Tam Ha - Social & Cultural Studies 2

This collection draws insights from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who specialize in diverse methods ranging from ethnography, archival research, and oral histories, to quantitative data ana……続きを見る

Over the last half of the twentieth century, television has become the predominant medium through which the public accesses information about the world. Through the news, situation comedies, police ……続きを見る

Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics, young “hip hop desis” express a gl……続きを見る

American newspapers have faced competition from new media for over ninety years. Today digital media challenge the printed word. In the 1920s, broadcast radio was the threatening upstart. At the tim……続きを見る

This fourth edition of Community Care Practice and the Law has been fully updated to reflect the rapid and continuing legal, policy and practice changes affecting community care. It provides compreh……続きを見る

Many developing and emerging countries do not fully pass-through increases in international fuel prices to domestic retail prices, with adverse consequences for fuel tax revenues and tax volatility.……続きを見る

New biotechnologies have propelled the question of what it means to be human – or posthuman – to the forefront of societal and scientific consideration. This volume provides an accessible, critical ……続きを見る

The global financial crisis saw many Eurozone countries bearing excessive public debt. This led the government bond yields of some peripheral countries to rise sharply, resulting in the outbreak of ……続きを見る

This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates ar……続きを見る

This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores issues involving disability through the life courses, and is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, w……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Klassiker und Theorierichtungen, Note: 1,3, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Theoretiker de……続きを見る

Students and scholars of political parties, election campaigns, Ontario politics, and political communications will appreciate this well-researched book. 続きを見る

Despite recent advances in important aspects of the lives of girls and women, pervasive challenges remain. These challenges reflect widespread deprivations and constraints and include epidemic level……続きを見る

Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia: A Cultured Critique is different in that it calls attention to the role mentoring has played on the “glass ceiling” phenomenon in higher education. Narr……続きを見る

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) was an influential German critic and philosopher, whose ideas included "cultural nationalism" - that every nation has its own personality and pattern of growth. T……続きを見る

Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary cultureーand sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphi……続きを見る

In March 1812, while Napoleon’s brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected from Spain and its overseas territories met in th……続きを見る

L'œil en coulisses et l'oreille derrière la porte, Patrice Duhamel et Jacques Santamaria invitent à un voyage dans la grande et petite histoire du Palais de l'Elysée : un dictionnaire drôle et série……続きを見る

Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor is an edited anthology that explores the persona and speech-making of the country’s first African American first lady. The result of these thought-provoki……続きを見る

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examp……続きを見る

Research into a millennium of Native American architecture in the Southeast Some of the most visible expressions of human culture are illustrated architecturally. Unfortunately for archaeologists, t……続きを見る

Bringing together international academics and professionals who are actively researching and working in the field, this pioneering scholarly volume covers the issues faced by individuals with Autism……続きを見る

Based on in-depth interviews with tribal Sheiks involved in the Awakening and their American military counterparts, Confronting al Qaeda is a study of decision-making processes and the political psy……続きを見る

A country of stark contradictions and puzzles, North Korea exhibits uncanny resilience in the face of external shocks and internal woes, raising important questions of theoretical and real-world sig……続きを見る

Anna is from a poor home. It's only a matter of time before she loses her sick younger sister to a deadly illness. Without money for constant medical care, she would die. Anna seizes an opportunity ……続きを見る

Analyzing the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Asian developing countries, the book is based on a survey of key literature and data on SMEs with the focus on; recent development……続きを見る

Deutschland und der Flüchtlingsstrom – "Wir schaffen das", sagt Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel. Die mehr als 20 zumeist prominenten Autoren des Buches setzen sich in nachdenklichen, teils sehr bewege……続きを見る

Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandyーwhich took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damagesーshines a bright lig……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Politische Soziologie, Majoritäten, Minoritäten, Note: 2,0, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Veranstaltung: Neuere Beiträge zur Theo……続きを見る

This book examines India’s ten years of experience developing Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and the performance of SEZs in the context of India’s growing international engagement, its endeavours to ……続きを見る