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The countries selected represent a wide range of social, political, geographic, and economic conditions, and ten new countries are included in this edition.

Each chapter provides current information on the unique features of the country profiled;

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This study presents a theoretical and practical discussion of the changes that have occurred between men and women and how the sexes relate to one another from social, political and ethical perspectives. It demonstrates that religious ideology is an important aspect of gendered development.

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Olumwullah examines disease, biomedicine, and processes of social change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya and analyzes the introduction and use of biomedicine as a cultural tool of domination by British colonizers and the AbaNyole's reaction to this therapeutic tradition and its technologies.

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Presents the author's journey into youth culture, meeting and speaking to hundreds of kids on the way. This work gives an insight into understanding a generation gap that has never been so wide. Confronting crime, underage sex, and more, he finds that this disconnection from what adults understand to be real is creating a radical youth culture.

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This book investigates the way in which British widows of servicemen who died in the First World War were represented in society and explores the intertwining discourses of social welfare, national identity, and morality that can be identified in these texts.

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Focusing on the scholarly "literature of fact", this study explores the telling - and frequent mis-telling - of the story of black women during a century of American historiography, from the late 19th century to the present day, looking at the black woman's "prefabricated past".

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Focusing on the scholarly "literature of fact", this study explores the telling - and frequent mis-telling - of the story of black women during a century of American historiography, from the late 19th century to the present day, looking at the black woman's "prefabricated past".

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A fascinating collection of documents revealing in their own words how white Australians regarded Aboriginal people in the two centuries since white colonisation led to black dispossession.

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Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives and norms that shape the Mindfulness Industry. Mindfulness is now common throughout the West, but this book reveals how the industry is infused with whiteness and late capitalism.

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Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives and norms that shape the Mindfulness Industry. Mindfulness is now common throughout the West, but this book reveals how the industry is infused with whiteness and late capitalism.

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Asian Americans have made significant contributions to American society. The Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, Korean Americans, South Asian Americans (from India and Pakistan), and Southeast Asian Americans (from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam) profiled in this work represent more than 75 fields of endeavor.

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This book is one of the few available sources of detailed information on their lives and careers.

Entries include a summary of the individual's life, a history of the person's early life, a description of the highlights of his or her career as a healer or spiritual practitioner, and recommendations for further reading.

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Does any social solidarity exist among Americans In Diversity and Its Discontents, a group of sociologists, political theorists, and social historians seek to answer this question by exploring ideological differences, theoretical disputes, social processes, and institutional change.

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The relationship between Israel, American Jews, and the peace process has been a subject of passionate debate among scholars, political activists, and lay observers alike.

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With an in-depth look at the class system and the lack of class struggle, this book provides an interesting perspective and analysis of Israeli society.

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