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Autor: S. Hilty Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-292-70673-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł | |
Birds of Tropical America was published by Chapters Publishing in 1994 and went out of print in 1997. UT Press is pleased to reissue it with a new epilogue and updated references. * Newly reissued?the guide to neotropical bird behavior that picks up where field guides leave off więcej... | ||
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Autor: O. Ochoa Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-70168-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 116.6 zł | |
On the surface, Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants to the United States seem to share a common cultural identity, but they often make uneasy neighbors. Discrimination and assimilationist policies have influenced generations of Mexican Americans so that some now fear that the status they have gained by assimilating into American society will be jeopardized by Spanish-speaking newcomers. Other Mexican Americans, however, adopt a position of group solidarity and work to better the social conditions and educational opportunities więcej... | ||
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Autor: L. Magana Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-70176-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 106.8 zł | |
With the dual and often conflicting responsibilities of deterring illegal immigration and providing services to legal immigrants, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is a bureaucracy beset with contradictions. Critics fault the agency for failing to stop the entry of undocumented workers from Mexico. Agency staff complain that harsh enforcement policies discourage legal immigrants from seeking INS aid, while ever-changing policy mandates from Congress and a lack of funding hinder both enforcement and service więcej... | ||
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Autor: S. Albert Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-70188-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 106.8 zł | |
Women who were 60 or older at the turn of the 21st century have lived through some of recent history's most momentous moments - and yet these women often believe that their personal lives and stories are insignificant, not worthy of being recorded for future generations. To change that perception and capture some of these life stories before they are lost, the Story Circle Network, a national organization dedicated to helping women write about their lives, developed the Older Women's Legacy (OWL) Circle Memoir Workshops więcej... | ||
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Autor: B. Garza Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-70189-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 106.8 zł | |
'Esto no es cosa de armas' (this is not a matter for weapons). These were the last words of Don Francisco Gutierrez before Alonzo W. Allee shot and killed him and his son, Manuel Gutierrez. What began as a simple dispute over Allee's unauthorized tenancy on a Gutierrez family ranch near Laredo, Texas, led not only to the slaying of these two prominent Mexican landowners but also to a blatant miscarriage of justice. In this account of the 1912 crime and the subsequent trial of Allee, Beatriz de la Garza delves into the political więcej... | ||
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Autor: T. Novinger Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-70287-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 102.9 zł | |
Brazilians are gracious, friendly, fun-loving people, which makes their country a very inviting place to visit for pleasure or business. So great is their cordiality that Brazilians will say 'yes' to almost any request -- even when they actually mean 'no' -- which can be quite confusing for U.S. visitors who are used to a more direct style of communication. In fact, as Americans spend time in Brazil, they discover a number of cultural differences that can hamper their communication with Brazilians. To overcome these barriers więcej... | ||
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Autor: Rejwan Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-70293-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 93.1 zł | |
Once upon a time, Baghdad was home to a flourishing Jewish community. More than a third of the city's people were Jews, and Jewish customs and holidays helped set the pattern of Baghdad's cultural and commercial life. On the city's streets and in the bazaars, Jews, Muslims, and Christians--all native-born Iraqis--intermingled, speaking virtually the same colloquial Arabic and sharing a common sense of national identity. And then, almost overnight it seemed, the state of Israel was born, and lines were drawn between Jews więcej... | ||
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Autor: Foster Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-292-70536-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 293 zł | |
Viewing contemporary Latin American films through the lens of queer studies reveals that many filmmakers are exploring issues of gender identity and sexual difference, as well as the homophobia that attempts to defeat any challenge to the heterosexual norms of patriarchal culture. In this study of queer issues in Latin American cinema, David William Foster offers highly perceptive queer readings of 14 key films to demonstrate how these cultural products promote the principles of an antiheterosexist stance while they simultaneously więcej... | ||
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Autor: J. Shogren Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: ISBN: 978-0-292-70576-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 220.5 zł | |
Our whole nation benefits from the preservation of natural habitats and their diversity of animal and plant species--yet small groups of private landowners often bear most of the costs of setting land aside for conservation purposes. This imbalance has generated many conflicts since the passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973 and remains one of the most controversial issues to be resolved as the ESA makes its way through Congress for reauthorization. To provide policymakers, landowners, and other stakeholders in the więcej... | ||
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Autor: Thornton Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-292-70589-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 116.6 zł | |
