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001.3 K64h
AUT Klein, Julie Thompson.
TIT Humanities, culture, and interdisciplinarity : the changing American
academy.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction : humanities, culture, and interdisciplinarity
-- Forming humanities -- Changing humanities -- Forging theory,
practice, and institutional presence -- Rewriting the literary --
Refiguring the visual -- Retuning the aural -- Reconstructing American
studies -- Defining other Americas -- Conclusion : crafting humanities
for a new century.
001.44 E58e
AUT English, James F.
TIT The economy of prestige : prizes, awards, and the circulation of
cultural value.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: The age of award -- Prize frenzy -- Precursors of the modern
cultural prize -- The logic of proliferation -- Prizes as entertainment
-- Peculiarities of the awards industry -- The making of a prize --
Taste management -- Trophies as objects of production and trade -- The
game and its players -- Scandalous currency -- The new rhetoric of
prize commentary -- Strategies of condescension, styles of play -- The
global economy of cultural prestige -- The arts as international sport
-- The new geography of prestige -- Prizes and the politics of world
culture -- Appendix A. The rise of the prize -- Appendix B. Prizes and
commerce -- Appendix C. Winner take all: six lists.
Ref 001.62 G478c, 2005
AUT Gillespie, John Thomas.
TIT The children's and young adult literature handbook : a research and
reference guide.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2005.
SER Children's and young adult literature reference series.
001.94 K52f
AUT King, David.
TIT Finding Atlantis : a true story of genius, madness and an extraordinary
quest for a lost world.
PUB New York : Harmony Books, c2005.
CON Contents: Promises -- Oracle of the North -- Remarkable correspondences
-- A Cartesian witch hunt -- Follow the fish! -- Gazing at the fac of
Thor -- The quest for the golden fleece -- Mountains don't dance --
Twelve trumpets, four kettledrums and a bag of gold -- All oars to
Atlantis -- Olympus stormed -- Hanging by a thread -- Et vos homines --
On nothing -- And then the snake thawed -- The Elysian fields.
003 I43H
AUT Hahn, Robert William ; Tetlock, Paul C.
TIT Information markets : a new way of making decisions.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies ;
Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Distributed to the trade by National Book
Network, c2006.
004 H193e
AUT Hally, Mike.
TIT Electronic brains : stories from the dawn of the computer age.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2005.
CON Contents: From ABC to ENIAC -- UNIVAC - Saviour of the Census --
Saluting the Moose -- When Britain Led the Computing World -- LEO the
Lyons Computer -- So Then We Took the Roof Off -- Wizards of Oz --
Water on the Brain -- It's Not About Being First: The Rise and Rise of
IBM.
004.16 C727p
AUT Colwell, Robert P.
TIT The Pentium chronicles : the people, passion, and politics behind
Intel's landmark chips.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley ; Chichester : John Wiley [distributor], c2006.
CON Contents: The concept phase -- The refinement phase -- The realization
phase -- The production phase -- The people factor -- Inquiring minds
like yours.
004.67 J66ß
AUT Johnson, Doug.
TIT Learning right from wrong in the digital age : an ethics guide for
parents, teachers, librarians, and others who care about computer-using
young people.
PUB Worthington, Ohio : Linworth Pub., c2003.
005.1 K64a
AUT Kleinberg, Jon ; Tardos, Éva.
TIT Algorithm design.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Pearson/Addison-Wesley, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: Some representative problems -- Basics of
algorithms analysis -- Graphs -- Greedy algorithms -- Divide and
conquer -- Dynamic programming -- Network flow -- NP and computational
intractability -- PSPACE: A class of problems beyond NP -- Extending
the limits of tractability -- Approximation algorithms -- Local search
-- Randomized algorithms -- Epilogue: algorithms that run forever.
005.1 Y22s
AUT Yang, Hongji.
TIT Software evolution with UML and XML.
PUB Hershey, Pa. : Idea Group Pub., c2005.
CON Contents: A framework for managing consistency of evolving UML models /
Tom Mens, Ragnhild Van Der Straeten, Jocelyn Simmonds -- Constructing
safety-related scenarios to support architecture evaluation / Dingding
Lu, Robyn R. Lutz, Carl K. Chang -- A unified software reengineering
approach towards model driven architecture environment / Bing Qiao,
Hongji Yang, Alan O'Callaghan -- Towards the integration of a formal
object-oriented method and relational unified process / Jing Liu,
Zhiming Liu, Xiaoshan Li, He Jifeng, Yifeng Chen -- On the co-evolution
of SSADM and the UML / Richard J. Botting -- Software evolution with
XVCL / Weishan Zhang, Stan Jarzabek, Hongyu Zhang, Neil Loughran, Awais
Rashid -- UML- and XML-based change process and data model definition
for product evolution / Ping Jiang, Quentin Mair, Julian Newman, Josie
Huang -- Rapid pattern-oriented scenario-based testing for embedded
systems / Wei-Tek Tsai, Ray Paul, Lian Yu, Xiao Wei -- Developing a
software testing ontology in UML for a software growth environment of
web-based applications / Hong Zhu, Qingning Huo -- Abstracting UML
behaviour diagrams for verification / María del Mar Gallardo, Jesús
Martínez, Pedro Merino, Ernesto Pimentel -- Support for architectural
design and re-design of embedded systems / Alessio Bechini, Cosimo
Antonio Prete -- Describing and extending classes with XMI: an
industrial experience / Giacomo Cabri, Marco Iori, Andrea Salvarani.
005.44 B783j
AUT Bove, Tony.
TIT Just say no to Microsoft : how to ditch Microsoft and why it's not as
hard as you think.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : No Starch Press, c2005.
Ref 006.7 E56F, 2006
AUT Furht, Borivoje ; Furht, Borivoje.
TIT Encyclopedia of multimedia.
PUB New York ; London : Springer, c2006.
025.04 S617c
AUT Singh, Nitish ; Pereira, Arun.
TIT The culturally customized Web site : customizing web sites for the
global marketplace.
PUB Burlington, Mass. : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, c2005.
CON Contents: Culture: The new imperative in web design -- The rationale
for cultural customization -- A cultural values framework for web
design - Cultural customization: individualism-collectivism -- Cultural
customization: uncertainty avoidance -- Cultural customization: power
distance -- Cultural customization: masculinity-femininity -- Cultural
customization: high-low context -- Cultural customization: the future
is here.
Ref 025.52 M282o3, 2005
AUT Mann, Thomas.
TIT The Oxford guide to library research. - 3rd ed.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
paper).
CON Contents: Preface -- What research libraries can offer that the
Internet cannot (both resources and search techniques) -- Trade-offs of
what, who, and where restrictions on free access -- Hierarchy of levels
of learning -- Data, information, opinion, knowledge, understanding --
Wisdom separate -- Implications of format differences -- Nine methods
of subject searching -- Patterns in inefficient searches -- 1. Initial
overviews : encyclopedias -- Characteristics of encyclopedias --
Specialized vs. general encyclopedias -- Examples -- How to find
articles in specialized encyclopedias -- Cross-disciplinary searching
-- How to identify additional specialized encyclopedias -- Peculiar
strengths of general sets -- 2. Subject headings and the library
catalog -- Problems in determining the right subject headings --
Uniform heading -- Scope-match specificity and its modifications --
Specific entry -- Four ways to find the right subject headings --
Cross-references -- Alphabetically adjacent terms -- Subject tracings
-- Browse displays of subdivisions -- Recognition vs. prior
specification -- Use of three menu listings -- Precoordination and
postcoordination -- Particularly useful subdivisions -- Miscellaneous
tips on subject headings -- Narrowing a topic -- Proper names --
Finding foreign language books -- Pattern headings -- 3. General
browsing, focused browsing, and use of classified bookstacks --
Alternative methods of shelving book collections -- The problems with
shelving by accession number, by height, or in remote warehouses --
Serendipity and recognition -- General browsing vs. focused browsing --
Full-text searching and depth of access -- Lighthouse libraries example
-- Searching for a single word -- Valery and Dreyfus example --
Inadequacy of Google Print as a replacement for classified bookstacks
-- The complementary relationship of the library catalog and the
classified bookstacks -- The catalog as the index to the classification
scheme -- Trade-offs and remedies -- Exploiting the internal structure
of the cataloging system -- The problems that result when the system is
ignored -- Browsing in other contexts -- Importance of full texts of
books arranged in subject groupings.
Contents: 4. Subject headings and indexes to journal articles --
Descriptors -- Separate thesauri -- Descriptor fields in online records
-- Eureka databases -- Browse search feature -- FirstSearch databases
and WilsonWeb counterparts -- Related subjects search feature --
Contrast of Eureka and FirstSearch softwares -- EBSCO Host research
databases -- Search features -- Dialog and DataStar databases --
ProQuest databases -- Miscellaneous databases with controlled
descriptors -- Cross-disciplinary searching -- Finding where journals
are indexed and which journals are available electronically --
Identifying the best journals -- Problems with abbreviations of journal
titles -- The change in cataloging rules for serials -- 5. Keyword
searches -- Problems with controlled vocabulary searches -- Advantages
of controlled vocabularies -- Problems with keyword searches --
Advantages of keywords -- Index/abstract-level keyword databases and
printed sources -- Full-text databases -- Convenience vs. quality of
access -- ProQuest databases -- EBSCO Host research databases --
InfoTrac databases -- JSTOR -- Project Muse -- LexisNexis -- Web sites
on the open Internet -- Search engines -- Subject directories --
Invisible Web sites -- Google Print project -- Summary -- 6. Citation
searches -- Finding where a known source has been footnoted by a
subsequent journal article -- ISI indexes -- Web of Science --
Cross-disciplinary coverage -- Cycling sources -- "Reviews" of journal
articles -- Additional features of ISI indexes -- Citation searching in
other databases -- 7. Related record searches -- Finding articles that
have footnotes in common with a starting-point article -- Examples --
Differences between CD-ROM versions and Web of Science -- 8.
Higher-level overviews : review articles -- "Literature review" or
"state of the art" assessments -- Differences from book reviews and
encyclopedia articles -- Web of Science "review" limit capability --
Other sources of literature reviews. Contents: 9. Published
bibliographies -- Differences from computer printouts of sources --
Doing Boolean combinations without a computer -- Two problems in
identifying published bibliographies -- Bibliographies not shelved with
regular books -- Subdivision "--Bibliography" can be missed in library
catalog -- Finding bibliographies via the library catalog -- Finding
bibliographies in Z class shelving area -- Other sources for finding
bibliographies -- Guides to the literature -- Bibliographies not
superseded by computer sources -- 10. Boolean combinations and search
limitations -- Boolean combinations -- Component word searching within
controlled subject strings -- Word truncation -- Proximity searches --
Limitations of sets -- Limiting by time periods -- Limiting by
geographic area codes --Limiting by document types -- Combining
keywords and citation searches -- Boolean combinations without
computers -- Precoordinated headings and browse displays -- Published
subject bibliographies -- Focused shelf-browsing -- How to identify
which databases exist -- 11. Locating material in other libraries --
Determining library locations of desired items -- WorldCat, RLG Union
Catalog, National Union Catalog of Pre-1959 Imprints -- Other union
lists and databases -- Web sites for identifying out-of-print books for
sale -- Determining which libraries have special collections on your
subject -- Interlibrary loan and document delivery -- 12. People
sources -- Journalists and academics -- Inhibiting assumptions -- "Find
if on your own" -- Advantages of people sources -- Listservs and
discussion groups online -- Techniques for students -- Sources for
identifying experts -- Associations and directories -- How to talk to
references librarians -- 13. Hidden treasures -- Resources not shelved
or cataloged with conventional research materials -- Microform sets and
counterpart Web sites -- Web collections -- Government documents --
Particular importance of congressional hearings -- Archives,
manuscripts, and public records.
