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Islamic Society of North America - HOME Islamic Society of North America Portrait of Islam: A Journey Through the Muslim World by Robin Laurance, From Africa's Atlantic shore, through North Africa, the Middle East, Central, South, and Southeast Asia, to the far-flung Pacific islands of Indonesia, the Islamic world extends over a vast portion of the globe, embracing approximately one-fifth of the planet's population. Yet, despite the presence of substantial Muslim communities in North America and Europe, the Islamic peoples -- their lands, history, culture, art, and faith -- remain largely unknown, ignored, or misunderstood by much ...

Disabled Europe Favicon.Ico Regional Society - HOME Disabled Europe Favicon.Ico Regional 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 ...

Ethnic Latin Regional - HOME Ethnic Latin Regional The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America by Donna Lee Van Cott, Constitutional reform has been one of the most significant aspects of democratization in late twentieth-century Latin America. In The Friendly Liquidation of the Past -- one of the first texts to examine this issue comprehensively -- Van Cott focuses on the efforts of Bolivia and Colombia to incorporate ethnic rights into their fragile democracies. On the basis of interviews with more than 100 participants in the reforms, Van Cott demonstrates how goals ...

Ethnic Regional Spanish - HOME Ethnic Regional Spanish The Ethnic Food Lover's Companion: A Sourcebook for Understanding the Cuisines of the World by Eve Zibart, Nowhere is America's rich ethnic and cultural diversity more apparent than in its restaurants. Every city and region of the United States has a unique cultural heritage - whether it's Cuban, Thai, Spanish, Italian, Indian, French or German - reflected in its dining choices. So what do you order in an ethnic restaurant, and how do you eat? The Ethnic Food Lover's Companion provides all the information you need to ...

American Ethnic Latin Regional - HOME American Ethnic Latin Regional Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala by Robinson A. Herrera, "This certainly is a pioneering and original work . . . [that] in many ways stands alone. . . . The author's documentary and archival support base is massive. I find his arguments convincing and well based."--Murdo J. MacLeod, Graduate Research Professor of History, University of FloridaThe first century of Spanish colonization in Latin America witnessed the birth of cities that, while secondary to great metropolitan centers such as Mexico City and Lima, became important hubs for regional ...

Disabled Europe Regional Society - HOME Disabled Europe Regional Society Eastern Europe, 1939-2000 This book examines the post-war history of Eastern Europe from the perspective of social history. It examines the nature and impact of socialist dictatorships on life in the region, and reveals the extent to which phenomena that emerged during the dictatorships are shaping society in the region today. It also integrates research conducted in the archives opened in the last eleven years into a general history of the region. Europe by Mike Graf, Discover the diversity of the world's continents through this ...

Ethnic European Regional - HOME Ethnic European Regional Them and Us: Questions of Citizenship in a Globalizing World by Rob Kroes, An accomplished set of meditations by one of Europe's leading Americanists, Them and Us is a rich comparative study of European and American cultural traditions and their influence on conceptions of community. In contrast with the ethnic and nationalist allegiances that historically have splintered Europe, Rob Kroes identifies a complex of cultural practices that have mitigated against ethnically rooted divisions in the United States. He argues that the American approach -- articulated by a national rhetoric ...

American California Ethnic Regional Style - HOME American California Ethnic Regional Style California Jews by Ava F.Kahn, In the late nineteenth century a Jewish resident in the small Romanian town of Husch received a letter from a friend in America. "If you want to be poor all your life, " the writer admonished, "go to New York." Otherwise, he advised, "go to the other side, " meaning California, where the 1848 discovery of gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills unleashed a massive migration from Europe, Asia; and the eastern United States. From these early days forward, the state's Jewish ...

North America - HOME North America Distant Lives: Exploring Prehistoric North America by Heather Pringle, Almost unimaginably immense, North America stretches from a few degrees short of the North Pole to a few degrees shy of the equator. Archaeologists are now racing to unravel the mysterious past of the forgotten peoples who once inhabited this sprawling land. In Search of Ancient North America explores many of these scientists' most fascinating findings as Heather Pringle chronicles her journeys among the ancient sites of Canada and the United States. Journeying from the mosquito-infested forests of the far ...

