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Fixing School Food in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
How did our children end up eating nachos, pizza, and Tater Tots for lunch? Taking us on an eye-opening journey into the nation's school kitchens, this superbly researched book is the first to provide a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. Janet Poppendieck explores the deep...
Dangerous Digestion
The Politics of American Dietary Advice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and imagining this society and its political systems. Discussions of American freedom itself are pervaded with ingestive metaphors of choice (what to put in) and control (what to keep out). From the country’s...
Replenished Ethnicity
Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomás R. Jiménez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican...
The New Latino Studies Reader
A Twenty-First-Century Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding...
Making Los Angeles Home
The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Making Los Angeles Home examines the different integration strategies implemented by Mexican immigrants in the Los Angeles region. Relying on statistical data and ethnographic information, the authors analyze four different dimensions of the immigrant integration process (economic, social, cultural,...
Women's Place in the Andes
Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In Women’s Place in the Andes Florence E. Babb draws on four decades of anthropological research to reexamine the complex interworkings of gender, race, and indigeneity in Peru and beyond. She deftly interweaves five new analytical chapters with six of her previously published works that exemplify...
Balancing on a Planet
The Future of Food and Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This book is an interdisciplinary primer on critical thinking and effective action for the future of our global agrifood system, based on an understanding of the system’s biological and sociocultural roots. Key components of the book are a thorough analysis of the assumptions underlying different...
International Water Scarcity and Variability
Managing Resource Use Across Political Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change. Although media coverage and some scholars tend to cast natural resource shortages as leading inexorably toward armed conflict and war, Shlomi Dinar and...
Barnum Brown
The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus rex
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873–1963), spending most of it searching for fossils—and sometimes oil—in every corner of the globe. One of the most famous...
Enacting the Corporation
An American Mining Firm in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? Anthropologist Marina Welker draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation’s Denver headquarters and its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia, to address these questions. Against the backdrop of an emerging...
Making Money, Making Music
History and Core Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Making Money, Making Music offers tools to encourage creative and adaptive entrepreneurship in the music business. Written for the classroom and the workplace, it introduces readers to core principles and processes and shows how to apply them adaptively to new contexts, facilitating a deeper understanding...
Charles Burnett
A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
In the first book devoted to Charles Burnett, a crucial figure in the history of American cinema often regarded as the most influential member of the L.A. Rebellion group of African American filmmakers, James Naremore provides a close critical study of all Burnett’s major pictures for movies and...
by Keya Ganguly
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Although revered as one of the world’s great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in narrowly nationalistic terms or as an artist whose critique of modernity is largely derived from European ideas. Rarely is he seen as an influential modernist in his own right whose contributions...
Land of the Unconquerable
The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Reaching beyond sensational headlines, Land of the Unconquerable at last offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women. In a series of wide-ranging, deeply reflective essays, accomplished scholars, humanitarian workers, politicians, and journalists—most with extended experience inside Afghanistan—examine...