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Remittance as Belonging: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home argues that migrant remittances express their sense of belonging and connectedness to their home country of origin, making an integral part of both migrants’ ethnic...

When Face Recognition Goes Wrong explores the myriad ways that humans and machines make mistakes in facial recognition.Adopting a critical stance throughout, the book explores why and how humans and machines make mistakes, covering topics including...

Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religious, and family lives of the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Among the various genres popular in the capital city of Kinshasa, Congolese rumba occupies a special place and can be...

Many nations make lofty claims about their commitment to gender equality through their foreign policy as an expression of values. Trading Women's Rights in Transitions is about how in reality women’s rights are traded away by diplomatic actors directly...

Transmission electron microscopy is a powerful tool for looking at small physical specimens from nanomaterials, metal alloys and other structural materials, to microorganisms, tissues and biomacromolecules. The book covers microscope design and explains...

The book is based on nearly a decade (2011–2020) of sustained ethnographic research within and across households in Harpurhey, North Manchester, England. Harpurhey is a suburban area in Manchester, located just three and a half miles northeast of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783112450352Author Werner HartochFormat HardbackPage Count 39Imprint de GruyterPublisher de GruyterWeight(grams) 263g

A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic recovery In 1969, as all students of New York City history think they have learned, master builder Robert Moses...

In Defense of Sovereignty tells the story of the Oneida Nation’s struggles for self-determination. Since the removal of the Oneida people from New York in the 1820s to what would become Wisconsin, the Nation has been engaged in legal conflicts to retain...

From the authors of The Science of Stephen King and The Science of Agatha Christie comes a book made for every classic film aficionado. The Science of Alfred Hitchcock is a close look at the Master of Suspense’s most revered works. From his start in the...

This book is your comprehensive introduction to Project Helidon, Oracle’s Java-based microservices framework for building cloud-native applications. The book introduces the two flavors of Helidon—Helidon SE and Helidon MP—and shows how to quickly build...

From the glamour of Kennedy's presidency to the enigma of Lee Oswald and the murky world of Jack Ruby, learn their motivations, and see the shadows that continue to linger over one of the most significant moments in modern history. Unraveling the threads...

Modern history is the history of the crowd. But why are we so frightened of what happens when we come together? Philosophers, politicians and psychologist pronounce that they are dangerous and need to be controlled. In contrast, Hancox argues that they...

Designing homeliness: everyday practices of care proposes an interdisciplinary lens to investigate home. The book situates homeliness as continual processes of creating, maintaining and restoring meanings and experiences of home. Melisa Duque draws from...

Intelligent Computing Techniques in Biomedical Imaging: Methods, Case Studies, and Applications provides comprehensive and state-of-the-art applications of Computational Intelligence techniques used in biomedical image analysis for disease detection and...

In this thoroughly revised edition of The European Union and the United States, authors Smith, Guay, and Morgenstern-Pomorski delve deep into the complexities of the EU–US relationship amidst pivotal shifts on the global stage. By examining the...

For more than a decade, Alexis Lerner combed the alleyways, underpasses, and public squares of cities once under communist rule, from Berlin in the west to Vladivostok in the east, recording thousands of cases of critical and satirical political street...

The untold story of the intersecting lives of the Reverend Jim Jones and Harvey Milk—marking the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre and Milk's assassination November 1978. The Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs, and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.Taking a bold stance in the criminal justice...

Why the British Museum should hand back the Elgin MarblesThe Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin,...

The Stage 2 Teacher’s Guide offers comprehensive teacher support, providing everything needed to teach with confidence using the Collins International Primary Computing Stage 2 Student’s Book and Workbook. Collins International Primary Computing series...

The essential study of geometry and harmony in the solar system. Originally published as an MA thesis in 1995, copies of this rare book were later selling on eBay for huge sums. Impossible to classify, now fully reconstructed, revised and updated, this...

Seit über einem Jahrhundert gibt der „Frick/Knöll“ Generationen von Architekten und Bauingenieuren einen umfassenden Einblick in die Baukonstruktionslehre. Vom Fundament über den Innenausbau bis zum Dach bietet das Standardwerk der Baukonstruktionslehre...

Organized around real patient scenarios, Clinical Review of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 3rd Edition, covers all the material you need to know for the board, in-service, and certification exams, while also preparing you to handle common patient...

The Islamic astronomical tradition greatly benefited from the many works produced in different ancient cultures, as well as the new empirical and theoretical approaches that led to advancements in various aspects of astronomy. Nevertheless, a significant...

Winner of a NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize Nishant Upadhyay unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonialist relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and...

Considers the character of the “Stage Indian” in American theater and its racial and political impact Redface unearths the history of the theatrical phenomenon of redface in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Like blackface, redface was used to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804995921Author Kaushik BasuFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin (Transworld)Publisher Transworld Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049290Author John E. MooresFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Accelerating climate change is widely predicted to have profound impacts on human mobility over the coming decades. Climate mobilities and immobilities invoke issues of justice and social inequality and pose numerous socio-cultural, health, economic,...

Forthcoming Fall 2024Book InformationISBN 9781439925805Author Katherine A. PhelpsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g

Explores the legacies of slavery in Southern cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts Cities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural” indicate tastes rather than places. Cities bring chaos,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548892Author Erin MaloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland. Assumptions that Indigenous peoples have disappeared altogether, or that Indigenous identities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729544566Author Gjyn O'TooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Elsevier AustraliaPublisher Elsevier Australia

We all notice when the poor get poorer: when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start to grow. But if the rich become richer, there is nothing much to see in public and, for most of us, daily life doesn't change. Or at least, not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845194864Author Michael Menachem LaskierFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Sussex Academic PressPublisher Liverpool University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783112514993Author F W KüsterFormat HardbackPage Count 73Imprint de GruyterPublisher de GruyterWeight(grams) 281g

This book addresses the relationship between efficient management of critical minerals and sustainability in the Global South, including Sub-Saharan Africa. Critical minerals are essential raw materials for the technologies that are pivotal in today's...

What does a sanctuary for Hawaiian crows have in common with a troop of robots programmed to perform the Māori haka, or recreations of World Heritage Sites built in Minecraft? A family heirloom. An endangered species. An ancient piece of pottery. A...