301.092 E52m, 2006
AUT Elwell, Frank W.
TIT Macrosociology : four modern theorists.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2006.
CON Contents: Prologue: The past -- The sociology of C. Wright Mills -- Marvin Harris's cultural materialism -- Wallerstein's world-systems analysis -- Gerhard Lenski's ecological-evolutionary theory -- Meta-analysis. 301.092 S316g, 2006
AUT Scheff, Thomas J.
TIT Goffman unbound! : a new paradigm for social science.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2006.
SER Advancing the sociological imagination.
CON Contents: Introduction: The life and work of genius -- The Goffman style: deconstructing society and social science -- Looking-glass self : Goffman as symbolic interactionist -- Goffman's world of emotions -- The structure of context : deciphering Frame analysis -- Building an onion : alternatives to biopsychiatry -- What is this thing called love? : the three A's : attachment, attunement, and attraction -- Hatred as shame and rage? -- Human bonds : love, pride, and shame -- Masculinity and emotions : the silence/violence pattern -- A theory of runaway nationalism -- Conclusion. 302.23 M636r, 2006
AUT Miklitsch, Robert.
TIT Roll over Adorno : critical theory, popular culture, audiovisual media.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2006.
SER SUNY series in postmodern culture. 302.5 S678H, 2006
TIT Social change in America : the historical handbook.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Bernan Press, c2006. 303.4093 S399a, 2006
AUT Schwartz, Glenn M ; Nichols, John J.
TIT After collapse : the regeneration of complex societies.
PUB Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, c2006.
CON Contents: From collapse to regeneration / Glenn M. Schwartz -- The demise and regeneration of Bronze Age urban centers in the Euphrates Valley of Syria / Lisa Cooper -- Amorites, onagers, and social reorganization in Middle Bronze Age Syria / John J. Nichols and Jill A. Weber -- "Lo, nobles lament, the poor rejoice" : state formation in the wake of social flux / Ellen Morris -- The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 bc / Ian Morris -- Inca state origins : collapse and regeneration in the southern Peruvian Andes / Gordon F. McEwan -- Regeneration as transformation : postcollapse society in Nasca, Peru / Christina A. Conlee -- After state collapse : how Tumilaca communities developed in the upper Moquegua Valley, Peru / Kenny Sims -- Patterns of political regeneration in Southeast and East Asia / Bennet Bronson -- From funan to angkor : collapse and regeneration in ancient Cambodia / Miriam T. Stark -- Framing the Maya collapse : continuity, discontinuity, method, and practice in the classic to postclassic southern Maya lowlands / Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase -- Postclassic Maya society regenerated at Mayap�n / Marilyn A. Masson, Timothy S. Hare, and Carlos Peraza Lope -- Before and after collapse : reflections on the regeneration of social complexity / Alan L. Kolata -- Notes on regeneration / Norman Yoffee. 303.48 G624w, 2006
AUT Goldsmith, Jack L ; Wu, Tim.
TIT Who controls the Internet? : illusions of a borderless world.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: Yahoo! -- Visions of a post-territorial order -- The god of the Internet -- Why geography matters -- How governments rule the Net -- China -- The filesharing movement -- Virtues and vices of government control -- Consequences of borders -- Global laws -- Conclusion: Globalization meets governmental coercion. 303.483 K21c, 2006
AUT Kavoori, Anandam P ; Arceneaux, Noah.
TIT The cell phone reader : essays in social transformation.
PUB New York : Peter Lang, c2006.
SER Digital formations, 1526-3169 ; v. 34.
CON Contents: Introduction / Anandam Kavoori and Noah Arceneaux -- Theorizing cell phones -- The little big blender: how the cellphone integrates the digital and the physical everywhere / Paul Levinson -- Interfaces of hybrid spaces / Adriana de Souza e Silva -- The cell phone: an artifact of popular culture and a tool of the public sphere / Janey Gordon -- Life in the nomos: stress, emotional maintenance and coordination via the mobile telephone in intact families / Rich Ling -- Robinson piece - Tsunami mobilizations : considering the role of mobile and digital communications devices, citizen journalism, and the mass media / Wendy Robinson and David Robison -- Identity politics and/of/ in the cell phone -- cstng a pwr4l spll: d evolshn f sms / Collette Snowden -- Can you fear me now?: cell phones and the American horror film / Allison Whitney -- Texting the faith: religious users and cell phone culture / Heidi Campbell -- Disabling cell phones / Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell -- Do you know the importance of a skypager?: telecommunications, African Americans and popular culture / Davin Heckman -- International perspectives -- Mobile sociality in urban Morocco / Bahiyyih Maroon -- Culture, organization, and contradiction in the social construction of technology: Adoption and use of the cell phone across three cultures / Paul Leonardi, Marianne E. Leonardi, and Elizabeth Hudson -- The cell phone as a cultural technology: lessons from the Indian case / Anandam Kavoori and Kalyani Chadha. 303.484 P662a, 2006
AUT Piott, Steven L.
TIT American reformers, 1870-1920 : progressives in word and deed.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.
CON Contents: Lester Frank Ward and reform Darwinism -- Henry George's democratic economics -- Charles W. Macune's cooperative vision -- Ida B. Well's crusade against racism -- Walter Rauschenbusch and the social gospel -- Jane Addams and the settlement house idea -- Florence Kelley's quest for humane labor legislation -- Louis Brandeis, the law, and social change -- Lincoln Steffens muckrakes the business of politics -- Harvey W. Wiley and the ethics of pure food and drugs -- John Randolph Haynes and direct democracy -- Alice Paul and the campaign for human rights. 304.2 M179s, 2006
AUT Maddox, Gregory.
TIT Sub-Saharan Africa : an environmental history.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2006.
SER Nature and human societies.
CON Contents: African environments and the origins of humanity -- African environments and the development of food production systems -- African environments and the development of complex societies -- African environments and the era of the Columbian Exchange -- African environments and the reorganization of space under colonial rule -- African environments in the age of conservation and development -- Case Studies -- Case study 1. The first frontier : the Sahara Desert -- Case study 2. Death and life on the Serengeti : wilderness in Africa as managed landscape -- Case study 3. Transforming the landscape : food production and agriculture in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. 304.2 N134e, 2006
AUT Nadeau, Robert.
TIT The environmental endgame : mainstream economics, ecological disaster, and human survival.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The making of the godgame -- Godgames at the Pentagon -- A new view of nature -- The amazing gift of language -- The gods of the soulless machine -- The god with the invisible hand -- A green thumb on the invisible hand -- An unnatural religion -- The endgame. 304.8 H366g, 2005
AUT Hatton, T. J ; Williamson, Jeffrey G.
TIT Global migration and the world economy : two centuries of policy and performance.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.
