Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children offers new insights into children's descriptions of their invented or ''make-believe'' worlds, and …
How do people handle contrasting self-conceptions? Do they necessarily compartmentalize their personal lives from their professional lives? Do minority and …
Shinto, the national indigenous religion of Japan has supplied Japan with the basic structure of its mentality and behaviour. Although …
""Introducing "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, a seminal work of African literature that explores the complexities of colonialism and …
With the publication in 1989 of her first novel, "The Joy Luck Club", Amy Tan was immediately recognized as a …
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Robert Park Outstanding Book Award given by the ASA's Community and Urban Sociology Section Mardi …
**Society of American Travel Writers Foundation 2017 GOLD Award Winner** For every fan of kung fu, steamed dumplings, Confucius and …
Building and operating distributed systems is fundamental to large-scale production infrastructure, but doing so in a scalable, reliable, and efficient …
"There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter …
Making Sense of Japanese is the fruit of one foolhardy American's thirty-year struggle to learn and teach the Language of …
The former Amazon executive who launched and scaled Amazon Marketplace delivers the ultimate playbook on how to "think like Amazon" …
Revised second edition in September, 2016Interested in innovating and creating a customer focused culture like Amazon? In The Amazon Way, …
How well does your organization respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products? This …
This novel puts colonialism under the microscope and examines racism in India during the period of English colonization. Forster gives …
If you’re a software engineer, developer, or sys admin who needs to get up to speed with DevOps quickly, this …
In this intimate volume the long-lost voices of Wisconsin Oneida men and women speak of all aspects of life: growing …
One person really can make a difference--learn how to be that one WHO WILL make your organization the best it …
The real-world guide to defeating hackers and keeping your business secure Many books discuss the technical underpinnings and complex configurations …
This book analyses how contemporary genre cinema represents trans-identified characters.Informed by key debates within transfeminism, queer theory, contemporary trans studies …
Unless this book is assigned to you as a student in film class do not buy it. The muck here …
Dirty Words in “Deadwood” showcases literary analyses of the Deadwood television series by leading western American literary critics. Whereas previous …
Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires …
“Bob Chapman, CEO of the $1.7 billion manufacturing company Barry-Wehmiller, is on a mission to change the way businesses treat …
If you have been to Roma and loved the food, then buy this book. Reading this book and looking at …
From Pong to PlayStation 3 and beyond, Understanding Video Games is the first general introduction to the exciting new field …
"In an atmosphere of the uncontrolled pandemic of mediated lies, the attempted coup by seditionists in the U. S., and …
Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women's search for white beauty as a consequence of …
"Black is Beautiful!" The words were the exuberant rallying cry of a generation of black women who threw away their …
Long hair in the 60s, Afros in the early 70s, bobs in the 80s, fuschia in the 90s. Hair is …
Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse …
This book includes papers from the Symposium, Kingdom of the Coral Seas, November 17, 2007, at the School of Oriental …
In this text Etta Hollins presents a powerful process for developing a teaching perspective that embraces the centrality of culture …
Not a bad comparative history of North, South and Quebec, but not likely to appeal to general audience.
