Experiments in Skin. Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam, Paperback - Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, showing how US wartime efforts to allevia...

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The unimagined community presents a wide-ranging study of South Vietnemese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular ...

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lien-Hang T. NguyenWhile most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanizatio...

A fictional account of gut-level combat as seen through the eyes of American and North Vietnamese participants.Publisher: Casemate PublishersAuthor...

Publisher: Cool Springs PressAuthor(s): Teri SpeightIllustration(s): 125+ color photosNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 209 x 2...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Ella Frances SandersNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 215 x 22Cover type: Paperba...

At a time of increased interest and renewed shock over the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, Acres of Skin sheds light on yet another dark episode of ...

The rapid decline of the bastions of American power established over the twentieth century is the subject of this extensive historical analysis emp...

French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across ...

Reducere. Amanda felt nothing."I can't return to who I was, " she said. "I don't know who I am."The United States is finally a meritocracy, where the best an...

DescriptionHow transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to Asia Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia considers the role of bodi...

In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic id...

Reducere. A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of models and bottles to reveal how beautiful young wome...

A diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients. It sho...

The greatest undisclosed secret of the war haunts the lives of 4 people across three continents and 15 years.

Re-deployed from convoys in the Atlantic, the men of PC-450 - an advanced sub chaser - face Japanese submarines and air attacks as they support the...

Reducere. Authentic and delicious, the recipes in Lemongrass, Ginger and Mint Vietnamese Cookbook bring Vietnamese restaurant favorites to your family's dini...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Renee Knake JeffersonIllustration(s): 15 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022...

Reducere. From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east--and of the tour itselfSick ...

Reducere. This book shows how Ford's first large automotive plant-the Crystal Palace-transformed the sleepy village of Highland Park, Michigan, into an indus...

The Silent Warriors of the U.S. Air Force Security Service, the "back-enders" on SAC's Hognose RC-135 reconnaissance planes, had quietly been in al...

Reducere. This account of the war in Vietnam is based exclusively on personal experience. It is not a chronological narrative but is written as a series of m...

This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the...

Reducere. Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the...

Reducere. The unbelievable true story of Harrison Post--the enigmatic lover of one of the richest men in 1920s Hollywood--and the battle for a family fortune...

Join the renowned Vietnamese-Australian chef as he embarks on a culinary and cultural journey through the country of his heritage to discover the p...

Reducere. Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead--an age that claims mastery over the world but als...

Reducere. The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered-but not selected-for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became t...

An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing the worst of humanity on today's commercial internetPublisher: Yale Univers...

Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR and Vanity Fair One of Smithsonian's Ten Best Science Books of 2020"A searching and vital explication of germ theo...

Reducere. Vietnam is increasingly opening up to the West, and society is in flux between tradition and modernity, and capitalism and socialism. Americans hav...

Reducere. This book contemplates current crises guided by a core Buddhist teaching: the roots of deepest suffering lie in what we grasp most tightly. Thus, t...

Reducere. "This story has haunted me since I was a child, " begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers about her own life and about her grand...

Guidebook to walking in the Aosta valley, a stunning, autonomous region in the Italian Alps. Describes 32 scenic routes (ranging from 4 to 20km) wi...

Reducere. Loner is a personal memoir of one man's experience in South Vietnam and the aftermath of serious injury. Told with authentic detail, humor, and pat...

Reducere. Street Shadows recounts Jerald Walker's renunciation of the "thug life" he had embraced as a teenager on the South Side of Chicago in favor of the ...

A story about family and forgiveness, a sequel to The Monsters of Rookhaven, from the bestselling author of Tin.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): ...

A story about empathy and difference, from the bestselling author of Tin.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Padraig KennyNumber of pages: 384Public...

A story about family and forgiveness, a sequel to The Monsters of Rookhaven, from the bestselling author of Tin.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): ...

The dark heart of race science... and why it's nonsense.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: C. L. HoangHave you ever wondered what Vietnam is like some forty years after the war has ended? Then come along with the a...

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Reducere. Born in 1928, Mary Bremier has a remarkably keen eye, both for the beauty of her natural world and for the telling details of human frailty. The Sh...