Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from hist...
Author: Wuthnow, Robert Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Much has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion. But the lifestyles and beliefs of the generation that has followed--and the influence these...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Since the publication of the Coleman report in the US many decades ago, it has been widely accepted that the evidence that schools are marginal in the grand scheme of academic achievement is conclusiv...
Author: Minchin, Timothy Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Martin Luther King's 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by ...
Author: Minchin, Timothy J. / Salmond, John A. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Martin Luther King's 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. hav...
Author: Kwon, Heonik Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This engrossing study consid...
Author: Bennett, Peter / Kendall, Alex / McDougall, Julian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This provocative text considers the state of media and cultural studies today after the demolition of the traditional media paradigm, and engages with the new, active consumer culture. Media Studies...
Author: Bennett, Peter / Kendall, Alex / McDougall, Julian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This provocative text considers the state of media and cultural studies today after the demolition of the traditional media paradigm, and engages with the new, active consumer culture. Media Studies...
Author: Chin, Rita / Fehrenbach, Heide Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an ex...
Author: Matas, David Publisher: Dundurn Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Attempts to explain how verbal attacks against Israel for human rights violations have turned into physical attacks against the Jewish community worldwide.
Author: Gedalof, Irene Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Theoretically-grounded yet written in an accessible style, this is a unique contribution to ongoing feminist debates about identity, power and difference, focused around the relationship of Western fe...
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Huysmans was a French novelist noted for his vast scope of language, his sensuous descriptions and satirical wit. His pessimistic outlook showed a deep disgust for modern life. Des Esseintes is the ...
Author: Lee, Ching Kwan Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive inter...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Edited and with an introductory chapter by sociologist Elijah Anderson, the essays in Against the Wall describe how young black men have come to be identified publicly with crime and violence....
Author: Watson, Francis Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Issues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book reflects this broad interdisciplinary situation, although its own standpoint is broadly theol...
Author: O'Donnell, Mike Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Age and Generation introduces students to the main sociological and anthropological issues surrounding this topic, from childhood to old age, and focuses, in particular, on youth culture.
Description: This book summarizes and explains the main approaches to age estimation in the living, defining when a parameter may be of use and raising awareness of its limitations. This text ensures that practiti...
Description: This book summarizes and explains the main approaches to age estimation in the living, defining when a parameter may be of use and raising awareness of its limitations. This text ensures that practiti...
Author: Friedman, Gil Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is the first in-depth study of the concepts of agency and structure in the context of international relations and politics. It is an important contribution, examing the ways in which explana...
Author: MacDonald, Mary Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Agendas for Sustainability" considers the processes used for devising global environment and development agendas and provides practical suggestions for their future development and influence.
Author: Barrett, Ronald L. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For centuries, the Aghori have been known as the most radical ascetics in India: living naked on the cremation grounds, meditating on corpses, engaging in cannibalism and coprophagy, and consuming int...
Author: N/A Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This solution-focused volume fills a gap in the literature by addressing the key issues around mobility and transportation for the aging Baby Boomer generation--issues that will be significantly diffe...
Author: N/A Publisher: Psychology Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There are not many books that address the boundaries of care of older people from a work-life perspective. This book, authored by contributors from various countries, looks at the boundaries of care b...
Author: Krause, Neal M. Publisher: Templeton Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A growing number of studies indicate that social ties that are formed by older people in the church have a significant positive impact on their physical and mental health. Aging in the Church: How Soc...
Author: Nichols, Janice E. / Speer, David C. / Watson, Betty J. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1998, approximately 30 million people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS, about 5 million of whom became infected that year. The epidemic continues to expand, with an estimated doubling time of 10...
Author: Morgan, Leslie A. / Kunkel, Suzanne R. Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a comprehensive textbook for both undergraduate and graduate level courses, detailing the impact of societal forces on the aging process. The book focuses on the diversity of the older popu
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "AIDS in Europe" provides a comprehensive overview of current social and behavioral research on HIV and AIDS for all health professionals.
Author: Susser, Ida Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: AIDS, Sex, and Culture is a revealing examination of the impact the AIDS epidemic in Africa has had on women, based on the author’s own extensive ethnographic research.based on the author's own ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A second, thoroughly revised and updated edition of the first ever guide to the British legal aspects of AIDS. Written by experienced legal professionals, many of whom are present or past advisers at ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this volume, international philosophers of education explore and question diverse strains of the liberal tradition, discussing autonomy and other key issues including social justice, national ident...
Author: Harrison, Larry Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Focusing on Britain, the first few chapters of this book examine the implications of recent community care legislation for government policy on alcohol; the prevalence of drinking problems among older...
Description: This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic treatments of the topic (Marx, Simmel, Weber) and exploring its relevance to understanding pos...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic treatments of the topic (Marx, Simmel, Weber) and exploring its relevance to understanding pos...
Author: Verne, Jules Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jules Verne was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires series....
Author: Chesterton, G. K. Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: G. K. Chesterton is well known as a novelist, essayist, storyteller, poet, philosopher, theologian, historian, artist, and critic. He's less well-known as a journalist these days, yet all evidence ind...
Author: Jones, John Bush Publisher: Brandeis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A lively look at magazine ads during World War II and their roles in sustaining morale and promoting home-front support of the war, with lots of illustrations
Author: Gaudio, Rudolf Pell Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A rich and engrossing account of 'sexual outlaws' in the Hausa-speaking region of northern Nigeria, where Islamic law requires strict separation of the sexes and different rules of behavior for women ...
Author: Silva, Sonia Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An anthropologist examines how a community of Luvale people, Angolan refugees living in Zambia, use lipele divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land and maintain connections to their pa...
Author: Stoler, Ann Laura Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced media...
Author: Hatfield, Charles Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Franoise Mouly's avant-garde anthology Raw and the launch of the Love Rockets series by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernande...
Author: Anderon, Byron Publisher: Library Juice Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This directory is a unique reference tool that gathers information on significant alternative presses and places this under one cover. The presses profiled were culled from hundreds of small, active i...
Author: Salvati, Armida Publisher: Universal Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book discusses altruism as a sociological category similar to the concept of social capital. The author explains why pro-social action is the basis for social capital, and analyzes sociological l...
Author: Kang, Kevin / Yun, David Publisher: The Hermit Kingdom Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a collection of three life stories by three Korean high school students in New York and New Jersey. Hojae Jin is a senior at Tenafly High School in New Jersey. Kevin Kang is a senior at a...
