More Art Puzzles By Number: From Easy to Mind Bending

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More Art Puzzles by Numbers is the sequel to the most electrifying new kind of puzzle to come along in years. Not only are the puzzles fun and beguiling, with tons of fans in the U.S., they are also serving as a valuable resource to teens. The Utah State Textbook Commission designated this book as "Recommended Student Resource" for Mathematics/Pre-Algebra grade levels 7-12" for its emphasis on indirect reasoning skills. The concept is cleverly simple. You start with an empty grid. The numbers to the side and above tell you "how many" squares to fill in the columns and rows. The trick is that the numbers don't tell you "which" squares to fill in-that's for you to decide through logical reasoning and by operating back and forth between the columns and the rows. Unlike the crossword puzzle, when you have finished one of these "picture logic" puzzles correctly, you've made a picture! Complete instructions are included along with the puzzles ranging from easy to hard. You will find puzzles that will peak the curiosity in kids and adults. This book will give every puzzle fan many gratifying hours of entertainment.

Customer Reviews:

More Art Puzzles By Number: From Easy to Mind Bending.......2007-06-27

Very entertaining and absorbing. Great stress reliever and gets the brain really working. A wonderful way to "get away". You feel like you have really accomplished something when you solve the puzzle. Hours and hours of great entertainment.

Great Large Print.......2007-05-16

As a reader of large-print books, I adore Kathy Weaver's puzzles. I never have to dig out my magnifying glass. And the pages of this book do not fall out the way her other book did.

Too Easy.......2007-04-06

I am interested in books for advanced solvers. I am not well, and books like this help me pass the time when I am confined to my house.

Love it.......2007-03-10

Weaver is my fav art puzzle maker because I love the logic challenges, but I do NOT like counting 50 squares or more. Some folks love it, but it's just a chore for me. I like Weaver's pics because they are cute and imaginative and they don't go over 30 squares. I hope she comes up with another book soon, I'll buy it!

Not Mindbending.......2007-03-09

This was an okay book, but more aimed toward the beginner or kids. I started doing the puzzles about half way through the book hoping to get into some harder ones. That never happened. Even the ones at the very end of the book were pretty easy. Nothing remotely close to mindbending.

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It is a good puzzle book
Good Introductory Puzzles
WOW! I've lost sleep over these puzzles!
ART PUZZLES BY KATHY WEAVER
Simple puzzle fun

Art Puzzles By Number
Kathy Weaver
Manufacturer: Agreka Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1888106573

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Art Puzzles by Numbers is the most electrifying new kind of puzzle to come along in many years. These beguiling puzzles already have millions of devoted fans in Japan, where they were invented years ago. And now Art Puzzles by Numbers has been introduced to the United States where its popularity is growing enormously.
The concept is cleverly simple. You start with an empty grid. The numbers to the side and above tell you how many squares to fill in the columns and rows. The trick is that the numbers don t tell you which squares to fill in that is for you to decide through logical reasoning and by operating back and forth between the columns and the rows.
Unlike the crossword puzzle, when you have finished one of these picture logic puzzles correctly, you ve made a picture!
Complete instructions are included along with 85 puzzles ranging from easy to hard. You will find puzzles of animals, sports, holidays and many, many other things that will peak the curiosity in kids, adults and seniors. No matter who you are or what you do, whether you are young or not so young, this book will give every puzzle fan many gratifying hours of entertainment.
If you like the magic of puzzles combined with the excitement of art, then Art Puzzles By Number is what you ve been looking for. As drawings of animals, holiday icons, sports items and more are produced.
Wow. You re an artist. You ll be thrilled to see an incredible image produced right before your eyes.
Instructions and detailed solving tips are included for beginners, who may want to use a pencil and eraser, just until you get the hang of it. Then when you are more confident, try using a black or colored pen. The picture will take on a whole new expression. And Have Fun!

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It is a good puzzle book.......2007-03-01

I can recommend everybody who likes this kind of puzzles. I am a big fan of this puzzles and it is pretty difficult to find a good paint by number puzzles in this country. I really enjoy with this book. I hope she will come out with a new paint by number book and also add colourful puzzles too.

