000 General, Computer, Libraries

004.09 M663b
AUT Mindell, David A.
TIT Between human and machine : feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
CON Contents: A history of control systems -- Naval control systems: The Bureau of Ordnance and the Ford Instrument Company -- Taming the beasts of the machine age: The Sperry Company -- Opening Black's box: Bell Labs and the transmission of signals -- Artificial representation of power systems: Analog computing at MIT -- Dress rehearsal for war: The four horsemen and Palomar -- Organizing for war: The fire control divisions of the NDRC -- The Servomechanisms Laboratory and fire control for the masses -- Analog's finest hour -- Radar and system integration at the Radiation Laboratory -- Cybernetics and ideas of the digital.

025.04 S255b
AUT Sauers, Michael P.
TIT Blogging and RSS : a librarian's guide.
PUB Medford, N.J : Information Today, c2006.
CON Contents: An introduction to blogs -- The library blogosphere. Part 1, The blogs -- The library blogosphere. Part 2, The bloggers -- Creating a blog -- An introduction to RSS -- Using an aggregator -- Feeds for librarians -- Creating feeds.

028.5 S951c
AUT Sullivan, Michael.
TIT Connecting boys with books : what libraries can do.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : American Library Association, 2003.
CON Contents: Lost boys -- Reaching out to boys and men -- It's still about books -- From story hour to independent reading -- Chess, games, and challenges -- The power of stories -- Reading, talking, and promoting books.

028.7 G448s, 2006
AUT Gibson, Craig.
TIT Student engagement and information literacy.
PUB Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 2006.

070.433 F654k
AUT Foerstel, Herbert N.
TIT Killing the messenger : journalists at risk in modern warfare.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
CON Contents: The danger of reporting conventional war -- Journalism and the new face of war -- Personal stories of abduction, torture, and death -- Why do they hate us? -- Protecting journalists at a cost to newsgathering.

070.449 J68d
AUT Johnson, Marilyn.
TIT The dead beat : lost souls, lucky stiffs, and the perverse pleasures of obituaries. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : HarperCollins, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. I walk the dead beat -- 2. A wake of obituarists -- 3. Name that bit -- 4. The mighty and the fallen of New York : -- The Irish sports pages -- The franchise -- Portraits of grief -- Goodbye! -- Attention must be paid -- 5. Now you know -- 6. Ordinary Joe -- 7. The egalitarians -- 8. Tributes -- 9. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse : -- The obituary capital -- Boiled in oil, and other -- Terrible fates in the Daily Telegraph -- A few words about the code -- Following the Guardian into the mist -- An Independent bent -- Lives of the Times -- 10. Googling death -- 11. The obit writer's obit.

070.449 S457b, 2006
AUT Seib, Philip M.
TIT Broadcasts from the Blitz : how Edward R. Murrow helped lead America into war. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2006.
CON Contents: August 31, 1939 -- Radio goes to war -- Murrow's England -- London besieged -- Yanks and Brits -- "We are all in the same boat now".

070.92 W375n
AUT Weber, Ronald.
TIT News of Paris : American journalists in the city of light between the wars.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Ivan R. Dee, 2006.

071.3 O85p, 2006
AUT Ostertag, Bob.
TIT People's movements, people's press : the journalism of social justice movements.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The Nineteenth century / Abolitionists and woman suffragists -- The gay and lesbian press -- The underground GI press and the Vietnam War -- The environmental movement.

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150.19 C958�
AUT Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly ; Csikszentmihalyi, Isabella Selega.
TIT A life worth living : contributions to positive psychology.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Positive psychology traditions in classical European psychology / Csaba Pl�h -- The Values in Action (VIA) classification of strengths / Christopher Peterson -- Positive personality development : approaching personal autonomy / Dmitry Leontiev -- Spirituality : recent progress / Robert A. Emmons -- The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions / Barbara L. Fredrickson -- Benefits of emotional intelligence / Daisy D. Grewal and Peter Salovey -- Strategies for achieving well-being / Jane Henry -- Adaptive resources in later life : tenacious goal pursuit and flexible goal adjustment / Jochen Brandtst�dter -- The impact of subjective experience on the quality of life : a central issue for health professionals / Antonella Delle Fave -- What works makes you happy : the role of personal goals in life-span development / Jari-Erik Nurmi and Katariina Salmela-Aro -- Materialism and its alternatives / Tim Kasser -- Getting older, getting better? recent psychological evidence / Kennon Sheldon -- Afterword: breaking the 65 percent barrier / Martin E. P. Seligman.

153.35 K21i, 2006
AUT Kaufman, James C ; Sternberg, Robert J.
TIT The international handbook of creativity.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Creativity research in English-speaking countries / John Baer and James C. Kaufman -- Creativity in Latin America : views from psychology, humanities, and the arts / David D. Preiss and Katherine Strasser -- History of creativity in Spain / C�ndido Genovard, Mar�a Dolores Prieto, Mar�a Rosario Bermejo, and Carmen Ferr�ndiz -- Past, present and future perspectives on creativity in France and French-speaking Switzerland / Christophe Mouchiroud and Todd I. Lubart -- Creativity in Italy / Alessandro Antonietti and Cesare Cornoldi -- Creativity research in German-speaking countries / Siegfried Preiser -- Creativity under the Northern Lights : perspectives from Scandinavia / Gudmund J.W. Smith and Ingegerd Carlsson -- Creativity in Soviet/Russian psychology / Olga Stepanossova and Elena L. Grigorenko -- Creativity studies in Poland / Edward Necka, Magdalena Grohman, and Aleksandra Slabosz -- Research on creativity in Israel : a chronicle of theoretical and empirical development / Roberta M. Milgram and Nava L. Livne -- Creativity in Turkey and Turkish-speaking countries / G�nseli Oral -- Development of creativity research in Chinese societies : a comparison of mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore / Weihua Niu -- Creativity : a sudden rising star in Korea / In-Soo Choe -- Culture and facets of creativity : the Indian experience / Girishwar Misra, Ashok K. Srivastava, and Indiwar Misra -- African perspectives on creativity / Elias Mpofu ... [et al.] -- Creativity around the world in 80 ways ... but with one destination / Dean Keith Simonton.

153.8 D989m, 2006
AUT Dweck, Carol S.
TIT Mindset : the new psychology of success. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Random House, c2006.
CON Contents: The mindsets -- Inside the mindsets -- The truth about ability and accomplishment -- The mindset of a champion -- Mindset and leadership -- Mindsets in love (or not) -- Parents, teachers, and coaches: where do mindsets come from? -- Changing mindsets: a workshop.

155.25 M958e
AUT Mullaney, Jamie L.
TIT Everyone is NOT doing it : abstinence and personal identity.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Seeing not-doing : time, place, and language -- Historical frames of abstinence -- Contemporary abstainers -- "You gotta run the whole tape" : pathways to abstinence -- Determining what counts : abstinence thresholds -- Fire walking -- Fence building -- Negotiating abstinence strategies -- Verbal performances of abstinence -- Conclusion.

172 A647c
AUT Appiah, Anthony.
TIT Cosmopolitanism : ethics in a world of strangers. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2006.
CON Contents: The shattered mirror -- The escape from positivism -- Facts on the ground -- Moral disagreement -- The primacy of practice -- Imaginary strangers -- Cosmopolitan contamination -- Whose culture is it, anyway? -- The counter-cosmopolitans -- Kindness to strangers.

174 P961p, 2006
AUT Pritchard, Michael S.
TIT Professional integrity : thinking ethically.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Practical ethics -- Trust and truthfulness -- Good judgment -- Professional integrity -- Basic duties and codes of ethics -- Good works -- Working together -- Dispositions, perception, and imagination -- Moral development.

174.2 J13e
AUT Jackson, Jennifer C., 1939-
TIT Ethics in medicine.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity, 2006.
CON Contents: 1. Virtues and vices -- 2. Justice : a problematic virtue? -- 3. Benevolence : a problematic virtue? -- 4. Benevolence : the only virtue? -- 5. The dictates of conscience -- 6. The duties to obtain consent, give information and respect autonomy -- 7. 'First, do no harm' -- 8. Duties to give, and rights to get, health care -- 9. Distributive justice in health care -- 10. Abortion -- 11. Suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia -- 12. Killing and letting die -- 13. Patents' deaths and doctors' decisions -- 14. Moral issues in reproductive medicine -- 15. The old and the new.

174.96 W374p, 2006
AUT Weber, Leonard J.
TIT Profits before people? : ethical standards and the marketing of prescription drugs.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Ethics and for-profit business -- The pharmaceutical industry and its stakeholders -- Drug companies and healthcare professionals : the ethics agenda -- Medical professionalism and scientific integrity -- The industry's code : not good enough -- Drug samples : the most important gifts -- Marketing is not objective education -- Medical education : industry at arm's length -- Clinical research and the limits of commercial interests -- Citizens and consumers -- Direct-to-consumer advertising : conflicting interests -- Direct-to-consumer advertising : better is better.

179.7 C686u, 2006
AUT Colby, William H.
TIT Unplugged : reclaiming our right to die in America.
PUB New York : AMACOM/American Management Association, c2006.
CON Contents: Terri Schiavo's private years -- Terri Schiavo's public years -- The autopsy of Terri Schiavo -- The ascent of medical technology -- The law and the right to die -- The case of Nancy Cruzan -- How we die in America today -- Dying on the "Institutional glide path" -- In Terri Schiavo's shoes -- My "living will" -- Feeding tubes : the hardest question -- But I believe in the right to life! -- Special concerns of the disabled community -- Oregon V. Ashcroft/Gonzales and physician-assisted suicide -- Hospice: the hidden jewel -- Where do we go from here?.

