Between Hitler and Churchill exposes an unknown facet in the World War II history: the attempt of a senior official in the Polish government-in-exile to collude with the Third Reich and a successful British intelligence operation which thwarted this move in its infancy.
The Ilahita Arapesh: Dimensions of Unity delves into the social and religious structures of Ilahita, a uniquely large and complex village in New Guineas Torricelli Mountains.
The Ilahita Arapesh: Dimensions of Unity delves into the social and religious structures of Ilahita, a uniquely large and complex village in New Guineas Torricelli Mountains.
In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriers-work rarely acknowledged.
Managed Integration: Dilemmas of Doing Good in the City by Harvey Luskin Molotch is a groundbreaking sociological study of how urban communities navigated racial transition in mid-twentieth-century Chicago.
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.
Managed Integration: Dilemmas of Doing Good in the City by Harvey Luskin Molotch is a groundbreaking sociological study of how urban communities navigated racial transition in mid-twentieth-century Chicago.
As we start to name an aspect of his existence which long remained unspoken, namely his engagement and wrestling with his own identity as inhabiting a white body, interpreting and understanding Dietrich Bonhoeffer today is perhaps more complex than ever.
Richly illustrated with clinical material, this book presents specific techniques for working with multisensory imagery in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).
Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.
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.
This anthropological study of grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil's leftist hotspot, focuses on gender, politics, and regionalism during the early 2000s, when the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) was in power.
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.
