Ref 103 O96 2005
AUT Honderich, Ted.
TIT The Oxford companion to philosophy. - 2nd ed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. 121 A468c 2008
AUT Altman, Matthew C.
TIT A companion to Kant's Critique of pure reason.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2008. 128.4 R883b 2006
AUT Rowlands, Mark.
TIT Body language : representation in action.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Representation: the word and the deed -- Content externalism -- Vehicle externalism -- The myths of the giving -- Enacting representation -- Actions, doings, and deeds -- The informational constraint -- The teleological constraint -- Decouplability and misrepresentation -- The combinatorial constraint -- Representation in action. 150.71 K92e 2007
AUT Kripal, Jeffrey John.
TIT Esalen : America and the religion of no religion.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Openings. Introduction: on wild facts and altered categories -- Geographic, historical, and literary orientations (1882-1962). Slate's Hot Springs : homestead, family spa, literary paradise -- The empowerment of the founders (1950-1960). The professor and the saint : the early inspirations of Michael Murphy -- Buddhism, breakdown, breakthrough : the early inspirations of Richard Price -- The outlaw era and the American counterculture (1960-1970). "Totally on fire" : the experience of founding Esalen -- Mind manifest : psychedelia at early Esalen and beyond -- Mesmer to Maslow : energy and the Freudian left -- Perls to Price : consciousness and the gestalt lineage -- Esalen goes to the city : the San Francisco center -- On ecstasy, education, and the end of sex : George Leonard and the human potential -- The serpent spine of spirit and sex : Don Hanlon Johnson and the somatics movement -- The occult imaginal and Cold War activism (1970-1985). The cosmic womb : Stanislav and Christina Grof and the counsels of spiritual emergence -- Golf in the kingdom : Plato and Ramakrishna for Republicans -- Jacob Atabet and the tantra of physics -- Superpowers : Cold War psychics and citizen diplomats -- Sex with the angels : nonlocal mind, UFOs, and An end to ordinary history -- The Tao of Esalen : the spiritual art and intuitive business of managing emptiness -- Crisis and the religion of no religion (1985-1993). The religion of no religion : the Donovan era -- Realizing Darwin's dream : the transformation project and The future of the body -- Before and after the storm (1993-2006). After the storm : reassessment, disaster, and renewal -- (In)conclusion. The future of the past and the mystical idea of "America.". 152.4 B264e 2007
AUT Bar-On, Reuven ; Maree, Kobus ; Elias, Maurice J.
TIT Educating people to be emotionally intelligent.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007. 155.418 E43p 2007
AUT Elkind, David.
TIT The power of play : how spontaneous, imaginative activities lead to happier, healthier children.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Lifelong, c2007.
CON Contents: Play, love, and work : an essential trio -- Toys aren't us -- Screen play and iconic literacy -- Child play and parent angst -- Misunderstandings about how young children learn -- Playing for a reason: building the units of math, reading, and science -- It isn't only a game: the role of play in becoming social -- Lighthearted parenting -- Schooling with heart, mind, and body -- Epilogue: gifts for a lifetime. 155.418 S785c 2001
AUT Stanford, Beverly Hardcastle ; Yamamoto, Kaoru.
TIT Children and stress : understanding and helping.
PUB Olney, Md. : Association for Childhood Education International, c2001. 155.7 K88g 2007
AUT Kovas, Yulia ; Haworth, Claire M. A ; Dale, Philip S.
TIT The genetic and environmental origins of learning abilities and disabilities in the early school years.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Blackwell, 2007.
SER Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 0037-976X ; serial no. 288, vol. 72, no. 3, 2007.
CON Contents: Abstract -- I. Introduction -- II. Methods -- III. Nature and nurture -- IV. The abnormal is normal -- V. Genetic stability, environmental change -- VI. Generalist genes, specialist environments -- VII. Conclusions and implications -- Appendices -- References -- Acknowledgments. 155.8 L376u 2007
AUT Laungani, Pittu.
TIT Understanding cross-cultural psychology : Eastern and Western perspectives. - 1st ed.
PUB London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007.
CON Contents: What is this thing called culture? -- Nature, rationale and scope of cross-cultural psychology -- A conceptual model of cross-cultural differences in eastern and western cultures -- Research in cross-cultural settings: ethical considerations -- Methodological issues in cross-cultural psychology -- Doing research in India: cultural and ethical considerations -- Family structures and child-rearing practices -- Intercultural perception and interaction -- Cross-cultural considerations in health, happiness, and illness -- Death and bereavement: cross-cultural perspectives. 171.2 C893b 2007
AUT Crary, Alice.
TIT Beyond moral judgment.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Wider possibilities for moral thought -- Objectivity revisited: a lesson from the work of J.L. Austin -- Ethics, inheriting from Wittgenstein -- Moral thought beyond moral judgment: the case of literature -- Reclaiming moral judgment: the case of feminist thought -- Moralism as a central moral problem. 171.3 K91w 2007
AUT Kraut, Richard.
TIT What is good and why : the ethics of well-being.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: In search of good -- A Socratic question -- Flourishing and well-being -- Mind and value -- Utilitarianism -- Rawls and the priority of the right -- Right, wrong, should -- The elimination of moral rightness -- Rules and good -- Categorical imperatives -- Conflicting interests -- Whose good? The egoist's answer -- Whose good? The utilitarian's answer - Self-denial, self-love, universal concern -- Pain, self-love, and altruism -- Agent-neutrality and agent-relativity -- Good, conation, and pleasure -- "Good" and "good for" -- "Good for" and advantage -- "Good that" and "Bad that" -- Pleasure and advantage -- Good for S that P -- The "for" of "good for" -- Plants, animals, humans -- Ross on human nature -- The perspectival reading of "good for" -- The conative approach to well-being -- Abstracting from the content of desires and plans -- The faulty mechanisms of desire formation -- Infants and adults -- The conation of an ideal self -- The appeal of the conative theory -- Conation hybridized -- Strict hedonism -- Hedonism diluted -- Prolegomenon to flourishing -- Development and flourishing: the general theory -- Development and flourishing: the human case -- More examples of what is good -- Appealing to nature -- Sensory un-flourishing -- Affective flourishing and un-flourishing -- Hobbes on tranquility and restlessness -- Flourishing and un-flourishing as a social being -- Cognitive flourishing and un-flourishing -- Sexual flourishing and un-flourishing -- Too much and too little -- Comparing lives and stages of life -- Adding goods: Rawls's principle of inclusiveness -- Art, science, and culture -- Self-sacrifice -- The vanity of fame -- The vanity of wealth -- Making others worse-off -- Virtues and flourishing -- The good of autonomy -- What is good and why -- The sovereignty of good -- The importance of what is good for us -- Good's insufficiency -- Promises -- Retribution -- Cosmic justice -- Social justice -- Pure antipaternalism -- Moral space and giving aid -- Slavery -- Torture -- Moral rightness revisited -- Lying -- Honoring the dead -- Meaningless goals and symbolic value -- Good-independent realms of value -- Good thieves and good human beings -- Final thoughts. 174.2 R477b 2007
AUT Rhodes, Rosamond ; Francis, Leslie ; Silvers, Anita.
TIT The Blackwell guide to medical ethics.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
SER Blackwell philosophy guides. ; 21.
CON Contents: Autonomy, the good life and controversial choices / Julian Savulescu -- Individual responsibility and reproduction / Rachel A. Ankeny -- Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death / Felicia Nimue Ackerman -- The professional responsibilities of medicine / Rosamond Rhodes -- Truth telling / Roger Higgs -- Medical confidentiality / Kenneth Kipnis -- Patient competence and surrogate decision making / Dan Brock -- Ending life / Frances Myrna Kamm -- Discrimination in medical practice : justice and the obligations of health care providers to disadvantaged patients / Leslie P. Francis -- Institutional practices, ethics, and the physician / Mary V. Rorty, Ann E. Mills, and Patricia H. Werhane -- Reproductive choice / Rebecca Bennett and John Harris -- Public policy and ending lives / Evert van Leeuwen and Gerrit Kimsma -- Drug legalization / Douglas N. Husak. Contents: Selling organs, gametes, and surrogacy services / Janet Radcliffe-Richards -- The patient as victim and vector : the challenge of infectious disease for bioethics / Margaret P. Battin ... [et al.] -- Controlling science and technology / Glenn McGee and Dýrleif Bjarnadóttir -- Allocation of scarce resources / Paul Menzel -- Just caring : the challenges of priority-setting in public health / Leonard M. Fleck -- Justice and the financing of health care / Stephen R. Latham -- Judgment and justice : evaluating health care for chronically ill and disabled patients / Anita Silvers -- Justice in research on human subjects / David R. Buchanan and Franklin G. Miller -- Community standards, medical mistakes, practice reform & malpractice / Troyen Anthony Brennan -- Pre-existing conditions : genetic testing, causation and the justice of medical insurance / Robert T. Pennock. 174.4 H938c 2007
AUT Hunnicutt, Susan.
TIT Corporate corruption.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, c2007.
SER At issue. Crime.
