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An exploration of the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a free-wheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. The book focuses on the voices and perspectives of the women themselves.

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The author examines the role played by Syrian Christians in accelerating the forces of change in Muslim society at two junctures: the formative phase of Islamic civilization and the Ottoman collapse. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-prin

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Drawing on current scientific research, journalist Jon Entine makes an irrefutable case for black athletic superiority. We learn how scientists have used numerous bogus methods to prove that blacks were superior physically.

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This volume offers an analysis of the American women's magazine as a distinct form, as well as a presentation of the construction of the popular woman reader.

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The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesisthat the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferiorand alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology owing to the absence of black men in families.

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The "musket wars" rewrote the Maori landscape, changing traditional regional power balances and depopulating whole areas of the country. This study asks, "what is a musket war" and details what was happening in Maori society at the time.

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This edited collection deals with intersecting axes of power and privilege in order to advance conversation on motherhood across disciplines. Mother-scholar contributors explore theoretical and disciplinary approaches to academic motherhood, examine its critical and cultural territory, and articulate the challenges of their dual identity.

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This edited collection addresses the institutional context and social issues in which teaching the women's studies introductory course is embedded and provides readers with practical classroom strategies to meet the challenges raised.

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The word occupation is not heard in classrooms on the Hebrew University campus, at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem. The war outside is not spoken of. Israeli and Palestinian students unsettle this denial for the first time in a practice-led course on human rights in the reality around them.

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The word occupation is not heard in classrooms on the Hebrew University campus, at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem. The war outside is not spoken of. Israeli and Palestinian students unsettle this denial for the first time in a practice-led course on human rights in the reality around them.

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Looks at feminist resistance in the physical and digital space, exploring strategies and aesthetics that express dissent, as well as subversive uses of technology that support gender equality.

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Technofuturos challenges conventional notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of Latinidad.

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Teen gangs are a hot issue in the United States. Gang activity in 14 countries, including the United States, is discussed within the larger framework of social and economic conditions. Each chapter explains the nature of the gang activity in that country;

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Teens in European countries have a number of similarities. American teens will find a special interest in the region, as it is the region in the world most similar to their own culture.

Each chapter covers a country in the region, and is written by a native of that country.

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Teens in Latin America and the Caribbean generally face a difficult path to adulthood. Teen Life in Latin America and the Caribbean allows U.S. teens to understand the unique challenges and opportunities of teens in 15 Latin American or Caribbean countries.

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This unique volume offers unprecedented insight into the typical day, interests, and familial, social, and cultural lives of Middle Eastern teens.

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This detailed, exhaustively documented account shows how and why just about everyone in today's teen pregnancy debate is wrong-often disastrously so.

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This study examines the growth of the information society and the impact of its technologies on city form and urban life.

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Using a variety of critical methods, the contributing authors of Telling Political Lives demonstrate the ways in which the autobiographies of U.S. women leaders provide arguments that both reveal and shape perceptions of politics, empowerment, and ideology in the United States.

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In this classic work - her first - Tannen brilliantly tackles crucial interactions, looking at conversations with colleagues, bosses, friends and family. Engaging, accessible and absolutely compelling, Tannen once again shows us what's really shaping - or breaking- our relationships with others.

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A collection of essays, which focus not on individual and family behavior but on a complex set of processes that have been at work over a long period, degrading the inner cities and, inevitably, the nation as a whole.