ilość książek w kategorii: 2370
The 9/11 Generation: Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror
ISBN: 9781479880515 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror engage with the "political," even while they are under constant scrutiny and surveillance Since the attacks of 9/11, the banner of national security has led to intense monitoring of the politics of Muslim and Arab Americans. Young people from these communities have come of age in a time when the question of political engagement is both urgent and fraught.
In The 9/11 Generation, Sunaina Marr Maira uses extensive ethnography to understand the meaning of political subjecthood and mobilization for Arab,... Explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror engage with the "political," even while they are under constant scrutiny and ...
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128,88 zł |
The 9/11 Generation: Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror
ISBN: 9781479817696 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror engage with the "political," even while they are under constant scrutiny and surveillance Since the attacks of 9/11, the banner of national security has led to intense monitoring of the politics of Muslim and Arab Americans. Young people from these communities have come of age in a time when the question of political engagement is both urgent and fraught.
In The 9/11 Generation, Sunaina Marr Maira uses extensive ethnography to understand the meaning of political subjecthood and mobilization for Arab,... Explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror engage with the "political," even while they are under constant scrutiny and ...
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381,62 zł |
Korean-American Stories: Collection of Autobiographies (Color Paperback)
ISBN: 9781596891159 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains autobiographies by 12 individuals of Korean descent. However, their background experiences are vastly different. The editor of the book, Ariel Raimundo Choi, was born in Argentina and is still a citizen of Argentina; therefore, he considers himself a Hispanic-Korean-American. Ye One Chung grew up most of her life in Israel, so she considers Israel as her home. She writes a part of her autobiography in modern Hebrew, a language Ye One Chung is fluent at. Others in the book are fascinating in other ways. Andrew Kim is a published author of short stories. Theodore Kim tests...
This book contains autobiographies by 12 individuals of Korean descent. However, their background experiences are vastly different. The editor of the ...
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416,75 zł |
The Family in India: A Regional View
ISBN: 9789027933126 / Angielski / Twarda / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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473,79 zł |
Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora
ISBN: 9780295993195 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Third place in the Association for Borderlands Studies Best Book Award Pairing image and text, Troubling Borders showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization. For some of these women on the margins of the margin, crafting and... Third place in the Association for Borderlands Studies Best Book Award Pairing image and text, Troubling Borders showcases creative wr... |
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319,74 zł |
100 Questions and Answers about Indian Americans
ISBN: 9781939880000 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "One Hundred Questions and Answers About Indian Americans" is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series in cultural competence. This guide to Indians in America has sections on India history, population, religion, language, culture, food, gender, family, education, work and politics. It includes Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism. It explains why Indians come to America and the work and customs they bring with them. The guide is intended for people in business, schools, places of worship, government, medicine, law enforcement, human resources and journalism.
"One Hundred Questions and Answers About Indian Americans" is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series in cultural competence...
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78,78 zł |
Consoling Ghosts: Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile
ISBN: 9780816687183 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
Inspired by these conversations, Consoling Ghosts is a sustained contemplation of relationships with the dying and the dead. At their heart, as Langford's work...
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113,40 zł |
Southeast Asian Cartoon Art: History, Trends and Problems
ISBN: 9780786475575 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first overview of cartoon art in this important cultural nexus of Asia. The eight chapters provide historical and present-day overviews of cartoons and comics in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and sociocultural and political analyses of cartooning in Singapore, Myanmar, and Malaysia. The volume benefits from firsthand accounts gleaned from hundreds of interviews with Southeast Asia's major cartoonists, conducted by the four authors, as well as textual analyses of specific cartoons, on-the-spot observations, and close scrutiny of historical documents.
This is the first overview of cartoon art in this important cultural nexus of Asia. The eight chapters provide historical and present-day overviews of...
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191,22 zł |
AsiaTown Cleveland: From Tong Wars to Dim Sum
ISBN: 9781540210517 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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141,08 zł |
Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration
ISBN: 9780252078095 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an in-depth analysis of photography during the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. Alinder investigates why photographs were made and how they have been reproduced and interpreted subsequently by the popular press and museums in constructing versions of public history.
This is an in-depth analysis of photography during the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. Alinder investigates why photographs were ...