CON Contents: 1. Goals and guidelines -- 2. Evolving world migrations since Columbus -- 3. The transition to mass migration : how it all began -- 4. What drove European mass emigration? -- 5. Emigrant origins and immigrant outcomes -- 6. The impact of mass migration on convergence and inequality -- 7. Mass migrations in the poor periphery -- 8. Political debate and policy backlash -- 9. The demise of mass migration and its impact -- 10. Resurrection : world migration since World War II -- 11. World migration under policy constraints -- 12. Where are all the Africans? -- 13. The rise (and fall?) of asylum seeking -- 14. The labor market and fiscal impact of immigration -- 15. Migrant selection, immigrant assimilation, and emigrant brain drain -- 16. Policy and prejudice -- 17. Policy and performance -- 18. World mass migration : past, present, and future. 305.4209 J83i, 2006
AUT Joshi, S. T.
TIT In her place : a documentary history of prejudice against women.
PUB Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2006.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Some overviews -- 1. Woman's rights (1867) / John Todd -- 2. Evils of woman's revolt against the old standards (1927) / Hugh L. McMenamin -- 3. The entrenchment of the American witch (1962) / George Frazier -- pt. 2. Woman's "place" -- 4. Woman, in her social and domestic character (1831) / Elizabeth Sandford -- 5. The curse of Eve (1903) / Margaret Bisland -- 6. The home builder (1908) / Lyman Abbott -- 7. The normal American woman (1908) / Charles W. Eliot -- pt. 3. Scientists on women -- 8. Woman : physiologically considered (1843) / Alexander Walker -- 9. Sex and character (1903) / Otto Weininger -- 10. The inevitability of patriarchy (1973) / Steven Goldberg -- pt. 4. Women and intellect -- 11. Mental differences between men and women (1887) / George J. Romanes -- 12. On the absence of the creative faculty in women (1891) / Molly Elliot Seawell -- 13. The weaker sex : a scientific ramble (1926) / James H. Leuba -- pt. 5. Women and education -- 14. Sex in education ; or, A fair chance for the girls (1873) / Edward H. Clarke -- 15. Higher education of women and race suicide (1905) / A. Lapthorn Smith -- 16. Womanly education for women (1915) / John M. McBryde Jr. Contents: pt. 6. Women and work -- 17. Women's mistakes about work (1879) / Anonymous -- 18. The education and efficiency of women (1910) / Emily Greene Balch -- 19. The psychology of supervising the working woman (1942) / Donald A. Laird, Eleanor C. Laird -- 20. Memo to the American woman (1966) / Patricia Coffin -- pt. 7. Women and sex -- 21. Feminism : its fallacies and follies (1916) / John Martin -- 22. Female sexuality (1931) / Sigmund Freud -- 23. How to get and keep a husband (1957) / Kate Constance -- pt. 8. Women and marriage -- 24. Commentaries on the laws of England (1765-1769) / William Blackstone -- 25. The young wife (1837) / William A. Alcott -- 26. These women (1925) / William Johnson -- 27. Men and marriage (1986) / George Gilder -- pt. 9. Women and religion -- 28. Female influence, and the true Christian mode of its exercise (1837) / Jonathan F. Stearns -- 29. Woman's profession as mother and educator (1872) / Catharine E. Beecher -- 30. "The war of the sexes" (1896) / John Paul MacCorrie -- 31. The influence of women and its cure (1936) / John Erskine -- 32. The decline of femininity (1945) / Joseph H. Fichter, SJ. pt. 10. Women and suffrage -- 33. The woman question (1869) / Orestes Augustus Brownson -- 34. Woman suffrage : the reform against nature (1869) / Horace Bushnell -- 35. The blank-cartridge ballot (1896) / Rossiter Johnson -- 36. The wrong and peril of woman suffrage (1909) / James Monroe Buckley -- 37. Woman adrift : the menace of suffragism (1912) / Harold Owen -- 38. Socialism, feminism, and suffragism : the terrible triplets (1915) / Benjamin Vestal Hubbard -- 39. The fundamental error of woman suffrage (1915) / William Parker -- pt. 11. Women hating women -- 40. Discontented women (1896) / Amelia E. Barr -- 41. The abdication of man (1898) / Elizabeth Bisland -- 42. The business of being a woman (1912) / Ida M. Tarbell -- pt. 12. Backlash : men fight back -- 43. For maids and mothers : the woman of to-day, and of to-morrow (1899) / Harry Thurston Peck -- 44. Equal rights for men (1937) / Harry Hibschman -- 45. So why do rapes occur? (1979) / Roy U. Schenk. 305.562 M134w, 2006
AUT McDermott, Monica.
TIT Working-class white : the making and unmaking of race relations.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The cities and the sites : "The Crescent" in Atlanta and "Greenfield" in Boston -- Experiences of white racial identity -- Situational contexts and perceptions of prejudice -- The implications of diversity among Blacks for white attitudes -- Race, crime, and violence -- Race, gender, and sexuality. 305.569 G578r, 2006
AUT Godden, Richard ; Crawford, Martin.
TIT Reading southern poverty between the wars, 1918-1939.
PUB Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Three agrarianisms and the idea of a South without poverty / Ted Ownby -- Dissonant encounters : FSA photographers and the southern underclass, 1935-1943 / Stuart Kidd -- Not readily visualized by industrial workers and urban dwellers : published images of rural women from the FSA collection, 1935-1937 / Siobhan Davis -- Murder, "convict flogging affairs," and debt peonage: the roaring twenties in the American South / Vivien M.L. Miller -- "Ain't worth a damn for nothin'" : the New Deal and child labor in southern textiles / Clive Webb -- From Memphis to Bandung : the political uses of hunger in Richard Wright's Black boy / Andrew Warnes -- "All manner of defeated, shiftless, shifty, pathetic, and interesting good people" : autobiographical encounters with southern poverty / John C. Inscoe -- Creating "Nate Shaw" : the making and remaking of All God's dangers / James C. Giesen -- A southern writer and class war in the mountains : Grace Lumpkin's To make my bread / Richard Gray -- Rural poverty and the heroics of farming : Elizabeth Madox Roberts's The time of man and Ellen Glasgow's Barren ground / Peter Nicolaisen -- Trashing modernism : Erskine Caldwell on the southern poor / John T. Matthews -- Marginalization and mobility : segregation and the representation of southern poor whites / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. 305.892 G878f, 2006
AUT Gross, Jan Tomasz.
TIT Fear : anti-semitism in Poland after Auschwitz : an essay in historical interpretation. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Random House, c2006. 305.892 L317c, 2006
AUT Laqueur, Walter.
TIT The changing face of antisemitism : from ancient times to the present day.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The new antisemitism -- Interpretations of antisemitism -- Ancient and medieval anti-Judaism -- Enlightenment and after -- Racialism and Jewish conspiracies -- Towards the Holocaust -- Contemporary antisemitism -- Assimilation and its discontents -- Antisemitism and the left -- Antisemitism and the Muslim world. 305.896 C712f, 2006
AUT Hill Collins, Patricia.
TIT From Black power to hip hop : racism, nationalism, and feminism.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2006.
