Social Surveys (1949) examines a host of fact-finding studies, dealing mainly with working class poverty, and the associated nature and problems. To describe the structure of a community demands a study of the people who compose it, and the environm...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of governance and ethno-nationality policies in China, with a particular emphasis on the historical strategies employed by the Chinese state in managing its relations with non-Han nationalities and ethno-r...Loe edasi...
Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside. Originally published in 1970, People and the Countryside discusses the legislation affecting the countryside which appeared in the late 1940s and the work of the Countryside in 1970 Con...Loe edasi...
This book explores how modern cities are transforming through smart technologies and circular economy principles. The opening chapters introduce the concept of the smart city, explaining digital infrastructure, data-driven decision making, and conne...Loe edasi...
In an era plagued by increasing inequality and intensifying climate change, residents of cities are facing crises on multiple fronts, including housing, transport, healthcare, policing, pollution, and dramatic population fluctuations. In response, pe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197789353)
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The current...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197774274)
People Power in Cities draws from research in cities around the world to show how ordinary people are developing strategies to achieve a greater say in how their cities are run and, more broadly, how the world works. It develops a people power frame...Loe edasi...
This book offers a localised cultural approach to understanding (im)politeness behaviour in Mexico, thereby making a meaningful contribution to the study of pragmatics. It combines theory and practice to examine contextualised relational conduct, wi...Loe edasi...
First published in 1981, The Politics of Reproduction is a critique of traditional political thought. It focuses centrally upon the nature and difference of male and female experience of biological reproduction, and upon the impact of male reproduct...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1982, this book provides a concise and stimulating guide to the historical development of the concept of class and the different ways in which it has been applied in social and political theory. In conclusion, Dr Calvert sugg...Loe edasi...
Contributing to a lively dialogue with Anglo-American and French theorists, The Lonely Mirror (originally published in 1993) sets out to contextualize Italian feminist theory within the international debate....Loe edasi...
Mapping out the development of the great American restaurant, the author takes us on a nostalgic journey in From Boarding House to Bistro (originally published in 1990) through the history of a nations eating houses....Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, in Military Rule in Latin America Karen L. Remmer draws upon a wide variety of sources, including interviews with top government officials, to challenge prevailing interpretations of military rule....Loe edasi...
Noguchi’s long-adored, meditative autobiography returns to print, restored to its original specifications“Where all we see is change I like to think sculpture may have in this a special role—as an antidote to impermanence—w...Loe edasi...
From Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Dorit Kemsley comes a candid memoir in which she peels back the layers of her life and shares the unscripted moments that shaped who she is....Loe edasi...
With rising temperatures, longer summers, drought, and more wildfires occurring in the United States and Canada, there is growing interest in the impact and efficacy of Indigenous fire and cultural burning practices. Indigenous communities throughou...Loe edasi...
A personal, critical guide to seeing queer arts wounds and possibilities Damage asks how to look at images marked by queer pain without turning that pain into shock or pretending it isnt there. Writer and critic Jonathan Alexander answers...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, DVD video, Kirjastus: HarperChristian Resources, ISBN-13: 9780310169475)
The Beautiful Word Bible Study series makes the Bible come alive in such a way that you know where to turn no matter where you find yourself on your spiritual journey. The Song of Songs (often referred to as the Song of Solomon) reads li...Loe edasi...
By one of the world’s leading chemists, an entertaining and revealing tour of the chemical bonds that shape our everyday lives and provide the infrastructure for our chaotic world.We all have a relationship with chemistry....Loe edasi...
Shakespeares most powerful female character, her historical inspiration, and her reinventions in performance through the centuries. She is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than Lear’s daughters. She i...Loe edasi...
A dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award–winning author A dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award–winning authorIn his first...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Da Capo, ISBN-13: 9780306833151)
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A breathtakingly candid memoir by Joanna JoJo Levesque, the chart-topping, multi-platinum recording artist behind hits like “Leave (Get Out),” “Too Little, Too Late”, and the Grammy Awa...Loe edasi...
*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*An intimate, hilarious memoir of art, friendship, queerness, and found family by Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey, stars of The L Word—including never-before-shared stories and photos fr...Loe edasi...
Martin Amis, the renowned author of Money and London Fields, presents a collection of essays on the “moronic inferno,” aka the United States of America.A thrilling tour of late-twentieth-century America through the eye...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646254)
In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. The recalcitrance of local and regional historie...Loe edasi...
In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. The recalcitrance of local and regional historie...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479844531)
Offers a compelling account of how Soviet Jews rebuilt their lives amid postwar devastation, rising hostility, discrimination and the repressive final years of Stalins rule At the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in th...Loe edasi...
Sari: New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479815883)
Breaks new ground by showing how women in prison and their families interact through prison boundaries Although women make up only 7 of the overall prison population in the US, their numbers are rising faster than mens, and yet little r...Loe edasi...
Sari: New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479815876)
Breaks new ground by showing how women in prison and their families interact through prison boundaries Although women make up only 7 of the overall prison population in the US, their numbers are rising faster than mens, and yet little r...Loe edasi...
