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Con Respeto - Bridging The Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families And Schools - An Ethnographic Portrait

by Guadalupe Valdes

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 This is the story of ten Mexican immigrant families and of how each goes about the business of surviving and learning to succeed in a new world. It describes how the parents prepare their children for a rapidly changing world so as to become competent adults.
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The Politics Of Weapons Inspections - Assessing Wmd Monitoring And Verification Regimes

by Joseph F. Pilat e Nathan E. Busch

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Waking From The Dream - Mexico'S Middle Classes After 1968

by Louise E. Walker

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 Waking from the Dream explains how the Mexican middle classes transformed their country after 1968, as the once-touted economic "Miracle" was replaced by new ideas of capitalism and the once-powerful Party of the Institutional Revolution was swept away by electoral democracy.
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Foreclosed America

by Christopher Niedt e Isaac Martin

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 Foreclosed America offers a portrait of the people who lost their homes in the foreclosure crisis-who they are, how and where they live after losing their homes, and what they have to say about their finances, their neighborhoods, and American politics.
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The Design Of Insight - How To Solve Any Business Problem

by Mihnea Moldoveanu e Olivier Leclerc

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 The Design of Insight is a personal problem-solving platform that will enable readers to break out of familiar thought models and create innovative solutions for impactful change at any level in their business.
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Sustainable Innovation - Build Your Companyâ€™S Capacity To Change The World

by Andrew Hargadon

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How Revolutionary Was The Digital Revolution? - National Responses, Market Transitions, And Global Technology

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 How do high wage countries stay rich in a global digital economy? How Revolutionary was the Digital Revolution constructs a framework for analyzing the international digital era: one that examines the ability of political actors to innovate and experiment in spite of, or perhaps because of, the constraints posed by digital technology.
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How Revolutionary Was The Digital Revolution? - National Responses, Market Transitions, And Global Technology

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 How do high wage countries stay rich in a global digital economy? How Revolutionary was the Digital Revolution constructs a framework for analyzing the international digital era: one that examines the ability of political actors to innovate and experiment in spite of, or perhaps because of, the constraints posed by digital technology.
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Wives, Husbands, And Lovers - Marriage And Sexuality In Hong Kong, Taiwan, And Urban China

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The National Park To Come

by Margret Grebowicz

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 This book foregrounds concerns with social justice against the environmental and aesthetic ones that have traditionally shaped our national parks and asks us to reconsider what these parks might come to mean in the future.
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The Fountain Of Knowledge - The Role Of Universities In Economic Development

by Shiri M. Breznitz

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American Terror - The Feeling Of Thinking In Edwards, Poe, And Melville

by Paul Hurh

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 Contrary to accounts that interpret terror in opposition to reason, this book shows how three authors famous for their works and theories of terrorâ€"Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melvilleâ€"developed a terror that incorporates, theorizes, and extends the Enlightenment claims of reason as feeling.
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Street Culture In Chengdu - Public Space, Urban Commoners, And Local Politics, 1870-1930

by Di Wang

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 A study of the lively street culture in Chengdu from 1870 to 1930, this book explores the relationship between urban commoners and public space, the role of community and neighborhood in public life, and how the reform movement and Republican revolution transformed everyday life in this inland city.
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The Teahouse - Small Business, Everyday Culture, And Public Politics In Chengdu, 1900-1950

by Di Wang

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 This study examines economic, social, political, and cultural changes as funneled through the teahouses of Chengdu during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Inequality In The Promised Land - Race, Resources, And Suburban Schooling

by R. Lewis-Mccoy

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 Examines why the Black middle class and poor students fail to reap the benefits of idyllic suburban schools.
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The Rise And Fall Of Urban Economies - Lessons From San Francisco And Los Angeles

by Naji Makarem, Taner Osman e Thomas Kemeny

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 The Rise and Fall of Great Urban Economies closely examines the divergent economic paths of San Francisco and Los Angeles in order to explain how regions copes with new opportunities and unfavorable shocks. By honing in on micro-level trends in these two cities, the authors make a significant contribution to the dialogue surrounding metropolitan development, urban and regional policy, and comparative economic development more broadly.
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Sexual Citizens - The Legal And Cultural Regulation Of Sex And Belonging

by Brenda Cossman

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 This book explores the relationship between sex and belonging in law and popular culture, arguing that contemporary citizenship is sexed, privatized, and self-disciplined.
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The Triumph Of Ethernet - Technological Communities And The Battle For The Lan Standard

by Urs Von Burg

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 One of the most important elements in the computer revolution has been agreement on technological standards. This book tells the complete story of the battle between several competing technologies in the late 1970s and early 1980s to become the compatibility standard in one high-tech arena, the LAN (local area network) industry.
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Health Care In Maya Guatemala - Confronting Medical Pluralism In A Developing Country

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Indian Fights - New Facts On Seven Encounters

by J. W. Vaughn

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Can Green Sustain Growth? - From The Religion To The Reality Of Sustainable Prosperity

by John Zysman e Mark Huberty

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Thinking Its Presence - Form, Race, And Subjectivity In Contemporary Asian American Poetry

by Dorothy J. Wang

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 This book makes an argument for paying serious attention to the full complexity, formal and social, of Asian American poetryâ€"and of minority poetryâ€"and for rethinking how we read American poetry in general.
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When Half Is Whole - Multiethnic Asian American Identities

by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

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Locating Global Advantage - Industry Dynamics In The International Economy

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 What are the forces that are driving firms and industries to globalize their operations? This volume explores how specific industries have organized their global operations through case studies of seven manufacturing industries including: garments and textiles, televisions and personal computers.
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