Finalist for the 2022 Pen/Faulkner Award for fiction, Finalist for the Publishing Triangel's Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, Winner of the 2022 Gina Berriault Award.
An examination of family, sacrifice, and empathy. • • • View More...
Despite their comparative isolation from one another over many miles of ocean, the inhabitants of the many small atolls and islands of the western Pacific rarely constitute wholly independent economic, social, and political societies. The existence, methods, and reasons for this long distance interaction are disclosed in this study of the people of Lamotrek atoll in the western Caroline islands of Micronesia. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Includes "Orgasm, Generation and the Politics of Reproductive Biology" by Thomas Laquer, "Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in Nineteenth Century Anatomy" by Londa Schiebinger, "The Body Versus the Social Body in the Works of Thomas Malthus and Henry Mayhew" by Catherine Gallagher, "Cage au folles: Sensation and Gender in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White" by D. A. Miller. Also articles by Mary Poovey, on Victorian Women, Laura Engelstein on Russian doctors and syphillis, Alain Corbin on sexuality in 19th century France and Christine Buci-Gluck... View More...
Unmarked text. Articles include "Ten Perspectives on Global Crisis," "Beyond the UN Charter," Global Civics through Global Solidarity," and more. Index. 146p.
Argues that we cannot achieve the international cooperation that is needed for a globalizing and interdependent century without embracing and implementing global civics. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Includes "Re-Marx: Prehistory" by Andrew Parker, "At Home with Incest" by Harriet Fraad, " Juha Koivisto and Veikko Pietila on W. F. Haug and Projekt Ideologie-Theorie, Roby Rajan on aesthetics in the regime of value, Henry A. Giroux on Paulo Freire, Shai Ophir on artificial societies. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Features Diversity and Policing: Big data reveal threats to minorities policed by white and male officers. Also funds for Africa's Great Green Wall, microplastics and health, imaging Earth's crust with whale calls, and more.
Unmarked text. Dust jacket has a bumped corner soft corner crease. Notes. Index. 291p. Standard of Care explores the fundamental value conflicts confronting medicine and society through the late 20th Century by examining courtroom resolutions of real bioethical disputes, often of constitutional dimension.
This case-based approach, which ranges from abortion to euthanasia, from AIDS to organ transplantation, from genetic research to the artificial heart and rationing, illuminates the value choices with which the power (and impotence) of medicine confronts us. • • • View More...
A few light pencil marks. Issue focus: Transnationalism. Forum: Welfare reform with Andrew Leong, Karen K. Narasaki, Jayne Park, Yeh Ling Ling. Interviews with Benjamin Cayetano, Connie Chung and Bong Hwan Kim. Also includes feature articles, student notes and book reviews. 225p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Issue focus: APAs and the NonProfit Sector. Interview with Elaine Chao. Forum participants: Sumi Cho, Paul Watanabe. Other contributors: Paula Sirola, Paul Ong, Vincent Fu, Jiannbin Lee Shiao, Mary Chung, Steve Paprocki and Albert Chung. 94p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Presented like a corporate annual report, this book surveys how citizen taxes are spent. 77p. Measures 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Illustrated. Text in English. Measures 5.25x7.75 inches. 285p.
This 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was originally published in serial form. It takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought profound changes to French society; the struggle by individuals to secure a higher social status is a major theme in the book. • • • View More...
Unmarked offprint from Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 54, Number 3, April 2006. pp656-676.
This article argues that the key barriers to interdisciplinary work between economists and anthropologists are differences of methodology and epistemology. This article is an effort to stimulate discussions that lead economists and anthropologists to reexamine the assumptions and modes of analysis that prevail within the disciplines and to open up new conversations in new directions. • • • View More...
Topics include the racial identification of Afro-Cuban immigrants in the Southwest, the assimilation of Mexican American youth, bias in the courts, and more. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. 26 significant essays. No illustrations. Authors include John Grierson, Paul Rotha, Sir Stephen Tallents, Leni Riefenstahl, Philip Dunne, and others. Bibliography. 382p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Chipping on dust jacket. Notes. Index. 136p. Documents the development of a specific project to locate a computer center in North Philadelphia regarded and how this was a first step toward the revitalization of that economically deprived inner-city area. • • • View More...
Contributors include Kathellen Reich, Patti L. Culross, Lois A. Fingerut, Katherine Kaufer Christoffel, James Forman, Marjorie S. Hardy and others. Topics range from analysis and costs to urban case studies and advocacy on both sides. • • • View More...
Topics include Australian Aboriginal art, burial customs, intertribal relations, laws and ceremonies, marriage customs, material culture, myths, religion and magic, social structure, tools and weapons, and totemism. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Cover loose. Essays from a conference that examined what should be included in introductory courses in community development. Includes "Community Development Education" by Edward J. Blakely, "The Urban Community Development Program" by Clifford Ham, "A Generic Approach to Professional Education in Community Development" by Marc R. Levy, "Curriculum Essay on an Introductory Course from Community Development Professionals" by Boyd Faulkner, "Proposal for a Program in Community Development" by Isao Fujimoto and a summary by Blakely. Appendices. 48p. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Bumped corner. This account of some of the more important stories of the witchcraft hysteria of 1692 includes those of John Proctor, George Burroughs, Susannah Martin, Dorcas Good, Mary Eastey, Martha Carrier and others. 46p. Price on title page. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Offers a visionary goal: to develop an enforceable international agreement that will create a social order based on human rights and law. Topics include how the movement began, what it is, etc. Photographs. 224p. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Third printing. Bumped edge. This pamphlet contains the text of a speech given in January 1964 under the title of What a Minority Can Do. A speech presented at a Midwest educational conference of the Young Socialist Alliance in Chicago. Four black-and-white photograph. Advertisements. 30p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Report includes black-and-white illustrations and a map. Bibliography. 32p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches.
Report discusses the circumstances and consequences of massive displacements of population, including the armed conflict and prolonged and escalating violence in Angola and failed agricultural policies and poor weather conditions. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Some edge wear. Contributions include "Choosing a Rural Policy for the 1980's and '90's" by Kenneth L. Deavers, "The Significance of Community Development to Rural Economic Development Initiatives" by Vernon D. Ryan, "Public Infrastructure and Economic Development" by William F. Fox and others. 395p. • •• View More...
Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket with a slight bend. Brings the Women's Liberation movement and its passionate history vividly to life. Section of photographs. Index. 360p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. • • • View More...
