Social Sciences
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Allison Varzally
Merrie Li holding baby sister, Marie; brother, Brandon (front); Tony (back left); Tung (back right) and their mother, Lieu (left). Courtesy of Merrie Li Camp. To satisfy its promise to ...
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Asian American Studies
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Lynne Vallone [Vallone, Lynne]
“Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms” Behind big machines lie big ideas. And animating these ideas were the desires to reduce human labor, solve agricultural, industrial, transportation, and communication problems, ...
( Category:
Disabled
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-28 | Author:Mark Juergensmeyer [Juergensmeyer, Mark]
WHEN SYMBOLS BECOME DEADLY But if religious images are meant to conquer violence, one must ask the obvious but difficult question: why and how are these symbolic presentations of violence ...
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Violence in Society
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-04 | Author:Charles Townshend
The case of Irish republicanism The longest-lived of them, so far, is the Irish republican movement, whose most recent armed campaign lasted thirty years, and which can confidently trace its ...
( Category:
Diplomacy
January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Robert Wuthnow [Wuthnow, Robert]
WASHINGTON IS DISTANT The most common refrain in rural people’s criticisms of Washington parallels Reverend Patterson’s remarks. Washington is distant from their communities, geographically and culturally. As far as they ...
( Category:
National
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Lewis A. Erenberg
6 ROPE-A-DOPE They call it rope a dope, I was the dope. GEORGE FOREMAN, “TOTAL FAILURE: HOW GEORGE FOREMAN’S LOSSES SHOWED HIM THE LIGHT,” NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, MAY 24, 2017 ...
( Category:
Ethnic Studies
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Patti M. Valkenburg & Jessica Taylor Piotrowski [Valkenburg, Patti M. & Piotrowski, Jessica Taylor]
Conclusion Adolescents are growing up in an environment replete with sexual messages. In movies, games, advertisements, or Google searches, teens are frequently confronted with sexual media content. Unfortunately, much of ...
( Category:
Communication & Media Studies
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Benjamin R. Barber [Barber, Benjamin R.]
12 City Sovereignty and the Need for Urban Networks The Compact of Mayors launched at the United Nations Climate Summit in 2014 engaged “the world’s largest coalition of city leaders ...
( Category:
City Planning & Urban Development
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-09 | Author:John Gennari [Gennari, John]
Crossover Dreams and Delusions In One Nation under a Groove: Motown and American Culture (1995), Gerald Early argues that Motown, which became the paradigm of racial and cultural “crossover” in ...
( Category:
African-American Studies
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Brooke Erin Duffy [Duffy, Brooke Erin]
Content creators’ reflections on self-branding are a testament to the market logic that propels much activity in the online worlds of fashion and beauty. It is against this commercial backdrop ...
( Category:
E-Commerce
January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:John Iceland [Iceland, John]
EXPLAINING PATTERNS OF WELL-BEING There are a number of explanations as to why American Indians have lower levels of socioeconomic achievement than many other groups. While previous chapters evaluated competing ...
( Category:
Discrimination & Racism
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Fernández-Armesto, Felipe;
* * * The next few pages cover the merits and defects of how academics currently attempt to apply evolutionary explanations to cultural change. Apart from memetics, which we can ...
( Category:
Social Sciences
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-19 | Author:Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers [Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.]
The women who bought and sold enslaved people for personal use, sold enslaved people on behalf of others, engaged in slave speculation, and partnered with others to trade in slaves ...
( Category:
Discrimination & Racism
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Fishman, Sarah;
The Limits of Affluence; Continuing Housing Shortages In spite of the government’s efforts, court records make clear that even in the early 1960s many poor families continued to struggle with ...
( Category:
Women in History
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Scheidel, Walter
may have relied on stereotypes and hyperbole but nonetheless put the finger on a pressing problem—the ongoing concentration of landed wealth. The most extravagant disparities were created at the very ...
( Category:
Economic History
January 19,2020 )
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