While the relatively short era of British rule was important to Indian history, it "does not warrant a blow-by-blow account of each governor-general's tenure in India," notes SarDesai (Indian history,
Nothing is more difficult today than deciding what to do about abortion, gay marriage, economic injustice, war, torture, global warming, euthanasia, capital punishment, and a host of other controversi
The fourth edition of the acclaimed The Middle East and the United States brings together scholars and diplomats from the Middle East, Europe, and North America to provide an objective, cross-cultural
In a sweeping work that traces the idea of race for more than three centuries, Audrey Smedley shows that “race” is a cultural invention that began to appear around the turn of the eightee
Jack Donnelly updates his text on the rise of human rights issues post-World War II to reflect the new challenges posed by globalization and the war on terrorism. This third edition serves an origina
In this updated fourth edition, Mayer considers the human rights impact of the U.S. interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the growing importance of Islamic contributions to the UN human rights system
Literacies of Power illustrates the many ways American schools, media, and other social institutions perpetuate ignorance. In this new, expanded edition, Donaldo Macedo shows why so-called common cul
The field of inequality emerged out of a set of classic texts--important works that students and scholars continue to read and inform their ongoing research. Often controversial and deeply influential
The sixth edition of this popular anthology continues its interdisciplinary approach to the topic of leadership. Reviewing hundreds of articles published since the fifth edition, William Rosenbach an
Upon its original publication in Portuguese, Paulo Freire's Teachers as Cultural Workers became an instant success. Translated and published in English in 1997 and now reissued in paperback with new e
Using a combination of existing and original research, this new text provides a simple explanation for the low turnout in American elections: rather than creating an environment conducive to participa
The art of the three Abrahamic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—has a tangled, interwoven history. Symbols cross back and forth among the three faiths, adapted to reflect that f
In The Iraqw of Tanzania: Negotiating Rural Development, author Katherine Snyder focuses on how the Iraqw perceive, respond to, and affect development in Tanzania. Snyder explores how the ideology of
Revised and updated to include the behavioral sciences, the second edition of this introductory statistics book engages students with real-world examples and exercises.To the dismay of many social an
An accessible examination of what the genes of people living today can tell us about the history of the human race demonstrates how anthropologists use genetic information to answer fundamental questi
Combining elastic and inelastic processes with transfer reactions, this two-part volume explores how these events affect heavy ion collisions. Special attention is given to processes involving the tra
Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Second Edition traces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing
Can one change one's ethnicity? Can an entire ethnic group change its ethnicity? This book focuses on the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya. Until the 1920s and 1930s,
Nine female academics at the top of their fields of study speak out on a variety of religious and spiritual issues, from women mystics to the mysteries of the Jewish prayer for the dead. 25,000 first
Knowledge and Civilization advances detailed criticism of philosophy's usual approach to knowledge and describes a redirection, away from textbook problems of epistemology, toward an ecological philos
Pasnau and Shields (both philosophy, U. of Colorado-Boulder) introduce the whole philosophical system of Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) to students and readers beyond his traditional audience of Catholic th
In this wholly revised Second Edition, Michael Edelstein draws on his thirty years as a community activist to provide a much-expanded theoretical foundation for understanding the psychosocial impacts
Going beyond the narrow economic focus common to most books about globalization, All Together Now describes four kinds of global change - economic, political, cultural, biological - all of which are
Dolan (political science, U. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee) analyzes the factors impacting whether voters will vote for women candidates in U.S. congressional elections. She uses survey data to explore vo
Although Vincent van Gogh's and Paul Gauguin's artistic collaboration in the South of France lasted no more than two months, their stormy relationship has continued to fascinate art historians, biogra
The International Conference on Complex Systems provides a unique opportunity for scientists to rise above the disciplinary boundaries and explore unity in complex systems. This volume contains the pr
Racism, racial equity, and the race-place connections related to racial inequalities in the U.S. are the major themes of this book. The long history of U.S. White racism toward Blacks, Hispanics, and
Making use of the formerly secret archives of the Soviet government, interviews, and first-hand personal experiences, Nathaniel Davis describes how the Russian Orthodox Church hung on the brink of ins
Vectors and Tensors in Engineering and Physics develops the calculus of tensor fields and uses this mathematics to model the physical world. This new edition includes expanded derivations and solution
Reveals how numerous everyday judgments, are based on what the author calls ?everyday irrationality”--misjudgments characterized by story-based thinking, rather than comparative thinking.
Is ?conservative environmentalism” an oxymoron? Is more environmental regulation good for business? The Greening of Conservative America contends that the adherents to any well-considered conservative
Richard P. Feynman made profoundly important and prescient contributions to the physics of computing, notably with his seminal articles ?There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” and ?Simulating Physics w
A brief survey of all the main approaches to comparative politics that nearly all graduate students in the discipline have read, either for a class or when preparing for examinations, in its 1985 or 1
The troubles that have plagued the Yugoslav area, particularly since 1991, says Ramet (political science, Norwegian U. of Science and Technology) arose because of illegitimate government, and were exa
The Middle East has long been a volatile yet vital region in world politics. In his captivating new book, In the Shadow of the Prophet, journalist Milton Viorst illuminates the complex struggle to rec
From the early cities in the second millennium BC to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on the eve of the Spanish conquest, Ancient Mesoamericans created landscapes full of meaning and power in the cen
Kolbas stakes out new territory in assessing the war over literary canon formation, a subject that contemporary polemicists have devoted much ink to. Throughout this succinct manuscript, Kolbas ranges
Some Asian political leaders and Western academics have recently claimed that China is unlikely to produce an open political system. This claim rests on the idea that ?Confucian culture” provides an a
Without Justice for All: The New Liberalism and Our Retreat from Racial Equality questions, examines, and explains the way a new orthodoxy of American leaders has contributed to the social stratificat
As Maoism recedes, Beijing has increasingly turned to patriotic nationalism for its ideological inspiration and legitimation. Chang (political science, U. of Nevada) discusses theories of nationalism,
