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The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass market fat-anxiety.

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This book provides first-hand, insiders' perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of contemporary urban China. Focusing on, but not limiting its scope to southern China, this v...

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They need not be mutually exclusive, but neither is it assumed that they are necessarily consonant.

The various essays offer answers to such vital questions as What does it mean to become a 'global citizen'

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A ground-breaking book on how women have been shortchanged by the Howard Government - one of the hottest and most contentious issues the nation faces in the first decade of the 21st century.

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Their relations with the Gentile community in which they lived are described, not as is conventionally imagined, but as these relations are disclosed on a dispassionate examination of surviving documents--for example, the close association of Jews and monasteries, of nearly every religious order, in the acquisition of landed estates.

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The definitive anthology of feminist writing, this collection presents the true history of feminism within both global and historical frameworks, and provides a vital addition to the field.

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This book explains Islamic commercial laws, economics, banking, finance, and capital market. It provides educative materials for lawyers, practitioners, regulators, students taking Islamic banking and finance courses and those who are interested in learning more about the Islamic finance industrys doctrine and practice.

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Explores the ethical implications behind the issues related to metropolitan growth and environmental change. This book describes the decisions people make that shape the built environment, from the everyday concerns of homeowners and commuters to grand gestures of national policy.

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Explores the ethical implications behind the issues related to metropolitan growth and environmental change. This book describes the decisions people make that shape the built environment, from the everyday concerns of homeowners and commuters to grand gestures of national policy.

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This book discusses existing problems with Black maternal health and the rhetorical implications of ethos in American society.

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The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality explores urban inequality through detailed case studies. By focusing on situated experiences of displacement, belonging, and difference, the contributors to this edited collection demonstrate the power of multidisciplinary ethnographic research to illustrate how inequalities affect city residents worldwide.

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Using a cross-cultural perspective, The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity draws on ethnographic data to examine how heteronormativity is constructed and operates in diverse contexts.

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The Evolution of the Ancient City is an interdisciplinary look at how cities developed from Hunter-Gatherer societies to centers of vast empires in the Fertile Crescent between 21,500 BCE and 1,200 BCE. The reader is guided through each stage of social evolution and its conseq...

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This book explains the racial construction of mixed-race Latinxs in the Americas, centring an intersectional analysis in the theory of coloniality. It explores the first person experience with an analysis of semiotic structures and connects theory and history to action.

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An astonishing look at the tenuous state of women's rights and issues in America, and a call to action for the young women who have the power to change their situation.

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Charting the decline and recent resurgence of the landed gentry in British public life, The fall and rise of the English upper class explores how traditionalist worldviews, centred on kinship, inheritance, and the image of the house, have come to shape our politics and culture.

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For over twenty years Nancy Hartsock has been a powerful voice in the effort to forge a feminism sophisticated and strong enough to make a difference in the real world of powerful political and economic forces. This volume collects her most important writings.

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