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Crisis in the Southwest
The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
The war between the United States and Mexico was decades in the making. Although Texas was an independent republic from 1836 to 1845, Texans retained an affiliation with the United States that virtually assured annexation at some point. Mexico's reluctance to give up Texas put it on a collision course...
by Audrey Kahin
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
A wide-flung archipelago lying between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, Indonesia is the world's most populous Islamic country. For over two thousand years it was a crossroads on the major trading route between China and India, but it was not brought together into a single entity until the Dutch extended...
A Tale of Two Eagles
The US-Mexico Bilateral Defense Relationship Post Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
The United States and Mexico share a history shaped in the 19th century by numerous US forces interventions into Mexican territory and US expropriation of considerable swaths of Mexican territory. However, in spite of structural impediments and a history of resentment by Mexico of US intervention...
Predatory States
Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
This powerful study makes a compelling case about the key U.S. role in state terrorism in Latin America during the Cold War. Long hidden from public view, Operation Condor was a military network created in the 1970s to eliminate political opponents of Latin American regimes. Its key members were the...
On the Border
Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
A stunningly beautiful backdrop where cultures meet, meld, and thrive, the U.S.–Mexico borderlands is one of the most dynamic regions in the Americas. On the Border explores little-known corners of this fascinating area of the world in a rich collection of essays. Beginning with an exploration of...
El Norte or Bust!
How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Debt is the hidden engine driving undocumented migration to the United States. So argues David Stoll in this powerful chronicle of migrants, moneylenders, and swindlers in the Guatemalan highlands, one of the locales that, collectively, are sending millions of Latin Americans north in search of higher...
by Christian A. Nappo
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Presidential libraries and museums are national monuments dedicated to the memories of men who served as America’s commander-in-chief. There are twenty-five (soon to be twenty-six) presidential libraries and museums.
Following an introductory overview of presidential libraries and museums...
Key States, High Stakes
Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008 election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010 congressional elections had the...
Global Interest in Student Behavior
An Examination of International Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
A cornerstone for effective teaching and learning is vested in the quality of the way in which students focus on the content of their lessons. The chapters in this book, then, offer cross-national perspectives on best practices when dealing with the challenge of student misconduct. The chapter authors,...
Humanity on a Tightrope
Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
When we think of family, we most often think of our sisters and brothers, our cousins and grandparents, rather than our world family or even our community connections. We still identify with our differences more than our similarities, unless it's convenient to do otherwise. Here, two seasoned authors...
Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture
Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The fifth edition of this approachable text draws on both academic and applied perspectives to offer a lively critique of contemporary advertising’s effects on American character and culture.
Berger explains how advertising works by employing a psycho-cultural approach, encouraging readers...
Surviving Your Doctors
Why the Medical System is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through it Alive
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the...
Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now
Gaining the Upper Hand in Your Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The state of health care in this country is routinely discussed in the media, at the office, and around the kitchen table. Yet as consumers of medical care, Americans often blindly accept medical advice that may or may not be relevant or even appropriate. Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now is meant...
Collaboration in Private Practice
Psychotherapy in the Midst of Health Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The practice of psychology, psychiatry, social work, counseling, and psychotherapy is changing under the increasing impact of market forces, corporate insurance companies, and government reforms. Collaboration in Private Practice: Psychotherapy in the Midst of Health Care Reform is a guide to establishing...