SER Politics, history, and social change.
CON Contents: Introduction : from Black power to hip hop -- I: Race, family, and the U.S. nation-state. Like one of the family : race, ethnicity, and the paradox of American national identity -- Will the "real" mother please stand up? : race, class, and American national family planning -- II: Ethnicity, culture, and Black nationalist politics. Black nationalism and African American ethnicity : Afrocentrism as civil religion -- When fighting words are not enough : the gendered content of Afrocentrism -- III: Feminism, nationalism, and African American women. Why collective identity politics matter : feminism, nationalism, and Black women's community work -- Is the personal still political? : the women's movement, feminism, and Black women in the hip-hop generation. 305.906 B419g, 2006
AUT Behera, Navnita Chadha.
TIT Gender, conflict and migration.
PUB New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : SAGE Publications, 2006.
SER Women and migration in Asia ; v. 3. 306.098 W732L, 2006
AUT Williamson, Robert Clifford.
TIT Latin America : cultures in conflict.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
CON Contents: Latin America: change and diversity -- Geography: barriers and challenges -- An unfolding heritage -- Society, economy, and government -- Identity, modernity, and the arts -- Gender, socialization, and women's roles -- Marriage and the family -- Religion at the crossroads -- Education: a continuing challenge -- Communication, science, and technology -- Social structure and change: Latin America and the world. 306.342 B886j, 2006
AUT Brubaker, Pamela ; Peters, Rebecca Todd ; Stivers, Laura A.
TIT Justice in a global economy : strategies for home, community, and world. 1st ed.
PUB Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Household strategies. Supporting community farming / Rebecca Todd Peters ; Relating to household labor justly / W. Anne Joh ; Consuming responsibly / Marcia Allen Owens ; Eating intentionally / Shannon Jung -- Community strategies. Holding corporations accountable / Laura Stivers ; Engaging environmental justice / Carlton Waterhouse ; Revitalizing local communities / Wylin Dassie ; Creating the commons / Larry L. Rasmussen -- Public policy strategies. Promoting solidarity with migrants / Daisy L. Machado ; Reforming global economic policies / Pamela K. Brubaker ; Ensuring sustainability / John B. Cobb Jr. ; Challenging our assumptions / Mary Elizabeth Hobgood. 306.362 H823s, 2006
AUT Horton, James Oliver ; Horton, Lois E.
TIT Slavery and public history : the tough stuff of American memory.
PUB New York : New Press : Distributed by Norton, c2006.
CON Contents: Coming to terms with slavery in twenty-first-century America / Ira Berlin -- If you don't tell it like it was, it can never be as it ought to be / David W. Blight -- Slavery in American history: an uncomfortable national dialogue / James Oliver Horton -- The last great taboo subject: exhibiting slavery at the Library of Congress / John Michael Vlach -- For whom will the Liberty Bell toll? From controversy to cooperation / Gary B. Nash -- Recovering (from) slavery: four struggles to tell the truth / Joanne Melish -- Avoiding history: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the uncomfortable public conversation on slavery / Lois E. Horton -- Southern comfort levels: race, heritage tourism, and the Civil War in Richmond / Marie Tyler-McGraw -- "A cosmic threat": the National Park Service addresses the causes of the American Civil War / Dwight T. Pitcaithley -- In search of a usable past: neo-Confederates and black Confederates / Bruce Levine -- Epilogue: Reflections / Edward T. Linenthal. 306.4 B242n, 2004
AUT Barcan, Ruth.
TIT Nudity : a cultural anatomy.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Berg, 2004.
SER Dress, body, culture.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The nudity/clothing dialectic -- The metaphor of nudity -- Unnatural nature : mess, savagery, perversion, crime -- The nude republic : celebrity, "ordinariness" and identity -- Conclusion. 306.461 S531s, 2006
AUT Sharp, Lesley Alexandra.
TIT Strange harvest : organ transplants, denatured bodies, and the transformed self.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
CON Contents: We are the dead men -- Memory work -- Public encounters as subversive acts -- Human hybridity. 306.483 P942L, 2006
AUT Prettyman, Sandra Spickard ; Lampman, Brian.
TIT Learning culture through sports : exploring the role of sports in society.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: Why Study Sport? / Sandra Spickard Prettyman -- Sect. I: Youth Participation and Sport -- Organized Sports for Young People: A Twentieth Century Invention / Jay Coakley -- An Open Letter to Communities: What Community Leaders Can Do to Improve Youth Sports / Bob Bigelow, Bruce Savre, Richard Irving, Steve Fisher, Doug Abrams -- Time Out! For Better Sports for Kids / Fred Engh -- Motivation and Outcomes of Youth Participation in Sport / Peggy McCann, Martha Ewing -- Sect. II: Gender and Sexuality in Sport -- Title IX: Past, Present, and Future / Margaret Duncan -- Liberties and Lipstick: The Paradox of Cheerleading as Sport / Natalie Guice Adams, Pam Bettis -- If You Beat Him, You Own Him, He's Your Bitch: Coaches, Language, and Power / Sandra Spickard Prettyman --Sect. III: Race and Ethnicity in Sport -- -- The New Racial Stereotypes / Richard Lapchick -- Exploring Race with Secondary Students: Developing Critical Media Literacy / Brian Lampman -- Unexpected, Undeserved, Unrewarded...And Undeniable: Sport and Transformation / Bill Curry -- Making Sense of the American Indian Mascot Issue / Ellen Staurowsky --Sect. IV: Sport and the Media -- Songs Sung Red, White, and Blue: Music, Sports, and the Rhetoric of Patriotism / Stephen Mosher -- Reconsidering Girl Power: Examining Media Images of Female Athletes / Maureen Smith -- Why Be A 'Jackass'?: Media Images of Young White Men In and Out of Sport in New Millennium America / Kyle Kusz -- Education, Sport, and Hip Hop through the "Mic" of Stuart Scott / Keith Harrison, Qualyan Allen -- Sect. V: Sport and Violence -- -- In the Name of Obedience: Overcoming the Damaging Myths about Hazing / Joe Gervais -- Athletes, Role Models, and Criminals: What Do We Make of This Tripartite Mess? / Earl Smith, Angela Hattery -- Pitching for Equality: Gay Athletes and Homphobia / Eric Anderson -- Sect. VI: Sports and Schools -- -- The Scholar-Baller Approach: A Cultural Map for Academic Success in America / Keith Harrison, Eddie Comeaux, Jean Boyd, Cliff Parks, David Heikkenin -- Rethinking the Role of Sports in Our Schools / John Gerdy -- The Meaning of Success in Academics and Athletics / Rob Renes -- Conclusion: Sport, Society, and Social Justice / Brian Lampman. 306.766 C653g, 2006
AUT Cobb, Michael L.
TIT God hates fags : the rhetorics of religious violence.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2006.
SER Sexual cultures.
