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This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai‘i from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in this context of U.S. empire, settler colonialism, and racialization.
Selfishness is essential to capitalism--or so both advocates and opponents claim. In Infinite Greed , Adrian Johnston argues that this consensus is mistaken. Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis, he reveals how the relentless pursuit of profits is not fundamentally animated by hum
How can teachers introduce Islam to students when daily media headlines can prejudice students' perception of the subject? Should Islam be taught differently in secular universities than in colleges with a clear faith-based mission? What are strategies for discussing Islam and violence without perpe
In God, Mystery, and Mystification , Denys Turner presents eight essays covering the major issues of philosophical and practical theology that he has focused on over the fifty years of his academic career. While a somewhat heterogeneous collection, the chapters are loosely linked by a focus on the m
In the throes of a classic midlife crisis, Lori Soderlind takes a sabbatical from her community college job as a journalism professor. She sets out to travel across America's rusting heart with her fourteen-year-old dog, Colby, and a used camping trailer. Making pit stops in places like Buffalo and
Through the cases of the former steel manufacturing hub of southeast Chicago and a shuttered mining community in Iron County, Wisconsin, Amanda McMillan Lequieu traces the power and shifting meanings of the notion of home for people who live in troubled places.
In Volume 2 of Columbia's comprehensive anthology of modern Japanese literature, thoughtfully selected and carefully translated readings portray the vast changes that have transformed Japanese culture since the end of the Pacific War. Beginning with the Allied Occupation in 1945 and concluding with
In Global Perspectives on Income Taxation Law , Reuven Avi-Yonah, Nicola Sartori, and Omri Marian cover basic, corporate and international tax law from a comparative perspective. The book both supplements readings in US tax law courses and serves as a textbook for a comparative tax law class. The bo
2m 1f / Musical Comedy / Unit set Unfolding in real-time, Oedipus for Kids turns the audience into attendees of the latest performance of the Fuzzy Duck Theatre Company, a three-person troupe dedicated to performing the classics for children. Having had success with previous offerings such as Uncle
This revolutionary book will show you how to turn your struggling pet sitting business into a lucrative, stress-free enterprise. You will learn how to create the foundation to build a six-figure pet sitting business, ensure business success from the beginning, remove the blocks to letting financial
Now widely regarded as the best available guide to the study of the Founding, the first edition of Interpreting the Founding provided summaries and analyses of the leading interpretive frameworks that have guided the study of the Founding since the publication of Charles Beard's An Economic Interpre
In the Greek romances, writes David Konstan, sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the male as of the female in distress; ruses, disguises, and outright violence in defense of one's chastity are as much the part of the female as of the male. Exploring how erotic love is represe
After a year in Paris studying painting at l' Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, H lene Simard returns home to Quebec City in 1939, with a secret. She has a German fianc . She can conceal his identity, but not the baby she carries. Hans Werner, her lover, was drafted in the German army, and his dreams
Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing
Cultures of the West: A History, Fourth Edition, focuses on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally, and how they interacted with the broader world--for good and for ill. The development of such key ideas as religion, science, and philosophy form the c
Explores the remarkable and complex legal history of how the right to bear arms was widely accepted during the US’s founding, was near extinction in the late twentieth century, and is now experiencing a rebirth in the Supreme Court in the twenty-first century.
In The Venture Alchemists, Rob Lalka demystifies how tech entrepreneurs built empires that made trillions.
Falling in love can only mean trouble for an Englisch girl and an Amish boy... unless there's another way for them to listen to their hearts. Englischer Natalie Collins looks forward to Friday night suppers at Levi and Mary Shetler's house every week: delicious food, wonderful conversation with her
This book is a multifaceted approach to understanding the central developments in African American history since 1939. It combines a historical overview of key personalities and movements with essays by leading scholars on specific facets of the African American experience, a chronology of events, a
The feats of the hero Mwindo are here glorified in the bilingual text of an epic which was sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Admirably structured, coherent, and richly poetic,
An account of the life, art, and tragic death of a 20th-century Hungarian Jewish poet.
A treatment of state-level business tax issues. The authors address three broad questions: how should businesses be taxed?; how does present practice compare with and depart from this prescription?; and how can present practice be improved?
Use the quick-start guide to create your course in a flash Post course materials, give quizzes, facilitate discussions, and handle grades You're an educator, not a psychic, so how would you know how to use Blackboard with no instructions? These step-by-step examples show you how to set up a Blackboa
This text examines a variety of psychological intervention strategies used in counselling and therapy to bring about change. It is a handbook of strategies which reviews major forms of interventions, reviews research evidence of effectiveness and challenges existing theoretical boundaries.
This book brings together essays by scholars, practitioners, activists, and writers, including incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, to explore the harms of making punishment the main response to social harm.
It would be difficult, indeed, to imagine anyone more qualified to give us a celebration, from the perspective of an insider, of the Broadway musical.
In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel , Leebaert tells the stories of small forces that have triumphed over vastly larger ones and changed the course of history -- from the Trojan Horse to Al Qaeda. Maps and charts.
Originating in economics but now used in a variety of disciplines, including medicine, epidemiology and the social sciences, this book provides accessible coverage of the theoretical foundations of the Logit model as well as its applications to concrete problems. It is written not only for economist
In this unrelenting effort to humanize the medical profession (Publishers Weekly), Campo turns the doctor-patient relationship inside-out, writing not just of his attempts to heal, but of how his patients have healed him. The healing power of touch, of empathy and the erotic, of love itself, form th
The majority of students who take courses in number theory are mathematics majors who will not become number theorists. Many of them will, however, teach mathematics at the high school or junior college level, and this book is intended for those students learning to teach, in addition to a careful p