191.9 D519in
AUT Dewey, John ; Hickman, Larry A.
TIT The influence of Darwin on philosophy and other essays in contemporary thought.
PUB Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007.

193 S826t, 2006
AUT Stenstad, Gail.
TIT Transformations : thinking after Heidegger.
PUB Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Opening a way : the question of being -- Thinking : engaging language's way-making -- Timing-spacing-thinking -- Thinking as dwelling -- The radiant emptiness of be-ing -- Staying with opening.

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200 Religion

200.973 K86r, 2006
AUT Kosmin, Barry A. ; Keysar, Ariela.
TIT Religion in a free market : religious and non-religious Americans, who, what, why, where.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Paramount Market Pub., c2006.

231.7 B864i
AUT Brockman, John.
TIT Intelligent thought : science versus the intelligent design movement. - 1st Vintage Books ed.
PUB New York : Vintage, 2006.

261.8 W828t v.1-2
AUT Witte, John ; Alexander, Frank S.
TIT The teachings of modern Christianity on law, politics, and human nature.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Volume 1. I. The Roman Catholic tradition. Introduction to modern Catholicism / Russell Hittinger -- Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) / Russell Hittinger -- Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) / Patrick McKinley Brennen -- John Courtney Murray (1904-1967) / Angela C. Carmella -- Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) / Leslie Griffin -- Gustavo Guti�rrez (b. 1928) / Paul E. Sigmund -- Dorothy Day (1897-1980) / David Gregory -- Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) / Robert P. George and Gerard V. Bradley. II. The protestant tradition. Introduction to modern protestantism / Mark A. Noll -- Abraham Kuyper (1827-1920) / Nicholas P. Wolterstorff -- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) / Mary D. Pellauer -- Karl Barth (1886-1968) / George Hunsinger -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) / Milner Ball -- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) / Davison M. Douglas -- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) / Timothy P. Jackson -- William Stringfellow (1928-1985) / Frank S. Alexander -- John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) / Duncan B. Forrester. III. The Orthodox tradition. Introduction to the modern Orthodox tradition / Paul Valliere -- Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900) / Paul Valliere -- Nicholas Berdyaev (1874-1948) / Vigen Guroian -- Vladimir Nikolaievich Lossky (1903-1958) / Mikhail M. Kulakov -- Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945) / Michael Plekon -- Dumitru Staniloae (1903-1993). IV. Afterwords. Reflections on Christian jurisprudence and political philosophy / Kent Greenawalt -- An ecumenical Christian jurisprudence / Harold J. Berman. Contents: Volume 2. I. The Roman Catholic tradition. Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) -- Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) -- John Courtney Murray (1904-1967) -- Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) -- Gustavo Guti�rrez (b. 1928) -- Dorothy Day (1897-1980) -- Pope John Paul II (1920-2005). II. The protestant tradition. Abraham Kuyper (1827-1920) -- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) -- Karl Barth (1886-1968) -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) -- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) -- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) -- William Stringfellow (1928-1985) -- John Howard Yoder (1927-1997). III. The Orthodox tradition. -- Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900) -- Nicholas Berdyaev (1874-1948) -- Vladimir Nikolaievich Lossky (1903-1958) -- Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945) -- Dumitru Staniloae (1903-1993).

271.97 C552r, 2006
AUT Chowning, Margaret.
TIT Rebellious nuns : the troubled history of a Mexican convent, 1752-1863.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

272 W636w, 2006
AUT Wicker, Brian.
TIT Witnesses to faith? : martyrdom in Christianity and Islam.
PUB Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2006.
CON Contents: Foreword / Richard Harries -- Competing perspectives on Jihad and 'martyrdom' in early Islamic sources / Asma Afsaruddin -- Christian martyrdom: history and interpretation / Anthony Harvey, Richard Finn and Michael Smart -- What is martyrdom? / Harfiyah Haleem -- Still a 'noble army' after 11 September 2001? / Brian Wicker -- The veneration of martyrs: a Muslim-Christian dialogue / Harfiyah Haleem and Brian Wicker -- The drama of martyrdom: Christian and Muslim approaches / Brian Wicker -- The concept of martyrdom: a Shia perspective / Abolfazl Ezzati -- Martyrdom and murder: aspects of suicidal terrorism / Brian Wicker, Peter Bishop and Maha Azzam -- Appendices: Thomas Aquina on martyrdom -- Broadening the classical concept of martyrdom / Karl Rahner -- Non-violent options for conflict resolution in Islam / Harfiyah Haleem.

280.4 M388pv, 2004
AUT Marty, Martin E.
TIT The Protestant voice in American pluralism.
PUB Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2004.
CON Contents: When Protestants ran the show : when homogeneity ruled, 1607 to 1955 -- More rings in the circus : realized pluralism, after 1955 -- Is there still a tent, or are there many tents? : Protestantism gone public, within pluralism.

282.092 G785w, 2004
AUT Graziano, Frank.
TIT Wounds of love : the mystical marriage of Saint Rose of Lima.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

289.3 B978c
AUT Bushman, Claudia L.
TIT Contemporary Mormonism : Latter-day Saints in modern America.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.

294.3 P922b, 2006
AUT Prebish, Charles S ; Keown, Damien.
TIT Buddhist studies from India to America : essays in honor of Charles S. Prebish.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
CON Contents: Part I : Vinaya studies and ethics -- Part II : Buddhist traditions -- Part III : Western Buddhism -- Part IV : inter-religious dialogue.

294.3927 D654d, 2004
AUT Dogen ; Leighton, Taigen Daniel ; Okumura, Shohaku.
TIT Dogen's extensive record : a translation of the Eihei koroku. - 1st ed.
PUB Somerville, Mass. : Wisdom Publications, c2004.

294.3927 D654h, 2002
AUT Dogen ; Waddell, Norman ; Abe, Masao.
TIT The heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo.
PUB Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

296.7 A698k, 2006
AUT Ariel, David S.
TIT Kabbalah : the mystic quest in Judaism.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
CON Contents: Seekers of unity : the nature of mysticism -- Visionaries, mystics, and kabbalists : the history of Jewish mysticism -- The hidden and the revealed : the infinite God of Jewish mysticism -- The calculus of the divine world : the teaching of the sefirot -- The shekhinah : the feminine aspect of God -- Entering the garden : the meaning of Torah -- The oneness of being : the destiny of the soul -- The mystic drama : the religious life of the Jewish mystic -- Raising the sparks : modern Jewish mysticism -- Mysticism and meditation : the mystic quest.

297.095 F288v, 2006
AUT Fealy, Greg ; Hooker, Virginia Matheson ; Fealy, Greg.
TIT Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia : a contemporary sourcebook.
PUB Pasir Panjang, Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction to the sourcebook -- Pt. I. Country overviews -- 2. Brunei darussalam -- 3. Burma (Myanmar) -- 4. Cambodia and Vietnam -- 5. Indonesia -- 6. Malaysia -- 7. The Philippines -- 8. Singapore -- 9. Thailand -- Pt. II. Extracts from primary sources -- 10. Personal expressions of faith -- 11. Sharia -- 12. Islam, state and governance -- 13. Gender and the family -- 14. Jihad -- 15. Interactions: global and local Islam; Muslims and non-Muslims.

297.2 C591i
AUT Clarence-Smith, W. G.
TIT Islam and the abolition of slavery.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: THE EMBARRASSING INSTITUTION -- The nature of slavery in Islam -- Rhythms of expansion and contraction -- Slave numbers -- Orientalist contradictions -- The logic of Islamic abolition -- PART I: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF SLAVERY -- CHAPTER 2: A FRAGILE SUNNI CONSENSUS -- Early uncertainties -- Taking infidels in holy war -- Slave raiding and kidnapping -- Tribute, purchase, and adoption -- 'People of the book' -- Conversion and freedom -- Punishing 'bad Muslims' -- Concubines and eunuchs -- CHAPTER 3: DISSENTING TRADITIONS -- Ascetics and mystics -- Theologians and philosophers -- Establishing a Shi'i consensus -- Isma'ili divisions -- Other sects -- Slave revolts -- CHAPTER 4: CUSTOMARY LAW -- Liberation after a fixed term or on conversion -- The ambiguities of ethnicity and race -- Slavery by birth -- Self-enslavement and the sale of relatives -- Debt bondage and serfdom -- Crime and taxes -- Female and mutilated slaves -- CHAPTER -- 5: SULTAN'S LAW -- Military slavery -- Administrative and harem slavery -- Mughal reforms -- The turning of the Ottoman tide -- Iran, Morocco, and other gunpowder states -- PART II: THE ROADS TO ABOLITION -- CHAPTER 6: IMPERIALISM AND SECULARISM -- The Maghrib between colonialism and secularism -- From reform to revolution in the Ottoman empire -- Hesitation on the Nile -- Middle Eastern stragglers -- Abolition from Inner to Southeast Asia -- Conflicting experiences in Africa -- CHAPTER -- 7: THE ULAMA AND QUASI-ABOLITION -- Dissenting reformers -- South Asian Sunni pioneers and their opponents -- Apotheosis in the Maghrib -- Wider Arab reformism -- Ottoman conservatism -- Evolution in Southeast Asia -- Mixed responses in Africa -- Muslims in Christendom -- CHAPTER 8: MYSTICS AND MILLENARIANS -- Early Sufi reformism in West Africa -- Sufi retrogression in Africa -- Varieties of African Mahdism -- Maghribi holy warriors -- Jihads from the Balkans to Yunnan -- Risings in South and Southeast Asia -- Sufi 'jihads of the tongue' -- Peaceful millenarianism -- Integrating former slaves -- CHAPTER 9: LITERALISM -- The first Wahhabi state and its wider impact -- Saudi Arabia -- The Muslim Brothers -- Mawdudi and Hamidullah in South Asia -- Other expressions of literalism -- The West and the web -- CHAPTER 10: RATIONALISM -- The South Asian shock-troops of abolition -- South Asian gradualism -- The great caution of Egypt -- The radicalisation of the Arab world -- Progress in the Turco-Iranian world -- Southeast Asian metamorphosis -- Africa and the 'second message' of the Quran -- Developments in the West -- CHAPTER 11: TIMING AND COMPARISONS -- The course of Islamic abolitionism -- Judaic approaches to slavery -- Catholicism and servitude -- Orthodox and Protestant dispositions -- From Hinduism to Confucianism -- ENVOI.

