Frank N. Pieke 
Good Communist [EPUB ebook] 
Elite Training and State Building in Today’s China

As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women »s lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women »s changing roles on their children and f …

Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of the patterns of employment and education of women in this field. …

In this book academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines provide a survey of research into buildings, epidemiology and medical issues, followed by an assessment of the tools availabl …

In 1990, Paula Caplan, a nationally recognized expert on the psychology of women, wrote the groundbreaking Don »tBlame Mother. Now, almost ten years later, she finds that we are still blaming mothers …

Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world »s cities. This focused treatment of ur …

Social Inequality – examining our present while understanding our past. Social Inequality and Social Statification in US Society, 1st edition uses a historical and conceptual framework to explain soc …

Academic discussions of ethnic food have tended to focus on the attitudes of consumers, rather than the creators and producers. In this ground-breaking new book, Krishnendu Ray reverses this trend by …

Syracuse, New York, in the late 1980s led U.S. cities in African American infant deaths. Even today, in this ‘all American city, ‘ infants of color die more than two times as often as white babies. I …

This handbook on women »s human rights is an integrated set of fourteen teaching and learning units. Together, they are designed to identify key issues in women »s human rights, define concepts, outl …

Come take a closer look at ordinary footwear, like sneakers, or children »s toys and Saturday cartoon TV shows, or make a comparison between Don Quixote and John Rambo of the Sylvester Stallone movie …