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Putting Ideas to Work
A Practical Introduction to Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2006
In this innovative new text, Mark Mattern offers a unique alternative to the traditional approaches to the study and teaching of political philosophy. Rather than approaching it solely as a world of abstractions, Putting Ideas to Work emphasizes its practical task. Political ideas drawn from historical...
Decades of Chaos and Revolution
Showdowns for College Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Decades of Chaos and Revolution: Showdowns for College Presidents is the story and comparison of two eras in the history of higher education. The first era covers the period of the 1960s through the mid-1970s, and the second is the first decade of the twenty-first century. Both decades were marked...
Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation
The Economics of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and demand, modern market theory, and the economics of...
Social Movements and Global Social Change
The Rising Tide
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Social Movements and Global Social Change teaches students not only about how social change occurs but also how social movements can contribute to this change. The book links two concepts in sociology that are often related in real life, but that can seem disconnected in traditional approaches to...
The Athlete's Dilemma
Sacrificing Health for Wealth and Fame
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Sports provide people around the world with unmatched entertainment, from the excitement of victory to the agony of defeat. Unfortunately, it also has become painfully clear that the agony of sports goes well beyond athletes losing games or competitions. Playing through concussions, the abuse of pain...
Alternative Energy
Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
As we experience a significant increase in the price of petroleum, energy experts caution us to the coming of a time when easily accessed petroleum will begin to decline. The United States is confronted with the challenge of meeting current energy demands in the face of a declining and unstable energy...
Clean Energy Common Sense
An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Inspired by Thomas Paine's classic, Common Sense, Frances Beinecke provides a concise account of what is at stake in the climate change debate. The impact of global climate change extends beyond environmental destruction. She challenges all Americans to demand a clean and sustainable energy future...
British Government and Politics
Balancing Europeanization and Independence
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This deeply informed text sets the government and politics of Britain firmly in the context of Britain's enduring membership in the European Union. Michael L. Mannin thoroughly applies the concept of "Europeanization" across the political system to explore how far change is a product of...
Liberal Arts in the Doldrums
Rethink, Revise, and Revitalize to Reverse the Trend
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book argues for changes in the common cultural heritage of an educated person. It addresses the need to differentiate teaching and scholarship. It proposes expansive views of an undergraduate education. It explains why colleges and universities must replace parochialism, reform the public perception...
Grounds for Agreement
The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2004
As the popularity of coffee and coffee shops has grown worldwide in recent years, so has another trend—globalization, which has greatly affected growers and distributors. This book analyzes changes in the structure of the coffee commodity chain since World War II. It follows the typical consumer...
Racism without Racists
Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. The fifth edition of this provocative...
by Lisa Baldez, Maryann Barakso, Jo Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
This ambitious volume brings together original essays on the U.S. women's movement with analyses of women's movements in other countries around the world. A comparative perspective and a common theme—feminism in social movement action—unite these voices in a way that will excite students and inspire...
The Fog of Reform
Getting Back to a Place Called School
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
American public education has been on a merry-go-round of change for the past 40 years. We made something that is complex by its very nature into a strangled enterprise that is becoming even more knotty and complicated. A fog of reform is created obscuring issues and deflecting our focus from the...
by W Lance Bennett, Donatella Della Porta, Mario Diani
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the best current research on the nexus between the local and the global in translating the global justice movement into action at the grass roots, and vice versa. Using recent cases of transnational contention_from the European...