University: 748 books
Civilizations and World Order
Geopolitics and Cultural Difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
This bookexamines the role of civilizations in the context of the existing and possible world orders from a cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary perspective. It seeks to clarify the meaning of such complex and contested notions as “civilization,” “order,” and “world order” by taking into account political, economic, cultural, and philosophical dimensions of social life.
Creativity in Education and Learning
A Guide for Teachers and Educators
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
A study of creativity in the context of education, an issue of great importance for teachers and students alike. It considers just how creativity "works" and how it can be encouraged. The book has an international and an historical sweep, and features many examples.
Rethinking Reference for Academic Libraries
Innovative Developments and Future Trends
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The rapid development of the Web and Web-based technologies has led to an ongoing redefinition of reference services in academic libraries. A growing diversity of users and the need and possibility for collaboration in delivering reference services bring additional pressures for change. At the same...
Through the Gates of Good
or Christ and Conduct
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
He who will humbly pass through the Gate of Good, resolving that every element of his nature that is not pure and true and lovable shall be abandoned, that every violation of the Divine precepts shall be abolished, to him, faithful, humble, true, will be revealed the sublime Vision of the Perfect...
Assessing MENA Political Reform, Post-Arab Spring
Mediators and Microfoundations
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The euphoria and promise that accompanied the Arab Spring has been replaced with a business-as-usual tone in the MENA. Revolutionary shifts in political and religious power have been tempered and, in some cases, reversed. Observers should not be surprised at these outcomes, but skeptics would be advised...
Stagecraft and Statecraft
Advance and Media Events in Political Communication
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Media events are a central communication tactic used by political communicators in political campaigns and in governmental affairs. Each president has an advance staff that creates mediagenic events to influence the news media, generate coverage and excitement, construct favorable political images,...
by Marilyn Strathern, Professor, University of Cambridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest...
Cultural Materialism
The Struggle for a Science of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2001
Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris has developed and modified some of his ideas over the past two decades, generations of professors have looked to this volume as the essential...
by David M. Blades, Joseph M. Siracusa, Deputy Dean of Global Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The story of U. S. nuclear testing between 1945 and 1963 is a vivid and exciting one, but also one of profound importance. It is a story of trailblazing scientific progress, weapons of mass destruction, superpower rivalry, accidents, radiological contamination, politics, and diplomacy. The testing...
Smash the Pillars
Decoloniality and the Imaginary of Color in the Dutch Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Smash the Pillars builds on the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory, as they resist the epistemological violence imposed by the state, its institutions, and dominant narratives. Contributions offer an unparalleled glimpse into decolonial activism in the Dutch kingdom...
by Judith S. Trent, Henry C. Kenski, Kate M. Kenski
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
This diverse and unique collection of essays examines a wide range of communication elements and themes in the context of the 2012 election. Topics include the early campaign and Romney’s nomination battle, candidate image, the rhetoric and campaigning of Michelle Obama and Ann Romney, issues of...
Language of Terror
How Neuroscience Influences Political Speech in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Building on the emerging field of biopolitics of security, this research monograph demonstrates that political speech can be crafted to manipulate segments of the voting population who are inherently predisposed to being receptive to certain language. The authors, who come from both political science...
Military Resilience in Low-Intensity Conflict
A Comparative Study of New Directions Worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Military Resilience in a Low-Intensity Conflict: A Comparative Study of New Directions Worldwide,by Rachel Suissa, offers a prognosis for the dilemma of army resilience in the post-modern era. She clarifies the concept of military resilience among the challenges of the twenty-first century, examining...
by Judith Lorber, Lisa Jean Moore, Purchase College
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich...