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Adolescence

Author: Ian McMahan

Publishing date: 2008

Adolescence, by Ian McMahan, combines rigorous, scientific coverage of adolescent development research with a scholarly yet enjoyable narrative style that is rarely found in textbooks. The table of contents follows an ecological systems framework to show how individual teens both affect and are affected by their families, peers, schools, and society. Adolescence also employs unique pedagogy to ensure students practice active learning and deep processing, focus on the practical applications of what they are studying, think critically and become educated consumers of the research Two overarching themes are explored throughout this text:1. Adolescent development involves individual, social and cultural

660.00 zł

Amity and Prosperity

Author: Eliza Griswold

Publishing date: 2018

A literary page-turner about the costs of fracking - and one woman’s quest to protect her family.

119.00 zł

Antisemitism Worldwide

Author: D Porat
Stephen Roth Institute

Publishing date: 2002

The annual publication Antisemitism Worldwide is compiled by the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. Unique in scope, structure, and variety of sources, this volume is an analysis of antisemitism in 2000 and early 2001. It includes scholarly articles and book reviews as well as country-by-country surveys. In 2000, the number of major violent acts of antisemitism more than doubled from 1999, and other acts of violence increased by over 50 percent. Antisemitism Worldwide is based on information systematically collected by the institute throughout the world in many languages, then summarized and computerized in its database in English. The source materials come from individuals and institutes, all forms of

188.00 zł

Capturing Memories

Author: Vivienne Woolf
etc.

Publishing date: 2002

58.00 zł

Erotic Triangles

Author: Henry Spiller

Publishing date: 2010

In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drumbeat to make a man get up and dance. The author draws on decades of ethnographic research to explore the reasons behind this phenomenon, arguing that Sundanese men use dance to explore and enact contradictions in their gender identities.

348.60 zł

Are We Thinking Straight?

Author: Daniel Cortese

Publishing date: 2006

This book highlights the strategic deployment of a straight identity by an LGBT organization. Cortese explores the ways in which activists strategically use a "straight" identity as a social movement tool in order to successfully achieve the movement objectives.

217.35 zł

Bad Jews

Author: Gerald Shapiro

Publishing date: 2004

Features a nuanced and comic vision of life, love, and spiritual adventurism among the determinedly secular class of contemporary American Jews. Separated from the character-building hardships, this book features characters who wander through the moral landscape of their lives in a loopy version of the Children of Israel's meandering way home.

72.00 zł

Before the Second Wave

Author: Barbara Finlay

Publishing date: 2006

For sociology of gender or classical sociological theory courses or for sociology of gender courses offered in Women's Studies departments. This edited volume examines the way classical sociological theorists thought - and wrote - about issues of gender and human society. Intended for use in gender or classical theory courses in sociology or Women's Studies departments, the book presents the writings of important sociological figures - both men and women - to lay the foundation for studying contemporary women theorists.

173.00 zł

Beyond Conquest

Author: Amy Den Ouden
Ouden Den

Publishing date: 2005

By focusing on the complex cultural and political facets of Native resistance to encroachment on reservation lands during the eighteenth century in southern New England, Beyond Conquest reconceptualises indigenous histories and debates over Native land rights.

72.00 zł

Common Whores Vertuous Women & Loveing Wives

Author: Debra Meyers

Publishing date: 2003

By examining wills and other personal documents, as well as early Maryland's material culture, this transatlantic study depicts women's place in society and the ways religious values and social arrangements shaped their lives. It takes a revisionist approach to the study of women and religion in colonial Maryland.

240.00 zł

Cool Men & Second Sex

Author: Susan Fraiman

Publishing date: 2003

Academic superstars Andrew Ross, Edward Said, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr Bad boy filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, and Brian de Palma. What do these influential contemporary figures have in common? This work identifies them all with "cool masculinity" and boldly unpacks the gender politics of their work.

89.00 zł

Courting Communities

Author: Kathy Glass

Publishing date: 2006

Courting Communities focuses on the writing and oratory of nineteenth-century African-American women whose racial uplift projects troubled the boundaries of race, nation and gender. In particular, it reexamines the politics of gender in nationalist movements and black women's creative response within and against both state and insurgent black nationalist discourses.

198.00 zł

Cultural Diversity & Empowerment of Minorities

Author: M Hai

Publishing date: 2007

Addresses questions of how to deal with internal issues of social inequality and cultural diversity and, at the same time, how to build a shared civility among their different national, ethnic, religious and social groups.

222.60 zł

Dark Designs & Visual Culture

Author: Michele Wallace

Publishing date: 2004

A collection of writings from the '90s by the popular Black feminist scholar and journalist on film, art, and politics.