CON Contents: The Enron trial exposes a dark chapter in American business history / Peter Elkind, Bethany McLean, and Doris Burke -- The casualty of Enron's collapse: confidence of the business community / Jack Welch and Suzy Welch -- The Enron scandal is the result of a corrupt capitalist system / Joe Kay -- Harsh punishment will deter some corporate criminals / Patti Bond -- Media portrayals of corrupt executives are unfair / Charles Simpson -- Shareholder protections of Sarbanes-Oxley should be strengthened / Ethan Burger -- Sarbanes-Oxley does not provide protection for corporate whistleblowers / Curtis C. Verschoor -- Legislation is not an effective way to build trust in business / Paul Hilton -- Business schools must integrate ethics into their curricula / Sandra Waddock -- Top executives deserve to be well compensated / Colin Stewart -- High CEO pay is unfair to workers / Madeleine Baran -- High CEO pay is unfair to shareholders / Gary Strauss and Barbara Hansen -- Corporate greed is a spiritual problem / William J. McDonough -- Back dating stock options undermines trust in business / Jeff Brown. 179.3 K14a 2007
AUT Kalof, Linda ; Fitzgerald, Amy J.
TIT The animals reader : the essential classic and contemporary writings.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.
CON Contents: The history of animals / Aristotle -- Principles of morals and legislation / Jeremy Bentham -- In defense of slavery / Marjorie Spiegel -- Animal liberation or animal rights? / Peter Singer -- The rights of humans and other animals / Tom Regan -- The moral status of animals / Martha Nussbaum -- Becoming-animal / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari -- An apology for Raymond Sebond / Michel de Montaigne -- From the letters of 1646 and 1649 / René Descartes -- Speaking for dogs / Clinton R. Sanders, Arnold Arluke -- Wild justice and fair play : cooperation, forgiveness, and morality in animals / Marc Bekoff -- Grief, sadness, and the bones of elephants / Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Susan McCarthy -- Orangutan cultures and the evolution of material culture / Carel P. van Schaik ... [et al.] -- The hunter-gatherer prehistory of human-animal interactions / Steven Mithen -- Animal planet / Harriet Ritvo -- Animal pets : cruelty and affection / Yi-Fu Tuan -- The eating of flesh / Plutarch -- Brave new farm? / Jim Mason, Mary Finelli -- The sexual politics of meat / Carol J. Adams -- The promotion of "meat" and its consequences / David Nibert -- Combats of elephants / Pliny the Elder -- On being human in the bullfight / Garry Marvin -- Dogfighting : symbolic expression and validation of masculinity / Rhonda Evans, DeAnn Kalich (Gauthier), Craig J. Forsyth -- Zoo spectatorship / Randy Malamud -- Hunting and humanity in western thought / Matt Cartmill -- Why look at animals? / John Berger -- The totemic illusion / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Animals as tradition / Boria Sax -- What is the postmodern animal? / Steve Baker -- The illumination of the animal kingdom : the role of light and electricity in animal representation / Jonathan Burt -- The brown dog riots of 1907 / Coral Lansbury -- Into the laboratory / Lynda Birke -- Hybrid geographies : rethinking the "human" in human geography / Sarah Whatmore -- Dolly's body : gender, genetics, and the new genetic capital / Sarah Franklin -- Cyborgs to companion species : reconfiguring kinship in technoscience / Donna Haraway. Ref 181.112 R869 2003 v.1-2
AUT Yao, Xinzhong.
TIT RoutledgeCurzon encyclopedia of Confucianism.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
SER RoutledgeCurzon encyclopedias of religion. 184.1 L629p 2006
AUT Lesher, J. H. ; Nails, Debra ; Sheffield, Frisbee C. C.
TIT Plato's Symposium : issues in interpretation and reception.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.
SER Hellenic studies. ; 22.
CON Contents: Part I: The symposium and Plato's philosophy -- The symposium as a Socratic dialogue / Christopher Rowe -- The role of the earlier speeches in theSymposium : Plato's endoxic method? / Frisbee C. C. Sheffield -- A platonic reading of Plato's Symposium / Lloyd P. Gerson -- Part II: Interpreting Plato's Symposium -- Medicine, magic, and religion in Plato's Symposium / Mark L. McPherran -- Permanent beauty and becoming happy in Plato's Symposium / Gabriel Richardson Lear -- A study in violets : alcibiades in the Symposium / C.D.C. Reeve -- Where is Socrates on the "ladder of love"? / Ruby Blondell -- Tragedy off-stage / Debra Nails -- The virtues of platonic love / Gabriela Roxana Carone -- Part III: The Symposium, sex, and gender -- Agathon, Pausanias, and Diotima in Plato's Symposium : Paiderastia and Philosophia / Luc Brisson -- Female imagery in plato / Angela Hobbs -- Plato in the courtroom: the surprising influence of the Symposium on legal theory / Jeffrey carnes -- Part IV: The reception of Plato's Symposium -- Plato's Symposium and the traditions of ancient fiction / Richard Hunter -- Some notable afterimages of Plato's Symposium / J.H. Lesher -- The hangover of Plato's Symposium in the Italian Renaissance from Bruni (1435) to Castiglione (1528) / Diskin Clay -- Platonic selves in Shelley and Stevens / David K. O'Connor. top of page |
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AUT Gabriel, Theodore P. C ; Geaves, Ron.
TIT --Isms : understanding religion.
PUB New York : Universe, 2007.
CON Contents: Judaism -- Christianity -- Islam -- Buddhism & South Asian religions -- Vernacular religions -- Regional religions -- Reference section. 201.7 S189c 2007
AUT Samman, Khaldoun.
TIT Cities of God and nationalism : Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as contested world cities.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2007. 205.66 R241f 2007
AUT Regnerus, Mark.
TIT Forbidden fruit : sex & religion in the lives of American teenagers.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Fashioning new stories from old wisdom -- Can religion cause behavior? -- Learning sexuality -- Motivating sexual decisions -- Sexual experience -- Imitation sex and the new middle class morality -- A typology of religious influence. 215 G445o 2007
AUT Giberson, Karl ; Artigas, Mariano.
TIT Oracles of science : celebrity scientists versus God and religion.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : The oracles of science -- A good devil's chaplain : Richard Dawkins -- Rocks of ages and the ages of the rocks : Stephen Jay Gould -- Reading the mind of God : Stephen Hawking -- A light in the darkness : Carl Sagan -- Understanding a pointless universe : Steven Weinberg -- A Pulitzer for the ants : Edward O. Wilson -- Conclusion : Science and beyond. 215 S129v 2006
AUT Sagan, Carl ; Druyan, Ann.
TIT The varieties of scientific experience : a personal view of the search for God.
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Nature and wonder : a reconnaissance of heaven -- The retreat from Copernicus : a modern loss of nerve -- The organic universe -- Extraterrestrial intelligence -- Extraterrestrial folklore : implications for the evolution of religion -- The god hypothesis -- The religious experience -- Crimes against creation -- The search -- Selected Q & A. 229.8 E33L 2006
AUT Ehrman, Bart D.
TIT The lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot : a new look at betrayer and betrayed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: My introduction to the Gospel of Judas -- Judas in our earliest Gospels -- Judas in later Gospel traditions -- Before the discovery: our previous knowledge of a Gospel of Judas -- The discovery of the Gospel of Judas -- The Gospel of Judas: an overview -- The Gospel of Judas and early Christian Gnosticism -- Jesus, Judas, and the twelve in the Gospel of Judas -- Who was Judas Iscariot? -- What did Judas betray and why did he betray it? -- The Gospel of Judas in perspective. 230.2 B463e 2007
AUT Benedict XVI, Pope ; Thornton, John F. ; Varenne, Susan B.
TIT The essential Pope Benedict XVI : his central writings and speeches. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : HarperSanFrancisco, c2007. 231.6 U54t 2007
AUT Unamuno, Miguel de ; Orringer, Nelson R.
TIT Treatise on love of God.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2007.
SER Hispanisms.
CON Contents: Love of God and knowledge of God -- What is love? -- What is faith? -- What is truth? -- The mystery of mortality -- What is charity? -- Life in God -- Religion -- Christianity. 232.9 E92f 2006
AUT Evans, Craig A.
TIT Fabricating Jesus : how modern scholars distort the gospels.
PUB Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, c2006. 235.2 G785c 2007
AUT Graziano, Frank.
TIT Cultures of devotion : folk saints of Spanish America.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. 267.13 M647g 2007
AUT Miller, David W.
TIT God at work : the history and promise of the Faith at Work movement.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: "Faith at work"? -- The Social Gospel era (c. 1890s-1945) -- The Ministry of the Laity era (c. 1946-1985) -- The Faith at Work era (c. 1985-present) -- Response of the church and the theological academy to FAW -- Faith at Work as a social movement -- Analyzing and understanding the Faith at Work movement -- The future of the Faith at Work movement. 270.82 C328e 2007
AUT Cartledge, Mark J.
TIT Encountering the spirit : the charismatic tradition.
PUB Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 2007.
SER Traditions of Christian spirituality series.