Contents: 14. Special subjects and formats -- Biography -- Book reviews
-- Business and economics -- Copyright status information -- Genealogy
and local history -- Illustrations, pictures, and photographs --
Literary criticism -- Maps -- Newspapers -- Out-of-print and secondhand
books -- Primary sources -- Standards and specifications -- Statistics
-- Tabular data -- Tests (psychological and educational) --
Translations -- 15. Reference sources : searching by types of
literature -- Reference questions vs. research questions -- Review of
search techniques for research questions -- Type of literature searches
-- Internet sources for fact searches -- Coverage of the various types
of literature -- Understanding the formal properties of retrieval
systems -- The discipline of library and information science -- Sources
for identifying types of literature in any subject areas -- Concluding
thoughts -- Appendix : wisdom.
070.18 D637R
AUT Rhodes, Gary Don ; Springer, John Parris.
TIT Docufictions : essays on the intersection of documentary and fictional
filmmaking.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.
100 Philosophy, Psychology
110 C747r
AUT Conee, Earl Brink ; Sider, Theodore.
TIT Riddles of existence : a guided tour of metaphysics.
PUB Oxford : Clarendon ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
110 M135v
AUT Macdonald, Cynthia.
TIT Varieties of things : foundations of contemporary metaphysics.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., c2005.
CON Contents: Metaphysics and its tools -- The nature and function of
metaphysics -- Some tools of metaphysics -- Particulars -- Material
substances -- Persons and personal identity -- Events -- Universals --
Universals and the realism/nominalism dispute.
111 L665t
AUT Lévinas, Emmanuel ; Cohen, Richard A.
TIT Time and the other : (and additional essays).
PUB Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, 2003.
NOT Translation of: Le temps et l'autre, Diachronie et représentation, and
L'Ancien et le nouveau. - Originally published: 1987.
111.85 W482i
AUT Wenzel, Christian Helmut.
TIT An introduction to Kant's aesthetics : core concepts and problems.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
126.09 S459i
AUT Seigel, Jerrold E.
TIT The idea of the self : thought and experience in western Europe since
the seventeenth century.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
128.3 I72o
AUT Irvine, William Braxton.
TIT On desire : why we want what we want.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The ebb and flow of desire -- Other people -- Mapping our
desires -- The wellsprings of desire -- The psychology of desire -- The
evolution of desire -- The biological incentive system -- The human
condition -- Religious advice -- Religious advice continued :
Protestant sects -- Philosophical advice -- The eccentrics --
Conclusions.
144.3 W523d
AUT Westbrook, Robert B.
TIT Democratic hope : pragmatism and the politics of truth.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
152.4 E54B
AUT Barrett, Lisa Feldman ; Niedenthal, Paula M ; Winkielman, Piotr.
TIT Emotion and consciousness.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Introductory chapter / Lisa Feldman Barrett, Paula
Niedenthal, & Piotr Winkielman -- Cognition and emotion -- Embodiment
in the acquisition and use of emotion knowledge / Paula M. Niedenthal,
Lawrence W. Barsalou, François Ric & Silvia Krauth-Gruber -- The
interaction of emotion and cognition: insights from studies of the
human amygdala / Elizabeth A. Phelps -- Affect and the resolution of
cognitive control dilemmas / Jeremy R. Gray, Alexandre Schaefer, Tood
S. Braver & Steven B. Most -- Unconscious emotional processing :
perception of visual stimuli -- Caught by the evil eye : nonconscious
information processing, emotion, and attention to facial stimuli /
Daniel Lundqvist & Arne Öhman -- Nonconscious emotions : new findings
and perspectives on nonconscious facial expression recognition and
their contents / Beatrice deGelder -- Visual emotion perception :
mechanisms and processes / Anthony P. Atkinson & Ralph Adolphs --
Emotional behavior -- Conscious and unconscious emotion in
nonlinguistic vocal communication / Michael J. Owren, Drew Rendell & Jo
Anne Bachorowski -- Behavior systems and the contextual control of
anxiety, fear, and panic / Mark E. Bouton -- The conscious experience
of emotion -- Emotion experience and the indeterminacy of valence /
Louis C. Charland -- The experience of emotion / Lisa Feldman Barrett
-- Perspectives on the conscious-unconscious debate -- Emotion
processes considered from the perspective of dual-process models /
Eliot R. Smith & Roland Neumann -- Unconscious processes in emotion :
the bulk of the iceberg / Klaus Scherer -- Emotion, behavior, and
conscious experience / Piotr Winkielman, Kent Berridge & Julie
Wilbarger -- Emotions, embodiment, and awareness / Jesse J. Prinz --
The seven deadly sins of research on affect / Gerald L. Clore, Justin
Storbeck, Michael D. Robinson & David Centerbar.
152.4 W241n
AUT Walton, Stuart.
TIT A natural history of human emotions. - 1st Grove Press ed.
PUB New York : Grove Press, c2004.
CON Contents: Fear -- Anger -- Disgust -- Sadness -- Jealousy -- Contempt
-- Shame -- Embarrassment -- Surprise -- Happiness.
153 T162h
AUT Tancredi, Laurence R.
TIT Hardwired behavior : what neuroscience reveals about morality.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Neuroscience and morality -- Morality and the mind -- Beyond
the mind zone -- The moral brain -- Bad without conscience -- The
biology of choice -- Sex and the single moral code -- Brain biology and
sex -- Deception -- The biology of money -- The bad and the mad --
Creating a moral brain.
153.35 P672u
AUT Piirto, Jane.
TIT Understanding creativity.
PUB Scottsdale, Ariz. : Great Potential Press, 2004.
153.6 E36u
AUT Ekman, Paul ; Friesen, Wallace V.
TIT Unmasking the face : a guide to recognizing emotions from facial clues.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Malor Books, 2003.
155.2 A883G
AUT Grossmann, Klaus E. ; Grossmann, Karin ; Waters, Everett.
TIT Attachment from infancy to adulthood : the major longitudinal studies.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Ethology and attachment theory / Robert A. Hinde -- In
pursuit of the internal working model construct and its relevance to
attachment relationships / Inge Bretherton -- Placing early attachment
experiences in developmental context: the Minnesota Longitudinal Study
/ L. Alan Sroufe ... [et al.] -- Attachment theory and research in
ecological perspective: insights from the Pennsylvania Infant and
Family Development Project and the NICHD Study of Early Child Care /
Jay Belsky -- Early care and the roots of attachment and partnership
representations: the Bielefeld and Regensburg Longitudinal Studies /
Karin Grossmann, Klaus E. Grossmann, and Heinz Kindler -- Understanding
and resolving emotional conflict: the London Parent-Child Project /
Howard Steele and Miriam Steele -- Correlates of attachment to multiple
caregivers in kibbutz children from birth to emerging adulthood: the
Haifa Longitudinal Study / Avi Sagi-Schwartz and Ora Aviezer -- The
interplay between attachment, temperament, and maternal style: a
Madingley perspective / Joan Stevenson-Hinde -- Attachment
representations: secure-base behavior, and the evolution of adult
relationships: the Stony Brook Adult Relationship Project / Judith
Crowell and Everett Waters -- Predictability of attachment behavior and
representational processes at 1, 6, and 19 years of age: the Berkeley
Longitudinal Study / Mary Main, Erik Hesse, and Nancy Kaplan -- Lessons
from the longitudinal studies of attachment / Mary Dozier, Melissa
Manni, and Oliver Lindheim.
155.41 A813c
AUT Ascione, Frank R.
TIT Children and animals : exploring the roots of kindness and cruelty.
PUB West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Children and animals: Joined by wonder, connected in pain --
The scientific study of children and animals -- Old wine in a new
bottle -- Animal Abuse: Revisting the past and looking to the future --
The Critical Question: Why are animals abused? -- Children, animals,
and empathy: Sharing emotions--antidote for aggression and violence --
Animal abuse, violent offending, and Conduct Disorder -- Child physical
and emotional maltreatment and animal abuse -- Sexual abuse and animal
abuse -- The family: Safe haven or landscape of terror -- Prevention
and intervention: Promising programs and persistent challenges.
156 W111o
AUT Waal, F. B. M. de.
TIT Our inner ape : a leading primatologist explains why we are who we are.
PUB New York : Riverhead Books, 2005.
CON Contents: Apes in the family -- Power -- Sex -- Violence -- Kindness --
The bipolar ape -- Photo gallery.
158 M145s
AUT McGee, Micki.
TIT Self-Help, Inc. : makeover culture in American life.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: From calling to vision : spiritual, secular, and gendered
notions -- From power! to personal power! : survivalism and the inward
turn -- From having it all to simple abundance : gender and the logic
of diminished expectations -- The self at work : from job-hunters to
artist-entrepreneurs -- At work on the self : the making of the
belabored self -- All you can be, or some conclusions.
174 F911m
AUT Friedman, Benjamin M.
TIT The moral consequences of economic growth. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Knopf, 2005.
CON Contents: I: Ideas, their origins, and their implications -- What
growth is, what growth does -- Perspectives from the enlightenment and
its roots -- Crosscurrents: the age of improvement and beyond -- Rising
incomes, individual attitudes, and the politics of social change -- II:
Democracy in America -- From Horatio Alger to William Jennings Bryan --
From TR to FDR -- Great depression, great exception -- America to the
postwar era -- III: Other times, other places: the European democracies
-- Britain -- France -- Germany -- IV: Development, equality,
globalization, and the environment -- Economics and politics in the
developing world -- Virtuous circles, vicious circles -- Growth and
equality -- Growth and the environment -- V: Looking forward --
Economic policy and economic growth in America.
174.4 H139s
AUT Hafrey, Leigh.
TIT The story of success : five steps to mastering ethics in business.
PUB New York : Other Press, c2005.
CON Contents: The importance of story: placing the person and the
organization -- Speak up, speak up: articulating one's managerial self
-- See the big picture: professional norms, mastery, and the teaching
organization -- Break the rules, make the rules, absorb the costs: the
ethics of entrepreneurship -- Tell good stories: living and leading the
revolution -- Test for truth: faith, work, and the good society --
Mastering mather: ethical practice, leaderless leadership, and our
collective future.
