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Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better

Lessons from the Harvard Home Builder Study

by Frederick Abernathy, Kermit Baker, Kent Colton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better examines the performance and operation of the US homebuilding sector based on a detailed survey of large home builders conducted by the authors in the period of the great building boom of the 2000s. In contrast to the many books that have focused on the financial...

Social Exclusion, Power, and Video Game Play

New Research in Digital Media and Technology

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

While many books and articles are emerging on the new area of game studies and the application of computer games to learning, therapeutic, military and entertainment environments, few have attempted to contextualize the importance of virtual play within a broader social, cultural and political environment...

Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women’s Writing

Heuristic Implications of the Recto-Verso Effect

by Pamela A. Pears
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015

The front covers of books written by Algerian women serve as the primary source of investigation in Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women Writers. These covers have implications that extend beyond selling the book. What we see on one side of the page—or in this case, the cover, (recto) controls...
by Mark Moss
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008

Over the past 50 years, the influence of visuals has impacted society with greater frequency. No subject is immune from the power of visual culture, and this fact becomes especially pronounced with regards to history and historical discourse. Where once the study of the past was books and printed...

A History of Habit

From Aristotle to Bourdieu

by Jeffrey Bell, Nick Crossley, William O. Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013

From bookshelves overflowing with self-help books to scholarly treatises on neurobiology to late-night infomercials that promise to make you happier, healthier, and smarter with the acquisition of just a few simple practices, the discourse of habit is a staple of contemporary culture high and low....

Damned If You Do

Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture

by Paul Cantor, Joel Johnson, Travis D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010

Problems of individual moral choice have always been closely bound up with the larger normative concerns of political theory. There are several reasons for this continuing connection. First, the value conflicts involved in private moral choice often find themselves reproduced on the public stage:...

Star Wars Meets the Eras of Feminism

Weighing All the Galaxy’s Women Great and Small

by Valerie Estelle Frankel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018

Star Wars defined popular, big-screen science fiction. Still, what many viewers best recall is assertive, hilarious Leia, the diminutive princess with a giant blaster who had to save them all. As the 1977 film arrived, women were marching for equality and demanding equal pay, with few onscreen role...

Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics in Society

A Community of Compassion

by Jerry Cappel, David Clough, Celia Deane-Drummond
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016

This book promotes Christian ecology and animal ethics from the perspectives of the Bible, science, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. In an age of climate change, how do we protect species and individual animals? Does it matter how we treat bugs? How does understanding the Trinity and Christ's self-emptying...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006

This is the third and final volume in the series on American political thought edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West. The book addresses how the major themes in American political thought_identified in the first two books of the series_have played out in the world of modern American politics....
by Kenneth Dorter
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005

Author Ken Dorter, in a passage-by-passage analysis traces Plato's depiction of how the most basic forms of human functioning and social justice contain the seed of their evolution into increasingly complex structures, as well as the seed of their degeneration. Dorter also traces Plato's tendency...

Understanding Abortion

From Mixed Feelings to Rational Thought

by Stephen D. Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011

Books on abortion (other than collections of readings) typically express and defend a particular position. This book gives both sides, as evenly and objectively as possible; it gets to the heart of each position, the core idea which animates it. It then leaves the reader to make up his or her own...

Migrant Cartographies

New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe

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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005

In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude toward new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way...

Witness from the Pulpit

Topical Sermons, 1933-1980

by Harold I. Saperstein, Marc Saperstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999

Harold I. Saperstein served as rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of Lynbrook, N.Y., from 1933 until his retirement in 1980. The specific contours of his career reflect a sustained effort to use the pulpit of this suburban temple to communicate a Jewish perspective based on personal encounters with great issues...
by Joseph Lowin
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016

Art and the Artist in the Contemporary Israeli Novel presents studies of eight contemporary works of Israeli fiction by eight major Israeli novelists. It deals with a society where drama, lived in reality but also in the mind, is a central moving force. What this book shows is the ways these texts...
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