CON Contents: Charismatic spirituality -- Twentieth century Pentecostal and charismatic movements -- Theological context : spirituality as process and framework -- Main themes and a community of interpreters -- The charismatic tradition in church history -- The early church and early Middle ages -- The high Middle ages -- Reformation and Catholic reformation period -- Post-reformation and the holiness movement -- Praise and worship -- General characteristics of contemporary charismatic worship -- Liturgy and song -- Songs and hymns -- Classifying charismatic songs : is there a typology? -- Inspired speech -- The day of Pentecost : inspired speech renewed -- Revelatory experiences -- Categories of inspired speech -- The sanctified life -- The roots of contemporary charismatic holiness -- Roman Catholic renewal and 'sanctity'? -- Contemporary British Pentecostalism -- Empowered kingdom witness -- Empowered witness : signs and wonders -- Eschatological tension -- Empowerment for witness : baptism in the spirit -- Witness : mission and evangelism -- Doing the stuff : prayer ministry -- The end : the apocalyptic vision -- The community of interpreters -- Early and contemporary Pentecostal biblical interpretation -- 'This is that' interpretation -- Conclusion. 270.83 J52n 2006
AUT Jenkins, Philip.
TIT The new faces of Christianity : believing the Bible in the global south.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Shall the fundamentalists win? -- Power in the book -- Old and new -- Poor and rich -- Good and evil -- Persecution and vindication -- Women and men -- North and south. 287.6 M528w 2007
AUT Melton, J. Gordon.
TIT A will to choose : the origins of African American Methodism.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Anthony's Legacy -- African American Methodism's Beginnings -- Emerging Centers of Black Methodism: Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Wilmington -- Emerging Centers of Black Methodism: Philadelphia, New York City, and Brooklyn -- African Methodism away from the Cities -- The Push into the South -- Women, the new force in church life -- Toward Emancipation -- Emancipation and Its Transitions -- A Selected Bibliography of Antebellum African American Methodism. 289.9 S967a 2007
AUT Sutton, Matthew Avery.
TIT Aimee Semple McPherson and the resurrection of Christian America.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Prologue -- Faith in the City of Angels -- The Foursquare Gospel -- Marketing the old-time religion -- Kidnapping the bride of Christ -- Unraveling the mystery -- Wilderness wanderings -- The long road back to Pentecost -- Searching for Christian America -- Remaking the city on the hill -- Epilogue. 294.308 G878b 1993
AUT Gross, Rita M.
TIT Buddhism after patriarchy : a feminist history, analysis, and reconstruction of Buddhism.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1993. Ref 294.5 E56 2008
AUT Cush, Denise ; Robinson, Catherine A ; York, Michael.
TIT Encyclopedia of Hinduism.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. Ref 294.5 J76e 2007
AUT Jones, Constance ; Ryan, James D.
TIT Encyclopedia of Hinduism.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2007.
SER Encyclopedia of world religions. Facts on File library of religion and mythology. 294.5 P659w 2007
AUT Pintchman, Tracy.
TIT Women's lives, women's rituals in the Hindu tradition.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Pt. 1. Engaging domesticity. The cat in the courtyard: the performance of Sanskrit and the religious experience of women / Laurie L. Patton -- Wandering from "hills to valleys" with the goddess: protection and freedom in the Matamma tradition of Andhra / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger -- Lovesick Gopi or woman's best friend: the mythic Sakhi and ritual friendships among women in Benares / Tracy Pintchman -- Words that breach walls: women's rituals in Rajasthan / Lindsey Harlan -- Threshold designs, forehead dots, and menstruation rituals: exploring time and space in Tamil Kolams / Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan. Pt. 2. Beyond domesticity. Domesticity and difference/women and men: religious life in medieval Tamilnadu / Leslie C. Orr -- The anatomy of devotion: the life and poetry of Karaikkal Ammaiyar / Elaine Craddock -- The play of the mother: possession and power in Hindu women's goddess rituals / Kathleen M. Erndl -- Does Tantric ritual empower women? Renunciation and domesticity among female Bengali Tantrikas / June McDaniel -- Performing arts, re-forming rituals: women and social change in South India / Vasudha Narayanan. 296.12 S296j 2007
AUT Schäfer, Peter.
TIT Jesus in the Talmud.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Jesus' family -- The son/disciple who turned out badly -- The frivolous disciple -- The Torah teacher -- Healing in the name of Jesus -- Jesus' execution -- Jesus' disciples -- Jesus' punishment in hell -- Jesus in the Talmud. 296.41 R582d 2007
AUT Ringwald, Christopher D.
TIT A day apart : how Jews, Christians, and Muslims find faith, freedom, and joy on the Sabbath.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: From Sinai to Sunday: the Holy Day in three religions and three families -- The birth of the Sabbath: from creation to Mount Sinai and into the Promised Land in 1100 BCE -- The fight for the Sabbath: from the monarchy to Jesus and the age of the rabbis: 1000 BCE to 200 CE -- The Lord's Day: Easter to 1600 -- Islam's Day of Judgment -- Citizens and Sabbatarians: 1600 to 1890 -- The Sabbath defeated, reborn, converted: 1890 to the present -- The window on eternity -- Give me a break: work, rest, equality, play, and place -- The promise of peace: sharing the Holy Day. 297.122 S954q 2007
AUT Sultan, Sohaib.
TIT The Quran and sayings of Prophet Muhammad : selections annotated & explained.
PUB Woodstock, Vt. : SkyLight Paths Pub., c2007.
SER SkyLight illuminations series.
CON Contents: On contemplation, reason, and faith -- On God and divine attributes -- On revelation and scripture -- On prophetic character and message -- On the purpose and responsibility of human life -- On the stages of human life -- On the psyche, heart, and soul -- On spiritual practice and discipline -- On laws in daily life -- On noble character and good morals -- On envisioning a just and moral society -- On pluralism, inclusive theology, and interfaith relations -- On peace, war, and reconciliation -- On women and gender relations -- On marriage and family life. 297.63 Z48i 2007
AUT Zeitlin, Irving M.
TIT The historical Muhammad.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction and overview of the life of Muhammad -- Ibn Khaldun's social and economic theory -- Pre-Islamic Arabia -- The role of Abraham, Hagar, and Ishmael -- Recent and current scholarship -- Possible influences on Muhammad's inspiration -- The Jews of Arabia: a recent re-examination -- Richard Bell's origin of Islam in its Christian environment -- W. Montgomery Watt's Muhammad -- Muhammad at Medina: William Muir's analysis -- Muhammad and the Jews -- Concluding sociological reflections. 299.7 P214n 2007
AUT Paper, Jordan D.
TIT Native North American religious traditions : dancing for life.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.
CON Contents: pt. I. General considerations -- 1. Introduction -- Prelude -- Dancing for life -- Native North American religious traditions -- Common features -- The number four -- Reciprocity -- Tobacco and other sacred herbs -- Experiential religion -- Western perceptions -- No religion : the heathen savage -- Animism, totemism and other nineteenth-century fallacies -- The Noble savage -- New age hucksters -- Further considerations -- Esotericism -- Suppression and secrecy -- "Stealing religion" -- Avoidance of photographs and recordings -- 2. From past to present -- Native traditions before contact -- North and Northeast -- Great Lakes and Midwest -- Southeast and Mississippi and Ohio River basins -- Mississippi and Ohio River basins -- Plains and plateau -- Northwest coast -- Southwest, Great Basin and Southern California -- Far South and Caribbean -- From contact to reservations -- Reservations and enforced Christian conversion -- Revitalization of Native traditions -- 3. Theology -- Cosmogony and the influence of Christianity -- The environment as numinous -- Ancestral and other spirits of the dead -- Culture heroes and "tricksters". Contents: pt. II. Ceremonies from a variety of traditions -- 4. Great Lakes and Northeast -- Anishnabe religion : modernization of gathering-hunting spirituality -- The Haudenausaunee : from horticulture-hunting to agriculture -- 5. Southwest and Southeast -- Diné Menarche rituals : celebrating female spiritual power -- Navajo Kinaaldá -- Apache Sunset Dance -- Muskogee Green Corn Ceremony : continuing an agricultural tradition -- 6. Plains -- Missouri basin horticultural-hunting complex : twinning corn and bison -- Nitsitapi Bundle Ceremonies : the effects of horse Nomadism -- 7. Northwest coast -- Potlatch : religious heart of coastal traditions -- Makah whale hunt : continuing persecution of Native religion -- 8. Pan-Indian rituals -- Circumpolar rituals -- Spirit ("sweat") lodge -- Binding rituals : "shaking tent" and Yuwipi -- Regional Pan-Indian rituals -- Thirst ("Sun") Dance -- Dance drums and the powwow -- The sacred pipe : ritual of adoption -- Native American church (Peyote religion). top of page |
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AUT Artz, Lee ; Kamalipour, Yahya R.
TIT The media globe : trends in international mass media.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
CON Contents: Africa : life in the margins of globalization / Lyombe Eko -- Asia : the Hollywood factor / Kuldip R. Rampal -- Europe : television in transition / Jeanette Steemers -- The Middle East : transnational Arab television / Marwan M. Kraidy and Joe F. Khalil -- Latin America : media conglomerates / José-Carlos Lozano -- Australia : media and globalization / Alan Knight -- The corporate model from national to transnational / Lee Artz. 302.23 M122v 2007
AUT McCall, Jeffrey M.
