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Republican Beijing - Madeleine Yue DongOld Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed ever...... |
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Remaking The Modern: Space, Relocation, And The Politics Of Identity In A Global Cairo - Farha GhannamIn an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to mode...... |
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Stories In The Time Of Cholera - Charles L. BriggsCholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in th...... |
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Water And American Government - Donald J. PisaniDonald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States--to reclaim and cultivate vast areas of previ...... |
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Annihilating DifferenceGenocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate e...... |
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Livable Cities?The sprawling cities of the developing world are vibrant hubs of economic growth, but they are also increasingly ecologically unsustainable and, for ordinary...... |
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"¡mi Raza Primero!" (my People First!): Nationalism, Identity, And Insurgency In The Chicano Movement In Los Angeles, 1966-1978 - Ernesto ChávezˇMi Raza Primero! is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale-in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of p...... |
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Empire At The MarginsFocusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and r...... |
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California's Frontier Naturalists - Richard G. BeidlemanThis book chronicles the fascinating story of the enthusiastic, stalwart, and talented naturalists who were drawn to California's spectacular natural bounty ...... |
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Buddha Is Hiding - Aihwa OngFleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia...... |
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The Life Of The Law - Laura NaderLaura Nader, an instrumental figure in the development of the field of legal anthropology, investigates an issue of vital importance for our time: the role o...... |
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Total Confinement - Lorna A. RhodesIn this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the "supermaximu...... |
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The Invention And Decline Of Israeliness - Baruch KimmerlingThis thought-provoking book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the fifty-year-old nation of Israel in terms of its origins as a haven...... |
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Lines In The Water - Ben OrloveThis beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us t...... |
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In Other Los Angeleses - Meiling ChengPerformance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng. A margi...... |
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The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, And The Colonized Mind In Madagascar - Lesley A. SharpYouth and identity politics figure prominently in this provocative study of personal and collective memory in Madagascar. A deeply nuanced ethnography of his...... |
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Brass Diva: The Life And Legends Of Ethel Merman - Caryl FlinnBroadway star Ethel Merman's voice was a mesmerizing force and her vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of La Merm as the irrepressible wonder ...... |
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The Bridge Over The Racial Divide - William Julius WilsonIn a work that will significantly influence the political discussion with respect to race and class politics, one of the country's most influential sociologi...... |
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Between Memory And Desire: The Middle East In A Troubled Age - R. Stephen HumphreysMiddle Easterners today are caught between memories of the past and frustrated hopes for the future. They struggle to find solutions to crises of economic st...... |
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Anthrax:the Investigation Of A Deadly Outbreak - Jeanne GuilleminIn April of 1979 the city of Sverdlovsk in Russia's Ural Mountains was struck by a frightening anthrax epidemic. Official Soviet documents reported sixty-fou...... |
