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Lexington Books
The notion of 'the public sphere' has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen …
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Nambara Shigeru and the Asia-Pacific War
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
One of Japan's most important intellectuals, Nambara Shigeru defended Tokyo Imperial University against its rightist critics and opposed Japan's war. His poetic diary (19361945), published only after the war, documents his profound disaffection. In 1945 Nambara became president of Tokyo …
Lexington Books
Statesociety relations and governance are closely related areas of study and have become important topics in the social sciences in the past decades, not only in developed countries but also in the developing world. In China, state-society relations have been …
R&L Education
Daniel Tomal Ph.D., CHOICE award winning author, has teamed up with Craig A. Schilling Ed.D., a national school resource expert, to write a comprehensive book on managing human resources and collective bargaining. Everything you need to know on managing human …
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Relationships that Sustain Vital Ministry
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
No pastor sets out to fail, but statistics say 15 to 20 percent of pastors leave pastoral ministry within the first five years. One seminary administrator said that every person he had heard of leaving the ministry had done so …
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Current Issues and Resources
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Board and Superintendent Handbook: Current Issues and Resources is a practical guide for both board members and superintendents. The book includes contributions from experienced and new superintendents and board members on a wide range of topics that boards and …
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Practical Information to Ensure Student Success
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Frank Thoms writes with passion to invite principals and teachers to make changes that will allow all students to succeed. In this book he urges them to reconsider traditional practices in light of todays media-driven culture and digitally wired students. …
Lexington Books
In Shifting Perceptions of Migration in Senegalese Literature, Film, and Social Media, MahrianaRofheart proposes a revised understanding of Senegalese migration narratives by asserting the importance of both local and global connections in recent novels, hip-hop songs, and documentary videos. Much …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sri Lanka has had a celebrated history, a long colonial past, and since independence in 1948 has passed through a series of crises and political experiments. It has had a remarkable record of voters turning out unpopular governments, often by …
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Making Room for the Wisdom of All
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Open source software makes the basic program instructions available for anyone to see and edit. An 'open source church,' likewise, is one in which the basic functions of mission and ministry are open to anyone. Members feel free to pursue …
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Twelve Comic Strips
University Press of Mississippi
Among the masters of the nineteenth-century comic strip, Gustave Dore has been much neglected. For his illustrations to literary classics, he earned an unsurpassed reputation and corresponding scholarly attention. Dore himself repudiated his early work, and similarly critics and biographers …
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Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat
University Press of Mississippi
On the Internet, seekers investigate anonymous manifestos that focus on the findings of brilliant scientists said to have discovered pathways into alternate realities. Gathering on web forums, researchers not only share their observations, but also report having anomalous experiences, which …
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The Life of Willie Morris
University Press of Mississippi
In 2000, readers voted Willie Morris (19341999) Mississippi's favorite nonfiction author of the millennium. After conducting over fifty interviews and combing through over eighty boxes of papers in the archives at the University of Mississippi, many of which had never …
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Theodore Roosevelt and His 1900 Whistle-Stop Campaign
University Press of Mississippi
When Theodore Roosevelt entered national politics as the Republicans' nominee for the vice presidency in 1900, he was only forty-one years old. However, he had caught the public's attention with the popular version of his life story. Child of East …
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Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
University Press of Mississippi
Along the Gulf Coast, history is often referenced as pre-Katrina or post-Katrina. However, the natural disaster that appalled the world in 2005 has been joined by another catastrophe, this one man-madethe greatest environmental and maritime accident of all time, the …
University Press of Mississippi
In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long-ignored encounter of radical African American music …
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Conversations
University Press of Mississippi
In 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004. Over the run of the …
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Classic Trials of the Outlaws and Rogues of Faulkner Country
University Press of Mississippi
A federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman routinely worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every type imaginable. Encouraged by the acclaim for his earlier book, From Midnight to Guntown, he has opened even …
View book details for The Yoruba God of Drumming
Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks
University Press of Mississippi
As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yoruba god of drumming, known as Ayan in Africa and Ana in Cuba, is variously described as the …
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Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
University Press of Mississippi
For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, …
Vestal Press
This second edition of Gellerman's classic reference work is a must for collectors and aficionados of reed organs.
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Life and Security in Rural Afghanistan
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
To access the maps mentioned in this book, Click Here. Despite the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan remains a country in dire need of strong international support. Only with an understanding of the conditions in both urban and rural areas …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The presidential election of 2012 was hotly contested, with polls showing President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney neck-and-neck at various points during the campaign. In the end, Democrat Obama won reelection by nearly four percentage points at the national …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Horace G. Danners A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his foreword: Dr. Danners book allows you not only to build up your …
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Understanding the Most Memorable Dreams and Nightmares of Childhood
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
When a child talks about a vivid nighttime dream, it can be difficult for adults to know how to respond. Dream researchers Kelly Bulkeley and Patricia Bulkley take readers beyond it was just a dream to help children and adults …
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