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  • People of the Scottish Burgh
    David Dobson
    This book is designed as an aid to researchers wishing to find information on inhabitants of Arbroath during the 17th and 18th centuries. It is based overwhelmingly on primary sources, such as the High Court of the Admiralty, Customs and Excise Records, Exchequer Records, the Register of Deeds of the Court of Session, Burgh Records, Port Books, Services of Heirs, and monumental...
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    19,05 €

  • Causes and Consequences of Group Violence
    This book offers a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation of violence, ranging from bullying and hate crimes to revolutions, genocide, and terrorism. It offers empirical investigations of these specific types of violence as well as theoretical discussions of the underlying similarities and differences among these forms of violence. ...
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    156,56 €

  • A History of Disaster
    Ken Smith
    The threat of disaster has long been a fact of life for Atlantic Canadians, especially the countless numbers who earn their livelihoods on the unpredictable seas or in the volatile mines. And even with continuing improvements in technology, disasters can still strike at any time, as 1992's Westray mine explosion and 1998's Swissair crash have shown.A History of Disaster...
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    18,11 €

  • Intersectionality and Urban Education
    A volume in Urban Education Studies SeriesSeries Editors Nicholas D. Hartlep, Illinois State University,Thandeka K. Chapman, University of California, San Diego and Kenny Varner, Louisiana State UniversityIn urban education, 'urban' is a floating signifier that is imbued with meaning, positive or negative by its users. 'Urban'can be used to refer to both the geographical contex...
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    82,86 €

  • Intersectionality and Urban Education
    A volume in Urban Education Studies SeriesSeries Editors Nicholas D. Hartlep, Illinois State University,Thandeka K. Chapman, University of California, San Diego and Kenny Varner, Louisiana State UniversityIn urban education, 'urban' is a floating signifier that is imbued with meaning, positive or negative by its users. 'Urban'can be used to refer to both the geographical contex...
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    149,28 €

  • Migrant Communication Enterprises
    Maria Sabaté i Dalmau / Maria Sabaté-Dalmau
    This critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores 'locutorios' (ethnic call shops) in Barcelona, where migrant populations mobilise to challenge the global private telecommunications sector as well as present-day governments. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid communicative practices. ...
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    41,95 €

  • Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption
    Vilna Bashi Treitler
    When parents form families by reaching across social barriers (the color line, or the boundaries between ’First World’ and ’Third World’ nations) to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers from both sides of the Atlant...
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    64,89 €

  • The Word Nigger
    Shane Bell
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    32,21 €

  • The Word Nigger
    Shane Bell
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    23,81 €

  • Reproducing the British Caribbean
    Juanita De Barros
    This innovative book traces the history of ideas and policymaking concerning population growth and infant and maternal welfare in Caribbean colonies wrestling with the aftermath of slavery. Focusing on Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados from the nineteenth century through the 1930s, when violent labor protests swept the region, Juanita De Barros takes a comparative approach in analy...
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    51,03 €

  • The Phoenix - Rising from the Ashes
    Dian Griffin Jackson
    Praise for The Phoenix 'The constant pressures from the men she dared to love caused Melanie to crumble under their attacks. She is now soaring on the wings of an eagle, flying high into the deep blue sky, moving forward to fulfill her destiny. A must-read!' -Minister Vickie Robertson, The Fellowship of Faith Church, Huntsville, AL Uniquely Christian, uniquely honest - this bo...
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    17,41 €

  • Our Faithfulness to the Past
    Sue Campbell
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    52,55 €

  • Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights
    Diana Tietjens Meyers
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    64,88 €

  • Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies
    This volume facilitates a closer examination of the conceptual framing of conflict sexual violence from the multiple perspectives of researchers, community service organizations, and policy workers. Rather than 'mapping' the various dynamics of sexual violence and conflict, itself an important task, the volume explores conceptual gaps and emerging research directions. ...
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    254,24 €

  • Migrant Professionals in the City
    Lars Meier
    This book analyses the relevance of locality for a mobile group and provides a new perspective on migrant professionals by considering the relevance of social identities for local encounters in socially unequal cities. Contributors explore shifting identities, senses of belonging, and spatial and social inequalities and encounters between migrant professionals and 'Others' with...
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    254,39 €

