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Asia Culture Home Page Personal Society - HOME Asia Culture Home Page Personal Society Civil Society in Central Asia by M. Holt Ruffin, Central Asia, home of Tamerlane and the Silk Road, is a crossroads of great cultures and civilizations. In 1991 five nations at the heart of the region -- Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan -- suddenly became independent from the USSR. Today they sit strategically between Russia, China, and Iran, holding some of the world's largest deposits of oil and natural gas. Long-suppressed ethnic identities are finding new expression in language, religion, the arts, international alignments -- and ...

American Homestar - HOME American Homestar Fifty Years of American Poetry: Over 2000 Important Works by America's Modern Masters by Academy of American Poets, Seer, critic, lover, madwoman--the poet's sensibility gives us a chance to experience them all. This rich, wide-ranging collection of work by scores of America's contemporary poets brings you both wisdom and entertainment in short verse. In it are represented, with one poem each, the chancellors, fellows, and award winners of the Academy of American Poets since 1934. The result is a unique sampler of the various literary ...

Asian Mcdonalds Salad - HOME Asian Mcdonalds Salad Complete Idiot's Guide to Asian Cooking: The Latest is Fresh, New Cooking for the Home Cook Who Wants to Learn a New Style! by Annie Wong, -- Fresher, more modern approach than a Chinese cookbook -- better than the competition with more recipes at a lower price. The competitor's book has only 110 recipes and only covers Chinese. We have 150! -- Sixteen pages of professional color photos of selected dishes show readers what the recipes should look like! Pan-Asian cooking takes the best ingredients and flavors of many ...

Asian Food History - HOME Asian Food History A History of Cooks and Cooking Named Best Culinary History Book at the Salon International du Livre Gourmand (Fifth World Cookbook Fair), Perigueux, France Winner, Bronze Ladle in the Best Food Book division, World Food Media Awards Never has there been so little need to cook. Yet Michael Symons maintains that to be truly human we need to become better cooks: practical and generous sharers of food. Fueled by James Boswell's definition of humans as cooking animals (for "no beast can cook"), Symons sets out to explore the civilizing role of cooks in history. His wanderings take us to the clay ovens of the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean and the bronze cauldrons of ancient China, to fabulous banquets in the temples and courts of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Persia, to medieval English cookshops and southeast Asian street markets, to palace kitchens, diners, and to moderns fast-food eateries. Symons samples conceptions and perceptions of cooks and cooking, from Plato and Descartes to Marx and Virginia Woolf, asking why cooks, despite their vital and central role in sustaining life, have remained in ...

American Immigrant - HOME American Immigrant Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870-1930 by Orm Verland, Ethnic celebrations in the United States, ranging from Columbus Day to St. Patrick's Day, offer a way of affirming that a given ethnic group has a home in America. Immigrant Minds, American Identities explores the stories that connect ethnic identity with a rightful, even an honored, place in America. Focusing on a period of American history marked by a sharp division between Anglo-Americans ("Americans") and non-Anglo European immigrants ("foreigners"), Orm Overland examines the ...

Fahrenheit Group Taiwanese - HOME Fahrenheit Group Taiwanese The Taiwanese Americans by Franklin Ng, Despite the relatively short history of the Taiwanese in the United States, they have been a significant presence in America. Since 1965, immigration law changes have led to a dramatic increase in the Asian population in the United States. Taiwanese Americans, the immigrants from Taiwan and their descendants, are a prominent group in this increasing Asian population. This is the first book-length study about the Taiwanese American community in the United States. While most articles have discussed the economic impact of their ...

American Indian Music - HOME American Indian Music Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City by Sunaina Maira, She sports a nose-ring and duppat (a scarf worn by South Asian women) along with the latest fashion in slinky club wear; he's decked out in Tommy gear. Their moves on the crowded dance floor, blending Indian film dance with break-dancing, attract no particular attention. They are just two of the hundreds of hip young people who flock to the desi (i.e., South Asian) party scene that flourishes in the ...

Page Profile - HOME Page Profile Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950 by Kathleen A. Cairns, During a time when female reporters were almost always relegated to the society and women's pages of the newspapers, a few hundred notable women broke barriers and wrote their way onto the front pages of metropolitan newspapers. Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950 takes a look at the lives and careers of women who worked successfully in this male-dominated profession. Kathleen A. Cairns examines the roles women played in early-twentieth-century newspaper journalism and the influence they ...

Profile Page - HOME Profile Page Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950 by Kathleen A. Cairns, During a time when female reporters were almost always relegated to the society and women's pages of the newspapers, a few hundred notable women broke barriers and wrote their way onto the front pages of metropolitan newspapers. Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950 takes a look at the lives and careers of women who worked successfully in this male-dominated profession. Kathleen A. Cairns examines the roles women played in early-twentieth-century newspaper journalism and the influence they ...

Indian Film Music - ... greater accountability to its public. All this is reflected in this new and extensively revised edition of "Indian Popular Cinema." It tracks the rise of "designer cinema," reviews the increasingly significant Tamil cinema, and considers films made by Indians in the diaspora. Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City by Sunaina Maira, She sports a nose-ring and duppat (a scarf worn by South Asian women) along with the latest fashion in slinky club wear; he's decked out in Tommy gear. Their moves on the crowded dance floor, blending Indian film dance with break-dancing, attract no particular attention. They are just two of the hundreds of hip young ...

Film Indian Music - ... greater accountability to its public. All this is reflected in this new and extensively revised edition of "Indian Popular Cinema." It tracks the rise of "designer cinema," reviews the increasingly significant Tamil cinema, and considers films made by Indians in the diaspora. Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City by Sunaina Maira, She sports a nose-ring and duppat (a scarf worn by South Asian women) along with the latest fashion in slinky club wear; he's decked out in Tommy gear. Their moves on the crowded dance floor, blending Indian film dance with break-dancing, attract no particular attention. They are just two of the hundreds of hip young ...

Immigrant Ship - HOME Immigrant Ship Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870-1930 by Orm Verland, Ethnic celebrations in the United States, ranging from Columbus Day to St. Patrick's Day, offer a way of affirming that a given ethnic group has a home in America. Immigrant Minds, American Identities explores the stories that connect ethnic identity with a rightful, even an honored, place in America. Focusing on a period of American history marked by a sharp division between Anglo-Americans ("Americans") and non-Anglo European immigrants ("foreigners"), Orm Overland examines the ...

Formation Identity Religion Taiwanese - ... Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation by Leo Ching, IN 1895, Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire socioeconomic and political fabric of Taiwanese society. In Becoming "Japanese", Leo Ching examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation (doka) and imperialization (kominka) from the early 1920s to the end of the Japanese Empire in 1945. Becoming "Japanese" analyzes the ways in which the Taiwanese struggled, negotiated, and collaborated with Japanese colonialism during the cultural practices of assimilation and imperialization. It chronicles a historiography of colonial identity formations that delineates the shift from a collective and heterogeneous political horizon to a personal and inner struggle of becoming "Japanese". Successfully bridging history and literary studies, this bold and imaginative book rethinks the history of Japanese rule in Taiwan by radically expanding its approach to colonial discourses. Showing the ways that Taiwanese identities were produced in the interstices of ...

Social Justice Article - HOME Social Justice Article Wrongly Convicted: Perspectives on Failed Justice by Saundra D. Westervelt, The American criminal justice system contains numerous safeguards to prevent the conviction of innocent persons. The Bill of Rights provides nineteen separate rights for the alleged criminal offender, including the right to effective legal representation and the right to be judged without regard to race or creed. Despite these safeguards, wrongful convictions persist, and the issue has reverberated in the national debate over capital punishment. The essays in this volume are written from a cross-disciplinary perspective by some ...

Political Map of North America - HOME Political Map of North America Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America by Sunaina Maira, This book comes at a critical time in the history of South Asians in North America. As the number of South Asian immigrants increases in the United. States and Canada, a familiar tension has been the immigrant conflict between home as a physical site in North America and home as an emotional concept tied to the ancestral country, and the second generation's questioning of both notions. This anthology critically explores this familiar tension and ...

Asia Regional Turkmenistan - ... terrorist attacks of September 11 have turned the world's attention to areas of the globe about which we know very little. Ahmed Rashid, who masterfully explained Afghanistan's Taliban regime in his previous book, here turns his skills as an investigative journalist to the five Central Asian republics adjacent to Afghanistan. Central Asia is coming to play a vital strategic role in the war on terrorism, but the region also poses new threats to global security. The five Central Asian republics -- Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan -- were part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991. Under Soviet rule, Islam was brutally suppressed, and that intolerance has continued under the post-Soviet regimes. Religious repression, political corruption, and the region's extreme poverty ( ...

Chinese Language - HOME Chinese Language Chinese Cognitive Processing of Chinese and Related Asian Languages by Chen Hsuan-Chin, A dramatic increase in interest in Chinese culture and the Chinese language has been seen during recent years, not only in the research community but also among the general public. This developing of interest in Chinese is stimulated, at least in part, by the growing prominence of major Chinese societies (e.g., Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China) in international trade. Chinese is perhaps the most widely used language in the world. In addition to its popularity, many specific properties make it unique among currently used languages and scripts. For instance, unlike the alphabetic symbols common ...

Latest Indian Music - HOME Latest Indian Music Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City by Sunaina Maira, She sports a nose-ring and duppat (a scarf worn by South Asian women) along with the latest fashion in slinky club wear; he's decked out in Tommy gear. Their moves on the crowded dance floor, blending Indian film dance with break-dancing, attract no particular attention. They are just two of the hundreds of hip young people who flock to the desi (i.e., South Asian) party scene that flourishes in the ...

Immigrant in the Us - HOME Immigrant in the Us Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy by George J. Borjas, The United States took in more than a million immigrants per year in the late 1990s, more than at any other time in history. For humanitarian and many other reasons, this may be good news. But as George Borjas shows in Heaven's Door, it's decidedly mixed news for the American economy -- and positively bad news for the country's poorest citizens. Widely regarded as the country's leading immigration economist, Borjas presents the most comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date account yet of the economic impact of recent immigration on America. He reveals that the ...

South American Furniture - HOME South American Furniture American Indian Basketry by Otis Tufton Mason, Exhaustive, standard survey of baskets and their makers, Alaska to South America. Describes uses--in defense and war, dress and adornment, fine art, preparing and serving food, gleaning and milling, house-building and furniture, their symbolism in mortuary customs and much more. 460 illustrations. The World's Greatest Lighthouses Escape into these spectacular color photographs of more than 50 of the world's most beautiful lighthouses. They hail from North American shores such as the Outer Banks, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, and the ...

Fact About Racism - HOME Fact About Racism Karmic Traces by Eliot Weinberger, For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into the realm of poetry and narrative. Full of stories, yet written in a condensed, imagistic language, his essays are works of the imagination where all the facts are verifiable. As entertaining as fiction and as vivid as poems, making unexpected stops in odd corners of the globe or forgotten moments in human history, erudite, politically engaged, and acerbically witty, there is nothing quite like his work in contemporary writing. In Karmic Traces, Weinberger's third collection from New Directions, twenty-four essays take the reader along on the author's personal travels from the Atacama Desert to Iceland to Hong Kong on the verge of the handover to China, as well as on imagined voyages in a 17th-century Danish ship bound for India and among strange religious cults or even stranger small animals. One never ...

Fahrenheit Taiwanese - HOME Fahrenheit Taiwanese The Taiwanese Americans by Franklin Ng, Despite the relatively short history of the Taiwanese in the United States, they have been a significant presence in America. Since 1965, immigration law changes have led to a dramatic increase in the Asian population in the United States. Taiwanese Americans, the immigrants from Taiwan and their descendants, are a prominent group in this increasing Asian population. This is the first book-length study about the Taiwanese American community in the United States. While most articles have discussed the economic impact of their immigration, ...

Bird of North America - HOME Bird of North America Familiar Birds of North America: Eastern Region by Audubon Society, Brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Birds of North America: East is designed to be compact enough to literally fit into any bird-lover's back pocket. This streamlined volume contains; an easy-to-use field guide identifying 80 of the most frequently encountered birds in the Eastern region bounded by the Rocky Mountains and eastward towards the Atlantic Ocean; a complete overview of birdwatching, covering basic identifying ...

American Academy of Antiaging Medicine - HOME American Academy of Antiaging Medicine Medicine, Science, and Merck P. Roy Vagelos grew up during the Depression as a wise-cracking son of Greek immigrants. He left his family's small restaurant to become a doctor and went on to master three professions and become the Chief Executive Officer of the multinational pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co. Medicine, Science, and Merck follows Vangelos' life from childhood to retirement, from his academic years at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University's Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital through his professional career at the National Institute ... as CEO of Merck & Co., Inc. from 1985 to 1994. Before assuming responsibilities in business leadership, he had won scientific recognition as an authority on lipids and enzymes and as a research manager. The author of more than 100 scientific papers, Vagelos has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Louis Galambos has written extensively on U.S. business-government relations, on economic aspects of modern institutional developments and on the rise of the bureaucratic state. A professor at Johns ...

Dance Learn Techno - HOME Dance Learn Techno Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City by Sunaina Maira, She sports a nose-ring and duppat (a scarf worn by South Asian women) along with the latest fashion in slinky club wear; he's decked out in Tommy gear. Their moves on the crowded dance floor, blending Indian film dance with break-dancing, attract no particular attention. They are just two of the hundreds of hip young people who flock to the desi (i.e., South Asian) party scene that flourishes in the ...

Common Last Mexican Name Surname - HOME Common Last Mexican Name Surname Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict, and Solidarity "This book offers a provocative analysis of how ethnic identity is constructed and explores the significance Mexican ancestry plays in the lives of Mexican Americans. . . . It is an authoritative text."--Martha Menchaca, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at AustinOn the surface, Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants to the United States seem to share a common cultural identity but often make uneasy neighbors. Discrimination and assimilationist policies have influenced generations of Mexican Americans so that some ...

