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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671557904Author Louis RukeyserFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578864990Author Friedrich E SchulerFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint American Humanities PressPublisher American Humanities PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743237857Author George BragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 399g

To varying degrees, classic religions are associated with critique of materialistic values. Onto this opposition of the market and the temple other binaries have been grafted, so that 'North' and the 'West' are portrayed as secular and materialistic,...

No country in the world has more political battles, military conflicts, and ethnic complexity per person and per square mile than does Lebanon. This book explains the issues, events, and personalities involved in one of the globe's most dramatic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806313993Author Daughters of the American RevolutionFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 210g

The focus of this book is the journey babies have made over the past century. The rise of the middle class in America dictated major changes in the ways babies were fed, cared for, and raised. Social programs focused on improving water and sanitation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757564765Author Linda JencsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint 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 9780674730625Author William Peck BanningFormat HardbackPage Count 341Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 717g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674422421Author Stephen SalsburyFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 803g

Drunk driving is most often viewed as criminal behavior that is best addressed through the justice system. However, in this new book H. Laurence Ross argues that drunk driving is more than a criminal issue. It is an inevitable consequence of American...

This book brings a fresh, original approach to understand social action in China and Vietnam through the conceptual lens of informal environmental and health networks. It shows how citizens in non-democratic states actively create informal pathways for...

This fascinating study of commercial rumors--those directed at products, producers, corporations, or retailers--presents case studies illustrating the types and impacts of rumors that can seriously affect a company's image and finances. The volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780699128681Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780699122566Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 189g

A new approach which problematizes the category of contemporary adulthood, this book includes chapters on demographic change; becoming thirty-something; graduates and work; mental health and happiness; new configurations of masculinity; the sexual...

This book examines Chinese Communist activities in Hong Kong from the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the handover in 1997. It reveals a peculiar part of Chinese Communist history, and traces six decades of astounding united front between...

By examining the minister who helped inspire the founding of the Harlem Unitarian Church Reverend Ethelred Brown, Floyd-Thomas offers a provocative examination of the religious and intellectual roots of Black humanist thought.Book InformationISBN...

This book looks at how China and India's growing interests in Central Asia disrupt the traditional Russia-U.S. 'Great Game' at the heart of the old continent. In the years to come, both Asian powers are looking to redeploy their rivalry on the Central...

An exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important...

The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored in the fates of the very languages they spoke. The conquistadors wrought theirs into a new 'world...

This book is about understanding the differences and risks, ownership, culture and management practices when investing, managing or working with Chinese companies. It explores the progression of overseas listing of Chinese companies and the reasons...

What would the island of Hispaniola look like if viewed as a loosely connected system? That is the question Haitian-Dominican Counterpointseeks to answer as it surveys the insular space shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic throughout their parallel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898381337Author K. T. Van DusenFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic PublishersWeight(grams) 1100g

This collection demonstrates the use and variety of applications of time use methodology from multidisciplinary, multinational, and multicultural perspectives. A distinguished roster of contributors from such fields as psychology, occupational therapy,...

This collection offers a critical analytical perspective and fresh empirical data on recent market-orientated social policy reforms in Latin America. The six case studies presented examine labour, education, health and general social development...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979168840Author Robert A KayFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint ISCE PublishingPublisher ISCE PublishingWeight(grams) 454g

Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa uses observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask: why is Africa so important to Americans? These travel stories show how encounters with Africans lead to a problematic desire to...

China is the world's biggest market for cigarettes. By 2020, 300 million Chinese will be elderly. By 2010, China will have 7 of the world's biggest shopping malls. This book is an invaluable asset for corporate planners and strategists, futurologists,...

This third volume of the series of International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) examines the political economy of a number of Latin American countries in the aftermath of the introduction of liberalization policies in this part of the world,...

The word village has the evocative power of ancient shared social values based on solidarity, equality, and common expectations for the betterment of life. The book's title is borrowed from McLuhan's apt metaphor, but questions its underlying assumptions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674282766Author Walter Irving Firey JrFormat HardbackPage Count 382Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 712g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837189116Author Edith MartindaleFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837185590Author Robert H. WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 395Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The articles in this volume will stimulate a new effulgence of ideas and a new flurry of research in the social science disciplines.Book InformationISBN 9780837185910Author Edith MartindaleFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Praeger Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837179513Author Robert H. WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780768408959Author Beau HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Destiny ImagePublisher Destiny Image

Whitehead's ten American essays in social philosophy are here reprinted in their original form, although not in chronological sequence. They have been rearranged to present first Whitehead's statement of general social principles and are followed by...

This book argues that a network interpretation of reputation advances our understanding of an essential and inescapable feature of social life and integrates many of its' varied facets. Reputation is a dispersed phenomenon that is to be found in the...

Publishers' catalogues are full of books on the Church's view of homosexuality; Gary David Comstock here offers gay views of the church. Given the often hostile environment, he asks why gay people stay in religious institutions. Using social scientific...