Social groups, communities and identities

In Bioarchaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast, Dale Hutchinson explores the role of human adaptation along the Gulf Coast of Florida and the influence of coastal foraging on several indigenous Florida populations.

Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease.

This book explains why the previous era in the Middle East came to an end.

This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.

This book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness program including a number of early successes, drawing lessons from efforts to form and maintain partnerships, and from the strategies employed to create structural change in communities.

This book explains how religious politics, repressive institutions, and leaders'' political strategies intersected in the US Global War on Terror.

Growing up as an adoptee and identical twin, Julie McGue will take you on her journey for identity and individuality, searching for answers through tragedy and adversity.

This book is a fascinating collection of carefully handpicked key texts and speeches from Chile's 1,000 Days of Revolution, previously unpublished in English.

London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual life intersected.

AN OF-THE-MOMENT NOVEL FOR READERS OF FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE'Timely, risky and dazzling' Polly Clark, author of Tiger'Sharply funny, perceptive, and surprising at every turn, The Smash-Up is a story that's acid-etched and full of heart, intimate, and relevant' Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses and Away'Every woman should read this book.

Formed in 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a high-profile civil rights collective led by young people.

Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature.

This book challenges the narrative of Northern England as a failed space of multiculturalism, drawing on a historically-contextualised discussion of ethnic relations to argue that multiculturalism has been more successful and locally situated than these assumptions allow.

This international edited collection examines how racism trajectories and manifestations in different locations relate and influence each other.

Zur Bewältigung eines "Massenanfalls von Verletzten" bedarf es einer optimalen Zusammenarbeit von Feuerwehr und Rettungsdienst.

The USS Rasher was one of America's most successful Word War II submarines, and her wartime exploits earned her three Presidential Unit Citations.

Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying politics, international relations, development and similar courses.

Now in its second edition, Parenting Culture Studies seeks to understand how parenting is taken as a particular mode of childrearing that reflects broader social trends.

With a view to deepening our understanding of sources of hatred and prejudice, this book uses a developmental and evolutionary perspective to explore and explain the process by which our beliefs are conveyed to the youngest members of society.

Outlining sociology's distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children's everyday lives.

This textbook offers a rigorous, calculus based presentation of the complexities of urban economics, which is suitable for students who are new to the subject.

This book is the first of its kind to incorporate subjective well-being (SWB) data to comprehensively explore perceptional factors that relate to fertility behavior in East Asia.

The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities.

Liminality has become a key concept within the social sciences, with a growing number of publications devoted to it in recent years.

How federalism can be used to provide recognition and accommodate ethnic groups is an important topic, not only in Africa, but in multi-ethnic communities around the world.

The tireless resistance of local communities fighting for ownership of America's third largest water system.

A wide variety of texts by the Latin satirists are presented here in a fully loaded resource to provide an innovative reading of satire's relation to Roman ideology.

This book introduces a term for our times, 'Global Majority,' as conceptualised within the context of school leadership.

This book is a philosophical exploration of disorientation and its significance for action.

The gay tourism industrya progressive social force or a pull towards an oppressive status quo?

Despite over 200 million adherents, Eastern Orthodox Christianity attracts little scholarly attention.

Caritina Pina Montalvo personified the vital role played by Mexican women in the anarcho-syndicalist movement.

Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow.

Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination.

Based on a conference that assembled experts in the field of pediatric compliance in chronic illness, this book presents the latest data and conceptual models of adherence to treatment and recommendations for new directions in the field.

The headscarf issue draws a great deal of public and academic attention in Turkey, yet the debate largely unfolds within the contours of the discussions over modernization, Westernization, and the Islamic / secular divide.

Conceptualizations of Blackness in Education engages the specific junction of educational research and multiple theorizations of Blackness.

This book presents a critical analysis of the 'resource curse' doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa's new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.

100 years ago women in the UK won the vote and 50 years ago the Women's Liberation Movement began a sustained campaign for equal rights.

Remaking the Male Body looks at interwar physical culture as a set of popular practices and as a field of ideas.

By sharing one of the longest land borders in the world, the United States and Mexico will always have a special relationship.

Osama bin Laden's demise in May 2011 marked only the symbolic end of an era.

There has been little attention to feminism and gender issues in mainstream philosophy of technology and vice versa.

The majority of the 30,000-plus undergraduates at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign-including the large population of Korean American students-come from nearby metropolitan Chicago.

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world.

In an increasingly globalised world manifested in greater economic integration, human capital is an important factor.