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View book details for Making History
Czech Voices of Dissent and the Revolution of 1989
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In December 1989, Vaclav Havel and a relatively small group of intellectuals and students brought about the collapse of the communist regime of Czechoslovakia in what is now known as the Velvet Revolution. Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and …
View book details for Russian Strategic Modernization
Past and Future
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This invaluable study provides a unique insider's view of the history of Soviet and Russian policy on nuclear weapons modernization and charts the future evolution of the Russian strategic arsenal. Using information that has only recently become available and introducing …
View book details for Power and Influence after the Cold War
Germany in East-Central Europe
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Challenging conventional wisdom about German dominance in the new Europe, this study presents a new approach to the question of power and influence after the Cold War. Inspired by the debate over German hegemony and drawing on intensive fieldwork, Ann …
View book details for Reluctant Modernism
American Thought and Culture, 18801900
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Americans were faced with the challenges and uncertainties of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and order clashed with the unsettling modern notions of constant change, relative …
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The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected Politics and the Market)
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Why did Karl Marx want to exclude politics and the market from his vision of a future socialism? In Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason, Allan Megill begins with this question. Megill's examination of Marx's formative writings casts new light …
View book details for China Live
People Power and the Television Revolution
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In China Live, Mike Chinoy provides an insider's view of two of the most important forces shaping our erathe rise of global satellite news and the rise of China. Exploring not only how events shape television, but how TV can …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The meeting of different cultures, philosophies and religions today calls for an intensive and qualified discourse on the part of all concerned. Intercultural Philosophy seeks to develop such a discourse through a new orientation of thought that will allow for …
View book details for Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools
How Media Literacy Education can Renew Education in the United States
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Widespread obesity, poor nutrition, sleep-deprivation, and highly digital and sedentary lifestyles are just a few of the many challenges facing young people. Although public schools in the United States have the potential for meeting these challenges on a mass scale, …
View book details for The Postmodernist Turn
American Thought and Culture in the 1970s
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
During the 1970s, the United States became the world's preeminent postindustrial society. The new conditions changed the way Americans lived and worked, and even their perceptions of reality. Americans struggled to find their place in a world where symbol became …
View book details for One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End
The Red River Campaign of 1864
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In the spring of 1864, as the armies of Grant and Lee waged a highly scrutinized and celebrated battle for the state of Virginia, a no- less important, but historically obscured engagement was being conducted in the pine barrens of …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Human Tradition in the Civil War and Reconstruction brings alive this decisive period in American history by taking the reader beyond the realm of generals, presidents, and the other towering figures of history and introducing fourteen individuals who represent …
View book details for Law, Darwinism, and Public Education
The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In 1987, in Edwards v. Aguillard, the United States Supreme Court declared as unconstitutional a Louisiana statute requiring the state's public schools to teach creationism if evolution is taught and to teach evolution if creationism is taught. It was a …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The rich and unique history of the 'Lone Star State' is presented in this new book through the lives of a variety of Texans who put a human face on the state's history. Biographical sketches of fifteen famous and little-known …
View book details for Human Traffic and Transnational Crime
Eurasian and American Perspectives
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Human Trafficking is a growing transnational criminal phenomenon_conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked annually at two million. In this first in-depth study of human trafficking in Russia and Ukraine, scholars from the European, Siberian, and far-eastern parts …
View book details for Approximate Justice
Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In this book, distinguished philosopher George Sher explores the normative moral and social problems that arise from living in a decidedly non-ideal world_a world that contains immorality, evil, and injustice, and in which resources (including knowledge) are often inadequate. Sher …
View book details for The Gilded Age
Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had …
View book details for Conversations with Feminism
Political Theory and Practice
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Applying the idea of conversation broadly, Penny A. Weiss offers a collection of essays that are either constructed dialogues, letters, or discussions about voice and silencing. Conversation emerges as both a theory and a method of feminist political inquiry and …
View book details for The End of Authority
How a Loss of Legitimacy and Broken Trust Are Endangering Our Future
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Around the world, citizens have lost faith in their political and economic institutionsleading to unprecedented levels of political instability and economic volatility. From Moscow to Brussels, from Washington to Cairo, the failure of democracies and autocracies to manage the fiscal …
View book details for Turn and Jump
How Time & Place Fell Apart
Down East Books
Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they, too, were once inseparable. …
Taylor Trade Publishing
To the Nines will introduce you to a whole new golfing experience by sharing the stories of nineteen nine-hole layouts across the country. Fenwick, Katherine Hepburn's playground, dates back to the 1890s. Just before a hurricane destroyed her family home …
View book details for Turning the Tide at Gettysburg
How Maine Saved the Union
Down East Books
One hundred and fifty years ago, the United States was saved at the Battle of Gettysburg. At most of the decisive points of the battle, it was soldiers from Maine that stopped the Rebel army in its tracks. While Joshua …
Down East Books
Maine's chefs have important ties to the communities around them-and to the fish, shellfish, vegetables, and fruits produced by local fishermen and farmers. In Creative Coastal Cooking, these fresh ingredients are used in more than two hundred delicious, practical recipes. …
View book details for Food Lovers' Guide to Austin
Best Local Specialties, Markets, Recipes, Restaurants & Events
Globe Pequot Press
Savor the Flavors of Austin Food Lovers Guide to Austin brings you the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate food. From family-owned taquerias and Tex-Mex restaurants to vegan and locally sourced options, as well as …
Bridgeworks
This book is the story of the struggle for reconciliation by three men who return to their changed hometown along very different pathsCappy Giberson from journalism school, Drayton Hunt, his biological father, from prison, and Tick Giberson from a traveling …
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