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Mobility, Migration and the Chinese Scientific Research System
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 138.00China?s rise is having a large impact on the global science system. The internalisation of this system in the past two decades would not have been possible without the outbound and especially the return flows of overseas Chinese scientists. This book explores their impact combining macro-level institutional and statistical analysis with an account... more...
Contemporary Portraits of Japanese Women
ABC-CLIO 1995; US$ 31.95As Japan shifted from an agricultural country before 1950 to an industrialized nation in less time than any other developed country, women felt the pressure of the shift. Husbands worked longer hours, leaving all the household chores and child rearing to their wives while fulfilling their responsibilites as corporate soldiers. The economy was fueled... more...
Autobiography of a People
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 21.95Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique and compelling historical portrait: Benjamin Banneker... more...
Race and Criminal Justice
SAGE Publications 2008; US$ 55.00Provides an up- to- date, accessible and critically stimulating introduction to race and criminal justice for both students and experienced academics and professionals. more...
Women's Movements in Asia
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 46.95Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women?s activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts, it provides a full overview of the history of feminism, as well as the current context of the women?s movement in 12 countries: the Philippines, China, Indonesia, Japan, Burma, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia,... more...
Machos Maricones & Gays
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 33.95A historically based, first-hand report of contemporary homosexuality in Cuban society and culture more...
Jihad for Jerusalem
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 144.00Jihad for Jerusalem explores the agent-structure dynamics in world politics and advances a constructivist theory of choice that explains the role of identity, culture, religion, and other core values in international politics. The struggle for Jerusalem by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel is the empirical space where the dynamics between reason... more...
The Dancing Girls of Lahore
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: Beloved by emperors and nawabs, their sophisticated... more...
Transnational Latina Narratives in the Twenty-first Century
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 80.00Heredia offers a comparative perspective on gender, race, and migration between Latin America and the U.S. in Latina narratives and demonstrates the changing national landscape of the U.S. as a result of the ever-growing Latino/a presence. more...
Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 155.00Although the adoption of market reforms has been a key factor leading to China?s recent economic growth, China continues to be governed by a communist party and has a socialist-influenced legal system. Vietnam, starting later, also with a socialist-influenced legal system, has followed a similar reform path, and other countries too are now looking... more...









