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 »
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 »
In the 1950s, two little working-class girls, Pat and Rita, become best friends. ‘Who Your Friends Are’ is about Pat’s friendship with Rita and her sisters as they grow into th...więcej »
Who's in Charge?, written by Eddie Gallagher, is a book aimed at helping parents unravel the mysteries of violent and abusive children. For those who don't have difficult teenage children, this boo...więcej »
This book is for you if:You're a new mother (or are about to become one) and want to know how return to work mothers navigated their path to success.You feel overwhelme...więcej »
What's This Book About?Through a series of unlikely events, Justice Miller, a university professor and former hockey star, discovers profound secrets about the fundamental nature o...więcej »
In Whores of Babylon, Frances E. Dolan offers a perceptive study of the central role that Catholics and Catholicism played in early modern English law, literature, and politics. She contends...więcej »
African-American males are being imprisoned at an alarming and unprecedented rate. Out of the more than 11 million black adult males in the U.S. population, nearly 1.5 million are in prisons and...więcej »