A workbook to support students preparing for OCR's General Studies AS Level Unit 1 exam on The Cultural and Social domains

Since 1990 more Africans have relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibly brought here before the slave trade ended in 1807. The key reason for these migrations has been the collapse of social, political, economic, and educational structures in their home countries. This collection of essays looks at the immigrant experience.

The book explores the role of new modes of governance in helping future member states to cope with their accession to the EU. It examines the extent to which civil society and business have assisted the governments of Southern, Central and Eastern European accession countries in taking on the ever more comprehensive body of EU laws and regulations.

Focuses upon the predicaments of the Orang Suku Laut or 'tribe of sea people', an indigenous people of Indonesia, in view of the challenges imposed upon them by the emergence of new borders on their maritime world.

How to Pass is the Number 1 revision series for Scottish qualifications across the three examination levels of Standard Grade, Intermediate and Higher! Second editions of the books present all of the material in full colour for the first time.

Helps readers comprehend the diversity and complexities of the Caribbean region. This book ranges in coverage from history to politics and economics, from the environment to ethnicity, from religion to the Caribbean diaspora. It features maps, photographs, and a table of basic political data.

Studies the impact of the communal violence of the early 1990s on the individual lives of the Muslim weavers of Banaras, focusing on gender, identity and inter-community relations.

In 1968-69, Columbia University became the site for a collision of American social movements. An alliance of black students and residents of Harlem and Morningside Heights openly protested the school's ill-conceived plan to build a large, private gymnasium in the small green park that separates the elite university from Harlem.

Discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the underlying tensions between Indian society and the non-Indian world. This book presents vignettes of reservation life and recounts some of the memorable legal cases that illustrate the challenges faced by individual Indians and tribes.

Examines the significant transfers, cross-fertilisations and synergies of cultural and literary theory between Russia and the West, since the 1920s.

Published as a special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power , this book features chapters that examine various ways of belonging in the Middle East.

Discusses the population issues of the Caucasus from the ancient period until the beginning of the 21st century. This title shows the ethnogenesis process of the population of the Caucasus as one of the oldest in the world, and analyses their demographic development in the long historical period.

Tells the amazing story of how George and Ingeborg Woodcock, while travelling in northern India in 1961, encountered many of the Tibetan refugees who had recently fled over the mountain passes. Appalled by the condition of the children, the Woodcocks vowed to help. This was the genesis for the Tibetan Refugee Aid Society (TRAS).

A workbook to support students preparing for OCR's General Studies AS Level Unit 1 exam on The Cultural and Social domains. This is a pack of 10 workbooks. The workbooks are also available singly (ISBN 9780340968192)

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Focusing on texts that have achieved mainstream popularity, this title shows that while Asian Americans have been disenfranchised from the larger national body - in fact prohibited from circulation - Asian American texts that emphasize economic and social exchange circulate widely.

A workbook to support students preparing for OCR's General Studies AS Level Unit 2 exam on Culture, Arts and Humanities. This is a pack of 10 workbooks. The workbooks are also available singly; (ISBN: 9780340968208)

With a series of lyrical vignettes, this title traces the author's life as an African American woman growing up in middle-class New Orleans in the 1950s and 1960s. It focuses on her relationship with her mother, family, community, and the city itself, while touching upon life after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.