CON Contents: Introduction : the last safe group to hate -- The language of national security : a queer theory of religious language -- James Baldwin and his queer, religious words -- Like a prayer -- Rights as wrongs -- Conclusion : our aberrant future. 306.848 E75g, 2006
AUT Eskridge, William N ; Spedale, Darren R.
TIT Gay marriage : for better or for worse? : what we've learned from the evidence.
PUB Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The evolving same-sex marriage debate in the United States -- The same-sex marriage debate in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe -- A new look for legal unions : sixteen years of Scandinavian partnerships and the changing conception of family -- The benefits of same-sex marriage : lessons from Scandinavia -- Modern Scandinavian families and the defense-of-marriage argument -- Drawing lines : Scandinavian lessons for the American marriage debate. 306.874 K95n, 2006
AUT Kuba, Cheryl A.
TIT Navigating the journey of aging parents : what care receivers want.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2006.
CON Contents: Care receivers : an intimate profile -- Start the conversation -- Take care of yourself first -- Growing old and feeling ill : a permanent condition? -- Getting up close and personal -- Driving through the fog -- "Give me the keys" -- Leaving home -- Destination : your house -- A million miles away : receiving care from a distance -- Circling the wagons -- Where is the love? -- What about God? : is he still listening to me at this age? -- The end of the road : death as life's final chapter. 307.76 F623t, 2006
AUT Flint, Anthony.
TIT This land : the battle over sprawl and the future of America.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : developing America -- Grids and greenfields -- Suburbia's promise, and curse -- New paradigm : new urbanism -- The smart growth revolution -- Walk daily, buy local, build green -- Hands off my land -- Dream defenders and Sprawl Inc. -- Pitched battles -- The density dilemma -- Smart, and fair -- Planning and disaster -- Conclusion: Six healthy habits for sensible growth. 320.092 Z94t, 2006
AUT Zuckert, Catherine H. ; Zuckert, Michael P.
TIT The truth about Leo Strauss : political philosophy and American democracy.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction. Mr. Strauss goes to Washington? -- ch. 1. The return of the ancients : an overview of the Straussian project -- ch. 2. Strauss, modernity, America -- ch. 3. Leo Strauss as a postmodern political thinker -- ch. 4. The man who gave away the secrets : on esotericism -- ch. 5. Leo Strauss, teacher of evil? -- ch. 6. The emergence of the Straussian study of America -- ch. 7. Straussian geography. 320.973 D993i, 2006
AUT Dworkin, R. M.
TIT Is democracy possible here? : principles for a new political debate.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Preface -- Common ground -- Terrorism and human rights -- Religion and dignity -- Taxes and legitimacy -- Is democracy possible? -- Epilogue. 320.973 M123p, 2006
AUT McCarty, Nolan M ; Poole, Keith T ; Rosenthal, Howard.
TIT Polarized America : the dance of ideology and unequal riches.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
SER The Walras-Pareto lectures.
CON Contents: The choreography of American politics -- Polarized politicians -- Income polarization and the electorate -- Immigration, income, and the voter's incentive to redistribute -- Campaign finance and polarization -- Polarization and public policy -- Where have you gone, Mr. Sam. 320.973 W899c, 2007
AUT Woodward, Gary C.
TIT Center stage : media and the performance of American politics.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.
SER Communication, media, and politics.
CON Contents: Prologue : News, politics, and the public interest on September 10, 2001 -- Frames of reference in an era of casual spectatorship -- Forces shaping the news business -- Discovery and discourse in the new media -- The staging of the contemporary presidency -- Congress and the courtroom -- Nationalism, foreign news, and war reporting -- Art, entertainment, and politics. 322.1 P967n, 2006
AUT Prothero, Stephen R.
TIT A nation of religions : the politics of pluralism in multireligious America.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction / Stephen Prothero -- Isolate, insulate, assimilate : attitudes of mosque leaders toward America / Ihsan Bagby -- Progressive Islam in America / Omid Safi -- From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 : lessons from the internment of Japanese American Buddhists / Duncan Ry�ken Williams -- Reproducing Vietnam in America : San Jose's perfect harmony temple / Hien Duc Do -- Tibetan Buddhism in America : reinforcing the pluralism of the sacred canopy / Robert A.F. Thurman -- Mr. President, why do you exclude us from your prayers? : Hindus challenge American pluralism / Prema A. Kurien -- Sacred land, sacred service : Hindu adaptations to the American landscape / Vasudha Narayanan -- Making home abroad : Sikhs in the United States / Gurinder Singh Mann -- From alleged Buddhists to unreasonable Hindus : First Amendment jurisprudence after 1965 / Courtney Bender and Jennifer Snow -- Agonistic federalism : the Alabama Ten commandments controversy / Stephen Dawson -- The de-Europeanization of American Christianity / R. Stephen Warner -- Religious pluralism and civil society / James Davison Hunter and David Franz. 323 D131o, 2006
AUT Dahl, Robert Alan.
TIT On political equality.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Is political equality a reasonable goal? -- Is political equality achievable? -- A respectable role for emotions -- Political equality, human nature, and society -- Will political inequality increase in the United States? -- Why political inequality may decline. 323.0975 A816f, 2006
AUT Arsenault, Raymond.
TIT Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
SER Pivotal moments in American history.
CON Contents: You don't have to ride Jim Crow -- Beside the weary road -- Hallelujah! I'm a-travelin' -- Alabama bound -- Get on board, little children -- If you miss me from the back of the bus -- Freedom's coming and it won't be long -- Make me a captive, Lord -- Ain't gonna let no jail house turn me 'round -- Woke up this morning with my mind on freedom -- Oh, freedom -- Epilogue : glory bound -- Appendix : roster of freedom riders. 323.6 B652b, 2006
AUT Bloemraad, Irene.
TIT Becoming a citizen : incorporating immigrants and refugees in the United States and Canada.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: the challenge of immigrant political incorporation -- Diverging trajectories of political incorporation -- The social nature of citizenship and participation -- Structured mobilization: the role of government -- The meaning of citizenship -- Community organizations and political mobilization -- Learning to lead and winning political office -- Conclusion: multicultural citizenship. 324.6 M135m, 2006
AUT McDonald, Michael ; Samples, John Curtis.
TIT The marketplace of democracy : electoral competition and American politics.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute : Brookings Institution Press, c2006. 324.78 M195f, 2006
AUT Magleby, David B ; Corrado, Anthony ; Patterson, Kelly D.
TIT Financing the 2004 election.
PUB Washington D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006. 324.973 M195d, 2007
AUT Magleby, David B ; Monson, J. Quin ; Patterson, Kelly D.
TIT Dancing without partners : how candidates, parties, and interest groups interact in the presidential campaign.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
SER Campaigning American style.
