Ethnic category: 7100 books
Global Shanghai, 1850-2010
A History in Fragments
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai...
Managing Transitions
The Chinese Communist Party, United Front Work, Corporatism and Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Managing Transitions examines the history and roles of China's minor parties and groups (MPG's) in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) united front between the 1930's and 1990's using Antonio Gramsci's principles for the winning and maintaining of hegemony. Gramsci advocated a "war of position,"...
On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System
The Li Yizhe Debates
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
In 1974, a small group of young intellectuals, the Li Yizhe group, circulated their dissident manifesto, ‘On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System,’ a probing critique of the leftist authoritarianism of Mao Zedong. This title examines the writings of these dissidents as a means to better understand...
by ww musika
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The American Dream has been transplanted around the world. ww musika blithely teeters between the dry, vast landscape of the southwestern United States and the steamy, pungent crowds of Bangkok. The observations in Horse Latitudes reveal the flaws in The Dream and the drive to adapt its desires across...
by Joan Steinau Lester
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This refreshing handbook—equally useful in the boardroom, the classroom, and the living room—captures insightful lessons from personal encounters with diversity.
Award-winning author Dr. Joan Lester is a talented storyteller. Her generous voice sheds keen insight, humor and practical advise on the polarizing dilemmas of living with diversity.
The Myth of the Russian Intelligentsia
Old Intellectuals in the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Russia is one of the few countries in the world where intellectuals existed as a social group and shared a unique social identity. This book focuses on one of the most important and influential groups of Russian intellectuals - the 1960s generation of shestidesyatniki - often considered the last...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Though in recent months Putin’s popularity has frayed at the edges, the dearth of comparably powerful and experienced political leaders leaves no doubt that he will continue to be a key political figure. During his tenure as Russia’s President and subsequently as Prime Minister, Putin transcended...
The Vernaculars of Communism
Language, Ideology and Power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions, social roles, rituals and behaviours emerged, so did...
by Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych, Maria G. Rewakowicz
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The concept of a 'return to Europe' has been integral to the movement for Ukrainian national rebirth since the nineteenth century. While the goal of a more fully reformed politics remains elusive, numerous expressions of Ukrainian culture continue to develop in the European spirit. This wide-ranging...
The Presumed Alliance
The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
As Latino and African Americans increasingly live side by side in large urban centers, as well as in suburban clusters, the idealized concept of a "Rainbow Coalition" would suggest that these two disenfranchised groups are natural political allies. Indeed, as the number of Latinos has increased...
The Great Progression
How Hispanics Will Lead America to a New Era of Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In this prophetic and profoundly hopeful book, Peabody and Emmy(r) Award-winning journalist Geraldo Rivera details the myriad ways Hispanics will help revitalize our declining economy, energize our distressed troops, and invigorate our national government.
Featuring candid and revealing interviews...
The Cocoa Plantations America’S Chocolate Secret Forced Child Labor, Rape, Sodomy, Abuse of Children, Child Sex Trafficking, Child Organ Trafficking, Child Sex Slaves
The Chocolate Industries Well Kept Secret/Harkin - Engel Protocol
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Children working the cocoa plantations for Americas chocolate. Would you ever dream of such abuse happening to five-year-old boys and girls, children being worked worse than animals on the cocoa plantations to get the cocoa bean, the main ingredient in chocolate, to America. The cocoa beans are covered...
Russia's Identity in International Relations
Images, Perceptions, Misperceptions
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Bringing together leading scholars from Russia and outside experts on Russia, this book looks at the difference between the image Russia has of itself and the way it is viewed in the West. It discusses the historical, cultural and political foundations that these images are built upon, and goes on...
by Max I. Dimont
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
“A wondrous tale of American Judaism” from the Colonial Era to the twentieth****century, by the acclaimed author of Jews, God, and History**(Kirkus Reviews).**
Beginning with the Sephardim who first reached the shores of America in the 1600s, this fascinating book by historian Max Dimont...