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Anand Pandian, anthropologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University, discusses his new book Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of Am ...
Why is American punishment so cruel? While in continental Europe great efforts are made to guarantee that prisoners are treated humanely, in America sentences have gotten longer and rehabilitation...
For fans of Artemis—the visionary tour de force from “one of the grand masters of science fiction” (The Wall Street Journal).Widely acknowledged as one of Robert A. Heinlein's greatest works, The...
The true story of Guatemala’s political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell itGuatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA...
This book provides an introduction to rigorous general equilibrium analysis for non-specialist students, filling the gap that has always existed between classic high-level texts and the limited...
Product description Devahuti's volume on Harsha of Sthanv-isvara and Kanauj studies the impact on each other of the ruler and his times and examines the times as a part of a continuous political...
Join a young girl and her dog in this Step 2 reader as they joyfully prepare to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights! Perfect for readers ages 4-6.Raina is excited to celebrate Diwali, a...
Hinduism is currently followed by one-fifth of humankind. Far from a monolithic theistic tradition, the religion comprises thousands of gods, a complex caste system, and hundreds of languages and...
Paris. 19 cm. Non paginé [144] p. Bibliogr., 2 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Francés. Texte imprimé. 2e éd. Impr. en Italie. ill. , couv. Photo poche. 33. Man...
In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial...
Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human...
An eye-witness account of the Intifada, by a journalist who lived in the West Bank for a full year, learning the ways of the Palestinians and experiencing the harsh realities of Israeli occupation
Women in 19th-century French art were represented as victims of a harsh urban working-class life. This book offers the argument that this representation obscured the model woman of ideas, a prominent...
A searing and poetic look at ourselves, our society, and our mythology. Sled begins and ends in the Canadian North, a world of unforgiving isolation and mystical change. The other landscape is a...
Capturing the harsh realities of postwar Soviet life, a new novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers follows the fortunes of two families, those of close friends Iakov Zinger and Peter...
First published in 1902, this classic story about a displaced Southern family's struggle to survive and prosper in early Harlem was one of the first novels to depict the harsh realities of ghetto...
Of the many issues polarizing societies today, immigration is one of the most contentious. In the United States, as in Europe, immigration was a defining issue in recent national elections...
Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, White Fang – half-dog, half-wolf – is the only animal in the litter to survive. He soon learns the harsh laws of nature, yet buried deep inside him are...
"Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." —Martin Amis, New Statesman When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block,...