university of california press apr 2001 (7 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a book for people interested in domestic architecture who might wish to build a house of their own, with both philosophical questions and pragmatic matters to be considered as the reader thinks about what is wanted in a house, what needs and desires one wishes it to serve.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cavalli-Sforza was among the first to ask whether the genes of modern populations contain a historical record of the human species. In answering to the affirmative, this title comprises five lectures that serve as a summation of the author's work in tracking a hundred thousand years of human evolution. Maps.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - To Place Our Deeds traces the development of the African American community in Richmond, California, a city on the San Francisco Bay. This readable, extremely well-researched social history, based on numerous oral histories, newspapers, and archival collections, is the first to examine the historical development of one black working-class community over a fifty-year period.Offering a gritty and engaging view of daily life in Richmond, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore examines the process and effect of migration, the rise of a black urban industrial workforce, and the dynamics of community development. She describes the culture that migrants brought with them-including music, food, religion, and sports-and shows how these traditions were adapted to new circumstances. Working-class African Americans in Richmond used their cultural venues-especially the city's legendary blues clubs-as staging grounds from which to challenge the racial status quo, with a steadfast determination not to be 'Jim Crowed' in the Golden State.As this important work shows, working-class African Americans often stood at the forefront of the struggle for equality and were linked to larger political, social, and cultural currents that transformed the nation in the postwar period.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - praise for the first edition: 'When two such brilliantly ebullient intellectuals get together by mail, they charge the air with all sorts of pyrotechnics.'--Carlos Baker, author of Hemingway.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mary Lou Williams--pianist, arranger, composer, and probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz--receives the attention she has long deserved in this definitive biography.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rather than enjoy erotic images in private, the Romans placed scenes of lovemaking on everyday objects and walls in public spaces. John Clarke discusses the different view of sexuality these objects and their use implies. This is the first work to discuss ancient sexuality emphasizing the evidence to be found in artifacts rather than in the literary record.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This most current Tibetan-English dictionary surpasses existing dictionaries in both scope and comprehensiveness.