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Stormwater
A Resource for Scientists, Engineers, and Policy Makers
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
As cities grow and climates change, precipitation increases, and with every great storm—from record-breaking Boston blizzards to floods in Houston—come buckets of stormwater and a deluge of problems. In Stormwater, William G. Wilson brings us the first expansive guide to stormwater science and...
Evolutionary Theory
A Hierarchical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organisms, which are united into populations and integrated...
Engineering the Revolution
Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the “technological life.” Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of the eighteenth century as the total history...
Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime
The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
When viewed from a quiet beach, the ocean, with its rolling waves and vast expanse, can seem calm, even serene. But hidden beneath the sea’s waves are a staggering abundance and variety of active creatures, engaged in the never-ending struggles of life—to reproduce, to eat, and to avoid being...
Crime and Justice, Volume 42
Crime and Justice in America: 1975-2025
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
For thirty-five years, the Crime and Justice series has provided a platform for the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists as it explores the full range of issues concerning crime, its causes, and it remedies.
For the American criminal...
Crime and Justice, Volume 44
A Review of Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Volume 44 of Crime and Justice is essential reading for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners who need to know about the latest advances in knowledge concerning crime, its causes, and its control. Contents include Robert D. Crutchfield on the complex interactions among race, social class, and...
Finding Mecca in America
How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the United States. Once practically invisible, they suddenly found themselves overexposed. By describing how Islam in America began as a strange cultural object and is gradually...
Ethno-erotic Economies
Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Ethno-erotic Economies explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars and on beaches, young men deliberately cultivate...
Democracy and the Left
Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage.
In Democracy and the Left, Evelyne Huber and...
Mixed Emotions
Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
In recent years, it’s become increasingly clear that emotion plays a central role in global politics. For example, people readily care about acts of terrorism and humanitarian crises because they appeal to our compassion for human suffering. These struggles also command attention where social interactions...
by Mustafa Emirbayer, Matthew Desmond
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Proceeding from the bold and provocative claim that there never has been a comprehensive and systematic theory of race, Mustafa Emirbayer and Matthew Desmond set out to reformulate how we think about this most difficult of topics in American life. In The Racial Order, they draw on Bourdieu, Durkheim,...
by Danielle Allen
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
American education as we know it today—guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country—is still less than a hundred years old. It’s no wonder we haven’t agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these Tanner Lectures, Danielle Allen brings us much...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused on education’s value and purpose within the larger...
Making Gray Gold
Narratives of Nursing Home Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
This first hand report on the work of nurses and other caregivers in a nursing home is set powerfully in the context of wider political, economic, and cultural forces that shape and constrain the quality of care for America's elderly. Diamond demonstrates in a compelling way the price that business-as-usual...