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View book details for Perfectionism and Neutrality
Essays in Liberal Theory
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Over the past twenty years, the debate between neutrality and perfectionism has been at the center of political philosophy. Now Perfectionism and Neutrality: Essays in Liberal Theory brings together classic papers and new ideas on both sides of the discussion. …
View book details for From Plato To Piaget
The Greatest Educational Theorists From Across the Centuries and Around the World
UPA
The authors of this book consult fifteen thinkers, from various fields, who have a profound understanding of the important role that education plays in our world. Each chapter opens with an Introduction and concludes with a discussion and questions.
View book details for Ethics and Anthropology
Ideas and Practice
AltaMira Press
Ethics and Anthropology comprehensively embraces issues and dilemmas faced in all four of the discipline's fields. Not merely a subject to be considered when seeking the approval of institutional review boards, ethics is anthropology.Fluehr-Lobban explores the critical application of core …
View book details for The Art of Storytelling
Telling Truths Through Telling Stories
Scarecrow Press
Storytelling is an art, as well as a skill. It allows the listener to take an idea and shape it into something that is relatable on a personal level. In The Art of Storytelling: Telling Truths Through Telling Stories, Amy …
View book details for Judgment, Imagination, and Politics
Themes from Kant and Arendt
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal …
View book details for European Foreign Policies
Does Europe Still Matter?
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The extent of Europe's influence in the twenty-first century is one of the fundamental questions in a rapidly changing world order. How much does Europe still matter in geostrategic affairs? Will the Europeans seek more international clout and be willing …
View book details for Assisted Dying
An Ethnographic Murder Mystery on Florida's Gold Coast
AltaMira Press
Assisted Dying is an ethnographically-based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast as a way of examining American cultural values. Diversity, immigration and the American Dream, aging, retirement, death, and dying are just …
View book details for The Color of Hunger
Race and Hunger in National and International Perspective
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The first book ever to examine the links between hunger and race, The Color of Hunger probes the contemporary and historical reasons hunger is concentrated among people of color, both domestically and globally.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
What is the hottest American export since 9/11? The contributors to this provocative volume contend that it is Western style globalism-the dominant free market ideology that determines everything from most-favored-nation status to the declaration of war. In this much-needed post-September …
View book details for The Middle East, Oil, and the U.S. National Security Policy
Intractable Conflicts, Impossible Solutions
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Three interrelated subject areas are at the heart of the current foreign and national security dilemma. One is the Middle East, which has been the epicenter of most U.S. policy activity for over a third of a century. The second …
View book details for Cyber Racism
White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In this exploration of the way racism is translated from the print-only era to the cyber era the author takes the reader through a devastatingly informative tour of white supremacy online. The book examines how white supremacist organizations have translated …
View book details for Racial Profiling
Research, Racism, and Resistance
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Karen S. Glover investigates the social science practices of racial profiling inquiry, examining their key influence in shaping public understandings of race, law, and law enforcement. Commonly manifesting in the traffic stop, the association with racial minority status and criminality …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Since Descartes, one of the central questions of Western philosophy has been that of how we know that the objects we seem to perceive are real. Philosophical skeptics claim that we know no such thing. Representationalists claim that we can …
View book details for Women Fielding Danger
Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In a compelling exploration of an oft-hidden aspect of qualitative field research, Women Fielding Danger shows how identity performances can facilitate or block field research outcomes. The book asks questions that are crucial for all women engaged in field research. …
View book details for An Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy
A Question-Based Approach
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Social and political philosophy, unlike other fields and disciplines, involves conflict, disagreement, deliberation, and action. This text takes a new approach and understands philosophy not so much as a story of great thinkers or as a collection of philosophical positions …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Media Power, Media Politics, Second Edition, examines the role and influence of the media in every sphere of American politics. Organized thematically, the book analyzes the relationship between the media and key institutions, political actors, and nongovernmental entities, as well …
View book details for Europe Old and New
Transnationalism, Belonging, Xenophobia
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Is Europe indeed uniting or instead falling apart as a result of anti-immigrant prejudices, a massive Islamic influx, and ancient intra-European hatreds? This innovative and engaging book explores this key question by examining the national and religious phobias and prejudices, …
View book details for Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Political Economy of Gender
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of …
AltaMira Press
Pagan Studies is maturing and moving beyond the context of new religious movements to situate itself in within of the study of world religions. Introduction to Pagan Studies is the first and only text designed to introduce the study of …
View book details for Culture Conglomerates
Consolidation in the Motion Picture and Television Industries
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This succinct overview explains conglomeration and regulation in the film and television industries, covering its history as well as the contemporary scene. Former producer William M. Kunz shows how the current structure of these industries has evolved and how this …
Scarecrow Press
Since films were first produced, adapted works have predominantly borrowed primarily from traditional texts, such as novels and plays. Likewise, the study of film adaptations has also been fairly traditional, rarely venturing beyond a comparison of the source material to …
View book details for Darwin's Legacy
Scenarios in Human Evolution
AltaMira Press
Darwin's Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution compares ideas about human evolution Darwin published in The Descent of Man in 1891 to 30 scenarios about the evolution of such unique human characteristics as bipedalism, hairless skin, secondary sex characters, language and …
View book details for Making Your Mind Matter
Strategies for Increasing Practical Intelligence
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Making Your Mind Matter is a practical guide to effective thinking in college and in everyday life. Critical thinking guru Vincent Ryan Ruggiero explains how and why the mind has been neglected in American education, then teaches readers how to …
View book details for Globaloney 2.0
The Crash of 2008 and the Future of Globalization
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Globalization is in retreat, but history tells us that this is but a temporary reversal. Globalization will return, but in what form? More cycles of boom and bust? Or can globalization be rebuilt on a more feasible and sustainable platform? …
View book details for Caring Across Generations
The Linked Lives of Korean American Families
NYU Press
More than 1.3 million Korean Americans live in the United States, the majority of them foreign-born immigrants and their children, the so-called 1.5 and second generations. While many sons and daughters of Korean immigrants outwardly conform to the stereotyped image …
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