How, then, do people decide which risks to take and which to ignore? On what basis are certain dangers guarded against and…

Exploring the phenomenon of divorce in American society, this book looks at divorce as a legal action, as an individual…

Presents mentoring on the various aspects of a successful academic career, particularly a career in the sciences. This title…

Offers an insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century. This…

Shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped…

A study of international organizations. It traces the crucial role played by international organizations in determining the…

Assesses the American maternity care system, and demonstrates how it fails to deliver safe, effective care. This book…

Provides an editing checklist, editing exercises with a suggested revision key, usage notes that address common errors, and…

A survey of contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the…

Few issues affect the future of China - and hence all the nations that interact with China - more than the nature of its…

Draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community…

Offers an analysis of globalization, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, uses four contemporary political cases in order to…

In the face of the world's disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international and local…

Raises questions central to the field of anthropology - questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of…

This text explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology,…

Clifford Geertz is one of the foremost figures in the reconfiguration of the boundary between the social sciences and the…

Demystifies statistical measures by explaining in straightforward prose how decisions are made about what to count and what…

Since late 2001 more than fifty percent of the babies born in California have been Latino. When these babies reach…

Offers an ethnography and a foray into the anthropology of morality. This book takes us on a journey into the lives of…

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Nurses and marines epitomize accepted definitions of femininity and masculinity. Using ethnographic research and provocative…

Is democracy a hot-house plant? By focusing on the objective conditions that make democracy probable, sociological and…

Offers a comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the years: rapidly…

Offers an exploration of how globalization is affecting education around the world. This book examines the challenges and…

Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty…

Offers an overview of why creationism fails with respect to the fundamentals of scientific inquiry. This title explains the…

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This book presents…

A collection of essays, in which the author makes better sense of globalization and international politics by taking a deep…