Race at the Top. Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools, Hardback - Natasha Warikoo

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Natasha WarikooIllustration(s): 4 tablesNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided societyThe Declaration of Independence states that all people are en...

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Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd , CanadaAuthor(s): Uma KrishnaswamiNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 232 x 287 x 12Cover type: H...

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Presents an important collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and religion and Asian American communities. Issues of religion an...

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A recovery of the vital role Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans played in US intelligence services in Asia during World War II. Spies deep beh...

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Looking into the economics of American Protestantism, this work examines how churches have raised and spent money since colonial times and consider...

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Publisher: Scholastic Inc.Author(s): Aida SalazarNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 212 x 287 x 16Cover type: HardbackIllustrator...

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The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner explores the culture and practices of independent filmmaking in the U.S., arguing that during the pa...

This book explores the convergence of gender, race, and social identities in the often-exclusionary arena of American politics. Contributors examin...

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Investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common sch...

Bringing together histories of immigration and emigration in the era of decolonisation, Settlers at the end of empire is an essential new study hig...

Publisher: Fordham University PressIllustration(s): 8 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 334Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 27Cover ty...

From action-packed moments chasing down criminals to more tender occasions, like gaining the trust of a murder victim's family, to making crucial l...

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The true saviour of Little Round Top at Gettysburg was a 26-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer, who paid with his life to defend that hill. This is t...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Susan GillmanIllustration(s): 26 halftonesNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022...

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This work argues that studying the arts is an important and valuable component of general education and of society and American culture. It confron...

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The story behind Martin Luther King's historic, but largely forgotten visit to Newcastle upon Tyne, England in 1967, placing King's visit within an...

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Victor Chandler, the most recognisable face in bookmaking, tells his remarkable life story. In this new authorised biography written by Jamie Reid,...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Korie (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology,...

Provides an engineering history of the human powered helicopter creatively designed, skilfully built, and courageously flown by students of the Uni...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jonathan (Professor of Theology and Ethics, Professor of Theology and Ethics, Baylor University) T...

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A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United StatesPrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a p...

In that bestseller, Dr Moody researched what happens when we die, including the amazing stories of those who have had out-of-body experiences and w...