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  • Eating Chinese

    Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada

    by Lily Cho ...
    "Chicken fried rice, sweet and sour pork, and an order of onion rings, please."Chinese restaurants in small town Canada are at once everywhere - you would be hard pressed to find a town without a Chinese restaurant - and yet they are conspicuously absent in critical discussions of Chinese diasporic culture or even in popular writing about Chinese food. In Eating Chinese, Lily Cho examines Chinese ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Mass Capture

    Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens

    by Lily Cho ...
    Under the terms of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, Canada implemented a vast protocol for acquiring detailed personal information about Chinese migrants. Among the bewildering array of state documents used in this effort were CI 9s: issued from 1885 to 1953, they included date of birth, place of residence, occupation, identifying marks, known associates, and, significantly, identification ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Human Rights and the Arts

    Perspectives on Global Asia

    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia approaches human rights issues from the perspective of artists and writers in global Asia. By focusing on the interventions of writers, artists, filmmakers, and dramatists, the book moves toward a new understanding of human rights that shifts the discussion of contexts and subjects away from the binaries of cultural relativism and political ... Read more

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    This guide explains Rawls's concept of 'justice as fairness'. It covers such topics as the two principles of justice, the principle of fairness, the original position and the veil of ignorance, and the difference principle, as well as examining some of the criticisms levelled at Rawls's arguments. ... Read more

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  • Introducing Feminism

    A Graphic Guide

    Series series Graphic Guides
    The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes much further back. This completely new and updated edition of "Introducing Feminism" surveys the major developments that have affected women's lives from the 17th century to the present day. "Introducing Feminism" is an invaluable reference book for ... Read more

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  • Listening to Images

    by Tina M. Campt ...
    In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound, Campt looks beyond what one usually sees and attunes her senses to the other affective frequencies through which these photographs register. She ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • On Settling

    The hidden value of settlingIn a culture that worships ceaseless striving, "settling" seems like giving up. But is it? On Settling defends the positive value of settling, explaining why this disdained practice is not only more realistic but more useful than an excessive ideal of striving. In fact, the book makes the case that we'd all be lost without settling—and that even to strive, one must ... Read more

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  • Introducing Anthropology

    A Graphic Guide

    Series series Graphic Guides
    Anthropology originated as the study of 'primitive' cultures. But the notion of 'primitive' exposes presumptions of 'civilized' superiority and the right of the West to speak for 'less evolved' others. With the fall of Empire, anthropology became suspect and was torn by dissension from within. Did anthropology serve as a 'handmaiden to colonialism'? Is it a 'science' created by racism to prove ... Read more

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  • My pedagogic creed

    by John Dewey ...
    Series Book 8 - I Grandi dell'Educazione
    My Pedagogic Creed is the "manifesto" of the new schools. By the time a shot was fired in the middle of a swamp pedagogical could not recognize the centrality of the subject in the educational process. Dewey became the theoretical maximum representative of the progressive school. With the new education was occurring a shift of the core around which the educational practices: from the teacher to ... Read more

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    by Iyko Day ...
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  • Do Exclusionary Rules Ensure a Fair Trial?

    A Comparative Perspective on Evidentiary Rules

    Edited by Sabine Gless, Thomas Richter ...
    Series Book 74 - Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
    This open access publication discusses exclusionary rules in different criminal justice systems. It is based on the findings of a research project in comparative law with a focus on the question of whether or not a fair trial can be secured through evidence exclusion.Part I explains the legal framework in which exclusionary rules function in six legal systems: Germany, Switzerland, People’s ... Read more

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  • Refracted Visions

    Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java

    Series series Objects/Histories
    A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses stiffly for his identity photograph; amateur photographers look for picturesque images in a rural village; an old woman leafs through a family album. In Refracted Visions, Karen Strassler argues that popular ... Read more

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