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Explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to more familiar primitivist forms of Orientalism. This book examines the relationship between Jack London and leading Progressive George Kennan on US-Japan relations, and Frank Norris and AFL leader Samuel Gompers on cheap immigrant labor.

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This expertly prepared policy issues handbook surveys the changing workplace and the failures of America's public health and education systems to prepare the future work force to compete at home and abroad.

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This book explains how the short-lived sexual revolution 50 years ago has led to the current evolution of our sexual values and behaviors and social standards among youth culture, examining topics such as communication technologies and sex, teen pregnancy, and divorce rates in the Bible Belt.

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A case study of American culture as a society characterized by diversity.

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American Ethnic Practices in the Early Twenty-first Century: The Milwaukee Study is a work based on a twelve-year research project conducted in the greater Milwaukee area by Urban Anthropology Inc. This qualitative study examines the current strength of ethnicity and the contributions that ethnic practices have made to the wider society.

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An authoritative reference that helps general readers understand the varieties of crises impacting modern-day families and the intervention techniques designed to resolve them.

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Recognizing the family unit as the institution most central to any society, the volume covers a broad range of theoretical approaches which concentrate on relationships within the family and between the family and the wider community.

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Using dietary information and other pertinent facts, the author assesses the nutritional status of Americans during each historical period. Four categories of American food are identified and analyzed: mainstream cuisine, regional cooking, regional phenomena (including ethnic foods), and Pop foods.

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Using dietary information and other pertinent facts, the author assesses the nutritional status of Americans during each historical period. Four categories of American food are identified and analyzed: mainstream cuisine, regional cooking, regional phenomena (including ethnic foods), and Pop foods.

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The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. American labor historians and labor studies specialists will find this collection fills a major void in the research on American labor.

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The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. American labor historians and labor studies specialists will find this collection fills a major void in the research on American labor.

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An exploration of midlife within the framework of trends in the larger society. This text begins with a discussion of how demographic and social changes affect midlife, followed by chapters on work and retirement planning, the not-so-empty nest and ageing parents.

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This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures.

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Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation -- .

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Through an ethnographic study of the 'Barefoot College', an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and practices by which a development organisation materialises and manages a construction of success -- .

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Focusing on ethnolinguistic groups rather than peoples with purely religious orientations, Olson provides entries on over 450 ethnic groups, with appropriate cross-references. The volume also includes a chronology, several appendixes providing statistical information, and an appendix essay on Islam in Russia and the Soviet Union.

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Presents to those interested in the work of sexual science a view of this field. This book provides a personal account of the author's experiences in sexual science that helps the reader understand many of the major issues that confront those in sexual science.

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The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.