297.7 M358j
AUT Marranci, Gabriele.
TIT Jihad beyond Islam.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.
CON Contents: Jihad : from the Qur'an to the Islamic state -- I am what I feel to be -- Discussing jihad with Muslim migrant men -- Sofas, families, tellies and jihad -- Baraka, coca-cola and Salah al-Din -- Modern Nasibahs? -- Anti-Semitism, Westernophobia and jihad -- Conclusion : the sword of Damocles.

299.514 M693p, 2006
AUT Moeller, Hans-Georg.
TIT The philosophy of the Daodejing.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The philosophy of the Daodejing -- How to read the Daodejing -- The Dao of sex -- Yin & Yang, Qi, Dao & De -- Paradox politics -- On war -- Masters of satisfaction (desires, emotions, and addictions) -- Indifference and negative ethics -- Permanence and eternity -- Death and the death penalty -- "Without the impulses of man": a Daoist critique of humanism.

299.67 J68s, 2002
AUT Johnson, Paul C.
TIT Secrets, gossip, and gods : the transformation of Brazilian Candombl�.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
CON Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 3 -- Studying Secrets 7; Research Site 11; Methodological Note: Structure and -- Practice 14; Strategy of This Book 17 -- PART I: Theoretical Boundaries -- 1. Secret Sits in the Middle 23 -- Concealment into Secrecy 23; Social Uses and Forms of Secrecy 25; Secrets in -- Candomble 30 -- 2. What Is Candomble? 35 -- Exchange, Consumption, and the Orixds 36; "Africa" in Brazil 41; Gender -- and Spirit Possession 43; Terreiro and Axe 48; Candomble -- in a Religious Field 51; Summary 55 -- PART II: Historical Layers of Secrecy -- 3. Slaves and Secrets 59 -- Colonial Secrets 59; Arriving Slaves 61; Religious Formation in -- the Interstices 69; Repression and the New Secrecy 76 -- 4. From Tumor to Trophy: The Nation-State and Candomble 79 -- Public Order in the Republic 81; New State and New Public -- Order 91; State Secrets, Religious Secrets 96; Interpreting the -- Transformation from 1890 to 1940 98; Summary 99 -- PART III: Secrecy and Ritual Practice -- 5. Public Space to Secret Place: Initiation and the Logic of Passage 103 -- The Act and the Word 104; Passage of the la6 108; Interpreting the Orders of -- Ritual Space 123; Summary 129 -- 6. Signifying the Street in Outbound Rites 131 -- Ritual One: Communal Offering (Eb6) 132; Ritual Two: Waters of -- Oxald 137; Theoretical Interlude: Whose Meaning? 142; Ritual Three: -- Dancing in the Heart of the Metropole 143 -- PART IV: How Secrets Become Public -- 7. Public Candomble 151 -- Theorizing the Public 153; Describing Public Candomble 156; From Ritual to -- Discourse: Transformations of Traditional Candomble 166; Public Candomble -- as Protestant Candomble 169; Summary 176 -- Conclusion 179 -- Recapitulation 180; Linking Two Trajectories: Secretism and Space, the -- Ritualized Body and Place 184; The Place of Secretism 187.

299.7 S666g
AUT Smoak, Gregory E.
TIT Ghost dances and identity : prophetic religion and American Indian ethnogenesis in the nineteenth century.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Snakes and diggers : the origins of new ethnic identities -- Shamans, prophets, and missionaries : Newe religion in the nineteenth century -- Treaty making and consolidation : the politics of ethnogenesis -- Two trails : resistance, accommodation, and the 1870 ghost dance -- Culture wars, Indianness, and the 1890 ghost dance -- Prophecy and American identities.

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302.23 A467t, 2006
AUT Altheide, David L.
TIT Terrorism and the politics of fear.
PUB Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The social reality of fear -- The mass media as a social institution -- Crime and terrorism -- Consuming terrorism -- Terrorism and the politics of fear -- The control narrative of the Internet -- The propaganda project and the Iraq War -- Constructing Pat Tillman -- Conclusion: Beyond the politics of fear.

302.23 B993w, 2006
AUT Byerly, Carolyn M ; Ross, Karen.
TIT Women and media : a critical introduction.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

302.23 K43c, 2005
AUT Kevorkian, Martin.
TIT Color monitors : the black face of technology in America.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Computers with color monitors -- Lost worlds -- Integrated circuits -- Techno-black like me -- Thinking inside the black box.

302.23 S795b, 2007
AUT Starkey, Guy.
TIT Balance and bias in journalism : representation, regulation and democracy.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

302.34 M651c, 2006
AUT Miller, Stephen.
TIT Conversation : a history of a declining art.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Conversation and its discontents -- Ancient conversation : from the Book of Job to Plato's Symposium -- Three factors affecting conversation : religion, commerce, women -- The age of conservation : Eighteenth-century Britain -- Samuel Johnson : a conversational triumph; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : conversation lost -- Conversation in decline : from raillery to reverie -- Conversation in America : from Benjamin Franklin to Dale Carnegie -- Modern enemies of conversation : from countercultural theorists to "white Negroes" -- The ways we don't converse now -- The end of conversation?.

303.3 H177a, 2006
AUT Hall, John A. ; Schroeder, Ralph.
TIT An anatomy of power : the social theory of Michael Mann.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Mann's transformation of the classic sociological traditions / Randall Collins -- Political questions / John A. Hall -- Mann's microfoundations: addressing neo-Weberian dilemmas / Edgar Kiser -- Grand, yet grounded: ontology, theory, and method in Michael Mann's historical sociology / Joseph Bryant -- Mann's theory of ideological power: sources, applications, and elaborations / Philip S. Gorski -- Political power un-manned: a defence of the Holy Trinity from Mann's military attack / Gianfranco Poggi -- Mann, the state, and war / John M. Hobson -- Infrastructural power, economic transformation, and globalization / Linda Weiss -- From theory to history: "The European dynamic" or feudalism to capitalism? / Robert Brenner -- The rise of the West / Stephan R. Epstein -- A historical, not comparative method: breakthroughs and limitations in the theory and methodology of Michael Mann's analysis of power / Jack A. Goldstone -- The "British" sources of social power: reflections on history, sociology, and intellectual biography / Frank Trentmann -- Networks and ideologies: the fusion of "is" and "ought" as a means to social power / Jack Snyder -- Mann's dark side: linking democracy and genocide / David Laitin -- The success of social power revisited: a response to criticism / Michael Mann.

303.38 G492c, 2003
AUT Ginneken, Jaap van.
TIT Collective behavior and public opinion : rapid shifts in opinion and communication.
PUB Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003.

303.482 M172a, 2006
AUT McPherson, Alan L.
TIT Anti-Americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean.
PUB New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.
CON Contents: Antiyanquismo : nascent scholarship, ancient sentiments / Alan McPherson -- Redefining intervention : Mexico's contribution to anti-Americanism / John A. Britton -- "Bradenism" and beyond : Argentine anti-Americanism, 1943-1953 / Glenn J. Dorn -- Patriotism and petroleum : anti-Americanism in Venezuela from G�mez to Ch�vez / Darlene Rivas -- The making of an economic anti-American : Eduardo Frei and Chile during the 1960s / Jeffrey F. Taffet -- Battle for the heart of the heavyweight : anti-Americanism in Brazil / Kirk Bowman -- Diaspora against empire : apprehension, expectation, and West Indian anti-Americanism, 1937-1945 / Jason Parker -- Contrasting hostilities of dependent societies : Panama and Cuba versus the United States / Alan McPherson -- Option for the poor : liberation theology and anti-Americanization / David Ryan -- The United States, Colombia, and drug policy, 1984-2004 : a study of quiet anti-Americanism / William O. Walker III -- Common findings and new directions / Alan McPherson.

303.49 B813c, 2001
AUT Brahm, Laurence J.
TIT China's century : the awakening of the next economic powerhouse.
PUB Singapore ; New York : Wiley, 2001.

304.663 C541w, 2006
AUT Chirot, Daniel ; McCauley, Clark R.
TIT Why not kill them all? : the logic and prevention of mass political murder.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: Are we killers or peacemakers? -- Why genocides? : are they different now than in the past? -- The psychological foundations of genocidal killing -- Why is limited warfare more common than genocide? -- Strategies to decrease the chances of mass political murder in our time -- Conclusions: Our question answered.

305.23 B724k, 2005
AUT Boocock, Sarane Spence ; Scott, Kimberly Ann.
TIT Kids in context : the sociological study of children and childhoods.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.

305.23 M123b, 2006
AUT McCartney, Kathleen ; Burchinal, Margaret R ; Bub, Kristen L.
TIT Best practices in quantitative methods for developmentalists.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Blackwell, 2006.
SER Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 0037-976X ; serial no. 285, vol. 71, no. 3, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction to the Monograph -- Data management: recommended practices -- Measurement issues and psychometrics methods in developmental research -- Missing data: what to do with or without them -- Growth curve analysis: an introduction to various methods for analyzing longitudinal data -- Contemporary advances and classic advice for analyzing mediating and moderating variables -- Selection, detection, and reflection -- The practical importance of findings.

305.3097 A177o, 2005
AUT Achenbaum, W. Andrew.
TIT Older Americans, vital communities : a bold vision for societal aging.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

305.409 W872K
AUT Kershaw, Angela ; Kimyong�r, Angela.
TIT Women in Europe between the wars : politics, culture and society.
PUB Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2007.

305.4209 W872H, 2006
AUT Hepburn, Stephanie ; Simon, Rita James.
TIT Women's roles and statuses the world over.
PUB Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2006.
CON Contents: North America -- Latin America -- Europe -- Middle East -- Africa -- Asia -- Australia.

305.52 F828d, 2004
AUT Frank, Zephyr L.
TIT Dutra's world : wealth and family in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro.
PUB Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
CON Contents: Economy and social structure in Rio de Janeiro, circa 1820 -- Dutra's world, circa 1849 -- Social structure in Rio de Janeiro, 1850s and beyond -- Pathways to wealth in Rio de Janeiro, 1815-1860 -- Death and dying -- Family and gender.

305.697 S559b, 2006
AUT Shore, Zachary.
TIT Breeding Bin Ladens : America, Islam, and the future of Europe.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: London Bridges -- Islamic Awakenings -- Two Faces, Two Futures -- Headscarf Headaches -- Migration Migraines -- Clash of the Barbies -- New Europe, Same Old Issues -- The Future of Muslim Europe

305.8 D184r, 2006
AUT Daniel, G. Reginald.
TIT Race and multiraciality in Brazil and the United States : converging paths?.
PUB University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The historical foundation -- Eurocentrism : racial formation and the master racial project -- The Brazilian path : the ternary racial project -- The Brazilian path less traveled : contesting the ternary racial project -- The U.S. path: the binary racial project -- The U.S. path less traveled : contesting the binary racial project -- Converging paths -- A new U.S. racial order : the demise of Jim Crow segregation -- A new Brazilian racial order : a decline in the racial democracy ideology -- The U.S. convergence : toward the Brazilian path -- The Brazilian convergence : toward the U.S. path -- Epilogue : the U.S. and Brazilian racial orders : changing points of reference -- References -- Index.

305.896 F196y, 2006
AUT Falola, Toyin ; Genova, Ann.
TIT Yorub� identity and power politics.
PUB Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 2006.

305.896 G798t, 2006
AUT Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn.
TIT Troubling the waters : Black-Jewish relations in the American century.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Settling in. -- Of our economic strivings. -- Wars and rumors of wars. -- And why not every man? -- Red menace. -- Things fall apart.

305.896 M121h, 2007
AUT McCaffrey, Paul.
TIT Hispanic Americans.
PUB [Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co., 2007.
SER Reference shelf. ; v. 79, no. 1.
CON Contents: The Hispanic-American experience: demographics and beyond -- Hispanic Americans and the immigration debate -- The growing political clout of Hispanic Americans -- Cultural and economic influence -- Education and the bilingual debate.

305.896 R352r, 1999
AUT Reichmann, Rebecca Lynn.
TIT Race in contemporary Brazil : from indifference to inequality.
PUB University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
CON Contents: Color in the Brazilian census / Edith Piza and F�lvia Rosemberg -- Race and educational opportunity in Brazil / Nelson do Valle Silva and Carlos A. Hasenbalg -- Racial differences in income: Brazil, 1988 / Nelson do Valle Silva -- Racial inequalities in the labor market and the workplace / Nadya Ara�jo Castro and Antonio S�rgio Alfredo Guimar�es -- Silent conflict: discriminatory practices and Black responses in the workplace / Maria Aparecida Silva Bento -- Racial discrimination and criminal justice in S�o Paulo / S�rgio Adorno -- Measures to combat discrimination and racial inequality in Brazil / Antonio S�rgio Alfredo Guimar�es -- Struggling in paradise: racial mobilization and the contemporary Black movement in Brazil / Luiz Claudio Barcelos -- Struggling for a place: race, gender, and class in political elections in Brazil / Cloves Luiz Pereira Oliveira -- Racial inequality in the lives of Brazilian women / Ana Maria Goldani -- Soda cracker dilemma: reproductive rights and racism in Brazil / Edna Roland -- Sterilization and race in S�o Paulo / Elza Berqu� -- Black women's identity in Brazil / Sueli Carneiro -- Women workers of Rio: laborious interpretations of the racial condition / Caetana Maria Damasceno.

305.9 M214c, 2006
AUT Mahalingam, Ram.
TIT Cultural psychology of immigrants.
PUB Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.
CON Contents: Pt. I. Immigration, globalization, and transnationalism : theoretical perspectives. Whither thou goest : an evolutionary perspective on migration / Bobbi S. Low ; Assimilation or transnationalism? Conceptual models of the immigrant experience in America / Silvia Pedraza ; The dialectic of recognition and displacement in a globalized world / E. Valentine Daniel ; Transnational ties and mental health / Eleanor J. Murphy -- Pt. II. Immigration and race. A two-level approach to anti-immigrant prejudice and discrimination / Thomas F. Pettigrew ; The role of prejudice in the discounting of immigrant skills / Victoria M. Esses, Joerg Dietz, and Arjun Bhardwaj ; Black immigrant to the United States : confronting and constructing ethnicity and race / Teceta Thomas Tormala and Kay Deaux ; Cultural psychology and marginality : an explorative study of Indian diaspora / Ramaswami Mahalingam, Cheri Philip, and Sundari Balan -- Pt. III. Immigration, self, gender, and narratives. Racing transatlantic passages : James Baldwin's African "America" and immigrant studies / Magdalena J. Zaborowska ; Model minority and marital violence : South Asian immigrants in the United States / Margaret Abraham ; Refugees and gendered citizenship / Patricia R. Pessar ; Gender, sexuality, language, and migration / Oliva M. Esp�n ; Cultural psychology of gender and immigration / Ramaswami Mahalingam and Jana Haritatos -- Pt. IV. Immigration and family. Conceptual and research considerations in the determinants of child outcomes among English-speaking Caribbean immigrants in the United States : a cultural-ecological approach / Jaipaul L. Roopnarine and Ambika Krishnakumar ; On the development of identity : Perspectives from immigrant families / Karen Kisiel Dion ; Negotiating culture and ethnicity : intergenerational relations in Chinese immigrant families in the United States / Min Zhou ; Acculturation or negotiation? What Japanese academic migrants teach us about family processes and gendered experiences of cultural adaptation / Izumi Sakamoto.

306.2 M993h, 2006
AUT Mutz, Diana Carole.
TIT Hearing the other side : deliberative versus participatory democracy.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Hearing the other side, in theory and in practice -- Encountering mixed political company : with whom and in what context? -- Benefits of hearing the other side -- The dark side of mixed political company -- The social citizen.

306.2082 H355w, 2006
AUT Hassim, Shireen.
TIT Women's organizations and democracy in South Africa : contesting authority.
PUB Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: Autonomy and engagement in the South African women's movement -- Contesting ideologies : feminism and nationalism -- The emergence of women as a political constituency, 1979-90 -- The ANC in exile : challenging the role of women in national liberation -- The return of the ANC Women's League : autonomy abrogated -- From mothers of the nation to rights-bearing citizens : transition and its impact on the South African women's movement -- Political parties, quotas, and representation in the new democracy -- One woman, one desk, one typist : moving into the bureaucracy -- Autonomy, engagement and democratic consolidation.

306.20943 F829b, 2005
AUT Frankel, Richard Evan.
TIT Bismarck's shadow : the cult of leadership and the transformation of the German right, 1898-1945.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005.

306.20982 L666a, 2005
AUT Levitsky, Steven ; Murillo, Maria Victoria.
TIT Argentine democracy : the politics of institutional weakness.
PUB University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Building castles in the sand? : the politics of institutional weakness in Argentina / Steven Levitsky and Mar�a Victoria Murillo -- The institutional foundations of public policy : a transaction cost approach and its application to Argentina / Pablo T. Spiller and Mariano Tommasi -- Old actors in new markets : transforming the populist/industrial coalition in Argentina, 1989-2001 / Sebasti�n Etchemendy -- Menem and the governors : intergovernmental relations in the 1990s / Kent Eaton -- Provincial party bosses : keystone of the Argentine Congress / Mark P. Jones and Wonjae Hwang -- Enduring uncertainty : court-executive relations in Argentina during the 1990s and beyond / Gretchen Helmke -- Citizens versus political class : the crisis of partisan representation / Juan Carlos Torre -- Crisis and renovation : institutional weakness and the transformation of Argentine Peronism, 1983-2003 / Steven Levitsky -- The new iron law of Argentine politics? : partisanship, clientelism, and governability in contemporary Argentina / Ernesto Calvo and Mar�a Victoria Murillo -- Demanding accountable government : citizens, politicians, and the perils of representative democracy in Argentina / Enrique Peruzzotti -- Protest and politics in contemporary Argentina / Javier Auyero -- Conclusion : theorizing about weak institutions : lessons from the Argentine case / Steven Levitsky and Mar�a Victoria Murillo.

