Upa: 654 books
Political Islam, Citizenship, and Minorities
The Future of Arab Christians in the Islamic Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Political Islam, Citizenship, and Minorities discusses the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East and the future of political Christianity. The emergence of political Islam and the recent changes in political Christianity in the region have both contributed to a new perception...
by Hongshan Li
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 1998
Image, Perception, and the Making of U.S.-China Relations examines major events in the history of the relationship between the U.S. and China to show the development and effects of national images and perceptions. These essays expose the effects of ideology as represented through foreign policy and...
Savage Sand and Surf
The Hurricane Sandy Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
It was almost November 2012 when Hurricane Sandy, a late arrival in an otherwise quiet tropical season, slammed into the Mid-Atlantic US coastline. Millions of residents were plunged into darkness and billions of dollars in property and infrastructure were flooded or washed away in surging waters....
Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory
The Construction of an Ethnographic Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory discusses the conception 'partible paternity' within Amazonian Indian communities. 'Partible paternity' is the idea that several sexual acts are necessary to produce a fetus and that the mother may have these with several men, who in turn have several...
Black Beaches and Bayous
The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Black Beaches and Bayous: The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster provides a multidisciplinary, international perspective on one of the major disaster events within the United States during the last ten years. Scholars from various disciplines including sociology, political science, ecology, psychology,...
Morally and Otherwise Right Lives, Education and Upbringing
A Rational Basis for Citizenship, Liberty and Peace, and a Theory about Everything
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Morally and Otherwise Right Lives, Education and Upbringing proposes a new theory concerning values. This is argued to be a rationally-justified, evidence-based theory. It has one universally-applicable general value, under which come many specific values, e.g., non-sexism. The book discusses practical...
by Steve F. Sapontzis
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Is morality a good thing? Is moral relativism a bad thing? Traditionally, moral philosophers have presumed that the answers to both questions must be yes. In today’s world, however, many moralists feel obligated to ban gay marriage or censor whatever they deem offensive, and others feel morality...
by Shalom Michael Akili
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Net-Generation Student Motivation to Attend Community College explores the factors that affect student retention rates in community college by presenting net-generation (or millennial) students with the opportunity to tell their stories and give insight into why they chose and completed their respective...
Engaging Worlds
Core Texts and Cultural Contexts. Selected Proceedings from the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Engaging Worlds: Core Texts and Cultural Contexts asks what do we learn of texts, cultures, and the world’s dynamics when we read core texts, widely and deeply, in core-structured programs of the world’s colleges and universities? What books, what arts, what associations and institutions, what...
Gun Violence in American Society
Crime, Justice and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Gun Violence In American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigation into one of society’s major social, public health and political concerns—death, injury, and destruction from the use of firearms. Contributors employ a variety of theoretical,...
Alleviating Bullying
Conquering the Challenge of Violent Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Alleviating Bullying examines the facets of bullying that have become a major concern around the nation. This book explores the impact of bullying on teachers, students, the elderly, prisoners, and other socio-economic groups. This book also identifies warning signs of bullying and provides suggestions...
The Border Challenge
An Insider's Guide to Stopping Drugs at America's Borders
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
This book presents an insider’s view of the federal government’s dual mission to stop the flow of illegal drugs across our borders and to prevent streams of drug money from financing drug cartels, insurgents, and terrorists. Andrews focuses on current challenges facing federal drug enforcement...
Misbehavior in Cyber Places
The Regulation of Online Conduct in Virtual Communities on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Misbehavior in Cyber Places studies computer-mediated, interpersonal communication on the Internet up to the turn of the century, portraying a technological universe that existed before social media, smartphones, and commercialism began to dominate cyberspace in the new millennium. Here, with amateurs...
The Organization of American States as the Advocate and Guardian of Democracy
An Insider’s Critical Assessment of its Role in Promoting and Defending Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
As democracy has become the preferred system of government in the hemisphere in the past thirty years or so, its promotion and defense have also become the cornerstone and raison d’être of the Organization of American States (OAS)—the central and principal inter-governmental institution in the...