CON Contents: Introduction / David B. Magleby, J. Quin Monson, and Kelly D. Patterson -- Something to prove: the Florida presidential campaign of 2004 / Robert E. Crew, Terri Susan Fine, and Susan A. MacManus -- The impact of BCRA on the presidential nomination process: the 2004 Iowa caucuses / Arthur Sanders -- Taking it to the streets: the Iowa presidential campaign of 2004 / Arthur Sanders -- The candidates depart but the dance goes on: the 2004 presidential race in Missouri / E. Terrence Jones ... [et al.] -- The battle for five electoral votes: the New Mexico presidential campaign of 2004 / Lonna Rae Atkeson, Nancy Carrillo, and Mekoce Walker -- The battle for Ohio: the 2004 presidential campaign / Stephen T. Mockabee ... [et al.] -- The morning after: the lingering effects of a night spent dancing / David B. Magleby, J. Quin Monson, and Kelly D. Patterson. 324.973 W721i, 2006
AUT Williams, Andrew Paul ; Tedesco, John C.
TIT The Internet election : perspectives on the Web in campaign 2004.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
SER Communication, media, and politics.
CON Contents: Campaign finance reform and the Internet : regulating Web messages in the 2004 election and beyond / Clifford A. Jones -- Web campaigning by U.S. presidential primary candidates in 2000 and 2004 / Steven M. Schneider and Kirsten A. Foot -- Webstyles in 2004 : the gendering of candidates on campaign Web sites? / Mary Christine Banwart -- Online organization : Dean, Kerry, and Internet politicking in the 2004 Iowa caucus / Christopher C. Hull -- Political Web wars : the use of the Internet for political advertising / Lynda Lee Kaid -- Self-referential and opponent-based framing : candidate e-mail strategies in campaign 2004 / Andrew Paul Williams -- The role of campaign Web sites in promoting candidates and attracting campaign resources / Monica Postelnicu, Justin D. Martin, and Kristen D. Landreville -- Joy and sorrow of interactivity on the campaign trail : blogs in the primary campaign of Howard Dean / Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Andrea B. Baker -- The blogging of the president / Kaye D. Trammell -- The age of reasons : motives for using different components of the Internet for political information / Barbara K. Kaye and Thomas J. Johnson -- Discrediting Teresa wounded by whispers on the Web / Ashli Quesinberry Stokes -- Web interactivity and young adult political efficacy / John C. Tedesco. 325.32 G753e, 2006
AUT Grandin, Greg.
TIT Empire's workshop : Latin America, the United States, and the rise of the new imperialism. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Metropolitan Books, 2006.
SER American empire project.
CON Contents: The camel not in the Koran -- How Latin America saved the United States from itself -- The most important place in the world: toward a new imperialism -- Going primitive: the violence of the new imperialism -- Bringing it all back home: the politics of the new imperialism -- The third conquest of Latin America: the economics of the new imperialism -- Globalization's showpiece: The failure of the new imperialism -- Iraq is not Arabic for Latin America. 327.101 L747m, 2006
AUT Lindner, Evelin.
TIT Making enemies : humiliation and international conflict.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.
SER Contemporary psychology, 1546-668X.
CON Contents: Foreword by Morton Deutsch -- Preface -- Humiliation at work in the mind -- The mental landscape -- Once the cure, now the disease -- Globalization and egalization -- Humiliation at work in the world -- Humiliation and misunderstanding -- Humiliation and conflict -- Humiliation and terrorism -- Why humiliation does not work -- The humiliation addiction -- The humiliation antidote -- The future of humiliation. 327.14 F971a, 2006
AUT Fullerton, Jami A. ; Kendrick, Alice.
TIT Advertising's war on terrorism : the story of the U.S. State Department's Shared Values Initiative.
PUB Spokane, Wash. : Marquette Books, c2006.
CON Contents: A brief history of the Shared Values Initiative -- The Shared Values Initiative : propaganda or public diplomacy? -- New approaches to public diplomacy -- Reactions to the Shared Values Initiative -- Did Shared Values work? : the post-campaign study -- Did Shared Values work? : results of experiments and diagnostic copy tests -- Advertising : a weapon for the War on Terrorism?. 327.172 W555A, 2006
AUT Allan, Pierre ; Keller, Alexis.
TIT What is a just peace?.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: rethinking peace and justice conceptually / Pierre Allan and Alexis Keller -- Peace and justice: a prologue / Stanley Hoffmann -- Justice, peace, and history: a reappraisal / Alexis Keller -- Just peace: a cause worth fighting for / Sir Adam Roberts -- Measuring international ethics: a moral scale of war, peace, justice, and global care / Pierre Allan -- Just peace: a dangerous objective / Yossi Beilin -- Peace, justice, and religion / David Little -- A method for thinking about just peace / Edward W. Said -- The concept of a just peace, or achieving peace through recognition, renouncement, and rule / Pierre Allan and Alexis Keller. 327.174 R528s, 2006
AUT Richelson, Jeffrey.
TIT Spying on the bomb : American nuclear intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Norton, c2006. 327.46 S877s, 2005
AUT Stone, Glyn.
TIT Spain, Portugal and the Great Powers, 1931-1941.
PUB Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
SER The making of the 20th century. 327.519 K49t, 2006
AUT Kim, Samuel S.
TIT The two Koreas and the great powers.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : Korea and the great powers in a changing world -- China and the two Koreas -- Russia and the two Koreas -- Japan and the two Koreas -- The United States and the two Koreas -- The future of the two Koreas. 327.5694 M296d, 2006
AUT Maoz, Zeev.
TIT Defending the Holy Land : a critical analysis of Israel's security & foreign policy.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The Israeli security puzzle : conceptions, approaches, paradoxes -- The Sinai war : the making of the second round -- The Six Day War : playing with fire -- The War of Attrition : the first payment for arrogance -- The Yom Kippur war : the war that shouldn't have been -- The Lebanese swamp, 1981-2000 -- The unlimited use of the limited use of force : Israel and low-intensity warfare -- The mixed blessing of Israel's nuclear policy -- Israeli intervention in intra-Arab affairs -- Never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity : the Israeli nonpolicy of peace in the Middle East -- The structure and process of national security and foreign policy in Israel -- Principal findings and lessons -- If so bad, why so good? : explaining the paradox of the Israeli success story -- Paths to the future : scenarios and prescriptions. Ref 327.7305 V276h, 2007
AUT Van Sant, John E. ; Mauch, Peter ; Sugita, Yoneyuki.
TIT Historical dictionary of United States-Japan relations.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
SER Historical dictionaries of U.S. diplomacy ; 4. 327.73009 G227a, 2005
AUT Gardner, Hall.
TIT American global strategy and the "War on Terrorism".
PUB Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction: Labors of Hercules without end in sight -- Reflections upon the 11 September attacks and "pre-emptive" war in Iraq -- The roots of American neo-conservatism : neo-timocrats or moralizing politicians? -- The question of state and anti-state "terrorism" : who is terrorizing whom? -- The risks of nuclear proliferation -- Manipulating US global power : Pakistan, "war on terrorism" and strategic leveraging -- The global ramifications of American military expansionism -- "Clash of democracies"? or new global concert? -- Transcending the international disequilibrium. 327.73056 R116s, 2006
AUT Rabil, Robert G.
