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Love in the Driest Seasonby Neely Tucker
Crown Publishing Group 2004; US$ 9.99Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to the orphanage from a village outside the city. She’d been left to die in a field on the day she was born, abandoned in the tall brown grass that covers the highlands of Zimbabwe in the dry season. After a near-death hospital stay, and under strict doctor’s orders, the ailing child was entrusted to the care of Tucker and Vita. Within weeks Chipo, the girl-child whose name means gift, would... more...
Stereotyping as Inductive Hypothesis Testingby Klaus Fiedler; Eva Walther
Psychology Press 2003; US$ 69.95Stereotyping as Inductive Hypothesis Testing explicates the proposition that many stereotypes originate not so much in individual brains, but in the stimulus environment that interacts with and constitutes the social individual. more...
Toleration as Recognitionby Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 46.00Anna Elisabetta Galeotti examines the most intractable problems which toleration encounters and proposes toleration as recognition, which addresses the problem of according equal respect to groups as well as equal liberty to individuals. more...
Jackson's Track Revisitedby Carolyn Landon
Monash University ePress 2006; US$ 11.30In Jackson's Track Revisited Carolyn Landon returns to the story told by Daryl Tonkin in Jackson's Track (Penguin, Australia, 1999) ? the tale of his life in the great Gippsland forest living among Aboriginal timber workers. Just as his family hoped, Tonkin's memoir has created the space for more stories. In Jackson's Track Revisited, the voices of Aboriginal people who lived at the Track mingle with those of the White Australians who tried to 'improve' their lives in the 1950s, the era of assimilation. An exploration of the historical factors surrounding Tonkin's story leads to discussion of the Victorian Aborigines Welfare Board, the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League and the policy of assimilation that was so prevalent in mid-twentieth... more...
Multiple Social Categorizationby Richard Crisp; Miles Hewstone
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 104.00Multiple Social Categorization: Processes, Models and Applications will be of interest to those studying or researching in social psychology, in particular in the fields of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. more...
Hapa Girlby May-lee Chai
Temple University Press 2007; US$ 20.95A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by a mixed-race family in rural South Dakota more...
Community, Family, Citizenship and the Health of LGBTIQ Peopleby Jane Edwards; Damien W Riggs
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2008; US$ 110.00Whilst lesbian women, gay men, and bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people are typically excluded from normative forms of social order, we continue to create our own forms of inclusive communities. These intersections often result in complex health issues for LGBTIQ communities. The papers in this Special Issue of comment on aspects of non-heterosexual?s negotiation of key elements of normative social orders as they play out in relation to families, community and citizenship. more...
Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discriminationby Todd D. Nelson
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 95.00Provides an overview of the research on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. This volume features a section on cognitive, affective, and neurological processes. It also explores the issues involved in reducing prejudice. It is suitable for students, instructors, and researchers in social and personality psychology. more...
Benign Bigotryby Kristin J. Anderson
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 24.00Focuses on commonly held cultural myths as the basis for examining subtle forms of racial, sexual, gender and religious bias. more...
Chastenedby Hephzibah Anderson
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 12.99Seeking love in an age obsessed with sex, a journalist chronicles her year without On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Hephzibah Anderson glimpsed her college boyfriend going into a jewelry store with a smiling blonde-and in that moment realized it had been years since a man told her he loved her. This discovery led her to question a decade of emotionally frustrating relationships with commitment phobes. As she examined her past, she recognized that most of these relationships went off course at the precise moment sex was involved. Anderson decided it was time to spend a full year without sex to rediscover its meaning and purpose in her life. In this confessional account, Anderson shares the results of that year, narrating each month... more...









