Sociology
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Isabel Fonseca

A Kalderash girl from Sintesti, Romania, 1994. Her back-tied head scarf and gold coins show that she is married. (photo credits 4.5) A hundred yards up a climbing dirt path ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Jacky Hyams

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN UPPERS AND LOWERS The innate snobbery of many of the upper servants – governesses, for some reason, can be particularly snobbish towards the lowers, perhaps because they are ...
( Category: Class April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Hugh Brewster

Edith Rosenbaum (photo credit 1.77) Thomas Andrews, meanwhile, circulated along the first-class hallways making sure that the stewards were getting passengers out of their staterooms. He saw stewardess May Sloan, ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:John Russell Taylor

Chapter Ten So here, at the beginning of 1941, we have what seems to be a typical picture of the Englishman abroad. Settled, like some tea-planter in the sub-tropics, far ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Joanne King Herring & Nancy Dorman-Hickson

CHAPTER 18 They Called Me “Sir” To me, it’s simple. Socialism and communism promise everything, but they’re actually slavery. They sound good. They represent what I call the Robin Hood ...
( Category: Social Activists April 5,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Paul D'Amato

The Myth of “State” Socialism The single worst legacy of Stalinism was to reinforce the mistaken notion that socialism can be measured by the degree of state control of the ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 27,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Turkle, Sherry [Turkle, Sherry]

PRESENTATION ANXIETY What are the truth claims in a Facebook profile? How much can you lie? And what is at stake if you do? Nancy, an eighteen-year-old senior at Roosevelt, ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations March 24,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Eric Foner

II As the networks assisting fugitives consolidated to the city’s south, the underground railroad in New York, in the words of the Tribune, did “a safe and increasing business.” What ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Andrew Ross, Ph.D. [Ross, Andrew]

Apopka farmworkers before the last harvest. (Photo: Sister Ann Kendrick, The Last Harvest project, Crealdé School of Art) I wondered what the lunatics would have done. From what we had ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon, Bryant

HALLEY’S COMET AND BEYOND In 2004, Halley’s Comet hit. That’s what Brewster called Ray Charles’s Concord Records/Hear Music-produced CD, Genius Loves Company. Timed to come out at the same time ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-15 | Author:Chris Bohjalian

IT’S NOT MIND OVER MATTER—IT’S MIND OVER MANURE THIS AUTUMN I fell off a horse for the first time. I’ve been riding for three years, and so I was due. ...
( Category: United States March 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Mike Milotte

8. A Very Grave Offence On the 19th of January 1965, Mary Keating, midwife and proprietress of St Rita’s private nursing home in south Dublin, was convicted in the Dublin ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Policy March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lynne Truss

! # * ! I have a rather heretical view when it comes to mobile phones, so I’d better confess to it at once. I don’t mind people saying, “I’m ...
( Category: Humor March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Doris Grumbach

About the Author Doris Grumbach, author of many novels and memoirs including Fifty Days of Solitude, Life in a Day, The Ladies, and Chamber Music, has been literary editor of ...
( Category: Women March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Amy Jo Burns [Burns, Amy Jo]

My body felt aflame and my skin flushed as the kids around me pulled from their trances. Lockers slammed shut, voices called to one another. The rush I felt rivaled ...
( Category: Adolescent Psychology March 22,2015 )