306.44 M117s2, 2006
AUT Macaulay, Ronald K. S.
TIT The social art : language and its uses. - 2nd ed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Give a dog a name -- Learning one's first language -- The act of communicating -- Prosodic features -- Learning about words and their structure -- Discovering the structure of language: syntax -- More syntax -- Still more syntax -- Semantics -- Pragmatically speaking -- Theories of language development -- Variety -- Regional dialects -- Social class -- Written language -- Register -- Style -- Sex differences -- The magic of words -- Rhetoric -- Conversation -- Narratives -- Learning a second language -- The evolution of language -- Language change -- The history of English -- Into-European -- Languages of the world -- Language and thought -- Pronouns -- Gender -- Pidgins and creoles -- Literature -- Children's lore and language -- Envoi: confessio amantis.

306.44 P822u, 2006
AUT Poole, Steven.
TIT Unspeak : how words become weapons, how weapons become a message, and how that message becomes reality. - 1st. American ed.
PUB New York : Grove Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Community -- Nature -- Tragedy -- Operations -- Terror -- Abuse -- Freedom -- Extremism.

306.48 A823w, 2006
AUT Ashby, LeRoy.
TIT With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.
CON Contents: Prologue : popular culture on the brink -- Blackface, Barnum, and newspaper ballyhoo -- Taming rough amusements, 1840s-1860s -- Building an entertainment industry -- The billion-dollar smile : from burlesque to vaudeville and amusement parks -- The leisure problem at the turn of the century -- Popular culture and middle-class respectability in the early twentieth century -- Battling the Great Depression -- Building a wartime consensus in the 1940s and 1950s -- Counterpoints to consensus -- Popular culture and 1960s ferment -- Up for grabs : leaving the 1960s -- A pop culture society -- Epilogue : pop culture in a post-9/11 world.

306.48 P371r, 2006
AUT Peddie, Ian.
TIT The resisting muse : popular music and social protest.
PUB Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2006.
CON Contents: Politics and the parameters of protest -- Rock protest songs : so many and so few / Deena Weinstein -- The decline and rebirth of folk-protest music / Jerry Rodnitsky -- Available rebels and folk authenticities : Michelle Shocked and Billy Bragg / Mark Willhardt -- The pop star as politician : from Belafonte to Bono, from creativity to conscience / John Street -- Monophony or polyphony? -- The future is history : hip-hop in the aftermath of (post)modernity / Russell A. Potter -- Everyday people : popular music, race and the articulation and formation of class identity in the United States / James Smethurst -- Gender as anomaly : women in rap / Gail Hilson Woldu -- The problems of place -- Protest music as 'ego-enhancement' : reggae music, the Rastafarian movement and the re-examination of race and identity in Jamaica / Stephen A. King -- 'We have survived' : popular music as representation of Australian Aboriginal cultural loss and reclamation / Peter Dunbar-Hall -- The bleak country? : the black country and the rhetoric of escape / Ian Peddie -- The paradox of anti-social protest -- Communities of resistance : heavy metal as a reinvention of social technology / Sean K. Kelly -- The handmade tale : cassette-tapes, authorship, and the privatization of the Pacific Northwest independent music scene / Kathleen McConnell -- Gothic music and the decadent individual / Kimberly Jackson -- Straight, narrow and dull : the failure of protest in straight edge / Steven Hamelman.

306.6 G934p, 2006
AUT Guerra, Nancy ; Smith, Emilie Phillips.
TIT Preventing youth violence in a multicultural society. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2006.

306.7 C666p, 2006
AUT Cocks, Harry ; Houlbrook, Matt.
TIT Palgrave advances in the modern history of sexuality.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
CON Contents: Demography / Hera Cook -- Sexology / Chris Waters -- Law / Matt Cook -- Marriage and reproduction / George Robb -- Race and empire / Ross Forman -- Cities / Matt Houlbrook -- Religion and spirituality / H.G. Cocks -- Pornography and obscenity / Sarah Leonard -- Prostitution / Elizabeth Clement -- Childhood and youth / Louise Jackson -- Cross-dressing and transgender / Alison Oram.

306.708 S458y, 2006
AUT Seidler, Victor J.
TIT Young men and masculinities : global cultures and intimate lives.
PUB London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

306.89 C597d, 2006
AUT Clarke-Stewart, Alison ; Brentano, Cornelia.
TIT Divorce : causes and consequences.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The social context of divorce -- At risk for divorce -- A marriage ends -- Adults in the aftermath of divorce -- Effects of divorce on children -- What causes children's problems? -- What helps children adjust? -- Child custody and child support -- Remarriage and stepfamilies -- Divorce : the future.

320.5 V653a, 2006
AUT Vidino, Lorenzo ; Emerson, Steven.
TIT Al Qaeda in Europe : the new battleground of international jihad.
PUB Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2006.
CON Contents: A dagger in the soft heart -- Profiling Al Qaeda in Europe -- Life among the infidels -- Europe's tied hands -- The Algerian network -- The Algerian network and its origins -- The Strasbourg plot -- The Ricin plot -- Chechnya, land of the forgotten jihad -- Al Qaeda's main station house in Europe and the Iraqi jihad -- The Islamic Cultural Institute of Milan -- From Afghanistan to Iraq through Europe -- The Iraqi jihad -- Madrid, Van Gogh, and the new face of Al Qaeda -- The Madrid train bombings -- The Van Gogh assassination.

320.512 L193r, 2006
AUT Lal, Deepak.
TIT Reviving the invisible hand : the case for classical liberalism in the twenty-first century.
PUB Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Liberal international economic orders -- From laissez faire to the dirigiste dogma -- The changing fortunes of free trade -- Money and finance -- Poverty and inequality -- Morality and capitalism -- "Capitalism with a human face" -- The greens and global disorder.

Ref 320.52 A512F, 2006
AUT Frohnen, Bruce ; Beer, Jeremy ; Nelson, Jeffrey O.
TIT American conservatism : an encyclopedia.
PUB Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 2006.

320.54 J98k, 2006
AUT Jwaideh, Wadie.
TIT The Kurdish national movement : its origins and development. - 1st ed.
PUB Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Geographical, historical, and cultural background -- The social organization of the Kurds -- The suppression of the semiautonomous regimes in Kurdistan -- Shaykh Ubayd Allah of Nehri -- The impact of the young Turk revolution on Kurdish nationalism -- Russia's Kurdish policy -- The Kurds and World War I -- The situation of the Kurds in Turkey, Persia, and Syria after World War I -- Disturbances in the Mosul and Arbil Divisions of Iraqi Kurdistan after World War I -- Shaykh Mahmud and the rise and fall of the south Kurdish confederation in Iraqi Kurdistan after World War I -- Shaykh Mahmud's second rebellion -- The Kurdish rebellions in Turkey -- The Barzani rebellion of 1931-1932 -- The Barzani rebellion of Mulla Mustafa, 1943-1945, and the growth of Kurdish political organizations -- The Kurdish Republic of Mahabad -- The Kurds and the Kurdish question after the fall of Mahabad.

320.8 C337L, 2004
AUT Leland, Suzanne M. ; Thurmaier, Kurt M.
TIT Case studies of city-county consolidation : reshaping the local government landscape.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2004.
CON Contents: Jacksonville/Duval County, Florida / Bert E. Swanson -- Columbus/Muscogee County, Georgia / Arnold Fleischmann and Jennifer Custer -- Tallahassee/Leon County, Florida / Linda S. Johnson -- Sacramento/Sacramento County, California / Glen W. Sparrow -- Athens/Clarke County, Georgia / Dan Durning, William L. Gillespie, and Richard W. Campbell -- Lafayette/Lafayette Parish, Louisiana / Hunter Bacot -- Branch/North Branch, Minnesota / Beth Walter Honadle -- Des Moines/Polk County, Iowa / Paul Coates and Alfred Ho -- Augusta/Richmond County, Georgia / Richard W. Campbell, William L. Gillespie, and Dan Durning -- Wilmington/New Hanover County, North Carolina / Gary Alan Johnson -- Knoxville/Knox County, Tennessee / Anthony Nownes and David J. Houston -- Kansas City/Wyandotte County, Kansas / Suzanne M. Leland -- Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky / H.V. Savitch and Ronald K. Vogel.

320.8 C581C, 2004
AUT Carr, Jered B ; Feiock, Richard C.
TIT City-county consolidation and its alternatives : reshaping the local government landscape.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2004.
CON Contents: Perspectives on city-county consolidation and its alternatives / Jered B. Carr -- Consolidation as a local government reform / Suzanne M. Leland, Gary A. Johnson -- Do consolidation entrepreneurs make a deal with the devil? / Richard C. Feiock -- Issues of scale and transaction costs in city-county consolidation / Allen B. Brierly -- Annexation as form of consolidation / Allen B. Brierly -- Interlocal agreements as an alternative to consolidation / Kurt Thurmaier, Curtis Wood -- Special districts / Barbara Coyle McCabe -- Revolutionary local constitutional change / Linda S. Johnson -- The politics of city-county consolidation / Jered B. Carr, Bethany G. Sneed -- Local government amalgamation from the top down / Raymond A. Rosenfeld, Laura A. Reese -- Making the case for (and against) city-county consolidation / Linda S. Johnson, Jered B. Carr -- Institutional choice, collective action, and governance / Richard C. Feiock.

