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An Italian Education by Tim Parks 9780099286967 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.06How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village... -
Power Forward by Hena Khan 9781534411999
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.34From the critically acclaimed author of Amina's Voice comes the first book in an exciting new middle grade series about a fourth-grader with big dreams of basketball stardom.Fourth grader Zayd Saleem... -
Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory, and Analysis by Jennifer Arnold 9781575860381
Booksplease Price: $57.06This volume collects selected papers from the twenty-third New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference held at Stanford University. It is a collection of innovative papers on the newest developments... -
Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada by Irene Bloemraad 9780520248991
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $58.46How can societies that welcome immigrants from around the world create civic cohesion and political community out of ethnic and racial diversity? This thought-provoking book is the first to provide a... -
The Cultural One or the Racial Many: Religion, Culture and the Interethnic Experience by Evandro Camara 9781138391499
Booksplease Price: $191.06First published in 1997, this study aims, first, to enlarge upon the understanding of race and ethnicity through a culturalist-comparative frame of analysis, instead of the standard quantitative and... -
Study Skills for International Postgraduates by Martin Davies
Booksplease Price: $69.51This is the definitive guide to successful study as an international postgraduate student. Chapters cover all the core academic skills, including time management, reading, referencing, critical... -
Epigenetics: Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution by Benedikt Hallgrimsson 9780520267091
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $140.99Illuminating the processes and patterns that link genotype to phenotype, "Epigenetics" seeks to explain features, characters, and developmental mechanisms that can only be understood in terms of... -
Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture by Judith Ruderman 9780253036964
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88In Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today's contemporary... -
The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews by Maurice Samuels
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $81.63Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country's Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the... -
Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community by Stephen S. Fugita 9780295973760
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $60.52Why do some groups retain their ethnicity as they become assimilated into mainstream American life while others do not? This study employs both historical sources and contemporary survey data to... -
Chauncey Yellow Robe: A Biography of the American Indian Educator, ca. 1870-1930 David W. Messer 9781476673226
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $41.14In 1883, 12-year old Canowicakte boarded a train on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, beginning a journey his friends said would end at the edge of the world. Raised as a traditional Lakota, he... -
Where We Live Now: Immigration and Race in the United States by John Iceland 9780520257634
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $58.46"Where We Live Now" explores the ways in which immigration is reshaping American neighborhoods. In his examination of residential segregation patterns, John Iceland addresses these questions: what... -
Strangers at Home: Jews in the Italian Literary Imagination by Lynn M. Gunzberg 9780520078406
RRP: $111.30Booksplease Price: $100.70Using popular literature as a window on Italian society and its values, Lynn Gunzberg explores the representation of Jews in novels and poetry written by non-Jews from the beginning of the... -
Syrian and Lebanese Patricios in Sao Paulo: From the Levant to Brazil by Oswaldo Truzzi
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Syrian and Lebanese immigrants to Brazil chose to settle in urban areas, a marked contrast to many other migrant groups. In Sao Paulo, these newcomers embraced new lives as merchants, shopkeepers,... -
The Importance of Being Urban: Designing the Progressive School District, 1890-1940 by David A Gamson
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $92.09From the 1890s through World War II, the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of power but in urban school districts and classrooms... -
Amina's Voice by Hena Khan 9781481492072
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2017 "For inspiring empathy in young readers, you can't get better than this book." -R. J. Palacio, author of #1 New York Timesbestseller Wonder "Amina's... -
The Synchronic and Diachronic Phonology of Ejectives by Paul D. Fallon 9781138996670
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $103.61This study is the first book-length examination of ejectives and their phonological patterning, deepening the empirical understanding of ejectives and contributing to both phonological theory and to... -
Mexican Immigration to the United States by George J. Borjas 9780226066325
Booksplease Price: $171.80From debates on Capitol Hill to the popular media, Mexican immigrants are the subject of widespread controversy. By 2003, their growing numbers accounted for 28.3 percent of all foreign-born... -
Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago by Lilia Fernandez 9780226212845
Booksplease Price: $56.03Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernandez reveals how the two populations arrived in... -
Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-century New York City by Lorrin Thomas
Booksplease Price: $59.96By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States,... -
The Limits of Transnationalism Nancy L Green 9780226608280
Booksplease Price: $52.08Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to intellectual ones. The Limits of Transnationalism reassesses the overly optimistic narratives often associated... -
Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data Sudipto Banerjee 9781032508559
Booksplease Price: $190.43Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data, Third Edition presents a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of hierarchical and multilevel modeling for spatial and spatio-temporal data... -
Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account by Thomas Harrison
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $58.34Offers a philosophical history of bridges-both literal bridges and their symbolic counterparts-and the acts of cultural connection they embody. "Always," wrote Philip Larkin, "it is by bridges that... -
Frankly Feminist - Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine by Susan Weidman Schneider
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $42.55A groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection. Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have-no surprise-typically given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents... -
Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough by Pawan Dhingra
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $97.21An up-close look at the education arms race of after-school learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to educate children Beyond soccer leagues, music... -
Invisibility in African Displacements: From Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance by Jesper Bjarnesen 9781786999191
Booksplease Price: $179.87African migrants have become increasingly demonised in public debate and political rhetoric. There is much speculation about the incentives and trajectories of Africans on the move, and often these... -
Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology Julia Reinhard Lupton 9780226143521
Booksplease Price: $54.05Who is a citizen? What is a person? Who is my neighbor? These fundamental questions about group membership and social formation have been posed repeatedly in political and religious discourses... -
Literary Representation of Spanish Immigration in the United States of America (1900-1950): Transculturation, Hybridization, and the Third Space by Andrew S. Gross 9783631929612
RRP: $113.40Booksplease Price: $101.87This work explores portrayals of Spanish immigration to the United States (1900-1950) through six novels. It examines how Spanish immigrants navigate cultural shifts, balancing their heritage with... -
American Immigration After 1996: The Shifting Ground of Political Inclusion by Kathleen R. Arnold 9780271048901
Booksplease Price: $59.91Few topics generate as much heated public debate in the United States today as immigration across our southern border. Two positions have been staked out, one favoring the expansion of guest-worker... -
Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990 by Lon Kurashige 9780520227439
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $53.05Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige... -
Legitimizing Empire: Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural Critique by Faye Caronan
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39When the United States acquired the Philippines and Puerto Rico, it reconciled its status as an empire with its anticolonial roots by claiming that it would altruistically establish democratic... -
Human Capital in History: The American Record by Leah Platt Boustan
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $192.51Human Capital in History brings together contributions from leading researchers in economic history, labor economics, the economics of education, and related fields. Building on Claudia Goldin's... -
Hierarchy: Perspectives for Ecological Complexity by Thomas B. Starr
RRP: $226.80Booksplease Price: $221.89Although complexity surrounds us, its inherent uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction can at first make complex systems appear inscrutable. Ecosystems, for instance, are nonlinear,... -
Unequal Europe: Social Divisions and Social Cohesion in an Old Continent by James Wickham 9780815374138
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $105.40This wide-ranging and comparative text reviews the major theoretical and substantive debates on social inequality in Europe. It provides a valuable dual focus on European society and individual... -
Universalism without Uniformity: Explorations in Mind and Culture Julia L. Cassaniti 9780226501680
Booksplease Price: $65.88One of the major issues in cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while also acknowledging our shared humanity. This collection brings together leading figures in the field of... -
Invisibility in African Displacements: From Structural Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance by Jesper Bjarnesen 9781786999207
Booksplease Price: $68.00African migrants have become increasingly demonised in public debate and political rhetoric. There is much speculation about the incentives and trajectories of Africans on the move, and often these... -
Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown by Chiou-ling Yeh 9780520253513
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $58.46This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States - the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco - opens a new window onto the evolution of... -
Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory and Psychotherapy: Bridging Psychotherapeutic and Cultural Traditions Agnieszka Konopka 9781138503977
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $72.64In the Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory and Psychotherapy: Bridging Psychotherapeutic and Cultural Traditions, the editors bring together a wide variety of therapeutic approaches in order to... -
Cultural Genocide by Lawrence Davidson 9780813553498
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $50.72Most scholars of genocide focus on mass murder. Lawrence Davidson, by contrast, explores the murder of culture. He suggests that when people have limited knowledge of the culture outside of their own... -
Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation by Leo T. S. Ching 9780520225534
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.24In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire...