Introduction: The Masculinity and Sexuality of the Migrant Man . - Part One: The Migrant's Journey . - 1. The Art of Cholear: Race, Class, andthe Peruvian Dilemma . - 2. Living Transnationally: Emotional Remmitances and Virtual Social Capital . - Part Two: Becoming and Being a M…
The author argues that the Japanese may use the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and consequent terrifying meltdown at the nuclear complex at Fukushima, to stimulate their economy and turn it into a mature economy, comfortable in itself, with satisfactory growth an…
"From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines of newspapers and nightly news programs. At the same time, a different kind of headline has captured public attention: a steady sur…
"This innovative book introduces China on its own terms by explaining ten key concepts that frame the way most Chinese people think about the world. Posing four questions that Westerners routinely ask abut China, the authors respond using these ten Chinese key words. Not surpris…
In this innovative book Jerusha McCormack and John G. Blair introduce China on its own terms. By explaining ten key concepts that frame the way most Chinese people think about the world, they compare these terms - which don't translate readily into English - with the ways most o…
Skepticism and irony : La Celestina (1499) -- An aesthetics of love : Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore (1505-1535) -- Inquisition and conversion : El Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) -- Marranism and modernity : the meaning of form in Michel de Montaigne's Essais (1580-1588) -- Sacred t…
In Political Tribes, Amy Chua argues that we must rediscover an identity that transcends the tribalism we see in politics today. Enough false slogans of unity, which are just another form of divisiveness. When people are defined by their differences to each other, extremism beco…
"In this work Luca Somigli discusses several European artistic movements - decadentism, Italian futurism, vorticism, and imagism - and argues for the centrality of the works of F.T. Marinetti in the transition from a fin de siecle decadent poetics, exemplified by the manifestoes…
In this work Luca Somigli discusses several European artistic movements - decadentism, Italian futurism, vorticism, and imagism - and argues for the centrality of the works of F.T. Marinetti in the transition from a fin de siecle decadent poetics, exemplified by the manifestoes …
