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Life Below Stairsby Alison Maloney
Michael O' Mara Books 2011; US$ 9.99"Downton Abbey" - the most successful British period drama in years and the number - is one most-watched drama programme of 2010. This title reveals a detailed picture of what really went on 'downstairs', describing the true-life trials and tribulations of Edwardian servants. more...
The Slave Shipby Marcus Rediker
Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 13.99In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, The Slave Ship is riveting and sobering in its revelations, reconstructing in chilling detail a world nearly lost to history: the ?floating dungeons? at the forefront of the birth of African American culture. more...
Handbook of Creative Citiesby David Emanuel Andersson; Ake E. Andersson; Charlotta Mellander
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 60.00With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the 'creative city' became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and urban environments. The economist A...ke E. Andersson and the psychologist Dean Simonton are the other members of this 'creative troika'. In the Handbook of Creative Cities, Florida, Andersson and Simonton appear in the same volume for the first time. The expert contributors in this timely Handbook extend their insights with a varied set of theoretical and empirical tools. The diversity of the contributions reflect the multidisciplinary... more...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Secessionby Aleksandar Pavkovic
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 154.95This research companion has three complementary aims. First, to offer an overview of the current theoretical approaches to secession in the social sciences, international relations, legal theory, political theory and applied ethics. Second, to outline the current practice of international recognition of secession and current domestic and international laws which regulate secession. Third, to offer an account of major secessionist movements - past and present - from a comparative perspective. more...
The New Jim Crowby Michelle Alexander; Cornel West
New Press, The 2012; US$ 19.95The New Jim Crow was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book Lani Guinier calls “brave and bold,” and Pulitzer Prize–winner David Levering Lewis calls “stunning,” will at last be available. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once... more...
Realism and Racismby Bob Carter
Routledge 2000; US$ 63.99This book surveys ways in which social scientists have attempted to come to terms with issues of race before developing an alternative approach based on recent work by realist authors. more...
Different Visionby Thomas D. Boston
Routledge 1996; US$ 65.00This work brings together for the first time the ideas, philosophies and interpretations of North America's leading African American economists, demonstrating that racial inequality has had an immense impact on African Americans' daily lives. more...
Coastal Planning and Managementby Robert Kay; Jacqueline Alder
Spon Press 1998; US$ 79.95This book is the first comprehensive tool kit for coastal planners and those aiming to achieve effective coastal management worldwide. more...
Professions and Patriarchyby Anne Witz
Routledge 1992; US$ 55.95This impressive and original study is one of the first books to combine mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power. more...
Farmers and Village Life in Japanby Ann Waswo; Yoshiaki Nishida
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 39.95This book presents a range of work that seeks to move beyond stereotypes to reveal the diversity and complexities of rural life in Japan from 1900 to the present. more...