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Mies van der Rohe

Mies van der Rohe

The career and built works of this enigmatic and fascinating architect are carefully charted from his early work on housing design and high-rise offices in Berlin to his later and most famous work in Chicago Detroit Montreal and New York. Original illustrations from the architect's archives complement the excellent text. Spon's ARCHITECTURE COLLECTION presents the work of historic and contemporary masters of architecture in clear well-illustrated text accessible to non-specialists. This appealing series of monographs now available in English is launched by books on two great historic figures of the century Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe and two award-winning contemporary architects Sir Norman Foster and Alvaro Siza.

GBP 130.00
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The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 Lloyd George Lenin and Poland

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 Lloyd George Lenin and Poland

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920 when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a military attack on the continent. The outcome of this attack might have been the occupation of all of Poland and East Central Europe and a Red Army sweep further west. This book probes the British–Soviet negotiations and diplomatic operations behind the scenes. Professor Nowak uses hitherto unexamined documents from Russian and British archives to show how (and why) top British politicians were ready to accept a new Russian imperial control over the whole of Eastern Europe. Nowak unravels this previously untold story of that first and forgotten appeasement stopped only by the Polish military victory over the Red Army. His excellent historical craftsmanship and new sources contribute to the book’s quality filling up a lacuna in contemporary historiography. This book will appeal to researchers of geopolitical affairs and the Great Powers the history of Poland and the political mentality of Western elites. It will also be of interest to university students and tutors scholars of history and international relations and – thanks to the book’s brisk and fascinating narrative – amateur historians and history aficionados. | The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 Lloyd George Lenin and Poland

GBP 120.00
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Crimes and Mathdemeanors

Crimes and Mathdemeanors

A collection of short detective stories for young adults who are interested in applying high school level mathematics and physics to solving mysteries. The main character is Ravi a 14-year-old math genius who helps the local police solve cases. Each chapter is a detective story with a mathematical puzzle at its core that Ravi is able to solve. The author invites the reader to solve the case on his or her own and then explains the mathematics used to find the solution to the puzzle. Illustrated by Karl H. Hofmann | Crimes and Mathdemeanors

GBP 175.00
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

John Maynard Keynes then a rising young economist participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He resigned after desperately trying and failing to reduce the huge demands for reparations being made on Germany. The Economic Consequences of the Peace is Keynes' brilliant and prophetic analysis of the effects that the peace treaty would have both on Germany and even more fatefully the world. A popular lecturer of economics at Cambridge University and editor of the Economic Journal Keynes made The Economic Consequences of the Peace a major step in his career. It was translated into a dozen languages and sold 100 000 copies in six months. Taken seriously even by those who were opposed to his claims the book helped lift economics to a new higher level of recognition and acceptance. This volume with its insightful portraits of Lloyd George Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson remains one of the great works of political economy of our time. In a penetrating introduction written for this new edition David Felix explores Keynes' reasons for writing the book analyzes the author's arguments and paints an historical backdrop of the period during which it was written.

GBP 130.00
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Mysteries in Muscle Contraction Evidence against Current Dogmas

Mysteries in Muscle Contraction Evidence against Current Dogmas

This book explores the author’s wide-ranging work on muscle research which spans more than 50 years. It delves into the dogmas of muscle contraction: how the models were constructed and what was overlooked during the process including their resulting shortcomings. The text stimulates general readers’ and researchers’ interest highlights the author’s pioneering work on the electron microscopic recording of myosin head power and recovery strokes and presents a frank discussion on how the original work sometimes tends to be overlooked by competing scientists who hinder the progress of science. | Mysteries in Muscle Contraction Evidence against Current Dogmas

GBP 139.00
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Organization Made Easy Tools For Today's Teachers

Organization Made Easy Tools For Today's Teachers

Meet the ever-growing organizational demands of today's changing world with the variety of tools digital and otherwise available to you as a teacher. In this book organization guru Frank Buck shows you how to take expert advantage of the specific electronic and paper-based resources that will help you manage your time and stay on course as a teacher of the 21st century. Buck offers practical easy-to-read strategies for organizing your surroundings increasing productivity and reducing stress. Teachers will leave this book with a feeling of greater control of the day plus a renewed sense of pride in their profession. IN THIS BOOK. • Organizing Digitally • Organizing with Paper • E-mail and other e-timesavers • Handling multiple projects • Handling the paper blizzard | Organization Made Easy Tools For Today's Teachers

