Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
The Ethics of Teaching at Sites of Violence and Trauma
Student Encounters with the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book chronicles a professor’s experience with a group of US undergraduate students at Holocaust memorials, museums, and sites of remembrance as part of a yearly Holocaust study abroad program to Germany and Poland. Narrated through a series of personal encounters, The Ethics of Teaching at...
by T. Newell
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Newell examines noted Americans at seven critical turning points in American history to look at what it takes to be a statesman.Through a powerful speech and the events preceding and following it, they show us how they grappled with conflicting values, varying demands, and the uncertainties of trying to forge a good society.
Clerical Sexual Abuse
How the Crisis Changed US Catholic Church-State Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The book discusses the changing relationship between American Catholic Bishops and civil authorities in the United States, as civil authority has eclipsed traditional Catholic ecclesiastical privilege and clerical exemption resulting from the hierarchical mismanagement and cover-up of clerical sexual abuse in the United States.
by Cris Mayo
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This book examines the formation of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs)—formal and informal—in public schools. These associations provide us with a way to think about intersectionality and tense encounters as spaces of possibility for new kinds of action, new kinds of learning, and newly emergent subjectivities....
The Supreme Court and the Development of Law
Through the Prism of Prisoners’ Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book illuminates the decision-making processes of the US Supreme court through an examination of several prisoners' rights cases. In 1964, the Supreme Court declined to hear prisoners’ claims about religious freedom. In 2014, the Supreme Court heard a case that led to the justices’ unanimous...
by Barry Spunt
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This book focuses on New York City-based actors and comedians who are self-acknowledged heroin users. Barry Spunt examines a number of hypotheses about the reasons why actors and comedians use heroin as well as the impact of heroin on performance, creativity, and career trajectory. A primary concern...
Antiblack Racism and the AIDS Epidemic
State Intimacies
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Anti-Black Racism and the AIDS Epidemic: State Intimacies argues that racial disparities in HIV rates reflect the organization of racialized poverty and structural violence. Challenging the popular perception of HIV, black vulnerability to HIV in the US is shown to be created by the violent intimacy of the state.
by Julius-Kei Kato
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
In this book, Julius-Kei Kato lets the theories and experiences of Asian American hybridity converse with and bear upon some aspects of Christian biblical and theological language. Hybridity has become a key feature of today’s globalized world and is, of course, a key concept in postcolonial...
Dreaming of Eden
American Religion and Politics in a Wired World
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were tempted to take a bite out of an apple that promised them the "knowledge of good and evil." Today, a shiny apple with a bite out of it is the symbol of Apple Computers. The age of the Internet has speeded up human knowledge, and it also provides even...
Sharecropper’s Troubadour
John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African American Song Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition.
Community Colleges and New Universities under Neoliberal Pressures
Organizational Change and Stability
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This book examines seven higher education organizations, exploring their interconnected lines: organizational change and organizational stability. These lines are nested within historical, social, cultural, and political contexts of two nations—the US and Canada—two provinces and three states:...
Globalization Contained
The Economic and Strategic Consequences of the Container
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Examining the global significance of the freight container, with particular emphasis on the perspectives of the US and China, Globalization Contained considers the implications of the freight container as an agent of change for the future of the global economy and global security.
Occupying Political Science
The Occupy Wall Street Movement from New York to the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Occupying Political Science is a collection of critical essays by New York based scholars, researchers, and activists, which takes an unconventional look at the Occupy Wall Street movement through concepts found in the field of political science. Both normative and descriptive in its approach, Occupying...
The Troubled Triangle
Economic and Security Concerns for The United States, Japan, and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The US, China, and Japan form a 'troubled triangle,' with each country negotiating its foreign policy toward the other two in response to economic and security pressures that operate as an interrelated duality. Written by international relations experts, this book examines how the three countries respond to this set of pressures and to each other.