University: 748 books
Learning to Be Old
Gender, Culture, and Aging
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Margaret Cruikshank’s Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the elderly, the over-medicalization of many older people, and ageism. In this book, Cruikshank proposes alternatives...
Mother Time
Women, Aging, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2000
This collection of original essays opens up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimension of women's experiences of aging. Fifteen distinguished contributors here explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life....
Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans
Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student population. However, classroom material often does not include their version of the American experience. Teaching about Asian...
Oil Injustice
Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Oil Injustice examines the mobilization efforts of four communities with different oil histories in response to the construction of an oil pipeline. Using multiple sites in Ecuador as case studies, Patricia Widener examines the efforts of grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, activist...
A Sanctuary of Their Own
Intellectual Refugees in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2000
What is at stake in compromising the Enlightenment ideals of a liberal education with new educational policies engendered by a neo-liberalized, global marketplace? Richly grounding his arguments in the social philosophy of European and American intellectuals, Raphael Sassower explores Western culture's...
Green Liberalism
The Free And The Green Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This is an agenda-setting exploration of the relationship between green politics and liberal ideology. Ecological problems provide unique challenges for liberal democracies.; This challenge is examined by the author who aims to fill the gap between short-term ecological modernization and the politically infeasible longer term utopian approaches.
Unsettling America
The Uses of Indianness in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Unsettling America explores the cultural politics of Indianness in the 21st century. It concerns itself with representations of Native Americans in popular culture, the news media, and political debate and the ways in which American Indians have interpreted, challenged, and reworked key ideas about...
by Shirley Grundy University of New England, USA.
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Peter Rollberg, George Washington University
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Film lovers all over the world are familiar with the masterpieces of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky. These directors' unique achievements were embedded in a powerful process that began under Russia's last tsar and underwent several periods of blossoming: the bourgeois cinema in the 1910s, the revolutionary...
Unframing Martin Heidegger’s Understanding of Technology
On the Essential Connection between Technology, Art, and History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This book presents a new and radical interpretation of some of Martin Heidegger’s most influential texts. The unfamiliar interpretations all seek to question and unframe hasty assessments of the concepts and constellations of thoughts surrounding Heidegger’s notion of modern technology. Heidegger’s...
by James Acheson, Matthew Bird, Gracia Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives....
by Aaron Bell, Ted Benton, Susan Benston
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to approach our relationship with other animals from the critical or "left" tradition in political and social thought. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of "animal rights," the authors...
Cockeyed Education
A Case Method Primer
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Should educators pay students? Should they make them wear sunglasses, regulate their clothing, allow them to bring animals into classrooms, discourage them from playing videogames, or transform their schools into gymnasiums? These are some of the suggestions that Cockeyed Education examines. This...
by Jack Reynolds, Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, Melbourne
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Acknowledged as one of the most memorable novels about Thailand, “A Woman of Bangkok” was first published to critical acclaim in London and New York in the 1950s and is a classic of Bangkok fiction. Set in 1950s Thailand, this is the story of an Englishman’s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess...