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View book details for Science Under Siege?
Interest Groups and the Science Wars
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The combative metaphor of Oscience warsO has taken on a predominant position within the collective conscious, from being featured on the programs of scientific meetings to being splashed across the pages of leading national magazines and newspapers. Some in the …
View book details for The Search for Beauty in Islam
A Conference of the Books
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Khaled Abou El Fadl is a classically-trained Islamic jurist, an American lawyer and law professor, and one of the most important Islamic thinkers today. In this updated and expanded edition of The Search for Beauty in Islam, Abou El Fadl …
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A Confederate Woman's Life
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Born into the plantation gentry of South Carolina, granted the advantages of wealth, social position, and education by virtue of her family and her marriage to another prominent South Carolina family, Mary Chesnut has emerged as one of the key …
View book details for Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies
Essays on Religious Markets and Religious Pluralism
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Can individual decisions concerning whether or where to attend church, to contribute time or money to religious organizations, or to forgo certain activities be explained as a special case of economic theory? In Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies, Ted G. Jelen …
View book details for What's So Funny?
Humor in American Culture
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Critical studies attempting to define and dissect American humor have been published steadily for nearly one hundred years. However, until now, key documents from that history have never been brought together in a single volume for students and scholars. What's …
View book details for Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
A Catholic Perspective
Sheed & Ward
Contemporary Issues in Bioethics: A Catholic Perspective applies the best of the Roman Catholic theological and ethical tradition to some of the most controversial and complex bioethical topics that confront contemporary society. Authors James Walter and Thomas Shannon offer a …
View book details for Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology
Charles S. Peirce and the Pragmatics of Globalization
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology addresses the formation and fragmentation of identity in today's postmodern world. Informed by the conceptual convergence in the theories of Durkheim, Peirce, Mead, and Lacan, this book surveys the range of twentieth-century sociology to deconstruct those …
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From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
What do the Promise Keeper's Movement and the Million Man March reveal about our notions of masculinity and paternal responsibility? What can such films as Varda's Vagabond and Bergman's Persona tell us about contemporary notions of masculinity and femininity? In …
View book details for A Wider Europe
The Process and Politics of European Union Enlargement
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This clear and engaging text examines the process and politics of the European UnionOs OEasternO enlargement, beginning with its initial response to the 1989 revolution up through the Helsinki summit decisions of December 1999. Michael Baun explores such topics as …
View book details for The Mediated Presidency
Television News and Presidential Governance
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Including late-breaking data from the Iraq occupation and the disastrous CBS News reports on Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard Service, acclaimed media scholars Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter examine news coverage of military policy, economic policy, and scandals from …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Since September 11, Arab and American journalists have been trading barbs, accusing each other of bias and a lack of objectivity. But is news coverage in Arab countries all that different from American coverage? The Making of Arab News draws …
View book details for Hard Choices
Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. Operations designed to alleviate suffering and achieve peace sometimes produce damaging results. The United Nations, nongovernmental organizations, military and civilian agencies alike find themselves in the …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
It is well known that large numbers of Europeans migrated overseas during the century preceding the Great Depression of 1930, and that a great many of them went to the United States. What is not well known, particularly in the …
View book details for Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality
Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In recent years, researchers have considerably expanded our understanding of the experiences of students of color and of students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (ie. Queer). They have provided us with rich resources for addressing racism and …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
What is freedom? In this study, Thomas Dumm challenges the conventions that have governed discussions and debates concerning modern freedom by bringing the work of Michel Foucault into dialogue with contemporary liberal thought. While Foucault has been widely understood to …
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Facts and Fictions About Today's Youth
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Kids snatched from their bedrooms, shot at in school, fatter than ever, prone to risk-taking and cruelty_is childhood today as bad as the news accounts would have us believe? Is this generation headed for disaster? Kids These Days: Facts and …
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Historiography in Global Perspective
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This innovative work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess, but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis. Moving beyond the …
View book details for Revolution and State in Modern Mexico
The Political Economy of Uneven Development
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Now in an updated edition, this groundbreaking study develops a new approach to understanding the formation of the postrevolutionary state in Mexico. In a shift away from dominant interpretations, Adam David Morton considers the construction of the revolution and the …
View book details for 50 Ways to Understand Communication
A Guided Tour of Key Ideas and Theorists in Communication, Media, and Culture
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Is consciousness like an iceberg? Does advertising lead to the commodification of humans? What is the hidden meaning of fairy tales? In 50 Ways to Understand Communication, Arthur Asa Berger familiarizes readers with important concepts written by leading communication and …
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A Hidden History of Early Soviet-Western Relations
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This deeply informed book traces the dramatic history of early Soviet-western relations after World War I. Michael Jabara Carley provides a lively exploration of the formative years of Soviet foreign policy making after the Bolshevik Revolution, especially focusing on Soviet …
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The 4+2 Formula For Sustained Business Success
HarperCollins
Based on a groundbreaking study, analysing data on 200 management practices gathered over a 10 year period. Reveals the effectiveness of the 4+2 practices (4 primary and 2 of 4 possible secondary) practices that really matter the ones that, if …
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Jules Podell and the Hottest Club Nort
HarperCollins
This beautifully illustrated history of Jules Podell's legendary club Copacabana features colorful characters, romance, and intrigue from the golden age of nightclubs.In this fascinating look behind the scenes of one of the world's most legendary nightclubs, the story of the …
HarperCollins
The Age of Modern Europe; The Industrial Revolution; The Ancien Regime and Its Critics; The Despots and the High Enlightenment; The French Revolution and the Reign of Terror; The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire; The Attempt to Restore the …
View book details for The Brewmaster's Table
Discovering the Pleasures of Real Beer with Real Food
HarperCollins
Winner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals Award for Best Cookbook in the Wine, Beer or Spirits category.Garrett Oliver, award-winning Brewmaster and Vice President of Production of the Brooklyn Brewery, recognized by Gourmet Magazine as a passionate epicure and …
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Three Decades of HipHop Photography
HarperCollins
Nearly thirty years ago, Ernie Paniccioli, considered by many to be the James Van Der Zee of the hiphop generation, began photographing graffiti art throughout New York City as well as the young people creating it. Armed with a 35-millimeter …
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