174.409 H116c
AUT Habisch, André.
TIT Corporate social responsibility across Europe.
PUB Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2005.
NOT Proceedings of a conference. - "Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy,
Greece, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, The
Netherlands, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom"--Cover.
174.9 W263i
AUT Ward, Stephen J. A.
TIT The invention of journalism ethics : the path to objectivity and
beyond.
PUB Montreal ; Ithaca, N.Y. : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.
SER McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas. ; 38.
179.7 L411m
AUT Lavi, Shai Joshua.
TIT The modern art of dying : a history of euthanasia in the United States.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Ethics of the deathbed: euthanasia from art to technique --
Holy craft of dying: the birth of the modern art of dying -- Medical
euthanasia: from aiding the dying to hastening death -- Legalizing
euthanasia: the role of law and the rule of technique -- Euthanasia as
public policy: the Euthanasia Society of America -- Lethal dosing:
technique beyond the law -- Mercy killing: the limits of technique --
Art and technique, death and freedom -- Mercy killing: case history.
181.06 J59F
AUT Frank, Daniel H. ; Leaman, Oliver ; Manekin, Charles Harry.
TIT The Jewish philosophy reader.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
194 G985c2
AUT Gutting, Gary.
TIT The Cambridge companion to Foucault. - 2nd ed.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
SER Cambridge companions to philosophy.
CON Contents: Foucault's mapping of history / Thomas Flynn -- Foucault and
the history of madness / Gary Gutting -- The death of man, or,
Exhaustion of the cogito? / translated by Catherine Porter ; Georges
Canguilhem -- Power? Knowledge / Joseph Rouse -- Ethics as ascetics :
Foucault, the history of ethics, and ancient thought / Arnold Davidson
-- Michel Foucault's ethical imagination / James Bernauer and Michael
Mahon -- The analytic of finitude and the history of subjectivity /
Beatrice Han-Pile -- Foucault's encounter with Heidegger and Nietzsche
/ Hans Sluga -- Foucault and Habermas / David Ingram -- Foucault's
relation to phenomenology / Todd May -- Against interiority :
Foucault's struggle with psychoanalysis -- Joel Whitebook -- Foucault's
modernism / Gerald Bruns -- Queering Foucault and the subject of
feminism / Jana Sawicki.
194 O31m
AUT O'Farrell, Clare.
TIT Michel Foucault.
PUB London : SAGE Publications, 2005.
CON Contents: A cultural icon -- Cultural contexts -- Foucault's major
works -- A tool box for cultural analysis -- The unconscious of history
and culture -- Discontinuity and discourse -- Truth and culture --
Power and culture -- Ethics and subjectivity.
200 Religion
200.19 W988e
AUT Wynn, Mark.
TIT Emotional experience and religious understanding : integrating
perception, conception and feeling.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
200.952 S972n
AUT Swanson, Paul L. ; Chilson, Clark.
TIT Nanzan guide to Japanese religions.
PUB Honolulu, Ha. : University of Hawai'i Press, c2006.
SER Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture.
201.44 A362q
AUT Aldhouse-Green, Miranda J. ; Aldhouse-Green, Stephen.
TIT The quest for the shaman : shape-shifters, sorcerers, and
spirit-healers of ancient Europe.
PUB London : Thames & Hudson, 2005.
CON Contents: Shamanism: an introduction -- Beyond the stone gates: later
Palaeolithic ritual practice -- Swans' wings and chamber tombs:
searching for Shamans in the Mesolithic and Neolithic -- Rocks and
gold: bronze age shamanism? -- Priests, politics and power: controlling
the supernatural in Iron Age Europe -- Monsters, gender-benders and
ritualists in the Roman Empire and beyond -- Myths and magic:
shape-shifting and Shaman ism in early celtic literature.
202.1 H341a
AUT Harvey, Graham.
TIT Animism : respecting the living world.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: FROM DEROGATORY TO CRITICAL TERM: From primitives to persons
-- ANIMIST CASE STUDIES: Ojibwa / Ojibwe language -- Maori arts --
Aboriginal law and land -- Eco-pagan activism -- ANIMIST ISSUES: Signs
of life and personhood -- Death -- Spirits, powers, creators and souls
-- Shamans -- Cannibalism -- Totems -- Elders and ethics -- ANIMISM'S
CHALLENGES: Environmentalisms -- Consciousness -- Philosophers and
persons -- Recognizing modernity and animism.
208.1 M817j
AUT Moody, Josh.
TIT Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment : knowing the presence of God.
PUB Lantham, Md. : University Press of America, c2005.
210 C848s
AUT Cottingham, John.
TIT The spiritual dimension : religion, philosophy, and human value.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
210 O98W
AUT Wainwright, William J.
TIT The Oxford handbook of philosophy of religion.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
SER Oxford handbooks in philosophy.
CON Contents: Divine power, goodness, and knowledge / William L. Rowe --
Divine sovereignty and aseity / William E. Mann -- Nontheistic
conceptions of the divine / Paul J. Griffiths -- The ontological
argument / Brian Leftow -- Cosmological and design arguments /
Alexander R. Pruss and Richard M. Gale -- Mysticism and religious
experience / Jerome I. Gellman -- Pascal's wagers and James's will to
believe / Jeffrey Jordan -- The problem of evil / Peter van Inwagen --
Religious language / William P. Alston -- Religious epistemology /
Nicholas Wolterstorff -- God, science, and naturalism / Paul Draper --
Miracles / George I. Mavrodes -- Faith and revelation / C. Stephen
Evans -- Morality and religion / Linda Zagzebski -- Death and the
afterlife / Lynne Rudder Baker -- Religious diversity: familiar
problems, novel opportunities / Philip L. Quinn -- Analytic philosophy
of religion / William Hasker -- Wittgensteinianism: logic, reality, and
god / D.Z. Phillips -- Continental philosophy of religion / Merold
Westphal -- Feminism and analytic philosophy of religion / Sarah
Coakley.
230.3 A564ß
AUT Andrewes, Lancelot ; McCullough, Peter E.
TIT Lancelot Andrewes : selected sermons and lectures.
PUB Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
231.8 C915d
AUT Crenshaw, James L.
TIT Defending God : biblical responses to the problem of evil.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Part I: Spreading the blame around -- The atheistic answer :
abandoning the quest -- Alternative gods : falling back on a convenient
worldview -- A demon at work : letting benevolence slip -- Part II:
Redefining God -- Limited power and knowledge : accentuating human
freedom -- Split personality : reconciling justice with mercy -- A
disciplinary procedure : stimulating growth in virtue -- Punishment for
sin : blaming the victim -- Part III: Shifting to the human scene --
Suffering as atonement : making the most of a bad thing -- Justice
deferred : banking on life beyond the grave -- Mystery : appealing to
human ignorance -- Disinterested righteousness : questioning the
problem.
242.8 Z22p
AUT Zaleski, Philip ; Zaleski, Carol.
TIT Prayer : a history.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005.
CON Contents: The foundations of prayer -- Magic -- Deeper magic -- The
refugee -- The devotee -- The ecstatic -- The contemplative -- Prayer
and tradition -- Prayer and the modern arts -- Prayer and the public
square -- Prayer and healing -- The efficacy of prayer -- The mystery
of prayer.
261.8 M689H, 2005
AUT Himes, Kenneth R. ; Cahill, Lisa Sowle.
TIT Modern Catholic social teaching : commentaries and interpretations.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: The Bible and Catholic social teaching : will this engagement
lead to marriage? / John R. Donahue -- Natural law in Catholic social
teachings / Stephen J. Pope -- The ecclesiological foundations of
modern Catholic social teaching / Richard R. Gaillardetz -- Early
modern Roman Catholic social thought, 1740-1890 / Michael J. Schuck --
Commentary on Rerum novarum (The condition of labor) / Thomas A.
Shannon -- Commentary on Quadragesimo anno (After forty years) /
Christine Firer Hinze -- The Christmas messages of Pius XII (1939-1945)
: Catholic social teaching in a time of extreme crisis / John P. Langan
-- Commentary on Mater et magistra (Christianity and social progress) /
Marvin L. Mich -- Commentary on Pacem in terris (Peace on earth) / Drew
Christiansen -- Commentary on Dignitatis humanae (Declaration on
religious freedom) / Leslie Griffin -- Commentary on Gaudium et spes
(Pastoral constitution on the church in the modern world) / David
Hollenbach -- Commentary on Populorum progressio (On the development of
peoples) / Allan Figueroa Deck -- Commentary on Octogesima adveniens (A
call to action on the eightieth anniversary of Rerum novarum) /
Christine E. Gudorf -- Commentary on Justitia in mundo (Justice in the
world) / Kenneth R. Himes -- Commentary on Familiaris consortio
(Apostolic exhortation on the family) / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Commentary
on Laborem exercens (On human work) / Patricia A. Lamoureux --
Commentary on Sollicitudo rei socialis (On social concern) / Charles E.
Curran, Kenneth R. Himes, Thomas A. Shannon -- Commentary on Centesimus
annus (On the hundredth anniversary of Rerum novarum) / Daniel Finn --
The reception of Catholic social and economic teaching in the United
States / Charles E. Curran -- The reception of Catholic approaches to
peace and war in the United States / Todd D. Whitmore -- The future of
Catholic social thought / John A. Coleman.
277.3 H321r
AUT Harrison, Milmon F.
TIT Righteous riches : the Word of faith movement in contemporary African
American religion.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: The Word of faith movement -- Bearing witness -- Living the
Faith message -- Faith Christian Center -- Negotiating the demands of
membership at Faith Christian Center -- Prosperity in African American
religion.
277.3 S974a
AUT Sweeney, Douglas A.
TIT The American evangelical story : a history of the movement.
PUB Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2005.
CON Contents: Evangelical : what's in a word? -- A surprising work of God :
the eighteenth-century revival -- Crafting new wineskins :
institutionalizing the movement -- As the waters cover the sea : the
rise of evangelical missions -- Crossing the color line without working
to erase it : evangelical history in black and white -- In search of a
higher Christian life : the holiness, Pentecostal, and charismatic
movements -- Standing on the promises through howling storms of doubt :
fundamentalism and neoevangelicalism -- Conclusion : the future of
evangelicalism.
294.33 K54b
AUT King, Sallie B.
TIT Being benevolence: the social ethics of engaged Buddhism.
PUB Honolulu : University of Hawaiì Press, 2005.
SER Topics in contemporary Buddhism.
CON Contents: Building from tradition -- Engaged Buddhist ethical theory --
Individual and society -- Human rights -- Nonviolence and its limits --
Justice/reconciliation.
296.3 S121t, 2005
AUT Sacks, Jonathan.
TIT To heal a fractured world : the ethics of responsibility. - 1st
American ed.
PUB New York : Schocken Books, 2005.
