Sociology

ISBN: 9788869773976
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Social Science
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The book delivers a rich ethnographic account of present-day Indian communities in northern Italy, considering their journeys of diaspora as well as dynamics of integration, focusing on the shift from first to second migrant generation with an im... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788869772818
Published by : Mimesis International
From Larry Kramer's New York to Roth's Newark and Colla's Baghdad, this collection of 15 essays explores how American contemporary literature tackles the issue of urban violence, its relationship with the forerunners of the genre, and how its main... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822947165
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
In the late eighteenth century, enlightened politicians and upper-class women in Spain debated the right of women to join one of the country’s most prominent scientific institutions: the Madrid Economic Society of Friends of the Country. Societies... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822947073
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology’s engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the cent... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788869774058
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
Research on gender inequality uses limited and sectoral areas as a reference. A team of scholars, academics and researchers from fourteen different countries – Cuba, Haiti, India, Iraq, Iran, Italy, Ivory Coast, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Tun... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788869773747
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Social Science
Sacred eroticism has been an important if neglected feature of Western esotericism from the early modern era down to the present day. Founded in Romania, the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA) turned sacred esotericism int... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813197005
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
The O.J. Simpson trial. The Lindbergh kidnapping. The death of Marilyn Monroe. The assassination of the Romanovs. The Atlanta child murders. All controversial cases. All investigated with the latest techniques in forensic science. Nationally respe... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788772197258
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: The Nordic World
What do we mean when we say "the people"? In a Nordic context, the word "people" was historically associated not with members of a sovereign nation but of a household, church, or state. The term remains a battlefield of mixed or even opposing inte... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822946274
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science, Values, and the Public
Long before scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, American developmental biologist and aspiring cancer researcher Robert Briggs successfully performed the technique of nuclear transplantation by cloning fro... .... Learn More