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A history of the circle, showing how investigations of the circle have contributed to our current knowledge of the physical universe. Throughout the book, the author emphasizes the concepts underlying mathematicians' calculations, and how these are linked to real-life examples.

Presents a sociological redefinition and reexamination of religion. For religion to endure in the modern world, Hervieu-Leger finds, it must have deep roots in traditions and times in which it was not defined as irrelevant.

This case study of the conflict over water rights between the local, ritualized models of water distribution used by the people of Cabanaconde in the Andes, and the secular model put forward by the Peruvian state, provides a framework for studying ethnic conflict and the effects of """"development"""".

On the morning of November 20, 1776, General Charles Cornwallis overran patriot positions at Fort Lee, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. This attack threw Washington's army into turmoil and led to an American retreat across the state. This book examines this critical campaign.

The author demonstrates how the history of the hardware of sound recording and the ways people use it helps in understanding how a particular technology became a fixture in everyday life. Each case study emphasizes a significant aspect of the culture of recording and its relationship to technology.

The perspectives William Gillette offers in Jersey Blue, from the recruiting ground, the battlefield, and the home front, cast new light on New Jersey's wartime activities, state identity, and our understanding of the interrelationships between New Jersey's national, regional, and state developments.

Studies a large colonial American family over five generations. Fabend looks at how this ordinary family of independent, middle-class farmers coped with immigration, established themselves in a community, acquired land and capital, and took part in the social, political, economic, and religious changes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

This work examines the salience and meaning of ethnicity for later generation Chinese- and Japanese-Americans, and asks how their concepts of ethnicity differ from that of white ethnic Americans. The author analyzes the importance of ethnic identities and the concept of becoming a """"real"""" American.

Through interviews with 120 pregnant, or recently delivered, drug-using women, this book examines pregnant drug addicts make choices about drug use, pregnancy and pre-natal care. The authors seek to understand the feelings and motivations of the women themselves.

A translation of the original and unedited diary entries of the black Brazilian slum dweller who became an international best-selling author. The entries span the years 1958 to 1966 and there is also an explanation of how the Brazilian elites tried to obscure her true personality.

As an event of shattering consequence, the Partition of India remains significant. While Partition sounds smooth on paper, the reality was horrific. While there are many official accounts of Partition, there are few social histories and no feminist histories. Borders and Boundaries changes that, providing first-hand accounts and memoirs, juxtaposed alongside official government accounts.

The technological, economic and social landscape of the consumer society was formed between the 1880s and 1920s. The author of this study shows how cinema played a key role in changing the urban landscape, using Chicago as a model and linking cinema theory with women's studies.

Why train for seven years in Western ways and then move to homoeopathy and Chinese medicine? This book traces the transformational journeys of 40 American physicians who have made this move, outlining the basic models of American health care - technocratic, humanistic and holistic - on the way.

This account of politics and popular music develops the concept of """"acting in concert,"""" a metaphor for community based political action that is communicated in and around music. Through detailed case studies, the text explores how communities use popular music to understand democratic processes.

Based on a first hand ethnographic study of two Christian fundamentalist congregations to study the power of fundamentalist women, this work seeks to shed light on the ideas and faith experiences of these women. It also reveals how they can be powerful in their religious cosmos.

Leading scholars in anthropology, political science, history, sociology, and ethnomusicology examine dissent and direct action in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Colombia, India, Korea, Peru, and the United States and look beyond these poles of protest to the midways of mobilization.

This work probes the differences between the biographies of men and women, stereotypes about women's lives and roles, and what is private and public. It looks at issues of authorial stance, and the problems of writing biography for achieving women - who were also wives.

This collection of 13 comparative and interdisciplinary essays explores the cross-cultural dynamics of African-based religious systems in the Caribbean. The contributors analyze the nature and liturgies of Vodou, Santeria, Obeah, Quimbois and Gaga as they form a cultural matrix in the region.

In this study of Haitian women's literature, the author explores their history, traditions, stories and tales. The authors' unwillingness to subordinate to narratives of national autonomy, issues of race, class, colour, caste and sexuality are central to the fiction.

This anthology of Zora Neale Hurston's work includes ""Sweat"" and ""The Gilded Six-Bits"". The volume also includes the 1934 essay ""Characteristics of Negro-Expression"", with excerpts from her autobiography ""Dust Tracks on the Road"" - with critical commentary.

Naturalist Joanna Burger invites the reader to join in with her as she investigates the wildlife along the Jersey coastline. Among the creatures covered are the fish communities, the herring gulls and shorebirds, various types of crab, hawks and monarch butterflies, and the snowy owl in winter.

This anthology addresses orientalism in film from pre-cinema fascinations with Egyptian culture through the "Whole New World" of Aladdin. Essays utilize such areas as cultural studies and genre criticism, and among the films discussed are "Lawrence of Arabia", "Indochine" and "The Sheik".

This text focuses on historic preservation, and contrasts Europe - which it argues is an elitist enterprise aimed at preserving values - and the USA, where the patterns are more democratic and dynamic. It asks whether preservation is just a media representation and a means of consuming history.

This text examines the claims and counterclaims of scientists, manufacturers, retailers, politicians and consumers from the discovery of vitamins in the early 20th-century. It reveals the issues that have propelled the industry, and the ambivalence of Americans towards the authority of science.

A celebration of strong, committed women who helped to build the American labour movement. Through the stories of eleven women from a range of backgrounds, we experience the hardships and accomplishments of thousands of other union women activists through the period spanning the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the McCarthy era, the civil rights movement, and the women's movement.

Sandino's Daughters, Margaret Randall's conversations with Nicaraguan women in their struggle against the dictator Somoza in 1979, brought the lives of a group of extraordinary female revolutionaries to the American and world public. The book remains a landmark. Now, a decade later, Randall returns to interview many of the same women and others.

This work seeks to expose the myths about mental illness and the way it is distorted by the American media. The author argues that inaccuracies about mental illness in newspapers, magazines, movies and books make it clear that this is not merely stereotyping, but rather a pervasive ignorance.

This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country. In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works from 61 different authors around nine major themes.