CON Contents: The ethics of responsibility -- Faith as protest -- Charity
as justice -- Love as deed -- Sanctifying the name -- Mending the world
-- Like a single soul -- The kindness of strangers -- Responsibility
for society -- The birth of responsibility -- Divine initiative, human
initiative -- The holy and the good -- The monotheistic imagination --
The faith of God -- Redeeming evil -- Transforming suffering -- The
chaos theory of virtue -- The kind of person we are -- Who am I? -- On
dreams and responsibilities.
297.7 G367f Popular reading
AUT Gerges, Fawaz A.
TIT The far enemy : why Jihad went global.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Prologue -- Introduction: The road to Spetember 11 and after
-- 1. Religious nationalists and the near enemy -- 2. The Afghan War :
sowing the seeds of transnational Jihad -- 3. The rise of
transnationalist Jihadis and the far enemy -- 4. Splitting up of
Jihadis -- 5. The aftermath : the war within -- 6. The Iraq War:
planting the seeds of Al Qaeda's second generation?.
299.31 M715o
AUT Mojsov, Bojana.
TIT Osiris : death and afterlife of a god.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
CON Contents: The myth makers -- Enter the divine king -- Abydos -- Pyramid
builders -- The mysteries -- Rise of the empire -- Golden pharaohs --
Books of the afterlife -- Toward the sunset -- Greeks in Egypt -- The
Roman legacy.
300 Sociology, Economics, Politics, Law, Education
301.072 F785s3, 2002
AUT Fowler, Floyd J.
TIT Survey research methods. - 3rd ed.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2002.
SER Applied social research methods series. ; v. 1.
CON Contents: Sampling -- Nonresponse: implementing a sample design --
Methods of data collection -- Designing questions to be good measures
-- Evaluating survey questions and instruments -- Survey interviewing
-- Preparing survey data for analysis -- Ethical issues in survey
research -- Providing information about survey methods -- Survey error
in perspective.
302.23 M124f, 2005
AUT McChesney, Robert Waterman ; Newman, Russell ; Scott, Ben.
TIT The future of media : resistance and reform in the 21st century. - A
Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
PUB New York : Seven Stories Press, 2005.
CON Contents: The emerging struggle for a free press / Robert W. McChesney
-- The fight for the future of media / Russell Newman, Ben Scott --
Media reform from the inside out: the Newspaper Guild-CWA / Linda Foley
-- Media bias: how to spot it-and how to fight it / Peter Hart -- Why
Americans should take back the media / Bernie Sanders -- Lessons for
realistic radicals in the information age / Mark Lloyd -- Media and
marginalization / Malkia A. Cyril -- Resisting the conquista of words /
Bárbara Renaud González -- Where is the public interest in media
consolidation? / Michael J. Copps -- Who is watching the watchdog? /
John Dunbar -- The media and campaign reform / Vidya Krishnamurthy --
The legal case for diversity in broadcast ownership / Andrew Jay
Schwartzman, Cheryl A. Leanza, Harold Feld -- Reclaiming the First
Amendment: legal, factual, and analytic support for limits on media
ownership / Mark Cooper -- Sharing the wealth: an online commons for
the nonprofit sector / Jeff Chester, Gary O. Larson -- Reclaiming the
public airwaves / Michael Calabrese, Matt Barranca -- Wirelessing the
world: the battle over (community) wireless networks / Sascha D.
Meinrath -- Copyright reform: the next battle for the media reform
movement / Gigi B. Sohn -- The globalization of media policy / Sasha
Costanza-Chock -- Our media is not for sale / Lori Wallach, Chris
Slevin.
302.23 M494w, 2005
AUT Meehan, Eileen R.
TIT Why TV is not our fault : television programming, viewers, and who's
really in control.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005.
SER Critical media studies.
303.483 A547i, 2005
AUT Anderson, Janna Quitney.
TIT Imagining the internet : personalities, predictions, perspectives.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The Internet at the forefront : 1990 through
1995 were revolutionary, with changes surpassing any previous stretch
of communications history -- From bonfires and bongos to the Web :
people crave and benefit from connections, spurring communications
networks to evolve -- Web gems : social, political, and economic
expectations inspired intriguing statements about the Internet -- The
'highway' metaphor : finding a way to tell (and sell) how the Internet
could be changing lives -- Knocking the Net : some warn the Internet is
naughty, anti-nature, and nefarious, even supporters see negatives --
Saddam, O.J., and the Unabomber : Internet developments are tied to the
news events and popular culture of the 1990s -- Nothing is certain but
death and taxes (and some predictions - including the death of taxes -
may have been premature, while many other 'deaths' may come to pass) --
Aristotle, Jefferson, Marx, and Mcluhan : predictors use historic
perspective to make their points on issues -- Supporters crow about
"500 channels!" : everyone warns about "infoglut" : a breathless
bromide about a video wonderland is bandied about, while information
overload looms larger than ever -- Voices of the Net : zooming in on
ten of the many people who made a difference by voicing concerns -- The
threat to freedom, to the earth : as communications networks become
all-seeing, some thinkers/theorists expect Big Brother or a robot
takeover -- The future of networks : the global mind doesn't need
humans, but they may be able to use it if they'd like -- Nobody knows
you're a dog, or do they? Privacy issues on the Internet -- Hmmm ...
will it happen? : these predictions did not come true, nor do they seem
likely to come to pass; then again, you never know.
303.483 B337s, 2006
AUT Bauchspies, Wenda K ; Croissant, Jennifer ; Restivo, Sal P.
TIT Science, technology, and society : a sociological approach.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
303.6 K82a, 2004
AUT Koonings, Kees ; Kruijt, Dirk.
TIT Armed actors : organised violence and state failure in Latin America.
PUB London ; New York : Zed Books, 2004.
CON Contents: Armed actors, organized violence and state failure in Latin
America: a survey of issues and arguments / Kees Koonings and Dirk
Kruijt -- The military and their shadowy brothers-in-arms / Dirk Kruijt
and Kees Koonings -- Policing extensions in Latin America / Piet van
Reenen -- Civil defence forces: Peru's Comités de Autodefensa Civil and
Guatemala's Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil in comparative perspective /
Mario Fumerton and Simone Remijnse -- Violence as market strategy in
drug trafficking: the Andean experience / Menno Vellinga -- Armed
actors in the Colombian conflict / Francisco Leal Buitrago --
Venezuela: the re-militarization of politics / Harold A. Trinkunas -- A
failed state facing new criminal problems: the case of Argentina /
Marcelo Sain -- Urban violence and drug warfare in Brazil / Alba Zaluar
-- Youth gangs, social exclusion and the transformation of violence in
El Salvador / Wim Savenije and Chris van der Borgh -- Violence and fear
in Colombia: fragmentation of space, contraction of time and forms of
evasion / Luis Alberto Restrepo -- Epilogue: violence and the quest for
order in contemporary Latin America / Patricio Silva.
304.2 A875c, 2005
AUT Atkinson, David.
TIT Cultural geography : a critical dictionary of key concepts.
PUB London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : In the United States
distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
SER International library of human geography ; 3.
Ref 304.203 E56W, 2006
AUT Warf, Barney.
TIT Encyclopedia of human geography.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2006.
305.23 S189b, 2005
AUT Sammond, Nicholas.
TIT Babes in tomorrowland : Walt Disney and the making of the American
child, 1930-1960.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Disney makes Disney -- Making a manageable child -- In
Middletown -- America's true-life adventure -- Raising the natural
child -- Disney maps the frontier.
305.235 G878c, 2005
AUT Grossberg, Lawrence.
TIT Caught in the crossfire : kids, politics, and America's future.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2005.
SER Cultural politics & the promise of democracy.
CON Contents: I: America's war on its children -- 1. Kids, the enemy within
-- 2. Life in the war zone -- 3. Accounting for the kids -- II: The
contemporary political field -- 4. Neoliberalism -- 5. The new
conservatism -- 6. Liberalism and the left -- 7. Kids out of time
(unsettling modernity) -- III: The coming American modernity -- 8. The
struggle for "American modernity" -- 9. Reconstructing political
culture -- 10. Reconstructing economic life -- 11. Reconstructing
cultural life -- Kids and the dilemma of American politics.
305.42 B959c, 2005
AUT Burk, Martha.
TIT Cult of power : sex discrimination in corporate America and what can be
done about it.
PUB New York : Scribner, c2005.
CON Contents: A simple letter-about discrimination, not golf -- The deep
divide -- It's perfectly legal-or is it? -- Corporate America closes
ranks -- The (corporate) good old boys club exposed -- Power will out
-- Buying a pass: our record is good on race, isn't that enough? --
Gender baiting and bad girls: how women who charge discrimination are
punished, threatened, and marginalized -- Mixed messages in the
marketplace -- The diversity dodge -- Old barriers, new solutions -- A
few good men -- Women in high places: why a gender lens matters --
Augusta National Members and Affiliations.
305.486 S698b, 2005
AUT Sonbol, Amira El Azhary.
TIT Beyond the exotic : women's histories in Islamic societies. - 1st ed.
PUB Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2005.
SER Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.
CON Contents: History then, history now : the role of medieval Islamic
religio-political sources in shaping the modern debate on gender /
Denise A. Spellberg -- The Qur'an and history / Barbara Freyer
Stowasser -- Muslim women : public authority, scriptures, and "Islamic
law" / Haifaa Khalafallah -- Gendered sources in ethnohistorical
research : the study of emigration from a Lebanese village / Patricia
Mihaly Nabti -- Individualism and political modernity : devout Catholic
women in Aleppo and Lebanon between the seventeenth and nineteenth
centuries / Bernard Heyberger -- Women, patronage, and charity in
Ottoman Istanbul / Fariba Zarinebaf -- Consciousness of self / Randi
Deguilhem -- Sources for the study of slave women and concubines in
Ottoman Egypt / Nelly Hanna -- Thoughts on women and slavery in the
Ottoman era and historical sources / Madeline Zilfi -- Observations on
the use of sharia court records as a source of social history / Ramadan
al-Khowli -- Mahkama records as a source for women's history / Fatima
Zohra Guechi -- And God knows best : the fatwa as a source for the
history of gender in the Arab world / Judith E. Tucker -- Gender
violence in Ottoman law / Elyse Semerdjian -- Mixed and other courts /
Amira El-Azhary Sonbol -- Islamic personal law in American courts /
Richard Freeland -- Learning gendered modernity / Lisa Pollard -- The
use of textbooks as a source of history for women / Mona Russell --
Sources on the education of Ottoman women in the prime ministerial
Ottoman archive for the period of reforms in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries / Selçuk Akin Somel -- The history of the
discourses on gender and Islamism in contemporary Egypt (1980-1990) /
Mervat F. Hatem -- Female patronage of Mamluk architecture in Cairo /
Howayda al-Harithy -- Islamic art as a source for the study of women in
premodern societies / Sheila S. Blair -- Discerning the hand-of-Fatima
: an iconological investigation of the role of gender in religious art
/ Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Oral traditions as a source for the
study of Muslim women / Valerie J. Hoffman -- Political science without
clothes : the politics of dress, or, contesting the spatiality of the
state in Egypt / Mamoun Fandy.
