The Right and Labor in America. Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, Paperback - ***

This collection of essays by leading American historians explains how and why the fight against unionism has long been central to the meaning of co...

This book analyses the arrival of emerging and traditional information and technology for public and economic use in Latin America. It focuses on t...

Reducere. Gunfight is a timely work examining America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive ...

Gabriella Lukacs traces how young Japanese women's unpaid labor as bloggers, net idols, "girly" photographers, online traders, and cell phone novel...

Reducere. How have the fall of the USSR and the long dominance of Putin reshaped Russian politics and culture? Ilya Budraitskis, one of the country's most pr...

"The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age was first published in a different form in the original Portuguese as Arquitetura na e...

This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan-including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses...

Reducere. Why aren't more women at the top of the ivory tower?The academy claims to be a meritocracy, in which the best and brightest graduate students gain ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Dale DanneferIllustration(s): 19 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber ...

Reducere. The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison populati...

Features a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, It demo...

Two decades after Indonesia's transition to democracy, its labor movement has emerged as a vibrant and influential political actor. Labor and Polit...

Tails of Wonder and Imagination features more than forty stories in which cats are heroes and stories in which they're villains.Publisher: Night Sh...

Reducere. Bednarowski is especially good at elucidating the theological daring of these new American religions. . . . [She] demonstrates in a very few pages ...

An examination of the part played by violent non-state actors in Middle Eastern and North African current affairs. Individual chapters on the Islam...

Contrary to popular belief, the problem with US higher education is not too much politics but too little. Far from being bastions of liberal bias, ...

The intersection of food and immigration in North America, from the macroscale of national policy to the microscale of immigrants' lived, daily foo...

Reducere. A historical investigation into the political and ideological foundations of the miseducation of the Negro in America, this timely and provocative ...

How to bring out the true creativity in you and apply it with imagination and confidence in your work and life.

Presents a fresh theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among nonliterate peoples. The author u...

In this unique and compelling book, the author examines side by side the works of Eastern mystical philosophers and poets and some of their Western...

Dramatic statements about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence for humanity abound, as an industry of experts claims that AI is poised ...

Featuring a new foreword by Robin E. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racis...

Marshall examines the ideological structuring of current planning models and the interplay of political interests. He analyses attempts at planning...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Dr Gareth MooreIllustration(s): FlexibackNumber of pages: 256Collection: Arcturus Themed PuzzlesPublic...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Jeffrey L. KidderIllustration(s): 3 halftones, 6 tablesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2...

This groundbreaking book challenges the dominant view of ideology held by both political scientists and political commentators. Rather than viewing...

Publisher: AutonomediaAuthor(s): David GraeberNumber of pages: 122Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 156 x 229 x 8Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Anthropocene Ecologies examines anthropocenic imaginaries across several critical themes in social science studies of tourism such as gender, healt...

Reducere. This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns...

An analysis of the ways that General Rafael Trujillos dictatorship (1930-1961) pervaded everyday life in the Dominican Republics capital, Santo Dom...

Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus B...

DescriptionViolent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines...

Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. In this now classic work, origin...

DescriptionBetween the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosoph...

With empirical case studies of Walmart's entry into Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this book reveals how the world's largest private employer has...

Reducere. DescriptionThe definitive firsthand account of the movement that permanently broke the American political consensus.What do internet trolls, econom...

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity...

In the same easy to understand and fun to experience style as Perspective Made Easy, Robbie Lee shows readers, step by step, the basic drawing skil...

Badges and Incidents explains the law and pedagogical practices governing American education. It is a valuable resource for any citizen concerned w...

Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 - Christopher Tomlins

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 ...

A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary cityMichael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural ...