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La magnifica veste grafica e l'ecezionale completezza del testo rendono questo libro uno staordinario documento oltrechè un dovuto omaggio alla cultura Inuit.A quando una ristampa?

Living with Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest fills a huge hole in creating understanding of the wildlife we share our beautiful region with. Each description is packed with useful information on how to identify an animal, its habits and preferred habitat and its legal status to name just a few categories. This is a "must have" for anyone who wants to learn more.
P. Munts, garden columnist, Spokesman-Review, Spokane

Loner, Losers, and Lovers is one of the most elegant, informative, eloquent field studies that I've read. It captures the world of those living in a residential hotel in a large midwestern city in the US. Stephens' book is based on her doctoral dissertation in sociology and she does a magnificent job. This is a great book for sociology students to read in courses in methods, urban sociology, gerontology, aging, and social psychology. I found the methodological chapter to be illuminating and the research to be top notch. The glossary of carney terms is a nice addition, icing on top of the cake of Stephens' research. The next time I teach urban sociology, I may use this book as a supplementary text.

I hope that Dr. Stephens has written more books. Her work is simply excellent.

The book has a great variety of historical pictures. You get the real flavor of the old west. You understand how many settlers earned their money and how they settled in the old west.

It is a beautifully crafted large book.
The book is nicely bound and features heavy glossy pages

the in-depth insite was captured by an author who could have only experienced the characters in a "first-hand 'I have been there, and I am still there' " atmosphere. Loved it..and all the realism

This nearly 400-page dictionary of Lushootseed/Whulshootseed Salish includes background information, pronunciation guide, an appendix of proper names, and detailed entries with grammatical information and sample sentences. Dialectical variations are marked.

I am enjoying this book very much. I was born in the Catskills and I am learning so much that my parents never told me. It is very well written.Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

The Making of Black Revolutionaries is a fantastic read and an invaluable resource for all those who want to make history in America, whether struggling against racism or engaging in any other freedom fight. Jim Forman's gripping first-hand account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) includes testimony from other participants and excerpts from documents of the time.

Following a relatively prosperous and stable eighteenth century, the Korean Choson dynasty sank into a period of political turmoil and social unrest. In the capital city of Seoul, a small number of royal in-law clans monopolized political power, while in the countryside, corrupt administrators exploited a Korean peasantry already overburdened by a series of poor harvests. Local unrest ensued, racking the nineteenth century with a succession of violent revolts. The first of these nineteenth-century uprisings, the Hong Kyngnae Rebellion of 1812, has often been characterized by Korean historians as a "peasant rebellion" stemming from long-term socio-economic changes in Korean society. Such historiography, of course, corresponded well with the nationalistic and progressive leanings of many past South Korean scholars.

However, in this book, Sun Joo Kim rebuts this older historiography by presenting the rebellion as a regional affair stemming from a combination of political marginalization, state intrusion in the local economy, local immiseration, and subversive ideology. Kim thus rescues the local from the nation, as she primarily sees the rebellion not as a representative of grander national or socio-economic trends, but as a regional event that encapsulates the uniqueness of northern Korean society during the Chosn era. In this way, Kim admirably grants significant historical agency to various local personalities who both supported and opposed the rebellion, as well as highlighting the importance of potentially subversive ideologies, such as geomancy, that have often been ignored by past historians.

Furthermore, this work is important not only for scholars of Korean history, but also those interested in comparative peasant rebellions and social history. In the book, Kim displays an excellent grasp of sociological theory, and she definitely augments the academic literature on peasant rebellion pioneered by Barrington Moore and Theda Skocpol. Kim's emphasis on regional factors, rather than comprehensively tying rebellions to nation and structure, helps us understand not only the importance of local conditions, but also the limiting factors that prevent localized rebellions from expanding into dynasty-toppling revolutions. After all, all great revolutions, including the French, Russian, and American Revolutions, began as local uprisings; their greater significance came later, via military conquest, ideological dissemination, and the victorious revolutionaries' own pens.

This book is a treasure to read. While sometimes overbearingly academic, Jabour has a crisp analytical style that makes us understand immediately the social relationship between the Wirts and its applicability to our own intimate relationships. Personal/analytical history of this kind helps us comprehend the "real people" of the past, their environment, and how they operated within it & rebelled against it. Many parallels to today. Jabour helps convey the fact often hidden from all of us ethno-centric & generation-centric readers that people live ordinary lives in all times & places, even if their environment seems incomprehensible to us, in the suburban US, in the last decade of the 20th century. Having read this book, I plan to move on to the 3 other volumes in the series, namely: Angel Kwolek-Folland, "Engendering Business: Men & Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930;" Creighton & Norling, "Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender & Seafaring in the Atlantic World 1700-1920;" Stephen Frank, "Life with Father: Parenthood & Masculinity in the 19th Century American North."