305.488 P911a, 2005
AUT Prasso, Sheridan.
TIT The Asian mystique : dragon ladies, geisha girls, & our fantasies of
the exotic Orient. 1st ed.
PUB New York : Public Affairs, c2005.
CON Contents: Part 1. The Asian mystique. Mystery, sex, fear, and desire: a
brief history -- Hollywood, Burbank, and the resulting imaginings --
Matters of men and country: the unbearable lightness of being portrayed
-- "Race-sim," fetish, and fever -- Part 2. Ten people, ten colors. The
real memoirs of geisha -- The other side of Miss Saigon -- Glamour of
the skies, sorority of service -- Screwing, getting screwed, and
getting ahead -- Who's playing whom -- China doll, dragon lady -- Power
women -- Epilogue: Demand creates supply.
305.52 C952b, 2005
AUT Crouch, David.
TIT The birth of nobility : constructing aristocracy in England and France
: 900-1300. - 1st ed.
PUB Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson/Longman, 2005.
CON Contents: Noble conduct -- Reconstructing chivalry -- From preudommie
to chevalerie -- Out of the iron age -- Noble descent -- Constructing
families -- The power of lineage -- Inventing snobbery -- Noble class
-- Historians and noble class -- Historians and noble class -- Medieval
people and social division -- The precocity of England -- Noble
Lordship -- The Feudal debate -- Power and structures -- Noble women :
the view from the stands.
305.8 D999n, 2005
AUT Dzidzienyo, Anani ; Oboler, Suzanne.
TIT Neither enemies nor friends : Latinos, Blacks, Afro- Latinos. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
CON Contents: Flows and counterflows : Latinas/os, blackness, and
racialization in hemispheric perspective / Suzanne Oboler and Anani
Dzidzienyo -- A region in denial : racial discrimination and racism in
Latin America / Ariel E. Dulitzky -- Afro-Ecuadorian responses to
racism : between citizenship and corporatism / Carlos de la Torre --
The foreignness of racism : pride and prejudice among Peru's Limeños in
the 1990s / Suzanne Oboler -- Bad boys and peaceful Garifuna :
transnational encounters between racial stereotypes of Honduras and the
United States (and their implications for the study of race in the
Americas) / Mark Anderson -- Afro-Mexico : Blacks, indígenas, politics,
and the greater diaspora / Bobby Vaughn -- The changing world of
Brazilian race relations? / Anani Dzidzienyo -- Framing the discussion
of African American-Latino relations : a review and analysis / John J.
Betancur -- Neither white nor Black : the representation of racial
identity among Puerto Ricans on the island and in the U.S. mainland /
Jorge Duany -- Scripting race, finding place : African Americans,
Afro-Cubans, and the diasporic imaginary in the United States / Nancy
Raquel Mirabal -- Identity, power, and socioracial hierarchies among
Haitian immigrants in Florida / Louis Herns Marcelin -- Interminority
relations in legislative settings : the case of African Americans and
Latinos / José E. Cruz -- African American and Latina/o cooperation in
challenging racial profiling / Kevin R. Johnson -- Racial politics in
multiethnic America : Black and Latina/o identities and coalitions /
Mark Sawyer -- Racism in the Americas and the Latino scholar / Silvio
Torres-Saillant -- Witnessing history : an octogenarian reflects on
fifty years of African American-Latino relations / Nelson Peery.
305.8 R712wo, 2005
AUT Roediger, David R.
TIT Working toward whiteness : how America's immigrants became white : the
strange journey from Ellis Island to the suburbs.
PUB New York : Basic Books, c2005.
CON Contents: Seeing race in new immigrant history -- "Inbetweenness" --
Entering the White House.
305.8 V195r, 2005
AUT Valls, Andrew.
TIT Race and racism in modern philosophy.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction /Andrew Valls -- Descartes's silences on slavery
and race / Timothy J. Reiss -- Race in Hobbes / Barbara Hall --
Metaphysics at the barricades : Spinoza and race / Debra Nails --
Imagining an inundation of Australians, or, Leibniz on the principles
of grace and race / Peter Fenves -- The contradictions of racism :
Locke, slavery, and the two treatises / Robert Bernasconi and Anika
Maaza Mann -- Berkeley and the westward course of empire : on racism
and ethnocentrism / William Uzgalis -- "A lousy empirical scientist" :
rethinking Hume's racism / Andrew Valls -- Rousseau, natural man, and
race / Bernard Boxill -- Kant's Untermenschen / Charles Mills -- Race
and law in Hegel's philosophy of religion / Michael Hoffheimer -- John
Stuart Mill and "the negro question" : race, colonialism, and the
ladder of civilization / Anthony Bogues -- Marx, race, and the
political problem of identity / Richard Peterson -- Nietzsche's racial
profiling / James Winchester.
305.896 S727p, 2005
AUT Southern, David W.
TIT The progressive era and race : reaction and reform, 1900-1917.
PUB Wheeling, Ill. : Harlan Davidson, c2005.
SER The American history series.
CON Contents: The demise of Reconstruction and the making of white
supremacy, 1865-1900 -- Tough-minded progressives and race -- African
Americans and southern progressivism -- National politics and race,
1900-1917: the great betrayal -- The Washington-Du Bois feud, the "New
Negro," and the rise of the NAACP -- World War I and beyond.
306.3 P437m, 2005
AUT Perelman, Michael.
TIT Manufacturing discontent : the trap of individualism in a corporate
society.
PUB London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press, 2005.
CON Contents: The Individual Subsumed in the Corporate Economy -- People as
Consumers -- What Corporate Society Does to Workers -- Corporate
Accountability -- Accountability vs. Responsibility -- The Role of Risk
-- Food, Fear, and Terrorism -- Individuals as Citizens.
306.342 B144p, 2005
AUT Bagchi, Amiya Kumar.
TIT Perilous passage : mankind and the global ascendancy of capital.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.
SER World social change.
306.36 W287t, 2003
AUT Warren, Elizabeth ; Tyagi, Amelia Warren.
TIT The two-income trap : why middle-class mothers and fathers are going
broke.
PUB New York : Basic Books, c2003.
CON Contents: Just the way she planned -- The over-consumption myth -- Mom:
the all-purpose safety net -- The myth of the immoral debtor -- Going
it alone in a two-income world -- The cement life raft -- The financial
fire drill.
306.36 W926h, 2001
AUT Hertz, Rosanna ; Marshall, Nancy L.
TIT Working families : the transformation of the
American home.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California
Press, c2001.
CON Contents: Rise of the dual-earner family, 1963-1997
/ Linda J. Waite and Mark Nielsen -- Gendered careers: a life-course
perspective / Phyllis Moen and Shin-Kap Han -- Getting younger while
getting older: family-building at midlife / Lillian B. Rubin --
Men's family work: child-centered fathering and the sharing of domestic
labor / Scott Coltrane and Michele Adams -- Family-responsive benefits
and the two-tiered labor market / Cynthia H. Deitch and Matt L.
Huffman -- How are small businesses responding to work and family
issues? / Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Leon Litchfield -- Part-time
work arrangements and the corporation: a dynamic interaction / Marcia
Brumit Kropf -- Toward a new view of work and family life / Ellen
Galinsky -- Work, family, and globalization: broadening the scope
of policy analysis / Harriet E. Gross -- Changing the structure
and culture of work: work and family conflict, work flexibility,
and gender equity in the modern workplace / Kathleen Gerson and
Jerry A. Jacobs -- Workplace policies and the psychological well-being
of first-time parents: the case of working-class families / Heather-Lyn
Haley, Maureen Perry-Jenkins, and Amy Armenia -- Work, family, and
gender in medicine: how do dual-earners decide who should work less?
/ Lena M. Lundgren ... [et al.] -- From baby-sitters to child care
providers: the development of a feminist consciousness in family
day care workers / Heather M. Fitz Gibbon -- Children, work, and
family: some thoughts on "mother-blame" / Anita Ilta Garey and Terry
Arendell -- Kinderdult: the new child born to conflict between work
and family / Diane Ehrensaft -- Passing between the worlds of maid
and mistress: the life of a Mexican maid's daughter / Mary Romero
-- Eavesdropping children, adult deals, and cultures of care / Arlie
Russell Hochschild -- Pick-up time at Oakdale Elementary School:
work and family from the vantage points of children / Barrie Thorne.
306.461 B884w, 2005
AUT Brownell, Kelly D.
TIT Weight bias : nature, consequences, and remedies.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction: The social, scientific, and human context of
prejudice and discrimination based on weight / Kelly D. Brownell --
Part I: Nature and extent of weight bias -- Weight bias in employment /
Janna Fikkan and Esther Rothblum -- Bias in health care settings /
Anthony N. Fabricatore, Thomas A. Wadden, and Gary D. Foster -- The
portrayal of weight in the media and its social impact / Bradley S.
Greenberg and Tracy R. Worrell -- Weight bias in a child's world /
Janet Latner and Marlene B. Schwartz -- Weight bias in a teen's world /
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer and Marla Eisenberg -- Part II: Origins,
explanations, and measurement -- Attributions and weight-based
prejudice / Christian S. Crandall and April Hortman Reser -- Social
consensus and the origins of stigma / Gretchen B. Sechrist and Charles
Stangor -- Theories of stigma : limitations and needed directions /
Eden B. King, Michelle R. Hebl, and Todd F. Heatherton -- Measurement
of bias / Bethany A. Teachman and Robyn K. Mallet -- Part III:
Consequences of weight bias -- Effects of weight related teasing in
adults / J. Kevin Thompson, Sylvia Herbozo, Susan Himes, and Yuko
Yamamiya -- Social consequences of weight bias by partners, friends,
and strangers / Jeffrey Sobal -- Self-esteem and the stigma of obesity
/ Jennifer Crocker and Julie A. Garcia -- Personal reflections on bias,
stigma, discrimination, and obesity / Carol A. Johnson -- Part IV:
Remedies -- Legal theory on weight discrimination / Elizabeth E. Theran
-- Remedies for weight-based discrimination / Sondra Solovay --
Improving medical practice / James L. Early and Judy A. Johnston --
Improving the health care system / Christina C. Wee and Susan Z.
Yanovski -- Improving the fitness landscape / Heather O. Chambliss and
Steven N. Blair -- Changing media images of weight / Michele Weston and
Diane Bliss -- Coping with weight stigma / Rebecca M. Puhl -- Advocacy
/ Lynn McAfee and Miriam Berg -- Expression of bias against obesity in
public policy and its remedies / Morgan Downey -- Summary and
concluding remarks / Marlene B. Schwartz and Rebecca M. Puhl.
306.483 S636s, 2005
AUT Smart, Barry.
TIT The sport star : modern sport and the culture economy of sporting
celebrity.
