Papergirl

Ten-year-old Cassie lives with her working-class family in 1919 Winnipeg. The Great War and Spanish Influenza have taken their toll, and workers in the city are frustrated with low wages and long hours. When they orchestrate a general strike, Cassie — bright, determined and very bored at school —...

Papua new guinea's last place

What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growin...

Parable and politics in early islamic history

Tayeb El-Hibri draws on medieval Islamic chronicles to remap the origins of Islamic political and religious orthodoxy, offering an insightful critique of both early and contemporary Islam and the concerns of legitimacy shadowing various rulers. He also highlights the Islamic reinterpretation of b...

Parable of hide and seek

Chad Sweeney’s imaginative poems embark on a tour of magical realism both breathtaking and slightly awry.

Parables of kierkegaard

The description for this book, Parables of Kierkegaard, will be forthcoming.

Parables of sun light

For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, questions, and even (after a stay in Japan for a year) poems in the haiku pattern. Some of these notes found their way into his books—known and prized the ...

Parables, myths and risks

Continuing the search for greater reflectivity regarding accounting’s role in society, this volume identifies the many ways accounting contributes to knowledge creation and the consequences in socio-economic realms.

Paradigm lost

The two-state solution is doomed; the one-state reality is here to stayWhy have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict that has cost so much and lasted so long? In Paradigm Lost, Ian S. Lustick brings fifty years as an analyst of the Arab-Israeli dispute ...

Paradise

Elena Shvarts was the most outstanding Russian poet of her generation. 'Paradise' presents a dual language selection of her earlier poetry, and was a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Each new generation has to reinterpret St Petersburg, the place, the culture and its significance for...

Paradise

From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization"[Gurnah’s novels] recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified East Africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world....

Paradise and elsewhere

Inner landscapes, primitive worlds: Angela Carter meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez in this collection of brightly coloured, convention-tangling origin myths.

Paradise in ashes

Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz—an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatema...

Paradise inc.

FINALIST OF THE 2024 LUCIE PHOTO BOOK PRIZE“An epic new book... the photographs, often in jarring juxtaposition, underscore the cruel bargain of Western 'progress'—and the paradoxical damage brought on by a half century of conservation and preservation efforts.” —David Friend, Vanity FairA ground...

Paradise lost

The life and times of Milton’s epic poem about Satan’s revolt against God and humanity’s expulsion from paradiseJohn Milton’s Paradise Lost has secured its place in the pantheon of epic poems, but unlike almost all other works in the pantheon, it is intimately associated with religious doctrine a...

Paradise tales

A collection that ranges from present-day Cambodia to the far future: this is science fiction and fantasy with a heart.

Paradises

A young mother learns to survive among the snakes, sleaze, and slums of Buenos Aires.

Paradises lost

The first volume of what promises to be a singular literary adventure: to recount the whole of human history in the form of a single, long novel.  Noam is a young man when the Flood wreaks havoc on the world, destroying the peaceful lakeside village he called home, and turning his life upside dow...

Paradoxes of green

This innovative multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectives—aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social—in the Kingdom of Bahrain, where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous—a radical contrast t...

Paradoxes of liberal democracy

In 2005, twelve cartoons mocking the prophet Mohammed appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, igniting a political firestorm over demands by some Muslims that the claims of their religious faith take precedence over freedom of expression. Given the explosive reaction from Middle Eastern...

Paradoxes of pakistan

This book is a reflection on Pakistan’s history from an insider’s perspective. It pays homage to the many Pakistanis who face with a generous and open heart the problems created by a complex geopolitical context, many ethnic and religious contradictions, and a tormented path toward self-definitio...

Paradoxes of the democratization of higher education

Research in Social Problems and Public Policy presents important themes of: social/crime problems and their treatment; criminal justice; law and public policy; crime, deviance and social control; substance use/abuse and treatment; health and society; and institutional interaction. This volume foc...

