The purpose of this book is to provide a belief system to empower people using the democratic system and human rights law. This author contends that neo-liberalism has created a large underclass and h
Contending that empire is alive and well in the world's monetary systems, God and Money explores the theological-ethical implications of money as a social relation with others and to God. Wariboko arg
While literature on medicine and colonialism has increased rapidly in the past nearly two decades, this volume presents yet another way of looking at ideas of medicine, health, and disease. It portray
International Negotiations combines three main elements: a comprehensive and detailed overview of all the main theoretical perspectives on the process of international negotiations; a set of case-stud
The Defense of Insanity, The World Over is the tenth in a series of books that examines and compares social issues or social problems from an explicitly comparative perspective. This volume examines a
This book deals with substantive issues that have the potential to enhance our understanding regarding how Marxist theory can be quite useful in interpreting Black specificities and the race paradigm.
As part of his larger interest in introducing students to key concepts and issues of political theory using works of literature and film, Burns (politics and international relations, U. of Nottingham,
Wulf (government, Lawrence U.) develops a philosophical theory of citizenship and its obligations based on an absolute idealist foundational theory of reality, rational conduct, and the self. He argue
Vostral (gender and women's studies, U. of Illinois) examines the social history of menstrual hygiene, explaining that menstrual hygiene is primarily a technology, and that women had to learn that tec
Through a close analysis of Zen encounter dialogues (gong'ans) and Huayan Buddhist philosophy, Buddhism and Postmodernity offers a new ethical paradigm for Buddhist-postmodern philosophy.
This book is a product of research stemming from a multiyear project conducted by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Micah N. Bump for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown Univer
A work of contemporary Christian political thought, this volume addresses the crisis of modern democracy evident in the decline of the institutions of civil society and their theoretical justification
This collection of essays honoring Werner J. Dannhauser addresses the timeless issue_lately become very timely_of the rivalry between reason and religion, especially as both relate to politics. The es
In this wide-ranging work, Smith (political science and philosophy, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut) grapples with the question of whether political philosophy can be refashioned as "temporal
While political scientists generally see Taiwan as a success state because of its economic modernization and political democratization, this book reinterprets Taiwan's success from the Confucian and p
For Love of a Soldier contains the stories of twenty-nine people whose family members - spouses, siblings, and children - are serving or have served in the American military during the Iraq War. The f
Finding trans-Caribbean-ness to be a new type of emergent nationalism, Henke (political science, Metropolitan College of New York, US) and Magister (a researcher at the Center for Literary and Cultura
Knowledge workers include the upper end, such as journalists, broadcasters, filmmakers, and the low end workers in data entry, software coding and maintenance of computer systems. This collection of 1
The book's main argument is that global social injustice is by and large epistemological injustice. It maintains that there can be no global social justice without global cognitive justice.
Rybin (interdisciplinary arts, Ohio U.) considers the work of filmmaker Michael Mann and how he is a "genre stylist" of crime films. Specific films are analyzed; these are The Jericho Mile, Thief, The
Class Construction explores class, racial, and gender identity construction among white, working-class students. Delving into River City High School, Freie asks what happens to the adolescent children
The Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania and Ukraine that has at various times been politically ruled by the Russian Empire, Romania, and the Soviet U
This is a paperbound reprint of a 2005 book. Roman (Justice Policy Center, Urban Institute), Ahn-Redding (a doctoral candidate in Justice, Law, and Society at American U.), and Simon (public affairs a
America and the Limits of the Politics of Selfishness examines Congress, the Presidency, the public, and public policy, demonstrating the important impact of the public's selfishness, morality, compas
Agreeing with the definition of whiteness as "a refusal to acknowledge how white people are implicated in certain social relations of privilege and relations of domination and subordination," Cooks (c
In this study, Obeng examines the history, faith, and cultural practices of the Karnataka African Indians (Siddis/Habshis). Drawing upon years of field research in India, he describes how people belon
Years before becoming Japanese Prime Minister, Miyazawa Kiichi served as the secretary to Ikeda Hayato while the latter was finance Minister and when he was Minister of International Trade and Industr
This is a paperbound reprint of a 2002 book. Simon (School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law at American U.) and Blaskovich (Chicago Police Dept.) present a statistical and descripti
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the top minds of the Bourbon dynasty knew they could not exploit something if they did not know where it was. The kings of France tried desperately to creat
Moody (political science, U. of Notre Dame, Indiana) describes Chinese conservatism as an exclusion of utopian vision and concentration on steady and sure material progress to enhance both people's li
The art of fengshui has had a deep and extensive impact on Korean, Chinese, and other East Asian cultures. Korean native Yoon (geography and environmental science, U. of Auckland, New Zealand) explore
This is the third and final volume in the series on American political thought edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West. The book addresses how the major themes in American political thought_i
Part Blood, Part Ketchup analyzes novels by 20th century authors Edith Wharton, J.D. Salinger, Philip Roth, John Irving, and Jamaica Kincaid, uncovering trends that obliterate cultural divides. With u
This is the third and final volume in the series on American political thought edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West. The book addresses how the major themes in American political thought_i
Exploring a range of literary, poetic, and filmic texts, occasionally in comparison to political texts, the 13 papers presented by Go (political science, Calvin College) and Dolan (rhetoric, U. of Cal
Secular Spirituality challenges the traditional dichotomy between Enlightenment reason and religion. It follows French romantic socialists' and spiritists' search for a new spirituality based on reinc
Written by a team of professors of education, law, and public policy, this text explores the issue of academic freedom in Hong Kong since its return to China. Drawing upon interviews with academics an
The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass-market fat anxiety. Andrea Elizabeth Shaw l
In a sequel to their 2000 collaboration on art, commerce, and technoscience, Sassower (philosophy) and Cicotello (visual arts, both U. of Colorado-Colorado Springs) take on art, politics, and propagan
Planning the Past studies the way a post-colonial society reconstructs its national history and grapples with its colonial past, specifically in Port Royal, a Jamaican village with a dramatic history