TIT Viewer discretion advised : taking control of mass media influences.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.
CON Contents: Media awareness for all -- Getting to know the first amendment -- Sex, skin, and swearing -- This is not news -- Television news or MTV? -- Packaged politics -- Media-saturated kids -- Big media, little responsibility -- How you can fight back--today. 302.234 P369c 2007
AUT Pecora, Norma Odom ; Murray, John P ; Wartella, Ellen.
TIT Children and television : fifty years of research.
PUB Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007.
SER LEA's communication series.
CON Contents: The changing nature of children's television : fifty years of research / Norma Pecora -- From attention to comprehension : how children watch and learn from television / Aletha C. Huston, David S. Bickham, June H. Lee, and John C. Wright -- The impact of television on cognitive development and educational achievement / Marie Evans Schmidt and Daniel R. Anderson -- Television, social roles, and marginality : portrayals of the past and images for the future / Gordon L. Berry -- Is television healthy? : the medical perspective / Michael Rich -- Advertising and consumer development / Nancy A. Jennings and Ellen A. Wartella -- TV violence : research and controversy / John P. Murray -- Health, drugs, and values / Elizabeth P. Lorch. 302.24 L793p 2006
AUT Lloyd, Mark.
TIT Prologue to a farce : communication and democracy in America.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
SER History of communication.
CON Contents: The challenge of American democracy -- The role of communications in the democratic experiment -- The break : the telegraph from Jackson to Hayes (1830-1876) -- The telephone and the trusts (1876-1900) -- From Roosevelt to Roosevelt : wireless and radio (1900-1934) -- From Truman to Eisenhower : the birth of television (1935-1959) -- Kennedy, Johnson, and satellites (1960-1968) -- From Nixon to Reagan : backlash and cable (1968-1991) -- The Internet : communications policy in the Clinton era (1992-2000) -- The end of history -- A few lessons -- Reclaiming our republic. 302.33 S357c 2006
AUT Schnapp, Jeffrey T. ; Tiews, Matthew.
TIT Crowds.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: A book of crowds / Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Tiews -- Mob porn / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- 'Turba' : Latin / Alexandra Katherina T. Sofroniew -- Bathing in the multitude / Michael Hardt -- The invention of the masses : the crowd in French culture from the Revolution to the Commune / Stefan Jonsson -- 'Mass' : English (French, German) / Marisa Galvez -- Ceremony / Michel Serres -- Crowd politics : the myth of the 'Populus Romanus' / Joy Connolly -- 'People' : English / Marisa Galvez -- Compactings and loosenings / Susan Buck-Morss -- Intimacy and anonymity, or, How the audience became a crowd / William Egginton -- 'Crowd' : English / Marisa Galvez -- The crowds laughs / T.J. Clark -- Sports crowds / Allen Guttmann -- 'Multitude' : English / Susan Schuyler -- Rolling Stones play free concert at Altamont Speedway, December 6, 1969 / Greil Marcus -- Captive crowds : pilgrims and martyrs / Susanna Elm -- 'Hamon' : Hebrew / Na'ama Rokem -- Beyond the blindfold / Luiz Costa-Lima -- Movies and masses / Anton Kaes -- 'Samuuha' : Sanskrit / Peter Samuels -- Dolores Park, dyke march, June 2002 / Tirza True Latimer -- Mass, pack, and mob : art in the age of the crowd / Christine Poggi -- 'Mob' : English / Maria Su Wang -- Crowd writings / Armando Petrucci -- The return of the blob, or, How sociology decided to stop worrying and love the crowd / John Plotz -- 'Foule,' 'folla' : French/Italian / John B.Hill -- My summer of solitude / David Humphrey -- From crowd psychology to racial hygiene : the medicalization of reaction and the new Spain / Joan Ramon Resina -- 'Gente' : Spanish / Jeronimo Ernesto Arellano -- Take it / Ann Weinstone -- Crowds, number, and mass in China / Haun Saussy -- 'Zhong' : Chinese / Ka-Fai Yau -- Crowd control / David Theo Goldberg -- Market crowds / Urs Stäheli -- 'Ochlos' : Ancient Greek / Sebastian de Vivo -- Barneys New York : the warehouse / Jessica Burstein -- Wunc / Charles Tilly -- 'Cs\u0151d,' 'tömeg,' 'cs\u0151dtömeg' : Hungarian / Dániel Margócsy -- Protest crowds / Tom Seligman -- Far above the madding crowd : the spatial rhetoric of mass representation / Andrew V. Uroskie -- 'Tolpa' : Russian / Dustin Condren -- Crowd experiences / Hayden White -- Far from the crowd : individuation, solitude, and 'society' in the western imagination / Jobst Welge -- 'Vulgus' : Latin / Alexandra Katherina T. Sofroniew -- MLK rally / Richard Rorty -- Agoraphobia : an alphabet / Jessica Burstein -- A singular month of May / Alain Schnapp -- Crowds as tear-jerking opportunities / Luigi Ballerini -- Afterword / N. Katherine Hayles. 303.32 G892h 2007
AUT Grusec, Joan E ; Hastings, Paul D.
TIT Handbook of socialization : theory and research.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction / Joan E. Grusec and Paul D. Hastings -- Historical and methodological perspectives on socialization -- Historical overview of socialization research and theory / Eleanor E. Maccoby -- Socialization and interventions for antisocial youth / Timothy A. Cavell, Shelley Hymel, Kenya T. Malcolm, and Amy Seay -- Socialization within biological frameworks -- An evolutionary approach to socialization / David A. Beaulieu and Daphne Blunt Bugental -- Evidence from behavioral genetics for environmental contributions to antisocial conduct / Terrie E. Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi -- The influence of early socialization experiences on the development of biological systems / Rena Repetti, Shelley E. Taylor, and Darby Saxbe -- Temperament, parenting, and socialization / John E. Bates and Gregory S. Pettit -- Socialization across the lifespan -- Early socialization : a relationship perspective / Deborah Laible and Ross A. Thompson -- Socialization in emerging adulthood : from the family to the wider world, from socialization to self-socialization / Jeffrey Jensen Arnett -- Socialization in old age / Karen L. Fingerman and Lindsay Pitzer -- Socialization within the family -- Agency and bidirectionality in socialization: interactions, transactions, and relational dialectics / Leon Kuczynski and C. Melanie Parkin -- Socialization in the family : the roles of parents / Joan E. Grusec and Maayan Davidov -- Siblings and socialization / Judy Dunn -- Socialization in the context of family diversity / Charlotte J. Patterson and Paul D. Hastings -- Socialization outside the family -- Peers and socialization : effects on externalizing and internalizing problems / William M. Bukowski, Mara Brendgen, and Frank Vitaro -- Socialization in school settings / Kathryn R. Wentzel and Lisa Looney -- Media and youth socialization : underlying processes and moderators of effects / Eric F. Dubow, L. Rowell Huesmann, and Dara Greenwood -- Class and cultural perspectives on socialization -- Social class and socialization in families / Rand D. Conger and Shannon J. Dogan -- Do roots and wings complement or oppose one another? : the socialization of relatedness and autonomy in cultural context / Fred Rothbaum and Gisela Trommsdorff -- Children's development of cultural repertoires through participation in everyday routines and practices / Barbara Rogoff, Leslie Moore, Behnosh Najafi, Amy Dexter, Maricela Correa-Chávez, and Jocelyn Solís -- Emotion socialization from a cultural perspective / Pamela M. Cole and Patricia Z. Tan -- Acculturation / John W. Berry -- Targets of socialization -- The socialization of gender / Campbell Leaper and Carly Kay Friedman -- The socialization of cognition / Mary Gauvain and Susan M. Perez -- The socialization of emotional competence / Susanne A. Denham, Hideko H. Bassett, and Todd Wyatt -- The socialization of prosocial development / Paul D. Hastings, William T. Utendale, and Caroline Sullivan -- Families, schools, and developing achievement-r... 303.482 E58g 2007
AUT Enloe, Cynthia H.
TIT Globalization and militarism : feminists make the link.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
SER Globalization.
CON Contents: Crafting a global "feminist curiosity" to make sense of globalized militarism : tallying impacts, exposing causes -- Tracking the militarized global sneaker -- How does "national security" become militarized? -- Paying close attention to women inside militaries -- Wielding masculinity inside Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo : the globalized dynamics -- Demilitarizing a society in a globalizing world, or, Do you wear "camo"? -- The diverse lives of militarized and demilitarized women : globalizing insights from local Japanese places -- Conclusion: The global, the local, and the personal. 303.482 K15p 2007
AUT Kamdar, Mira.
TIT Planet India : how the fastest-growing democracy is transforming America and the world.
PUB New York : Scribner, c2007.
CON Contents: Life on Planet India -- Indians and Americans -- India imagines the future -- Retailing India -- 600,000 villages -- The cities -- The other India -- Power -- As goes India, so goes the world. 303.482 S191c6 2007
AUT Samovar, Larry A ; Porter, Richard E ; McDaniel, Edwin R.