Caribbean Ethnic Indian Regional West - HOME Caribbean Ethnic Indian Regional West Island Sounds in the Global City: Caribbean Popular Music and Identity in New York by Ray Allen, Island Sounds in the Global City maps the musical "Caribbeanization" of New York City, now home to the largest and most diverse concentrations of Caribbean people in the world. Emphasizing the relationship of music to social identity, this volume surveys a rich mosaic of popular Caribbean styles, showing how these musics serve the dual function of defining a group's uniqueness and creating bridges across ethnic boundaries. While Dominicans in ...

North America Airline - HOME North America Airline The Cruise Ship Phenomenon in North America by Brian J. Cudahy, Even taking into account the extraordinarily prosperous economic climate of the late twentieth century, the number of people who now choose a cruise ship vacation is phenomenal. The number of passengers leaving from North American ports leaped from 330,000 in 1965 to nearly 7 million at the turn of the century, placing the cruise ship industry in the enviable position of enjoying burgeoning expansion in their business. This book gives the reader a sense of the scope ...

Hsbc North America - HOME Hsbc North America Distant Lives: Exploring Prehistoric North America by Heather Pringle, Almost unimaginably immense, North America stretches from a few degrees short of the North Pole to a few degrees shy of the equator. Archaeologists are now racing to unravel the mysterious past of the forgotten peoples who once inhabited this sprawling land. In Search of Ancient North America explores many of these scientists' most fascinating findings as Heather Pringle chronicles her journeys among the ancient sites of Canada and the United States. Journeying from the mosquito-infested forests of the ...

America North Regional State United - HOME America North Regional State United Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest by Carl Abbott, Metropolitan Portraits explores the contemporary metropolis in its diverse blend of past and present. Each volume describes a North American urban region in terms of historic experience, spatial configuration, culture, and contemporary challenges. Books in the series are intended to promote discussion and understanding of metropolitan North America at the start of the twenty-first century. It has been called one of the nation's most livable regions, ranked among the best managed cities ...

American Ethnic Regional Southern State - HOME American Ethnic Regional Southern State The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 by David T. Gleeson, The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture. The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self-identification as temporary exiles from famine ...

Ethnic Indic Regional - HOME Ethnic Indic Regional Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War by Stuart Kaufman, Ethnic conflict has been the driving force of wars all over the world, yet it remains an enigma. What is it about ethnicity that breaks countries apart and drives people to acts of savage violence against their lifelong neighbors? Stuart Kaufman rejects the notion of "natural", permanent ethnic hatreds as the answer. Dissatisfied as well with a purely rationalist explanation, he finds the roots of ethnic violence in myths and symbols, the stories ethnic groups tell about who ...

American Ethnic General Regional - HOME American Ethnic General Regional A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 A Companion to American Fiction, 1865?1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of students, scholars, and interested general readers. Containing 29 essays and 12 illustrations with accompanying texts, this comprehensive volume is divided into three sections covering historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors. The essays address a mixture of canonical and non-canonical subjects; so, alongside treatment of such standard topics as realism, naturalism, and regionalism are contributions ...

Shopping Jewelry Ethnic and Regional - HOME Shopping Jewelry Ethnic and Regional The Art of Silver Jewellery: From the Minorities of China, the Golden Triangle, Mongolia and Tibet: The Rene Van Der Star Collection This book and exhibition presents over 250 gold necklaces, rings, and earrings--objects of ceremonial beauty and rare originality created by nomadic tribal peoples of China. Four catalog essays by leading experts illuminate the context of their creation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and also provide valuable background information for designers, art historians, collectors, and dealers. In addition to images of the ...

Arts Ethnic Regional Visual - HOME Arts Ethnic Regional Visual Mountain Patterns: The Survival of Nuosu Culture in China: An Interpretive Catalog Essay by Stevan Harrell, Nestled against Tibetan highlands in the remote mountains of Liangshan in southwest China, the land of the Nuosu people was until the 1950s beyond the easy reach of the Chinese government, and the culture of the Nuosu (a branch of the Yi group) developed with little Chinese influence. In the 1960s China's Cultural Revolution suppressed and eroded Nuosu culture, but since the 1980s there has been a resurgence of Nuosu ethnic ...

