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A Concise Survey of Western Civilization
Supremacies and Diversities throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
This engaging text offers a concise, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms “supremacies and diversities”...
Europe's Reformations, 1450–1650
Doctrine, Politics, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
In this widely praised history, noted scholar James D. Tracy offers a comprehensive, lucid, and masterful exploration of early modern Europe's key turning point. Establishing a new standard for histories of the Reformation, Tracy explores the complex religious, political, and social processes that...
Reluctant Modernism
American Thought and Culture, 1880–1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Americans were faced with the challenges and uncertainties of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and order clashed with the unsettling modern notions of constant change, relative truth, and chaos. Attempting to embrace...
by Howard Good, Berrin A. Beasley, Sandra L. Borden
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
How far should a reporter go for a story? What's the role of the press at the scene of an emergency, or a murder? Why has journalism suddenly become so susceptible to plagiarism? Here's a book that poses these and other urgent questions—and offers candid answers. At a time when professionals and...
Made Men
Mafia Culture and the Power of Symbols, Rituals, and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family. As a result of this movie and other popular portrayals, the image of mobsters as “men of honor and tradition”...
Citizen Steinbeck
Giving Voice to the People
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
John Steinbeck is one of the most popular and important writers in American literature. Novels such as The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men,and East of Eden and the journal Travels with Charley convey the core of Steinbeck’s work—fiction that is reflective and compassionate. The Nobel prize winner...
Putin's Wars
The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This fully updated book offers the first systematic analysis of Putin’s three wars, placing the Second Chechen War, the war with Georgia of 2008, and the war with Ukraine of 2014–2015 in their broader historical context. Drawing on extensive original Russian sources, Marcel H. Van Herpen analyzes...
Seeing White
An Introduction to White Privilege and Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
This interdisciplinary textbook challenges students to see race as everyone's issue. Drawing on sociology, psychology, and economics, Seeing White introduces students to the concepts of white privilege and social power. Compelling concrete examples illustrate key theoretical perspectives, including...
The Demon of Geopolitics
How Karl Haushofer "Educated" Hitler and Hess
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In this definitive biography, noted historian Holger H. Herwig explores the life and times of Karl Haushofer, widely recognized as the “father of geopolitics” and the architect of Lebensraum, the rationale for Germany’s control of Europe and the world. Making comprehensive use of Haushofer’s...
The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper
Including a Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Recently Anna Julia Cooper has emerged as the most important classic writer in the tradition of African American feminist thought. Mary Helen Washington described Cooper's work as "the most precise, forceful, well-argued statement of black feminist thought to come out of the nineteenth century."...
Reinventing Diversity
Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Diversity in business and other organizations has been a goal for more than a quarter of a century, yet companies struggle to create an inclusive work place. In Reinventing Diversity, one of America's leading diversity experts explains why most diversity programs fail and how we can make them work....
James G. Blaine
Architect of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
In James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire, author Edward P. Crapol assesses Blaine's role as an architect of empire and revisits the ambitious imperialistic goals of this two-time secretary of state. Crapol examines Blaine's pivotal role in shaping American foreign relations and looks at some of the...
Theological Reflection across Religious Traditions
The Turn to Reflective Believing
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Theological reflection — connecting real life, ministry, and religious traditions — is a core component of most pastoral training. It is also a hallmark of practical theology and a common spiritual exercise among ordinary Christians trying to discern how their beliefs might influence daily living....
The Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt and 'The Final Solution'
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of 'the banality of evil,' a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi 'final solution.' According to Bernard J. Bergen, the questions that preoccupied Arendt...