TIT Communication between cultures. - 6th ed.
PUB Belmont, Calif. : Thompson/Wadsworth, c2007.
SER Wadsworth series in communication studies. 303.482 S793a 2007
AUT Stapel, Diederik A ; Suls, Jerry M.
TIT Assimilation and contrast in social psychology.
PUB New York : Psychology Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction / Jerry Suls and Diederik A. Stapel -- Classic, perceptual, and judgmental perspectives -- Psychological magnetism : a brief history of assimilation and contrast in psychology / Jerry Suls and Ladd Wheeler -- Contrasting models of assimilation and contrast / Douglas H. Wedell, Susanne K. Hicklin, and Laura O. Smarandescu -- Stereotypes and shifting standards : assimilation and contrast in social judgment / Monica Biernat and Melvin Manis -- Assimilation and contrast effects of affect on judgment / Franois Ric and Paula M. Niedenthal -- Social cognitive perspectives -- Mental construal processes : the inclusion/exclusion model / Norbert Schwarz and Herbert Bless -- In the mind of the beholder : the interpretation comparison model of accessibility effects / Diederik A. Stapel -- Assimilation and contrast as comparison effects : a selective accessibility model / Thomas Mussweiler -- Assimilation and contrast in counterfactual thinking and other mental simulation-based comparison processes / Keith D. Markman ... [et al.] -- Set/reset and self-regulation : do contrast processes play a role in the breakdown of self-control? / Leonard L. Martin and Steve Shirk -- Motivational perspectives -- Contrast effects in automatic affect, cognition, and behavior / Jack Glaser -- Complementary contrast and assimilation : interpersonal theory and the social functions of contrast and assimilation effects / Larissa Z. Tiedens, Rosalind M. Chow, and Miguel M. Unzueta -- Contrast effects in knowledge activation : the case of inhibition effects due to competing constructs or goal fulfillment / Jens Förster and Nira Liberman -- Contrast and assimilation in upward comparison : the intra-group dimension / Michael L. W. Vliek, Colin Wayne Leach, and Russell Spears -- Several answers to four questions : reflections and conclusions / Diederik A. Stapel & Jerry Suls. 303.48273 S555a 2007
AUT Shibusawa, Naoko.
TIT America's geisha ally : reimagining the Japanese enemy.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Women and children first -- "Like a boy of twelve" -- Sunday at Hirohito's -- A transpacific treason trial -- A kamikaze goes to college -- Channeling atomic guilt -- Hollywood's Japan -- Epilogue: rising sun redux. 303.483 W423e 2007
AUT Weinberger, David.
TIT Everything is miscellaneous : the power of the new digital disorder. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Times Books, 2007.
CON Contents: The new order of order -- Alphabetization and its discontents -- The geography of knowledge -- Lumps and splits -- The laws of the jungle -- Smart leaves -- Social knowing -- What nothing says -- Messiness as a virtue -- The work of knowledge. 303.484 B193d 2006
AUT Ballvé, Teo ; Prashad, Vijay.
TIT Dispatches from Latin America : on the frontlines against neoliberalism. - 1st American ed.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Strategic challenges for Latin America's anti-neoliberal insurgency / Gerardo Rénique -- Latin American feminism: gains, losses and hard times / Maruja Barrig -- The making of a transnational movement / Guillermo Delgado-P. -- Timely demise for free trade area of the Americas / Laura Carlsen -- The Kirchner Factor / Andrés Gaudin -- Chavistas in the halls of power, Chavistas in the streets / Jonah Gindin -- Venezuela: defying globalization's logic / Steve Ellner -- Is Venezuela the new Cuba? / Teo Ballvé -- Paraguay's enigmatic president / Peter Lambert -- Brazil takes Lula's measure / Emir Sader -- The Uruguayan left and the construction of hegemony / Raúl Zibechi -- Evo Morales turns the tide of history / Luis A. Gómez -- Bolivia de pie / Teo Ballvé -- The roots of the rebellion: insurgent Bolivia / Forrest Hylton, Sinclair Thomson -- The roots of the rebellion: reclaiming the nation / Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui -- A seat at the table / Chris Jochnick, Paulina Garzón -- A sense of possibility: Ecuador's indigenous movement takes centre stage / Jennifer N. Collins -- Autonomy and resistance in Chiapas / Richard Stahler-Sholk -- Zapatismo and the emergence of indigenous feminism / R. Aída Hernández Castillo -- Incas, Indios, and indigenism in Peru / Shane Greene -- Beset by violence, Colombia's indigenous resist / Mario A. Murillo -- Rethinking indigenous politics in the era of the "Indio permitido" / Charles R. Hale -- Brazil's landless hold their ground / Harry. E. Vanden -- Testimony of an MST settler: Romilda da Silva Vargas / Sue Branford, Jan Rocha -- Homeless movement builds momentum / Nicholas Watson -- Making people's budget in Porto Alegre / Hilary Wainwright -- Multinational gold rush in Guatemala / Benjamin Witte -- Stories from the borderland / David Bacon -- Worker-run factories: from survival to economic solidarity / Raúl Zibechi -- Another world is possible: the ceramics of Zanon / Raúl Zibechi. 303.6 B743c 2007
AUT Bose, Sumantra.
TIT Contested lands : Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Sri Lanka -- Cyprus -- Bosnia -- Kashmir -- Israel and Palestine. 304.2 G616i 2007
AUT Goklany, Indur M.
TIT The improving state of the world : why we're living longer, healthier, more comfortable lives on a cleaner planet.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007.
CON Contents: A: Economic development, technological change, and the human condition -- The improving state of humanity -- Has globalization widened the gaps in human well-being? -- The cycle of progress: factors propelling humanity's progress -- B: The effects of economic development and technological change on the environment -- Competing views regarding affluence, technology, and the environment -- Long-term environmental trends -- Are long-term trends consistent with environmental transitions? -- Factors affecting environmental trends -- C: Reconciling human well-being with environmental quality -- The promise and peril of bioengineered crops -- Climate change and sustainable development -- D: Sustaining the human enterprise -- The future sustainability of human populations -- Extending the limits: the role of economic development, technological change, and free trade. 304.2 M829h3 2008
AUT Moran, Emilio F.
TIT Human adaptability : an introduction to ecological anthropology. - 3rd ed.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2008. 304.6 E16e 2007
AUT Eberstadt, Nick ; Groth, Hans.
TIT Europe's coming demographic challenge : unlocking the value of health.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007. 304.663 G335G 2007
TIT Genocide.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2007.
SER Contemporary issues companion. 305.23 L655c 2006
AUT Levander, Caroline Field.
TIT Cradle of liberty : race, the child, and national belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006.
SER New Americanists.
CON Contents: Introduction : natal nationalism : the place of the child in American cultural studies -- The child and the racial politics of nation making in the slavery era -- Southern fictions and the "race" of nations along the Mexican border -- Consenting fictions, fictions of consent : the child and the nineteenth-century sentimental novel -- Transnational Twain -- Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and psychologies of race -- Raceless states: W. E. B. Du Bois and Cuba. 305.40956 K25w 2007
AUT Keddie, Nikki R.
TIT Women in the Middle East : past and present.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Book 1. Women in the Middle East : a history -- Introduction. Issues in studying Middle Eastern women's history -- I. Regional background and the beginnings of Islam -- II. From the pious caliphs through the dynastic caliphates -- III. From the Turkish and Mongol invasions to 1798 -- IV. Change in the long nineteenth century 1798-1914 -- V. 1914-45 : nationalism and women's movements -- VI. 1945-today : new states and trends, women's activism, and the rise of Islamism -- Conclusion -- Notes to book one -- Bibliography of books -- Book 2. Approaches to the study of Middle Eastern women -- Part 1. Shifting boundaries in sex and gender -- Part 2. Scholarship, relativism, and universalism -- Part 3. Women in the limelight : recent books on Middle Eastern women's history since 1800 -- Part 4. Problems in the study of Middle Eastern women -- Part 5. Sexuality and Shi\u02B9i social protest in Iran (coauthored with Parvin Paidar [Nahid Yeganeh]) -- Book 3. Autobiographical recollections -- Part 1. Autobiographical interview -- Part 2. Supplement to the interview -- Bibliography of works by Nikki R. Keddie since 1995. 305.42 B632A 2007
AUT Alcoff, Linda ; Kittay, Eva Feder.
TIT The Blackwell guide to feminist philosophy.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
SER Blackwell philosophy guides. ; 20.
