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This work highlights how the black American academic achievement gap is a product of capitalist forces and structural reproduction. To resolve the gap, it argues that black Americans should be treated as immigrant students against their structurally differentiated identities.
This work highlights how the black American academic achievement gap is a product of capitalist forces and structural reproduction. To resolve the gap, it argues that black Americans should be treated as immigrant students against their structurally differentiated identities.
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The Caucasus Policy of Russia in the Early 21st Century
Internal and External Dynamics
This book analyses Russia’s policy toward the strategic Caucasus region, especially under Putin. It examines post-Soviet relations with Azerbaijan and Georgia, shedding light on the Chechen-Russian conflict and the Russo-Georgian Wars.
This book analyses Russia’s policy toward the strategic Caucasus region, especially under Putin. It examines post-Soviet relations with Azerbaijan and Georgia, shedding light on the Chechen-Russian conflict and the Russo-Georgian Wars.
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Female Empowerment
A Life-Cycle Analysis
Gender discrimination impacts women from birth until death. This volume uncovers disparities in health, professional opportunities, and the household, charting a clear path to combat deep-rooted prejudice and achieve true empowerment.
Gender discrimination impacts women from birth until death. This volume uncovers disparities in health, professional opportunities, and the household, charting a clear path to combat deep-rooted prejudice and achieve true empowerment.
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Death Down Under
Twenty-first Century Dying, Death, Disposal and Memorialisation in the Antipodes
This insightful collection of essays challenges the assumption that death is hidden or done badly. It documents the varied and creative multi-cultural ways we respond to one of life's most challenging aspects, offering new ways to understand our contemporary death practices.
This insightful collection of essays challenges the assumption that death is hidden or done badly. It documents the varied and creative multi-cultural ways we respond to one of life’s most challenging aspects, offering new ways to understand our contemporary death practices.
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Representing the Contemporary North American Family
Family Portraits
Central to this book is the idea that the family still plays a pivotal role in North America. Gathering approaches from sociology, politics, media, and literature, these contributions show the centrality of the family as a social, political, legal, and fictional construct.
Central to this book is the idea that the family still plays a pivotal role in North America. Gathering approaches from sociology, politics, media, and literature, these contributions show the centrality of the family as a social, political, legal, and fictional construct.
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The Concept of Motherhood in India
Myths, Theories and Realities
This book explores motherhood from ancient times to the present, analyzing how the ideal is manufactured by society through archetypes, religion, and media. It rereads the myths surrounding motherhood as social constructs and contrasts them with its lived reality.
This book explores motherhood from ancient times to the present, analyzing how the ideal is manufactured by society through archetypes, religion, and media. It rereads the myths surrounding motherhood as social constructs and contrasts them with its lived reality.
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Following great thinkers on human happiness from antiquity to today, this book argues that as active creators, we can amend the world and make it a safe place for all. It includes primary sources on happiness in their original Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek, with translations.
Following great thinkers on human happiness from antiquity to today, this book argues that as active creators, we can amend the world and make it a safe place for all. It includes primary sources on happiness in their original Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek, with translations.
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Perspectives on Waste from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Opening the Bin
Our growing waste problem is typically viewed through a technocratic lens. This book offers vital new perspectives from social scientists and humanists, showing how waste is constituted through relationships, politics, and culture—a necessary step to building a circular economy.
Our growing waste problem is typically viewed through a technocratic lens. This book offers vital new perspectives from social scientists and humanists, showing how waste is constituted through relationships, politics, and culture—a necessary step to building a circular economy.
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The Last Forty Years of Italian Popular Culture
“Andare al Popolo”
This volume offers an insight into recent Italian pop culture. Essays on topics from literature and music to comics and politics reveal a country where mass participation in cultural events accompanies reflection on national identity. An engaging and indispensable read.
This volume offers an insight into recent Italian pop culture. Essays on topics from literature and music to comics and politics reveal a country where mass participation in cultural events accompanies reflection on national identity. An engaging and indispensable read.
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Cultural Diversity in Cross-Cultural Settings
A Global Approach
As people move across international borders, the nuances of communication vary from culture to culture. This book explores how the misperception of cultural values can result in communication breakdowns.
As people move across international borders, the nuances of communication vary from culture to culture. This book explores how the misperception of cultural values can result in communication breakdowns.