Custom Wedding Invitation - HOME Custom Wedding Invitation Bride's Little Book of Customs and Keepsakes by Bride's Magazine, Weddings have always been a special combination of traditional customs and individual expressions. In Bride's Little Book of Customs and Keepsakes, the editors of Bride's magazine have collected American and international wedding traditions and wedding mementos that will help every bride create her unique and very special day. With more than 35 full-color illustrations, Bride's Little Book of Customs and Keepsakes traces the rituals of the nuptial process from courting and betrothal to the ... custom); elegant calligraphy invitations (as were done by medieval monks); or a Victorian "regard ring," in which the first letter of each gemstone spells out a message or a name. Sharing traditions from ancient times through the Victorian era and the postwar years as well as African-American, Native American, Asian, and other ethnic traditions, this book will help brides personalize their weddings as never before. Wedding invitation - A wedding invitation is a letter sent to a person, asking the recipient to attend a wedding. They are typically mailed out 6 weeks before ...

Consumption Disease - ... calorie, nutrient-poor, immune-disruptive grains."-Kenneth D. Fine, M.D., gluten sensitivity researcher and director of The Intestinal Health Institute, Dallas "An intriguing book loaded with practical nutrition advice that you won't want to stop reading."Annemaria Ballin, Ph.D., founder and director of education, American Academy of Nutrition In a society where wheat is a daily staple and the heart of the continent is endearingly called "the bread basket," it seems almost sacrilegious to promote the benefits of a low- to no-grain diet. But in Going Against the Grain, nutritionist Melissa Diane Smith challenges conventional ...

Minor Consumption - ... experience in New York, the global center of culture and consumption, where Latinos are now the biggest minority group. Analyzing the simultaneous gentrification and Latinization of what is known as El Barrio or Spanish Harlem, "Barrio Dreams "makes a compelling case that--despite neoliberalism's race-and ethnicity-free tenets--dreams of economic empowerment are never devoid of distinct racial and ethnic considerations. Davila scrutinizes dramatic shifts in housing, the growth of charter schools, and the enactment of Empowerment Zone legislation that promises upward mobility and empowerment while shutting out many longtime residents. Foregrounding privatization and consumption, she offers an innovative look at the marketing of Latino ...

About Lesotho Woman - ... Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become over-domesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller, shows how woman ... The Gullah people are one of our most distinctive cultural groups. Isolated off the South Carolina-Georgia coast for nearly three centuries, the native black population of the Sea Islands has developed a vibrant way of life that remains, in many ways, as African as it is American. This landmark volume tells a multifaceted story of this venerable society, emphasizing its roots in Africa, its unique imprint on America, african culture religion south woman and current threats to its survival. With a keen sense of the limits to establishing origins african culture religion ...

Economy Immigration - HOME Economy Immigration Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy by George J. Borjas, The United States took in more than a million immigrants per year in the late 1990s, more than at any other time in history. For humanitarian and many other reasons, this may be good news. But as George Borjas shows in Heaven's Door, it's decidedly mixed news for the American economy -- and positively bad news for the country's poorest citizens. Widely regarded as the country's leading immigration economist, Borjas presents the most comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date account yet of the economic impact of recent immigration on America. He reveals that the ...

Department 56 Nativity - HOME Department 56 Nativity A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History by Peter Nabokov, A Forest of Time is the first introduction for undergraduates and graduates, Western and Indian history buffs, and general readers to the notion that American Indian societies had vital interests in interpreting and transmitting their own ways for themselves. Through separate discussions of legends and oral histories, creation stories and folktales, it illustrates how various Indian peoples related and commented upon their changing times. Drawing upon his own varied research as well as sampling the latest in ...

Community College Loan - HOME Community College Loan College Financial Aid for African-Americans by Thomas Alexis LaVeist, How are you going to pay for college? With the costs of college these days, financial aid isn't an option; it's a necessity. But how do you know you're getting everything you deserve? Eight Steps to Help Black Families Pay for College walks you through this daunting process. Inside you'll learn how to: -Get a handle on the financial aid process; learn about loans, scholarships, grants, and work-study programs -Approach financial aid with the right ... a life of Christian discipleship. Questions about first jobs, career direction, repaying student loans, and the integration of faith into daily life loom large in the minds of many students. Further, the campus life that once provided a sense of community, nurture, and friendships--critical for the personal and spiritual growth of students--is about to vanish. How then does a student begin to make preparations so their transition into the '"real world? will not end in a collapse of faith or a slow series of compromises that ultimately lead to a life ...