GBP 105.00
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Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles Of War and Peace

Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles Of War and Peace

Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles looks at some key issues involving British policy and the Treaty of Versailles one of the twentieth century’s most controversial international agreements. The book discusses the role of experts and the Danzig Question at the Paris Peace Conference; the establishment of diplomatic history as a field of academic research; and the role of David Lloyd George and his Vision of Post-War Europe. Contributors also look at the restitution of cultural objects in German possession and after the war the Treaty’s impact on both Britain’s enemy Germany and its ally France revealing how it profoundly affected the European balance of power. Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles will be of great interest to scholars of diplomatic history as well as modern history and international relations more generally. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Diplomacy & Statecraft. | Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles Of War and Peace

GBP 130.00
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The Progress of a Biographer

The Progress of a Biographer

First published in 1949 The Progress of a Biographer follows a general principle that there are absolute truths which an individual can in some degree apprehend and live by but which churches and institutions can only obscure and pervert. This principle is followed for the sketches in this book most of which were written between the end of World War II and the spring of 1948. The subjects range from P. G. Wodehouse to Karl Marx from W. B. Yeats to Thackeray and from Rainer Maria Rilke to Lloyd George. Believing that to understand a man’s work one must form a coherent impression of the man the author has tried to suggest the leading characteristics and governing impulses of his subjects. His intention has been to clarify rather than to criticise though doubtless the affect may sometimes be one of criticism falling short of clarification. The book will be of interest to students across disciplines but will particularly appeal to students of English literature.

GBP 99.99
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The World of the Russian Peasant Post-Emancipation Culture and Society

The World of the Russian Peasant Post-Emancipation Culture and Society

First published in 1990 The World of the Russian Peasant is designed to provide a wide-ranging survey of new developments in Russian peasant studies. Editors Eklof and Frank paint a broad picture of what life was like for the vast majority of Russia’s population before 1917. Individual authors treat the intricacies of the village community and peasant commune social structure the everyday life and labour of peasant women the impact of migration the spread of education and peasant art religion justice and politics. The result is a portrait of a people greatly influenced by rapid and radical changes in the world yet seeking to maintain control over their lives and their communities. This is a must read for students of Russian history Russian peasantry and rural sociology. | The World of the Russian Peasant Post-Emancipation Culture and Society

GBP 90.00
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Mathematical Mind-Benders

Mathematical Mind-Benders

Peter Winkler is at it again. Following the enthusiastic reaction to Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection Peter has compiled a new collection of elegant mathematical puzzles to challenge and entertain the reader. The original puzzle connoisseur shares these puzzles old and new so that you can add them to your own anthology. This book is for lovers of mathematics lovers of puzzles lovers of a challenge. Most of all it is for those who think that the world of mathematics is orderly logical and intuitive-and are ready to learn otherwise! A pdf with errata is updated by the author and can be accessed here | Mathematical Mind-Benders

GBP 175.00
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The Impact of Immigration on African Americans

The Impact of Immigration on African Americans

Immigration has significant consequences for all Americans but especially for African Americans. áThe sheer magnitude of immigration-it is the primary factor driving population growth-is so large that it directly or indirectly affects the economic political social and environmental circumstances of most Americans. áBut the geographic concentration of immigrants in urban areas and the economic concentration of immigrants in the low-wage sector of the labor market have special consequences for African Americans since they are especially likely to live in urban areas and to be low-wage workers. These effects can be both negative and positive. Immigration has sharply increased the supply of labor into the low-wage sector of the labor market which tends to reduce wages and employment opportunities for low-wage native workers. Employers may prefer hiring immigrants who are perceived to be hard working and uncomplaining to hiring African Americans. Immigrants can also increase the competition for scarce public services (especially education) on which African Americans depend. Yet immigration can also stimulate economic growth and urban revitalization which can increase job opportunities and spread an ideology of multiculturalism. Immigration can dilute the political power of African Americans but it can also strengthen the civil rights coalition. Immigration can benefit some groups while hurting others. This volume presents research and analysis that reflects and advances the debates about the economic and political consequences of immigration for African Americans. The contributors include Gerald Jaynes (Yale University) Vernon Briggs (Cornell University) Frank Bean and Jennifer Lee (University of California Irvine) Robert Cherry (Brooklyn College) Manuel Pastor (University of California Santa Cruz) and Enrique Marcelli (University of Massachusetts Boston) Steven Camarota (Center for Immigration Studies) Frank Morris (University of Texas Dallas) Steven Shulman (Colorado State University) and Hannes Johannsson (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) and Lisa Catanzarite (University of California Los Angeles). | The Impact of Immigration on African Americans