320.951 W959a, 2005
AUT Wu, Guoguang.
TIT The anatomy of political power in China.
PUB [Singapore] : East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2005.

320.956 N163r, 2006
AUT Nakash, Yitzhak.
TIT Reaching for power : the Shi'a in the modern Arab world.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: A Shi'a-led reformation -- The burden of the past -- Containment politics in the Persian Gulf -- The struggle for power in Iraq -- The revival of Shi'ism in Lebanon -- Between aspirations and reality.

Ref 320.956 P769, 2006
AUT CQ Press.
TIT Political handbook of the Middle East 2006.
PUB Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2006.

320.975 W881n, 2006
AUT Woodard, J. David.
TIT The new southern politics.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : L. Rienner Publishers, 2006.
CON Contents: Southern politics in the 21st century -- History and political culture -- The demography and geography of the South -- The racial legacy -- Religion and southern politics -- Political partisanship -- The Republican electoral surge -- The Democratic response in statewide races -- Leaders and legislators -- The South and the nation -- The South and the future.

320.983 B739a, 2006
AUT Borzutzky, Silvia ; Oppenheim, Lois Hecht.
TIT After Pinochet : the Chilean road to democracy and the market.
PUB Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2006.
CON Contents: Human rights in Chile : the long road to truth, justice, and reparations / Elizabeth Lira -- Inching toward democracy : President Lagos and the Chilean armed forces / Gregory Weeks -- Three's company : old and new alignments in Chile's party system / Patricio Navia -- A clash of values : church-state relations in democratic Chile / William M. Lies -- Chilean economic policy under the Concertaci�n : the triumph of the market? / Lois Hecht Oppenhiem -- Peace at home, turbulence abroad : the foreign policy of the Lagos administration / Joaqu�n Fermandois -- Cooperation or confrontation between the state and the market? Social security and health policies / Sylvia Borzutzky -- Conclusion : Coping with the General's long shadow on Chilean democracy / Aldo C. Vacs.

321.8 M978c, 2007
AUT Murphy, Walter F.
TIT Constitutional democracy : creating and maintaining a just political order.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Creating a constitutional democracy. Values, interest, and goals -- Alternative political systems -- Alternative political systems : the debate -- The possibility of constitutional democracy -- Maintaining a constitutional democracy. Creating citizens -- Military and security forces -- Rebuilding the machinery of state : the bureaucracies -- Dealing with deposed despots -- Constitutional interpretation as constitutional maintenance -- Constitutional change and its limits.

322.1 M621r, 2006
AUT Michalski, Krzysztof.
TIT Religion in the new Europe.
PUB Budapest ; New York : CEU Press, 2006.

322.2 S618s, 2006
AUT Sinyai, Clayton.
TIT Schools of democracy : a political history of the American labor movement.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : democracy and the worker, past and present -- Schools of democracy and independence : the labor movement and the democratic republic -- A wooden man? : industrialization, democracy, and civic virtue -- The AFL and progressive politics -- The New Deal and the birth of the CIO -- The New Deal democracy and industrial unionism at flood tide -- The AFL-CIO in the age of organization -- Not a slogan or a fad : labor and the Great Society -- Aftermath : labor and civic education in lean times.

323.09 C487h, 2006
AUT Chase, Anthony Tirado ; Hamzawy, Amr.
TIT Human rights in the Arab world : indepedent voices.
PUB Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : Human rights and agency in the Arab world / Anthony Chase -- The tail and the dog : constructing Islam and human rights in political context / Anthony Chase -- A question of human rights ethics : defending the Islamists / Bahey el-Din Hassan -- Globalization and human rights : on a current debate among Arab intellectuals / Amr Hamzawy -- Transnational human rights networks and human rights in Egypt / Neil Hicks -- Women, citizenship, and civil society in the Arab world / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Human rights in the Arab world : reflections on the challenges facing human rights activism / Hanny Megally -- Human rights NGOs and the "foreign funding debate" in Egypt / Nicola Pratt -- Justice in heaven / Eyad El Sarraj -- Some Yemeni ideas about human rights / Sheila Carapico -- Got rights? Public interest litigation and the Egyptian human rights movement / Tamir Moustafa -- When the time is ripe : the struggle to create an institutional culture of human rights in Morocco / Susan Waltz and Lindsay Benstead -- Conclusion : Normative and political dimensions of contemporary Arab debates on human rights / Amr Hamzawy -- Appendix 1 : Documents -- Appendix 2 : Treaty ratifications, notable reservations, understandings, and declarations / Anthony Chase and Kyle M. Ballard.

323.1 A646r, 2003
AUT Appelbaum, Nancy P ; Macpherson, Anne S ; Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra et al.
TIT Race and nation in modern Latin America.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
CON Contents: Racial nations / Nancy P. Appelbaum, Anne S. Macpherson, and Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt -- Little middle ground : the instability of a mestizo identity in the Andes, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Sarah C. Chambers -- Belonging to the great Granadan family : partisan struggle and the construction of indigenous identity and politics in Southwestern Colombia, 1849-1890 / James Sanders -- Searching for "Latin America" : race and sovereignty in the Americas in the 1850s / Aims McGuinness -- Imagining the colonial nation : race, gender, and middle-class politics in Belize, 1888-1898 / Anne S. Macpherson. Contents: From revolution to involution in the early Cuban Republic : conflicts over race, class, and nation, 1902-1906 / Lillian Guerra -- Interracial courtship in the Rio de Janeiro courts, 1918-1940 / Sueann Caulfield -- From mestizophilia to biotypology : racialization and science in Mexico, 1920-1960 / Alexandra Minna Stern -- Race, region, and nation : Sonora's anti-Chinese racism and Mexico's postrevolutionary nationalism, 1920s-1930s / Gerardo Renique -- Racializing regional difference : Sao Paulo versus Brazil, 1932 / Barbara Weinstein -- Race and nation in Latin America : An Anthropological View / Peter Wade.

324.089 G142a, 2006
AUT Gaines, Kevin Kelly.
TIT American Africans in Ghana : Black expatriates and the civil rights era.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

Ref 324.273 S113e, 2006
AUT Sabato, Larry ; Ernst, Howard R..
TIT Encyclopedia of American political parties and elections.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2006.

324.273 S616p, 2006
AUT Sinclair, Barbara.
TIT Party wars : polarization and the politics of national policy making.
PUB Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, c2006.
CON Contents: From Sam Rayburn to Newt Gingrich: the development of the Partisan Congress -- The Republican party moves right: right-wing intellectuals and Evangelical Christians transform the Republican party -- The internal engines of partisan polarization: the house in the Democratic era -- The internal engines of partisan polarization: the Republican house -- Unorthodox lawmaking in the hyperpartisan house -- Partisan polarization, individualism, and lawmaking in the Senate -- The President and Congress in a polarized environment -- Filibuster strategies and PR wars: strategic responses to the transformed environment -- From fluid coalitions to armed camps: the polarization of the National Political Community -- The consequences of partisan polarization: the bad, the ugly, and the good?.

324.78 S814s, 2006
AUT Steen, Jennifer A.
TIT Self-financed candidates in congressional elections.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The distribution of self-financing : candidate quality, timing, and the local context -- How self-financing shapes the field of competition -- How much bang in a self-financed buck? -- Self-financing and the electoral connection -- Democracy, campaign reform, and politics.

324.973 C319g, 2006
AUT Carroll, Susan J. ; Fox, Richard Logan.
TIT Gender and elections : shaping the future of American politics.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Gender and electoral politics into the 21st century / Susan J. Carroll and Richard L. Fox -- Presidential elections : gendered space and the case of 2004 / Georgia Duerst-Lahti -- Voter participation and turnout : it's a new game / Susan A. MacManus -- Voting choices : meet you at the gender gap / Susan J. Carroll -- Congressional elections : where are we on the road to gender parity? / Richard L. Fox -- African American women and electoral politics : journeying from the shadows to the spotlight / Wendy G. Smooth -- Political parties and women's organizations : bringing women into the electoral arena / Barbara Burrell -- Advertising, web sites, and media coverage : gender and communication along the campaign trail / Dianne Bystrom -- State elections : where do women run? Where do women win? / Kira Sanbonmatsu.

324.973 F855w, 2006
AUT Freeman, Steven F. ; Bleifuss, Joel.
TIT Was the 2004 presidential election stolen? : exit polls, election fraud, and the official count. - Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
PUB New York : Seven Stories Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Dateline November 2, 2004 -- Florida sets the stage in 2000 -- Electronic voting: an invitation for fraud -- Biased polls or biased count? -- How did America really vote? -- Responsible journalism versus conspiracy theory -- There can be no moving on.

325.21 G216s, 2006
AUT Garc�a, Maria Cristina.
TIT Seeking refuge : Central American migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. The wars in Central America and the refugee crisis -- 2. Designing a refugee policy : Mexico as country of first asylum -- 3. Refugees or economic migrants? : the debate over accountability in the United States -- 4. Humanitarianism and politics : Canada opens its doors to Central America -- Conclusion. Shared responsibility? : legacies of the Central American refugee crisis.

