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  • Muslim Families in Global Senegal

    Money Takes Care of Shame

    "A first-rate ethnography of Muslim women in Dakar . . . [an] extremely fine-grained analysis of women's exchange networks." —Robert Launay, Northwestern UniversitySenegalese Murid migrants have circulated cargo and currency through official and unofficial networks in Africa and the world. Muslim Families in Global Senegal focuses on trade and the transmission of enduring social value though cloth ... Leer más

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  • The Future Is in Your Hands

    Portrait Photography from Senegal

    Series series Material Vernaculars
    In Senegal, portraiture serves as a vital index and creator of social connection. People sit for and display portraits, keep albums, and view illustrated magazines together. Through these portraiture practices, Senegalese have fashioned idealized images to mend fraught and fragmented lives in the context of decades of migration.The Future Is in Your Hands provides an expansive frame for ... Leer más

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    Lowell Green presents a powerful persuasive well-documented and incredibly well researched argument for a substantial reduction in Canada's yearly intake of immigrants and refugees and an immediate halt to multiculturalism. Lowell minces no words in demonstrating how immigration has changed from the early 1990s - when about four European immigrants arrived here for every non-European - until today ... Leer más

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  • Photography Fifth Edition

    A Cultural History

    The fifth edition of this indispensable history of photography spans the history of the medium, from its early development to current practice, and providing a focused understanding of the cultural contexts in which photographers have lived and worked throughout, this remains an all-encompassing survey.Mary Warner Marien discusses photography from around the world and through the lenses of art, ... Leer más

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  • India Divided

    Diversity and Democracy Under Attack

    de Vandana Shiva ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war of fundamentalisms in the age of terror. From the IT ... Leer más

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  • Black Futures

    “A literary experience unlike any I’ve had in recent memory . . . a blueprint for this moment and the next, for where Black folks have been and where they might be going.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work—images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, ... Leer más

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  • Public Power in the Age of Empire

    de Arundhati Roy ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in the world today. Bringing the same care to her prose that she brought to her Booker Prize-winning ... Leer más

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  • India, Pakistan, and Democracy

    Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths

    The question of why some countries have democratic regimes and others do not is a significant issue in comparative politics. This book looks at India and Pakistan, two countries with clearly contrasting political regime histories, and presents an argument on why India is a democracy and Pakistan is not. Focusing on the specificities and the nuances of each state system, the author examines in ... Leer más

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  • Manual of Section

    Along with plan and elevation, section is one of the essential representational techniques of architectural design; among architects and educators, debates about a project's section are common and often intense. Until now, however, there has been no framework to describe or evaluate it. Manual of Section fills this void.Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis have developed seven categories ... Leer más

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  • Bangladesh

    Politics, Economy and Civil Society

    de David Lewis ...
    Since its hard-won independence from Pakistan, Bangladesh has been ravaged by economic and environmental disasters. Only recently has the country begun to emerge as a fragile, but functioning, parliamentary democracy. The story of Bangladesh, told through the pages of this concise and readable book, is a truly remarkable one. By delving into its past, and through an analysis of the economic, ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Microfinance and Its Discontents

    Women in Debt in Bangladesh

    de Lamia Karim ...
    A feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process in BangladeshIn 2006 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for its innovative microfinancing operations. This path-breaking study of gender, grassroots globalization, and neoliberalism in Bangladesh looks critically at the Grameen Bank and three of the leading NGOs in the country. Amid euphoria over the benefits of ... Leer más

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  • Africa

    "Much has changed in Africa and in African studies . . . but one constant has been the enduring excellence of the anthology Africa." — International Journal of African Historical StudiesSince the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. This fourth edition has been completely revised and focuses on the ... Leer más

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