9,119円 News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing their underlying assumptions.

2,122円 Understand the Weather is a comprehensive and practical guide to the workings of the atmosphere. It will ensure that you not only understand what causes changes in the weather on a local, national and global scale but that you can also fully interpret weather broadcasts and are able to make your ...

9,285円 Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image is the first collection to bring together leading film-makers, academics and activists to discuss films by, for and about lesbians and queer women. The contributors debate the practice of lesbian and queer film-making, from the queer cinema of Mo...

7,129円 In the 1990s the World Bank changed its policy to take the position that the problems of poverty and governance are inextricably linked, and improving the governance of its borrower countries became increasingly accepted as a legitimate and important part of the World Bank’s development activitie...

10,280円 This book examines transborder Latin American sociocultural and spatial conditions across the globe and at different scales, from gendered and racialized individuals to national and transnational organizations. Gathering scholars from the "spatial sciences"ーarchitecture, urban design, urban plan...

845円 Ein Plädoyer für eine Gesellschaft, die geprägt ist von Toleranz, persönlichem Engagement des Einzelnen und Mitmenschlichkeit! Liebe öffnet Herzen" - ist für Liz Mohn Lebenserkenntnis und Mahnung zugleich. An der Schwelle einer "Zeitenwende", die von Internationalisierung und Globalisierung geprä...

4,244円 Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States, a massively successful corporate enterprise pre...

12,933円 This book examines how membership of the European Union has affected life in the ten former communist countries of Eastern Europe that are now members of the European Union. For each country, political, economic and social changes are described and discussed, together with people’s perceptions of...

10,943円 This is Volume VI of ten in the Oriental series on India: Religion and Philosophy. First published in 1881 this book focuses on Hindu Philosophy- The Sankhya Karika of Iswara Krishna, an exposition of the system of Kapila, with an appendix that also includes the Nyaya and Vaiseshika systems.

10,446円 The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of adoption agencies in Japan. The book places special adoption in the context of a liberal reformist agenda that has challenged traditional concepts o...

9,948円 Feminism and ‘The Schooling Scandal’ brings together feminist contributions from two generations of educational researchers, evaluating and celebrating the field of gender and education. The focus throughout is on the years of compulsory schooling, examining key concepts in gender and education i...

9,616円 Cruelty and Companionship is an account of the intimate but darker sides of marriage in Victorian and Edwardian England. Hammerton draws upon previously unpublished material from the records of the divorce court and magistrates' courts to challenge many popular views about changing family pattern...