This exciting collection of David Goldblatt's essays, available for the first time in one volume, uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help understand a variety of art world phenomena. It examines ……続きを見る
The No. 1 New York Times bestseller. A powerful and extraordinary novel about the unlikely friendship between two exceptional women during the last years of slavery in the US. From the celebrated au……続きを見る
What are the social and cultural features that have the most impact on the interpretation of the legal standard, “best interest of the child”? One method for answering this question is through a com……続きを見る
著者:FAOoftheUN
出版社: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
発売日: 2021年01月07日
The Niger River Basin is a transboundary basin covering nine riparian countries to the Niger River that are increasingly putting pressure on the available water resources as their populations expand……続きを見る
Le generazioni invecchiano e i problemi sociali aumentano. Scopriamo gli strumenti giusti per affrontarli anche con il gratuito patrocinio: l'Amministrazione di sostegno in implementazione ad interd……続きを見る
The social and linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. Before the Muslim invasion of 827, the islanders spoke dialects of either Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival ……続きを見る
著者:Katie King
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2012年01月05日
Since the 1990s, the knowledge, culture, and entertainment industries have found themselves experimenting, not altogether voluntarily, with communicating complex information across multiple media pl……続きを見る
Click here to listen to Julia Ericksen's interview about Dance with Me on Philadelphia NPR's "Radio Times"
Rumba music starts and a floor full of dancers alternate clinging to one another and turnin……続きを見る
This book was written to provide resource materials for teachers to use in their introductory or intermediate statistics class. The chapter content is ordered along the lines of many popular statist……続きを見る
Quakerism began in England in the 1650s. George Fox, credited as leading the movement, had an experience of 1647 in which he felt he could hear Christ directly and inwardly without the mediation of ……続きを見る
This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe……続きを見る
Bringing together the work of economists and sociologists in research programmes in a number of European institutions concerned with development, this collection analyses how social institutions con……続きを見る
著者:FAOoftheUN
出版社: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
発売日: 2020年06月01日
Unfortunately, many of these genetic resources have been replaced by modern cultivars in recent decades, resulting in a reduction in the total number of different varieties grown and/or loss of hete……続きを見る
First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of wom……続きを見る
著者:John Gerring
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
John Gerring's exceptional textbook has been thoroughly revised in this second edition. It offers a one-volume introduction to social science methodology relevant to the disciplines of anthropology,……続きを見る
How useful is the concept of "network" for historical studies and the ancient world in particular? Using theoretical models of social network analysis, this book illuminates aspects of the economic,……続きを見る
Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an arrogant disregard for……続きを見る
Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multid……続きを見る
We live in a world that is paradoxically both small and vast; each of us is embedded in local communities and yet we are only a few ′links′ away from anyone else in the world.
This engaging book rep……続きを見る
Alongside the O.J. Simpson trial, the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky now stands as the seminal cultural event of the 90s. Alternatively transfixed and repelled by this sexual scanda……続きを見る
SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysteri……続きを見る
This important and ground-breaking collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental. Here, Canadian women speak frankly about the societal b……続きを見る
The book argues that women's perspectives and gender issues must be mainstreamed across African philosophy in order for the discipline to truly represent the thoughts of Africans across the continen……続きを見る
The global film industry has witnessed significant transformations in the past few years. Regions outside the USA have begun to prosper while non-traditional production companies such as Netflix hav……続きを見る
This book examines administrative law in Asia, exploring the profound changes in the legal regimes of many Asian states that have taken place in recent years. Political democratization in some count……続きを見る
El presente documento incorpora dos artículos generados de la información obtenida en el estudio nacional financiado por el CONACyT y la SEDESOL a través del Fondo Sectorial SEDESOL-2009-01-119783, ……続きを見る
著者:Robert Chazan
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This book re-evaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, governmental exploitation and expropriation, and unc……続きを見る
Welcome to the smart city project 1.0
In 2012, over 2000 Canadians rose to the challenge presented by the smart city project. They submitted ideas to answer a vital question: How can we make our ci……続きを見る
Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But ha……続きを見る
This book deals with the development of so-called fourth generation mobile communications or 4G. It covers all aspects of the technology in a form comprehensible to the general reader, a history of ……続きを見る