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The India-Pakistan Military Standoff
Crisis and Escalation in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
This book focuses on the 2001-2002 crisis that brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war. Authors focus on: the political history that led to the crisis; the conventional military environment, the nuclear environment and coercive diplomacy and de-escalation during the crisis; and how South Asia can avoid similar crises in the future.
Literature and Journalism in Antebellum America
Thoreau, Stowe, and Their Contemporaries Respond to the Rise of the Commercial Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Explores the sibling rivalry that emerged in the American literary marketplace in the decades after the advent of the penny press, showing how journalism became a target, a counterpoint, and even a model for numerous American authors, including Thoreau, Cooper, Poe, and Stowe.
Literature and Journalism
Inspirations, Intersections, and Inventions from Ben Franklin to Stephen Colbert
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The first of its kind, this collection will explore the ways that literature and journalism have intersected in the work of American writers. Covering the impact of the newspaper on Whitman's poetry, nineteenth-century reporters' fabrications, and Stephen Colbert's alternative journalism, this book will illuminate and inform.
by D. Dowling
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
This comprehensive study ranges from Irving's Knickerbockers, Emerson's Transcendentalists, and Garrison's abolitionists to the popular serial fiction writers for Robert Bonner's New York Ledger to unearth surprising convergences between such seemingly disparate circles.
Crisis in the Congo
The Rise and Fall of Laurent Kabila
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This volume offers a comprehensive history and analysis of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the tumultuous period of 1997 - 2001. The author examines the most recent events in this turbulent region, offering a contemporary account that is both extensive and detailed.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The 2011 Libyan Uprisings is a thematic investigation of how pre-existing social, regional, tribal, and religious fissures influenced the trajectory of the 2011 Libyan Uprisings and an analysis of what this means for the post-Qadhafi future.
Taiwan's Transformation
1895 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
This book presents a cogent but comprehensive review of Taiwan’s socio-economic transformation from a Japanese colony to a thriving East Asian mini-state. Since the 1980’s, Taiwan has primarily been viewed as a thriving economic model. Though certainly true, this assessment belies the amazing...
by D. Kuzmanovic
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Drawing on data from ethnographic fieldwork among civic activists and identifying a range of domestic and international socio-political contexts, Refractions of Civil Society in Turkey explores different perceptions of civil society in Turkey and pursues the general question of why civil society holds such power to move those who evoke it.
Decolonizing Indigenous Education
An Amazigh/Berber Ethnographic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Using auto-ethnography, Taieb narrates the journey of developing a educational philosophy from and for the Kayble of Algeria and undertakes to write the sociological foundations of an Kayble education system.
by J. Sheyholislami
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Informed by the interdisciplinary approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and theories of identity, nation, and media, the study investigates the ways Kurds, the world's largest stateless nation, use satellite television and Internet to construct their identities. This book examines the complex...
by Young Chun Kim
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book enables Western scholars and educators to recognize the roles and contributions of shadow education/hakwon education in an international context. The book allows readers to redefine the traditional and limited understanding of the background success behind Korean schooling and to expand...
The Classroom
Encounter and Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
What goes on in a classroom? can mean "Are teachers imparting knowledge that will raise test scores?" or it can mean much more. In this series of essays, Block addresses the nature of the classroom as a place for encounter and engagements: with curriculum materials and books, between teachers and students, and with the self.
The Precarious Future of Education
Risk and Uncertainty in Ecology, Curriculum, Learning, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This volume examines the challenges weighing on the future of education in the face of globalization in the twenty-first century. Bringing together eleven authors who explore the paradox of an “after” to the future of education, each chapter in this book targets three important areas: ecology...
Knowledge, Pedagogy, and Postmulticulturalism
Shifting the Locus of Learning in Urban Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This volume identifies, problematizes, and discusses issues specific to the design of educational programs for teacher candidates from working class, ethnic- and language-minority, and immigrant backgrounds, taking as its starting point the distinctive, complex perspectives that these candidates bring to the university classroom.