TIT Syria, the United States, and the war on terror in the Middle East.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.
CON Contents: Cradle of Arab nationalism: the fatherland, the Ba'th and modern Syria under Asad -- The beginning of U.S.-Syrian relations : between the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Cold War --The emergence of US-Syrian ambivalent relationship -- The fulcrum of elusive peace -- A new cold war? -- The new struggle for Lebanon: democracy and Syria's withdrawal -- Syria post-withdrawal: reform or dictatorship? -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Index. Contents: Cradle of arab nationalism: the fatherland, the Ba'th and modern Syria under Asad -- The emergence of Arab nationalism and the concept of greater Syria -- Syria: the hub of nationalist development -- The Ba'th party and Syrian leadership -- The state under Asad -- The beginning of US-Syrian relations: between the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Cold War -- Recognition and neutrality (1944-1953) -- The "new look" and Baghdad Pact -- The Soviet insertion in the Middle East -- The Eisenhower doctrine and the Middle East -- A try at evenhandedness -- Turning points (1967-1979) -- Kissinger's realpolitik -- A foretaste of Middle Eat diplomacy: the May 1974 dsengagement agreement -- A new beginning? -- The emergence of US-Syrian ambivalent relationship -- The implications of fighting evil for the Middle East -- The brink of war -- The irony of fighting terrorism -- The emergence of Hizbollah -- Support for Israel -- Rewarding Syria -- The fulcrum of elusive peace -- The Bush years: priorities reordered -- Breaking the ice: the Madrid peace conference -- The Clinton years: cooperation versus limits -- Toward the brink of peace -- The last encounter -- A new regional order? -- The unholy relationship -- Shebaa Farms: the powder keg of the Middle East -- Transfer of power -- A new American outlook -- Put on notice -- A de facto member of the "axis of evil" -- A new cold war? -- Punishing Syria -- Wishful versus realpolitik thinking -- Domestic considerations: reform and the Kurdish question -- Dynamics of confrontation -- Digging in -- Toward the brink? -- The new struggle for Lebanon: democracy and Syria's withdrawal -- Pressuring Syria: Washington and the Lebanese-American lobby -- Breaking the last straw: Hariri's assassination -- The swift collapse of the Syrian order in Lebanon -- Lebanon: the new republic -- The dynamics of the Lebanon-Syria-US triangular relationship -- Syria post-withdrawal: reform or dictatorship? -- Closing ranks: reform versus clan control -- Changing guards: from "old" to "new" hardliners -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography. 327.73087 G626c, 2006
AUT Golinger, Eva.
TIT The Chavez code : cracking U.S. intervention in Venezuela. - 1st ed.
PUB Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Nicaragua and Chile : the coup cookbook -- A president denied a U.S. visa -- From Vargas to pre-coup premonitions -- IRI gives birth to primero justicia -- Decoding Venezuela -- A coup by any other name -- An office for a transitional government -- Paro petrolero : an oil industry sabotage -- Electoral intervention : the U.S.'s last hope -- Up the sleeve strategies and threats. 330.9485 T364s, 2003
AUT Thakur, Subhash Madhav.
TIT Sweden's welfare state : can the bumblebee keep flying?.
PUB Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, c2003. 330.973 H837d, 2006
AUT Higgs, Robert.
TIT Depression, war, and cold war : studies in political economy.
PUB Oakland, Calif. : Independent Institute ; Oxford [Eng.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Regime uncertainty : why the great depression lasted so long and why prosperity resumed after the war -- Private profit, public risk : institutional antecedents of the modern military procurement system in the rearmament program of 1940-1941 -- Wartime prosperity? a reassessment of the U.S. economy in the 1940s -- Wartime socialization of investment : a reassessment of U.S. capital formation in the 1940s -- From central planning to the market : the American transition, 1945-1947 -- The cold war economy : opportunity costs, ideology, and the politics of crisis -- Hard coals make bad law : congressional parochialism versus national defense -- Airplanes the Pentagon didn't want, but Congress did -- Profits of U.S. defense contractors -- Public opinion : a powerful predictor of U.S. defense spending. 331.48 Z75g, 2006
AUT Zimmerman, Mary K ; Litt, Jacquelyn S. ; Bose, Christine E.
TIT Global dimensions of gender and carework.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Social Sciences, 2006.
CON Contents: I: Globalization and multiple crises of care -- Global cities and survival circuits / Saskia Sassen -- Disposable domestics: immigrant women workers in the global economy / Grace Chang -- Migrant Filipina domestic workers and the international division of reproductive labor / Rhacel Salazar Parre�as -- Labor recruitment and the lure of the capital: central American migrants in Washington, DC / Terry A. Repak -- Multilateral organizations and early child care and education policies for developing countries / F�lvia Rosemberg -- Globalization, work hours, and the care deficit among stockbrokers / Mary Blair-Loy and Jerry A. Jacobs -- II: Transnational migration: influences on citizenship, social control, and carework -- "Just like one of the family": domestic servants in world politics / Cynthia Enloe -- From unequal freedom: how race and gender shaped American citizenship and labor / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Rethinking the globalization of domestic service: foreign domestics, state control, and the politics of identity in Taiwan / Shu-Ju Ada Cheng -- International migration, domestic work, and care work: undocumented Latina migrants in Israel / Rebecca Raijman, Silvina Schammah-Gesser, and Adriana Kemp -- "Forced" into unpaid carework: international student's wives in the United States / Minjeong Kim -- Caregiving in transnational context: "my wings have been cut; where can I fly?" / Denise Spitzer, Anne Neufeld, Margaret Harrison, Karen Hughes, and Miriam Stewart -- III: Motherhood, domestic work, and childcare in global perspective -- The invisible heart / Nancy Folbre -- Making care work: employed mothers in the new childcare market / Lynet Uttal -- Doing the dirty work? the global politics of domestic labour / Bridget Anderson -- Unraveling privilege: workers' children and the hidden coasts of paid childcare / Mary Romero -- "I'm here, but I'm there": the meanings of Latina transnational motherhood / Pierrette Hondagneu-Solelo and Ernestive Avila -- Maid or madam? Filipina migrant workers and the continuity of domestic labor / Pei-Chia Lan -- "Women have no tribe": connecting carework, gender, and migration in an era of HIV/AIDS in Botswana / Rebecca Upton -- IV: Valuing carework through policy and culture: communities, states, and supranational institutions -- After the family wage: a postindustrial thought experiment / Nancy Fraser -- Woman-friendly states and a public culture of care / Helga Maria Hernes -- Women and the restructuring of care work: cross-national variations and trends in ten OECD countries / Susan Chrisopherson -- Care work: invisible civic engagement / Pamela Herd and Madonna Harrington Meyer -- Acid violence and medical care in Bangladesh: women's activism as carework / Afoza Anwary -- Women's empowering carework in post-soviet Azerbaijan / Mehrangiz Najafizadeh -- Central state child care policies in post-authoritarian Spain: implications for gender and carework arrangements / Celia Valiente. 331.88 M644L, 2006
AUT Milkman, Ruth.
