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Offers guidance for choosing species suitable for the grower's situation, where and how to get planting stock, and how to care for it. This book describes the planting process in detail, including both hand and machine methods. It also presents useful techniques for protecting the growing trees from weeds, animals, fire, insects, and disease.

Uncovers the unique challenges faced by victims of domestic violence in South Asian American communities. This work covers topics that include cultural obsession with women's chastity and virginity; the silence surrounding intimate violence among women who identify themselves as lesbian, bisexual, or transgender; and more.

Focuses on the girls' experiences of violence and the inequities of the criminal justice system. Offering a critical assessment of what she describes as a gender-insensitive juvenile justice system, the author takes us inside female detention centers and explores the worlds of those who are incarcerated.

A comprehensive guide to methodological issues within feminist scholarship. Drawing upon the debates concerning the incidence of rape, public support for reproductive rights, and welfare reform, the author demonstrates how seemingly abstract questions about the nature of knowledge have palpable effects on the lives of contemporary women and men.

This volume addresses questions on the subject of women's studies. Offering innovative models for research and teaching and compelling new directions for action, 'Women's Studies for the Future' ensures the continued relevance and influence of this developing field.

Weaving third-person narrative with fist-hand accounts, this text presents the stories of ten MVFR members. Each is a tale of grief, soul searching and of the challenge to choose forgiveness instead of revenge.

This title leads readers off the congested Interstate Highways to seldom explored secondary roads of New Jersey, where the real life of the state can be found, from the dizzying cliffs of the Palisades to the rolling hills of Morris, Hunterdon and Morris counties.

The contributors to this volume attempt to fill the gap in critical consideration of women writers of the Beat Generation and evaluate their lives and literary output, helping the reader appreciate their unique, diverse voices during a dynamic moment of profound cultural change.

This essay collection explores Asian-American cinematic representations historically and socially, on and off screen, as they contribute to the definition of American character. The history of Asian Americans on movie screens in the introduction provides a context for the readings that follow.

Documenting the history of lead-paint poisoning in the US, this text also goes on to examine the evolving responses of public health officals and the lead-paint industry up to 1980, when lead-paint was banned.

A discussion of community-based conservation. Although the contributors advocate community action, they cover its dangers as well as its promises. They explore the political contexts in which communities emerge and operate, focusing on issues related to ethnicity, gender and the state.

Explores how contemporary Southern culture has been enthusiastically engaged - produced and reproduced - in a British context. The author suggests interpretations of the history, racial politics, music and art of both Britain and the American South, as well as the dynamic flow of culture itself.

Part ethnography, part cultural study, this text examines the lives of teenage girls from the world of the Long Island, New York, middle school in order to explore how standards of normalcy define gender, exercise power, and reinforce the cultural practices of whiteness.

Adherents of the Baha'i faith view themselves as united by a universal belief that transcends national boundaries. This volume examines how this global identity is interpreted locally through the study of a Baha'i community in Atlanta, Georgia.

Before 1850, the field of medicine was closed to women. In 1850, a group of radical reformist male Quaker physicians founded the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania to offer formal medical training to women. This book explores the lives and the work of those first medical students.

This text presents 12 cross cultural case studies, written from an anthropological perspective, focussing on the analysis of space and place. They present theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture.

Offers the first comprehensive history of the world's roads, highways, bridges, and the people and vehicles that traverse them, from prehistoric times to the present. Encyclopaedic in its scope, fascinating in its details, Ways of the World is a unique work for reference and browsing.

In 1997, James Cameron's ""Titanic"", became the first motion picture to earn a billion dollars worldwide. These essays ask the question: What made ""Titanic"" such a popular movie? Why has this film become a cultural and film phenomenon? What makes it so fascinating to the film-going public?

A collection of 27 short stories from both known and unknown writers that interpret the Holocaust. In addition to the stories selected, it contains an introduction by the editors, putting the stories in context, plus a glossary of terms, a chronology of events and a suggested reading list.

An exploration of the influences of holistic thinking on the development of electromagnetic theory. The author highlights three alternative scientific systems that he believes shaped electromagnetic theory: medieval Chinese science, Western Renaissance occult, and the German Romantic tradition.

In this narrative history, William M. Dwyer reveals a detailed picture of the American Revolution. He lets the participants - from American, British, and Hessian soldiers to myriad fearful and ambivalent citizens - tell the story in their own words.

A study of Martin Bernal's """"Black Athena"""", which explored the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization and caused controversy among Afrocentrists and Classicists alike. It includes a discussion of Bernal's critique of the research university and a reconstruction of his """"sociology of knowledge"""".

Examining the sport and image of female body building as a metaphor for how women fare in the current political and cultural climate, this text draws on contemporary feminist and cultural theory. It reveals how female bodybuilders find themselves both trapped and empowered by their sport.

Focusing on the area where a heavily industrialized marsh complex meets the Hackensack River ecosystem, the author explores the history and environment of an urban wilderness. Line drawings introduce the animals and plants inhabiting it, providing an overview of an area dismissed as wasteland.

The second of six volumes, this collection of letters, speeches, diaries and articles document the friendship and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers.

Hisaye Yamamoto's often reprinted tale of a naive American daughter and her Japanese mother captures the essence the cultural and generational conflicts so common among immigrants and their American-born children. On the surface, "Seventeen Syllables" is the story of Rosie and her preoccupation with adolescent life. Between the lines, however, lurks the tragedy of her mother, who is trapped in a marriage of desperation. Tome's deep absorption in writing haiku causes a rift with her husband, which escalates to a tragic event that changes Rosie's life forever.

Brings together a group of professionals and activists whose lives have been dedicated to health internationalism. By presenting a combination of historical accounts and first-hand reflections, this collection of essays draws attention to the longstanding international activities of the American health left and the lessons they brought home.

Drawing upon life history interviews with adults who were treated for intersexuality as children, Sharon E. Preves explores how such individuals experience and cope with being labelled sexual deviants in a society that demands sexual conformity.