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As countries in the European Union struggle to comply with the Maastricht Treaty, the question of monetary integration is at the forefront of European politics. Germany and the Politics of Europe's Money explores how and why Germany-whose economic power...

In Public Privates, a book about looking and being looked at, about speculums, spectacles, and spectators, about display, illumination, and reflection, Terri Kapsalis makes visible the practices and representations of gynecology. The quintessential...

Religious organizations in many countries of the communist world have served as agents for the preservation, defense, and reinforcement of nationalist feelings, and in playing this role have frequently been a source of frustration to the Communist Party...

Domination and Cultural Resistance examines the social life of the Yura, a Quechua-speaking Andean ethnic group of central Bolivia, and focuses especially on their indigenous authorities, the kuraqkuna or elders. Combining ethnohistorical research with...

Ecology of the Body presents an argument for describing our behavior in accordance with the ways we experience our bodies. Increasingly, psychologists are recognizing that human beings show great diversity in the ways they perform the vast repertoire of...

This is the latest in the At the Polls series, in which Duke University Press has joined with the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research to publish studies on the electoral process as it functions around the world. Cited by Choice for...

This volume examines 150 years of Canadian political life in light if one of the country's most intractable problems, its cultural identity. Although many thoughtful Canadians remain dubious about the existence of a truly Canadian way of life, Douglas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780821409428Author A.R. AftabizadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 1000Imprint Ohio University PressPublisher Ohio University Press

"Transatlantic Voices" is the first collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. Devoted to the primary genres of Native literature - fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry - the essays chart...

'"Not since "Edward Said's Beginnings" has as much pressure been applied on the vexed concept of origin as in this remarkable book. John Pizer succeeds in rescuing it from the unearned abuse to which it has been subjected by much post-structuralist...

Nevada's highly individualistic political culture has produced a conservative political philosophy in an open society. Economic developments resulting from mining and gambling reinforced and heightened the individualistic ethic that many early settlers...

An analysis of how the quality of social life should be evaluated and the strengths and weaknesses in CanadaBook InformationISBN 9780773525764Author Raymond BretonFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher...

Whether to intervene in conflicts in the developing world is a major and ongoing policy issue for the United States. In Deciding to Intervene, James M. Scott examines the Reagan Doctrine, a policy that provided aid to anti-Communist insurgents-or...

This reflection on colonial culture argues for an examination of "Indochina" as a fictive and mythic construct, a phantasmatic legacy of French colonialism in Southeast Asia. Panivong Norindr uses postcolonial theory to demonstrate how French imperialism...

One of the most respected and honored historians of the media, Erik Barnouw has been called a major national resource by The Nation. Norman Corwin dubbed him America's Gibbon. He is the writer, says critic John Leonard, "from whom the rest of us steal...

Fiercely committed to the separation of church and state, thoroughly pluralistic, largely secular: Where does a society like ours find common terms for conducting a moral debate? In view of the crises surrounding the issue of abortion, it is tempting to...

The United States has been distinguished among free governments as a "presidential" republic. In The Effective Republic, Harvey Flaumenhaft shows how the study of Alexander Hamilton's political thought opens the way to understanding the nature of this...

In Working Women, Working Men, Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sao Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's...

In the modern imagination the peasant survives as a creature of the land, suspicious of the outside world and resistant to change, either the repository of pristine innocence and virtue or the manifestation of everything nasty, brutish, and at best dull...

Politics in the United Nations reflects the predominant discord and occasional convergence among the members of the UN system as they view the international problems of our times through lenses of their geographic, historical, ideological, religious, and...

The important mental health problems of children have become the focus of increasing public awareness in the past few years. Adolescent suicide, the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of children, alcohol and drug abuse by young people, as well as...

This study incorporates three important themes into the study of presidential selection:What are the international implications of how the Unites States chooses its presidents? How does the process affect other nations? Does it enhance or diminish the...

Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union, yet it is also one of the most densely populated. Its political culture has until recently resembled the old-style patronage politics of a city-state. The Ocean State's politics have been highly...

How much space is left for Canada in the world, and who is claiming it?Book InformationISBN 9780773533967Author Jean DaudelinFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University PressWeight(grams) 598g

The third booklet in a series to explore the topic of legislative, executive and judicial governance in eleven federal countriesBook InformationISBN 9780773533158Author Raoul BlindenbacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint McGill-Queen's University...

The fifth booklet in a series to explore the topic of legislative, executive and judicial governance in eleven federal countriesBook InformationISBN 9780773533127Author Raoul BlindenbacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint McGill-Queen's University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773531819Author Johanne SloanFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University PressWeight(grams)...

A reflection on the current thinking about our social, cultural, and natural environment and a significant advance towards a philosophy of the concrete.A reflection on the current thinking about our social, cultural, and natural environment and a...

Celebrates the achievements and history of the Canadian Hydrographic ServiceCelebrates the achievements and history of the Canadian Hydrographic ServiceAbout the AuthorCABook InformationISBN 9780773527102Author William GloverFormat HardbackPage Count...

An inspiring case for parliamentary democracy and a sympathetic exploration of current discontents.Book InformationISBN 9780773526587Author Janet AjzenstatFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's...

Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: GeographyFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Reinforce students' geographical understanding throughout their course; clear topic summaries with sample questions and answers help students improve...

This pack from CGP contains two full sets of realistic KS2 Maths SATS practice tests, all fully matched to the style and content of the new SATS in 2016 and beyond. Each set of tests includes three separate papers: one for Arithmetic and two for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788494003585Author Fernando OlallaFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint HG EditoresPublisher HG Editores

This book highlights some recent advances in interfacial research in the fields of fluid mechanics and materials science at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is an extension of the presentations made during the conference "Interfaces for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860205408Author David E. MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Luton PressPublisher University of Luton PressWeight(grams) 540g

There is a growing movement among corporations to provide family benefits in order to attract and retain women workers. They recognize that these benefits have become a cost of doing business. Many of these benefits, like child care and older care, are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464107771Author Thomas HeinzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co LtdPublisher Macmillan Learning

IntroStats Online by Greg Francis is an introductory-level statistics textbook in an online format, featuring text, extensive practice questions, interactive demonstrations, simulations, and calculators. It is designed to fully immerse students in...

Published within weeks of the Act appearing, this work is the only reproduction of the Finance Act incorporating section-by-section and schedule-by-schedule commentary and worked examples. * Commentary provided by individually commissioned experts, drawn...

Complete exam coverage, hands-on practice, and interactive study tools for the MCSA: Administering Windows Server 2012 R2 exam 70-411 MCSA: Windows Server 2012 R2 Administration Study Guide: Exam 70-411 provides comprehensive preparation for exam...