Over the years, much has been written about growing economic challenges, increasing income inequality, and political…

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We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing…

Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Brožovaná, Počet stran: 342, Nakladatelství: University of California Press, Autor: Collective…

Offers an inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. This book offers a pointed look beneath the surface in order…

This guide shows how Washignton works to accomplish political or economic goals, even when confronted with widespead popular…

A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our…

Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over…

A novel about coming of age in the new America, a place in which races and cultures have not so much melded as collided and…

The leading poet of French symbolism, Stephane Mallarme has exercised an enormous influence both on French and on English…

The legal status of American Indians rests on the historical treaty relationship between Indian tribes and the federal…

• Rok vydání 2019

One of the greatest works of Spanish literature, this 800-year-old saga narrates the legendary exploits of the…

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The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable…

Engages the traditional resources of lyric poetry in an exploration of historical and cultural landscapes ravaged by…

Illusion of Power - Political Theater in the English Renaissance.…

Mixing thrilling anecdotes from street-level reporting that give readers a sense of what is at stake with a bird's-eye view…

Offers a personal account of a Catholic high school in central Harlem, where mostly disadvantaged (and often non-Catholic)…

Offers an account of Occupy Wall Street's first year in New York City. This title chronicles the origins and explosive…

Dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a…

From the 1996 passage of California's Proposition 215, the nation's first medical marijuana law, through law enforcement…

Examines the ways we have used and embraced Google - and the growing resistance to its expansion across the globe. This…

Provides an introduction to education in the U.S., from its origins to its contemporary manifestations. Focusing on social…

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An essay that attempts to reconcile the disturbing contradiction between the striving for order in nature and in man and the…

The size of government is arguably the most controversial discussion in United States politics, and this issue won't fade…

A collection of essays that provides accounts of wines from Europe and America that offer just as much for those who simply…

Includes interrelated poems that explores how to represent the reality of change and loss. This title pinpoints what is at…

Presents three related poem sequences - "Shipwreck in Haven," "Falling in Love through a Description," and "The Plummet of…

Covers the translations of the poems attributed to Virgil. This title captures the tone and style of the originals while…

Explores eight approaches human beings have pursued over time to invest life with meaning and to infuse order into a…

Considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing…

Suitable for instructors and independent language students, this title provides the answers to the exercises.…