From Belize to Brazil, the forests of the American neotropics are home to an astonishing array of birds?over 3,700 different species, or nearly 40 percent of all the birds on earth. Because of this overwhelming abundance, birders come from all over the world to try to catch glimpses of species that can be found nowhere else, such as toucans and antbirds, motmots and manakins, bellbirds and cocks-of-the-rock, and practically all of the planet's hummingbirds. Two such birding enthusiasts are Vera and Bob Thornton, who have więcej... | ||
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Autor: Anderson Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-70625-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł | |
According to conventional wisdom, the national identity of the Jordanian state was defined by the ruling Hashemite family, which has governed the country since the 1920s. But this view overlooks the significant role that the "Arab street"?in this case, ordinary Jordanians and Palestinians?played and continues to play in defining national identity in Jordan and the Fertile Crescent as a whole. Indeed, as this pathfinding study makes clear, "the street" no less than the state has been a major actor in the więcej... | ||
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Autor: Pizarro Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-292-70665-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł | |
By any measure of test scores and graduation rates, public schools are failing to educate a large percentage of Chicana/o youth. But despite years of analysis of this failure, no consensus has been reached as to how to realistically address it. Taking a new approach to these issues, Marcos Pizarro goes directly to Chicana/o students in both urban and rural school districts to ask what their school experiences are really like, how teachers and administrators support or thwart their educational aspirations, and how schools więcej... | ||
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Autor: Agosin Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-70667-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł | |
Latin America has been a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution from 1492, when Sepharad Jews were expelled from Spain, until well into the twentieth century, when European Jews sought sanctuary there from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Vibrant Jewish communities have deep roots in countries such as Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile?though members of these communities have at times experienced the pain of being "the other," ostracized by Christian society and even tortured by military governments. While więcej... | ||
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Autor: Lopez Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-70683-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł | |
When Ernie López was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, his father beat him when he failed to bring home the expected eighty to ninety cents a day. When the beatings became unbearable, he took to petty stealing to make up the difference. As his thefts succeeded, Ernie's sense of necessity got tangled up with ambition and adventure. At thirteen, a joyride in a stolen car led to a sentence in California's harshest juvenile reformatory. The system's failure to show any mercy soon propelled López into a więcej... | ||
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Autor: Dorsey Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-70961-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł | |
A uniquely Tejano version of the old-fashioned political barbeque, the traditional South Texas pachanga allowed politicians to connect with voters in a relaxed setting where all could enjoy live music and abundant food and drink along with political speeches and dealmaking. Today's pachanga still combines politics, music, and votes--along with a powerful new element. Corporate sponsorships have transformed the pachanga into a major marketing event, replete with celebrity performers and product giveaways, which can be recorded więcej... | ||
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Autor: Neugeboren Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-70661-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 53.9 zł | |
Prize-winning novelist Jay Neugeboren's third collection of short stories focuses on Jews in various states of exile and expatriation?strangers in strange lands, far from home. These dozen tales, by an author whose stories have been selected for more than fifty anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Stories, span the twentieth century and vividly capture brief moments in the lives of their characters: a rabbi in a small town in New England struggling to tend to his congregation and himself więcej... | ||
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Autor: Propp Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 1968 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-78376-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł | |
The morphology presented by the author is, of course, a morphology of the fairy tale specifically, and he is careful to make note of this fact in the Foreword and in Chapter II. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Grummond Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-70687-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 155.8 zł | |
Devotion to religion was the distinguishing characteristic of the Etruscan people, the most powerful civilization of Italy in the Archaic period. From a very early date, Etruscan religion spread its influence into Roman society, especially with the practice of divination. The Etruscan priest Spurinna, to give a well-known example, warned Caesar to beware the Ides of March. Yet despite the importance of religion in Etruscan life, there are relatively few modern comprehensive studies of Etruscan religion, and none in English więcej... | ||
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Autor: N. Rejwan Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-292-71288-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 83.3 zł | |
In 1951, Israel was a young nation surrounded by hostile neighbors. Its tenuous grip on nationhood was made slipperier still by internal tensions among the various communities that had immigrated to the new Jewish state, particularly those between the politically and socially dominant Jewish leadership hailing from Eastern Europe and the more numerous Oriental Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. Into this volatile mix came Nissim Rejwan, a young Iraqi Jewish intellectual who was to become one of the country's leading więcej... | ||