PUB London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2005.
SER Theory, culture & society.
306.7 S518s, 2004
AUT Streitmatter, Rodger.
TIT Sex sells! : the media's journey from repression to obsession.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Westview Press, 2004.
CON Contents: Introduction : The 1950s : no sex, please, we're American --
The pill and the media : spawning a revolution -- Playboy magazine :
taking pornography into the mainstream -- James Bond : bringing sex
into the movies -- Jim Morrison of The Doors : pushing the limits of
sex in music -- All in the family : bringing sex to American television
-- Cosmopolitan magazine : celebrating the sexually active woman --
Donahue : taking sex on morning TV -- Three's company : adding jiggle
to the small screen -- Movies of the 1980s : erasing sexual taboos --
American advertising : pitching with prudence -- Madonna : tackling
sexual issues through music -- The gay nineties : Adam and Eve + Adam
and Steve -- The Black nineties : showcasing African-American sexuality
-- Semen on the front page : Bill Clinton's sex life redefines the news
-- Youth media : shaping teenage sexual values -- Paying for sex (on
cable) : Sex and the city and Queer as folk -- Cyberporn : bringing sex
to the World Wide Web -- Reality television : crossing new sexual
thresholds -- "Sexual literacy" : understanding the media's sexual
messages.
306.85 T458f, 2006
AUT Thomas, Laurence.
TIT The family and the political self.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Uniquely valued -- Reconceptualizing the moral self -- The
family as a model for society -- From family to E pluribus unum.
306.874 E16h, 2004
AUT Eberstadt, Mary.
TIT Home-alone America : the hidden toll of day care, behavioral drugs, and
other parent substitutes.
PUB New York : Sentinel, 2004.
CON Contents: The real trouble with day care -- The furious child problem
-- Why Dick and Jane are fat -- The mental health catastrophe -- Wonder
drugs and double standards -- "Ozzie and Harriet, come back!" : the
primal scream of teenage music -- The ravages of "responsible" teenage
sex -- Specialty boarding schools, tough love or ultimate outsourcing?
-- Conclusion: Beyond the blame game.
306.874 H366w, 2001
AUT Hattery, Angela.
TIT Women, work, and family : balancing and weaving.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2001.
SER Understanding families. ; v. 19.
306.9 K19o, 2004
AUT Kastenbaum, Robert.
TIT On our way : the final passage through life and death.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2004.
SER Life passages.
307.12 L498t, 2005
AUT LeGates, Richard T.
TIT Think globally, act regionally : GIS and data visualization for social
science and public policy research. - 1st ed.
PUB Redlands, Calif. : ESRI Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Urbanization and its discontents -- Introduction to GIS --
Managing urbanization with vector GIS -- Visual images and data
graphics -- Urbanization in harmony with the earth -- Introduction to
raster GIS -- Using raster GIS to resolve conflicts between the natural
and built environments -- Visualizing relationships with multivariate
data graphics -- Spatial equity and regional integration -- Symbolizing
map features and creating map layouts -- Using multiple media, and the
theory and practice of graphic communication -- Bringing it all
together in the Portland, Oregon region.
307.76 K87c, 2005
AUT Kotkin, Joel.
TIT The city : a global history.
PUB New York : Modern Library, c2005.
SER Modern Library chronicles.
CON Contents: Introduction : places sacred, safe, and busy -- Origins : the
rise of cities in a global context -- Classical cities in Europe -- The
Oriental epoch -- Western cities reassert their primacy -- The
industrial city -- The modern metropolis -- Conclusion : the urban
future.
320.072 P777e2, 2005
AUT Pollock, Philip H.
TIT The essentials of political analysis. - 2nd ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2005.
CON Contents: The Measurement of Concepts -- Explanations and Hypotheses --
Describing Variables and Making Comparisons -- The "How Else?"
Question: Making Controlled Comparisons -- Sampling and Inference --
Tests of Significance and Measures of Association -- Correlation and
Linear Regression -- Logistic Regression -- Thinking Empirically,
Thinking Probabilistically.
320.15 A512B, 2005
AUT Barreiro, José ; Johnson, Tim.
TIT America is Indian country : opinions and perspectives from Indian
country today.
PUB Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Publishing, c2005.
320.443 G721G, 2005
AUT Green, Simon ; Paterson, William E.
TIT Governance in contemporary Germany : the semisovereign state revisited.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
320.532 B421d, 2005
AUT Behrouzi, Majid.
TIT Democracy as the political empowerment of the people : the betrayal of
an ideal.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2005.
CON Contents: The idea of democracy in pre-liberal and non-liberal
societies -- The case of the liberal state and liberal democracy -- The
case of the late liberal democracy.
320.54 O52g, 2005
AUT Olson, Robert W.
TIT The goat and the butcher : nationalism and state formation in
Kurdistan-Iraq since the Iraqi war.
PUB Costa Mesa, Calif. : Mazda Publishers, 2005.
SER Kurdish studies series. ; no. 6.
CON Contents: From 1 March 2003 (Turkish) resolution to the 1 June 2004
UNSC resolution -- From the UNSC resolution to the NATO Summit -- From
the NATO Summit to 1 September 2004 -- From Tehran to Ankara: Turks,
Iranians, and Kurds -- From Tal Afar to U.S. presidential elections --
From U.S. presidential elections to the end of 2004 -- From December
2004: zigzagging toward elections -- Aftermath of the elections:
Whither Kurdish nationalism, Kurdistan-Iraq, and Iraq?.
320.5408 N272k, 2005
AUT Natali, Denise.
TIT The Kurds and the state : evolving national identity in Iraq, Turkey,
and Iran. 1st ed.
PUB Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2005.
SER Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East.
CON Contents: Reassessing ethnonationalism -- Late imperial period : large
political space -- Iraq's transition to a colonial state -- Iraq's
transition to an independent republican state -- Turkey's transition to
an independent republican state -- Turkey's transition to a
quasi-democracy : complex political space -- Iran's transition to a
constitutional monarchy -- Iran's transition to an Islamic republic --
Transnational space : reconfiguring Kurdayetî -- Rethinking
nationalism, ethnicity, and the Kurdish problem.
320.954 I39V, 2004
AUT Vora, Rajendra ; Palshikar, Suhas.
TIT Indian democracy : meanings and practices.
PUB New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2004.
320.956 R896ß, 2006
AUT Rubin, Barry M.
TIT The long war for freedom : the Arab struggle for democracy in the
Middle East.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
CON Contents: Contents -- Introduction -- Heartbreak and hope -- "Better
Saddam's hell than America's paradise" -- The courage of their
convictions -- What's wrong with Arab society -- Whose Islam? --
America: Satan or savior? -- Israel: the great excuse -- The challenge
of terrorism -- The Iraq war: aggression or liberation? -- Women's
rights: a test case for reform -- A thousand and one difficulties --
Notes -- Index.
320.9569 J27p, 2005
AUT Jamal, Amal.
TIT The Palestinian national movement : politics of contention, 1967-2005.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2005.
SER Indiana series in Middle East studies.
CON Contents: The structural and historical context -- From dissension to
coordination : the PLO leadership and the national elite in the
occupied territories -- Mobilization under control : the political
economy of steadfastness -- Engineering compliance : new modes of
political entrepreneurship and the co-optation of contenders -- Seizing
structural opportunities : the Islamist elite and the framing of
authenticity discourse -- The politics of symbolic capital and the
institutionalization of neopatrimonial power -- The second intifada and
its impact on elite structures.
320.9663 G318d, 2005
AUT Gellar, Sheldon.
TIT Democracy in Senegal : Tocquevillian analytics in Africa. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
SER Political evolution and institutional change.
CON Contents: Tocquevillian analytics in Africa -- Point of departure --
The old order and colonialism -- Centralization and democratic
despotism -- Local liberties -- Political associations, parties, and
the press -- The art of association -- Spirit of religion -- Language
-- Equality -- Democracy in Senegal: a balance sheet -- The future of
democracy in Africa.
320.973 B812r2, 2006
AUT Brady, David W ; Volden, Craig.
TIT Revolving gridlock : politics and policy from Jimmy Carter to George W.
Bush. - 2nd ed.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2006.
SER Transforming American politics.
320.973 K64p, 2006 Popular reading
AUT Klein, Joe.
TIT Politics lost : how American democracy was trivialized by people who
think you're stupid. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Doubleday, c2006.
CON Contents: The burden of Southern history -- He looks me in the tie --
Banana-peel words -- I came to love our weekly polls -- The
twenty-point kiss -- Issues are the last refuge of a scoundrel -- We're
going to meet the people where they are -- And so, my fellow Americans,
in conclusion.
Ref 320.973 P712a11, 2002
AUT Plano, Jack C ; Greenberg, Milton.
TIT The American political dictionary. - 11th ed.
PUB Australia ; Belmont, Calif. : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2002.
CON Contents: Political ideas -- The United States constitution and the
federal union -- Parties, politics, interest groups, and elections --
The legislative process: congress and the state legislatures -- The
executive: office and powers -- Public administration: organization and
personnel -- The judicial process: courts and law enforcement -- Civil
liberties, civil rights, immigration, and citizenship -- Finance and
taxation -- Business and labor -- Agriculture, energy, and environment
-- Health, education, and welfare -- Foreign policy and national
defense -- State and local government.
323 U58R, 2005
AUT Reidy, David A. ; Sellers, M. N. S.
TIT Universal human rights : moral order in a divided world.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.
SER Philosophy and the global context.
323.092 R895k, 2005
AUT Rubenstein, Joshua ; Gribanov, Alexander.
TIT The KGB file of Andrei Sakharov.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2005.
SER Annals of Communism.
323.1192 F499b, 2005
AUT Finkelstein, Norman G.
TIT Beyond chutzpah : on the misuse of anti-semitism and the abuse of
history.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2005.
CON Contents: From Jesus Christ superstar to The passion of the Christ --
Israel : the "Jew among nations" -- Crying wolf -- Impurity of arms --
Three in the back of the head -- Israel's Abu Ghraib -- Return of the
vandals -- Blight unto the nations -- High court takes the low road --
Conclusion -- Appendix I : of crimes and misdemeanors -- Appendix II:
history of the Israel-Palestine conflict -- Appendix III: peace
process.
323.1196 S428d, 2005
AUT Scott, Rebecca J.
TIT Degrees of freedom : Louisiana and Cuba after slavery.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Two worlds of cane : 1803-1860 -- Building citizenship :
Louisiana, 1862-1873 -- Crisis and voice : southern Louisiana,
1874-1896 -- Finding the spaces of freedom : central Cuba, 1868-1895 --
A wartime cross-racial alliance : Cuba, 1895-1898 -- Democracy and
antidemocracy : the claims of citizens, 1898-1900 -- The right to have
rights : 1901-1905 -- The search for property and standing : Cuba
1906-1919 -- Diverging paths and degrees of freedom.
323.1196 T391g, 2005
AUT Theoharis, Jeanne ; Woodard, Komozi.
