My Italian American Family Rural Taiwan And Lawndale News Memoirs

Author : Daniel Nardini
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984516256
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Italian American Family, Rural Taiwan and Lawndale News Memoirs written by Daniel Nardini and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Italian American Family, Rural Taiwan and Lawndale News Memoirs are a combined set of memoirs. The first deals with Mr. Nardinis family and their personal history as well as the authors life growing up. The second deals with his three and a half years living on a farm in Taiwan and what rural life was like during the time the author lived in the rural Taiwanese countryside. The third memoir is about Mr. Nardinis twenty years working for Lawndale Newsa bilingual Latino newspaper in English and Spanish located in Cicero, Illinois.

Author : Margery Wolf
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804780780
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan written by Margery Wolf and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1972-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their personal goals. The source of a woman's power, her home in a social structure dominated by men, is what the author calls the uterine family, a de facto social unity consisting of a mother and her children. The first four chapters are devoted to general background material: a brief historical sketch of Taiwan and a description fo the settings in which the author's observations were made; the history of a particular family; the relation of Chinese women to the Chinese kinship system; and the interrelationships among women in the community. The remaining ten chapters take up in detail the successive stages of the Taiwanese woman's life cycle: infancy, childhood, engagement, marriage, motherhood, and old age. Throught the book the author presents detailed information on such topics as marriage negotiations, childbirth, child training practices, and the organization of women's groups.

Author : Donna O'Neill
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465338950
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My American Family written by Donna O'Neill and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Family Tree with its tangled roots and strong, sturdy trunk blossoms out to encompass a full splendor of branches, leaves, and twigs. It stands in a meadow full of life experiences with its rocks of hardships and flowering with beautiful memories. Surrounded by a grove of friendships and acquaintances that have protected and assisted in its life, it stands in its ever-growing majestic splendor reaching towards God’s heaven and eternal life.

Author : Carol Haddix
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025209977X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chicago Food Encyclopedia written by Carol Haddix and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicago Food Encyclopedia is a far-ranging portrait of an American culinary paradise. Hundreds of entries deliver all of the visionary restauranteurs, Michelin superstars, beloved haunts, and food companies of today and yesterday. More than 100 sumptuous images include thirty full-color photographs that transport readers to dining rooms and food stands across the city. Throughout, a roster of writers, scholars, and industry experts pays tribute to an expansive--and still expanding--food history that not only helped build Chicago but fed a growing nation. Pizza. Alinea. Wrigley Spearmint. Soul food. Rick Bayless. Hot Dogs. Koreatown. Everest. All served up A-Z, and all part of the ultimate reference on Chicago and its food.

Author : Jan Lin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415665302
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Sociology Reader written by Jan Lin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader draws together seminal selections spanning the subfield from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Contributions from Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, Zukin, Sassen, Smith and Castells are amongst the 40 selections.

Author : George W. Knox
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351644890
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gangs and Organized Crime written by George W. Knox and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gangs and Organized Crime, George W. Knox, Gregg W. Etter, and Carter F. Smith offer an informed and carefully investigated examination of gangs and organized crime groups, covering street gangs, prison gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and organized crime groups from every continent. The authors have spent decades investigating gangs as well as researching their history and activities, and this dual professional-academic perspective informs their analysis of gangs and crime groups. They take a multidisciplinary approach that combines criminal justice, public policy and administration, law, organizational behavior, sociology, psychology, and urban planning perspectives to provide insight into the actions and interactions of a variety of groups and their members. This textbook is ideal for criminal justice and sociology courses on gangs as well as related course topics like gang behavior, gang crime and the inner city, organized crime families, and transnational criminal groups. Gangs and Organized Crime is also an excellent addition to the professional’s reference library or primer for the general reader. More information is available at the supporting website – www.gangsandorganizedcrime.com

Author : Wolfgang Preiser
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 007162922X
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universal Design Handbook, 2E written by Wolfgang Preiser and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latest Advances in Universal Design Thoroughly updated and packed with examples of global standards and design solutions, Universal Design Handbook, Second Edition, covers the full scope of universal design, discussing how to develop media, products, buildings, and infrastructure for the widest range of human needs, preferences, and functioning. This pioneering work brings together a rich variety of expertise from around the world to discuss the extraordinary growth and changes in the universal design movement. The book provides an overview of universal design premises and perspectives, and performance-based design criteria and guidelines. Public and private spaces, products, and technologies are covered, and current and emerging research and teaching are explored. This unique resource includes analyses of historical and contemporary universal design issues from seven different countries, as well as a look at future trends. Students, advocates, policy makers, and design practitioners will get a theoretical grounding in and practical reference on the physical and social roles of design from this definitive volume. UNIVERSAL DESIGN HANDBOOK, SECOND EDITION, COVERS: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities U.S. accessibility codes and standards, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Life safety standards and guidelines Universal design implementations in Norway, Japan, France, Germany, Brazil, Italy and the Old City of Jerusalem Planning ADA implementation in public educational institutions Urban scale and mass transportation universal design Designing inclusive experiences, including outdoor play settings Office and workspace design Universal design in home building and remodeling Products and technologies, including autos, web access, media, and digital content Universal design research initiatives, education, and performance assessments

Author : J. Densley
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137572936
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Gangs Work written by J. Densley and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive interviews with gang members, this book provides a vivid portrayal of gang life. Topics include the profiles and motivations of gang members; the processes of gang evolution, organization, and recruitment; gang members' uses of violence, media, and technology and the role of gangs in the drugs trade and organized crime

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Total Pages : 252 pages
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Author : Peter Baehr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351530313
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caesarism, Charisma and Fate written by Peter Baehr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How do writers, marginalized by the authoritarian state in which they live, intervene in the political process? They cannot do so directly because they are not politicians. Other modes of engagement are possible, however. A writer may take up arms and become a revolutionary. Or, as Max Weber did, he may try to influence politics by playing the role of constitutional advisor, or by seeking to shape the dominant language in which his contemporaries think. Weber sought to reconstitute the political and social vocabulary of his day.Part I of Caesarism, Charisma and Fate examines a great writer's political passions and the linguistic creativity they generated. Specially, it is an analysis of the manner in which Weber reshaped the nineteenth century idea of ""Caesarism,"" a term traditionally associated with the authoritarian populism of Napoleon III and Bismarck, and transmuted it into a concept that was either neutral or positive. The coup de grace of this alchemy was to make Caesarism reappear as charisma. In that transformation, a highly contentious political concept, suffused with disapproval and anxiety, was naturalized into an ideal type of universal value-free sociology.Part II augments Weber's ideas for the modem age. A recurrent preoccupation of Weber's writings was human ""fate,"" a condition that evokes the pathos of choice, the political meaning of death, and the formation of national solidarity. Peter Baehr, marrying Weber and Durkheim, fashions a new concept, ""community of fate,"" for sociological theory. Communities of fate--such as the Warsaw Ghetto or Hong Kong dealing with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis--are embattled social sites in which people face the prospect of collective death. They cohere because of an intense and broadly shared focus of attention on a common plight. Weber's work helps us grasp the nature of such communities, the mechanisms that produce them, and, not least, their dramatic consequences.