Based on extensive fieldwork, this book explores the Lahu society in Southwest China where practical gender equality has…

Brand focuses on three countries-Jordan, Tunisia, and Morocco-with special attention to issues such as access to…

Organized around five basic areas of inquiry-political philosophy, moral philosophy, logic, epistemology, and…

Providing an historical and cultural exploration, this text demonstrates the role Japanese cinema played in the 1930s in the…

A comprehensive study of the cultural ecology, demography, and domestic organization of one village undergoing socioeconomic…

Why do we fill our leisure time with the activities we do? And what do our hobbies say about our culture? Gelber traces the…

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Buddhist teachers and scientists collaborate on a scientifically-based approach to understanding enlightenment.…

Traces the history of American fears of and attempts to combat propaganda through World War II and up to the Cold War. This…

In this book--the result of years of researching the Harasiis, a tribe living in the Sultanate of Oman--Chatty examines how…

Essays discuss migration, courtship, the care of young, camouflage, hunting techniques, and symbiotic relationships.…

Translation of: Hineubergehen: was beim Sterben geschieht. 2014.…

Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Emily Grimke were the first women in America coming from a southern slave-holding family to…

Today's discourse on nationalism is engaged by dynamic theoretical models derived from studies in literary criticism,…

Reveals the extent of US complicity in maintaining the Lebanese regime in the face of domestic opposition and civil war.…

By tracing the relativist and universalist arguments of human rights through such issues as criminal justice, women's…

Produkt Selected Writings of Walter Pater - Bloom, Harold zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia University Press.…

Thompson shows how post-WWI Syrians and Lebanese mobilized to claim the terms of citizenship enjoyed in the European…

Discusses about what information governments and other powerful organizations should disclose. This book distills the…

A report on the state of Latino politics and culture in New York-the most populous and diverse Latino city in the United…

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The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics examines how the difficult issues of social, political, and…

This is a collection of journals written by Japanese men and women - from all levels of society - who journeyed to American,…

The first introduction to the classical Chinese theater of Ming drama contains highlights from six of the best plays of the…

Produkt Growth and Policy in Developing Countries - Ocampo, Jose Antonio a Rada, Codrina a Taylor, Lance zakoupíte na…

An examination of the legal and national-security debates that made torture an acceptable act of counterterrorism.…

In this illustrated work, Kurten offers a vivid panorama of vertebrate animal life as it unfolded during the more than three…

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Intimate Strangers restores the legacy of four critics who used their foreignness to challenge America's political…

Thoroughly examines sixty-three fundamental skills needed by social workers dealing with individuals and groups. Middleman…

This book helps individuals make informed choices about in vitro fertilization, abortion, egg freezing, surrogacy, and other…

This culture-based primer provides lessons organized around readings on Chinese history, culture, geography, literature,…

This book posits that a family's quality of life is greatly impacted by the quality of the organizational climate and of…

One of the most-talked about works of fiction to emerge from China in recent years, this novel about an urban youth…

Explores how Saudi Arabian women writers have used their art as a means of gaining control over the cultural and political…

An account of what it was like to be Algerian, Jewish, and French at a time when those "identities" were fighting words.…

This book bridges both the macro and micro levels of analysis to place the dynamics of a national political movement within…

This book includes many seminal articles by film scholars such as Christian Metz, Jean-Louis Baudry, Stephen Heath, Peter…

Includes articles, essays, and primary documents that cover the formation of gay identity, religious, scientific, medical,…

The Eisenhower Administration developed and implemented policies in Southeast Asia that contributed directly to the massive…

Are the factors that initiate democratization the same as those that maintain a democracy already established?…

Produkt Lawrence Kohlberg's Approach to Moral Education - Power, F. Clark a Higgins, Ann a Kohlberg, Lawrence zakoupíte na…

An eloquent introduction to the ethical and philosophical values at stake in biological conservation, this book familiarizes…

Weaves varied reflections to reveal an understanding of the relationships among literature, the past, and the world around…

Hall illustrates how centuries-old dynastic traditions have been replaced in the modern era by nationalist and ethnic…

Two veteran investment professionals demystify the role of luck in asset management.…

A major new assessment of one of the most important writers of the late twentieth century and his work with history and its…

Volume 1 discusses the problems inherent in allocating limited biomedical technologies: whose needs take precedence, what…