TIT L.A. story : immigrant workers and the future of the U.S. Labor Movement.
PUB New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2006.
CON Contents: The "Wicked City": labor and Los Angeles exceptionalism -- Turning the clock back: anti-union reaction, the return of the sweatshop, and the new immigration -- Organizing the "Unorganizable": immigrant unionization and labor revitalization in the 1990s -- "Si, Se Puede": union organizing strategies and immigrant workers / with Kent Wong. 331.88 P968c, 2006
AUT Prouty, Marco G.
TIT C�sar Ch�vez, the Catholic bishops, and the farmworkers' struggle for social justice.
PUB Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Roots of the conflict -- Ch�vez and the bishops' ad hoc committee -- Hasta la victoria, onward to victory. 332.09 M678n, 2006
AUT Mishkin, Frederic S.
TIT The next great globalization : how disadvantaged nations can harness their financial systems to get rich.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. 332.62 R845s, 2006
AUT Roth, Louise Marie.
TIT Selling women short : gender inequality on Wall Street.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The playing field: Wall Street in the 1990s -- Pay for performance: Wall Street's bonus system -- A woman's worth: gender differences in compensation -- Making the team: managers, peers, and subordinates -- Bringing clients back in: the impact of client relationships -- Having it all? workplace culture and work-family conflict -- Window-dressing: workplace policies and Wall Street culture -- Beating the odds: the most successful women -- Belief in meritocracy: gender and performance-based pay. 332.63 T481a, 2007
AUT Thomsett, Michael C.
TIT Annual reports 101 : [what the numbers and the fine print can reveal about the true health of a company].
PUB New York : American Management Association, c2007.
CON Contents: The accounting dilemma: the gap in GAAP -- The basic financial statements: what your Mama didn't tell you about the balance sheet -- Essential ratios: rolling up your numerical sleeves -- What statements do not reveal: dirty little accounting secrets -- Footnotes, part one: an overview of the real disclosures -- Footnotes, part two: red flags you can find on your own -- Structure of the annual report: a public relations document -- The auditing role: accounting culture and the audit mentality -- How the numbers are manipulated: accounting shell games -- Sources of free information: you don't need to pay for help -- Modifying your game plan: a new form of portfolio management. 332.6327 W214c, 2007
AUT Wallison, Peter J ; Litan, Robert E.
TIT Competitive equity : developing a lower cost alternative to mutual funds.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 2007.
CON Contents: A new look at mutual funds -- A brief history of mutual fund regulation : the conflict between the required structure of investment companies and the economics of collective investment -- The growth of the mutual fund industry and its competitors -- The paradox of mutual fund fees -- The managed investment trust option. 333.709 M211e, 2006
AUT Magoc, Chris J.
TIT Environmental issues in American history : a reference guide with primary documents.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
SER Major issues in American history. 1535-3192.
CON Contents: Nature as a commodity : Native Americans, white settlers, and the Land Ordinance of 1785 -- Controlling water in the early industrialization of New England -- Scientific forestry and the emergence of conservation -- Property rights, technology, and environmental protection : hydraulic gold miners v. farmers in California -- Wildlife conservation : the slaughter and salvation of the bison -- "Reclaiming" the arid West -- Preservation vs. conservation : the epic fight over Yosemite's Hetch-Hetchy Valley -- Progressive women and "municipal housekeeping" : Caroline Bartlett Crane's fight for improved meat inspection -- Getting the lead out : public health and the debate over tetraethyl leaded gasoline -- Causes and consequences of the dust bowl -- The Donora disaster and the problem of air pollution -- Rachel Carson, Cesar Chavez, and the pesticide debate -- Love Canal and the grassroots movement against toxic waste -- The Endangered Species Act : the rights of nature? -- Three Mile Island and the search for a national energy policy. 333.72 C752s, 2007
AUT Conkin, Paul Keith.
TIT The state of the Earth : environmental challenges on the road to 2100.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.
CON Contents: Our green planet -- Population, consumption, and the environment -- Soil, vegetation, and food -- Water and energy : will there be enough? -- Pollution, waste, and the ozone layer -- The extinction crisis -- Climate change in a glacial epoch -- Greenhouse gases and the climate change -- Reform environmentalists and American environmental policy -- Passionate environmentalism. 333.793 G648b, 2006
AUT Goodell, Jeff.
TIT Big coal : the dirty secret behind America's energy future.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.
CON Contents: The dig -- The Saudi Arabia of coal -- Coal colonies -- Dogholes -- The carbon express -- The burn -- Infinite needs -- The big dirty -- "A citizen wherever we serve" -- The heat -- Reversal of fortune-- The coal rush -- The frontier -- An empire of denial. 333.917 V172g, 2006
AUT Valiela, Ivan.
TIT Global coastal change.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
CON Contents: The global context of coastal change -- Atmospheric-driven changes -- Sea level rise -- Alteration of freshwater discharges -- Alteration of sediment transport -- Loss of coastal habitats -- Petroleum hydrocarbons -- Chlorinated hydrocarbons -- Metals -- Introduction of exotic species -- Harvest of fin and shellfish -- Eutrophication -- Other agents of coastal change -- Summing up. 333.95 W747c, 2006
AUT Wilson, Edward O.
TIT The creation : an appeal to save life on earth. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Norton, c2006.
CON Contents: The creation -- Letter to a Southern Baptist Pastor: Salutation -- Ascending to nature -- What is nature? -- Why care? -- Alien invaders from Planet Earth -- Two magnificent animals -- Wild nature and human nature -- Decline and redemption -- The pauperization of earth -- Denial and its risks -- End game -- What science has learned -- Biology is the study of nature -- The fundamental laws of biology -- Exploration of a little-known planet -- Teaching the creation -- How to learn biology and how to teach it -- How to raise a naturalist -- Citizen science -- Reaching across -- An alliance for life. 337 S855m, 2006
AUT Stiglitz, Joseph E.
TIT Making globalization work. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2006.
CON Contents: Another world is possible -- The promise of development -- Making trade fair -- Patents, profits, and people -- Lifting the resource curse -- Saving the planet -- The multinational corporation -- The burden of debt -- Reforming the global reserve system -- Democratizing globalization. 338.88 P631i, 2006
AUT Piggott, Judith ; Cook, Mark.
TIT International business economics : a European perspective.
PUB Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 338.9 B814t, 2006
AUT Brainard, Lael.
