Language Studies category: 15171 books
The Language of the Heart
A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In The Language of the Heart, Trysh Travis explores the rich cultural history of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and its offshoots and the larger "recovery movement" that has grown out of them. Moving from AA's beginnings in the mid-1930s as a men's fellowship that met in church basements to the...
International Family Studies
Developing Curricula and Teaching Tools
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2006
Make your marriage and family programs more relevant by making them cross-culturally sensitive
International Family Studies: Developing Curricula and Teaching Tools offers a collection of innovative ideas and resources for educators who wish to enhance the international content of their human development and family science curriculum. Co
Latinas/os on the East Coast
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Latinas/os on the East Coast: A Critical Reader provides a comprehensive overview of established and contemporary research and essays written about communities that represent the Latina/o diaspora on the East Coast of the United States. Collectively, it contributes to the historical, cultural, political,...
by Dale T. Snauwaert, Betty A. Reardon
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This book presents a rich collection of Betty A. Reardon’s writing on gender studies, sexism and the war system, and human security from a feminist perspective. Betty A. Reardon is a pioneer of gender studies who, as a feminist, identified the structural relationship between sexism and the war...
A Study of the Logbara (Ma'di) Language
Grammar and Vocabulary
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In the mid 20th century the people known as the Logbara were a diverse collection of groups fleeing from different parts and having different socail and political affiliations - essentially refugees in search of a new home. At the time that this book was originally published in 1960, existing conditions,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This is he first edited book on gender issues in transnational business cooperation concerning knowledge work. This area has so far been researched mainly by organizational theorists, with their background in business studies, finance, communication or sociology, and gender has seldom been taken into...
The Powers of Law
A Comparative Analysis of Sociopolitical Legal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Comparative studies can reveal much about how law is formed out of social reality and political power by exploring these interactions in different national contexts. In this work Mauricio García-Villegas compares ideas about law and society in France and the United States, demonstrating different...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies brings together up-and-coming scholars whose works expand disability studies into new interdisciplinary contexts. This includes new perspectives on disability identity; historical constructions of (dis)ability; the geography of disability; the spiritual...
The Nigger in You
Challenging Dysfunctional Language, Engaging Leadership Moments
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Embrace Leadership to Combat All Forms of Prejudice“Is there a ‘nigger’ in you?” If you have attempted to avoid and/or escape oppression, been made to feel as if you are a problem, been treated as “lesser than” or even like a criminal, all just because you are different in a given context,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) children’s rights have assumed a central position in a wide variety of disciplines and policies.
This handbook offers an engaging overview of the contemporary research landscape for those people in the theory and practice...
The Rhizome of Blackness
A Critical Ethnography of Hip-Hop Culture, Language, Identity, and the Politics of Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North America. They enter a «social imaginary» where they find themselves already falling under the umbrella of Blackness. For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture,...
Minds of Our Own
Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women’s Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966–76
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women’s studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women’s studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and they...
Early Inuit Studies
Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
This collection of 15 chronologically arranged papers is the first-ever definitive treatment of the intellectual historyof Eskimology—known today as Inuit studies—the field of anthropology preoccupied with the origins, history, and culture of the Inuit people. The authors trace the growth and...
by Christiana Gregoriou
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
In this book, Gregoriou explores the portrayal of the serial killer identity and its related ideology across a range of contemporary crime narratives, including detective fiction, the true crime genre and media journalism. How exactly is the serial killer consciousness portrayed, how is the killing...