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God Loves Diversity and Justice
Progressive Scholars Speak about Faith, Politics, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Both personal and scholarly in tone, this book encourages readers to think theologically, ethically, and politically about the statement that declares: “God loves diversity and justice.” The multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary, and multi-gendered identities of the eleven contributors...
Ethics in Ethnography
A Mixed Methods Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This is Book 6 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.
Ethics in Ethnography explores the burgeoning field of research ethics and addresses how both formal and informal ethical considerations underpin good ethnographic research.
Coming from the position that no particular...
Shop 'til You Drop
Consumer Behavior and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004
Are Americans obsessed with shopping? Shop 'til You Drop is a lively look at our consumer culture and its role in our everyday lives and society. Is the United States different from other first-world nations in the amount of time we spend shopping or in our attitudes toward consumption? Are we one...
by Peter Rollberg, George Washington University
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Russian and Soviet cinema occupies a unique place in the history of world cinema. Legendary filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Dziga Vertov, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Sergei Paradjanov have created oeuvres that are being screened and studied all over the world. The Soviet film industry...
Globalization, Gender Politics, and the Media
From the West to Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
From advertising to television and film, feminist media scholars have examined the changing nature of media representations form the 1990’s onwards in comparison to the 1950s in the UK and the US. Many debates focus on the current ambiguity surrounding media representations which are inserted within...
Parents And Teachers
Power And Participation
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This work examines the factors that shape and influence home-school relations. At its heart is an analysis of parent-teacher relationships in an inner city borough, drawn from case studies of five primary schools and a parents' centre. Interviews with parents are revealing windows into parents' views...
by Timothy Crowe, M.S., Criminology - Florida State University
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, 3e is a vital book for anyone involved in architectural design, space management, and urban planning. The concepts presented in this book explain the link between design and human behavior. Understanding this link can enable a planner to use natural environmental...
by Sunil Ahuja, Margaret E. Banyan, Peter Bergerson
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The Roads to Congress 2008 offers readers straightfoward and detailed case studies of the campaigns, candidates, key issues, and outcomes of over one dozen of the most important and interesting races of 2008. This includes both House and Senate campaigns, contests from all regions of the country,...
Learning from Young Children
Research in Early Childhood Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
In early childhood, the most important period of learning and human development, young children often achieve developmental milestones in a short time. Learning from Young Children: Research in Early Childhood Music presents research on the importance of fostering musical growth during this period. These studies discuss: _
Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific
Incidence, Consequences, and Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Civil wars and internal conflicts pose the greatest threat to international peace and security in the twenty-first century. Nowhere is this problem more acute than in East Asia and the Pacific, which has far more of its share of such conflicts. Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific:...
New Ethnicities And Urban Culture
Social Identity And Racism In The Lives Of Young People
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Engaging exploration of race and youth culture which examines the development of new identities, ethnicities and forms of racism. This text analyzes the relationship between racism, community and adolescent social identities in the African and South Asian diasporas.; This book is intended for undergraduate...
by John M. Butler, Ph.D. (Analytical Chemistry), University of Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Intended as a companion to the Fundamentals of Forensic DNA Typing volume published in 2009, Advanced Topics in Forensic DNA Typing: Methodology contains 18 chapters with 4 appendices providing up-to-date coverage of essential topics in this important field and citation to more than 2800 articles...
Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason
Poetics, Praxis, and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Poetics, Praxis and Critique: Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason addresses contemporary problems of justice, the recognition of disabled persons, the role of imagination in political judgment, the need for religious hospitality and carnal hermeneutics. The essays in this volume are a...
Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement
Through Local, Regional, and Global Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine...