BOOKS

Caught in the Storm [a novel]
Seydou Badian, translated by Marie-Thérèse Noiset

A gentle novel about the enduring conflict between young and old, new and traditional, foreign and native. Badian tells the story of a village family in an African country under French    More >

Central American Writers of West Indian Origin
Ian Smart

This is the first book-length analysis of the emerging literature written in Spanish by contemporary Central Americans whose grandparents came from the largely English-speaking islands of    More >

Challenges to Democracy in the Andes: Strongmen, Broken Constitutions, and Regimes in Crisis
Maxwell A. Cameron and Grace M. Jaramillo, editors

Although military coups are rare in the Andean countries, democracies remain prone to deep political crises caused by elected leaders (especially strongmen, or caudillos) who abuse their    More >

Challenges to the Humanities
Chester E. Finn Jr. Diane Ravitch, and P. Holley Roberts

This provocative volume explores themes that were highlighted in Chester Finn's and Diane Ravitch's earlier work (with coauthor Robert Fancher) Against Mediocrity. It elucidates and    More >

Challenging Multiracial Identity
Rainier Spencer

What is multiracialism—and what are the theoretical consequences and practical costs of asserting a multiracial identity? Arguing that the multiracial movement bolsters, rather than    More >

Changing Saudi Arabia: Art, Culture, and Society in the Kingdom
Sean Foley

T. E. Lawrence once observed that Saudi Arabia had "so little art" that it could "be said to have no art at all." Whether that was once the case is arguable. But that it    More >

Chasing Equality: Women's Rights and US Public Policy
Susan Gluck Mezey and Megan A. Sholar

Despite women's many gains in the political, economic, and social spheres, equality remains elusive—and in some areas, ground is being lost. Why? Why does the pay gap between women    More >

Child Labor and Human Rights: Making Children Matter
Burns H. Weston, editor

The International Labour Organization estimated in 2000 that, of the approximately 246 million children engaged in labor worldwide, 171 million were working in situations harmful to their    More >

Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa
Loretta E. Bass

Although both media and scholarly attention to the use of child labor has focused on Asia and Latin America, the highest incidence of the practice is found in Africa, where one in three    More >

Child of Two Worlds: The Autobiography of a Filipino-American ... or Vice-Versa
Norman Reyes, illustrated by Pete Sapasap

A richly detailed chronicle of a cross-cultural odyssey in the Philippines under U.S. colonial rule. The son of a Filipino father and a North American (Brooklyn-born) mother, Norman Reyes    More >

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