Privilege and Anxiety. The Korean Middle Class in the Global Era, Paperback - Hagen Koo

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Hagen KooIllustration(s): 1 Maps; 13 ChartsNumber of pages: 162Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 ...

DescriptionForty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factor...

DescriptionIn recent decades crime fiction has enjoyed a creative boom. Although, as Alison Young argues in her book Imagining Crime (1996), crime ...

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In the 1970s, the city of Genoa in northern Italy was suffering the economic decline and the despondency common to industrial centers of the Wester...

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Publisher: World Scientific Europe LtdAuthor(s): Lisa (Italian Assoc For Cancer Research (Airc), Italy) VozzaNumber of pages: 268Publication date: ...

In World War II, the author's ship the USS Albuquerque PF-7 endured a fourteen month tour of duty in the Bering Sea performing unending patrols, es...

In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of w...

Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous--the worst of postwar modernist ar...

How have local economic conditions been affected by the emergence of a global economy? What changes, if any, have local political authorities made ...

By analyzing the presidential foreign policy rhetoric of Dwight D. Eisenhower surrounding the Middle East, author Randall Fowler makes a timely arg...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Matthew ClairIllustration(s): 14 tables.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 275 x...

Worked to the Bone is a provocative examination of race and class in the United States and the mechanics of inequality. In an elegant and accessibl...

Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict.

A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.Publisher: Haymarket Boo...

Investing means different things to different people... and there is a huge difference between passive investing and becoming an active, engaged in...

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DescriptionYes, there certainly are many obstacles to urban church planting. The challenge of refraining from insisting on suburban models for urba...

This book maps key moments in the history of post-war art from a global perspective.Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 252Collection: ...

DescriptionThe first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeois...

DescriptionAt the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars agai...

From the author of When You Read This, a smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class on a college campus in the spirit of The Female Persu...

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In blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, diplomats and travellers, English nation and Italian nation, Maura O'Connor shows us the exten...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Frederick TaylorNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 197 x 131 x 28Cover type: Pape...

DescriptionHow socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn...

Offers a critical and realistic reassessment of the threats posed to the environment in the Middle East, and what can be done about them.

Reducere. DescriptionA brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times bestselling author, Barbara E...

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court--and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of color T...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ezra F. VogelNumber of pages: 318Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 22Cover type: Pa...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Rob BeckettNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 35Cover type: HardbackRe...

This book offers a nuanced and detailed examination of two of the most important current debates about contemporary Russia's international activity...

Renowned economist Jeff Faux explains why neither party's leaders have a plan to remedy America's unemployment, inequality, or long economic slideA...

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