325.32 M217a, 2006
AUT Maier, Charles S.
TIT Among empires : American ascendancy and its predecessors.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: I: Recurring structures -- The imperial arena -- What is an empire? -- Frontiers -- "Call it peace" -- II: America's turn -- Highland Park and Hiroshima -- Frontiers and forces in the Cold War -- An empire of production -- An empire of consumption -- The vase of Uruk.

327.0904 P597f, 2005
AUT Picknett, Lynn ; Brydon, Robert ; Prince, Clive.
TIT Friendly fire : the secret war between the allies.
PUB Edinburgh : Mainstream, 2005.
CON Contents: The more things change ... -- The Hess predictions -- The unthinkable -- New orders -- War -- The odd couple -- Lost empire -- Hell -- Behind the infamy -- The end of the beginning -- Death by unconditional surrender -- In Stalin's pocket -- Overlords -- Exits and betrayals -- Guilty secrets and secret agendas.

327.729 P522p, 2006
AUT Pezzullo, Ralph.
TIT Plunging into Haiti : Clinton, Aristide, and the defeat of diplomacy. - 1st ed.
PUB Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, 2006.
CON Contents: Clinton's pledge -- Welcome to Haiti -- From slavery to independence -- Working with the UN -- Early U.S.-Haitian relations -- UN sanctions -- The first U.S. occupation -- Governors Island -- The fall of Baby Doc -- The New York pact -- The rise and fall of Aristide -- Reconciliation -- Prime Minister Malval -- Steps toward Aristide's return -- The Harlan County incident -- Dissension in Washington -- The resignation of Malval -- The parliamentarians' plan -- President Clinton changes policy -- Carter/Powell/Nunn -- History repeats itself.

327.730519 L477t, 2006
AUT Lee, Chae-Jin.
TIT A troubled peace : U.S. policy and the two Koreas.
PUB Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The United States faces Korea -- The dynamics of structural adjustment: from Nixon to Carter -- The passing of the Cold War: the Reagan and Bush years -- From containment to engagement: Clinton's policy -- In search of hegemonic diplomacy: Bush's policy.

327.73082 S543a, 2006
AUT Sheinin, David.
TIT Argentina and the United States : an alliance contained.
PUB Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Trade, progress, and nation building, 1800-1880 -- Pan-Americanism, world war, and the Bolshevik menace, 1880-1923 -- Sanitary embargo, cultural connections, and wartime neutrality, 1924-1946 -- Cold war and the end of Argentine democracy, 1947-1961 -- The sixties : military ties, economic uncertainties -- Descent to dictatorship, 1970-1983 -- The forging of a new relationship, 1984-1999 -- Epilogue : the crash of 2001 and beyond.

Ref 330.03 E56O, 2006 v.1-2
AUT O'Connor, David E.
TIT Encyclopedia of the global economy : a guide for students and researchers.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
CON Contents: v. 1. List of entries -- Guide to related topics -- Figures and tables -- Author's note -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Common abbreviations -- Timeline of key events in the global economy, 1776-2009 -- The encyclopedia -- Glossary of selected terms -- Key global economy Web sites -- Selected bibliography -- Index. Contents: v. 2. Author's note -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Common abbreviations -- Timeline of key events in the global economy, 1776-2009 -- Primary documents -- A note about the documents -- List of primary documents -- Population -- Poverty reduction -- Economic growth and sustainable development -- International trade -- Regional integration in the global trading system -- Foreign direct investment and corporate social responsibility -- Global labor markets and labor rights -- The environment and sustainable development -- Consumer rights and sustainable consumption -- Quality of life and economic justice -- Statistical tables -- A note about the statistical tables -- List of statistical tables -- Population -- Global output -- Advanced economies -- Least developed countries (LDCs) -- Income distribution, poverty, and external debt -- Quality of life and social indicators -- Transnational corporations and foreign direct investment -- International trade -- Regional development banks -- Global energy consumption and production -- Global competitiveness and freedom -- Glossary of selected terms -- Key global economy Web sites -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

330.153 S731o, 2006
AUT Sowell, Thomas.
TIT On classical economics.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Social philosophy of classical economists -- Classical macroeconomics -- Classical microeconomics -- Classical methodology -- Sismondi: a neglected pioneer -- The enigma of John Stuart Mill -- The mysteries of Marxian economics -- Thoughts on the history of economics.

331 M864g, 2006
AUT Morley, Michael ; Gunnigle, Patrick ; Collings, David G.
TIT Global industrial relations.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

331.10973 O88n, 2006
AUT O'Toole, James ; Lawler, Edward E.
TIT The new American workplace. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
CON Contents: I: Work in America -- II: Changes in the American workplace -- The nature of organizations -- The work itself -- The employment relationship -- III: Consequences for the American worker -- Careers -- Work/life balance -- Health and safety -- Job and life satisfaction -- Performance pressure -- Compensation -- Employee "voice" -- Training and development -- Community and commitment -- Winners and losers -- IV: Choices and future directions -- Organizations and competitiveness -- Public policy -- Individuals -- V: Future of the American workplace.

331.133 H236R, 2006
AUT Rodgers, William M.
TIT Handbook on the economics of discrimination.
PUB Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : E. Elgar, c2006.

331.23 L665c, 2001
AUT Levin-Waldman, Oren M.
TIT The case of the minimum wage : competing policy models.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2001.

331.808 W749r, 2006
AUT Wilson, Joseph ; Marable, Manning ; Ness, Immanuel.
TIT Race and labor matters in the new U.S. economy.
PUB Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.

331.88 C435u, 2006
AUT Chaison, Gary N.
TIT Unions in America.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2006.
CON Contents: The evolution of labor unions -- Union structure and growth -- Union growth and administration -- The union as bargaining agent -- Unions in politics -- Union revival -- Conclusions : the unions of the future.

333.79 S974k, 2006
AUT Sweet, William.
TIT Kicking the carbon habit : global warming and the case for renewable and nuclear energy.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. The case for sharply cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions -- Part I. Coal: a Faustian bargain with payments coming due: 2. The basis of it all Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvanian -- 3. The air we breathe: the human costs of coal combustion -- 4. From outer space: Asia's brown cloud, and more -- Part II. Climate: the lockstep relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature: 5. The drillers -- 6. The modellers -- 7. The synthesizers -- Part III. Choices: the low-carbon and zero-carbon technologies we can deploy right now: 8. Breaking the carbon habit -- 9. Going all out for renewables, conservation, and green design -- 10. Natural gas, gasoline, and the vision of a hydrogen economy -- 11. A second look at nuclear energy -- Conclusion: How to reduce greenhouse gases now, using today's technology.

333.95 A545a, 2006
AUT Anderson, Anthony B. ; Jenkins, Clinton N.
TIT Applying nature's design : corridors as a strategy for biodiversity conservation.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Conceptual foundations of corridors -- Corridor design -- Corridor implementation -- Case studies.

335.83 A545u, 2005
AUT Anderson, Benedict R. O'G.
TIT Under three flags : anarchism and the anti-colonial imagination.
PUB London ; New York : Verso, 2005.
CON Contents: Prologue: The rooster's egg -- All�...L�-bas -- In the world-shadow of Bismarck and Nobel -- Trials of a novelist -- Montjuich.

336.2 B898s2, 2005
AUT Brunori, David.
TIT State tax policy : a political perspective. - 2nd ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, c2005.
CON Contents: The importance of state taxation -- Principles of sound tax policy -- Interstate competition for economic development -- The politics of state taxation -- Sales and use taxes -- State personal income taxes -- Corporate income taxes -- Other state taxes -- Other sources of state revenue -- Policy recommendations for state policymakers.

336.39 G885p2, 2007
AUT Gruber, Jonathan.
TIT Public finance and public policy. - 2nd ed.
PUB New York : Worth Publishers, c2007.

337.09 G427g, 2006
AUT Ghosh, B. N ; Guven, H. M.
TIT Globalization and the Third World : a study of negative consequences.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : The end of geography and the beginning of conflict / B.N. Ghosh -- The contradictory dynamics of globalization / Phillip Anthony O'Hara -- Globalization, cultural conflicts and Islamic resurgence / Mustapha Kamal Pasha -- Globalization and the clash of civilisations / Halil M. Guven -- Globalization, sub-national governments and urban crises in the developing world / Partha Gangopadhyay and Shyam Nath -- Globalization, labour markets and gender : human security challenges from cross-borders sourcing in services / Nahid Aslanbeigui and Gale Summerfield -- How does globalization affect regional inequality within a developing country? Evidence from China / Xiaobo Zhang and Kevin Honglin Zhang -- Flexicurity, casualization and informalization of global labour markets / Johannes D. Schmidt -- Race to the bottom : the impact of globalization on labour markets : a review of empirical and theoretical evidence / Ozay Mehmet -- Globalization and the agrarian question : peasants' conflicts in Africa and Asia / Samir Amin -- Globalization, capital inflows and financial crises / B.N. Ghosh -- Globalization and incomplete technology transfer to developing countries / Franco Praussello -- WTO and the South : past, present and future / Raj Kumar Sen -- Globalization, trade liberalization and conflict : a southern perspective / Amitava Krishna Dutt -- Globalization and agricultural trade : the market access and food security dilemmas of developing countries / Tim Anderson.

Ref 338 W927 2007
TIT World industry & market outlook.
PUB [Bath, Me.] : C. Barnes & Co., c2006-.

