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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.
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- 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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€ 43.06
€ 43.06
Paperback. Examines the creation of an essentialist view of nationhood based on a peasant culture and a "unifying" Hispanic heritage, and the ways in which grassroots organizations challenge and reconfigure definitions of national identity through their own activities and representations. Series: Puerto Rican Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJP; JFC; JHM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566395496
- ISBN
- 9781566395496
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€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. Traces the origins of women in police work, explaining how pioneer policewomen's struggles to gain secure footholds in big city police departments ironically helped to make modern policework one of the most male dominated occupations in the United States. This book shows how female officers handled the complex gender politics of their work. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 227 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ1; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566395601
- ISBN
- 9781566395601
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€ 33.99€ 30.86
€ 33.99
€ 30.86
Paperback. Introduces selected topics in federal Indian law. This title covers issues of identity and tribal recognition; reparations for historic harms; the valuation of land in land claims; the return to tribal owners of human remains, sacred items, and cultural property; and, tribal governance and issues of gender and religious freedom. Num Pages: 353 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 22. Weight in Grams: 644.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 353
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566395823
- ISBN
- 9781566395823
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€ 47.49
€ 47.49
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.
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- 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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€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. Tells us about the complex social and political issues depicted by Asian-American playwrights. In this title, the author argues that playwrights produce a different conception of "Asian-America" in accordance with their unique set of sensibilities. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 241 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; AN; DD; DSG; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566396370
- ISBN
- 9781566396370
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€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. Since the Stonewall rebellion in 1969, gay and lesbian movements have grown from small outposts in a few major cities to a worldwide mobilization. This book brings together stories of the emergence and growth of movements in more than a dozen nations on five continents. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JFSK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 580.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566396455
- ISBN
- 9781566396455
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€ 40.99€ 40.64
€ 40.99
€ 40.64
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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€ 34.17
€ 34.17
Paperback. Investigates intact marriages to examine the impact of fresh expectations in a culture of divorce. This title examines the shifting meanings of divorce and gender for two generations of middle-class, married couples. It states that the social and economic conditions support and undermine the efforts of spouses to redefine the meaning of marriage. Series: Women in the Political Economy. Num Pages: 289 pages, 2 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 417.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566397254
- ISBN
- 9781566397254
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
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. Examines the way in which education and the media act as immobilizing social forces to shape the Latino world that exists despite the best efforts of many Mexican Americans and other Latinos. This book focuses on social issues that impede the progress of Latinos. Num Pages: 257 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFD; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 458. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566397438
- ISBN
- 9781566397438
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Condition: New
€ 34.17
€ 34.17
Paperback. Explores the sister bond in a wide range of modernist feature films that depart from the conventional cinematic rendering of women's lives. This book emphasizes the role of a woman's relationship and inner world in her continual quest for self-knowledge and draws upon the works of filmmakers from the 1970s to the 1990s. Series: Culture & the Moving Image. Num Pages: 221 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; JFCA; JFSJ1; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566397476
- ISBN
- 9781566397476
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€ 37.99€ 36.39
€ 37.99
€ 36.39
Paperback. Conceived within a clandestine relationship between a black man and a married white woman, Spain was born in Mississippi during the mid-1950s. This title portrays the dehumanizing conditions in the prisons, the pervasive abuses in the criminal justice system, and the case for overturning Spain's conspiracy conviction. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BG; JFSL3; JKV; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566397506
- ISBN
- 9781566397506
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.26
€ 38.99
€ 35.26
Paperback. Takes readers into the interconnected worlds of Turkish maids and the women who employ them, tracing the incorporation of rural migrant women into the interiors of the domestic spheres of the urban middle-classes. This book forges an understanding of the complex interaction between gender and class subordination. Series: Women in the Political Economy. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 tables, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JFSJ1; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566398084
- ISBN
- 9781566398084
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.92
€ 35.99
€ 32.92
Paperback. Helps you Examine the power of traditional Southern attitudes toward race and religion, and consider the "don't ask, don't tell" attitude about homosexuality in some communities. This title shows how gay culture is thriving in the form of women's festivals, gay bars, and unusual networks like that of Asian and Pacific Islanders in Atlanta. Editor(s): Dews, C.L.; Law, Carolyn Leste. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566398145
- ISBN
- 9781566398145
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€ 35.99€ 33.05
€ 35.99
€ 33.05
paperback. Explores the social changes that account for the growth of intermarriage as well as the lingering prejudices that oppress racially mixed families. This book traces race prejudice to the various institutions that were structured to maintain white privilege, but the core analysis is about what happens when people of different races decide to marry. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566398268
- ISBN
- 9781566398268
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.94
€ 34.99
€ 31.94
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
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Paperback. Offers a collection of essays, which consider the history as well as the historiography of the queer identities and struggles that developed in the United States in the midst of widespread upheaval and change. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 figure, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJK; HBLW; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 19. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566398725
- ISBN
- 9781566398725
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.07
€ 35.99
€ 33.07
Paperback. Asian Americans are widely believed to be passive and compliant participants in the US political process if they participate at all. This book maps the actions and strategies of Asian Americans as they negotiate a space in the American political arena. It shows how race, ethnicity, and trans nationalism led to a complex American electorate. Num Pages: 296 pages, 21 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566398954
- ISBN
- 9781566398954
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.04
€ 34.99
€ 32.04
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