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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2006
The Life of Hinduism brings together a series of essays—many recognized as classics in the field—that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly "lived" religion. Celebrating the diversity for which Hinduism is known, this volume begins its journey in the "new India" of Bangalore,...
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise
Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. A legend in Palestine, his lyrics are sung by fieldworkers and schoolchildren. He has assimilated some of the world's oldest literary...
Making Chastity Sexy
The Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Even though they are immersed in sex-saturated society, millions of teens are pledging to remain virgins until their wedding night. How are evangelical Christians persuading young people to wait until marriage? Christine J. Gardner looks closely at the language of the chastity movement and discovers...
Islamic Theological Themes
A Primary Source Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Comprised of primary sources assembled from a broad chronological and geographic spectrum, Islamic Theological Themes is a comprehensive anthology of primary Islamic sacred texts in translation. The volume includes rare and never before translated selections, all freshly situated and introduced...
Royal Fever
The British Monarchy in Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
No monarchy has proved more captivating than that of the British Royal Family. Across the globe, an estimated 2.4 billion people watched the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on television. In contemporary global consumer culture, why is the British monarchy still so compelling? ...
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W....
Grad School Essentials
A Crash Course in Scholarly Skills
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
What’s the hardest part of grad school? It’s not simply that the workload is heavy and the demands are high. It’s that too many students lack efficient methods to let them do their best. Professor Zachary Shore aims to change this. With humorous, lively prose, Professor Shore teaches you to...
Markets and States in Tropical Africa
The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. Examining the origins of Africa’s "growth tragedy," Markets and States in Tropical Africa has for decades shaped the thinking of practitioners...
Chokepoints
Global Private Regulation on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
In January 2012, millions participated in the now-infamous “Internet blackout” against the Stop Online Piracy Act, protesting the power it would have given intellectual property holders over the Internet. However, while SOPA’s withdrawal was heralded as a victory for an open Internet, a small...
The Quality Cure
How Focusing on Health Care Quality Can Save Your Life and Lower Spending Too
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical spending is higher than that of any other nation, health outcomes are no better than elsewhere, and in some cases are even worse. In The Quality Cure,...
Everyone's a Winner
Life in Our Congratulatory Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Every kindergarten soccer player gets a trophy. Many high schools name dozens of seniors as valedictorians—of the same class. Cars sport bumper stickers that read "USA—Number 1." Prizes proliferate in every corner of American society, and excellence is trumpeted with ratings that range...
Blue-Chip Black
Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington, DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classness among blacks, ranging from lower-middle class to middle-middle class to upper-middle class. Focusing on the latter two, Lacy explores an increasingly important social and demographic...
Race and the Invisible Hand
How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test—and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies...
When Mandates Work
Raising Labor Standards at the Local Level
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Since then, scholars have documented the effects of those policies on compensation, productivity, job creation, and health coverage....