Society and culture: general Books

The recent war with Iraq has had the greatest impact on journalism since the Vietnam War. Before the next war arrives, how the news media cover conflict -- and international affairs more generally -- should be scrutinized. The questions explored in this...

What is the essence of "black" dance in America, and what is the black dancing body? To answer these question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild charts an unorthodox history by mapping the geography of the black dancing body and showing its central place in our...

The Guide for Women in Religion is an indispensable resource for everyone from undergraduate students to emeritae professors involved in the field of religion. In the tradition of a Guide to the Perplexing: A Survival Manual for Women in Religious...

This book explores British media coverage and representation of religion and contemporary secular values and is set in the context of wider debates about the sociology of religion and media representation. The authors consider the media portrayal of...

This important book explores the contribution states can make to overcoming collective action problems and create collective goods favorable to social, economic, and political development. It examines how state-society relations as well as features of...

Postmemories of Terror focuses on how young Argentineans remember the traumatic events of the military dictatorship (1976-83). This work is based on oral histories with sixty-three young people who were too young to be directly victimized or politically...

Although married four times, Julia Ruuttila claimed that the love of her life was not a man but a union. From her Industrial Workers of the World origins to the CIO, the International Woodworkers of America, and the International Longshore and Warehouse...

The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography contains essential details of the lives of over 2100 women from all periods, cultures and walks of life-from queens to cooks, engineers to entertainers, pilots to poisoners. In addition to new...

In recent years women's movements and democracy movements appear to have been more successful in promoting social equality than labour movements or development movements. Wage gaps between men and women have narrowed. New democracies have flourished...

This volume is relevant to Islamicists, phenomenologists, comparatists, metaphysicians, philosophers of religion, and historians of ideas. This book is the first volume in a new and unique book series: Islamic Philosophy and...

Philadelphia's 'Black Mafia' could be used as primary reading in deviance and organized crime courses. Academicians in the fields of criminology, sociology, history, political science and African-American Studies will find the...

This volume presents the results of several studies involving scientists and technicians. The author describes and analyses the interpretation scientists volunteered given graphs that had been culled from an introductory course...

Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account is the first book-length treatment of philosophical issues and implications in current cellular and molecular neuroscience. John Bickle articulates a philosophical...

This book tells the story of Wittgenstein interpretation during the past eighty years. It provides different interpretations, chronologies, developments, and controversies. It aims to discover the motives and motivations behind...

Jan Pronk The role of institutions in economic development has been debated at length. It is a major chapter in the history of economic thought. It was also a key - sue in comparisons of the effectiveness of Eastern and Western...

This volume looks at the temporal and volatile ways in which Frankfurt and Tel Aviv engage the global economy and function as nodes within global networks. Drawing on a combination of qualitative and quantitative empirical...

This book deals with the challenges posed by the transformation of society towards much-needed sustainability. Especially, it deals with the local condi­ tionalities ofthis change, but seen in a global context. Indeed, its two...

This volume discusses two distinct perspectives on the analysis of argumentative discourse: the dialectical and the rhetorical perspective. It intends to open a thorough discussion of the two approaches, their commonalities and...

In this book we will explore in more detail some aspects of the Arab-Jewish divide, which raise fundamental questions regarding the place of the Arabs and Arab language education in the Jewish State. More specifically, the aim...

Based on large research material collected in Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria Social change, Gender and Violence is the book which explores the impact of transition from communism and war on everyday life of women and...

This book shows that philosophers and linguists of quite different brands have tended to give undue priority to their own favorite theoretical framework, and have presupposed that the descriptive scheme invoked by that...

The book addresses critically the question: "What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?". It begins with a theoretical discussion and then analyses, through a series of case studies, the intentions, contents,...

From a variety of perspectives, the essays presented here explore the profound interdependence of natural philosophy and rational religion in the `long seventeenth century' that begins with the burning of Bruno in 1600 and...

One morning in 1969, out of the blue, I received a letter which both distressed and astonished me. It was from a Prof. S. R. Das in Calcutta, who requested me to accept, for eventual analysis, a mountain of anthropometric data...

The formation of military societies like the Orange and Blew provided a socially acceptable setting for these gentlemen and occasionally ladies to convene and likely influence decision making within the context of empire building and military campaigns...

In 1937, the Irish Folklore Commission issued guidance to National Schools countrywide for the collection of stories, folklore, songs, and histories; the pupils of Ireland's schools were charged with the collection, curation, and transcription of the...

The survival of folklore is a rare thing. In a world fixated with the modern and new, many no longer see any relevance in what they consider to be old. But folklore is more than a glimpse into our pasts. It is vibrant and alive, surviving and, indeed,...

Sometimes when my children were young and they were scared at bedtime, we would scare the monster away. We would look around the room, in the closet and of course under the bed. We would wave to the imaginary monsters as the left the room.

Our world is in agony. What's the antidote and how do we inject it?There are billions of good people with a desire to do what's right and thousands of proposed solutions to the dilemmas that assail our planet. Why can't humankind make more progress...

When you hear the name Charles Manson, depending on your age will determine on what you remember of him. For those who were alive during the famous murder spree you will remember the face that was plastered all over the local news. You will remember the...

For half a century, Mother Earth has given man dominion over his own reproduction and the reproduction of all animals and plants on Earth. We are therefore indebted to repair the damage we cause. Meat and eggs for consumption are now exclusively produced...

 This book is the most comprehensive phonetic compilation of cultural information ever produced about the Lokono-Arawak Tribal Nation, of north-east Amazonia, a must-have publication for any academic, Taino, or Kalinago person wanting to know...

Yes you CAN homeschool your children while working! The Working Parent's Guide to Homeschooling will inform and empower working parents with tools and resources to homeschool. Explore time management, childcare arrangements while working, how to teach...

This book of essays presents actors within our historical and contemporary context, at the standpoint of the turn of a twenty-first century. We shall artistically and interpretively think of these societal actors, persons, ideas, authoritative...

Terrified about the future of the world? Weighed down by the prospect of climate change and the apparent impossibility of doing anything about it? Horrified by scenes of oceans choked with plastic? This book suggests small things that all of us can do to...

This updated Love, Infidelity and Sexual Addiction: With Cybersex Addiction, is an honest sharing of a trust betrayed. It chronicles the author's personal experiences with a sexually addicted spouse as well as stories of others in various stages of...

Twenty one years after the brutal murders of three eight year old Cub Scouts in West Memphis, Arkansas, there seem to still be more questions than there are answers. We have gone all the way back to the beginning and looked through years worth of...

This book will reveal occult practices and believes of the elite, notably Hollywood's and political establishments which manifests itself through numerology codes in the motion pictures,mass media and show business. As far as we know...

Las chicas complicadas son la cara B de la sedución. Ellas son las relaciones tóxicas y las complicaciones. Ligar es fácil con chicas normales, pero, aqui te ves envuelto en problemas. Este libro es una guía para sobrevivir a todo esto. No todo es bonito...

Lock the docks and bolt the windows, it's time to countdown the one hundred deadliest serial killers in history. What follows is a grisly and gruesome menagerie of killers you really wouldn't want to meet on a dark night! 

This is a story involving you, me, everyone else in the world, all nonhuman life, our environment, science, and ecoethics.  As a species, we are beset by a Crisis which was decades in the making.  We don't have decades to correct the...