GBP 130.00
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Student Protest The Sixties and After

Student Protest The Sixties and After

This topical new study takes a new look at the causes course and consequences of student activism across the world since its heyday in the 1960s. It starts with analyses of some of the most familiar - and romanticised - Sixties protests themselves in the US France Germany Mexico and Great Britain. It then goes on to examine more recent and hazardous examples of student activism particularly in China Korea and Iran. Throughout the tone is hard-headed and analytical rather than celebratory exploring the similarities and differences across these protests and asking what they achieved. The contributors to the volume are: Ingo Cornils; Gerard J. DeGroot; Sylvia Ellis; Sandra Hollin Flowers; Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi; Bertram M. Gordon; J. Angus Johnston; Alan R. Kluver; Donald J. Mabry; Gunter Minnerup; A. D. Moses; Frank Pieke; Julie Reuben; Barbara Tischler; Nella Van Dyke; Clare White; James L. Wood; Eric Zolov. | Student Protest The Sixties and After

GBP 130.00
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Total Operations Solutions

Total Operations Solutions

Total Operations Solutions builds on concepts that were introduced in Total Manufacturing Solutions Basu and Wright (1997). It demonstrates how this holistic approach of operational excellence driven by a self-assessment methodology can be applied equally to manufacturing service or public sectors. The text covers an implementation programme to demonstrate how to put the methodology into practice. a differentiating feature ofthe approach will be a critical uopdate impact analysis and comparison with new developments such as e-Business outsourcing Six Sigma EFQM and ISO 9000:2000. It is a step-by-step guide for the application of the appropriate tools to the improvement process. Total Operations Solutions could be used as an essential handbook for all employees in a Six Sigma programme and provide a better understanding of basic tools and techniques to help them to support a quality improvement initiative and sustain a srong competitive position.

GBP 170.00
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Addictions From an Attachment Perspective Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?

Addictions From an Attachment Perspective Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?

This outstanding book is an important collection of papers from the 2013 John Bowlby Memorial Conference by accomplished clinicians from different modalities who share their experience of working with people with different kinds of addiction. The papers bring together an in-depth understanding that addictions are a response to and hold the pain of broken attachments and are best treated within healthy interpersonal relationships. For a long time the person with an addiction has been seen as the problem with society being able to live in denial of the causes. These papers open up innovative and effective ways of working with people troubled by addiction from an attachment-informed perspective. Contributors: Cara Crossan Richard Gill Lynn Greenwood Bob Johnson Liz Karter Edward Khantzian Arlene Vetere Kate White Jason Wright | Addictions From an Attachment Perspective Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?

GBP 130.00
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Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

In a series of provocative conversations with Skeptic magazine Ssenior editor Frank Miele renowned University of California-Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen details the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence tracing an intellectual odyssey that leads from the programs of the Great Society to the Bell Curve Wars and beyond. Miele cross-examines Jensen's views on general intelligence (the g factor) racial differences in IQ cultural bias in IQ tests and whether differences in IQ are due primarily to heredity or to remediable factors such as poverty and discrimination. With characteristic frankness Jensen also presents his view of the proper role of scientific facts in establishing public policy such as Affirmative Action. 'Jensenism' the assertion that heredity plays an undeniably greater role than environmental factors in racial (and other) IQ differences has entered the dictionary and also made Jensen a bitterly controversial figure. Nevertheless Intelligence Race and Genetics carefully underscores the dedicated lifetime of scrupulously scientific research that supports Jensen's conclusions. | Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

GBP 130.00
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Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality

Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality

Betsy Mix Cowles (a champion of equality whose circle of acquaintances included Frederick Douglass Abby Kelley and William Lloyd Garrison) is a brilliant example of what an educated and independent woman can accomplish. A staunch defender of abolitionism Cowles also took up the cause of women's rights and dedicated her life to the advocacy of women's access to education equal rights and independence in the pre-Civil War era. The life of this devoted social reformer illuminates the struggles and historical developments relating to abolitionism and the fledgling women's movement during one of the most contentious periods in American history. About the Lives of American Women series: Selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a woman's life that is emblematic of her time or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a 'good read' featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader. | Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality