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108,24 zł |
A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi V. United States
ISBN: 9780295992709 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result. In A Principled Stand, Gordon's brother James and nephew Lane have brought together his prison diaries and voluminous wartime correspondence to tell the story of Hirabayashi v. United States, the Supreme Court case that in 1943 upheld and on appeal in 1987 vacated his conviction. For the first time, the events of the case are told in Gordon's own words. The result is a compelling and... In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was su... |
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144,34 zł |
South Asian Novelists in English: An A-To-Z Guide
ISBN: 9780313318856 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the publication of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize winning novel, DEGREESIMidnight's Children DEGREESR in 1981, followed by the unprecedented popularity of his subsequent works, the cinematic adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's DEGREESIThe English Patient, DEGREESR many other best-sellers written by South Asian novelists writing in English have gained a tremendous following. This reference is a guide to their lives and writings. The volume focuses on novelists born in South Asia who have written and continue to write about issues concerning that region. Some of the novelists have published... With the publication of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize winning novel, DEGREESIMidnight's Children DEGREESR in 1981, followed by the unprecedented po... |
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401,71 zł |
China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949
ISBN: 9780415364485 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals and the beginning of elite Chinese disillusionment with the Qing government. The book explores how this event also prompted five decades of efforts to strengthen the state and the nation, democratize the political system, and build a fairer and more unified society. Peter Zarrow weaves narrative together with thematic...
Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during th...
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206,23 zł |
Reading in Asian Languages: Making Sense of Written Texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
ISBN: 9780415894777 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a comprehensive view of reading as construction of meaning.
This title is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes ...
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268,12 zł |
Surviving a Japanese Internment Camp: Life and Liberation at Santo Tomas, Manila, in World War II
ISBN: 9780786465705 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During World War II the Japanese imprisoned more American civilians at Manila's Santo Tomas prison camp than anywhere else, along with British and other nationalities. Placing the camp's story in the wider history of the Pacific war, this book tells how the camp went through a drastic change, from good conditions in the early days to impending mass starvation, before its dramatic rescue by U.S. Army ""flying columns."" Interned as a small boy with his mother and older sister, the author shows the many ways in which the camp's internees handled imprisonment--and their liberation afterwards....
During World War II the Japanese imprisoned more American civilians at Manila's Santo Tomas prison camp than anywhere else, along with British and oth...
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191,22 zł |
Tracking the Weretiger: Supernatural Man-Eaters of India, China and Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780786472185 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Supernatural ManEaters of India China and Southeast Asia. Intriguing age-old Asian beliefs, that man-eating tigers and little tigers or leopards alike, were in various ways supernatural.
Supernatural ManEaters of India China and Southeast Asia. Intriguing age-old Asian beliefs, that man-eating tigers and little tigers or leopards alike...
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160,65 zł |
Airborne Dreams: "nisei" Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways
ISBN: 9780822348504 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its round-the-world flights as well. Based in Honolulu, these women were informally known as Pan Am s Nisei second-generation Japanese Americans even though not all of them were Japanese American or second-generation. They were ostensibly hired for their Japanese-language skills, but few spoke Japanese fluently. This absorbing account of Pan Am s Nisei stewardess program suggests that the Japanese American (and later other Asian and Asian American)...
In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its roun...
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108,24 zł |
The Ethnic Restaurateur
ISBN: 9780857858351 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 exploring the culinary world from the perspective of the ethnic restaurateur. Focusing on New York City, he examines the lived experience, work, memories, and aspirations of immigrants working in the food industry. He shows how migrants become established in new places, creating a taste of home and playing a key role in influencing food cultures as a result of transactions between... Academic discussions of ethnic food have tended to focus on the attitudes of consumers, rather than the creators and producers. In this ground-brea... |
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670,43 zł |
The Ethnic Restaurateur
ISBN: 9780857858368 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 exploring the culinary world from the perspective of the ethnic restaurateur. Focusing on New York City, he examines the lived experience, work, memories, and aspirations of immigrants working in the food industry. He shows how migrants become established in new places, creating a taste of home and playing a key role in influencing food cultures as a result of transactions between... Academic discussions of ethnic food have tended to focus on the attitudes of consumers, rather than the creators and producers. In this ground-brea... |
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139,19 zł |
Advanced Reader of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories: Reflections on Humanity
ISBN: 9780295998640 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reader for advanced students of Chinese presents ten post-1990 short stories by prominent writers such as Su Tong and Yu Hua, whose novels Raise the Red Lantern and To Live served as the basis for internationally acclaimed films. With its captivating content dealing with current social issues, it fills a gap in the literature for advanced language students who are eager to read extensively in "real" literature. Vocabulary lists free the student from the chore of constantly consulting a dictionary while reading, grammar and usage examples highlight new patterns, and questions for... This reader for advanced students of Chinese presents ten post-1990 short stories by prominent writers such as Su Tong and Yu Hua, whose novels Rai... |
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469,30 zł |