Search Results - "The Corner"

On the corner : African American intellectuals and the urban crisis / by Matlin, Daniel

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The corner of the living Ayacucho on the eve of the Shining Path insurgency / by La Serna, Miguel

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Tally's corner : a study of Negro streetcorner men / by Liebow, Elliot

Quality of life and older people by Bond, John

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Letters from readers in the Polish American press, 1902-1969 : a corner for everybody /

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At home with apartheid the hidden landscapes of domestic service in Johannesburg / by Ginsburg, Rebecca, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Getting to know the corners -- The tempo of kitchen life -- Children and leaving -- Come in the dark -- House rules -- From homes with apartheid.…”
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Money jungle imagining the new Times Square / by Chesluk, Benjamin Jacob

Table of Contents: “…Brilliant corners -- Magnificent spectacle -- The new spaces of Times Square -- The midtown community court -- Times Square Ink -- "Visible signs of a city out of control" -- "It doesn't exist, but they're selling it" -- The meanings of Times Square -- Notes -- Index.…”
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Structural intimacies sexual stories in the black AIDS epidemic / by Mackenzie, Sonja, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Storying sexuality in the black aids epidemic -- A liquor store on every corner : intimate states of alcohol and HIV/AIDS -- Never a black brokeback mountain : sexual silence and the "down low" in the age of AIDS -- Crazy talk : the conspiracy counter narrative in the black aids epidemic -- The president, the preacher, and race and racism in the obama era -- Appendix: methodological matters.…”
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Unrivalled influence women and empire in Byzantium / by Herrin, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Women in Byzantium -- In search of Byzantine women : three avenues of approach -- Women and the faith in icons in early Christianity -- Unrivalled influence : mothers and daughters in the medieval Greek world -- "Femina Byzantina" : the council in Trullo on women -- Public and private forms of religious commitment among Byzantine women -- The imperial feminine in Byzantium -- Political power and Christian faith in Byzantium : the case of Irene (regent 780-90, emperor 797-802) -- Moving bones : evidence of political burials from medieval Constantinople -- The many empresses of the Byzantine court (and all their attendants) -- Theophano : considerations on the education of a Byzantine princess -- Toleration and repression in the Byzantine family : gender problems -- The icon corner in medieval Byzantium -- Marriage : a fundamental element of imperial statecraft -- Index.…”
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The futures of old age

Table of Contents: “…/ Murna Downs and Errollyn Bruce -- The future of well-being : quality of life of older people in the twenty-first century / John Bond and Lynne Corner -- The ageing of family life transitions / Sarah Harper -- Flying solo in old age : widowed and divorced men and women in later life / Kate Davidson -- Housing and future living arrangements / Sheila Peace -- Anti-ageing science and the future of old age / John Vincent -- Ageing and globalization / Chris Phillipson -- The future life course, migration and old age / Tony Warnes.…”
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