77.70 zł

Digital Desires Language Identity & New Technologies

Author: Cutting Edge
Cutting Edge Women's Research Group
Edge Women's Research Group Cutting

Publishing date: 2000

This anthology explores the ways in which new technologies and scientific discourses are having a radical impact on issues of gender. The contributors cover topics such as cyberfeminism and artificial life, the body's role in today's technoculture, and the gender politics of e-commerce.

89.00 zł

Divided Self the Jewish Psyche Today

Author: David Goldberg

Publishing date: 2006

Grappling with the dilemmas of contemporary Jewishness, this book sketches the faultlines in the Jewish sense of identity. It offers a different reading of Jewish history, arguing that the narrative of relentless woe and suffering popularised by nineteenth-century writers, such as George Eliot was based on a highly selective reading of the past.

90.30 zł

European Perspectives on Men & Masculinities

Author: Jeff Hearn
Keith Pringle

Publishing date: 2006

This book compares the state of knowledge on men and masculinities in 14 countries across Europe, examining the effects of social change, Europeanization, globalization and new post-socialist configurations of Europe for men. Special attention is given to home and work, social exclusion, violence, and health.

235.20 zł

From Hate Crimes to Human Rights

Author: Attn:Matthew Shepard
Kelly Ward
Kelly Ward
Mary Swigonski
Matthew Shepard
Robin Mama

Publishing date: 2001

This volume takes an unsparing look at the interconnections of prejudice and hate crimes in the lives of LGBT individuals, in such diverse areas as international law, the child welfare system, minority cultures, and LGBT relationships. From Hate Crimes to Human Rights also offers fresh strategies so you can work effectively for social change.

125.00 zł

Futurizing Jews Alternative Futures for Meaningful Jewish Ex

Author: Moshe Dror
Tsvi Bisk
Tsvi Bisk

Publishing date: 2003

Bisk and Dror present an examination of where the Jewish People are at the beginning of the 21st century and what the future may hold for them. The authors provide a comprehensive critique and a vision of the future that is both challenging and positive.

236.00 zł

Ethnic Pride American Patriotism

Author: June Granatir Alexander

Publishing date: 2004

In "Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism", June Alexander presents a history of inter-war America from the perspective of new Slovak and Eastern European immigrant communities. Like the groups that preceded them, Slovak immigrants came to define being American as adhering to its political principles; they saw no contradiction between being patriotic Americans and maintaining pride in their ancestry. To counter the negative effects of the 1924 immigration law, Slovaks mobilized a variety of political and cultural activities to insure group survival and promote ethnic pride. In numerous localities 'Slovak days' brought first and second generation immigrants together to celebrate their dual identity. June Granatir Alexander's study adds complexity and nuance to entrenched

100.00 zł

Gender and the Judiciary in Africa

Publishing date: 2018

Renowed country experts on African politics address the important issue of the increasing number and role of women judges and justices, as judiciaries evolve across the continent that spans a range of colonial experiences, postcolonial trajectories and legal systems.

187.01 zł

Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes

Author: Manfred Steger

Publishing date: 2011

This book illuminates the spread of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions that ground their analysis in cities of the Global North and South. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

19.01 zł

Grassroots NGOs by Women for Women

Author: Bhagyashree Ranade
Femida Handy
Meenaz Kassam
Suzanne Feeney

Publishing date: 2006

Adopting an inter-disciplinary approach, this book provides an in-depth understanding of why Indian NGOs run by women for women, tend to be successful. Based on first-hand observations spanning five years and interviews with 20 founders of NGOs, this book explores the factors that motivate and facilitate women entrepreneurship in the development sector. It examines the organizational structures that have evolved based on feminist ideology and the services provided (e.g. self-help groups and micro-finance). The authors also discuss the social impact of these NGOs in promoting both development and women's empowerment. They show how small NGOs are particularly effective in garnering support from the grass-roots and in tapping the knowledge base of local

79.00 zł

Greying of India Population Ageing in the Context of Asia

Author: Rajagopal Chakraborti
Rajagopal Dhar Chakraborti

Publishing date: 2004

This book argues cogently that India's policymakers need to urgently take up the cause of the elderly in order to create an environment that insures them against various risks and allows them to maintain as much economic independence and self-sufficiency as possible without disturbing the intergenerational balance. The first of its kind to be based on data from the National Sample Survey Organisation and providing a global perspective, this book constitutes the most comprehensive analysis of the causes and consequences of ageing in India. The major objectives of the book are to: - Document the rapid growth of older populations in India. - Address the key issues and topics related to ageing. - Assess the implications of demographic changes for programmes

226.00 zł

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