Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
Women in Late Life
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Contemporary old age is fraught with contradiction and complexity—women portrayed either as incompetent and cuddly grandmothers or as young women trapped in old bodies, images that rarely reflect how women actually see themselves. Women in Late Life explores the thorny issues related to gender and...
Race, Wrongs, and Remedies
Group Justice in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Black Americans continue to lag behind on many measures of social and economic well-being. Conventional wisdom holds that these inequalities can only be eliminated by eradicating racism and providing well-funded social programs. In Race, Wrongs, and Remedies, Amy L. Wax applies concepts from the law...
Philosophy and the Problems of Work
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
Philosophy and the Problems of Work brings together for the first time important philosophical perspectives on the subjects of labor and work, spanning analytical and Continental traditions. This comprehensive collection engages contemporary debates in political theory and the philosophy of economics,...
Engaging Adversaries
Peacemaking and Diplomacy in the Human Interest
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
This groundbreaking book explores how adversaries in world politics can surmount their differences and disputes and start on the path to peaceful, mutually productive relations. Writing with authority and clarity, Mel Gurtov defines the strategy of deep engagement, examines how it progressed under...
Taiwan's Struggle
Voices of the Taiwanese
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
This comprehensive book explores contemporary Taiwan from the perspective of the Taiwanese themselves. In a unique set of original essays, leading Taiwanese figures consider the country’s history, politics, society, economy, identity, and future prospects. The volume provides a forum for a diversity...
Defying Standardization
Creating Curriculum for an Uncertain Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Defying Standardization pierces the veil of misinformation surrounding the push to standardize the curriculum expectations for 56 million public school children. It provides a high energy, passionate, and, well-researched argument of what curriculum should and can be to facilitate the development...
Waging War on Corruption
Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Never before has the call for good governance been greater. The Arab Spring in early 2011 has inspired people all over the world to fight to end the abuse of power by politicians and civic officials and create more transparent, accountable, and honest governments. In Waging War on Corruption: Inside...
Globalization and Migration
A World in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Focusing on the intersection between globalization and migration, this powerful text traces a dynamic, contradictory process that has set the world in motion and incorporated millions of migrants into an economic market whose dimensions are unprecedented in human history. While globalization is eliminating...
The United States and Asia
Regional Dynamics and Twenty-First-Century Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book offers a cogent overview of the historical context and enduring patterns of US relations with Asia. Noted scholar Robert G. Sutter provides a balanced analysis of post–Cold War dynamics in Asia, which involve interrelated questions of security, economics, national identity, and regional...
Global Security in the Twenty-First Century
The Quest for Power and the Search for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
This thoroughly updated edition of Global Security in the Twenty-First Century offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security dilemmas throughout the world. Sean Kay assesses the impact of the global economic crisis on international security and considers how the range of thinking about power...
Hooked on Growth
Economic Addictions and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
Challenging conventional wisdom on the virtues of a consumer economy, this provocative book explores the nexus between growth and environment sustainability. The miracle of the modern affluent economy is an ever-swelling cornucopia of consumer goods, leading to expanding consumption as the essential...
by Marte Kjær Galtung, Stig Stenslie
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Communism is dead in China. “China Inc.” is buying up the world. China has the United States over a barrel. The Chinese are just copycats. China is an environmental baddie, China is colonizing Africa. Mao was a monster. The end of the Communist regime is near. The 21st century belongs to China....
Patrolling the Revolution
Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
This pioneering study explores the role of working-class militias as vanguard and guardian of the Chinese Revolution. The book begins with the origins of urban militias in the late nineteenth century and follows their development to the present day. Elizabeth J. Perry focuses on the institution of...
Between the Middle Ages and Modernity
Individual and Community in the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between individuals and communities during the profound transitions of the early modern period. Historians have traditionally identified the origins of a modern individualist spirit in the European Renaissance and Reformation. Yet since the...