TIT Groundwork : local black freedom movements in America.
PUB New York : New York University, c2005.
323.147 H669e, 2005
AUT Hirsch, Francine.
TIT Empire of nations : ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet
Union.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
SER Culture & society after socialism.
CON Contents: Toward a revolutionary alliance -- The national idea versus
economic expediency -- The 1926 census and the conceptual conquest of
lands and peoples -- Border-making and the formation of Soviet national
identities -- Transforming "the peoples of the USSR" : ethnographic
exhibits and the evolutionary timeline -- State-sponsored evolutionism
and the struggle against German biological determinism -- Ethnographic
knowledge and terror.
323.442 S649s, 2006
AUT Smith, Huston ; Cousineau, Phil ; Rhine, Gary.
TIT A seat at the table : Huston Smith in conversation with native
Americans on religious freedom.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The spiritual malaise in America : the confluence of
religion, law, and community / with Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock
Sioux) -- Five hundred nations within one : the search for religious
justice / with Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) -- Ecology and spirituality :
following the path of natural law / with Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabeg)
-- The homelands of religion : the clash of worldviews over prayer,
place, and ceremony / with Charlotte Black Elk (Oglala Lakota) --
Native language, native spirituality : from crisis to challenge / with
Douglas George-Kanentiio (Mohawk-Iroquois) -- The triumph of the Native
American Church : celebrating the free exercise of religion / with
Frank Dayish, Jr. (Navajo) -- The fight for Native American prisoner's
rights : the red road to rehabilitation / with Lenny Foster (Navajo) --
Stealing our spirit : the threat of the human genome diversity project
/ with Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga) -- The fight for Mount Graham
: looking for the fingerprints of God / with Anthony Guy Lopez (Lakota
Sioux) -- Redeeming the future : the traditional instructions of
spiritual law / with Oren Lyons (Onondaga) -- The healing of Indian
country : kinship, custom, ceremony, and oratory / with Vine Deloria,
Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux).
324.273 T238e, 2005
AUT Taylor, Andrew J ; Ornstein, Norman J.
TIT Elephant's edge : the Republicans as a ruling party.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, c 2005.
CON Contents: American party politics today -- Uneven playing field: the
constitutional and geographical origins of the Republican advantage --
Elephants in the House: after forty years in the wilderness, playing
the Democrats at their own game -- Governing stealthily: Republicans in
the states and the courts -- Trapping the donkey: foreign policy as
Republican advantage -- Trapping the donkey again: domestic policy as
Republican advantage -- The well-oiled machine: the Republican Party
organization, allied interests, and political money -- Winning hearts
and minds: the media and the Republican ideas industry -- Social,
economic, and attitudinal change as Republican advantage: public
opinion and the politics of wealth, work faith, and race -- The
Republicans as a ruling (not majority) party.
324.62 W235f, 2005
AUT Walters, Ronald W.
TIT Freedom is not enough : Black voters, Black candidates, and American
presidential politics.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowan & Littlefield Publishers ; Disbributed by National
Book Network, c2005.
SER American political challenges.
CON Contents: Black empowerment and the 1965 voting rights act -- Leverage
politics and the 1984 and 1988 Jackson campaigns -- Black mobilization
in the presidential elections of 1992, 1996, and 1998 -- Diluting black
voting power: the supreme court in the 1990s and the 2000 presidential
election in Florida -- Election reform: revisiting the right to vote --
Leverage politics and the 2004 primary election scenario: the Sharpton
and Moseley Braun campaigns -- Black turnout and the 2004 presidential
election -- The 1965 voting rights act: leveraging the power of the
black vote.
324.973 D415t, 2005
AUT Denton, Robert E.
TIT The 2004 presidential campaign : a communication perspective.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005.
SER Communication, media, and politics.
CON Contents: Surfacing in 2004 : the Democrats emerge / Judith S. Trent --
The political conventions of 2004 : a study in character and contrast /
Rachel L. Holloway -- Presidential campaign films in a televisual
convention environment : the example of 2004 / Janis L. Edwards -- The
2004 presidential debates / Robert V. Friedenberg -- Candidate
strategies in the 2004 presidential campaign : instrumental choices
faced by the incumbent and his challengers / Craig Allen Smith --
Swinging the vote in the 2004 presidential election / Mary E. Stuckey
-- First ladies in waiting : the fight for rhetorical legitimacy on the
2004 campaign trail / Ashli Quesinberry Stokes -- The shadow campaign
in popular culture / Jeffrey P. Jones -- Campaign 2004 developments in
cyberpolitics / Danielle R. Wiese and Bruce E. Gronbeck -- The main
frame : assessing the role of the Internet in the 2004 U.S.
presidential contest / Andrew Paul Williams -- Religion, evangelicals,
and moral issues in the 2004 presidential campaign / Robert E. Denton
Jr. -- Videostyle in the 2004 presidential advertising / Lynda Lee Kaid
-- Explaining the vote in a divided country : the presidential election
of 2004 / Henry C. Kenski and Kate Kenski.
324.973 L162d, 2005
AUT LaFeber, Walter.
TIT The deadly bet : LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 election.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.
SER Vietnam--America in the war years.
CON Contents: General William Westmoreland : the Tet offensive -- Senator
Eugene McCarthy : the college student crusade -- Lyndon Johnson :
"people grow tired of confusion" -- Martin Luther King : the dream --
Robert Kennedy : the "national soul" -- Richard Nixon : the candidate
from Squaresville? -- Hubert Horatio Humphrey : the isolation of the
politics of joy -- George Wallace : the populism of the Vietnam war era
-- Nguyen Van Thieu : a merry-go-round in a chamber of horrors.
Ref 324.973 P933C, 2005
AUT Congressional Quarterly, inc.
TIT Presidential elections, 1789-2004.
PUB Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Chronology of presidential elections -- Presidential
primaries -- Popular vote returns for president -- The electoral
college -- Electoral votes for president, 1789-2004 -- Biographical
directory of presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
326.0973 S299r, 2006 Popular reading
AUT Schama, Simon.
TIT Rough crossings : Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution. -
1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Ecco, 2006.
CON Contents: British freedom's promise -- Part one: Greeny -- Part two:
John -- Endings, beginnings.
327.11 B993d, 2005
AUT Byman, Daniel.
TIT Deadly connections : states that sponsor terrorism.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Why do states support terrorism? -- The nature and impact of
state support -- Iran and the Lebanese Hizballah -- Syria and
Palestinian radical groups -- Pakistan and Kashmir -- Afghanistan under
the Taliban -- Passive sponsors of terrorism -- The difficulties of
stopping state sponsorship -- Halting support for terrorism.
327.17 Z38c, 2005
AUT Zartman, I. William.
TIT Cowardly lions : missed opportunities to prevent deadly conflict and
state collapse.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner, 2005.
CON Contents: Opportunities -- Lebanon, 1976-1984 -- Liberia, 1985-1998 --
Somalia, 1988-1993 -- Zaire, 1991-1996 -- Yugoslavia, 1989-1998 --
Haiti, 1991-1996 -- Seizing opportunities -- Foreign policy and
international relations.
327.172 A286a, 2005
AUT Ahmed, Akbar S ; Forst, Brian.
TIT After terror : promoting dialogue among civilizations.
PUB Cambridge ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2005.
327.172 B825e, 2005
AUT Braun, Reiner ; Krieger, David.
TIT Einstein-- peace now! : visions and ideas.
PUB Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2005.
SER [History of knowledge].
CON Contents: Einstein's importance today / Reiner Braun and David Krieger
-- Introduction / Mikhail Gorbachev -- How Einstein became a politician
/ Jürgen Renn -- World without war : a tribute to Einstein's quest for
world peace / Joseph Rotblat -- 1905 was his great year : interview
with Hans Bethe / Dieter Hoffmann -- Albert Einstein : a few personal
reflections / Walter Kohn -- About Albert Einstein / Vitaly L. Ginzburg
-- Einstein, man of peace / David Krieger -- The future of nuclear
weapons in Europe / Jack Steinberger -- Einstein, peace and
nonproliferation : a Latin American perspective / Ana María Cetto and
Luis de la Peña -- From nucleus to nuclear targeting and nuclear
proliferation / Alla Yaroshinskaya -- Thoughts on conflict resolution
in the tradition of Albert Einstein / Oscar Arias Sanchez -- The future
of our world / Ahmed Zewail -- Einstein and war resistance / Eva
Isaksson -- The military mentality / John Stachel -- The role of civil
society in disarmament issues : realism vs. idealism? / Jody Williams
-- Rapid global climate change : a self-made imminent threat for entire
mankind / Hartmut Grassl -- Peace in the Middle East : a global
challenge and a human imperative / Hanan Ashrawi -- Einstein's legacy /
Felicia Langer -- Remembering Einstein : science, ethics and peace /
Ronald McCoy -- To what end? changing ethics? / Manfred Eigen -- The
role of science and technology in the quest for a world at peace /
Jerome Karle -- Science and society : some reflections / Jean Maria
Lehn -- Technology, tolerance and terror / John C. Polanyi --
Einstein's heirs : Szilard and Sakharov / Dudley Herschbach -- Making
it happen / Jakob von Uexküll -- Einstein's dream : a scientific and
political vision for our future / interview with Abhay Ashtekar
conducted by Ekkehard Sieker -- What life means to Einstein / an
interview by George Sylvester Viereck -- Appeal to the Europeans -- The
Russell-Einstein manifesto -- An appeal to stop the spread of nuclear
weapons -- Appeal : end the nuclear weapons threat to humanity! -- U.S.
Nobel laureates object to preventive attack on Iraq -- Appeal to
support an international Einstein year.
Ref 327.7305 S967h, 2006
AUT Sutter, Robert G.
TIT Historical dictionary of United States-China relations.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006.
SER Historical dictionaries of U.S. diplomacy ; no. 2.
330.942 T245i, 1970
AUT Taylor, Philip A. M. ed.
TIT The industrial revolution in Britain : triumph or disaster?. - Rev. ed.
PUB Lexington, Mass. : Heath, c1970.
SER Problems in European civilization.
330.9747 C521r, 2005
AUT Chernick, Howard.
TIT Resilient city : the economic impact of 9/11.
PUB New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2005.
331.2 B215g, 2005
AUT Banerjee, Debdas.
TIT Globalisation, industrial restructuring, and labour standards : where
India meets the global.
PUB New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction : the scale -- Profit and wage distribution :
institutions and organisations -- Wage-productivity and labour market
flexibility : global subject and local object -- Wage distribution :
skills mismatch? -- Indian corporate sector : profitability, wage
bargaining, and limits--contesting grounds of cash labour standards --
Globalisation and labour standards : the agenda beyond WTO.
331.4 E33g, 2004
AUT Ehrenreich, Barbara ; Hochschild, Arlie Russell.
TIT Global woman : nannies, maids, and sex workers in the new economy. -
1st Owl Books ed.