Celtic Biz - HOME Celtic Biz Historical Atlas of the Celtic World The remarkable Celtic culture once encompassed most of Western Europe; even after centuries of invasion and conquest it flourished in remote corners of the continent. This book is a beautifully illustrated survey of Celtic society, its history and belief, from its origins to the present day. Historical Atlas of the Celtic World traces the development of Celtic religion and mythology, and describes the flowering of their unique metalwork, sculpture, and illumination. The book draws on this superb legacy and interweaves it with a scholarly examination ... unknown but where cultural and stylistic similarities lead archaeologists to consider it probable that they were predecessors of those known to speak Celtic languages, and Celtic revival art from the 18th century to the modern era which began as a conscious effort by Modern ... celticbiz Shopping Jewelry Ethnic and Regional - ... Arts See Also: Arts: Visual Arts: Native and Tribal: North America Shopping: Ethnic and Regional: Latin American Shopping: Ethnic and Regional: North ... Idaho Jewelry - Idaho Jewelry Idaho Jewelry Idaho Jewelry Ethnic and Regional - Privacy Shopping: Jewelry: Ethnic and Regional African (other...) Celtic (other...) ...

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 ...

Chinese Ethnic Regional - HOME Chinese Ethnic Regional Lessons in Being Chinese: Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China Two very different ethnic minority communities -- the Naxi of the Lijiang area in northern Yunnan and the Tai (Dai) of Sipsong Panna (Xishuangbanna), along Yunnan's border with Burma and Laos -- are featured in this comparative study of the implementation and reception of state minority education policy in the People's Republic of China. Based on field research and historical sources, Lessons in Being Chinese argues that state policy, which is intended to be applied uniformly across ...

Central Mortgage State - ... and in Guangdong province, the author maps the process by which these county-level offices grew. This book highlights variation in local state structures and practices between localities and between the central and local governments. As the author shows, this variation is important because it results in regional differences in state-society relations and affects central state capacity in terms of the local state's ability to implement central state policies as well as its own. The Soviet Legacy in Central Asia by John Glenn, This book analyzes the new pattern of security concerns of the Central ...

America Association Ostomy United - HOME America Association Ostomy United Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics by Akel Ismail Kahera, "This text will be the classic work in the field. . . . It will be extremely useful for general Islamic studies, for studies of religion in America, and for the study of Islam in America."--Aminah Beverly McCloud, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, DePaul University, ChicagoFrom the avant-garde design of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City to the simplicity of the Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico, the American mosque takes many forms ...

Ethnic Irish Regional - HOME Ethnic Irish Regional The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 by David T. Gleeson, The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture. The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self-identification as temporary exiles from famine and British ...

Business Immigrant - ... Their Determinants6. The More Things Change: Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s7. Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance?8. Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born9. Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity by Marilyn Halter, In America today, you can connect to your ethnic heritage in dozens of ways, or adopt an identity just for an evening. Our society is not a melting pot but a salad bar--a bazaar in which the purveyors of goods and services spend close to $2 ...

Familiar Birds Of North America: Eastern Region (The Audubon Society Pocket Guides) (Paperback) : This guide contains full-color photographs, range maps, and comprehensive information on eighty species of b...

Familiar Birds Of North America: Western Region (The Audubon Society Pocket Guides) (Paperback) : A guide containing full-color photographs, range maps, and comprehensive information on eighty species of bi...

National Audubon Society Field Guide To North American Wildflowers: Western Region (National Audubon Society Field Guide) (Paperback) : The Western guide to identifying wildflowers in North America encompasses updated descriptions of a wide var...

Eating Like Queens: A Guide To Ethnic Dinning In Americas Melting Pot, Queens, New York (Paperback) : Author: Parker, Suzanne. Number of Pages: 250. Published On: 2005/06/15. Language: ENGLISH

Familiar Trees Of North America: Eastern Region (The Audubon Society Pocket Guides) (Paperback) : Author: Franklin, Jerry. Published On: 1987/04/01. Language: ENGLISH

The Disuniting Of America: Reflections On A Multicultural Society (Paperback) : Examines the growing cult of ethnicity in the United States and discusses how it undermines a common America...

Ethnic America: A History (Paperback) : Traces the story of nine different ethnic groups in American society, discussing their various reactions to ...

On The Chile Trail: 100 Great Recipes From Across America (Paperback) : A renowned expert on Southwestern cuisine presents a unique look at the history and evolution of chile recip...

Celebrating Barbecue: The Ultimate Guide To America S Four Regional Styles Of Cue (Hardcover) : Shares eighty-five recipes for making barbecue, from Texas brisket to North Carolina-style pulled pork, alon...