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In the late nineteenth century, progressive reformers recoiled at the prospect of the justice system punishing children as adults. Advocating that children's inherent innocence warranted fundamental……続きを見る

As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlantaーthe economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial southーin order to build an independent……続きを見る

**Highly recommended." ー***CHOICE Lost City, Found Pyramid* delves into the fascinating world of sensational “pseudoarchaeology,” from perennial discoveries of lost pyramids or civilizations to con……続きを見る

Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize Winner of the Mary Nickliss Prize Winner of the Will……続きを見る

Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "No!" These thirteen essays delve into subjects like migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultu……続きを見る

Why should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in t……続きを見る

In a provocative exploration of the triumphant South--the region that increasingly defines American politics and values--the former Atlanta bureau chief of The New York Times illuminates the people,……続きを見る

Applied psychology has become increasingly important in the work of policing, police training and the academic study of policing. This book provides a highly accessible account of the way in which p……続きを見る

I write ebooks, I usually write erotica ebooks. What surprises me, as an erotica writer in the twenty first century, is the incredible degree of censorship that exists when it comes to ebook publish……続きを見る

Leading consultant and Minyanville contributor Peter Atwater has helped institutional investors, corporations and policymakers map changing social moods to emerging market shifts, and use that knowl……続きを見る

Written in a clear, accessible style, Health introduces students to the valuable contribution sociologists have made to understanding health, illness and disease. In so doing, it challenges the adeq……続きを見る

**"Scathing exposé of the coal industry." --**The New York Times Book Review On April 5, 2010, an explosion ripped through Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine, killing twenty-nine coal miners. Thi……続きを見る

The health-sciences equivalent of Thomas Friedman's bestseller The World is Flat, this inspiring and revelatory book by two of today's finest scientists shows how advances in global health will tran……続きを見る

I am an erotica author.Every month when I am paid for my global sales by US companies I have withholding tax taken out by US tax authorities. But much of the tax they are taking from me is really fo……続きを見る

The book brings studies of modern Thai history and culture into dialogue with debates in comparative intellectual history, Asian cultural studies, and postcolonial studies. It takes Thai Studies in ……続きを見る

Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of ……続きを見る

The questions and issues raised by Tocqueville in his monumental studies of France and America are just as crucial for understanding the evolution of democracy in the West and the development of dem……続きを見る

The Founders of this nation believed that the government they were creating required a civically educated populace. Such an education aimed to cultivate enlightened, informed, and vigilant citizens ……続きを見る

Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation’s founding and forms part of a ……続きを見る

First published in 2005. This is one of the literary memoirs written by Transylvanian aristocrats in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Baron Apor lamented the passing of traditional Transylvan……続きを見る

The Thai language has extraordinarily rich, varied, and multi-leveled vocabularies for sexual anatomy, sexual behaviors, sexual identities, and attitudes to sexuality. The authors of this in-depth s……続きを見る

Das opulent ausgestattete Buch zum Thema »Was ist eigentlich deutsch?« Gartenzwerge und Ampelmännchen, Goethe und Hitler, Pünktlichkeit und wirtschaftlicher Erfolg – das Bild der Deutschen ist von v……続きを見る

In this book a fuzzy-based recommender system architecture for stimulating political participation and collaboration is proposed. It showcases the "Smart Participation" project, which uses the datab……続きを見る

They say an image speaks a thousand wordsーthese images speak millions. The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, which devastated the shores of 11 countries and took the lives of over a quarte……続きを見る

Exploring Social Geography, first published in 1984, offers a challenging yet comprehensive introduction to the wealth of empirical research and theoretical debate that has developed in response to ……続きを見る

This title was first published in 1986 during a recession much like that faced in recent years, which placed immense pressure on the British planning system and led to social unrest in the inner cit……続きを見る

Lilith, die perfekte ma en ’n vrou wat haar kant bring, is moeg. Moeg om haarself te kondisioneer volgens voorskrifte van 500 jaar gelede. Moeg van ’n manlike gekonstrueerde wêreld. Op Internasional……続きを見る

This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributio……続きを見る

Working the Aisles takes the reader on tumultuous driving trips across the United States and France, on phone sex escapades in San Francisco, on banking battles in Sweden, and many other adventures ……続きを見る

Die brutalen Grausamkeiten seiner Kämpfer, die Geiselnahmen und Enthauptungen wirklicher und vermeintlicher Feinde, die mehr einem Blutrausch gleichenden "Gefechte" und die ebenso exzessive wie häuf……続きを見る