Kristen: 1057 books
Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide
Identity and Moral Choice
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
What causes genocide? Why do some stand by, doing nothing, while others risk their lives to help the persecuted? Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide analyzes riveting interviews with bystanders, Nazi supporters, and rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust to lay bare critical psychological forces...
Plowshares
Protest, Performance, and Religious Identity in the Nuclear Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guards, these activists pounded on missile nose cones with hammers and then covered the cones in their own blood. This act of nonviolent resistance...
Radical Conflict
Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Radical Conflictaddresses conflict at interpersonal and communal, legal and rhetorical, ethnopolitical, global, and geopolitical levels. The conflicts analyzed are "radical" because in each some intense and often prolonged violence takes place. The chapters address different kinds of violence(s)—physical...
Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States
Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining of race in popular culture productions, political discourses, and resistance rhetoric. The chapters in this volume...
Rethinking Disaster Recovery
A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized...
Androgen Deprivation Therapy
An Essential Guide for Prostate Cancer Patients and Their Loved Ones
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
"This is an excellent resource for individuals who are both being treated by and caring for those on androgen deprivation therapy. It addresses commonly understood as well as sensitive topics impacted by this treatment and offers explanations and strategies for how to address and cope with these...
Shadow of Extinction
Heading For Extinction, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Deep in the Amazon jungle, so deep even the Amazon River is not close, a woman gives birth to a baby with a tail. Traumatised, she runs off into the jungle never to be seen again, leaving the new born baby with a young girl who had been her companion.
This is the story of that baby and how...
China’s Incomplete Military Transformation
Assessing the Weaknesses of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Through extensive primary source analysis and independent analysis, this report seeks to answer a number of important questions regarding the state of China’s armed forces. The authors found that the PLA is keenly aware of its many weaknesses and is vigorously striving to correct them. Although...
by Clay Spinuzzi, Carl G. Herndl, S. Scott Graham
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, Bruno Latour has inspired scholarship across many disciplines. In the past few years, the fields of rhetoric and composition have witnessed an explosion of interest in Latour’s work. Editors Paul Lynch and...
by Kristen Lee Over
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Thomas J. Anastasio, Kristen Ann Ehrenberger, Patrick Watson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
An argument that individuals and collectives form memories by analogous processes and a case study of collective retrograde amnesia.
Science, Ethics, and Politics
Conversations and Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The relationship between science and ethics has been subject to much debate. This volume demonstrates the mutually beneficial relationship that can take place between ethics and science. It presents work that utilises the tools of science - broadly conceptualised - to elucidate ethical issues, showing...
Between Contacts and Colonies
Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
This collection of essays brings together diverse approaches to the analysis of Native American culture in the protohistoric period.
For most Native American peoples of the Southeast, almost two centuries passed between first contact with European explorers in the 16th century and colonization...
Governance for Peace
How Inclusive, Participatory and Accountable Institutions Promote Peace and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Governance for Peace presents a comprehensive analysis of the dimensions of governance that are most likely to prevent armed conflict and foster sustainable peace. It is an accessible study written for the general reader that brings together the best empirical evidence across numerous disciplines...