Social groups, communities and identities

Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices.

This volume offers a "e;southern,"e; Pacific Ocean perspective on the topic of racial hybridity, exploring it through a series of case studies from around the Australo-Pacific region, a region unique as a result of its very particular colonial histories.

Feminists have recently begun to challenge the powerful influence of the law on the social and cultural construction of women's roles, identities, and rights.

Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast social protest.

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During the early years of World War II, American ships crossing the Atlantic with oil and supplies were virtually defenseless against German U-boats.

Covering a wide range of knowledge, The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference is a magnificent resource for home, family, and business, and an essential addition to your personal reference library.

A pioneering examination of the role smuggling played in the transformation of Spanish Caribbean society and culture in the seventeenth century.

Nicknamed the 'Bluenosed Bastards of Bodney' due to the garish all-blue noses of their P-51s, the 352nd FG was one of the most successful fighter groups in the Eighth Air Force.

Moral Leadership tells you all you need to know to lead.

In recent years, few federal requirements have been as controversial as the mandate for what critics call 'bilingual ballots'.

Empire's Tracksboldly reframes the history of the transcontinentalrailroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants whotoiled on its path.

Few places are more notorious for civil rightsera violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 "e;Mississippi Burning"e; murders.

Fabian Colonial Essays (1945) brings together a host of leading thinkers to discuss different aspects of colonialism.

This revised and updated 2nd edition of Freedman's hard-hitting study aims to remedy the current lack of gender-specific analyses of asylum and refugee issues.

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

The Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture is an extensively updated revision of the very successful Companion to Jewish Culture published in 1989 and has now been updated throughout.

Online Risk to Children brings together the most up-to-date theory, policy, and best practices for online child protection and abuse prevention.

Born in Bologna in 1922, filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was one of the most controversial European intellectuals of his time.

With a focus upon the social dimension of worship Mawdudi's original approach to religious ritual and self-purification considers worship's transformative role in social life, as well as on the spirit.

In many ways, the Heinkel He 177 'Greif' (Griffon) was Nazi Germany's 'lost' strategic bomber.

In her powerful, prophetic teaching style, bestselling author Jennifer Eivaz helps readers to continually sharpen their gifting in order to minister healing, breakthrough, and a supernatural display of God's glory.

After major setbacks in the Ardennes, the Allies launched a massive offensive in January 1945 that involved the largest American force ever assembled.

Ein Klassiker der Psychotherapie – aktualisiert und erweitert- Ein erfolgreicher psychotherapeutischer Ansatz wurde auf den neuesten Stand gebracht- In alle Richtlinienverfahren integrierbar- Zur Teile-Therapie finden große Kongresse und Tagungen stattDie Arbeit mit Persönlichkeitsanteilen bereichert seit gut 25 Jahren den "Werkzeugkoffer" von PsychotherapeutInnen und beratenden PsychologInnen.

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Born in 1897, Milly Bennett lived an extraordinary life that led from her native San Francisco, to Honolulu, to China for the revolution, to the Soviet Union on the eve of World War II, to the Spanish Civil War, and home again, a journey punctuated with many love affairs, triumphs, and disappointments.

Published in 1999, this volume contributes to the debate on convergence and differences in the role of law and legal institutions throughout the world.

"e;Dave King and Richard Ekins are the leading world sociologists in this field.

The objective of this book is to present a number of related chapters on the subject of gender issues in the workplace of the aviation industry.

This book explains some of the ways in which deteriorated socioeconomic conditions (inequality in particular) and institutional limitations (corruption, electoral exclusion, and a weak rule of law, among others) affect political stability in extremely unequal developing countries, like Mexico, where democracy is not yet fully consolidated.

Jewish Self-Defense in South America charts the ways in which Jewish youth in Argentina and Uruguay organized self-defense groups in the wake of an anti-Semitic wave that swept the Southern Cone in the 1960s.

The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts.

"e;Caste"e;, a word normally used in relation to the Indian subcontinent, is rarely associated with Japan in contemporary scholarship.

Economic developments in irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric power generation in western Canada at the turn of the last century challenged the way Native peoples had traditionally managed the watershed environment.

Using black and white contemporary photographs, illuminative maps and stunning battle scene illustrations, this comprehensive, detailed account completes the story of the Guadalcanal campaign - possibly the most important of the whole Pacific War.

This book provides an up-to-date, critical review of theoretical concepts connecting artists and urban development.

This is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world.

Two decades punctuated by the financial crisis of the Great Recession and the public health crisis of COVID-19 have powerfully reshaped housing in America.

While a majority of people identify as "e;heterosexual"e; if asked about their sexual identity, what does that really mean?

The unknown story of how a fleet of Australian fishing boats, trawlers and schooners supplied US and Australian forces in the Pacific - and helped turn the course of World War II.

In this interdisciplinary study, Monika Fodor explores how intergenerational memory narratives embedded in the speaker's own stories impact ethnic subjectivity construction.

Education and Gender draws on international research from the USA, the UK, India, Mexico, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, to provide a comprehensive global overview of the relationship between gender and education.

A valuable and easy-to-use tool for librarians, teachers and others seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature.

Abraham Washington Attell (1883-1970) was among the cleverest, most scientific professional boxers ever to enter the ring.

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'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of wartime ATS service shows' ANNE DE COURCY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Mary's affectionately intimate and emotionally volatile diaries [.