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A masterful account of world racial politics and the future of global race relations by a leading American sociologist

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Bringing together a variety of critical approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives, this work reflects the continuing vitality and breadth of George Sand scholarship around the world.

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This volume introduces the philosophy of "quantum aesthetics" - a theoretical framework. The contributors either apply quantum aesthetics philosophy to their respective areas of study or write about their current research within this theoretical framework.

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He wrote detailed scholarly investigations, Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction among them, as well as popular current articles. Du Bois was created to provide a short journey through his views on virtually all aspects of 20th-century life.

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This book uses soccer to provide insights into worldwide politics, religion, business, ethics, leadership, childhood, philosophy, and art. It examines the way soccer influences and reflects these aspects of society, and vice versa. Each chapter includes a selection of players ...

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Presents a collective vision of an ideal world. This book weaves together multi-sector, multidiscipline strategies. It talks about the power of human connection, reinforced by personal stories of motivation and the human capacity for caring. It shows how citizen engagement and open source solutions could tip the scale toward a better world.

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Investigates various aspects of Zaza life: kinship, economy, culture, identity, gender relations, patriarchy and religion. This work focuses upon the ways in which this Middle Eastern minority has maintained its way of life and cultural identity in today's globalised society.

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This is the first book-length study of black American women playwrights.

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This volume was prepared under the impetus of desperate need in academic institutions and clinical and social services for a comprehensive introduction to the diverse theories about child abuse and neglect etiologies.

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This is a statement by an anthropological theorist. Marvin Harris presents his views on the nature of culture, addressing such issues as the metal/behavioural debate, ethics, and anthropological wholism. Critiques current trends, from sociobiology to postmodernism to afrocentism. Offers a perspective on various contemporary issues.

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He shows that it is not possible to critique any theory using the assumptions of another theory, arguing that theories can be internally critiqued based on the relationship between their adequacy as theories and the framework they offer for making normative choices.

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Theorising Literary Islands is an epistemological study of the development of the Robinsonade genre, its ideological functions within contemporary Anglophone cultural thought, and the role of literary and filmic mediation in constructing twentieth and twenty-first century European and American relations with and to the Pacific region.

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Issues of power, form and subjectivity are at the centre of all attempts to understand the media better. This book highlights both what we know and what we need to know, using regular examples to make its points. -- .

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Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and lesbians into the mainstream, are "gayborhoods" destined to disappear Amin Ghaziani provides an incisive look at th

A 900-year history of the culture and folklore of the shtetl Eishyshok. As well as a testament to a victimized people, the book is a living history - the author lived in Eishyshok until the age of four when the Nazis murdered all the inhabitants except for herself and a few others who escaped.

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This practical volume is designed to assist graduate students in planning, conducting, and writing theses or dissertations in the social and physical sciences.

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Revealing, moving and confronting accounts of the reality of life in mandatory detention by those who've experienced it.

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This thoroughly engaging encyclopedia considers the rich diversity of unfamiliar foods eaten around the world.

The title They Eat That: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World says it all.

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In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that needs negligible technology. What are these cheap, renewable, plentiful, sophisticated, and expendable weapons Children. This book provides an introduction to the child soldier phenomenon, as well as concrete solutions for its total eradication.

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They Used to Call Us Witches is an informative, highly readable account of the role played by Chilean women exiles during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet from 1973-1990. Sociologist Julie Shayne looks at the movement organized by exiled Chileans in Vancouver, Brit...