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This concentrated focus upon colonial attitudes and thoughts toward the press covers the period of colonial settlement from the 1500s through 1765.

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Leading anthropologist Edward Hall analyzes the many aspects of non-verbal communication amd considers the concepts of space and time as tools for transmission of messages in this fascinating study. The Silent Language is a work of interest to both the intelligent general reader and the sophisticated social scientist.

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Its contributors have a broad spectrum of professional interests, political perspectives and social philosophies - all of which indicates the fundamentally humanistic and apolitical nature of concern for the unborn and the degree to which they are esteemed.

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Its contributors have a broad spectrum of professional interests, political perspectives and social philosophies - all of which indicates the fundamentally humanistic and apolitical nature of concern for the unborn and the degree to which they are esteemed.

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What do we do when things go wrong A quick fix can hide the problem rather than solve it. To make real progress we need to take time for the slow fix.

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This book delves into the legal traditions that relegated women to an inferior social and legal status worldwide.

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It deals with both the substance and politics of the social policy, explaining both the relevance and controversial aspects of the proposed social policies for the future of European integration.

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This book uses ethnographic observation and extensive interviewing to sociologically analyze the Wisconsin Uprising of 2011, finding lessons for how social order is formed and explaining the social dynamics that shaped one of the largest sustained protests in US history.

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This book uses ethnographic observation and extensive interviewing to sociologically analyze the Wisconsin Uprising of 2011, finding lessons for how social order is formed and explaining the social dynamics that shaped one of the largest sustained protests in US history.

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Comparing global experiences of childhood, this book examines children as social actors and citizens. Looking at theories around the social construction of childhood and substantive examples of the active contributions of children to society, this is an essential introduction to how the social sciences conceptualise childhood.

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Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part of the IVF industry and are the focus of intense debates regarding concepts of personhood. This book discusses these issues, drawing on social and cultural theory and research.

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Translation of: Sociologies de l'alimentation.

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Translation of: Sociologies de l'alimentation.

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Documents the benefits of affirmative action for minority students, their communities, and the nation at large. This book investigates the roots of minority underperformance in selective colleges and universities. It explains how such factors as neighborhood, family, peer group, and early schooling influence the academic performance of students.

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Intergroup relations is a contentious issue both inside and outside South Africa, where it has dominated political thinking for the past several decades, and affected the day-to-day lives of all the country's inhabitants.

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This work, intended for students, provides an examination of recent South Asian immigrant groups - the fastest growing segment of the US population. Topics include: patterns of immigration; adaptation to US life; women's roles; the family; and the compatibility of US and South Asian values.

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The South Seas is an innovative work of cultural history, tracing the ways in which the idea of the South Seas has been understood and transmitted through Western culture since the eighteenth century.

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The South Seas is an innovative work of cultural history, tracing the ways in which the idea of the South Seas has been understood and transmitted through Western culture since the eighteenth century.

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This narrative provides an account of the emigration of nearly 500,000 Soviet Jews to the United States between 1967 and 1997.