CON Contents: Justifying the inclusion of women in our histories of philosophy: the case of Marie de Gournay / Eileen O'Neill -- Feminism and the history of philosophy / Robin May Schott -- Pragmatism / Shannon Sullivan -- Ethics and feminism / Marilyn Friedman and Angela Bolte -- Moral psychology / Margaret Urban Walker -- Feminist bioethics: where we've been, where we're going / Hilde Lindemann -- Feminism and disability / Anita Silvers -- Feminist political philosophy / Nancy Hirschmann -- Postcolonial feminisms: genealogies and recent directions / Ofelia Schutte -- Lesbian philosophy / Cheshire Calhoun -- Can third wave feminism be inclusive? Intersectionality, its problems, and new directions / Naomi Zack -- Feminist epistemologies and women's lives / Lorraine Code -- Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science / Elizabeth Potter -- Feminism and aesthetics / Peg Brand -- Feminism and Poststructuralism: a Deleuzian approach / Tamsin Lorraine. Contents: Women and philosophical canon -- Ethical inquiries -- Political perspectives -- Knowing and representing. 305.489 B877h 2006
AUT Browder, Laura.
TIT Her best shot : women and guns in America.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: The news about women and guns -- Military heroines : narratives of female soldiers and spies in the Civil War -- Little Miss Sure Shot and friends, or, How armed women tamed the West -- Maid Marians and bad mothers : from the gungirls of the 1920s to the gangsters of the 1930s -- Radical women of the 1960s and 1970s -- Armed women of the far right : race mothers, warriors, and the surprising case of Carolyn Chute -- Armed feminism or family values? : women and guns today -- Conclusion. 305.5 G892s3 2008
AUT Grusky, David B ; Ku, Manwai C ; Szelényi, Szonja.
TIT Social stratification : class, race, and gender in sociological perspective. - 3rd ed.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Forms and sources of inequality -- The structure of contemporary inequality -- Inequality at the extremes -- Generating inequality -- Race and ethnicity -- Gender inequality -- The consequences of inequality -- The future of inequality. 305.8 E94t 2006
AUT Ewen, Elizabeth ; Ewen, Stuart.
TIT Typecasting : on the arts & sciences of human inequality : a history of dominant ideas. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Seven Stories Press, c2006.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Genesis : the modern world system -- 1. Didot's invention -- 2. The company of strangers -- 3. Created equal -- 4. Visual truth -- 5. Curiosity cabinets -- pt. 2. Taxonomies of human difference -- 6. Physiognomy : the science of first impressions -- 7. Hierarchies of humanity -- 8. Camper's angle -- 9. Tablier rasa -- 10. Spurzheim's funeral -- 11. Crania Americana -- 12. An American tale -- 13. The pencil of nature -- 14. Facial politics -- 15. The costermonger's tongue and Roget's thesaurus -- Interlude -- 16. Reverberations of change -- pt. 3. The faces of degeneration -- 17. Identifying the group within the individual -- 18. Finding the individual within the group -- 19. Criminal types -- pt. 4. Nordic nightmares -- 20. The amazing race -- 21. Morons in our midst -- 22. Eugenics goes to the fair -- pt. 5. The modern battlegrounds of type -- 23. Dat famous chicken debate -- 24. Male and female created he them -- 25. The return of the repressed -- 26. Writing history with lightning -- 27. Movable types -- 28. Persistence of vision -- 29. Tales of before and after -- Coda -- 30. Recent social trends. 305.8098 N244s 2007
AUT Nascimento, Elisa Larkin.
TIT The sorcery of color : identity, race, and gender in Brazil.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2007. 305.896 B259a 2007
AUT Barnard, Alan J.
TIT Anthropology and the bushman.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007. 305.896 H348b 2007
AUT Hashaw, Tim.
TIT The birth of Black America : the first African Americans and the pursuit of freedom at Jamestown. - 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
PUB New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2007.
CON Contents: I: The founders of black America leave Africa -- Masquerade -- Jagas -- A game at chess -- Into the realm of Kalunga -- Alias, the "Dutchman" -- II: The founders land at Jamestown -- Unmasked -- The black knight's last pawn -- III: The founders seek freedom -- The first martyr -- Two save the colony -- That the child shall be free -- Ties that bind -- Making hay -- The shirt -- Angola plantation -- America George -- IV: The founders' legacy -- Jamestown burns -- Roots of abolition. 305.896 S653a 2007
AUT Smith, Kimberly K.
TIT African American environmental thought : foundations.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2007.
SER American political thought.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Strange rendings of nature -- A land cursed by injustice -- Possessing the land -- Race natures -- Black folk -- Urban montage -- Conclusion. 305.896 T455o 2007
AUT Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall.
TIT The old way : a story of the first people. - 1st Picador ed.
PUB New York : Picador, 2007.
CON Contents: About words and names -- Fifteen thousand centuries -- Our lineage -- Meat and fire -- The Kalahari -- The search -- The place -- Hunting -- Gathering -- Poison -- Dangerous animals -- Lions -- Men and women -- The life cycle -- The social fabric -- Peacekeeping -- Knowledge -- Religion -- Tsumkwe -- Return -- The present. 305.906 O94 1995
AUT Creekmur, Corey K ; Doty, Alexander.
TIT Out in culture : gay, lesbian, and queer essays on popular culture.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1995.
SER Series Q.
CON Contents: Responsibilities of a gay film critic / Robin Wood -- Lesbians and film / Edith Becker ... [et al.] -- The hypothetical lesbian heroine in narrative feature film / Chris Straayer -- The great escape / Al LaValley -- There's something queer here / Alexander Doty -- Supporting character : the queer career of Agnes Moorehead / Patricia White -- The ambiguities of "lesbian" viewing pleasure : the (dis)articulations of Black widow / Valerie Traub -- From responsive tolerance to erotic liberation : Mädchen in uniform / B. Ruby Rich -- Acting like a man : masculine performance in My darling Clementine / Corey K. Creekmur -- Hitchcock's homophobia / John Hepworth -- The murderous gays : Hitchcock's homophobia / Robin Wood -- "Crisscross" : paranoia and projection in Strangers on a train / Sabrina Barton -- "I'm not the sort of person men marry" : monsters, queers, and Hitchcock's Rebecca / Rhona J. Berenstein -- The queer voice in Marnie / Lucretia Knapp -- Flaming closets / Michael Moon -- Men's pornography : gay vs. straight / Thomas Waugh -- Freud's "fetishism" and the lesbian dildo debates / Heather Findlay -- Tom of Finland : an appreciation / Nayland Blake -- Visible lesions : images of the PWA / Jan Zita Grover -- Pee Wee Herman : the homosexual subtext / Bruce La Bruce -- In living color : Toms, coons, mammies, faggots, and bucks / Essex Hemphill -- In defense of disco / Richard Dyer -- Crossover dreams : lesbianism and popular music since the 1970s / Arlene Stein -- Immaculate connection / Michael Musto -- The house the kids built : the gay Black imprint on American dance music / Anthony Thomas -- Children of paradise : a brief history of queens / Mark Thompson -- The politics of drag / Jeffrey Hilbert -- Black macho revisited : reflections of a snap! queen / Marlon Riggs -- All dressed up but no place to go? Style wars and the new lesbianism / Arlene Stein -- Commodity lesbianism / Danae Clark. 306 R529n 2005
AUT Richerson, Peter J ; Boyd, Robert, Ph. D.
TIT Not by genes alone : how culture transformed human evolution.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Culture is essential -- Culture exists -- Culture evolves -- Culture is an adaptation -- Culture is maladaptive -- Culture and genes coevolve -- Nothing about culture makes sense except in the light of evolution. 306.0973 S561g 2004
AUT Shrock, Joel.
TIT The Gilded Age.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
SER American popular culture through history.
CON Contents: Series foreword / by Ray B. Browne -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Timeline of popular culture, 1875-1900 -- Everyday America -- World of youth -- Advertising -- Architecture -- Fashion -- Food -- Leisure activities -- Literature -- Music -- Performing arts -- Travel -- Visual arts -- Cost of products, 1890-1899 -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index. Ref 306.1 E56 2000
AUT Landes, Richard Allen.
TIT Encyclopedia of millennialism and millennial movements.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2000.
SER Routledge encyclopedias of religion and society. 306.10973 W878s 2006
AUT Wood, Robert T.
TIT Straightedge youth : complexity and contradictions of a subculture. - 1st ed.
PUB Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Theory and method -- Music, scenes, and cultural transitions -- (Re)negotiating a straightedge identity -- Straightedge in social and historical context -- Straightedge symbolism -- Toward a theory of subcultural change and schism -- Conclusion. 306.3 B259h 2004
AUT Barnard, Alan J. Gathering Societies (9th : 2003 : Heriot-Watt University) ; Barnard, Alan et al.
TIT Hunter-gatherers in history, archaeology and anthropology.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2004. 306.36 C537e 2006
AUT Childs, Matt D.
TIT The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the struggle against Atlantic slavery.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : The University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
SER Envisioning Cuba.
CON Contents: Introduction: worse than Aponte -- The present time period is very delicate: Cuban slavery and the changing Atlantic world, 1750-1850 -- Nothing worse in the world than to be a slave: slaves and free people of color in early nineteenth-century Cuba -- Organizing the rebellion: the overlapping worlds of the militia and the Cabildos de Nación -- Burn the plantations: the Cuban Aponte Rebellion(s) of 1812 -- Vanquish the arrogance of our enemies: emancipation rumors and rebellious royalism -- Conclusion: plaques of loyalty: the legacy of the Aponte Rebellion -- Appendix: Biographical database of the Aponte rebels. 306.4 B849m 2006
AUT Bribiescas, Richard G.
