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“Indigeneity” has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, exploring the dependence of indigeneity on varying sociopolitical contexts, actors, and discourses with the ultimate goal of investigating the concept’s scientific and political potential.
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Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.
| Автор | Ross E. Dunn |
James M. Powell here offers a new interpretation of the Fifth Crusade's historical and social impact, and a richly rewarding view of life in the thirteenth century. Powell addresses such questions as the degree of popular interest in the crusades, the religious climate of the period, the social structure of the membership of the crusade, and the effects of the recruitment effort on the outcome.
| Автор | James M. Powell |
After a generation of being a leading progressive voice both in the pulpit and in the print media of Springfield, Missouri, Roger Ray has collected one hundred of his essays on topics of social justice, religion, sex, economics, warfare, and race as a collection for use in college classrooms, in adult discussion groups, and as an enjoyable collection of thought provoking articles that once appeared on the opinion page of the Springfield NewsLeader.
| Автор | Roger Lee Ray |
Glave is a multiple-Lambda Award winner. Glave is an extremely brave author, one of the only Jamaicans outspoken about gay rights in Jamaica, where there have been many violent (and sometimes lethal) attacks on gays and lesbians. Extensive social media campaign. Bound galleys available 6 months prior to publication.
| Автор | Thomas Glave |
This book addresses some of the fundamental issues borne of the several million strong Muslim presence in Europe in our times. Based on a thorough study of Islamic sources, it seeks to answer basic questions about a European Muslim’s social, political, cultural and legal life as a practising Muslim while living together in multi-faith, pluralistic European nation states.
| Автор | Tariq Ramadan |
Autism researcher John Cannell, MD, provides the most comprehensive and compelling explanation to date regarding autism causes, prevention, and treatment.
| Автор | John Cannell |
The vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place of the Indians of Oregon are revealed in this anthology, which gathers together hitherto scattered and often inaccessible legends originally transcribed and translated by scholars such as Archie Phinney, Melville Jacobs, and Franz Boas.
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*Major New York production scheduled for the New York’s Public Theater Spring 2001. *Ms. Parks is currently the artist in residence at Cal School of the Arts in Irvine. *Cover story of the October issue of American Theatre magazine. *Her latest play In the Blood was runner up for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize.
| Автор | Suzan-Lori Parks |
The Economic Contract Law of China: Legitimation and Contract Autonomy in the PRC
| Автор | Pitman B. Potter |
First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.Replaced by ISBN 9780295993539
| Автор | alquizola |
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book AwardThis collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's writings have been published in the Philippines, Scent of Apples is his only book published in the United States.Replaces ISBN 9780295956954
| Автор | Bienvenido N. Santos |
Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s.Replaces ISBN 9780295961675
| Автор | Toshio Mori |
previously published: The America Play and Other Works (TCG, 1995, 1-55936-092-5 sold 2000) • premiered at Yale Repertory and the Public Theatre in New York under the direction of Richard Foreman.
| Автор | Suzan-Lori Parks |
A founding member of the acclaimed New York-based company Mabou Mines, Breuer's gifts as a writer and director have have made him a mainstay of the theatrical avant-garde.
| Автор | Lee Breuer |
Culture Clash performs nationally throughout the year, including numerous university appearances. L.A.-based, they are currently performing for a month in San Francisco after 3 weeks in Dallas.
| Автор | Culture Clash |
Racial tensions are delicately explored when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. Winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize, and Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
| Автор | Alfred Uhry |
Includes The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa, Fabiola, In the Eye of the Hurricane and Broken Eggs.
| Автор | Eduardo Machado |
Previous Publications Marisol Cloud Tectonics Each day Dies with Sleep • Will be showing at the Alliance Theatre Dec 20-Feb 20 Will also show in Berkeley Jan 15-Feb 7th
| Автор | Jose Rivera |
With the success of HBO's presentation of «Angels in America,» Kushner can do no wrong. New fans, having been exposed to the HBO's «Angels in America,» and loyal fans will want to see Kushner's latest work of art.
| Автор | Tony Kushner |
• David Henry Hwang is the leading Asian-American playwright • Broadway opening April 1998 • Has been developed at numerous theatres around the country • His first Broadway production since M. Butterfly • Produced originally at the Public Theatre in NYC>
| Автор | David Henry Hwang |
* Rivera’s plays are produced throughout the U.S., most recently at the Public Theater in NY, South Coast Repertory in Los Angeles, and A Contemporary Theater in Seattle * His last collection, Marisol, was published in 1997 and has sold over 5,000 copies. *Events in Los Angeles
| Автор | Jose Rivera |
•Successful Productions at the Center Theatre Group, LA, and the Public Theatre, NY. •Finalists for 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Drama •Published in American Theatre Magazine
| Автор | David Henry Hwang |