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Natalie Masuoka's Multiracial Identity and Racial Politics in the United States traces the historical forces that created a new cultural norm to racially self-identify as "multiracial" and offers evidence on the possible political implications of this racial identity.

Antonine Maillet, prodigieuse « Acadienne, femme et écrivaine », tisse habilement les fils du mythe, de la patrie et de lendemains nouveaux dans cette inspirante allocution prononcée à l'occasion de la cérémonie de remise de la Médaille Symons.

From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular music, considering not just singers and musicians but their fans as well, showing how the music was intrinsically bound up with modern life ...

Investigating the phenomena of technology, science, technique, and mass communication, Piyush Mathur contends that the enterprise of science communication may be misleading vis-a-vis technology--if in part because it frequently coextends with a flawed, but dominant, notion of science that presumptuously implicates technology anyway. Grappling with what authentically constitutes science and the prospective effects of its realization on a global...

Wunderkammer takes you on a visual voyage of discovery via exotic rarities, beautiful botanical prints, carved ostrich eggs, wild art and stuffed animals. It's a unique collection of exotica on paper, eight centuries of passionate collecting and curiosity about distant civilizations contained in an art book with more than a touch of 'Marco Polo meets Indiana Jones'.

Peptides and Proteins as Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration and Repair highlights the various important considerations that go into biomaterial development, both in terms of fundamentals and applications. After covering a general introduction to protein and cell interactions with biomaterials, the book discusses proteins in biomaterials that mimic the extracellular matrix (ECM). The properties, fabrication and application of peptide biomater...

Social movements formed in response to austerity measures have played an increasingly important role in referendums. The book uses unique case studies to illustrate the ways the social movements have affected the referendums' dynamic and results. It also addresses the way in which participation from below has had a transformative impact.

Mark A. Zupan examines why, how, where, and when government insiders subvert the public interest, undermining democracies as well as autocracies.

This ultimate field guide explores the astounding diversity in the heart of the Amazon, the planet's largest rain forest, and includes a removable diorama and materials for building eight magnificent animals. Full color. 9 13/16 x 11 5/16. Consumable.

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Take a tour of the evil history of metal music with this massive, jam-packed, era-by-era chronology.

The first major study to focus on British and Chinese cultural relations in the Romantic period.

Bennett W. Helm presents a new approach to understanding persons as responsible, rational agents, by developing an account of communities of respect and our place within them. Through the interplay of reactive attitudes, community members are held responsible to norms which shape their identities, as essentially social creatures.

This book discusses possibilities for, and obstacles to, economic development in lower income countries in Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. It examines how lower income countries might 'catch up' and advantages and disadvantages of the lateness of poor countries in the development process.

This practical manual presents an innovative modular treatment for adults and adolescents with a wide range of sleep and circadian rhythm problems, such as insomnia, daytime sleepiness, poor sleep quality, and irregular sleep-wake schedules. The treatment applies broadly to all individuals with sleep problems, including those with psychiatric disorders. It is grounded in a cutting-edge understanding of sleep health and integrates elements of c...

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem faszinierenden Thema der Zeitrafferfotografie (Timelapse). Es vermittelt dem Leser, ohne spezielles Vorwissen, eine fundierte Einführung und behandelt auch fortgeschrittene und weiterführende Fertigkeiten. Zuerst gibt der Autor einen Überblick über die weitgefächerten Felder der Zeitrafferfotografie und stellt Grundlagen, Methoden und Technik dieses spannenden Bereichs vor. Dem Einsteiger und Anfänger mit erst...

The seventh of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Transportation Protection and Homeland Security is a valuable reference source. The book was fashioned in response to the critical needs of transportation production managers, transportation engineers, security professionals (physical and cyber-security), students, and for anyone with a general interest in the security of transpor...

Ralph Wedgwood gives a general account of what it is for states of mind and processes of thought to count as rational. Whether you are thinking rationally depends purely on what is going on in your mind, but rational thinking is a means to the goal of getting things right in your thinking, by believing the truth or making good choices.

Mehrtägige Wanderungen - diese Art des individuellen Urlaubs entwickelt sich immer mehr zum Trend. Trekking bedeutet Entschleunigung, ein Ausbrechen aus dem Alltag und sich körperlichen Herausforderungen zu stellen. Der Band stellt die schönsten Treks der Welt vor - vom isländischen Hochland über die Alpen bis zu den Azoren, vom Kilimanjaro und der Serengeti bis in die Höhen Nepals rund um die Annapurna. Folgen Sie den Spuren der Goldsucher du...