Despite the apparent racial progress reflected in Obama's election, the African American community in the United States is in a deep crisis on many fronts - economic, intellectual, cultural, and spiri
Andre Gunder Frank was a path-breaking scholar in several disciplines over an illustrious and contentious 50-year career. First amongst his many important works is the book ReORIENT: Global Economy in
"Rethinking Online Education Resources" analyzes online educational materials on the recent Iraq war aimed to be used by U.S. educators in elementary and secondary schools. It is suggested that far fr
In 2000, the U.S. Census began allowing self-identification as more than one race. From interviews in the late 1990s with older persons of mixed African American/white and Asian/white heritage who had
White men seldom choose black women as marriage partners. Slatton uses innovative internet research methods to reveal candid prejudices about relationship partners in a book that thoroughly refutes th
Iranian-French sociologist Khosrokhavar (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris) has written about Arab people and culture for the past two decades, and here looks at the popular risings
Building Global Infrastructure is the fourth in a series of volumes Patterns of Potential Human Progress that uses the International Futures (IFs) simulation model to explore prospects for human devel
Investigating how individual presidents have shaped domestic policy, the authors examine the first term of every president from FDR to Obama, evaluating leadership styles, administrative strategies, p
This book describes how the global economic structure is despoiling the planet and how leaders can fight corporate-led globalization and choose a new vision of the 'good life.' Authors Ridgeway (polit
In this groundbreaking and provocative new book, philosopher of science David N. Stamos challenges the current conceptions of human rights, and argues that the existence of universal human rights is a
Agitation with a Smile offers a reappraisal of Howard Zinn's political thought and situates his efforts in a contemporary context, looking toward the nature of activism and dissent in the future. This
Library of Congress insider Fisher approaches core questions about the Supreme Court's interpretations of the Constitution. Writing in accessible terms, he analyzes several Supreme Court decisions tha
Corporate globalization has intensified in recent years, taking a terrible toll on the lives of ordinary women in the global North and South. This book investigates the related processes of neoliberal
Nuclear weapons are not a subject of intense public discussion and debate, but they should be. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were only the beginning; in recent times, nuclear annihilation at the hands of rog
Significantly absent in the flurry of coverage of the Arab Spring has been a considered assessment of the role of emotion, solidarity, and online activism. Especially noteworthy is the extent to which
PREORDER YOUR EXAM COPY NOW! In "Give Peace a Chance," the distinguished Dr. Hamburg teams up with his filmmaker son to tell the story of selected significant peace achievements over the past 25 years
Created by Students for a Democratic Society in a small Michigan town in 1962, the Port Huron Statement has been called the most ambitious, the most specific, and the most eloquent manifesto in the hi
PREORDER YOUR EXAM COPY NOW! Recently, American youths have demonstrated en masse about a variety of issues ranging from economic injustice and massive inequality to drastic cuts in education and publ
This new textbook introduces students to a new, comprehensive understanding of sociological theory, showing its application to the contemporary world. The authors argue that in recent decades sociolog
Even readers familiar with the political and cultural turmoil of the 1960s and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) may not be familiar with the Port Huron Statement, otherwise known as the "fo
