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Here the late Raphael Patai (1910-1996) re-creates the world of Jewish seafaring from Noah's voyage through the Diaspora of late antiquity. Patai weaves together a variety of sources to bring alive the world of these ancient mariners.

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The volume begins with an overview of China in the Late Qing period, setting the stage for the successive waves of Chinese immigration to the United States.

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In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, the bestselling author of "The Rape of Nanking" tells of a people's search for a better life--the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and to find success.

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Examines the complex role of Chinese American scientists and engineers in their ever-growing role in Silicon Valley. They learn how to utilize new social networks and make sense of a changed ethnic identity. This book presents important knowledge on the connection of Chinese ethnicity to high-skilled labor and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley.

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This is a response to the need for up-to-date information about three major challenges posed by urbanization: buildings, transportation, and land use. The goal is to convert chaos to order, to make cities workable, to bar bad development, to encourage the building of necessary facilities, and to improve land use.

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This timely interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces. By bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and belonging.

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This timely interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces. By bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and belonging.

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By synthesizing empirical research and theoretical insights from sociology, critical migration studies, postcolonial and decolonial theory, and more, this edited collection offers a comprehensive critique of human hierarchies and the dehumanization they produce.

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Daniel H. Krymkowski documents the extent and causes of African American underrepresentation in the cultural realms of golf, hiking, hunting and fishing, water and winter sports, classical music, art, ballet, and theater. He argues racial-ethnic inequality in these areas is extensive and results mainly from historic and contemporary discrimination.

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A 1976 forecast that predicts a radically altered social structure, within thirty to fifty years, by which a more sophisticated technology is employed to harness science toward more instrumental purposes.

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This study of Canadian communities includes a variety of articles, all based on empirical research. The articles cover all community types, from rural and small town to suburban and urban, and all regions of Canada, from western Canada to Quebec.

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Far from being the bucolic paradise that is often imagined, the rural areas of this country are afflicted with chronic economic hardship, severe forms of alienation, and the lack of a foundation for community development or for the enhancement of economic, social, and educational opportunities for rural people.

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A book that details the life stories of 36 courageous Australian women, who broke down the barriers of prejudice. Featuring heroines such as Mary Penfold, the co-founder of Penfold Wines; Lillie Goodisson, pioneer of family planning and others; this book examines the lives of women who have influenced thousands of people.

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"Newly updated and trusted for more than three decades by family caregivers and professionals alike, this comprehensive and reassuring caregiving guide offers the crucial information you need to look after your elder and plan for the future"--

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Porpora is concerned with the concept of social structure and with the relationship between social structure and the individual.

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The Conflict Between Secular and Religious Narratives in the United States uses the theory of social construction and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to examine the current divide between religious and secular narratives in the United States.

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This volume deals with the city as a corporate entity and contains chapters on urban governmental structures, government finance, politics and elections, urban political leadership, the city plan and city planning, intergovernmental relations, and urban mercantilism.

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The Cosby Cohort examines the now-grown children who were raised in the black middle class. This probing book studies how their parents established their middle class position, how they interact with white America, the pressures placed upon them by their parents, how they connect with African Americans of other social classes, and more.

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The Cost of Being Female is 30 cents, say the authors of this new book on discrimination against women. The index compares the costs for American women with those of women in Sweden, Norway, France and China, and measures the costs for three time periods: 1990s, 1950s, and the 19th century.

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The Cost of Being Female is 30 cents, say the authors of this new book on discrimination against women. The index compares the costs for American women with those of women in Sweden, Norway, France and China, and measures the costs for three time periods: 1990s, 1950s, and the 19th century.

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Focusing on pastoral and lay leadership in the African-American church, this books deals with internal and external issues - such as the tendency towards bifurcated mentality and practices, and the social issue of race and affirmative action.