Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics, Paperback - Douglas C. Baynton

Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the c...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jay Timothy Dolmage In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth ce...

Reducere. Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Ale...

Reducere. The first book to show that immigration laws in the US have always been motivated by racial exclusion and the desire to save the idea of a white Am...

Reducere. An eye-opening analysis of the costs and effects of immigration and immigration policy, both on American life and on new Americans. For decades, im...

Reducere. The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880, Douglas C. McChristian describes the development of army uniforms, equipment, and small arms during a pivotal...

Ioan Biris 978-606-24-0162-7

Publisher: Intellect BooksAuthor(s): Doctor Gjoko (University of Cincinnati) MuratovskiIllustration(s): 12 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of page...

Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

Trucking in the Age of Information provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary trucking industry. Prior research on trucking has focused ...

Tourism Itinerary Recommender Systems - In the age of personalization and crowdsourcing - Liviu-Adrian Cotfas

Futurists predict that in the next ten years the profession of "lawyer" will splinter into job titles like "legal process analyst" or "legal knowle...

Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, wit...

Shakespeare wrote most of his plays with a court audience in mind. This volume sheds fresh light on court entertainment and provides fascinating in...

Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to...

Reducere. DescriptionRight in the middle of the chaos and division, heartache and anxiety, we are faced with the seemingly impossible words of Jesus--that He...

Contributor(s): Author: Thomas C. LeonardIn Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda ...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of psychoanalytic work with immigrant mothers, fathers and their children, combining clinical examples ...

Reducere. The thrilling conclusion to this romantic trilogy about Anya, the reluctant mafia princess - by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Elsewhere

Contributor(s): Author: Kim Brooks"It might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read." --Emily Rapp Black, New York ...

Addresses the very notion of what creative practice research is, its challenges within the academy and the ways in which it contributes to scholars...

Reducere. A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about...

This book brings together international experts to discuss questions and challenges relating to the legal articulation of the emerging right to gen...

Reducere. From the cars we drive to what toothpaste we use, how a tiny group of corporations have come to dominate every aspect of our lives "If you're looki...

Reducere. Profound. Insightful. Transformative. Breathe brilliantly shines light on the basic laws of energy by weaving together neuroscience and Eastern phi...

Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire re-examines the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie G...

Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 - Kate McLoughlin

Reducere. This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more th...

Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky's career. In The Novel in the Age of Disin...

'Sam Willis has pulled off another notable coup in bringing to light these original dispatches, which add so much knowledge, and so much colour and...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 54 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2016...

Reducere. Author and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin tackles the problems of twenty-first century information overload in his New York Times and Sunday Times b...

Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today's platform society.

What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy?

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Yoshua BengioNumber of pages: 256Collection: LeonardoPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 184 x 261 x 22Cover type:...

This book explores misogyny across media ranging from political and editorial cartoons to news, sport, film, television, social media (especially T...

Reducere. Airports, hotels, bars, and restaurants all present opportunities for hospitality to touch the life of a stranger. In our increasingly data-driven ...

Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of C...

Reducere. The Age of Waiting by Douglas J. Penick is a personal memoir enriched by the history of Buddhism and a re-telling of foundational Buddhist tales. P...

DescriptionNorman Douglas, one of the 20th century's great travellers in Italy, was for most of his life inextricably, passionately, connected to t...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James GainesIn one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire's heralded 'philosopher-king', the It Boy of the Enlightenment...

The Renaissance was also the beginning of the Age of Empires, yet the Grand Duchy of Tuscany failed to secure overseas colonies. How did Tuscany re...

The position of data in reshaping the market so that big firms are no longer dominant is considered by Economist writer Ramge and Big Data co-autho...

DescriptionWhat is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civ...

DescriptionThe resplendent image of the medieval knight is symbolised by his sword, a lethal weapon on the battlefield and a badge of chivalry in t...

Reducere. DescriptionStarting from the Radical research to contemporary design, the book collects Andrea Branzi's work about the relationship city-design. Th...