| |
As much as Americans believe in the promise of an egalitarian, color-blind society, the reality is far from that ideal. People of color consistently lag behind their white counterparts in key quality-of-life areas. Despite many significant gains, widespread structural...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-09-18
ePub
|
Both a scholarly and personal critique of current feminist Moroccan discourses, this book is a call for a larger-than-Islam framework that accommodates the Berber dimension. Sadiqi argues that current feminist discourse, both secular and Islamic ones, are not only...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-17
PDF
|
Jonathan Wheeldon offers a rare and unusually reflective insider account of the transformational challenges of the music industry, and the cultural industries in general, over the past 15 years. He also makes a potentially valuable contribution to loosening the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-17
PDF
|
This book focuses on Baldwin's experiences as a gifted black writer who fought valiantly against racism and wrote openly about homosexual relationships. Baldwin's God is a 'mysteriously impersonal' force he calls love- 'something . . . like a fire, like the wind,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-17
PDF
|
This book deals with the formation of the post-Second World War reconstruction and planning machinery in Great Britain, the re-planning efforts undertaken in post-war London, and in particular the redevelopment programme regarding its central area in the form of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-09-16
ePub
|
With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of applications, the ways everyday media users and creative professionals represent, experience, and share the everyday is changing. This collection reflects on emergent creative practices and digital ethnographies of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-09-16
PDF
|
The book argues that a universally widespread virility currently prevents humans from realizing their sexualities, which are originally the feminine and the masculine. This obstacle may be traced back to Renaissance humanism, whose core intention is to take control over...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-09-15
Collection :
Recovering Political Philosophy
PDF
|
The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century. This book defines the new literary middlebrow through eight key features: middle class, feminized, reverential, commercial, emotional, recreational, earnest and mediated. Case studies include...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-15
PDF
|
Die Senkung der Anzahl von Verkehrsunfällen und Unfallopfern stellt eine zentrale Herausforderung dar, sowohl aus Sicht des öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens als auch mit Blick auf volkswirtschaftliche Lasten. Aus diesem Grund kommt der kommunikativen Unfallprävention eine...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-09-15
ePub
|
This Brief discusses methods to develop and maintain police – researcher partnerships. First, the authors provide information that will be useful to police managers and researchers who are interested in creating and maintaining partnerships to conduct research, work...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-09-15
ePub
|
Muslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but the truth is that as theMuslim community of Britain has grown in size and religiosity, so too has the opportunity to found and run mosques which divide along ethnic and sectarian lines.
Just as...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2014-09-15
PDF, ePub
|
This volume examines the processes and patterns of Araucanian cultural development and resistance to foreign influences and control through the combined study of historical and ethnographic records complemented by archaeological investigation in south-central Chile....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-09-13
ePub
|
In Beiträgen, die sich mit dem Bevölkerungsrückgang in der Bundesrepublik beschäftigen, liegt der Fokus regelmäßig auf Frauen und ihrer „Fertilität“, also der Potenz oder auch Entscheidung, Kinder (nicht) zu bekommen. Im Zusammenhang mit den sogenannten Neuen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-09-12
PDF, ePub
|
This book is open access under a CC BY license.This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-12
PDF
|
This volume examines key aspects of the migration process that are particularly relevant in the Asian context. It looks into established concepts and theoretical propositions that have found application in other areas, particularly in the West and explores their...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-09-12
ePub
|
Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligman shows that spirit possession represents a site for understanding fundamental aspects of human experience, especially...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-11
PDF
|
The underground is a multi-faceted concept in African American culture. Peterson uses Richard Wright, KRS-One, Thelonius Monk, and the tradition of the Underground Railroad to explore the manifestations and the attributes of the underground within the context of a more...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-11
PDF
|
Turkey has witnessed significant social, cultural, and political change over the last decades. This transformation has manifested itself in all segments of society and resulted in the alteration of political ideologies and institutions. The twelve authors of this volume...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-09-11
PDF
|
This concise reference helps readers avoid the most commonplace errors in generating or interpreting engineering drawings. Applicable across multiple disciplines, Hanifan’s lucid treatment of such essential skills as understanding and conveying data in a drawing,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-09-11
ePub
|
At the Mogao Grottoes, a World Heritage site near Dunhuang city in Gansu Province, visitor numbers have increased inexorably since 1979 when the site opened. A national policy that identifies tourism as a pillar industry, along with pressure from local authorities and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-09-11
ePub
|