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Paperback. Examines the organizational aspects of vegetarianism and tries to explain why the predominant movement strategies have not successfully attracted more people to adopt a vegetarian identity. This book also takes into account the history of North American vegetarianism and the various reasons why people adopt vegetarian diets. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFFZ; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566399364
- ISBN
- 9781566399364
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.61
€ 31.99
€ 30.61
Paperback. What is the effect of a "nation"? In this age of globalization, is it dead, dying, only dormant? The title collects essays that looks at a range of aesthetic productions - especially literature and the visual arts - that give context to how art and society interact. Num Pages: 248 pages, 19 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; AB; ACB; HPS; JFFS; JPA; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566398664
- ISBN
- 9781566398664
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.86
€ 31.99
€ 30.86
paperback. Presents an account of how Chinese are being smuggled into the United States, and what happens to the people who risk their lives to reach Gold Mountain. This book shows how the problem of human smuggling will continue for as long as China's citizens are deprived of fundamental human rights and economic security. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 221 pages, 24 tables, 1 map, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; GTB; JFFN; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566397339
- ISBN
- 9781566397339
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Paperback. Moving from examinations of narratives about disability and illness, the stigmatizing things that healthcare providers unwittingly say to their patients, and communication problems in the intensive care unit, to more personal reflections on anger, isolation, and stories of tragedy, tis work also discusses disability in the workplace. Num Pages: 191 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFG; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 407. Weight in Grams: 245.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 191
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566396769
- ISBN
- 9781566396769
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Condition: New
€ 34.17
€ 34.17
Paperback. Presents a means for debating the issues connecting the AIDS pandemic to government policy and crime in the Americas. This work tackles the cultural landscape upon which AIDS, accompanied by poverty, drug addiction, and crime, proliferates on a global scale. It layers stories of individuals and events to illustrate the paths of HIV infection. Num Pages: 245 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KLS; JFFH2; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566396288
- ISBN
- 9781566396288
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. Continued economic restructuring has brought service work to center stage in labor and management studies, as well as in the sociology of work, gender, race, and inequality. This work features essays that explore questions of power and control, resistance and empowerment, and innovation and organizing in the lives of front-line service workers. Editor(s): Macdonald, Cameron Lynne; Sirianni, Carmen. Series: Labor & Social Change. Num Pages: 376 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSJ; JHBL; KCF; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566394802
- ISBN
- 9781566394802
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Condition: New
€ 43.06
€ 43.06
Paperback. Features interviews, critical essays, and commentary that explores South Asian identity and culture. By examining the social, economic, and historical particularities of people who live 'between the lines' on and between borders, this book reinstates questions of power and privilege, agency and resistance. Editor(s): Vasudeva, Mary. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 301 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566394680
- ISBN
- 9781566394680
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.70
€ 44.99
€ 39.70
Paperback. While equal opportunity for all candidates is widely recognized as a goal within academia, the implementation of specific procedures to achieve equality has resulted in vehement disputes regarding both the means and ends. This title aims to encourage a reexamination of this issue. Num Pages: 246 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reissue
- SKU
- V9781566393997
- ISBN
- 9781566393997
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.16
€ 46.99
€ 46.16
paperback. Tracing social and historical problems related to racial identity, this title discusses why race is a matter of such importance in America and examines the treatment of mixed race in law, society, and literature. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFF; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566392655
- ISBN
- 9781566392655
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.75
€ 40.99
€ 40.75
paperback. To study the settlement process of undocumented migrants, this work examines one of Houston's Maya communities, the approximately 900 Maya from a township in the Department of Totonicapan, Guatemala. It traces this Maya community from its genesis in 1978 to the complex effects of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 tables, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCG; JFFN; JFSL9; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566392570