  • Crossroads at Clarksdale
    Françoise N. Hamlin / Françoise NHamlin
    Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Françoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town over fifty years, recognizing the accomplishments of its diverse African American community and strong NAACP branch, and examin...
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    50,64 €

  • Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic
    Melina Pappademos
    While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as the republican period started. In Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic, Melina Pappademos analyzes the racial politics and culture of black civic and political activists during the Cuban Republic.The path to eq...
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    50,88 €

  • Way Up North in Louisville
    Luther Adams
    Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South. Way Up North in Louisville explores the forces that led blacks to move to urban centers in the South to make their homes. Adams defines 'ho...
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    47,87 €

  • Cultura 2.0
    Francisco 'Pancho' Marchiaro / Francisco Pancho Marchiaro
    En esta década que recorremos se dan dos factores paralelos: por un lado, las sociedades le restan valor y entidad a lo oficial, a los grandes medios de comunicación, al poder instituido y, por el otro, surge una nueva estela desde la sociedad civil. Su accionar crece, se ramifica, cobra vida.El público desapareció y hoy un alto porcentaje de los procesos sociales y culturales ...
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    32,76 €

  • Blood and Fire
    'This is a superb and important book. It is a book that is sorely needed in the field of anthropology (and also labor history). There has not been an attempt to take stock of where anthropology stands in relation to the study of labor in nearly 30 years, and so much has happened since then... The chapters all present key cases in compelling ways, incorporate analysis into their...
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    184,01 €

  • Death Blow to Jim Crow
    Erik S. Gellman / Erik SGellman
    During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a 'second emancipation' in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial an...
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    50,73 €

  • Mapping Difference
    Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors are an interdisciplinary, transnational group of scholars from gender studies, feminist theory, history, anthropology, sociology, women’s studies, and literature. Among the issues they address are: the imp...
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    44,61 €

  • International Migration
    Susan F. Martin / Susan FMartin
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    44,18 €

  • International Migration
    Susan F. Martin / Susan FMartin
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    137,51 €

  • Rural Women’s Power in South Asia
    Pashington Obeng
    This book investigates how women’s power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, class and religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Building upon recent formulations of South Asian gender discourse, it explores the ways that perceived notions of women and castified geographies are not only structured in complex...
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    65,36 €

  • My Story by Marilyn Chambers
    Marilyn Chambers
    The intimate, uncensored erotobiography that is pure-as-Ivory Snow. The sexy girl next door who turned on the world talks openly in detail about her fantasies and what turns her on.Twenty-six pages of personal photos of the star of Behind the Green Door and The Resurrection of Eve.'Marilyn was a legend in porn before her time. She set the gold standard that all other actresses ...
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    27,59 €

  • My Story by Marilyn Chambers (hardback)
    Marilyn Chambers
    This is the hardback version. The intimate, uncensored erotobiography that is pure-as-Ivory Snow. The sexy girl next door who turned on the world talks openly in detail about her fantasies and what turns her on. Twenty-six pages of personal photos of the star of Behind the Green Door and The Resurrection of Eve.'Marilyn was a legend in porn before her time. She set the gold sta...
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    37,44 €

  • Suburban Erasure
    Walter David Greason / Walter David Greason
    Suburban Erasure explains how racial inequality adapted in the twentieth century in order to shape American society today. It celebrates the voices of unheralded civil rights leaders, while clearly explaining how suburbs reflect earlier patterns of segregation. ...
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    64,14 €

  • The Families of Sugar Bush
    Nadine D. Thies / Nadine DThies
    In the little village of Sugar Bush, is where their lives began. “Twas a tiny town but oh so vast were the dreams of every man. The backgrounds of these families were special in every way, and their efforts for life & survival grew together day-by-day! From early dawn ‘till darkness they labored, cleared and planted. Each evening, on their knees, prayed God their labors granted...
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    33,23 €

  • The Families of Sugar Bush
    Nadine D. Thies / Nadine DThies
    In the little village of Sugar Bush, is where their lives began. “Twas a tiny town but oh so vast were the dreams of every man. The backgrounds of these families were special in every way, and their efforts for life & survival grew together day-by-day! From early dawn ‘till darkness they labored, cleared and planted. Each evening, on their knees, prayed God their labors granted...
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    23,16 €


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