University: 748 books
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...
Jim Crow's Legacy
The Lasting Impact of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Jim Crow’s Legacy shows the lasting impact of segregation on the emotional and physical health of African Americans who lived through it, as well as its impact on future generations. The book features powerful interview excepts of African American southerners whose stories poignantly show the devastation...
by Duane Champagne, University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Duane Champagne has been presenting a series of comments on Indian policy, history, and culture since October 2006 in the newspaper Indian Country Today. This book provides a compilation of many of these editorials, plus two chapters not previously published. The contemplative writing by this well-respected...
Presidential Doctrines
U.S. National Security from George Washington to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
This text assesses and evaluates the key U.S. presidential doctrines from Washington to Obama. It demonstrates that in spite of differences between successive administrations, in most instances presidential doctrines have articulated both the responses and directions conducive to an international...
by Claudia Nocentini (Lecturer in Italian, University of Edinburgh)
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Although never named as such, the landscape of Sanremo was a visual source for Calvino's fiction. This recurring theme provides both a link between some very different works and an insight into the autobiographical dimension of an author whose attitude to privacy is protective but detached....
The Educational Imperative
A Defence Of Socratic And Aesthetic Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Written with both the cultural and moral crisis and the challenge of the future in mind, Peter Abbs's book charts an open, clear, and positive way forward for education. Divided into four sections, the first examines the true and fitting ends of education and outlines a positive conception of education...
Private Practices
Girls Reading Fiction And Constructing Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Women Reshaping Human Rights
How Extraordinary Activists Are Changing the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
In Women Reshaping Human Rights ,ordinary yet extraordinary women tell their stories, in their own words. Their deeds span continents and have profoundly affected millions worldwide.Readers will meet Vera Laska, who as a teenager joined the resistance against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia; Dai Qing,...
Knowledge, Belief, and Character
Readings in Contemporary Virtue Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2000
There have been many books over the past decade, including outstanding collections of essays, on the topic of the ethical virtues and virtue-theoretic approaches in ethics. But the professional journals of philosophy have only recently seen a strong and growing interest in the intellectual virtues...
Depression in Later Life
An Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
The geriatric population, defined as men and women 65 years and older, is the fastest growing population in the world. While gerontology, the study of the aging process in human beings, has brought insights about the physical, emotional, and social needs of this population, little attention has been...
The Equal Society
Essays on Equality in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Equality is a widely championed social ideal. But what is equality? And what action is required if present-day societies are to root out their inequalities?
The Equal Society collects fourteen philosophical essays, each with a fresh perspective on these questions. The authors explore the demands...
by John Monahan, Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
As therapists are increasingly held legally responsible for failing to predict their client''s violent behaviour, the pressure to know and forecast behaviour - never the chosen domain of clinicians - has risen. Worries about potential law suits invade the therapeutic setting. The volume enables therapists...
Power and Order in Asia
A Survey of Regional Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Asia stands out as the world’s most vibrant region, where rivalries and confrontation coincide with increased economic cooperation and community building. How should we interpret these two dynamics, and what are the implications for U.S. policy? With the support of the MacArthur Foundation, Asahi...
by Renzo Llorente, Deaprtment of Philosophy, Saint Louis University
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Nearly half a century after his death, Ernesto “Che” Guevara remains a compelling and controversial figure. He was an original social theorist, and many of his writings attest to an innovative interpretation of various concepts and commitments central to Marxist thought. This is one of the first...