PUB New York : Metropolitan/Owl Books, 2004.
CON Contents: Love and gold / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- The nanny dilemma
/ Susan Cheever -- The care crisis in the Philippines : children and
transnational families in the new global economy / Rhacel Salazar
Parreñas -- Blowups and other unhappy endings / Pierrette
Hondagneu-Sotelo -- Invisible labors : caring for the independent
person / Lynn May Rivas -- Maid to order / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Just
another job? : the commodification of domestic labor / Bridget Anderson
-- Filipina workers in Hong Kong homes : household rules and relations
/ Nicole Constable -- America's dirty work : migrant maids and
modern-day slavery / Joy M. Zarembka -- Selling sex for visas : sex
tourism as a stepping-stone to international migration / Denise Brennan
-- Among women : migrant domestics and their Taiwanese employers across
generations / Pei-Chia Lan -- Breadwinner no more / Michele Gamburd --
Because she looks like a child / Kevin Bales -- Clashing dreams :
highly educated overseas brides and low-wage U.S. husbands / Hung Cam
Thai -- Global cities and survival circuits / Saskia Sassen --
Migration trends : maps and chart / Robert Espinoza -- Appendix:
Activist organizations.
331.4 F288s, 2004
AUT Featherstone, Liza.
TIT Selling women short : the landmark battle for workers' rights at
Wal-Mart.
PUB New York : Basic Books, 2004.
CON Contents: Introduction: American Goliath -- Female troubles -- "Made in
America": the culture and its promises -- "An exceptional woman:"
(non)promotions at Wal-Mart -- Always low wages! -- Retail beyond
Wal-Mart -- WWJD? organize Wal-Mart! -- Attention shoppers -- Epilogue.
331.4086 L888s, 2001
AUT Louie, Miriam Ching Yoon.
TIT Sweatshop warriors : immigrant women workers take on the global
factory.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, c2001.
CON Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Listening
to the Women -- The Real Experts -- Chapter 1 -- Holding Up Half the
Sky -- Chinese Immigrant Women Workers -- Chapter 2 -- iLa Mujer
Luchando, El Mundo Transformandol -- Mexican Immigrant Women Workers --
Chapter 3 -- "Each Day I Go Home with A New Wound in My Heart" --
Korean Immigrant Women Workers -- Chapter 4 -- Extended Families --
Chapter 5 -- Movement Roots -- Chapter 6 -- "Just-in-Time" Guerrilla
Warriors -- Conclusion -- Returning to the Source Bibliography -- Index
-- About the Author.
331.8 L222i, 2005
AUT Lambert, Josiah Bartlett.
TIT "If the workers took a notion" : the right to strike and American
political development.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, c2005.
CON Contents: "An inevitable and irresistible conflict" : The strange case
of the disappearing American strike -- "Something of freedom is yet to
come" : The early American labor movement and the right to strike -- "A
nation of mock citizens" : The new American state and the right to
strike, 1877-1895 -- "The very instruments of democracy are often used
to oppress them" : The right to strike during the progressive era --
"Let the toilers assemble" : The new deal and the modern liberal right
to strike -- "Get down to the type of job you're supposed to be doing"
: World War II and the labor management relations act -- "Let us stand
with a greater determination" : The National Labor Relations Act and
the bifurcation of collective action in the 1960s -- "Playing hardball"
: Permanent striker replacements and the limits of industrial justice
-- "We deplore strikes because of the inconvenience" : Modern American
liberalism and the right to strike -- "Something of slavery still
remains" : The right to strike as a citizenship right.
331.892 B422ß, 2005
AUT Beik, Mildred A.
TIT Labor relations.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
SER Major issues in American history. 1535-3192.
CON Contents: The uneven emergence of a labor movement, 1827-1837 -- The
New England Shoemakers' Strike of 1860 -- The Railroad Strikes of 1877
-- The Pullman Strike and boycott of 1894 -- The Lawrence Strike of
1912 -- The miners' program, 1919-1923 -- The General Textile Strike of
1934 -- The General Motors sit-down strike of 1936-1937 -- The Labor
Management Relations (Taft-Hartley) Act of 1947 -- The Memphis
Sanitation Strike of 1968 -- The Professional Air Traffic Controllers
Organization (PATCO) strike of 1981.
Ref 332.042 E56S, 2001
AUT Shim, Jae K ; Constas, Michael.
TIT Encyclopedic dictionary of international finance and banking.
PUB Boca Raton, Fla. : St. Lucie Press, c2001.
332.042 S818f, 2006
AUT Steil, Benn ; Litan, Robert E. ; Litan, Robert E.
TIT Financial statecraft : the role of financial markets in American
foreign policy.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
332.152 H432f, 2005
AUT Head, John W.
TIT The future of the global economic organizations : an evaluation of
criticisms leveled at the IMF, the multilateral development banks, and
the WTO.
PUB Ardsley, N.Y. : Transnational Publishers, c2005.
SER Series on international law and development.
Ref 333.7 E61, 2005 v.1,2
AUT Government Institutes.
TIT Environmental statutes. - 2005 ed.
PUB Rockville, Md. : Government Institutes, 2005.
CON Contents: v.1. Clean Air Act -- Clean water Act -- Estuary Restoration
Act of 2000 -- Oil Pollution Act -- Safe Drinking Water Act -- v. 2. --
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act -- Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act/Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act -- Environmental restoration -- Emergency Planning
and Community-Right-to-Know -- Toxic Substances Control Act -- Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act -- Food Quality Protection
Act of 1994 -- National Environmental Policy Act -- Pollution
Prevention Act of 1990 -- Occupational Safety and Health Act --
Transportation of Hazardous Material.
Ref 333.7 G313o, 2006 v.1,2
AUT Geist, Helmut.
TIT Our earth's changing land : an encyclopedia of land-use and land-cover
change.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
CON Contents: v. 1. A-K -- v. 2. L-Y.
333.918 K67a, 2005
AUT Knapp, Bevil ; Dunne, Mike.
TIT America's wetland : Louisiana's vanishing coast.
PUB Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: America's Wetland -- People of the Working Wetland -- The
Disappearing Bounty -- A Nation's Security Threatened -- America's
Atlantis -- Left outside the Levee -- Lost in a Lifetime -- Rebuilding
America's Wetland.
333.95 C767a, 2005
AUT Conway, William.
TIT Act III in Patagonia : people and wildlife.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2005.
Ref 355.003 U58S, 2005 v.1,2
AUT Super, John C.
TIT The United States at war.
PUB Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2005.
SER Magill's choice.
CON Contents: v. 1. Revolutionary War--World War I -- v. 2. World War
II--Post-Cold War conflicts.
335.83 R812d, 2005
AUT Rosemont, Franklin ; Radcliffe, Charles.
TIT Dancin' in the streets! : anarchists, IWWs, surrealists, Situationists
& Provos in the 1960s as recorded in the pages of The rebel worker &
Heatwave. - 1st ed.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Charles H. Kerr, 2005.
SER Sixties series.
337 B873p, 2005
AUT Brooks, Stephen G.
TIT Producing security : multinational corporations, globalization, and the
changing calculus of conflict.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
SER Princeton studies in international history and politics.
CON Contents: Understanding the globalization of production -- Theoretical
foundations -- The globalization of production and military
technological competitiveness -- The globalization of production,
economic integration, and regional security in the developing world --
The globalization of production and the economic benefits of conquest
-- Current security implications of the globalization of production --
Looking toward the future.
338.092 M473i, 2005
AUT Mayo, Anthony J ; Nohria, Nitin.
TIT In their time : the greatest business leaders of the twentieth century.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2005.
CON Contents: 1. 1900-1909 : Land of business opportunity -- 2. 1910-1919 :
Breaking frontiers -- 3. 1920-1929 : From prosperity to despair -- 4.
1930-1939 : Survival through adaptation and renewal -- 5. 1940-1949 :
Reaching new heights through standardization -- 6. 1950-1959 : Feeding
the machine of consumption -- 7. 1960-1969 : Business in a bubble -- 8.
1970-1979 : Managing through the malaise -- 9. 1980-1989 : Restoring
glory in American business -- 10. 1990-1999 : Reengineering,
restructing, and reality check -- Epilogue.
338.176 S917c, 2005
AUT Striffler, Steve.
TIT Chicken : the dangerous transformation of America's favorite food.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2005.
SER Agrarian studies series.
338.4761 C933g, 2005
AUT Critser, Greg.
TIT Generation Rx : how prescription drugs are altering American lives,
minds, and bodies.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
CON Contents: Unbound: the strange and very American liberation of big
pharma -- We love it!: how the new pharma used its new muscle to create
a new ... you -- The full price: what living in pharma's world means
for our bodies -- The end of the great buffer? why we are more
vulnerable -- Independence for generation Rx: what can be done -- A
brief guide to the art of taking prescription drugs.
338.642 J95b, 2005
AUT Jurik, Nancy C.
TIT Bootstrap dreams : U.S. microenterprise development in an era of
welfare reform.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, 2005.
CON Contents: International Roots of Microenterprise Development -- The
Emergence of U.S. Microenterprise Development -- Characteristics of
U.S. Microenterprise Programs -- Forming a Microenterprise Program:
case study part I -- Maturation of a Microenterprise Program: case
study part II -- Microenterprise Development Context, Contradiction,
and Practice .
338.7 K92s, 2005
AUT Krier, Dan.
TIT Speculative management : stock market power and corporate change.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 2005.
SER SUNY series in the sociology of work and organizations.
338.9 R782c, 2006
AUT Root, Hilton L.
TIT Capital and collusion : the political logic of global economic
development.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. Risk, uncertainty, and social progress -- 2. Social
foundations of policy credibility -- 3. Politics and economic structure
: the economic logic of autocracy -- 4. An amazing economy of
information : the financial system -- 5. Closing the social
productivity gap in East Asia -- 6. The price of exclusion : Latin
America's explosive debt -- 7. Why not India? New century, new country
-- 8. Pakistan on the edge -- 9. China's capitalist dream : between
hierarchy and market -- 10. Mobilizing the state as public risk manager
-- Conclusion : uncertainty, competition, and collusion in early
capital accumulation.
340.08 H118c, 2005
AUT Hacker, Hans J.
TIT The culture of conservative Christian litigation.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.
CON Contents: The culture of conservative Christian litigation -- A place
at the table -- Educating for equal access -- Wise as a serpent and
innocent as a lamb -- Good lawyers, good Christians, or good Christian
lawyers?.
340.11 M978p, 2005
AUT Murphy, James Bernard.
TIT The philosophy of positive law : foundations of jurisprudence.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Positive language and positive law in Plato's Cratylus --
Law's positivity in the natural law jurisprudence of Thomas Aquinas --
Positive language and positive law in Thomas Hobbes -- Positive law in
the analytical positivism of John Austin.
341.24 M848i, 2005
AUT Morgan, Glyn.
TIT The idea of a European superstate : public
justification and European integration.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
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