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By Barbara Robinson. 2004
The Herdman children create mayhem every year, so the town mayor cancels Halloween and trick-or-treating. Instead, the principal plans a…
safe, controlled holiday party at school, underestimating the Herdmans, who make their own plans. For grades 3-6. 2004By Celia Cruz, Ana Cristina Reymundo. 2004
Autobiography by the Afro-Cuban singer, the "Queen of Salsa," who died in 2003. Reminisces about her upbringing and early career…
in Havana and her road to international success. Recalls her voluntary exile after Castro came to power, her long marriage, and associations with other musicians. Foreword by Maya Angelou. 2004By Hugo Hamilton. 2003
Troubled childhood recounted by a native of Ireland, whose Irish-nationalist father refused to allow him and his siblings to speak…
English and whose German mother had fled war-torn Europe. Depicts Hamilton's struggle for acceptance and reflects the links between culture, language, and identity. Some violence and some strong language. 2003By Ved Mehta. 2003
In this continuation of his Continents of Exile memoir series, Mehta, a blind writer, recounts his undertaking to build a…
house on a small Maine island in 1984 and the importance of this home in his marriage and family life. 2003By Chenva Tieu. 2009
"Ce livre n'est pas seulement un ouvrage d'introduction à la mentalité chinoise, c'est un livre de dialogue. S'il confronte les…
différences entre Chine et Occident, il montre aussi que ces points de vue peuvent s'échanger. S'appuyant sur des symboles connus de tous (la muraille de Chine, le yin et le yang, etc.), l'auteur présente les principaux éléments de la mentalité chinoise en les confrontant à la manière occidentale de penser et d'agir. Il s'agit, en un mot, de donner quelques codes pour résoudre l'énigme dans le but de désamorcer les craintes occidentales à l'égard de la Chine. Ainsi, selon L'Art de la guerre, de Sun-tzu, l'impérialisme et l'anéantissement d'autrui n'appartiennent pas à la tradition chinoise ; l'art de la guerre y est au contraire un art de ne pas faire la guerre. Un essai talentueux, accessible et empreint d'humour, qui modifiera à jamais le regard que l'on porte sur la Chine". -- 4e de couvBy Mark McCrum. 2008
"Les bonnes manières échappent encore à la mondialisation : on se salue différemment à Pékin et à New York, certains…
gestes flatteurs chez nous sont injurieux ailleurs, on reçoit les cadeaux ici d'une main, là des deux, les chrysanthèmes ne sont pas des fleurs de cimetière sur tous les continents, les heures de repas relèvent de spécificités nationales, et il est fortement déconseillé d'offrir une pendule à un Chinois... Faut pas, faux pas : un guide ludique du savoir-vivre pour apprendre ce qu'il ne faut ni dire ni faire à l'étranger." -- 4e de couvBy Asne Seierstad. 2008
"En Tchétchénie, vit une femme qui défie les horreurs de la guerre, une femme qui montre que le pire peut…
aussi faire ressortir le meilleur en nous. On l'appelle l'Ange de Grozny... Dix ans après son premier voyage en Tchétchénie en tant que correspondante de guerre, Âsne Seierstad décide d'y retourner. Elle se rend alors compte qu'en dépit du désintérêt de l'opinion publique, la tragédie continue. Une tragédie qui a laissé dans son sillage une société défigurée et un lourd tribut à payer pour ses enfants. À travers le récit des voyages qu'elle a entrepris dans le plus grand secret, de ses multiples rencontres avec les habitants tchétchènes et l'évocation en toile de fond de la violente histoire du Caucase, l'auteur livre une exploration unique et poignante de la vie quotidienne dans une des régions les plus dangereuses du monde." -- 4e de couvBy Herman Melville. 1985
This realistic novel recapitulates the ending of Typee (RC 9738), as a British whaler rescues Melville, an American sailor. He…
and the ship's doctor become fast friends and share many adventures in the South Pacific: mutiny, imprisonment, and a beachcombing existence in TahitiBy Valérie Lion. 2005
Montre ce qui amène de nombreux Français à vivre ou séjourner dans la Belle Province. Oubliés dans les années 60…
par la France, isolés dans une Amérique anglophone, les Québécois ont fait une révolution tranquille qui leur permet d'avoir une identité forte face à la mondialisation et en même temps d'être ouverts au monde.By Karen F. Parker. 2008
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleCrime in most urban areas has been falling since 1991. While the decline has been well-documented,…
few scholars have analyzed which groups have most benefited from the crime decline and which are still on the frontlines of violence--and why that might be. In Unequal Crime Decline, Karen F. Parker presents a structural and theoretical analysis of the various factors that affect the crime decline, looking particularly at the past three decades and the shifts that have taken place, and offers original insight into which trends have declined and why.Taking into account such indicators as employment, labor market opportunities, skill levels, housing, changes in racial composition, family structure, and drug trafficking, Parker provides statistics that illustrate how these factors do or do not affect urban violence, and carefully considers these factors in relation to various crime trends, such as rates involving blacks, whites, but also trends among black males, white females, as well as others. Throughout the book she discusses popular structural theories of crime and their limitations, in the end concentrating on today's issues and important contemporary policy to be considered. Unequal Crime Decline is a comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated look at the relationship among race, urban inequality, and violence in the years leading up to and following America's landmark crime drop.By Natasha Walter. 2011
