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The Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief is a scholarly work of social criticism, richly grounded in personal experience, evocative case studies, and current multicultural and sociocultural theories and research. It is also consistently practical and reflective, challenging readers to think through...

India in the Italian Renaissance provides a systematic, chronological survey of early Italian representations of India and Indians from the late medieval period to the end of the 16th century, and their resonance within the cultural context of Renaissance Italy. The study focuses in...

Field experiments -- randomized controlled trials -- have become ever more popular in political science, as well as in other disciplines, such as economics, social policy and development. Policy-makers have also increasingly used randomization to evaluate public policies, designing trials of tax reminders, welfare...

Everyday resistance is about the many ways people undermine power and domination through their routine and everyday actions. Unlike open rebellions or demonstrations, it is typically hidden, not politically articulated, and often ingenious. But because of its disguised nature, it is often poorly understood...

Public Law is an ideal choice for all undergraduate and GDL students looking for a comprehensive yet accessible textbook on this area of law. The author's clear writing style, accessible tone, and focus on modern case law help bring the subject to life. The...

Conflict, Culture and Communication provides a coherent, research-informed overview of conflict and intercultural communication. Aimed at encouraging and enabling conflict prevention, this book contributes to a better understanding of the factors that create, foster and exacerbate conflict in intercultural interaction and discusses how conflict...

The cultural, social and political existence of the working class were critical factors leading to the nineteenth century provision of a class-based education system. Changes in the organisation of this system have sought to pursue many of its original aims. Community education is an...

In Britain the physical education curriculum has been experiencing a period of unrest. For many teachers the practices of decades have become problematic features of their curriculum and teaching. This book, first published in 1986, explores the experiences of teachers and pupils in programmes...

After Charles de Gaulle has taken France out of NATO and the "Cold War" is on the verge of becoming hot, a Department of Army Civilian discovers that a number of the US Army's shoulder fired Missiles she has been charged with modifying is...

We are confronted with problems in virtually all of our major systems. Einstein said that "we cannot solve our problems on the same level of thinking we were on when we created them." We believe a fundamental fault underlying all these problems is the...

Learning Social Literacy offers a perspective on making human connections more stable and satisfying and claims that the exchange depends on learning how to read and interpret what's going on during social interaction. Social literacy is the ability and willingness to read what's going...

Essays analyzing a variety of communities in New York offer a unique and multifaceted view of the Empire State during the Federal period.Author: Stephen L. SchechterISBN-10: 0945660022ISBN-13: 9780945660026Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1990Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.03w x 0.57d

In Tomb of the Eagles John Hedges describes vividly the activities of a tribe in Isbister in the Orkneys which had as its totem the magnificent white-tailed sea eagle.Author: John W. HedgesISBN-10: 0941533050ISBN-13: 9780941533058Publisher: New Amsterdam BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/1998Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.45h x...

THIS SCHMUL PUBLISHING CO. EDITION IS NOT A SCANNED FACSIMILE OF A USED BOOK. It has been carefully typeset and proofread for accuracy and for easier reading by today's readers. Consequently there are no odd characters or missing text. In the allegorical tradition of...

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) was one of the founders of modern sociology. Ethics and the Sociology of Morals (La science positive de la morale en Allemagne) laid the foundation for Durkheim's future work. More than a review of current thought, it was a proclamation that...

Incorporating the latest research of leading specialists, this volume offers a comprehensive overview of function and adaptation in postcranial skeletons of living and fossil nonhuman primates. The contributors address major aspects of functional morphology and anatomy in primates and apply those findings toward interpretating...

Author: Theophilus ProusisISBN-10: 0875801935ISBN-13: 9780875801933Publisher: Northern Illinois University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1994Pages: 271Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Segal examines the historical connection between technology and utopia, and shows how this connection is not just a contemporary western concept, but one that stretches back several centuries.Author: Howard P. SegalISBN-10: 0872291472ISBN-13: 9780872291478Publisher: American Historical AssociationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w...

This lively new collection from one of America's leading sociologists covers a wide range of theoretical problems of interest to radical social scientists and political activists. The book opens with a fascinating autobiographical essay exploring the challenges and benefits of being a Marxist scholar...

Author: Daniel FaberISBN-10: 0853458405ISBN-13: 9780853458401Publisher: Monthly Review PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1993Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.71d

Author: James PainterISBN-10: 0853457328ISBN-13: 9780853457329Publisher: Monthly Review PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1987Pages: 167Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.50d

The alliance of the industrial labor movement with the Democratic Party under Franklin D. Roosevelt has, perhaps more than any other factor, shaped the course of class relations in the United States over the ensuing forty years. Much has been written on the interests...

The focus of this book is the emerging economic confrontation between European and U.S. capitalism at the end of the "golden age" of capitalism in the late 1960s. Ernest Mandel here paints a remarkably clear, comprehensive, and detailed portrait of trends at that critical...

These essays by the author of The Political Economy of Growth and co-author of Monopoly Capital cover the working range of a strong and original mind. They are as diverse as his well-known discussion of Marxism and psychoanalysis, and his expert handling of the...