TIT Men : evolutionary and life history.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: I: Setting the stage -- Change happens -- Birth, death, and everything in between -- The ancestral male -- II: Human male life history -- Stacking the deck -- Womb to grow -- Getting a life -- Sex and fatherhood -- The male furnace -- Men and medicine -- The old guard -- Conclusion: The solitary male. 306.484 C456c 2005
AUT Chang, Jeff.
TIT Can't stop, won't stop : a history of the hip-hop generation. - [1st Picador ed.].
PUB New York : Picador, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction / by DJ Kool Herc -- Prelude -- Necropolis : the Bronx and the politics of abandonment -- Sipple out deh : Jamaica's roots generation and the cultural turn -- Blood and fire, with occasional music : the gangs of the Bronx -- Making a name : how DJ Kool Herc lost his accent and started hip-hop -- Soul salvation : the mystery and faith of Afrika Bambaataa -- Furious styles : the evolution of style in the seven-mile world -- The world is ours : the survival and transformation of Bronx style -- Zulus on a time bomb : hip-hop meets the rockers downtown -- 1982 : rapture in Reagan's America -- End of innocence : the fall of the old school -- Things fall apart : the rise of the post-civil rights era -- What we got to say : black suburbia, segregation and utopia in the late 1980s -- Follow for now : the question of post-civil rights black leadership -- The culture assassins : geography, generation and gangsta rap -- The real enemy : the cultural riot of Ice Cube's Death certificate -- Gonna work it out : peace and rebellion in Los Angeles -- All in the same gang : the war on youth and the quest for unity -- Becoming the hip-hop generation : The source, the industry, and the big crossover -- New world order : globalization, containment and counterculture at the end of the century. 306.766 R577L 2008
AUT Rimmerman, Craig A.
TIT The lesbian and gay movements : assimilation or liberation.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2008.
SER Dilemmas in American politics. 306.81 H996m 2006
AUT Hymowitz, Kay S.
TIT Marriage and caste in America : separate and unequal families in a post-marital age.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2006.
CON Contents: Marriage and caste -- What American marriage does -- The black family: forty-plus years of lies -- The missionary position -- Dads in the 'hood -- The teen mommy track -- The end of herstory -- It's morning after in America. 306.874 B734r 2007
AUT Borkowski, John G.
TIT Risk and resilience : adolescent mothers and their children grow up.
PUB Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007. 306.8742 R535b 2006
AUT Richter, Linda M ; Morrell, Robert.
TIT Baba : men and fatherhood in South Africa.
PUB Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction / Robert Morrell, Linda Richter -- Fathers, fatherhood and masculinity in South Africa / Robert Morrell -- On being a father and poor in southern Africa today / Francis Wilson -- The demographics of fatherhood in South Africa : an analysis of survey data, 1993-2002 / Dorrit Posel, Richard Devey -- The importance of fathering for children / Linda Richter -- Migrancy, family dissolution and fatherhood / Mamphela Ramphele, Linda Richter -- The state as non-biological 'father' : exploring the experience of fathering in a South African state institution in the period 1950 to 1970 / Azeem Badroodien -- Fathers without amandla : Zulu-speaking men and fatherhood / Mark Hunter -- Men and children : changing constructions of fatherhood in Drum magazine, 1951 to 1965 / Lindsay Clowes -- The father in the mind / Graham Lindegger -- Where have all the fathers gone? Media(ted) representations of fatherhood / Jeanne Prinsloo -- Representations of fatherhood in black US film and how this relates to parenting in South Africa / Solani Ngobeni -- Children's view of fathers / Linda Richter, Wendy Smith -- Fatherhood from an African cultural perspective / Desmond Lesejane -- African traditions and the social, economic and moral dimensions of fatherhood / Nhlanhla Mkhize -- Legal aspects of fatherhood in South Africa / Jacqui Gallinetti -- Men, work and parenting / Alan Hosking -- HIV/AIDS and the crisis of care for children / Chris Desmond, Cos Desmond -- Absent fathers : why do men not feature in stories of families affected by HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal? / Philippe Denis, Radikobo Ntsimane -- Being a father in a man's world : the experience of goldmine workers / Marlize Rabe -- Fathers don't stand a chance : experiences of custody, access, and maintenance / Grace Khunou -- The new gender platforms and fatherhood / Dean Peacock, Mbuyiselo Botha -- The child's right to shared parenting / Patrice Engle, Tom Beardshaw, Craig Loftin -- Taking forward work with men in families / Tom Beardshaw. 307.12 E68m 2006
AUT Erickson, Donna L.
TIT MetroGreen : connecting open space in North American cities.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Connected open space : the metropolitan scale -- Learning from city stories : ten case study comparisons -- Ecology - home : Toronto and Chicago -- Recreation - well-being : Milwaukee and Ottawa -- Transportation - movement : Calgary and Denver -- Community - neighborhood : Vancouver and Portland -- Green infrastructure - hardworking city systems : Cleveland and Minneapolis-St. Paul -- Lessons for realizing connected open-space networks in North American cities. 307.12 S559a 2006
AUT Short, John R.
TIT Alabaster cities : urban U.S. since 1950. - 1st ed.
PUB Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.
SER Space, place, and society.
CON Contents: The rise of metropolitan America -- Urban renewal: "we must start all over again from the ground up" -- Stimulating suburbs, starving cities: "I should prefer to see the ash heaps" -- Robert Moses versus Jane Jacobs: "hack your way with a meat ax" -- Downtown: "the heart that pumps the blood of commerce" -- Creating a suburban society: "a landscape of scary places" -- New suburban realities: "trouble in paradise" -- Metropolitan fragmentation: "obsolescent structure of urban government" -- Urban economies: "all that is solid melts into air" -- Race and ethnicity: "e pluribus unum" -- Housing and the city: "shaky palaces" -- Politics and the city: "informal arrangements-- formal workings" -- Reimagining the city: "place wars" -- Civic engagement in the city: "civic spirit" -- Emerging trends. 307.76 B383w 2006
AUT Beauregard, Robert A.
TIT When America became suburban.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The short American century -- Urbanization's consequences -- Parasitic urbanization -- Culture and institutions -- Domestic prosperity -- Ways of life -- America's global project -- Identity and urbanity -- Appendix A: Decennial population loss for the fifty largest U.S. cities, 1820-2000 -- Appendix B: Demographic and economic comparisons across periods of urbanization -- Appendix C: Measures of urbanization for historical periods. 320.01 R499a 2007
AUT Rich, Wilbur C.
TIT African American perspectives on political science.
PUB Philadelphia, PA. : Temple University Press, 2007. 320.011 P746j 2007
AUT Pogge, Thomas Winfried Menko ; Kosch, Michelle.
TIT John Rawls : his life and theory of justice.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Biography -- The focus on the basic structure -- A top-tier criterion of justice -- The basic idea: justice as fairness -- The first principle of justice -- The second principle of justice -- A Rawlsian society -- On justification -- The reception of justice as fairness. 320.51 H572L 2006
AUT Hershberg, Eric ; Rosen, Fred.
TIT Latin America after neoliberalism : turning the tide in the 21st century?.
PUB New York : New Press : NACLA : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., c2006. 320.5409 M442c 2006
AUT Matthews, Weldon C.
TIT Confronting an empire, constructing a nation : Arab nationalists and popular politics in mandate Palestine.
PUB London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
SER Library of Middle East history. ; v. 10.
CON Contents: Key concepts and historical context -- The nationalist youth and veteran nationalists -- The Arab unity scheme and the beginnings of popular mobilization -- An Islamic congress, and Arab congress and the Istiqlal Party -- Creating and regulating the Palestinian public sphere -- The non-cooperation programme -- The demonstrations of 1933 -- Through the lens of 1936. 320.54095 N975c 2007
AUT Nussbaum, Martha Craven.
TIT The clash within : democracy, religious violence, and India's future.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: 1. Genocide in Gurjarat -- 2. The human face of the Hindu right -- 3. Tagore, Gandhi, Nehru -- 4. A democracy of pluralism, respect, equality -- 5. The rise of the Hindu right -- 6. Fantasies of purity and domination -- 7. The assault on history -- 8. The education wars -- 9. The diaspora community -- 10. The clash within. 323.0956 K11h 2007
AUT Kabasakal Arat, Zehra F.
TIT Human rights in Turkey.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007.