GBP 130.00
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Cognitive Narrative Thematics A Book About What Books Are About

Cognitive Narrative Thematics A Book About What Books Are About

Cognitive Narratives Thematics proposes a new way in which narrative works organise their thematic material. It rehabilitates the study of what books are about by providing a cognitive narrative thematic model (CNT). Part I presents CNT by combining different approaches to narrative such as evolutionary theory semiotics possible worlds theory or rhetorical criticism. Part II applies CNT to a variety of well-known narratives in different modalities such as Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are Frank Miller’s 300 or Mike Mignola’s Hellboy. It also considers literary histories and digital humanities. Daniel Candel shows that CNT deserves greater attention and that thematics generates its own forms and adds to the aesthetic pleasure of the text. Candel illustrates that CNT improves the established interpretations of the narrative works it studies. This innovative study reveals how CNT offers readers a deeper understanding and how readers and critics are often using CNT intuitively without being aware of it. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of narrative theory. | Cognitive Narrative Thematics A Book About What Books Are About

GBP 130.00
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Misteaks. . . and how to find them before the teacher does. . . A Calculus Supplement 3rd Edition

Misteaks. . . and how to find them before the teacher does. . . A Calculus Supplement 3rd Edition

An unusual supplement to every calculus textbook Misteaks and How to Find Them before the Teacher Does is popular with students and teachers alike. Teachers love the way it encourages students to truly think about mathematics rather than simply plugging numbers into equations to crank out answers and students love the author's straightforward tongue-in-cheek style. The title of this light-hearted and amusing book might well have been Going Gray in Elementary Calculus and How to Avoid it. Changing the metaphor Barry has hit the nail on the finger in hundreds of fine examples. Philip J. Davis coauthor of The Mathematical Experience. How I wish that something like this had been available when I was a student! -Ralph P. Boas former editor of The American Mathematical Monthly. Bonus: Solution to LeWitt Puzzle | Misteaks. and how to find them before the teacher does. A Calculus Supplement 3rd Edition

GBP 170.00
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Critics and Crusaders Political Economy and the American Quest for Freedom

Critics and Crusaders Political Economy and the American Quest for Freedom

The quest for freedom has always been a defining characteristic of the American people. That neither constitutionalism nor capitalism has secured complete freedom for every person is demonstrated by media announcements of slavery oppression exploitation and a variety of shortcomings in the economic system. That said and as this volume seeks to demonstrate through a history of radical commentaries there have always been bold spirits who fight for such ambitious heights. With changing times freedom meant different things to those who worked for it. This book in its broadest sense is a history of libertarianism. Each of the libertarians in this full study extending from William Lloyd Garrison to Eugene V. Debs fought for the ideal of political economy as a practical ideal. In so doing these major figures at the margins of power expanded the entire field of human rights. Charles A. Madison concludes that radicalism became an ideology in the search for freedom. The zeal and activity of these figures did much to attain the political freedom and economic well- being that Americans are inclined to take for granted. These individual chapters are set in frames supplied by background sketches of the movements each group led and the whole is an attempt to depict and re-evaluate America's social progress without the rigor or formality of impersonalized history. | Critics and Crusaders Political Economy and the American Quest for Freedom

GBP 130.00
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Beyond New Atheism and Theism A Sociology of Science Secularism and Religiosity

Beyond New Atheism and Theism A Sociology of Science Secularism and Religiosity

This book addresses the flaws and fallacies in the grounds for atheism and theism – flaws and fallacies that contaminate the arguments of non-believers and believers alike. Focusing on the highly visible debates between the New Atheists – such as Christopher Hitchens Daniel Dennett Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris on the one hand – and their main theist opponents – including Frank Turek John Lennox and William Lane Craig on the other – it approaches these debates from the perspective of the sociology of religion and science. With entire worldviews at stake it explores various failings in the logic language and knowledge of the protagonists revealing mistaken and oversimplified understandings of both science itself and the sociocultural and symbolic roles of religion on both sides. Advancing a secular and humanist worldview unburdened by the problems that beset both atheism and theism the author argues for a sociological perspective on religion God and science as a practice together with a critical realist approach to the nature of the real world as we experience it. Beyond New Atheism and Theism will therefore appeal to scholars and students of sociology and cultural studies with interests in the conflicting worldviews of science and religion. | Beyond New Atheism and Theism A Sociology of Science Secularism and Religiosity

GBP 130.00
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Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy Through American Eyes

Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy Through American Eyes

This book captures the essence of the period when Russians and Americans collaborated in creating new structures of government and new businesses in completely uncharted conditions. It presents the experiences of key American participants in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia during a time when Americans thought anything was possible in Russia. Using an analytic framework of foreground ideas (Western liberal and neo-liberal) and background forces (Russian cultural influences nationalism and lingering Soviet ideology) it examines the ideas and intentions of the people involved. First-person interviews with consultants businesspeople and citizen diplomats help capture the essence of this turbulent reform period through the eyes of those who experienced it and present the importance of this experience as a piece of the puzzle in understanding contemporary Russia. It will be an invaluable resource for students of international relations Russian Studies majors researchers and members of the general public who are trying to understand the evolution of the current antagonism between the United States and Russia. | Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy Through American Eyes

GBP 130.00
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Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality

Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality

This volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics. The chapters examine the virtuous and vicious ways in which we relate to those close to us. There has long been a puzzle in ethics concerning the balance between our general moral obligations to everyone and our specific moral obligations to a smaller subset of people: our family our nation and our friends. There has been longstanding tension between the moral intuition that equality entails that we have the same moral duties to everyone and the moral intuition that special obligations entail that we have much greater duties to those close to us. The chapters in this volume discuss varying perspectives on partiality within a wide range of relationships. Section 1 offers overarching visions of partiality. Section 2 examines how roles and relationships might shape partiality. Section 3 focuses on the potential moral dangers and pitfalls of partiality. Finally Section 4 looks at specific applications of partiality expressed as our loyalty to country religion sports teams and employers. Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics social and political philosophy and philosophy of religion.

GBP 130.00
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Pocket Handbook of Nonhuman Primate Clinical Medicine

Pocket Handbook of Nonhuman Primate Clinical Medicine

Sources of clinical treatment information on nonhuman primates are generally scattered across journals textbooks conferences personal conversations and more. However when a clinician on the treatment floor is faced with a patient requiring an immediate treatment decision time spent on making an informed decision becomes a critical factor. An alternative to conducting a literature search in time-sensitive situations the Pocket Handbook of Nonhuman Primate Clinical Medicine supplies guidance and initial direction on diagnosis and treatment including working doses based on past case experience. It is the frank to-the-point nature of the writing that makes readers feel as if they had just asked a colleague how to approach a clinical problem and obtained a quick what you need to know answer. The chapter authors draw on personal experience to describe commonly encountered clinical conditions and how to treat these cases including not only the dos but also the don ts. This format gives readers easy access to clinical signs diagnostic criteria and options for treatment. The Pocket Handbook of Nonhuman Primate Clinical Medicine is a convenient concise case-based handbook written by and for clinicians in charge of the diagnosis and treatment of nonhuman primate patients. Available in both print and electronic formats this handbook saves readers from having to wade through pages of data and case studies to find answers when time is a factor on the clinic floor.

GBP 175.00
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The World of Indigenous North America

The World of Indigenous North America

The World of Indigenous North America is a comprehensive look at issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this fertile area of inquiry this book takes on the fields of law archaeology literature socio-linguistics geography sciences and gender studies among others in order to make sense of the Indigenous experience. Covering both Canada's First Nations and the Native American tribes of the United States and alluding to the work being done in indigenous studies through the rest of the world the volume reflects the critical mass of scholarship that has developed in Indigenous Studies over the past decade and highlights the best new work that is emerging in the field. The World of Indigenous North America is a book for every scholar in the field to own and refer to often. Contributors: Chris Andersen Joanne Barker Duane Champagne Matt Cohen Charlotte Cote Maria Cotera Vincente M. Diaz Elena Maria Garcia Hanay Geiogamah Carole Goldberg Brendan Hokowhitu Sharon Holland LeAnne Howe Shari Huhndorf Jennie Joe Ted Jojola Daniel Justice K. Tsianina Lomawaima Jose Antonio Lucero Tiya Miles Felipe Molina Victor Montejo Aileen Moreton-Robinson Val Napoleon Melissa Nelson Jean M. O'Brien Amy E. Den Ouden Gus Palmer Michelle Raheja David Shorter Noenoe K. Silva Shannon Speed Christopher B. Teuton Sean Teuton Joe Watkins James Wilson Brian Wright-McLeod

GBP 160.00
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