13171 books (659 pages) in this category
A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered
US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965
by Maddalena Marinari, Madeline Hsu & Maria Cristina Garcia
<p>Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States. In A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered, leading scholars of ...
ISBN: 9780252050954
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eBookby Charles Edgley
<p>We have become a nation of informers and professional meddlers. From social action and concerned citizen groups to psychiatrists and government bureaucrats, there is always someone watching. This book gets to the heart of Americas most ...
ISBN: 9780429982309
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eBookA Natural History of Human Emotions
by Stuart Walton
<p>‘I love Walton’s work for its deftness in combining high culture with demotic allusions. Michael Douglas, the Simpsons and Dolly Parton jostle Schopenhauer, Sophocles and Adorno in his pages.’ Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, <em>The ...
ISBN: 9781911095088
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eBookby John R. Bowen
<p>In this powerful, but accessible new study, John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. ...
ISBN: 9781139539616
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eBookA New Era in Focus Group Research
Challenges, Innovation and Practice
by Rosaline S. Barbour & David L. Morgan
<p>This volume provides a critical approach to using focus groups, examining how focus groups have been utilized to research a diverse set of research questions covering a broad spectrum of substantive fields. The collection acknowledges the ...
ISBN: 9781137586148
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eBookKatharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism
by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
<p><em>A New Gospel for Women</em> tells the story of Katharine Bushnell (1855-1946), author of <em>God's Word to Women</em>, one of the most innovative and comprehensive feminist theologies ever written. An internationally-known social reformer
ISBN: 9780190205669
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eBookEscaping the invisible asylum
by Fox, Alex
<p>How do we find sustainable and human ways to care for people with long-term needs? This book reveals the ways in which public services squander the potential of people with long term support needs and the creativity and caring capacity of ...
ISBN: 9781447341758
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eBookA New History of Ireland Volume VII
Ireland, 1921-84
by J. R. Hill
<p>A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and
ISBN: 9780191615597
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eBookA New History of Western Philosophy
by Anthony Kenny
<p>This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle ...
ISBN: 9780191642913
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eBook3D Printing and the Reconfiguring of Production, Distribution, and Consumption
by Thomas Birtchnell & John Urry
<p><em>A New Industrial Future?</em> examines whether a further industrial revolution is taking place around the world. In this compelling book Birtchnell and Urry examine such a new possible future involving the mass adoption of 3D printing. ...
ISBN: 9781317691532
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eBookA New Methodology for Estimating the Output Gap in the United States
by Alichi, Ali
The gap between potential and actual output—the output gap—is a key variable for policymaking. This paper adapts the methodology developed in Blagrave and others (2015) to estimate the path of output gap in the U.S. economy. The ...
ISBN: 9781513588032
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eBookA New Perspective for European Spatial Development Policies
by Wolfgang Blaas
<p>First Published in 1998. A number of future paths of European spatial evolution are developed and discussed in this book. It applies unconventional economic approaches to spatial policy, and in particular to EU-spatial policies. It is ...
ISBN: 9780429876240
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eBookA New Perspective on Human Mobility in the South
by Rudolf Anich, Jonathan Crush, Susanne Melde & others
<p>This book offers innovative insights on South–South human mobility. It features a collection of papers that highlight often overlooked mobility patterns among and within regions in the global South as well as address critical realities faced ...
ISBN: 9789401790239
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eBookby Hilary Wainwright
<p>Millions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-down state solutions. </p> <p>In this urgent polemic, Hilary Wainwright argues that this requires a new ...
ISBN: 9781509523665
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eBookby Bola Ogunkoya
<p>Focusing on the condition, contribution and plight of the black population, A New Vision aims to shed light on the journey taken by those forcibly removed from their homes in Africa. As well as documenting their struggle with the slave trade,
ISBN: 9781784628604
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eBookby Sister Agatha & Richard Newman
<p>Shirley Leach lived in a world of extreme comfort, wealth and status. With every good thing life had to offer, she was due to marry the man she loved—a man who, in turn, adored her. But all this was to change in a single moment.</p> <p>One ...
ISBN: 9781786064387
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eBookThe Imperial Garden Yuanming Yuan
by Young-tsu Wong
<p>This book is aimed at readers and researchers who are interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty. It is the first comprehensive study of the palatial garden complex in a ...
ISBN: 9789811018817
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eBookThe Daring Life of Mildred, The Honourable Mrs Victor Bruce
by Paul Smiddy
<p>THE HONOURABLE MRS VICTOR BRUCE: record-breaking racing motorist; speedboat racer; pioneering aviator and businesswoman – remarkable achievements for a woman of the 1920s and ’30s. Mildred Bruce enjoyed a privileged background that allowed ...
ISBN: 9780750985307
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eBookA People's Political History Of Guyana
1838 - 1964
by Kimani S. K Nehusi
<p>This work is a multi-disciplinary reconstruction, analysis and evaluation of the development, organisation and mobilisation of political consciousness in Guyana between the legal termination of physical enslavement in 1838 and the very eve of
ISBN: 9781912662104
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eBookA Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
by Edmund Burke
<p>'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by intellectual considerations. In so doing he ...
ISBN: 9780191645983
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