Social groups, communities and identities

Home front heroism investigates how civilians were recognised and celebrated as heroic during the Second World War.

The sharp and surprising true story of a woman who finally sets out to understand her past, and the mother she had one day hoped to forget.

This critical anthology showcases an interdisciplinary forum of scholars sharing a common interest in the analysis, discussion, critique, and dissemination of educational issues impacting Latinos.

Examining the complex social and material relationships between architecture and ecology which constitute modern cultures, this collection responds to the need to extend architectural thinking about ecology beyond current design literatures.

Most Americans regard the postwar Occupation of Japan as a prime example of American magnanimity.

As HIV/AIDS continue to plague societies around the world, more and more social workers encounter HIV-infected individuals and their families and friends who are searching for help and support.

In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government.

The book focusses on the historical emergence and contemporary challenges of Muslim community organizations and their struggle for recognition as ordinary voices in multiethnic and multi-religious civil societies of Western democracies.

This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination.

This book analyzes the ways collective memories of the US-Mexico War have shaped Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles over several generations.

This book examines the changing demographic situation of Syrian refugeesand the host community in Turkey, one of the major refugee hosting countriesin the world, relying on a recent representative dataset.

This title was first published in 2002: The trade union movement in twentieth-century Britain has been a cornerstone for society's marginalized members - women, disabled people, lesbians and gay men and people from black and ethnic minority communities.

An investigation into the lost treasures of Jesse James and the Freemasons and their connections to the Templars, Rosicrucians, and the Founding Fathers *; Explains how Jesse James used techniques involving sacred geometry, gematria, and esoteric symbols to hide his treasures and encode maps *; Provides instructions for using the encoding template employed by Jesse James and the Freemasons to hide and recover treasure and sacred relics *; Shows how the encoding template confirms the existence of treasures on Oak Island and Victorio Peak and can be traced to a 16th-century book containing a secret map of the New World and the ';hooked X' of the Knights Templar Jesse James left behind secret diaries and coded treasure maps.

This book outlines a compelling new agenda for feminist theories of identity and social relations.

This book explores the decline and growth of the private rental sector in Australia delving into the changing dynamics of landlord investment and tenant profile over the course of the twentieth century and into the present period.

Northeastern Hungary was full of places like the village of Vaja, where Jews had farmed for generations.

Why do some people choose to be vaccinated and others do not?

A New History of Asian America is a fresh and up-to-date history of Asians in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present.

Sacro-Egoism: The Rise of Religious Individualism in the West discusses the relationship between secularization, participation in religious practices and belief, and the emergence of radical individualized expressions of faith in the West.

Offering a uniquely psychoanalytic developmental perspective on male gender identity and the sense of maleness, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of masculinity in childhood and its continued evolution throughout a man's life.

Luke and the Jewish Other takes up the debated question of the orientation of Luke toward the Jewish people.

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world.

A compact, detailed account of the clashes between the Allies' M10 Tank Destroyer and the Germans' Sturmgesch tz (StuG) lll, the unsung workhorses of the northwest European battlefields of 1944 45.

Exploring links between sexuality, society, and state formation, this is the first history of prostitution and its politics in Peru.

***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - FINALIST 2021 - PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELLBEING***Make the Most of Every Single Day Uncertainty, instability, pressure, anxiety and now pandemic pandemonium .

This exceptional work, with entries from Rav Abba to Rav Zutra, is an unprecedented study of every rabbi in the Talmud.

In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hypervisualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues.

"e;Perhaps,"e; wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, "e;the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power.

May you sell your spare kidney?

Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time.

Sabiha Sertel was born into revolution in 1895, as an independent Turkey rose out of the dying Ottoman Empire.

This work presents the lives and times of eight prominent Japanese women who epitomize the tragedies and triumphs of eight characteristically female roles.

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For much of the past century, public discourse about gender and politics has been driven largely by progressive women--those voices on the left that support policies widely considered to be pro-women.

Despite the civil rights progress he fought for and saw on the horizon in the 1950s and '60s, Martin Luther King Jr.

Applying Deleuze's schizoanalytic techniques to film theory, Deleuze and the Gynesis of Horror demonstrates how an embodied approach to horror film analysis can help us understand how film affects its viewers and distinguish those films which reify static, hegemonic, "e;molar"e; beings from those which prompt fluid, nonbinary, "e;molecular"e; becomings.

This volume explores the ways in which interreligious encounters happen ritually.

A Multitude of Women looks at the ways in which both Italian literary tradition and external influences have assisted Italian women writers in rethinking the theoretical and aesthetic ties between author, text, and readership in the construction of the novel.

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume.

With insightful analysis, factual contextual information, and illuminating historical documents, this book provides a detailed, but broad perspective on the most destructive event in history.

The wartime airfi eld at Rivenhall is typical of the many airbases that were hastily built in Britain following the entry of the US into the Second World War.

This book focuses on two means of recruiting sign language to support DHH students in mainstream education in Asia.

Population aging and rapid socioeconomic changes are weakening family-based elder care while escalating the needs for long-term care services for older adults in China.