Social groups, communities and identities

This book explores how physical anthropologists struggled to understand variation in bodies and cultures in the twentieth century.

This extensively revised and updated edition offers a comprehensive account of the latest research and practice issues relating to perfectionism in sport, dance, and exercise.

Alongside the world of everyday reality, the young child develops a rich imaginary world of child art, make-believe play, imaginary friends, fairy tales and magic.

In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland.

Fierce debate has long loomed over Title IX, the landmark legislation prohibiting sex discrimination in schools, whether in academics or athletics.

Professionalism, Boundaries and the Workplace is a practical text that examines a range of sensitive issues concerned with managing and maintaining professional boundaries between worker and client.

In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street.

From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more Americans belonged to fraternal societies than to any other kind of voluntary association, with the possible exception of churches.

This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain.

Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people.

'A hugely informative and quietly furious call to arms.

In the early nineteenth century, London publishers dominated the transatlantic book trade.

This book follows a group of women pursuing safety from abusive relationships.

Based on extensive new research investigating the range of women's involvement in early nineteenth-century popular politics, mid-Victorian reform and the women's movements of the late century, Women and the People makes an original intervention in the historiography of the radical tradition by exploring the interconnections of populism, liberalism and feminism.

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This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation.

This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field.

Engel examines changing politicians'' perceptions of the threat posed by opposition and how it influenced manipulations of judicial authority.

In the opening days of World War II, a joint U.

This book provides a conceptually and empirically rich introduction to religious indifference on the basis of original anthropological, historical and sociological research.

Readers EditionWhere did The Book of Mormon come from?

Americanizing Japanese Firms examines the concept of corporate social responsibility in Japanese manufacturing companies within the United States.

This comprehensive reference delves into the complex process of medical decision making-both the nuts-and-bolts access and insurance issues that guide choices and the cognitive and affective factors that can make patients decide against their best interests.

The US armed forces pioneered amphibious warfare in the Pacific and by the time of the D-day landings they had perfected the special equipment and tactics necessary for this extraordinarily difficult and risky form of warfare.

The prophet Amos is known for fiery messages directed at the elites of the northern kingdom of Israel in ancient times.

Moving Spaces and Places is about movement as a transformative experience, showing how movement changes affect and percept of spaces and place and solidifies space into meaningful places.

Thirty years in the making,Audaciousis a deep dive into the message that has compelled Beth Moore to serve women around the globe.

This book, spanning the years 1961-1964, is the third in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.

This book is a theoretical inquiry on the relation of the body politic with the religious movements in the time between the Constitutional Revolution and the Islamic Revolution in Iran; it illustrates speculative and historical analyses on the relationship of state, religion, and socio-political status in the late Qajar dynasty (1905-1925) and the whole Pahlavi monarchy.

Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one-a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances.

This revised edition of Mike Chappell's original Men-at-Arms 138 represents nearly 20 years' new research.

Hannah Arendt is regarded as one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century.

A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public lifeIn a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class and religious divisions, slavery, warfare, and labor unrest to democracy, tyranny, globalism, and the clash of cultures.

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.

Graham Tomlin, Bishop of Kensington, discusses the fraught concept of 'Freedom' in contemporary culture.

Here is an important book for social scientists interested in the influence of gender on certain types of behavior.

Covering topics ranging from the establishment of the Gulf Coast shrimping industry in 1800s to the Korean taco truck craze in the present day, this book explores the widespread contributions of Asian Americans to U.

According to the research underpinning this book, 85% of trans students and staff faced barriers.

"e;The controversial works of Brazilian authors Silviano Santiago(1936-) and Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-96) offer distinctive but complementary explorations of male homosexual subjectivities formulated through displacement, exile and the abject.

Children are an end and means of progress.

First published in 1985, Corporations, Classes and Capitalism raises some crucial questions - how important are large multinational companies?

More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back—along with sixteen captivating new voices—sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family, independence, body image, health, and aging: the critical flash points of women’s lives today“Born out of anger,” the essays in The Bitch in the House chronicled the face of womanhood at the beginning of a new millennium.

In this provocative new book, renowned educator and philosopher Nel Noddings extends her influential work on the ethics of care toward a compelling objective-global peace and justice.