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One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds
Spirituality, Identity, and Resistance across Islamic Lands
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland. Sober Muslim voices regularly describe their current state as the worst in the 1,400-year history of Islam. Yet, precisely at this time of unprecedented material...
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case
Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down: black men...
Redeeming La Raza
Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The transborder modernization of Mexico and the American Southwest during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries transformed the lives of ethnic Mexicans across the political divide. While industrialization, urbanization, technology, privatization, and wealth concentration benefitted some,...
by Simon Waldman, Emre Caliskan
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Today's Turkey little resembles that of recent decades. Newfound economic prosperity has had many unexpected social and political repercussions, most notably the rise of the AKP party and President Erdogan. Despite unprecedented electoral popularity, the conduct of the AKP has faced growing criticism:...
Electing Justice
Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2005
Davis discusses the increasing role of interest groups, the press, and the public, whose role is not prescribed in the Constitution, in the selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and how it affects the process. First he examines in detail the history and nature of the process, then he...
by Philip Goldstein, James L. Machor
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2008
Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser extent, acknowledge the various ways in which readers have found texts-- literature, television shows, movies,...
by Dale S. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
What kind of person should I strive to be? What ideals should I pursue in my life? These basic human questions and others like them are components of the overall question that guides this book: What is enlightenment? As Dale Wright argues, any serious practitioner of human life, religious or not,...
A Muslim in Victorian America
The Life of Alexander Russell Webb
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2006
Conflicts and controversies at home and abroad have led Americans to focus on Islam more than ever before. In addition, more and more of their neighbors, colleagues, and friends are Muslims. While much has been written about contemporary American Islam and pioneering studies have appeared on Muslim...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
This collection of thirteen new essays is the first to examine, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, how the new technologies and global reach of the Internet are changing the theory and practice of free speech. The rapid expansion of online communication, as well as the changing roles of government...
Scandal and Civility
Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
A new breed of journalists came to the fore in post-revolutionary America--fiercely partisan, highly ideological, and possessed of a bold sense of vocation and purpose as they entered the fray of political debate. Often condemned by latter-day historians and widely seen in their own time as a threat...
In the Shadow of Death
Restorative Justice and Death Row Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
The press called Martin's actions a "crime spree." Already convicted of armed robbery, Martin was facing the death penalty. In less than two weeks the jury would decide his fate. Terrified that his son would be sentenced to die, Phillip did the only thing he felt he could do: in an act of faith and...
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Schools
A 360-Degree View of the Research and Practice Principles
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Since the publication of the First Edition, there have been several advances on the research on Solution-focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) in schools. This Second Edition contains updates on how to apply SFBT to specific problem areas that school social workers frequently encounter. Each chapter has been...
A Better Pencil
Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself. A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving hate-love...
Composing the World
Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
"We can hear the universe!" This was the triumphant proclamation at a February 2016 press conference announcing that the Laser Interferometer Gravity Observatory (LIGO) had detected a "transient gravitational-wave signal." What LIGO heard in the morning hours of September 14, 2015 was the vibration...