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  • Istanbul, City of the Fearless

    Urban Activism, Coup d'Etat, and Memory in Turkey

    de Christopher Houston ...
    Based on extensive field research in Turkey, Istanbul, City of the Fearless explores social movements and the broader practices of civil society in Istanbul in the critical years before and after the 1980 military coup, the defining event in the neoliberal reengineering of the city. Bringing together developments in anthropology, urban studies, cultural geography, and social theory, Christopher ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation State

    de Christopher Houston ...
    Can Islamism, as is often claimed, truly unite Muslim Turks and Kurds in a discourse that supersedes ethnicity? This is a volatile and exciting time for a country whose long history has been characterized by dramatic power play. Evolving out of two years of fieldwork in Istanbul, this book examines the fragmenting Islamist political movement in Turkey. As Turkey emerges from a repressive ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Theocracy, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey

    Anthropocratic Republic

    de Christopher Houston ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls anthropocracy*.* In the name of popular sovereignty, anthropocracies de-legitimize the rule of God(s) even as they re-deploy it to stabilize the rule of the representatives of the people, all the while obfuscating their political conscription of the divine.In distinguishing ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Muslim Integration

    Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia

    de Erich Kolig, Malcolm Voyce, Jan A. Ali, Ann Black, Selda Dagistanli, Abdullah Martin Drury, Christopher Houston, Lisa Siobhan Irving, Christopher Evan Longhurst0, Adam Possamai1, Joshua M. Roose2, Banu Senay3, William Shepard4, Lisa Worthington5, Arezou Zalipour6, Tahir Abbas7, Bryan S. Turner8 ...
    In Muslim Integration: Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia, contributors from a range of backgrounds investigate the state of Muslim integration in New Zealand and Australia. The growing presence of a Muslim minority has invited these two Pacific settler states to closely consider the question of Muslim integration into Western society. This collection discusses the future ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar

    A Rhetorical Framing Study of Their Writings on Native Americans

    de Christopher J. Ryan ...
    This book is a rhetorical study of the writings of Republic of Texas presidents Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar which analyzes the frames applied in the writings of the two leaders to define Native Americans. Presenting their individual writings as a dialogue and an argument, it considers the points at which Houston and Lamar’s rhetorical depictions overlapped and diverged, and explores the range ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • Heart Attack!

    Advice for Patients by Patients

    de Kathleen Berra, Gerald W. Friedland, M.D., Christopher Gardner, Francis H. Koch, Donna Louie, Nancy Houston Miller, Robin Wedell, Barton Thurber ...
    Millions of people-many of them younger than we care to believe-are living in the aftermath of a heart attack, and it is vital for them to learn how to reduce the risk factors for subsequent heart problems. This unique and important book offers advice to survivors of a heart attack and also to those trying to prevent the onset of a heart attack. Contributors include not only distinguished medical ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Texans on the Brink

    Threatened and Endangered Animals

    de David Ford, Jeremy D. Maikoetter, Timothy H. Bonner, Chad W Hargrave, David S. Ruppel, Nicky M. Hahn, Robert J. Edwards, Paige Najvar, William Godwin, Mary Jones, David J. Berg, Ned E. Strenth, Jerry L. Cook, Benjamin T. Hutchins, Anthony A. Echelle, Alice F. Echelle, J. Curtis Creighton, D. Craig Rudolph, Josh Pierce, Loren K. Ammerman, Christopher E. Comer, Michael E. Tewes, Julia Buck, Mary Kay Skoruppa, Kim Withers, Andrew C. Kasner, John Karges, Timothy Brush, Clifford E. Shackelford, Heather A. Mathewson, David Cimprich, James M Mueller, Robert Allen, Karl Berg, Philip Matich, Donna J. Shaver, Mary M Streitch, Bernd Würsig, Dr. Neil B. Ford ...
    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University
    What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Diversifying STEM

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender

    de Ebony O. McGee, William H. Robinson, Lorenzo DuBois Baber, Robbin Chapman, Monica F Cox, Krystal Madden, Priscila Pereira, Sara Rezvi, Victoria F Trinder0, Danny Bernard Martin1, Jomo W Mutegi2, Dorinda J. Carter Andrews3, Dara Naphan-Kingery4, Stacey Houston5, Gabriela León-Pérez6, H. Richard Milner7, Abiola Farinde-Wu8, Christopher C. Jett9, Julius Davis0, Lindsay Brown1, Alissa M Manolescu2, Laura Provolt3, Aspen Robinson4, Kecia M. Thomas5 ...
    2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleResearch frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Diversifying STEM fills this void, bringing together a wide array of perspectives and the voices of a number of multidisciplinary scholars. The essays cover three main areas: the widely-held ideology that science and mathematics are ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Texas and Texans in World War II

    1941–1945

    de Joseph G. Dawson, Bernadette Pruitt, Michael Hurd, Katherine Sharp Landdeck, Arnoldo De León, Zachary Montz, Houston Faust Mount II II, Stephen M. Sloan, Henry C. Dethloff, Kelly E. Crager, Keith J. Volanto ...
    Series series Summerfield G. Roberts Texas History Series
    Texans in World War II offers an informative look at the challenges and changes faced by Texans on the home front during the Second World War. This collection of essays by leading scholars of Texas history covers topics from the African American and Tejano experience to organized labor, from the expanding opportunities for women to the importance of oil and agriculture. Texans in World War II ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Phenomenology in Anthropology

    A Sense of Perspective

    de Michael Jackson ...
    This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their discussions of theory and method in richly detailed ethnographic case studies. The contributors broaden the application of phenomenology in ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Self-Alteration

    How People Change Themselves across Cultures

    de Max Harwood, Gil Hizi, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Kavesh, Gisella Orsini, Nigel Rapport, Kathryn Rountree, Banu Senay, Jaap Timmer ...
    Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical question about how other people ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Phenomenology in Anthropology

    A Sense of Perspective

    de Michael D. Jackson, Jaap Timmer, Daniel Fisher, Ian Bedford, Robert Desjarlais, Deborah Van Heekeren, Monica Dalidowicz, C. Jason Throop, Lisa L. Wynn, Thomas Csordas, Greg Downey ...
    This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their discussions of theory and method in richly detailed ethnographic case studies. The contributors broaden the application of phenomenology in ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD