Katz: 535 books
The Punitive Imagination
Law, Justice, and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
From the Gospel of Matthew to numerous US Supreme Court justices, many literary and legal sources have observed that how a society metes out punishment reveals core truths about its character. The Punitive Imagination is a collection of essays that engages and contributes to debates about the purposes...
Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment
Insights from Cultural Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Guided by the concept of synergy, this groundbreaking collection explores alternatives in the areas of counseling, education, and community health and development. Synergy refers to the process of two or more things coming together to create a new, greater, and often-unexpected whole. When synergy...
Publishing and the Law
Current Legal Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Get the latest information on new developments in copyright law!
This timely volume sheds light on the important legal issues that influence the scholarly publishing world. The often-confusing field of publishing law--including copyright, licensing, liability, electronic publishing, and taxation--is...
The International Handbook on the Sociology of Education
An International Assessment of New Research and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2002
The twentieth century has been marked by the expansion of educational opportunities worldwide. It has been the century of education, and the role of the state in the promotion of public education has been decisive. Yet, at the millennium's turn efforts to diminish the role of the state are rapidly...
Developing Mathematical Thinking
A Guide to Rethinking the Mathematics Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
In this country we have done a poor job of helping students come to see the wonder, beauty and power of mathematics. Standards can be brought into the picture, but unless we think about what it means to truly engage students in mathematics we will continue to be unsuccessful. The goal of this book...
Our Quest for Effective Living
A Window to a New Science / How We Cope in Social Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The book gives new illumination to many facets of life -- from human sexuality to the appeal of false messiahs, from stage fright among even the most accomplished performers to suicide among successful writers, from enjoyment of opera to morally justifying murderous deeds. It does all of these, and...
Ready, Set, Live!
Empowering Strategies for an Enlightened Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
An inspirational guide for overcoming adversity and leading a fulfilled life, with contributions by more than two dozen experts on personal transformation.
Trials and difficulties are a part of life. Whether these adversities are related to one’s health, finances, career, or family, we all...
Precarious Worlds
Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work...
Spaces of Danger
Culture and Power in the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of...
Election Studies
What's Their Use?
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Academic studies of elections are not in the business of predicting outcomes. They are in the business of explaining them. The best studies treat voting data as raw material with which to explore socio-psychological processes such as individual decision-making and such sources of influence as issues,...
by Russ Katz
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Some say man evolved over millions of years from single celled organisms and some say man was created by God in his image. What if they are both right?
When researcher Adam Clark receives a call from his archeologist father, who has just discovered a strange, pod-like artifact in The Cradle...
by Daniel Jacobi, Elihu Katz
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
“Non-public” was used for the first time in May, 1968, by those working professionally in the cultural domain in France. At the time, they were gathered in Villeurbanne at the head office of the TNP (French National Popular Theatres), and they used this notion in a very militant way to describe...
A Taste of True Blood
The Fangbanger's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
True Blood, Alan Ball’s critically acclaimed television adaptation of Charlaine Harris’ bestselling Southern Vampire mysteries, is HBO’s most-watched show since The Sopranos, averaging over 12 million viewers an episode in its second season. Thanks to its large, dedicated fanbase, it won the People’s...
by Benjamin Katz
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
The history of mankind can partly be understood as the history of our blindness of our mental limitations! The three fundamental truths that we must face in order to survive/prevail on a long-term basis are as follows: 1. Everything is temporary, including Homo sapiens, his achievements, and his constructs....