I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned…
sexism in our culture to wither away. I am ready to admit that I was wrong.'Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, LIVING DOLLS is a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity - today.By Shaul Magid. 2013
How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors…
of contempoary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of American Jews. Shaul Magid articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness. He discusses pragmatism and spirituality, monotheism and post-monotheism, Jesus, Jewish law, sainthood and self-realization, and the meaning of the Holocaust for those who have never known survivors. Magid presents Jewish Renewal as a movement that takes this radical cultural transition seriously in its strivings for a new era in Jewish thought and practice.By Angela Milligan. 2004
The small island state of Singapore is unique in the region. Not only is it a very young country- independence…
came in 1965- but it is a land of immigrants, in which people from three distinct backgrounds, Chinese, Malay, and Indian, live side by side in harmony. Culture Smart! Singapore introduces the Western visitor to the rich and varied cultures and customs of Singapore's communities. It shows what motivates people, how they interact with each other and with outsiders, and tells you what to expect and how to behave in unfamiliar situations. In doing so, it offers you a fuller, more rounded experience of this fascinating society.By Jacqueline Najuma Stewart. 2005
By Luis Alvarez. 2008
Providing a new history of youth culture based on rare, in-depth interviews with former zoot-suiters, Luis Alvarez explores race, region,…
and the politics of culture in urban America during World War II. He argues that Mexican American and African American youths, along with many nisei and white youths, used popular culture to oppose accepted modes of youthful behavior, the dominance of white middle-class norms, and expectations from within their own communities.By Sharman Apt Russell. 1993
By Marc Howard Ross. 1993
By Casper Bruun Jensen, Kjetil Rodje. 2012
Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic, technical and political…
practices. In a Deleuzian approach these relations are seen as produced in heterogeneous assemblages, moving across distinctions such as the human and non-human or the material and ideal. This volume outlines a Deleuzian approach to analyzing science, culture and politics.By Keith Ellis. 1974
Rubén Darío (1867-1916) of Nicaragua was the leader of the important Latin American literary movement known as Modernism. He is…
considered by many to be the greatest poet in Latin American literature, and the volume of writings devoted to his work since 1884 is perhaps greater than that on any other writer in the history of Spanish American literature. The celebration in 1967 of the centenary of his birth gave rise to a formidable number of new analyses, increasing the need for the classification and assessment of the many studies. In this book Professor Ellis examines and evaluates the wide range of methods and perspectives available to the reader of Darío's works. He considers the biographical approach, social and political questions, influences and sources, structural analysis (providing three structural studies of his own), and, in an appendix, Darío's own concept of the role of the literary critic. His book is comprehensive both in time and in range, and includes an up-to-date bibliography. This is the first systematic study of the critical works on a Spanish American writer. It is significant not only in its treatment of the work on an individual author, but also as a reflection on and an indication of the trends, methods, and preoccupations of modern appraisals of Latin American writing.By Bryan Prince. 2015
The story of African Canadians who fled slavery in the United States but returned to enlist in the Union forces…
during the American Civil War. On New Year’s Eve in 1862, blacks from across British North America joined in spirit with their American fellows in silent vigils to await the enactment of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The terms declared that slaves who were held in the districts that were in rebellion would be free and that blacks would now be allowed to enlist in the Union Army and participate in the civil war that had then raged for more than a year and a half. African Canadians who had fled from the United States had not forgotten their past and eagerly sought to do their part in securing rights and liberty for all. Leaving behind their freedom in Canada, many enlisted in the Union cause. Most served as soldiers or sailors while others became recruiters, surgeons, or regimental chaplains. Entire black communities were deeply affected by this war that profoundly and irrevocably changed North American history.