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'Plus Ca Change', like any good story, tells of spectacular failures and unexpected success. This is the story of the French language second only to English for the number of countries where it is officially spoken a language that is the official tongue of two G-7 countries and three European nations.

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Radical glossary of the vocabulary of policing that redefines the very way we understand law enforcement

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The first interdisciplinary reference to cover the socioeconomic and political history, the movements, and the changing face of poverty in the United States.

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For readers of Mary Roach, an innovative look at the histories of different epidemics and what it meant for society, alongside what lessons different diseases have to teach us as society battles the novel Coronavirus.

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This three-volume collection of essays reveals the widespread existence of queer men and women in American popular culture, and showcases their important yet little-known role in shaping our society over the last 120 years.

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This book examines the changing representation of race and ethnicity in the visual culture of the first decade of the 21st century - a period market by the traumas of 9/11, the 'war on terror', and the crisis of neoliberal capitalism.

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In this book, French compares the well-meaning intensions of diversity in independent schools with the continued dominance of whiteness in these institutions. Using mixed methods and a Critical Race Theory frame, French argues that diversity serves only to strengthen the status quo of educational segregation between Black and White.

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A lavish book to accompany the first exhibition of the celebrated Hollywood jeweler's fabled collection. Features iconic jewels by Belperron, Cartier, Boucheron, Paul Flato, Tiffany, and more.

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Embodying a chic casualness and ease that is uniquely American, the iconic Polo shirt has become a cool cultural symbol, worn by everyone from movie stars and presidents to athletes and artists.

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Raw shows the urgent need to consider condomless sex, as it is illegal for HIV-positive people in many jurisdictions.

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Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations is a personal narrative of an applied anthropologist's experience in working with indigenous peoples of Canada. Nadia Ferrara calls for all North Americans to engage in "restorying" their nation's history by acknowledging the injustices that indigenous peoples have faced and continue to face.

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Prebish offers a thoughtful look at sport as a religious experience and argues that sport has become an American religion. The second chapter examines the difficulty of defining sport, and the third probes the close relationship between sport and religion.

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This is a guide to recent research about religion and ageing, which focuses on the linkage between religion and health outcomes in people over 55 in the United States. This age range will represent one-third of America's population by the year 2025. Nearly 300 entries are included.

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This book explores the fine line between fiction and history and considers how Frances cultural production has contributed to shaping the image of the French Resistance. Though an examination of the lenses through which France has regarded its recent past, the book offers a key to understanding Frances national psyche.

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And he joins the heroes who emerged to challenge the policy, and who worked on the ground to reunite parents with children.

In this essential reckoning, Soboroff weaves together these key voices with his own experience covering this national issueat the border in Texas, California, and Arizona;

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A collection of essays that aims to give a broad view of the way humour operates in Australian culture. There are very few scholarly works that attempt to study humour that we have come to associate with being Australia. This book looks at the humourous culture that Australia does have, within the essays.

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A comprehensive examination of the pervasive and persistent social problem of sexual violence and abuse that plagues millions of women, children, and men across the globe.