Paradoxes of the public school

The second edition of "Paradoxes of the Public School" explores U.S. public education, covering history, theory, and contemporary issues like religion, citizenship, race, and technology. It's accessible and insightful for researchers, faculty, and students, offering a clear treatment of these top...

Paradoxes of utopia

A social history of revolutionary ideas and lifestyles.

Paraguayan sea

Paraguayan Sea, a sublime love tale of border and gender travestias, moves in a language that defies immigration regulations

Parallel lines

Describes how post-9/11 cinema, from Spike Lee’s 25th Hour (2002) to Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty (2012), relates to different, and competing, versions of US national identity in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks

Parallel lives

Michael Lind's poems repay the kind of attention we bring to reading the classics.

Parallel modernism

This significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a “parallel modernism” that was visually similar to Euroamerican modernism, but developed according to its own internal logic. Using the art and thought of prominent Japanese modern artist Koga Harue (1895–1933) as a lens to underst...

Parameters of disavowal

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The colonial experience of the early twentieth century shaped Korea’s culture and identity, leaving a troubling past that was su...

Paranoid publics

Exploring the psychosocial realities of the assault on truth.

Paranormal states

This book is a groundbreaking exploration of paranormal experiences reported by converts to Buddhism and their implications for both humanistic and scientific study of the paranormal.

Paraphernalia

Paraphernalia' is a fine, capacious handbag/hold-all of a word. Practical as well as attractive, it can stretch to accommodate all kinds of contents, many of which Joanne Limburg pulls out and considers in "Paraphernalia": telephones and tin-openers, vacuum cleaners and breast pumps, needles and ...

Parasites

An exciting look at the essential roles that parasites play in Earth’s ecosystemsThis book looks at the weird and wonderful world of parasites, the most abundant form of life on Earth. Parasites come in all forms and sizes and inhabit every free-living organism. Parasitism is now, and always has ...

Parastou forouhar

Parastou Forouhar’s work has a great emotional range, from the macabre to the darkly humorous and the often purely joyful.

Paratextualizing games

This anthology examines paratexts that gaming cultures have produced as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur?

Parchment, printing, and hypermedia

Interweaving media theory and historical analysis, this book explores the effect new digital-telecommunication technologies, which Deibert calls hypermedia, will have on the distribution of political power in the next century. Deibert tracks the transformation of Europe from the medieval to the m...

Pareidolia

Parental engagement and out-of-school mathematics learning

Challenging preconceived ideas and supporting children to acquire mathematical understandings, Parental Engagement and Out-of-School Mathematics Learning informs innovative and vital educational policy and practice.

Parental grief and photographic remembrance

Felicity Hamer explores how creative, and sometimes contested, incorporations of photography within online spaces demonstrate a revival and renegotiation of historic practices propelled by a desire to commemorate the death of a child.

Parental monitoring of adolescents

The close supervision of adolescents dramatically reduces the incidence of risky sexual behavior, drug and alcohol use, and other activities that could negatively affect one's health and well-being. Because of the strong correlation between parental monitoring and a child's welfare, social worker...

Parenthood between generations

A focus on the intergenerational transmission of parenthood. Brings together innovative, qualitative research by anthropologists, historians and sociologists.

Parenting in the pandemic

This book explores the experiences of education professors as pandemic parents, balancing professional responsibilities with supporting their children's online learning. Through personal essays, it reflects on the challenges and insights gained during the COVID pandemic, highlighting the collisio...

Parenting with presence

Our children can be our greatest teachers. Parenting expert Susan Stiffelman writes that the very behaviors that push our buttons — refusing to cooperate or ignoring our requests — can help us build awareness and shed old patterns, allowing us to raise our children with greater ease and enjoyment...

Parents in the spotlight

Children and parents have become a focus of debates on ‘new social risks’ in European welfare states. Policymaking elites have converged in defining such risks, and they have outlined new forms of parenting support to better safeguard children and activate their potential. Increasingly, parents a...