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The redistributive state is fading in Canada. Government programs are no longer offsetting the growth in inequality generated by the market.

This book examines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society.

Exploring the way urbicide is used to un/re-make Palestine, as well as how it is employed as a tool of spatial dispossession and control, this book examines contemporary political violence and dest

The town hall or city hall as a place of local governance is historically related to the founding of cities in medieval Europe.

Cities are where the twenty-first century is really going to happen.

Contested Spaces is a global study of sites of conflict, places of loss, fear, resistance and pilgrimage where the materiality of violence forcibly brings the past into the present.

Examines the ways in which urban modernity reshapes 'cultural experience'.

Explores two contemporary theories of the family-rational choice theory & transition theory that illuminate what differing theories reveal about families.

Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, Classical Mythology, International Tenth Edition, is the most comprehensive survey of classical mythology available- and the first full

In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praised Transcultural Cinema and argues for a n

In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food.

Their children called it mischief.