TIT Transforming the development landscape : the role of the private sector.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The private sector in the fight against global poverty / Lael Brainard and Vinca LaFleur -- Unleashing entrepreneurship / Warrick Smith -- Leveraging the development impact of business in the fight against global poverty / Jane Nelson -- Blended value investment and a living return / Timothy Freundlich -- Should governments and aid agencies subsidize small firms? / Ross Levine -- Venture capital for development / Alan J. Patricof and Julie E. Sunderland -- Innovative financing options and the fight against global poverty : what's new and what next? / David de Ferranti -- 2 + 2 = 5 : a pragmatic view of partnerships between official donors and multinational corporations / Larry Cooley -- Financing for global health / Rajiv Shah and Sylvia Mathews. 338.97295 E19C, 2006
AUT Collins, Susan Margaret ; Bosworth, Barry ; Soto-Class, Miguel A.
TIT The economy of Puerto Rico : restoring growth.
PUB San Juan, P.R. : Center for the New Economy ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction and summary / Susan M. Collins, Barry P. Bosworth, and Miguel A. Soto-Class -- Economic growth / Barry P. Bosworth and Susan M. Collins -- Labor supply and public transfers / Gary Burtless and Orlando Sotomayer -- Why don't more Puerto Rican men work? : the rich Uncle (Sam) hypothesis / Maria E. Enchautegui and Richard B. Freeman -- Education and economic development / Helen F. Ladd and Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz -- The climate for business development and employment growth / Steven J. Davis and Luis A. Rivera-Batiz-- Assessing Puerto Rico's fiscal policies / James Alm -- Financing economic development / Rita Maldonado-Bear and Ingo Walter -- Trade performance and industrial policy / Robert Z. Lawrence and Juan Lara -- Restoring growth : the policy options / Barry P. Bosworth and Susan M. Collins. 340.072 E42L13, 2005
AUT Elias, Stephen ; Levinkind, Susan, 1942- ; Stim, Richard et al.
TIT Legal research : how to find & understand the law. - 13th ed.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : Nolo, 2005. 340.11 C324r7, 2007
AUT Carter, Lief H ; Burke, Thomas Frederick.
TIT Reason in law. - [Updated] 7th ed.
PUB New York : Pearson Longman, 2007.
SER Longman classics in political science. 341.23 K36p, 2006
AUT Kennedy, Paul M.
TIT The parliament of man : the past, present, and future of the United Nations. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Random House, c2006.
CON Contents: pt. 1. The origins. -- The troubled advance to a New World Order, 1815-1945 -- pt. 2. The evolution of the many UNs since 1954. -- The conundrum of the Security Council -- Peacekeeping and warmaking -- Economic agendas, north and south -- The softer face of the UN's mission -- Advancing international human rights -- "We the peoples": democracy, governments, and nongovernmental actors -- pt. 3. The present and the future. -- The promise and the peril of the twenty-first century -- Appendix: Charter of the United Nations. . 342.73 A534r, 2006
AUT Anastaplo, George.
TIT Reflections on constitutional law.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.
CON Contents: An introduction to constitutionalism -- Magna Carta (1215) -- The Declaration of Independence (1776) -- The Articles of Confederation (1776-1789); the Northwest Ordinance (1787) -- Emergence of the constitution (1786-1791) -- Marbury v. Madison (1803) -- Swift v. Tyson (1842); Erie Railroad Company v. Tompkins (1938) -- Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816); M'culloch v. Maryland (1819) -- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) -- Burdens on interstate commerce (1905-1981) -- Missouri v. Holland (1920); Wickard v. Filburn (1942) -- The presidency and the constitution -- A government of enumerated powers? -- Realism and the study of constitutional law -- The challenges of skepticism for the constitutionalist -- Constitutionalism and the common law: the Erie problem reconsidered -- The Confederate Constitution (1861-1865) -- The Japanese relocation cases (1943,1944) -- Calder v. Bull (1798); Barron v. Baltimore (1833) -- Corfield v. Coryell (1823) and the privileges and immunities puzzles -- The slaughter-house cases (1872): a false start? -- The civil rights cases (1883); Plessey v. Ferguson (1896): more false starts? -- Shelley v. Kraemer (1948); Brown v. Board of Education (1954, 1955) -- Affirmative action and the Fourteenth Amendment -- San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) -- Whose votes count for what--and when?. 342.73 R951L, 2004
AUT Ruschmann, Paul.
TIT Legalizing marijuana.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Marijuana and prohibition -- Marijuana is too dangerous to be legal -- The dangers of marijuana are exaggerated -- Enforcement of marijuana laws is uneven, ineffective, and wasteful -- Marijuana laws must be strictly enforced -- Relaxing marijuana laws would be good for society -- Relaxing marijuana laws would lead to too many problems -- The future of marijuana policy in the United States. 342.7308 B574hr, 2006
AUT Bezanson, Randall P.
TIT How free can religion be?.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Stage one. The old time religion : separation of church and state -- God's law or Caesar's? The free exercise of religion -- The wall of separation : "No law respecting an establishment of religion-- " -- Stage two. The time of testing -- The Amish conundrum : the conflict between free exercise and non-establishment -- Darwin versus Genesis -- School prayer -- Stage three. The new awakening -- Peyote : God versus Caesar, revisited -- Non-establishment as nondiscrimination -- Equality as a sword : the ghost of Everson. 344.73 A613r3 2004
AUT Annas, George J.
TIT The rights of patients : the authoritative ACLU guide to the rights of patients. - 3rd ed.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2004.
SER An American Civil Liberties Union handbook.
CON Contents: Patient rights -- The patient rights advocate -- Reforming American medicine -- Hospitals -- Emergency medicine -- Informed choice -- Choices about surgery and children's care -- Reproductive health -- Research -- Medical records -- Privacy and confidentiality -- Care of the dying -- Suffering, pain, and suicide -- Death, organ donation, and autopsy -- Patient safety and medical malpractice. 345.73 T825L, 2000
AUT Trienens, Howard J.
TIT Landscape with smokestacks : the case of the allegedly plundered Degas.
PUB Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2000.
CON Contents: 1. Edgar Degas creates Landscape with smokestacks -- 2. Dan Searle buys the landscape -- 3. The Goodmans claim the landscape -- 4. The Goodmans sue Searle -- 5. What happened to the landscape? -- 6. The postwar search -- 7. Pretrial legal issues -- 8. The settlement -- 9. Postmortem. 346.7304 S399i, 2007
AUT Schwabach, Aaron.
TIT Intellectual property : a reference handbook.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, Inc., c2007.
SER Contemporary world issues.
CON Contents: Background and history -- Problems, controversies, and solutions -- Worldwide perspective -- Chronology -- People and organizations -- Data and documents -- Directory of organizations -- Resources. 352.11 F826u, 2006
AUT Franda, Marcus F.
TIT The United Nations in the twenty-first century : management and reform processes in a troubled organization.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & LIttlefield, c2006.
CON Contents: UN organizational realities and reform -- The Office of Secretary-General and reform, 1946-1981 -- The Office of the Secretary-General as a leader of reform, 1981-2006 -- The General Assembly as reform instrument and target -- Reform processes and the Security Council -- The Economic and Social Council -- UN secretariats and financial structures -- Reform processes and the future of the UN. 355.02 R421w, |