In this book, Mandel discusses the development of Marx's economic ideas from their beginnings to the completion of the Grundrisse. He combines a historical retrospective and a review of current discussions on each of the subjects and problems central to Marxist economic theory. He...

Written in a clear and accessible style, this introductory textbook explores the economics of water supply and consumption and shows how water policy can be adapted to achieve the goal of sustainable development. Informed by an evolutionary political economy perspective, the book draws on...

This volume explains why there is bipartisan interest in privatization of public housing and how it can be accomplished.Author: John WeicherISBN-10: 0844770957ISBN-13: 9780844770956Publisher: AEI PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.52h x 5.56w x 0.21d

Between August 1933 and spring 1934, more than seven million peasants were starved to death in Ukraine by deliberate Soviet national policy. This immense man-made famine was the final effort of Stalin to gain political control over the peasantry. On the 50th anniversary of...

This volume makes available for the first time in English the work of a significant Indian nationalist author, Pandey Bechan Sharma, better known in India as "Ugra," meaning "extreme." His book Chocolate, a 1927 collection of eight stories, was the first work of Hindi...

In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social critics in science studies. Paul Gross and Norman Levitt's book Higher Superstition, presented as a wake-up call to scientists unaware of the dangers...

Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move from...

In the Name of National Security exposes the ways in which the films of Alfred Hitchcock, in conjunction with liberal intellectuals and political figures of the 1950s, fostered homophobia so as to politicize issues of gender in the United States.As Corber shows, throughout the...

Our educational system is in turmoil. Many would argue that it has been assaulted and oversimplified by the right. There is growing concern that we are becoming a liberal nation-state with an increasingly anti-liberal population and an electorate that is disinterested in politics. In...

Tamar's instrument of seduction in the Hebrew Bible, Penelope's shroud in Homer's Odyssey, accessory of brides as well as widows, and hallmark of the religious and the wealthy, the veil has historically been an intriguing signifier. Initially donned in France for liturgical purposes and...

This book challenges traditional approaches to heritage interpretation and offers an alternative theoretical architecture to the current research and practice. Russell Staiff suggests that the dialogue between visitors and heritage places has been too focused on learning outcomes, and so heritage interpretation has become...

Argues the cause of unemployment may be the government itself Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself.Author: Richard K. Vedder,...

Jerusalem is today a city very much embroiled in conflict, considered a holy site by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. In order to understand its contemporary state, a survey of its long, complex history is essential.In The History of Jerusalem: The Early Islamic Period (638-...

Malnig examines exhibition ballroom dance as both a theatrical genre and a cultural and social phenomenon, promoting new cultural standards, including the emancipation of women and a new casualness and spontaneity between the sexes. A lively and thorough account of a dance form that...

The university classroom has been turned into an intensely bitter battlefield. Conservatives are attacking the academy's ability to teach, and at times its very right to educate. As the dust begins to settle, the contributors to this volume weigh in with a constructive and...

Visualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendt's provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding both of the Nazi genocide...

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 provides a legal framework within which Native Americans can seek the repatriation of human remains and certain categories of cultural objects--including "sacred objects"--from federally funded institutions. Although the repatriation movement among Native Americans...

Intended as a plausible psychological and intellectual portrait of Landon Carter, thi study attempts to delineate his central character traits and personal values. It calls attention to what motivated him, to the major problems he encountered, how he sought to solve them, and how...

When Richard G. Hatcher became the first black mayor of Gary, Indiana in 1967, the response of Gary's white businessmen was to move the entire downtown to the suburbs, thereby weakening the city core. Meanwhile, white business and institutional leaders in Atlanta, Detroit, and...

" The "State Line Country" of this book is a rugged area of small farms on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. Historically the area has had a homicide rate more than ten times the national average. In this gripping and penetrating study of violence and death...

In The Censor, the Editor, and the Text, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin examines the impact of Catholic censorship on the publication and dissemination of Hebrew literature in the early modern period. Hebrew literature made the transition to print in Italian print houses, most of which were...

The need for caregiving is enormous. Thanks to extraordinary advances in medical technology, Americans are surviving illnesses and injuries that would have killed them a generation ago, and more of us are living into our eighties and nineties than ever before. Yet most people...

Examines the religious dimensions of an early twentieth century black power movement, the universal Negro Improvement Association, and its founder, Marcus Garvey.Author: Randall K. BurkettISBN-10: 0810811634ISBN-13: 9780810811638Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1987Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.78h x 5.62w x 0.77d

In Lands, Laws, and Gods, Daniel Gargola examines the formulation and implementation of laws regulating the use of public lands, including the establishment of colonies, in Republican Rome (509-27 B.C.). During this period of territorial expansion, the Romans developed the basic legal forms by...

With the election of Donald Trump, economic nationalism has re-emerged as a patriotic rallying cry. But are imports and "foreigners" really to blame for the disappearance of good jobs in the United States? Tracing the history and politics of economic nationalism from the American...

What the explosive growth of legalized gambling means socially, politically, and economically for America. Forty years ago, casinos were legal in just one state. Today, legalized gambling has morphed into a $119 billion industry established in all but two states. As elected officials are...