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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Elsevier Science 2001; US$ 111.00Research in Social Stratification and Mobility more...
All Rise
Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2006; US$ 22.95In his groundbreaking book Somebodies and Nobodies, Robert Fuller identified a form of domination that everyone has experienced but few dare to protest: rankism, abuse of the power inherent in rank to exploit and humiliate someone of lower rank. It plays a role in just about every form of social oppressionÑracism, sexism, homophobia, and religious... more...
Iron in the Soul
Berghahn Books 2008; US$ 90.00In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Loïzos follows a group of people whom he encountered as prosperous farmers in 1968, yet found as disoriented refugees when revisiting in 1975. By providing a forty year in-depth perspective unusual in the social sciences, this study yields unconventional... more...
Women of the Upper Class
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 28.95Although these women are economically and socially powerful, they are for the most part unliberated more...
Bollywood in Australia
The University of Western Australia Publishing 2010; US$ 14.99Bollywood, Australia, Indian-Australian relations, multiculturalism, Indian Cinema more...
Forgotten Fatherland
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich?s bigoted, imperious sister, founded a ?racially pure? colony in Paraguay together with a band of blonde-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of this ?Nueva Germania? to discover the remains of this bizarre colony. Forgotten Fatherland vividly recounts his arduous... more...
Class, Individualization and Late Modernity
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradition. Arguing against this view, this study vividly uncovers the multiple ways in which class stubbornly persists. more...
Hochkultur als Herrschaftselement
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 126.00Researchers have long debated which role the aristocracy played in society, politics and the economy during the 19th century. Did the aristocracy succeed in staying ?at the top?, or did it lose more and more ground to the emerging bourgeoisie? The collected essays in this volume show that the Italian and German aristocracy definitely succeeded in preserving... more...
The Aristocratic Families in Early Imperial China
Cambridge University Press 1978; US$ 29.00Much scholarly work has been published on the Chinese medieval 'aristocracy', in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages. more...
Arab Youth
Saqi 2012; US$ 24.78In 2011, Arab youth took to the streets in their thousands to demand their freedom. Although it is too early to speculate on the ultimate outcome of the uprisings, one auspicious feature stands out: they reveal the genesis of a new generation sparked by the desire for civil liberties, advocacy for human rights, and participatory democracy. This... more...