Good Introductory Puzzles.......2007-01-07

I've been doing this type of puzzle for a few years now, at least 1 a day during lunch or before bed. I'd say this book is well done, with quality heavy paper and ink, and the puzzles have been checked to make sure they are solvable.

There are some drawbacks:
The binding fell apart pretty quickly. Also, the puzzles are very easy...so this is really good for beginners, not for experts. The book walks you through solving technique, then puzzles start out small and get larger as you progress.

Overall, it's a good buy if you are a novice and are gentle on your things.

WOW! I've lost sleep over these puzzles!.......2006-10-18

This book is great and ADDICTIVE! I can't do enough of them and should have gone to bed, but went on to the next puzzle instead. The paper is of high quality, however, a previous reviewer was correct about the binding. It split after only 3 or 4 puzzles and I like to keep my work all together. I wish the answers were tear out or separate so that someone can't come along and "spoil it" for you. It would also be nice if so many of the answers weren't on the same page in case you need to take a look at one puzzle and that way you could keep the element of surprise of the next puzzles you work on.
All in all, Kathy Weaver has done an exceptional job! I've put her next book for sure on my wish list! Kudos!

ART PUZZLES BY KATHY WEAVER.......2006-05-19

I'M HOOKED. IT IS SO MUCH FUN I CAN'T PUT IT DOWN. I HAVE TRIED OTHER BOOKS AND THEY DON'T COMPARE TO HERS. IN KATHYS, YOU CAN TELL WHAT THE PICTORE IS SUPPOSE TO BE. I NEED MORE BY HER. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AN ERASER HANDY AND THEN GO FOR IT.

ELLEN

Simple puzzle fun.......2005-08-24

I love these type of puzzles (aka Picross, Paint By Numbers, Nonograms, Griddlers, etc). This collection will please fans of these puzzle types- the paper stock is a good heft (similar to the "Paint By Numbers" release by Games Magazine so you won't be scratching holes though the pages.
The book offers a brief introduction & sample puzzle. From there it's puzzle after puzzle. If you love these puzzles, you can't go wrong with this book.

CJS Purdy's Fine Art of Chess Annotation and Other Thoughts, Vol. 3 (C.J.S. Purdy Number 7 Gold Chess Series)

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one of most interesting book about Fischer.

CJS Purdy's Fine Art of Chess Annotation and Other Thoughts, Vol. 3 (C.J.S. Purdy Number 7 Gold Chess Series)

Manufacturer: Thinkers' Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0938650858

Book Description

Volume 3 of Purdy's "Fine Art of Annotation And Other Thoughts". This book continues in the same style as the first two volumes, containing 70 annotated games of CJS Purdy as well as an additional 30 annotated games of his tactically gifted son John, also an Australian Champion. In addition, 6 articles and a number of essays add to the flavor of learning, such as: The Road to 2000; Psychoanalyze Your f-Pawn; How to Plan; The Element of Chance in Chess; and How to See Combinations.

Besides the many diagrams, there is an index of openings, and information on the Purdy Library of Chess.

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one of most interesting book about Fischer........2005-01-31

I have 4 or 5 books about Fischer, but this one is different. It shows Fischer, the person. Seven contributors recalled their personal contacts with Fischer. Their encounters were first-hand, so their stories are truer. There are no deep chess analyses in this book, however they are the important games during Fischer's career. This is no problem, because I can find the analyses in other books or magazines, or even from chess programs. The interviews, stories, experience, observation that the authors shared enlighten me many points about Fischer. He is incredible, demanding bunch of money to play the championship with Spassky; then rejecting more money when having to defend his title. He turned down large sum of money when asked to write a book about the match. How could he rack up long strings of wins without allowing a single draw along? And these games were against the GMs. This book also has many good pictures along his exciting career. A nice article written by Unzicker near the end showed how fairly Fischer treated chess-fellows. This book could a short historical document illustrating the rise and fall of a chess titan.

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Pigs from 1 to 10
Arthur Geisert
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books
ProductGroup: Book
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In this unusual and entertaining counting book, ten pig siblings embark on new adventures. Accompanying each adventure is an etching containing the numbers 0 to 9, as well as the ten piglets hidden within.