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This book compares the experiences of women leaders and their work-life balance across eight different countries. Collecting stories from a variety of cultures, it offers global insights into the challenges and cultural norms surrounding leadership and work-family integration.
This book compares the experiences of women leaders and their work-life balance across eight different countries. Collecting stories from a variety of cultures, it offers global insights into the challenges and cultural norms surrounding leadership and work-family integration.
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This trenchant and passionate analysis of Greek life addresses the economic collapse, refugee crisis, and bureaucracy. Believing one cannot love Greece without mourning its flaws, the author presents a selection of his columns, including some a newspaper refused to print.
This trenchant and passionate analysis of Greek life addresses the economic collapse, refugee crisis, and bureaucracy. Believing one cannot love Greece without mourning its flaws, the author presents a selection of his columns, including some a newspaper refused to print.
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Culture, Crisis and COVID-19
The Great Reset
The pandemic is a priceless opportunity for a Great Reset. Can we re-vision capitalism as a life-preserving phenomenon? We must create an economy that serves all stakeholders, not just shareholders. The true mission of business is to serve humanity with higher goals.
The pandemic is a priceless opportunity for a Great Reset. Can we re-vision capitalism as a life-preserving phenomenon? We must create an economy that serves all stakeholders, not just shareholders. The true mission of business is to serve humanity with higher goals.
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This insider account shows how working-class students in a conservative region initiated radical changes in the Sixties. Their vivid story of bringing students around to support social justice illustrates how democratic change can reshape a nation, inspiring today's activists.
This insider account shows how working-class students in a conservative region initiated radical changes in the Sixties. Their vivid story of bringing students around to support social justice illustrates how democratic change can reshape a nation, inspiring today’s activists.
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Dangerous Men
Ideology and the Personification of Evil
This analysis of dangerous offender legislation in Canada develops a political economy of dangerousness. Using case studies and interviews, it argues that the label of “high-risk convict” obscures the social and economic conditions that many marginalized people experience.
This analysis of dangerous offender legislation in Canada develops a political economy of dangerousness. Using case studies and interviews, it argues that the label of “high-risk convict” obscures the social and economic conditions that many marginalized people experience.
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The Making of Association Football
Two Decades Which Created the Modern Game
Modern football was ‘made’ between 1857 and 1877. Using original Football Association minutes, this book tells a tale of disagreement, conspiracy, and the rise of Charles Alcock—creator of the FA Cup and international football—as the game split from rugby forever.
Modern football was ‘made’ between 1857 and 1877. Using original Football Association minutes, this book tells a tale of disagreement, conspiracy, and the rise of Charles Alcock—creator of the FA Cup and international football—as the game split from rugby forever.
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A Journey of Ethnicity
In Search of the Cham of Vietnam
The Cham are descendants of the glorious Champa kingdom, whose ancient temples attest to its past glory. This book is a journey to understand what it means to be Cham in modern Vietnam, exploring the complexity and dynamics of their identity through prolonged interactions.
The Cham are descendants of the glorious Champa kingdom, whose ancient temples attest to its past glory. This book is a journey to understand what it means to be Cham in modern Vietnam, exploring the complexity and dynamics of their identity through prolonged interactions.
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How does an economist meet Borat and Tony Blair? The Airport Economist travels the globe to find out what makes the world tick. This witty book demystifies the global economy, making international trade accessible, entertaining, and packed with practical business tips.
How does an economist meet Borat and Tony Blair? The Airport Economist travels the globe to find out what makes the world tick. This witty book demystifies the global economy, making international trade accessible, entertaining, and packed with practical business tips.
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Three German Women
Personal Histories from the Twentieth Century
The lives of three intellectual women—a mathematician, a journalist, and an art historian—serve as mirrors to the tumultuous 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of women whose achievements were overlooked amid the trauma of Nazism.
The lives of three intellectual women—a mathematician, a journalist, and an art historian—serve as mirrors to the tumultuous 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of women whose achievements were overlooked amid the trauma of Nazism.
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Shameless Sociology
Critical Perspectives on a Popular Television Series
Showtime's Shameless has been praised for humanizing the working-class and critiqued for promoting stereotypes. This book offers a critical eye toward topics like inequality and gentrification, illustrating how the series both confronts and reinforces harmful tropes.
Showtime’s Shameless has been praised for humanizing the working-class and critiqued for promoting stereotypes. This book offers a critical eye toward topics like inequality and gentrification, illustrating how the series both confronts and reinforces harmful tropes.
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