Demonstrates the importance of political relative to economic factors in accounting for revenue production policies.…

Who is Bert Corona? Though not readily identified by most Americans, nor indeed by many Mexican Americans, Corona is a man…

This anthology of autobiographical essays aims to reveal the human side of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese…

Provides a comprehensive introduction to women's experience of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. This title…

A portrayal of contemporary El Salvador. It presents the life histories and testimonies of a grandmother, mother, and…

States that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. This title examines how gender differences…

This guide explains how the principal imaging devices work and how they help physicians save lives. It explains the medical…

Attempts to account for the widespread phenomenon of sport. Drawing upon ethnological findings to demonstrate the ritual…

This study of peasant movements against commercial forestry, includes an epilogue which brings the story of Himalayan social…

Discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of…

This is a commentary on the text of the advice given to Cicero by his campaign-conscious brother. The book is designed to…

A study that examines writings by African patients in asylums and the reports of officials, doctors, and others to discuss…

Features a collection of essays that considers the contemporary composition and performance, the role of critics and…

As the median age of the population increases, the care and housing of the elderly in the U.S. are of increasing concern.…

Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, Limon examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s…

Presents an analysis of the rich spiritual and artistic traditions of the Carib-speaking Yekuana Indians of Venezuela, who…

Offers a finely drawn portrayal of the disintegration of Austrian liberal society under the impact of nationalism and…

Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, this title shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the…

Examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum the author calls BlueSky. This title presents an…

A story of the quest and coming of age of a young knight, an illustrious member of Arthur's court, who must learn to balance…

Increasing numbers of migrants continue to participate in the political, social, and economic lives of their countries of…

By focusing on three upsurges of interest in evolutionary ethics this book describes a century-old philosophical hope: that…

Presents a fresh approach to philosophy. This book treats philosophy as a study of problems. It recognizes in traditional…

Attempts to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. This book traces…

This text offers an intervention into the debate between communitarianism and liberalism. It argues for a theory of…

Focusing upon Hollywood's portrayal of Asian races, this study describes how social taboos concerning Orientals helped to…

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Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in…

Argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a…

Featuring contemporary feminist theory, this book argues for a feminism that transcends national borders and ethnic…

Exposes US efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. This book argues that only by situating drug issues in the context…

Gathers Garvey's speeches and essays about Black pride.…

This text counters dominant models of marginality by looking at modernist poetry written in two decentred languages, Hebrew…

This collection of essays covers issues central to the understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism and the…

This volume asks questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of…

This text examines the historical formation of community in Monterey. It is also an investigation of how historical…

Presents an exploration of recording consciousness and compositional process from the perspective of those who make records.…

These essays inspired by the possibilities of narrative, each present stories of illness and healing drawn from a range of…

An analytical study of eighteen important works by Brahms, using Schoenberg's concept of 'developing variation'. It traces a…

A study of contemporary media sources which analyzes how children respond to what they see and hear, and relates how current…

Offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary…

Traces the historical processes in thought by which American political leaders slowly edged away from their complete…

Describes the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. This work presents an analysis of three plays, the…

Presents a comprehensive survey of the complex indigenous religions of the Americas, both North and South.…

Yue Daiyun was a revolutionary from her early school days. She had been a child during the anti-Japanese war and hated the…

This edition bring up-to-date the author's seminal study of mental retardation. Focusing on the role of stigma and the…

Features essays that present a range of subjects on the cause and consequence of protest movements in Latin America, from an…

This collection of essays aims to reshape the way American religious history is understood. It covers a range of topics…

Constructs a fresh approach to a longtime problem for the philosopher of science: how to explain the simultaneous and…