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An ethnography on how individuals and groups confront uncertainty in all areas of their lives.

In a stimulating interchange between feminist studies and biology, the author explores how her dissertation on flower color variation in morning glories launched her on an intellectual odyssey that engaged the feminist studies of sciences in the experimental practices of science by tracing the central and critical idea of variation in biology.

First edition title: Coming on strong: gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport.

Multifaceted analyses of the African diaspora in Europe

Waging the Cold War's ideological battles on the gridiron

An interdisciplinary collection that bridges the dichotomy between sacred and secular travel.

A study of Bill Monroe's contributions to American and world music. Spanning over 1,000 separate performances, this work presents a chronological list of Bill Monroe's commercially released sound and visual recordings.

Measuring the impact of the Chicago Teachers Union on public education in Chicago

Focusing on the steel works at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, a linchpin of the old Carnegie Steel Company Empire, and then of US Steel, the author demonstrates the pivotal role played by a nonunion form of employee representation. This is a study of the forces that shaped and responded to workers' interests.

Tells the unknown story of the business behind the bands that became an industry.

Explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective.

Radicalism and Black feminism in postwar women's writing

Explores the growth, impact, and significance of rapidly growing Asian American populations in the American South.

Offers nuanced interpretations that open the door to a new and productive understanding of race in America.

How the Cold War affected local-level union politics

Lavishly illustrated with over 100 photos, the second edition of From Myth to Creation offers a dramatic insider''s view of the cognitive and symbolic worlds of indigenous potters and woodworkers in a region undergoing radical change. By placing Canelos Quichua art in social and cultural context, the text invites readers to better understand and appreciate the art, aesthetics, and the historical and contemporary consciousness of indigenous Americans. This new edition includes a new foreword and chapter.

Reading between the lines of southern gospel music

Most famous for his military marches, John Philip Sousa led a group of devoted musicians around the world and shaped a new cultural landscape. This book documents almost every aspect of the "March King's" band: its history, its star performers, its appearances on recordings, and the problems the group faced on their 1911 trip around the world.

Explores David Lynch's experimental aesthetics

Presents early twentieth-century Chicago as a vital centrepiece of Black thought and expression