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By: Stephanie Athey
ISBN: 9780275959876
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Bruce B. Lawrence
ISBN: 9780691004877
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Islam is often portrayed, especially in Western media, as an alien, violent, hostile, and monolithic religion, whose adherents are intent upon battling nonbelievers throughout the world. This book demonstrates that these conceptions reflect the bias of Western reporters than they do the realities of contemporary Islam.
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By: Cara Anzilotti
ISBN: 9781440840975
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Hakim Sameer Hamdani
ISBN: 9780755643936
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Hakim Sameer Hamdani
ISBN: 9780755643943
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Erika Rappaport
ISBN: 9780691044767
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Erika Rappaport reconstructs London's Victorian and Edwardian West End as an entertainment and retail centre.
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By: Diane Kincaid Blair
ISBN: 9780313208201
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1979
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Nicholas Mirzoeff
ISBN: 9780691656984
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Clare Christie
ISBN: 9780897893213
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The twenty-two contributors to this volume find a common bond in their diversity, based on their desire to explore ways that single women can live more fully in a society that places such great emphasis on marriage and narrowly defines family as spouse and children.
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By: Patricia Foster
ISBN: 9780385471299
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1996
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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By: Peggy Andrews
ISBN: 9780897894760
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Drawing from her travels in 26 countries, Andrews presents a compelling picture of the universality of women's struggle for empowerment. Among the stories are discussions of the value of women's work, violence against women's bodies, women in the Presbyterian ministry, sexual harassment, and women's peace movements.
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By: Mary C. Karasch
ISBN: 9780691655574
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Mary C. Karasch
ISBN: 9780691656991
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: David Grossman
ISBN: 9780099552284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Israel: Jewish state and national homeland to Jews the world over. But a fifth of its population is Arab, a people who feel themselves to be an inseparable part of the Arab nation, most of which is still technically at war with the State of Israel.
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By: R. A. Obudho
ISBN: 9780275923099
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Characterized by the rapid growth of spontaneous squatter settlements, the urbanization process in Africa differs substantially from that of more developed countries.
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By: Seth Koven
ISBN: 9780691128009
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Paints a portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality.
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By: Andrew L. Cherry Jr.
ISBN: 9780275941796
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of factors shaping the decisions and life experiences of homeless and runaway girls who are either pregnant or mothers already. Social bond theory is used as a framework for thoughts on developing prevention and intervention programmes for at-risk girls. Actual case studies are included.
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By: David Redburn
ISBN: 9780865692640
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An in-depth look at some of the most important fields of inquiry in social gerontology.
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By: Adam Podgrecki
ISBN: 9780313290244
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Finally, based on these insights and on the recent developments in sociology of law, a new theory of law is advanced, which utilizes as its important axis a conceptual differentiation between the official and intuitive law.
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By: Lee Ellis
ISBN: 9780275932626
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In a variety of ways the contributors to this volume address the issue of how biological factors may interact with social experiences to affect social stratification.
Chapters 1 and 2 present a detailed review of the issues surrounding how social stratification is defined and subdivided.
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By: Lee Ellis
ISBN: 9780275945268
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is the second volume of a two volume work on biosocial approaches to social stratification and human inequality. The contributors explore topics that environmentalists shun, and discuss how the effect of biological variables on social stratification may have evolutionary consequences.
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By: Peter Lawler
ISBN: 9780275964764
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines the relationship between institutional structures and community integration.
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By: Michael Schofield
ISBN: 9780313248405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1985
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Peter Karsten
ISBN: 9780313200564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1978
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this book, Karsten examines the consequences of American military life from the Revolutionary War to the present. A long introduction, containing the author's survey and general conclusions, comprises the first section. The rest of the book is made up of source material--graphs, tables, and first-hand contemporary accounts.
