Duke University Press Books imprint: 2462 books
Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries
Environment, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Drawing on case studies developed over a two-year period, 1987–1989, by Fellows in the Program in International Development Policy at Duke University, including experienced representatives from developing countries, the World Bank, and scholars, the authors integrate the growing interest in environmental...
The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC Folklore
Vol. VII: Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina, pt. 2
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Frank C. Brown organized the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913. Both Dr. Brown and the Society collected stores from individuals—Brown through his classes at Duke University and through his summer expeditions in the North Carolina mountains, and the Society by interviewing its members—and...
The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC Folklore
Vol. V: The Music of the Folk Songs
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Frank C. Brown organized the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913. Both Dr. Brown and the Society collected stores from individuals—Brown through his classes at Duke University and through his summer expeditions in the North Carolina mountains, and the Society by interviewing its members—and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development was created in 1987 to analyze development in the region and to make recommendations to the region’s governments and to the international community. The essays in this volume were written by experts in Central American development,...
Normal Aging III
Reports from the Duke Longitudinal Studies, 1975–1984
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Since they began in 1955, the Duke Longitudinal Studies have aging have been regarded as landmark investigations, amassing invaluable data on the typical physical changes that accompany aging, typical patterns of mental health and mental illness, psychological aging, and the normal social roles, self-concepts,...
Normal Aging II
Reports from the Duke Longitudinal Studies, 1970–1973
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Since they began in 1955, the Duke Longitudinal Studies have aging have been regarded as landmark investigations, amassing invaluable data on the typical physical changes that accompany aging, typical patterns of mental health and mental illness, psychological aging, and the normal social roles, self-concepts,...
by Mark Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection...
Bring on the Books for Everybody
How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on...
Debating Moral Education
Rethinking the Role of the Modern University
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of more than 100 ethics centers and programs on campuses across the country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic...
Forgotten Readers
Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, literary associations,...
Dissing Elizabeth
Negative Representations of Gloriana
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1998
Dissing Elizabeth focuses on the criticism that cast a shadow on the otherwise celebrated reign of Elizabeth I. The essays in this politically and historically revealing book demonstrate the sheer pervasiveness and range of rhetoric against the queen, illuminating the provocative discourse of disrespect...
by Sanford Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
“Diversity” has become a mantra within discussions of university admissions policies and many other arenas of American society. In the essays collected here, Sanford Levinson, a leading scholar of constitutional law and American government, wrestles with various notions of diversity. He begins...
Chalk Lines
The Politics of Work in the Managed University
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The increasing corporatization of education has served to expose the university as a business—and one with a highly stratified division of labor. In Chalk Lines editor Randy Martin presents twelve essays that confront current challenges facing the academic workforce in U.S. colleges and universities...
by Robert N. Bellah
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
Perhaps best known for his coauthored bestselling books Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, Robert N. Bellah is a truly visionary leader in the social study of religion. For more than four decades, he has examined the role of religion in modern and premodern societies, attempting to discern...