Cultural Studies

Cuba is a land of contradictions that is easy to enjoy but difficult for first-time visitors to decipher. The largest island in the Caribbean, it i...

Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings ...

The Dance at Mociu brings together some thirty 'stories' of Transylvania, a part of the world that has fascinated the author for many years, and wh...

Whether it is in Madrid's cafe s or in Barcelona's fish markets, van den Brinks takes you on a trip through Spain where tasting and smelling are th...

Body image is considered a multi-dimensional concept that includes perceptual, attitudinal, affective, and behavioural dimensions. The definition o...

Cultural competence and responsiveness are considered essential for classroom teachers who teach diverse groups of students. Teacher training progr...

This book explores how a civilization, specifically, Western civilization accommodates multiple cultures, their interactions and transformations, h...

This book expands on the primary assumption that the human brain is a sense and purpose producing organ; we use it to understand and guide us throu...

This book presents abundant emergent research works of American, European and Latin American countries, and examine the results of the research, wh...

This book considers the fundamental scientific and philosophical problems of the origins of life, consciousness, language, and civilisation. It is ...

Title IV-E of the Social Security Act provides federal support for foster care and adoption assistance programs. Since 2008, 5 tribes have been app...

It was a story so bizarre it defied belief: in April 1974, twenty-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst robbed a San Francisco bank in the com...

This book Trends in African Studies is a response to the challenge of the paucity of materials on the history and the development of African Studie...

Though Congress has debated the significance of global climate change and what federal policies, if any, should address them, the Government Accoun...

Focusing on the themes of conflict, communication, and globalisation, this book provides interdisciplinary studies of modern and contemporary Asia ...

Dual inheritance theory (DIT) recognizes the fact that for the last 50 millennia cultural evolution has had a marked impact on our anatomy, behavio...

This book, originally published in 1856, provides a thorough account of the rise of Canada from a primitive condition to the middle of the 19th cen...

This book, originally published in 1899, impresses upon us the solidarity of ancient Oriental history and the impossibility of forming a correct ju...

Arabs: Their Voices and Lived Experiences opens with an essay on one of the major goals of the Arab Renaissance Project; Arab Renewal. Arab Renewal...

This volume consists of a series of essays, written by leading scholars within the field, demonstrating the types of inquiry that can be pursued in...

Transnational Portuguese Studies offers a radical rethinking of the role played by the concepts of nationhood and the nation in the epistemologies ...

Transnational Portuguese Studies offers a radical rethinking of the role played by the concepts of nationhood and the nation in the epistemologies ...

The focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has giv...