The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race

Reducere. This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ...

Reducere. The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a ...

What can a turn to humour offer International Relations? This book suggests that a focus on comic practice can illuminate the relationship between ...

Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expres...

"Check your privilege" is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socializ...

Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government - Adam Przeworski

From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines ...

DescriptionFrom Bay Ridge to Astoria, political action in Arab New York Arab Americans are a numerically small proportion of the US population yet ...

Reducere. The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in AmericaMaurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged ...

Reducere. What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? The Price of Whiteness documents the uneasy place Je...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): John (University of Wolverhampton, UK) RobertsNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): John (University of Wolverhampton, UK) RobertsNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Presenting a critique of moral theory from Kant onwards, the author, one of the greatest philosophers of his generation, reorients ethical theory t...

Reducere. That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia's effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the rel...

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. With Mexican Americans constituting a large and growing segment of U.S. society, their assimilation trajectory has become a constant source of deba...

A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy "Important reading for those who wa...

A new edition of the important work of philosophy from the late Williams. With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear and commentary on the text by A.W. M...

Sandel locates modern liberalism in the tradition of Kant, and focuses on its most influential recent expression in the work of John Rawls. In the ...

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 ...

Boston Book ReviewAmerica's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): John LieNumber of pages: 342Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 18Cover type: Paperba...

Reducere. No winners, no losers, and no end the Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is no ordinary computer game. Created by British mathematician John ...

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. In this groundbreaking study, Julian Carter demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to ...

A physician's "remarkable" account of how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences (Minneapolis Star Tribune) -- even for the white vo...

Reducere. In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: How does it feel to be a problem? In The Heart of ...

DescriptionThe United States has become ever more deeply entrenched in powerful, rival, partisan camps, and its citizens more sharply separated alo...

DescriptionPhilosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism--either a radical separation of mind and bod...

"This bold, intellectually ambitious, and wholly original book challenges the way in which Western social science understands China.... It will set...

Reducere. DescriptionMormonism is one of the few homegrown religions in the United States, one that emerged out of the religious fervor of the early nineteen...

Reducere. This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history...

Reducere. Should we regulate artificial intelligence? Can we? From self-driving cars and high-speed trading to algorithmic decision-making, the way we live, ...

A New Statesman Best Book of the YearA Church Times Book of the YearWe are facing a crisis of civility, a war of words polluting our public sphere....

Reducere. Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregard...

A reappraisal of Lope's literary career, bringing out the complexities of his dramatic texts.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Melveena McK...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Mitchell PlitnickNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 19Cover type: Paperback / sof...

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

Reducere. A magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was kn...

DescriptionKeith Kahn-Harris argues that the controversy over antisemitism today is a symptom of a growing "selectivity" in anti-racism caused by a...

DescriptionThis bold, groundbreaking study of American political development assesses the presidency of Abraham Lincoln through the lenses of gover...

By examining the Second Seminole War through the lenses of race, Jacksonian democracy, media and public opinion, American expansion, and military s...