What makes Nova Scotia home? Why do we sing about her sea-bound coast when we're far off, or move to the province 'from away'? What draws us and keeps us? And do all who live here feel at home?<...więcej »
China's influence on world affairs is rising. But will it fundamentally change the international political order? And what kind of political order do the Chinese citizens want? This book approaches...więcej »
Through a difficult journey an ordinary woman finds a powerful god!Based on true events, Whispered Truth, tells the harrowing, yet miraculous, ...więcej »
The racial ideology of colorblindness has a long history. In 1963, Martin Luther King famously stated, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not...więcej »
This ambitious transnational history considers Haitian women's political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti (1915–34). The two decades following the occupation were s...więcej »
The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have bee...więcej »
Children today are more advanced than ever and have thousands of questions that need to be acknowledged and answered. They want to know where babies come from - where they come from - and we often ...więcej »
This work advances the understanding of the concepts of power, ideology, governance, citizenship, democracy, constitutions, and the corporate foundation of the state. It looks at historical, sociol...więcej »
This book is about a Great Nigeria. The book focuses on the history of Nigeria before the coming of Europeans, norms, festivals among the people called Nigerians. It also centers on the good attitu...więcej »
This book comprises a study of ceramic tableware and teaware remains from the outback pastoral homestead, The Old Kinchega Homestead, in western NSW, Australia, occupied from 1870 until 1955. Th...więcej »
In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and disenfranchisement, ...więcej »
Who Intervenes? takes as a given that there are tensions among ethnic groups throughout the world. But it is not at all clear when and why these tensions escalate into violence. The likeliho...więcej »
Revision with unchanged content. Measuring public opinion on abortion is an ongoing concern for pollsters, political scientists, journalists and advocates, mainly because the public does not always...więcej »
Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography show...więcej »
In the decades since the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe, time has been a central resource under negotiation. Focusing on a local community that was considered a 'model' in the socialist...więcej »
Who We Meet Along the Way is a disarmingly charming ride through a kaleidoscope of heartfelt tales and hard-won wisdom. The journey takes the reader from the rugged hills of Eastern Ken...więcej »
North Korea's collapse has been incessantly predicted since early 1990s after communist block destroyed but its practical termination has been suspended over two decades. On the reverse, North Kore...więcej »