330.12 W629t, 2006
AUT Whyman, Philip.
TIT Third way economics : theory and evaluation.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

330.122 H341b, 2005
AUT Harvey, David.
TIT A brief history of neoliberalism.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Freedom's just another word -- The construction of consent -- The neoliberal state -- Uneven geographical developments -- Neoliberalism 'with Chinese characteristics' -- Neoliberalism on trial -- Freedom's prospect.

338.43 L415b, 2006
AUT Law, Jacky.
TIT Big pharma : exposing the global healthcare agenda.
PUB New York, NY : Carroll & Graf, 2006.

338.74 T866c, 2006
AUT Truitt, Wesley B.
TIT The corporation.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Development of the corporation -- Transformation of the corporation -- The postmodern corporation -- Benefits of the corporation -- Establishment of a corporation -- Operating a corporation -- Corporations in other countries -- Multinational corporations -- Corporate governance -- The future of the corporation.

338.762 P672e, 2005
AUT Pirtle, Caleb.
TIT Engineering the world : stories from the first 75 years of Texas Instruments. - 1st ed.
PUB Dallas, Tex. : Southern Methodist University Press, 2005.

338.766 M313o, 2006
AUT Marcel, Val�rie ; Mitchell, John V.
TIT Oil titans : national oil companies in the Middle East.
PUB London : Chatham House ; Baltimore : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
CON Contents: How it all started -- How history is viewed by the national oil companies -- Corporate culture and identity -- Who is driving this train? -- New generations, changing expectations -- Changing mission of the national oil companies -- Industry challenges -- The home-front strategy -- Going international? -- Partnerships -- Conclusion : national oil companies on the rise -- Economic background : challenges faced by a petroleum-dependent economy : special contribution / by John V. Mitchell.

338.91 C146t, 2006
AUT Calderisi, Robert.
TIT The trouble with Africa : why foreign aid isn't working. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
CON Contents: I: What sets Africa apart -- Looking for excuses -- Africa from different angles -- Thugs in power -- Culture, corruption, and correctness -- II: Stories from the front line -- Tanzania: African socialism -- Ivory coast: the end of a miracle -- Discord in Central Africa -- III: Facing the facts -- Defying economics -- The trouble with foreign aid -- The Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline -- A clash of values -- IV: Facing the future -- Ten ways of changing Africa -- A new day.

338.952 V879j, 2006
AUT Vogel, Steven Kent.
TIT Japan remodeled : how government and industry are reforming Japanese capitalism.
PUB Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The Japanese model and institutional change -- The crisis of Japanese capitalism -- Policy reform Japanese style -- The varieties of reform -- Corporate restructuring Japanese style -- The varieties of restructuring -- Japan's new model.

339 F523r 2006
TIT Real world macro.
PUB Somerville, Mass. : Dollars & Sense, Economic Affairs Bureau, Inc.,.

339.2 W362U, 2004
TIT The wealth inequality reader.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Dollars & sense, Economic Affairs Bureau, c2004.

339.46 B787p, 2006
AUT Bowles, Samuel ; Durlauf, Steven N ; Hoff, Karla Ruth.
TIT Poverty traps.
PUB New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The theory of poverty traps: what have we learned? / Costas Azariadis -- The persistence of poverty in the Americas: the role of institutions / Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Parasites / Halvor Mehlum, Karl Moene, Ragnar Torvik -- The kin system as a poverty trap? / Karla Hoff, Arijit Sen -- Institutional poverty traps / Samuel Bowles -- Groups, social influences, and inequality / Steven N. Durlauf -- Durable inequality: spacial dynamics, social processes, and the persistence of poverty in Chicago neighborhoods / Robert J. Sampson, Jeffrey D. Morenoff -- Spatial concentration and social stratification: does the clustering of disadvantage "beget" bad outcomes? / Michael E. Sobel.

341 S365i, 2006
AUT Schoenbaum, Thomas J.
TIT International relations : the path not taken : using international law to promote world peace and security.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : two very different wars in Iraq -- The twenty-first century : the end of history or a new beginning? -- International power politics -- A new global order based on international law and multilateralism -- Peace and security : reinventing the United Nations -- International political economy -- International environmental protection -- International human rights -- International crimes -- Conclusions.

342.7308 A425o, 2006
AUT Allen, Austin.
TIT Origins of the Dred Scott case : Jacksonian jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857.
PUB Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Realizing popular sovereignty : partisan sentiment and constitutional constraint in Jacksonian jurisprudence -- Imposing self-rule : professionalism, commerce, social order, and the sources of Taney court jurisprudence -- Evidence of law : popular sovereignty and judicial authority in Swift v. Tyson -- Moderating Taney : concurrent sovereignty and answering the slavery question, 1842-1852 -- The limits of judicial partisanship : corporate law and the emergence of southern factionalism -- The sources of southern factionalism : corporations, free blacks, and the imperatives of federal citizenship -- The failure of evasion : Dred Scott v. Emerson, Strader v. Graham, Swift v. Tyson, and Dred Scott v. Sandford -- The political economy of blackness : citizenship, corporations, and the judicial uses of racism in Dred Scott -- Looking westward : concurrent sovereignty and the answer to the territorial question.

342.7308 B283p, 2006
AUT Bartee, Alice Fleetwood.
TIT Privacy rights : cases lost and causes won before the Supreme Court.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
CON Contents: Incorrect inputs : attorneys' mistakes in birth control cases -- Confusion in the conference -- To decide and how to decide : judicial attitudes and abortion decisions -- Living to lose, dying to win -- All is not lost : privacy causes won.

342.7308 K29u, 2006
AUT Kellough, J. Edward.
TIT Understanding affirmative action : politics, discrimination, and the search for justice.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Affirmative action : the concept and the controversy -- Early efforts focusing on equality of opportunity -- Affirmative action and preferential selection -- Assessing the argument : a review of the case for affirmative action -- The Supreme Court and affirmative action : an examination of the early development of statutory and constitutional constraints -- Cases from 1995 to 2003 : challenges, uncertainty, and the survival of affirmative action -- Evidence on the effectiveness of affirmative action -- Affirmative action in the Twenty-first century.

344.73 R879f, 2006
AUT Rowe, Thomas C.
TIT Federal narcotics laws and the war on drugs : money down a rat hole.
PUB Binghamton, N.Y. : The Haworth Press, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. Narcotics and narcotic regulations to 1937 -- The history of opiates -- The Harrison Narcotics Act -- The Porter Amendment -- Creation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and appointment of Harry J. Anslinger -- 2. Narcotics and narcotic regulations from 1937 -- Opium Poppy Control Act -- The Boggs Act -- Narcotics Control Act of 1956 -- Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act of 1966 -- Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 -- Comprehensive Drug Penalty Act of 1984 -- Controlled Substance Analog Act of 1986 -- Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988 -- Current federal sentencing guidelines -- What do judges think? -- 3. Agencies of enforcement -- Anslinger in charge -- The post-Anslinger era -- Current regulations and structure -- 4. Interdiction as a strategy -- Heroin interdiction -- Interdiction at the source -- The failure of success -- The failure of success II : intended consequences -- Interdiction at the user level -- Interdiction for cocaine and crack cocaine -- Marijuana interdiction -- Final costs of interdiction. Contents: 5. Failures of incarceration -- Current state of prisons -- Current state of the courts -- The criminal mind-set -- Problems with mandatory sentencing guidelines -- The states respond : the emergence of drug courts -- 6. What works : part I, education -- Early efforts -- The DARE program -- Other school initiatives -- Public education -- Drug-use trends -- 7. What works : Part II, drug treatment -- The federal narcotics farms experience -- Drug substitution models -- Medical treatment models -- The residential treatment program in federal prisons -- Other general treatment considerations and therapies -- The value of treatment -- 8. The legalization debate -- Drug-damage characteristics -- Health issues -- The "levels of use" argument -- Myth and countermyth : three bogus arguments -- Harm reduction -- Conclusions -- 9. Recommendations -- Recommendation 1 : restructure priorities -- Recommendation 2 : stop mixing apples and oranges -- Recommendation 3 : stop wasting money -- Recommendation 4 : expand education -- Recommendation 5 : fully fund treatment -- Recommendation 6 : implement drug courts at the federal level and eliminate mandatory sentencing guidelines -- Conclusion.

345.73 R951m, 2007
AUT Ruschmann, Paul.
TIT Miranda rights.
PUB New York : Chelsea House, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : Miranda v. Arizona -- Point : Miranda was wrongly decided and should be overruled -- Counterpoint : Miranda is consistent with the Bill of Rights -- Point : given today's crime problem, Miranda is inappropriate -- Counterpoint : the Miranda encourages civilized police behavior -- Point : Miranda has hindered the fight against crime -- Counterpoint : Miranda should be strengthened, not weakened -- Conclusion : the future of Miranda.

351 H236R3, 2007
AUT Rabin, Jack ; Hildreth, W. Bartley ; Miller, Gerald.
TIT Handbook of public administration. - 3rd ed.
PUB Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2007.

352.3 H236F, 2007
AUT Fischer, Frank ; Miller, Gerald ; Sidney, Mara S.
TIT Handbook of public policy analysis : theory, politics, and methods.
PUB Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC/Taylor & Francis, c2007.

355.009 A969p, 2007
AUT Axelrod, Alan.
TIT Political history of America's wars.
PUB Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2007.

355.0218 R847a, 2006
AUT Rothstein, Hy S.
TIT Afghanistan and the troubled future of unconventional warfare.
PUB Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2006.