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Examines the obstacles to economic mobility for low- and increasingly middle-income familiesExamines the obstacles to economic mobility for low- and increasingly middle-income familiesReviews"This book is highly recommended, and its in-depth treatment...

Examines the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers and local environments around the worldExamines the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers and local environments around the worldReviews"[A] poignant expose of the environmental,...

Debates have swirled around the question of national forgiveness for the past fifty years. Using two examples-the land claims of the Oneida Indians and the claims for reparations to Japanese Americans interned during World War II-Brian Weiner suggests a...

In the latter part of the nineteenth century, the citizens of Great Britain faced a formidable challenge: coal resources seemed destined to run out and commentators were unable to foresee a viable alternative fuel. To address the crisis, military...

In this book, Magali Roy-Féquière casts new light on the Generación del Treinta, a group of Creole intellectuals who situated themselves as the voice of a new cultural nationalism in Puerto Rico. Through a feminist lens, she focuses on the interlocking...

In recent years, world events have trained a harsh spotlight on the Muslim religion and its adherents. The misunderstanding and bias against Muslims in the United States not only persists but has deepened. In this detailed study of an immigrant community...

Using historical and contemporary accounts and visuals of America's gun women-in fiction and entertainment, sports shooting, armed self-defense, and the professional fields (police and military)-this highly illustrated volume looks at how armed women...

Examines the new forms of racism in American life and the political responses to themExamines the new forms of racism in American life and the political responses to themReviews"Her book offers a refreshing view of the politics on the ground, where...

This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and...

In this original and collaborative creation, John Brown-Childs offers unique insights into some of the central problems facing communities, social movements, and people who desire social change: how does one build a movement that can account for race,...

Mastering .NET development is as much about understanding the functionality of the .NET Framework as it is about the syntax and grammar of your chosen language. Visual C# 2005 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach recognizes this fine balance. This book...

An important history of the way class formed in the US, "The Rule of Racialization" offers a rich new look at the invention of whiteness and how the inextricable links between race and class were formed in the seventeenth century and consolidated by...

Democratic Theorizing from the Margins lays out the basic parameters of diversity-based politics as a still emerging form of democratic theory. Students, activists, and scholars engage in diversity politics on the ground, but generally remain unable to...

How sexuality and sexual orientation intersect with gender, race, ethnicity, and religion in the ongoing formation of national identityHow sexuality and sexual orientation intersect with gender, race, ethnicity, and religion in the ongoing formation of...

On February 13, 1982, the Guatemalan army stormed into the remote northern Guatemalan village of Santa Maria Tzeja. The villagers had already fled in terror, but over the next six days seventeen of them, mostly women and children, were caught and...

Through in-depth interviews with activists, the authors provide a broad and thorough introduction to the emerging women's movement and women's organizations in Russia. The focus is on the development of women's activism in late Soviet and post-Soviet...

In Taiwan, small-scale subcontracting factories of thirty employees or less make items for export, like the wooden jewelry boxes that Ping-Chun Hsiung made when she worked in six such factories. These factories are found in rice fields and urban areas,...

Atlanta, the epitome of the New South, is a city whose economic growth has transformed it from a provincial capital to a global city, one that could bid for and win the 1996 Summer Olympics. Yet the reality is that the exceptional growth of the region...

How do unions around the world respond to issues raised by sexual minorities? Much as been written on labor's response to issues raised by women and racial minorities, but there has been little work done on labor's engagement with gays, lesbians,...

A new environmental ethic calls for the protection of the Earth while recognizing the special nature of humansA new environmental ethic calls for the protection of the Earth while recognizing the special nature of humansAbout the AuthorDon E. Marietta,...

How Asian immigration impacts the global economyHow Asian immigration impacts the global economyAbout the AuthorPaul Ong is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.Reviews"[A]n excellent volume...

In the midst of the Vietnam war, sit-ins, counter-culture, and campus rallies, the 1966 graduating class of a South New Jersey coast high school came of age on the margins of political and cultural upheaval. Rather than presenting the stereotype of...

Steps toward understanding "street people" in Santa Barbara--and everywhereSteps toward understanding "street people" in Santa Barbara--and everywhereAbout the AuthorRobert I. Lerman is Professor of Economics at The American University. He is co-author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914695059Author Napoleon BonaparteFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Alexander Press LLCPublisher Alexander Press LLCWeight(grams) 148gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912646787Author Aidan O. DunleavyFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Texas Christian University PressPublisher Texas Christian University...

In these essays, a diverse group of ethicists draw insights from both religious and feminist scholarship in order to propose creative new approaches to the ethics of medical care. While traditional ethics emphasizes rules, justice, and fairness, the...

Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the...

An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina's Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet's intelligence service reveals on a television show that he took sadistic pleasure in the sexual torture of...

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Most Native Americans in the United States live in cities, where many find themselves caught in a bind, neither afforded the full rights granted U.S. citizens nor allowed full access to the tribal programs and resources-particularly health care...

With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in information and communication technology, management and...

Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile phones, diet pills, and mortgages for companies based in other countries around the world. While their skills and labor...

En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts-primarily novels-produced between 1857...

In Politics without a Past Shari J. Cohen offers a powerful challenge tocommon characterizations of postcommunist politics as either a resurgence ofaggressive nationalism or an evolution toward Western-style democracy. Cohendraws upon extensive field...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781433945724Author Susan AshleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Gareth Stevens PublishingPublisher Gareth Stevens PublishingWeight(grams)...

The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in...

When Contemporary Asian America was first published, it exposed its readers to developments within the discipline, from its inception as part of the ethnic consciousness movement of the 1960s to the more contemporary theoretical and practical issues...

Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often...

Ever since George Washington warned against "foreign entanglements" in his 1796 farewell speech, the United States has wrestled with how to act toward other countries. Consequently, the history of anti-Americanism is as long and varied as the history of...

Not Working chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it. For those who now receive public assistance, "work" means pleading with supervisors for full-time hours, juggling ever-changing work...