Jeffrey: 3395 books
Defending Diversity
Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Even as lawsuits challenging its admissions policies made their way through the courts, the University of Michigan carried the torch for affirmative action in higher education.
In June 2003, the Supreme Court vindicated UM's position on affirmative action when it ruled that race may be used...
by Jeffrey Record
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2006
No historical event has exerted more influence on AmericaÆs postûWorld War II use of military force than the Anglo-French appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Informed by the supposed grand lesson of Munichûnamely, that capitulating to the demands of aggressive dictatorships invites further aggression...
Books Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe
French Cosmopolitanism and German Literary Markets
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Though the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study them—least of all in the age of Enlightenment when French books reached readers throughout Europe. In this erudite and engagingly...
The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving
How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Dog lovers get ready – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, international bestselling author of Dogs Never Lie About Love (which the San Francisco Chronicle calls "winning and wise," and "a charming paean to our best friends"), is back with an inspiring, heart-warming, and deeply personal...
Black-Jewish Relations on Trial
Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in America In 1915 Leo Frank, a Northern Jew, was lynched in Georgia. He had been convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, a young white woman who worked in the Atlanta...
by Jeffrey M. Wilhite
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
A Chronology of Librarianship, 1960-2000 continues the work of Josephine Smith in her original Chronology of Librarianship (Scarecrow, 1968). It updates and completes her work up to 2000, paying special attention to the progress made on technological and international fronts that have significantly...
by Jeffrey Schulte
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
From the author: I grew up spending most of my summers in a public outdoor swimming pool. I accepted the fact that swimming pools were always cloudy and over-chlorinated to the point of causing stinging eyes and sometimes shortness of breath from spending the day in the water. I used to watch the...
Living with Nkrumahism
Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People’s Party, drew the world’s attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it as a model for Africa’s postcolonial future. Nkrumah was a visionary, a statesman, and one of the key...
Entertaining Politics
Satiric Television and Political Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
In this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment television by examining The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Politically Incorrect/Real Time with Bill Maher, and Michael Moore's...
New Critical Theory
Essays on Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2001
New Critical Theory surveys contemporary leftist thought while introducing the tenets of this new form of critical theory. Beginning with an exploration of the relationship between Marxism, Habermas, and the politics of identity, William S. Wilkerson and Jeffrey R. Paris present a collection that...
The Game
Chronicles of a Golfer Not Yet Finished
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Finally, a book about the game of golf as you play it. This book is not about great professional players past or present. It is not about the world's great courses. It makes no claims that you will be a better player after reading it. This book is about you and the game as you play it. In this whimsical...
Washington Irving and Islam
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Washington Irving and Islam contributes to understanding the relationship between the United States and the Islamic world, valuable not only for studies of Washington Irving, American Literature, or Islam, but also for thinking through the role Islam and the “Orient” have played in American literature...
by D. Jeffrey Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
The story of Christianity is a fascinating tale. Here we find drama, vision and expansion along with failure, setbacks and tragedy. Yet during the past two thousand years the power of Jesus is felt throughout the interplay of human actors and the forces of world events. How can you grasp the story...
Blessed Are the Organized
Grassroots Democracy in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many Americans are doubtful, and have withdrawn into apathy and cynicism. But thousands of others are not ready to give up on democracy just...