I Spy A Rocket Ship (I Spy Tv Tie-in #4)

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I Spy A Rocket Ship (I Spy Tv Tie-in #4)
Dan Marzollo
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Meet Spyler and CeCe. They love to play I Spy!In this story, Spyler and CeCe want to blast off to the moon in the rocket ship they built. But their countdown machine is missing three numbers! It's time to play I Spy!I spy a black 5,a bright blue 8,and a number 1 car at the starting gate!The countdown machine is now complete and Spyler and CeCe are headed to the moon!

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Alphabet & Number Puzzles & Games

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The Giant Sudoku Book: More Than 1,000 Logical Number Puzzles of All Difficulty Levels

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The Giant Sudoku Book: More Than 1,000 Logical Number Puzzles of All Difficulty Levels
Carlton Publishing Group
Manufacturer: Carlton Publishing Group
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Over 1,000 number puzzles with solutions for each one. Includes step-by-step instructions on how to complete the puzzles and tips to help you improve.

The Highlights Book of Art and Number Puzzles (Muddle's Middle)

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The Highlights Book of Art and Number Puzzles (Muddle's Middle)
Inc. Highlights for Children
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Palladium Books Presents: The Rifter : Your Guide to the Megaverse (Rifter Number Five)

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A great sorce book series for any palladium game

Palladium Books Presents: The Rifter : Your Guide to the Megaverse (Rifter Number Five)
Kevin Siembieda , and Steve Trustrum
Manufacturer: Palladium Books Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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A great sorce book series for any palladium game.......1999-07-09

if you are a fan of palladium games, you need to get all the rifter books, especially number 6 and 7, with a comic strip by ramon perez! -Jiffy

Planet Monster: A Number Puzzle Adventure (Gamebook)

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Planet Monster: A Number Puzzle Adventure (Gamebook)
Heather Maisner
Manufacturer: Candlewick
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A Box of Illuminations
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A Box of Illuminations

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Trinket Boxes (Cross Stitch) (Aida Plus, 4752)
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Trinket Boxes (Cross Stitch) (Aida Plus, 4752)
Counted Illuminations
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UUCXCI

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Cross stitch charts for making trinket boxes.

Gladius illumination tool: making night-ops easier.(Out Of The Box): An article from: Guns Magazine

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Gladius illumination tool: making night-ops easier.(Out Of The Box): An article from: Guns Magazine
Dave Douglas
Manufacturer: Publishers' Development Corporation
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This digital document is an article from Guns Magazine, published by Publishers' Development Corporation on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 625 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Gladius illumination tool: making night-ops easier.(Out Of The Box)
Author: Dave Douglas
Publication: Guns Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Publishers' Development Corporation
Volume: 51 Issue: 5 Page: 31(1)

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IERI report
Paul C Box
Manufacturer: Illuminating Engineering Research Institute
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Illumination impact of Riverfront freeway on Vieux Carre in New Orleans, Louisiana

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Illumination impact of Riverfront freeway on Vieux Carre in New Orleans, Louisiana
Paul C Box
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This digital document is an article from The Oral History Review, published by Oral History Association on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1100 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Rock Hill, South Carolina: Gateway to the New South.(3 books on race relations)(Book Review)
Author: Sarah Boyer
Publication: The Oral History Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2003
Publisher: Oral History Association
Volume: 30 Issue: 2 Page: 143(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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If your open to Japanese dirty jokes, then this is for you!.......2001-05-09

If you've ever read the magazine "Pulp", a collection of manga stories from various artists and writers, these are one of the pieces that deliver quite a punch in several very small packages. Masahiko Kikuni creates a 4 sectioned comic strip depicting the lives of characters relating to Japanese culture. Whether it be sexual romps, or the decisions made in desperate situations, this book will keep you laughing for weeks on end. If your wondering, all the pictures are in black and white, and if you take off the dust cover of the book, it has some really funny artwork.

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A Briton on the Europeans and the EU - a latter day Grand Tour taking in the stereotypes and the surprises waiting at the end of the Channel Tunnel and accross the North Sea - witty travel writing in the Bill Bryson vein.

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EU? P.U.!.......2000-12-06

Yikes! What were the Boys in Brussels thinking?!

Bravo, Mr. Middleton!

Nick on form as is usual.......1998-09-18

NIck Middleton as usual delivers the goods. He carries on where he left off delivering a humorous account of the current EEC. His political and economic insight to the region is witty and informative, but as usual he writes with a subtle sarcasm, never shying away from providing the reader with an informative view of the European continent. I would also thoroughly recommend trying to get hold of his earlier work "Last Disco in Outer Mongolia".

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Travels As a Brussels Scout
Nick Middleton
Manufacturer: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Ltd.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Strangely inspiring.......2007-03-18

This book is a masterpiece of both style and content, and one of the very best rock biographies in existence. It explores the life of Nico after the Velvet Underground, covering her life in London and tours in Europe and the USA.

I found myself devouring the text in utter fascination. It includes descriptions of bizarre performances, wild parties, weird tour experiences, eccentric characters like her one-time manager Dr Demetrius, encounters with luminaries like John Cale, a visit to the motel where Tom Waits used to stay and much much more.

One of the funniest parts is the narrative of Nico's first experience with angel dust in Los Angeles. Underneath the humor there is a lot of sadness too but it is a strangely inspiring read. Songs They Never Play On The Radio certainly transcends the genre of rock writing. You don't have to be a fan of Velvet Underground to enjoy this classic work, as it stands on its own feet.

A must for Nico fans.......2005-12-01

I became aware of this book through Young's appearance in the "Nico Icon" documentary. The book is well-written, dry and dark but not without compassion.

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This book brings specialists in religious studies, African-American studies, history, and political science, together with a media librarian to examine violence as it is presented in films and how instructors can use films to teach about violence. The object of inquiry is the vulnerability of socially oppressed people to physical violence and to institutionalized patterns of discrimination, herein termed structural violence. The susceptibility of women to violence provides an example that is discussed in detail, revealing both merits and weaknesses in film treatment of gender. The full effect of violence is considered, from the abuse of the individual to the wartime mobilization of entire societies. Chapters also look at the benefits and problems of using films in the classroom and provide resources helpful to instructors, such as sample discussion and study guides, a bibliography, and a filmography.

Insights from Film into Violence and Oppression

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Insights from Film into Violence and Oppression
John P. (Edt) Lovell
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORNV2S

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This book is about different kinds of reaction to proletarianization in nineteenth-century France, Germany, and the United States. It seeks to explain variations in the formation of working classes in these countries at the moment when class emerged as a way of organizing, thinking about, and acting on society; and it asks how initial patterns of sentiment, behavior, and organization shaped class relations later in the century.

Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation

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The best book about Korean society during the 1970s-90s

Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation
Hagen Koo
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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The best book about Korean society during the 1970s-90s.......2004-01-30

In their book 'Empire', Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri talked about the 1996-7 workers' general strike in Seoul, South Korea as one of the historical events against Empire.

Koo's book about working-class formation in Korea shows and analyzes how progressive and sometiems militant working-class movement of a large scale has been possible and grown up as a major political force in one of the East Asian countires which often have been well known for their docility of labor forces under conservative political rule.

This book has several merits:

1) it shows the process of working-class formation in the context of contemporary Korean development. Many books about Korean development have been written mainly in an economistic way. This book reveals people's lives and voices more realistically in the historical process.

2) while describing the historical process, Koo also tries to put his arguments on the theoretical base of weorking-class formation, especially E. P. Thompson. I think his way of doing this is very successful in this book.

3) Many books about working-class formation are mainly about the histories in the European context or Latin America. This book shows uniquely how the process has happened in the context of East Asian development.

His book is not only describing but also theoretical and analytical. And his book does not lose both academic rigidity as well as sympathy for workers' movement for social progress. With in-depth interviews of labor movement activists and the use of many domestic materials, Koo also could escape superficial observations and dry abstraction.

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Why has the labor movement in the United States been so weak and politically conservative in comparison to movements in Western Europe? Kim Voss rejects traditional interpretations--theories of "American exceptionalism"--which attribute this distinctiveness to inherent characteristics of American society. On the contrary, she demonstrates, the American labor movement had much in common with its English and French counterparts for most of the nineteenth century. Only with the collapse of the Knights of Labor, the largest American labor organization of the century, did the U.S. movement take a different path.

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A new theory of American Exceptionalism.......2000-07-07

As noted in the book description, the author offers a new theory of the development of America's distinctly conservative labor movement. The book admerably combines historical case studies and a statistical review of the formation and collapse of Knights of Labor locals in the New Jersey. Both of these methods reject a view that America was somehow fundimentally different than Europe (France and England are used for comparison) prior to the collapse of the KoL. Further, she does not find evidence for the typical explinations of the Knights' failure such as craft conservatism, ethnic diversity, industrial diversity and middle class influence. Rather, she finds that the main cause of the Knights' decline was employer opposition, which she found to be much more profound than in ENgland or France, coupled with the lack of an activist government. These conclusions are well supported by her evidence, however, her most interesting assertion is also the least well argued. She points out that even strong employer intransigence cannot fully explain the fall of the Knights, as both English and French unions suffered significant numnerical setbacks in this period. However, those unions rebounded and the Knights did not. The author argues that the Knights' ideology cast the blame for their failures fully onto their own organizations, which left little ideological space for recovery. This argument, with its emphasis on the from of organizational conciousness is provocotive, but requires additional supporting evidence. Overall, an important and thoughtful book on a long standing topic in American Labor History. And for those who don't with to slog through the statistical analysis, parts one and three provide a thoughrow introdustion, overview and conclusion.

Alienation and resistance: new possibilities for working-class formation. : An article from: Social Justice

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Alienation and resistance: new possibilities for working-class formation. : An article from: Social Justice
Margaret Zamudio
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Social Justice, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 8247 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Alienation and resistance: new possibilities for working-class formation.
Author: Margaret Zamudio
Publication: Social Justice (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 31 Issue: 3 Page: 60(17)

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American Exceptionalism: Us Working-Class Formation in an International Context

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American Exceptionalism: Us Working-Class Formation in an International Context

Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Backdoor Java: State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java

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Backdoor Java: State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java
Jan Newberry
Manufacturer: Broadview Press
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Binding: Paperback

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In the densely populated urban neighbourhoods of Java, women manage their houses and their communities through daily exchanges of food, childcare, and labour. Their domestic work is based on local ideas of community cooperation and support, but also on the Indonesian government's use of women as unpaid social workers. Consequently, women are a pivotal point in both state-sponsored programs of domesticity and in the local practice of community exchange managed from individual houses. Back Door Java explores the everyday lives of ordinary urban Javanese from a new perspective on domestic space and the state. Using rich ethnographic description of a neighbourhood in Central Java, Newberry illuminates the ways in which state rule is intimately connected to the household and the community.

Becoming Women Becoming Workers: Identity Formation in a French Vocational School (Suny Series, Power, Social Identity, and Education)

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Interesting.

Becoming Women Becoming Workers: Identity Formation in a French Vocational School (Suny Series, Power, Social Identity, and Education)
Catherine Raissiguier
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0791420868

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Interesting........2001-11-12

If you are interested in a clear, easy to read, ethnographic study, then this is a good example. This book exposes the rampant racial and sexual discrimination that is so rampant in France in a refreshingly honest way. Raissiquier does not deny that her position as a women of priveledge (white, French educated) informs her hypotheses, methods, and conclusion. Instead, she stresses the role that her background affects the lens through which she views the context. The story, which supposedly follows two Algerian women, never actually fulfils that purpose and spreads itself too thin at times. Overall, this strong effort is an enjoyable, although certainly not indispensable, read.

Between Class and Nation: The Formation of the Jewish Working Class in the Period Before Israel's Statehood (Contributions in Labor Studies)

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Between Class and Nation: The Formation of the Jewish Working Class in the Period Before Israel's Statehood (Contributions in Labor Studies)
Amir Ben-Porat
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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This important new study of Palestine in the years 1882 to 1948 looks at the formation of the Jewish working class and its pivotal and deliberate role in the forging of a nation. Drawing on historical studies as well as neo-Marxist theory, Professor Ben-Porat adds both empirical information and new critical perspectives to our understanding of class formation and of the unique historical circumstances attendant on the creation of modern Israel.

Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society: Bradford, 17501850

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Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society: Bradford, 17501850
Theodore Koditschek
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An examination of the process by which a capitalist society emerged in Bradford. Bradford was a small market town of about 4000 inhabitants in 1750 and by 1850 it had become a major industrial city of 100,000, the international centre of worsted production and trade.

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