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This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the 20th century as an expressi...

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in...

Al-Fārābī who was conferred the distinguished title of al-Mu'allim al-thānī (The Second Teacher), is here sympathetically portrayed as a deeply rel...

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Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surg...

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with...

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Reducere. Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United Sta...

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This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indonesia, particularl...

A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory-the situations w...

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With a new foreword by Mark Cuban and a new preface by the author.

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Reducere. DescriptionIn honor of the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, we are happy to reissue Nancy Milio's 9226 Kercheval, a groundbreaking b...

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In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from continuing investigations over...

Reducere. In Basic Teachings of the Buddha, Glenn Wallis selects sixteen essential dialogues drawn from more than five thousand Pali-dialect suttas of the Bu...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected communities of color whilst highlighting the prevalence of structural racism in the U.S. This...

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This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empi...

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Reducere. Renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm examines the causes and effects of people's violent tendencies in The Anatomy of Human De...

The keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narr...

Why is it that in the '90s, business in California's Silicon Valley flourished, while along Route 128 in Massachusetts it declined? The answer, Ann...

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Richard Jean So draws on big data, computational methods, literary history, and close readings to offer an unprecedented analysis of racial inequal...

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Marlon B. Ross explores the figure of the sissy as central to how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated black masculinity from the 1...

Celebrating the 125th anniversary of MacKintosh's birth, this updated edition of the definitive biography includes a new preface.Publisher: Sandsto...