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Beginning with the founding of profession in late 1920s and continuing into post-September 11 era, this title examines the history of men who joined workplaces customarily identified as female-oriented. It examines various hardships these men faced at work, paying particular attention to conflation of gender-based, and AIDS-based discrimination.

Offers insights into many ways that sex, love, and satisfying relationships prove elusive to the featured young women as they navigate the new emotional landscape of the 21st century. This book discusses the lives of young women who struggle to negotiate the complexities of their contradictory constellation of opportunities and challenges.

Suitable for those interested in contemporary musicology or media history, this title offers translation of the author's pioneering work - at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d'etre of concrete music.

Animation variously entertains, enchants, and offends, yet there have been no convincing explanations of how these films do so. This book proposes performance as the common touchstone for understanding the principles underlying the construction, execution, and reception of cartoons.

What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? This title features a collection of essays framed by the concept "ex-" - meaning from, outside, and no longer. It explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video.

Provides a fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. This title illuminates a social world based on love, compassionate relationship based on material exchange and nurturing, that transcends romance and binds people together across space.

In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, reigned supreme, but by time of Alexander, nearly half of mainland Greek city-states had surrendered part of their autonomy to join larger political entities called koina. This book charts a map of how shared religious practices and long-standing economic interactions faciliated political cooperation.

Explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. In seventeenth and eighteenth century Syria and Palestine, Muslim legal thinkers gave considerable attention to women's roles in society, this title shows how fatwas, or legal opinions, greatly influenced these roles.

Tells the story of a dynastic struggle, between the Kurus and Pandavas, for land.

Volcanic dust, climate change, tsunamis, earthquakes - geoscience explores phenomena that profoundly affect our lives. But more than that, the science also provides important clues to the future of the planet. This title gives an overview of Earth's history based on information extracted from rocks, ice cores, and other natural archives.

Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, the author guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new 'anthropology of passion.'

Presents a detailed ethnographic study of a therapeutic prison unit in Canada for the treatment of sexual offenders. Utilizing extensive interviews and participant-observation over an eighteen month period of field work, this title takes the reader into the depths of what prison inmates commonly refer to as the 'hound pound.'

With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. This book explores the origins of taiko in the early postwar period and its popularization over the following decades.

Why is Cinco de Mayo - a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862 - so widely celebrated in California and across the United States, when it is scarcely observed in Mexico? This title shows how the meaning of Cinco de Mayo has shifted over time.

Part ethnography, part memoir, this book traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. It also traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America.

Presents the thousand years of Roman history through sixteen studies of famous court cases - from the legendary trial of Horatius for the killing of his sister, to the trial of Jesus Christ, to that of the Christian leader Priscillian for heresy.

Offers a history of how the American drug industry and key sectors of the medical profession came to be allies against pharmaceutical reform. This title details the political strategies they have used to influence public opinion, shape legislative reform, and define the regulatory environment of prescription drugs.

Explores how Italy's Mezzogiorno became both backward and picturesque, an alternately troubling and fascinating borderland between Europe and its others.

Praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. It takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations.

Combining personal memories with political information about Hawai'i's crucial Territorial era, this title discovers the central role played by the author's great-great-grandfather in the politics of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Hawai'i.

Surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique 'poem of place' in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics.

From risque cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, this title offers a look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. It follows the day-to-day lives of some of France's most renowned performers, revealing not only how secrets are created and shared, but also how they are stolen and destroyed.

Explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. This book focuses on France and its humanitarian immigration practices to argue that a politics based on care and protection can lead the state to view issues of immigration and asylum through a medical lens.

Sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains - volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain forests - to explore how humans have made sense of our planet's marvelous landscapes. This book investigates how we live with the great shaping forces of nature - from fire to changing climates and the intricacies of adaptation.