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This salient text presents a culturally aware public health approach to the HIV epidemic in Malaysia, a country emblematic of the Muslim world's response to the crisis. It explores complex interacti……続きを見る

Judith Coplon was arrested in March 1949 with her Russian boyfriend, former United Nations employee Valentin Gubitchev. FBI agents had been following them when they rendezvoused in various places in……続きを見る

The years 1926 and 1927 marked the beginning of an anti-obscenity campaign in Philadelphia. According to news accounts many publishers and distributors of illicit literature had relocated to Philly ……続きを見る

Weaving the brackish humor of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club with the empathy of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, J. R. Helton brings to life an obscured, all-too-often ignored slice of the Amer……続きを見る

"Latin America constitutes a region well-endowed with sovereign nations, cultural differences, and varying states of development and political stability. The end of the cold war and the decline of r……続きを見る

This book brings together several of the author’s empirical studies that demonstrate the strength and utility of sociologist Robert Merton’s classic middle-range theory for understanding aspects of ……続きを見る

Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice……続きを見る

Vito Guarino was an Ozone, Queens based mobster associated with the murder for hire Brooklyn outfit, Murder Inc. For years Murder Inc. operated out of the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Led by Lou……続きを見る

John Tortora, aka "Johnny T", was a Yonkers mobster who first made headlines in 1958 by wrestling and pinning an alligator. Tortora was a member of the Genovese crime family, involved closely with R……続きを見る

Frank Cammarata was a mobster heavily involved in the music and jukebox business in the 1950s. His base was Detroit and Ohio. Deported from the United States in 1939 he reentered the country as a st……続きを見る

Philip "Little Farvel" Cohen was a rackets collector for Murder Inc. and its head Louis Lepke Buchalter. In September 1949 Cohen's body was dumped on the Southern Parkway in Valley Stream, New York.……続きを見る

In the sixth volume of this annual series, Robert G. Breene provides a comprehensive overview, analysis, and summary of the political and economic trends and events in Central America, MERCOSUR, the……続きを見る

Unsolved Mafia murders occurred in numerous American cities in 1959. Among the most prominent was the slaying of Joseph Bronge, a Chicago beer distributor. Gunned down outside his Melrose Park offic……続きを見る

This is one of the ten volumes on the Declaration. The first four volumes of this series contain each 365 essays. These last six contain about 36 essays each. 続きを見る

This is one of the ten volumes on the Declaration. The first four volumes of this series contain each 365 essays. These last six contain about 36 essays each. 続きを見る

Trade is the economic life blood of any society. For the past two decades, much of Americas productive base has been transferred offshore, mostly to Asia. But Americas trade as well as budget defici……続きを見る

My book is an autobiography of my life. It shows the up and downs of the Black Man living in a society in which he really has no great impact on his way of living, outside of getting an education, a……続きを見る

Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender re……続きを見る

In 1991, it was time for India to shed its obsolete guiding principles. Fundamental changes would be needed to transform Indias economic lethargy into vibrancy and vigor. In Chuk De India: A Path to……続きを見る

Until Bayard Rustins lecture in the fall of 1962, no other person had brought author Philip Reiss so far toward gaining an understanding of what it was like for African-Americans living as second-cl……続きを見る

Everybody wants to progress in life. There is no denial to it. But is it sane to lose humanity in the name of progress? Its the hurry, the impatience that has led man to overlook virtues. The musing……続きを見る

Carl Carramusa was a low-level mobster in Kansas City. In the late 1930s and 1940s drugs were imported to Florida from Marseilles, France via Havana, Cuba. Kansas City was a fulcrum of midwestern dr……続きを見る

This title was first published in 2003. This book offers a challenging new approach to social theory, building on the concept of life-modes. Thomas Hojrup invites us to look at cultural analysis wit……続きを見る

This title was first published in 2001. Exploring issues of diversity and cross-cultural interaction and understanding, Maya Identities and the Violence of Place offers new perspectives on borderlan……続きを見る

This is R. J. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide. He presents the primary results, in tables and figures, as well as a histori……続きを見る

Samuel Valente's criminal record dated to 1923. He served six years of a prison sentence for dealing narcotics before being paroled in 1946. In 1947 the subject of Valente's impending deportation wa……続きを見る

Joe Bonanno Sr. was aging in the late 1960s. Finally the boss of one of New York's five notorious crime families retired to Tucson, Arizona. He left New York for a desert home following a severe hea……続きを見る

Samuel "Sassy" Chioccoli was a multifaceted gangster who had direct ties to Murder, Inc., a Brooklyn based murder for hire organization. The crime outfit, which operated out of Brownsville, was head……続きを見る

It is hardly a revelation to say that in the Soviet Union, law served not as the foundation of government but as an instrument of rule, or that the judiciary in that country was highly dependent upo……続きを見る

Barbara McNair was a versatile African-American singer/actress of the 1950s and after. Her performing career spanned five decades. Following a 1972 heroin bust her booking engagements declined preci……続きを見る