SER Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
CON Contents: Collisions and crossroads: introducing human rights in Turkey / Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat -- Part I: Freedoms and antidiscrimination -- Freedom of press and broadcasting / Dilruba Çatalba\u015F -- The minority concept and rights in Turkey: the Lausanne Peace Treaty and current issues / Baskin Oran -- The human rights condition of the Rum Orthodox / Prodromos Yannas -- Linguistic human rights and the rights of Kurds / Mary Lou O'Neil -- Freedom of religion: secularist policies and Islamic challenges / Özlem Denli -- Part II: Social and economic rights -- So near, yet so far: freedom of association and workers' rights / Edward Weisband and Sera Öner -- The right to education / Fatma Gök and Deniz Ilgaz -- Environmental protection and rights / N. Burcu Ta\u015Fatar Parlak -- Part III: The rights of the displaced -- Conflict-induced internal displacement / Alpaslan Özerdem and Tim Jacoby -- Turkish asylum policy and human rights / Kemal Kiri\u015Fçi -- Part IV: Women's rights -- Women's rights, women's organizations, and the state / Yildiz Ecevit -- The effect of CEDAW on women's rights / Yasemin Çelik Levin -- Part V: Civic and educational efforts -- Human rights discourse and domestic human rights NGOs / Ba\u015Fak Çali -- Tensions and dilemmas in human rights education / Kenan Çayir -- Part VI: International affairs and interactions -- Turkey's participation in global and regional human rights regimes / Füsun Türkmen -- Leveraging norms: the ECHR and Turkey's human rights reforms / Thomas W. Smith -- Conclusion: Turkey's prospects and broader implications / Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat. 323.1196 H714m 2007
AUT Hogan, Wesley C.
TIT Many minds, one heart : SNCC's dream for a new America.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Part one. A movement education -- The nonviolent anvil -- Come get my mattress and I'll keep my soul : freedom riding -- The inner life of recruiting -- Part two. How democracy travels -- Bridges to the North -- Testing the southern blueprint -- SNCC teaches SDS how to act -- Part three. Delta civics : fashioning a new America -- The core struggle -- The high summer of transformation -- Part four. Movement ecology -- Contact with power : Atlantic City -- Desperate initiatives : Waveland -- Vertigo -- Not quite there : the search for enduring ground -- Conclusion: Freedom as an inside job -- Afterword: Beyond sacred ground -- Appendix A: We'll never turn back : freedom songs -- Appendix B: Affidavits -- Appendix C: The other sacred ground -- Appendix D: Incidents of violence against voter registration activities in Mississippi, 1964 -- Appendix E: James Forman's speech at Waveland, November 1964 -- Appendix F: Suggested structures for SNCC, November 1964 -- Appendix G: Structure debate at Waveland -- Appendix H: SNCC as the borning struggle. 323.1196 J47b 2006
AUT Jeffries, J. L.
TIT Black power in the belly of the beast.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois, c2006. 323.34 A658 2005
TIT The Arab human development report 2005 : towards the rise of women in the Arab world.
PUB New York : United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Arab States, c2006.
CON Contents: Changes in human development in the Arab countries since the launch of AHDR 2004 -- Towards the rise of women in the Arab world frame of reference -- Concepts and problematic issues -- The state of women in the Arab world -- The acquisition of human capabilities -- The use of human capabilities -- Levels of human well-being -- The Arab women's movement: struggles and experiences -- The societal context of the state of women -- Culture -- Social structures -- Legal structures -- Political economy -- Towards the rise of women in the Arab world -- A strategic vision: two wings for the rise of women. 323.448 C319p 2006
AUT Carroll, Jamuna.
TIT Privacy.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2006.
SER Opposing viewpoints series. 324.273 P187r 2007
AUT Panagopoulos, Costas.
TIT Rewiring politics : presidential nominating conventions in the media age.
PUB Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.
SER Media & public affairs. 325.3 S557d 2008
AUT Shipway, Martin.
TIT Decolonization and its impact : a comparative approach to the end of the colonial empires.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008. 326.0973 M411s 2006
AUT Mason, Matthew.
TIT Slavery and politics in the early American republic.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Slavery and politics to 1808 -- Federalists, Republicans, and slavery during the War of 1812 -- Slavery and partisan conflict during the era of good feelings -- Slavery in Anglo-American relations -- The political impact of African Americans -- Defending against slavery -- Defending slavery -- Commencement exercises : the Missouri crisis -- Antebellum legacies. 327.73 m466d 2006
AUT May, Ernest R ; Zelikow, Philip ; Lundberg, Kirsten.
TIT Dealing with dictators : dilemmas of U.S. diplomacy and intelligence analysis, 1945-1990.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2006.
SER BCSIA studies in international security.
CON Contents: Introduction : Seven tenets / Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow -- China, 1945-1948 : making hard choices / Ernest R. May, with assistance from Kirsten Lundberg and Robert D. Johnson -- The Congo, 1960-1963 : weighing worst choices / Charles G. Cogan and Ernest R. May, with assistance from Kirsten Lundberg and Robert D. Johnson -- Nicaragua, 1977-1979 : losing "our son-of-a-bitch" / Robert D. Johnson, with assistance from Kirsten Lundberg -- Iran, 1978-1979 : coping with the unthinkable / Gregory F. Treverton, with assistance from James Klocke -- The Philippines, 1983-1986 : arranging a divorce / William E. Kline and James Worthen, with assistance from Kirsten Lundberg and Robert D. Johnson -- Iraq, 1988-1990 : unexpectedly heading toward war / Zachary Karabell ... [et al.] -- Learning from the cases / Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow. 330.12 E36r 2007
AUT Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus.
TIT The real wealth of nations : creating a caring economics. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., c2007.
SER BK currents book.
CON Contents: Introduction : reasons to care -- We need a new economics -- Economics through a wider lens -- It pays to care...in dollars and cents -- The economic double standard -- Connecting the dots -- The economics of domination -- The economics of partnership -- Technology, work, and the postindustrial era -- Who we are and where we are -- The caring revolution. 330.12 L884f 2007
AUT Lott, John R.
TIT Freedomnomics : why the free market works and other half-baked theories don't.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, Md. : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007. 330.122 B348g 2007
AUT Baumol, William J ; Litan, Robert E. ; Schramm, Carl J.
TIT Good capitalism, bad capitalism, and the economics of growth and prosperity.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2007. 330.943 T672w 2007
AUT Tooze, J. Adam.
TIT The wages of destruction : the making and breaking of the Nazi economy. - 1st American ed.
PUB New York : Viking, 2007.
CON Contents: Recovery -- 'Every worker his work' -- Breaking away -- Partners: The regime and German business -- Volksgemeinschaft on a budget -- Saving the peasants -- War in Europe -- 1936: Four years to war -- Into the danger zone -- 1939: Nothing to gain by waiting -- Going for broke: the first winter of war -- Victory in the West - Sieg im Westen -- Britain and American: Hitler's strategic dilemma -- World War -- Preparing for two wars on once -- The grand strategy of racial war -- December 1941: turning point -- Labour, food and genocide -- Albert Speer: 'miracle man' -- No room for doubt -- Disintegration -- The end. 330.951 R551h 2007
AUT Riedel, James ; Jin, Jing ; Gao, Jian.
TIT How China grows : investment, finance, and reform.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Overview of economic reforms and outcomes -- The source of growth and the role of investment -- Saving and the financing of investment in China -- Financial sector repression -- Banking sector reform -- Developments in the bond market -- The rise and fall of the stock market -- Macroeconomic policy and performance. 331.25 N277t 2007
TIT Tough choices or tough times : the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.
CON Contents: Executive summary -- Preface -- Prologue -- The nature of the challenge now -- The scenario: The recommendations as they might look from the vantage point of an observer in 2021 -- Comments -- Background papers: Estimates of the additional expense and savings associated with the Commission's proposed reforms in elementary and secondary education; Teachers and teaching policy; Early childhood education; The adult workforce -- Appendixes: The study; Trustees of the National Center on Education and the Economy; Biographies of members of the Commission; Commission staff and associates. 331.3 W534c 2005
AUT Weston, Burns H.
TIT Child labor and human rights : making children matter.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.
CON Contents: Rethinking child labor: a multidimensional human rights problem / Burns H. Weston and Mark B. Teerink -- Defining child labor as if human rights matter / Judith Ennew, William E. Myers, Dominique Pierre Plateau -- Child labor and the rights of children: historical patterns of decline and persistence / Hugh Cunningham and Shelton Stromquist -- Child labor standards: from treaties to labels / Holly Cullen -- Translating standards into practice: confronting transnational barriers / S. L. Bachman -- Translating standards into practice: confronting local barriers / Michael F.C. Bourdillon -- Combating child labor in Tanzania: a beginning / Donald Mmari -- Combating child labor in the Philippines: listening to children / Victoria V. Rialp -- Combating child labor in Brazil: social movements in action / Benedito Rodrigues dos Santos -- Abolishing child labor: a multifaceted human rights solution / Burns H. Weston and Mark B. Teerink -- Conceiving child labor in human rights terms: can it mobilize progressive change? / David M. Post -- Working children as change-makers: perspectives from the South / Victor P. Karunan -- Shifting positions on child labor: the views and practice of intergovernmental organizations / Ben White -- Nongovernmental organizations in the struggle against child labor / Laurie S. Wiseberg -- Earning and learning: tensions and compatibility / Susan L. Bissell -- Trade-based strategies for combating child labor / Frank J. Garcia and Soohyun Jun -- Bringing human rights to child labor: guiding principles and call to action / Burns H. Weston. 331.409 C654s 2007
AUT Cobble, Dorothy Sue.
TIT The sex of class : women transforming American labor.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Increasing class disparities among women and the politics of gender equity / Leslie McCall -- More than raising the floor : the persistence of gender inequalities in th |
