A new "e;bulldozer politics"e; has taken hold in many Indian cities, destroying neighborhoods and displacing city residents as it pursues a global city aesthetic.
When Thomas Jefferson moved his victorious Republican administration into the new capital city in 1801, one of his first acts was to abolish any formal receptions, except on New Year's Day and the Fourth of July.
Atmospheric short stories from a wry, keen-eyed observerFierce and sophisticated, dark and dreamy, The Black Box is a collection of transgressive, poetic fiction by Mata Kastrisiou.
A new "e;bulldozer politics"e; has taken hold in many Indian cities, destroying neighborhoods and displacing city residents as it pursues a global city aesthetic.
Enduring Illegality chronicles the lives of undocumented Mexican immigrants who have spent decades in the United States waiting for a path to legalization that has yet to arrive.
Far from the Model Minoritycenters the voices of five undocumented and mixed-status Chinese immigrant families in New York City and their sending communities in Fuzhou, China.
Eine wildromantische Insel vor der Küste Englands – der gemütliche Wohlfühlroman »Die Teestube in Freshwater Bay« von Annette Weber als eBook bei dotbooks.
La lucha de las mujeres en Mexico ha sido intensa y compleja: aqui se narra este proceso, desde la conformacion fabril del pais durante el Porfiriato y la Revolucion mexicana; pasando por los anos veinte y treinta del siglo XX, con sus multiples movimientos sociales; las decadas de 1940 a 1960, cuando Mexico se conformo como un pais moderno y se consiguio el sufragio femenino; los anos setenta, con el surgimiento de la segunda ola del feminismo alternativo y contracultural, hasta llegar a los anos ochenta y noventa, que corresponden a los primeros dos sexenios del modelo neoliberal.
The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Medicine and Family Planning, third edition provides essential practical information on the care of adolescent and reproductive age females and males.
Cultural Journalism in the Digital Age provides the first international, book-length introduction to Western cultural journalism, a distinct type of professional journalism that has expanded and diversified significantly, particularly from the mid-20th century into the first decades of the 21st century.
Cultural Journalism in the Digital Age provides the first international, book-length introduction to Western cultural journalism, a distinct type of professional journalism that has expanded and diversified significantly, particularly from the mid-20th century into the first decades of the 21st century.
'A superb book' - Observer'Gripping, vivid and compelling' - The Critic'Humane, absorbing and meticulous' - New Statesman'An extraordinary book' James O'Brien, TLSThree Weeks in July is the extraordinary and definitive account of the events of the 7/7 London bombings, publishing on the 20th anniversary of the event.
The first biography ofone of the foundersof the disability rights movement, An Independent Man chronicles the life of an activist who reimagined the meaning of equality and inspired generations of reformers.
Over several decades, the influx of wealthy, white lifestyle migrants has transformed the economic, social, and ecological fabric of many rural communities across the United Statesfrom alpine towns of the Rockies to forest and lake communities of the Southeastin a process akin to urban gentrification.
This is a study of continuity and change in rural France based on fieldwork carried out over a period of 25 years, and on historical documents spanning more than 300 years.
Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but the growing labor force that propelled it, mostly consisting of Mexican and Chinese men, was met with exclusion policies and deportation campaigns.
Mainstream therapeutic modalities have very little to say about humour in therapy, but every therapist will tell you that it is impossible to banish it from the therapy room.
Practical Supervision in Applied Sport Psychology delivers a 'how-to' guide in the supervision of sport psychology trainees and qualified practitioners.
This book examines how the Soviet past is culturally negotiated, reimagined, and recreated in new temporal regimes; how the Soviet project is "e;recycled"e; and used as a key component in the construction of a new Russian collective identity; and how it has metamorphosed from a historical dimension to the sphere of myth.
This book examines how science education can either reinforce or counteract genetic essentialism, a misperception that social groups share genes which determine their cognitive and behavioral characteristics.
Weaponized Communication provides the first systematic empirical study of how liberal mainstream news media are targeted through coordinated social media advertising campaigns.
