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Dangerous Strait
The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2005
Today the most dangerous place on earth is arguably the Taiwan Strait, where a war between the United States and China could erupt out of miscalculation, misunderstanding, or accident. How and to what degree Taiwan pursues its own national identity will have profound ramifications in its relationship...
Between Ally and Partner
Korea-China Relations and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
China and South Korea have come a long way since they were adversaries. The arc of their relationship since the late 1970s is an excellent model of East-West cooperation and, at the same time, highlights the growing impact of China's "rise" over its regional neighbors, including America's...
Taking It Big
C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
C. Wright Mills (1916–1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the "public intellectual"...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2003
What will the Asia-Pacific rim look like in the years ahead? What tools will international relations theorists need to understand the complex relationship among China, Japan, and the United States as the three powers shape the economic and political future of this crucial region?
Some of the...
Democracy and the Welfare State
The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater equality as the glue that held nations together....
German Colonialism
Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
More than half a century before the mass executions of the Holocaust, Germany devastated the peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonialism might seem marginal to German history, new scholarship compares these acts to Nazi practices on the Eastern and Western fronts. With some of the most important...
Informing the Global Citizen
A Selection from The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Today, anyone with an iPhone can provide firsthand accounts from the world's front lines. Despite our increased access to events around the world, journalists are more vital than ever as they bring context and perspective and help to set the humanitarian agenda. However, threats to journalists are...
Data Love
The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Intelligence services, government administrations, businesses, and a growing majority of the population are hooked on the idea that big data can reveal patterns and correlations in everyday life. Initiated by software engineers and carried out through algorithms, the mining of big data has sparked...
Sociophobia
Political Change in the Digital Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The great ideological cliché of our time, César Rendueles argues in Sociophobia, is the idea that communication technologies can support positive social dynamics and improve economic and political conditions. We would like to believe that the Internet has given us the tools to overcome modernity's...
Betrayal
How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These individuals choose personal gain over the interests of the black majority, whether they are espousing neoconservative positions that distort the contours...
Religion in America Since 1945
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2003
Moving far beyond the realm of traditional "church history," Patrick Allitt here offers a vigorous and erudite survey of the broad canvas of American religion since World War II. Identifying the major trends and telling moments within major denominations and also in less formal religious...
by P. R. Kumaraswamy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
India's foreign policy toward Israel is a subject of deep dispute. Throughout the twentieth century arguments have raged over the Palestinian problem and the future of bilateral relations. Yet no text comprehensively looks at the attitudes and policies of India toward Israel, especially their development...
by Cathy Costa, Nancy Pickering-Bernheim, Steven Soifer
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Community economic development (CED) is an increasingly essential factor in the revitalization of low- to moderate-income communities. This cutting-edge text explores the intersection of CED and social work practice, which both focus on the well-being of indigent communities and the empowerment of...
The Structural Approach to Direct Practice in Social Work
A Social Constructionist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
This classic text introduces students to the structural approach of social work practice, which assumes that many clients' problems arise from harmful social forces. By focusing on the construction of such realities as poverty, racism, and domestic violence, the structural approach counters the focus...