- ISBN
- 9781566392570
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.94
€ 34.99
€ 31.94
Paperback. Through the voices of equity planners who have worked 'in the trenches' of city halls, the authors explore the inner dimensions of social change, economic development, community organizing, and the dynamics of implementing and producing fair housing. Series: Conflicts in Urban & Regional Development. Num Pages: 272 pages, 9 tables, 5 figures, 4 photographs. BIC Classification: AMVD; JFF; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566392105
- ISBN
- 9781566392105
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.64
€ 40.99
€ 40.64
Hardcover. Editor(s): Estrada Aranda, Benito; Sleeboom-van Raaij, Ines. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 186 x 262 x 22. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563686542
- ISBN
- 9781563686542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.25€ 56.32
€ 66.25
€ 56.32
Hardback. Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the linguistically and geographically diverse regions of the world. As in the rest of the world, deaf people live throughout sub-Saharan communities. This is a research on sub-Saharan signed languages and deaf community, organizing has created the opportunity to gather together and the perspectives presented herein. Editor(s): Cooper, Audrey C.; Rashid, Khadijat K. Num Pages: 232 pages, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1HF; CFZ; JFFG; JFSL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 70 x 100 x 15. Weight in Grams: 739.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563686344
- ISBN
- 9781563686344
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Condition: New
€ 70.98€ 60.12
€ 70.98
€ 60.12
Hardback. Reveals how deaf people in Adamorobe did not live in a social paradise but that they created their own "Deaf Space" by seeking each other out to form a society of their own. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 photographs, 11 figures, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; JFFG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563686320
- ISBN
- 9781563686320
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Condition: New
€ 70.98€ 60.32
€ 70.98
€ 60.32
Paperback. Research has identified resilience as a key element to success in school. The author searches out ways to develop, reinforce, and alter the factors that encourage resilience in African American deaf and hard of hearing students. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 figure, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFG; JFSL3; JNSC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563685941
- ISBN
- 9781563685941
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.66
€ 40.99
€ 31.66
Paperback. Includes the cultural perceptions by and of deaf people, the assimilation of deaf children to surrounding communities, the role that society's view of deaf people plays in affecting how deaf people view themselves, the impact of bilingualism in deaf communities, and transliteration. Editor(s): Metzger, Melanie. Series: Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; JFFG; VFJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563685897
- ISBN
- 9781563685897
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Condition: New
€ 56.19€ 48.25
€ 56.19
€ 48.25
Paperback. Circles the globe - from Asia and Russia to Europe and the United Kingdom, from Africa to South America to the United States - profiling the immense diversity of the world's Deaf communities. Editor(s): Monaghan, Leila; Schmaling, Constanze; Nakamura, Karen; Turner, Graham H. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781563685781
- ISBN
- 9781563685781
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Condition: New
€ 68.61€ 58.39
€ 68.61
€ 58.39
Paperback. Uses the archetypal concept of the carnival as a framework to interpret the evolution of ASL literature. This title shows how Deaf artists and ASL performers have used and continue to use their art as a means to traverse the barriers between disenfranchisement and privilege. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563685774
- ISBN
- 9781563685774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.19€ 48.40
€ 56.19
€ 48.40
Paperback. Based on scholarship presented at a 2003 conference held at Gallaudet University, this title includes thirteen essays that explores the complex sociological interplay between genetics and deafness, as viewed by a distinguished panel of scholars and scientists from the platforms of their respective disciplines. Editor(s): Cleve, John Vickrey Van. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 halftones, 5 figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: JFFG; MBDC; MFN; MJPD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563685767
- ISBN
- 9781563685767
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Condition: New
€ 42.00€ 36.89
€ 42.00
€ 36.89
paperback. Addresses the effects of a range of modern scientific and social developments - such as cochlear implants, genetic engineering, and educational mainstreaming - on deaf culture. This book splits into three sections, the first focusing on culture and identity, the second on language and literacy, and the third on American Sign Language in the arts. Editor(s): Lindgren, Kristin A.; Deluca, Doreen; Napoli, Donna Jo. Num Pages: 268 pages, 19 halftones, 12 figures. BIC Classification: CFZ; JFFG; MJPD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9781563685750
- ISBN
- 9781563685750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.71€ 63.63
€ 75.71
€ 63.63