Reviews of the First Edition:thoughtful, critical, comprehensive, genuine Byrnes workshould prove compulsory reading for any critical and nuancedview of social exclusion.
To Make My Name Good: A Reexamination of the Southern Kwakiutl Potlatch offers a definitive, lucid account of one of the Northwest Coast's most discussedand most misunderstoodinstitutions.
This volume investigates some of the most visible issues in American politics today, including gay marriage and race, along with ongoing concerns that often fly below the radar of the mass media, such as healthcare and homelessness.
To Make My Name Good: A Reexamination of the Southern Kwakiutl Potlatch offers a definitive, lucid account of one of the Northwest Coast's most discussedand most misunderstoodinstitutions.
New nontraditional religious movements are the most likely groups to offend mainstream culture and the least likely to have representatives in government to ensure that their liberty is protected.
Precarious Empowerment: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile's Santiago provides a textured and telling exploration into the lives and experiences of sex workers in Chile, their encounters with discrimination and economic precarity, and their empowered resistance.
Towards an African Literature: The Emergence of Literary Form in Xhosa is a landmark intervention in the study of Southern African writing, offering both an incisive critique of Euro-American scholarship and a rigorous model for literary criticism rooted in African contexts.
Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays on select works by Chaucer that emphasizes how those works' deepest concerns and most fraught complexities remain urgently relevant in our present day.
The concept of Waithood was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry.
Towards an African Literature: The Emergence of Literary Form in Xhosa is a landmark intervention in the study of Southern African writing, offering both an incisive critique of Euro-American scholarship and a rigorous model for literary criticism rooted in African contexts.
The new edition of Reproduction and Society assembles an authoritative collection of the best scholarship on reproductive matters to help students and readers think critically and more expansively about acts of reproduction as social phenomena.
Davis McEntire's Residence and Race offers a comprehensive examination of one of the most entrenched forms of discrimination in the United States: restrictions on where racial and ethnic minorities could live.
Personnel Policy in the City: The Politics of Jobs in Oakland offers a compelling case study of the University of Californias Oakland Project, an innovative model of university-community partnership aimed at addressing urban challenges.
The Foundation of Positive Psychology: A Compilation of Key Studies, Theory, and Practice is a milestone text which serves as a comprehensive handbook for positive psychology.
Personnel Policy in the City: The Politics of Jobs in Oakland offers a compelling case study of the University of Californias Oakland Project, an innovative model of university-community partnership aimed at addressing urban challenges.
The intention of this book is to provide a convenient basic reference for professionals and amateurs alike, while stimulating curiosity and interest in the latter to appreciate a most fascinating and important aspect of the habitat, ecology, and diversity of wildlife in the Luangwa Valley ecosystem.
Davis McEntire's Residence and Race offers a comprehensive examination of one of the most entrenched forms of discrimination in the United States: restrictions on where racial and ethnic minorities could live.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
In Borderland Brutalities, Laura Elena Belmonte analyzes how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well as the US and Mexican governments and how this violence is represented through border literature and cultural production.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
Great Sacred Music, a free lunchtime event of spoken word and music for choirs and congregations, is a regular feature of the life at witness of St Martin-in-the-Fields.
American Chinatowns: Race, Identity, and Postwar Urban Redevelopment offers a captivating exploration of the vibrant yet contested landscapes of Chinatowns across the United States.
Nigeria brims with an array of art musicians who have endeavoured to create and perform art music using traditional compositional nuances and performance practices.
