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Social Science and Social Problem Solving
The problem that gives rise to this book is dissatisfaction with social science and social research as instruments of social problem solving. Policy makers and other practical problem solvers frequently voice disappointment...
Deceptive Distinctions
Sex, Gender, and the Social Order
In this important book a leading feminist scholar surveys and critiques gender research in a range of disciplines, showing how distinctions between the sexes are maintained by ideology and social controls.“A model...
Chinese Dialogues
An Intermediate Level Text for Modern Chinese
This popular spoken language text for intermediate level students (second year) presents twenty-four lessons based on everyday situations. All lessons include a variety of practice materials. This volume, which records the...
Speak Cantonese, Book Three
Speak Cantonese, Book Three, is one of a series of books that teaches the modern spoken language of Cantonese, one of the major dialects of Chinese. As appropriate for a text of its kind, it is entirely in romaniation...
Written Standard Chinese, Volume One
A Beginning Reading Text for Modern Chinese
This book begins the Written Standard Chinese series. It introduces 300 basic characters, using pinyin romanization and both traditional and simplified forms.
Introduction to Research in Chinese Source Materials
This book serves as a succint and thorough guide to pursuing basic research in Chinese sources. Designed as a tool for both primary and secondary texts, it reviews terminology, modes of organization, and cultural implications...
Yale French Studies, Number 108
Crime Fictions
David F. BellTechnologies of Speed, Technologies of CrimeUri EisenzweigViolence Untold: The Birth of a Modern FascinationDominique KalifaCriminal Investigators at the Fin-de...
Singing for Freedom
The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform
In the two decades prior to the Civil War, the Hutchinson Family Singers of New Hampshire became America’s most popular musical act. Out of a Baptist revival upbringing, John, Asa, Judson, and Abby Hutchinson transformed...
Dominance and Affection
The Making of Pets
Is it cruelty or playfulness to breed a variety of goldfish with dysfunctional bulging eyes? Was it an urge for dominance or benevolence that led ladies of eighteenth-century England to keep finely dressed black boys...
Vulgar Eloquence
On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature
This original book challenges prevailing accounts of English literary history, arguing that English literature emerged as a distinct category during the late sixteenth century, as England’s relationship with classical Rome...