity. Vegetarianism has existed for centuries in much of the world as a social movement and subculture. In the United States, this...

In this book a blue-ribbon group of practitioners, researchers, and policymakers provide an overview of the numerous programs that have emerged in the past decade in response to the changing needs of families. Addressing the historical and social context...

Can Latin America compete? Many argue that the macroeconomic and trade reforms of the 1990s merely put a handsome coat of paint over education, labour, judicial, and administrative reforms that remain incomplete. This book identifies ten factors that...

The papers collected here were originally presented at a conference on multinational culture held at Hofstra University to explore the sociocultural impacts of the transformation to a global economy. Written by a distinguished group of contributors from...

Polls are at their best as indicators of public opinion when they allow comparisons over extended periods of time. Yet all too often changes in question working and in questionnare content make over-time comparisons impossible. This work overcomes this...

In a world where technology is continually advancing, and problems are becoming more and more complex, established practices for decision making and problem solving are no longer effective. In this new book, however, Enid Mumford draws on her wealth of...

Popular Culture: An Introductory Text provides the means for a new examination of the different faces of the American character in both its historical and contemporary identities. The text is highlighted by a series of extensive introductions to various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674332959Author Charlotte FurthFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 789g

This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with Jose Marti and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Diaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in...

This timely book presents a history of the relationship between the Cuban Revolution and intellectuals and activists in France, Britain and the United States, exploring the 'complete cycle' in this relationship and using it to examine the future of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369370877Author Howard S BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 676g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883121610Author William R MerrifieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global...

A unique and important book. I have never read any work which analyzes the subject in such a manner. This book is more thorough and has a more liberated point of view than others which attempt to tackle this `hot potato' of the 1980s. Men should read...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170742679Author M L'Abbe de Saint-RealFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 277g

This is the first work to begin to fill a gap: an understanding of discourse aimed to persuade within the Pre-Columbian Americas. The contributors in this collection offer glimpses of what those indigenous rhetorics might have looked like and how their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578843858Author Amos StoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Robert Stoddard PublishingPublisher Robert Stoddard PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648825807Author The Love CollectiveFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Kembla BooksPublisher Kembla BooksWeight(grams) 558g

The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited is a comprehensive overview of the great cornucopia of new materials recently released by the Soviet Union, United States, and Cuba. The authors, some of whom were participants in the crisis, have all had a major role...

This book explores the ways in which Blake reacted to the subcultures of his day, as well as how he has inspired popular, modernist and postmodernist figures until the present day. Blake's influence on later generations of writers and artists is more...

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780684863924Author John Allen LemmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780699153812Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 189g

Teenage pregnancy is widely viewed as a significant social problem. In this path-breaking book, prominent American and British researchers in law, psychology, sociology, medicine, philosophy, and history argue that the problem is not so much teenagers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982967638Author Wallace WattlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Pylon PublishingPublisher Pylon PublishingWeight(grams) 316g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780699153010Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 189g

An exploration of questions of nationality in Brazil and Argentina, at the time when the cities were flooded with impoverished European immigrants. The author argues that processes of representation and identity formation between national and immigrant...

Based on the author's second stage of research on emotions of the matrilineal Moslem Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia, this book is a continuation of Heider's groundbreaking 1991 book, Landscapes of Emotion . This work demonstrates how situating...

Japan-Africa Relations seeks to study the complex nature of the dynamics of power relations between Japan and Africa since the Bandung Conference in 1955, with an emphasis on the period starting from the 1970s up to the present.Book InformationISBN...

Out of the many challenges facing Africa today, there is the tendency of some to manipulate religious and ethnic identities for private interests. The book examines how religion has given rise to these conditions in Africa, by weaving together issues of...