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An Exclusive Education: Race, class and exclusion in British Schools
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
Author: Chris Searle
Published: June 2001
ISBN:   PB 0 85315 932 7
Subject: Education, politics, history
  • Chris Searle provides a wealth of statistical information, together with many case studies of wrongly excluded children.

    • United They Stood: The Story of the UK Firefighters’ Dispute 2002-4
    Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
    Author: Roger Seifert and Tom Sibley
    Published: July 2005
    ISBN:   PB 1 90500 718 3
    Subject: Politics
  • This book tells the story of the firefighters’ dispute During the winter months of 2002-03.

    • A Life in Education
    Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
    Author: Brian Simon
    Published:  1998
    ISBN:   PB 0 85315 866 5
    Subject: Education
  • Brian Simon, the eminent historian of British education, looks back on over half a century of involvement in the politics of education.

    • Blairism and the War of Persuasion: Labour's passive revolution
    Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
    Author: Edited by D.L. Steinberg and R. Johnson
    Published: September 2004
    ISBN:   PB 0 85315 992 0
    Subject: Politics
  • The studies in this volume answer questions such as: What is distinctive about New Labour and Blairism as forms of politics? How do they differ from ‘Old Labour’ and from Thatcherism?

    • A New Modernity?: Change in Science, Literature and Politics
    Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
    Author: Wendy Wheeler
    Published:  1999
    ISBN:   PB 0 85315 877 0
    Subject: Cultural Studies

    • The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture
    Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
    Author: Wendy Wheeler
    Published: April 2006
    ISBN:   PB 1 90500 730 2
    Subject: Cultural studies
  • In this major contribution to both cultural studies and ecocriticism, Wheeler shows how complexity and biosemiotics forge the link between nature and culture.

    • Nazi Looting
    Publisher: Berg
    Author: Gerard Aalders
    Published: January 2004
    ISBN:   HB 1 85973 722 6   PB 1 85973 727 7
    Subject: history
  • Translated by Arnold Pomerans with Erica PomeransThe Nazi looting machine was notoriously efficient during the Second World War. In the Netherlands, 8.5 million citizens suffered losses estimated at 3.6 billion guilders.

    • Crossing National Borders: Human Migration Issues in Northeast Asia
    Publisher: United Nations University Press
    Author: Edited by Tsuneo Akaha and Anna Vassilieva
    Published: November 2005
    ISBN:   PB 9 28081 117 7
    Subject: peace, governence
  • International migration and other types of cross-border movement of people are becoming an important part of international relations in Northeast Asia. In this pioneering study, experts on China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Russia examine the political, economic, social and cultural dimensions of the interaction between border-crossing individuals and host communities, highlighting the challenges that face national and local leaders in each country and suggesting needed changes in national and international policies. The authors analyze population trends and migration patterns in each country: Chinese migration to the Russian Far East, Chinese, Koreans, and Russians in Japan, North Koreans in China, and migration issues in South Korea and Mongolia. The book introduces a wealth of empirical material and insight to both international migration studies and Northeast Asian area studies.

    • Mixed-Race, Post-Race: Gender, New Ethnicities and Cultural Practices
    Publisher: Berg
    Author: Suki Ali
    Published: November 2003
    ISBN:   HB 1 85973 765 X   PB 1 85973 770 6
    Subject: sociology;anthropology;
  • Social scientists claim that we now live in a post-race society, where race has been replaced by 'ethnicity'. Yet racism is endemic to British society and people often think in terms of black and white.

    • Radicals Against Race: Black Activism and Cultural Politics
    Publisher: Berg
    Author: Brian Alleyne
    Published: March 2002
    ISBN:   HB 1 85973 522 3   PB 1 85973 527 4
    Subject: politics;history;sociology;
  • This book interrogates the ideas and practices of the New Beacon Circle's activists as relatively stable elements in the fast-changing scene of contemporary radical politics.

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