The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice
New Conversations across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The need for informed analyses of health policy is now greater than ever. The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care. Integrating...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
The personal correspondence between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Anthony Eden during the time they were simultaneously in office tells the dramatic story of a relationship that began with great promise but ended in division and estrangement. Many of the letters have only recently...
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
A Study of 'brainwashing' in China
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of fifteen Chinese citizens and twenty-five Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chinese government. Robert Lifton constructs...
Latin American Democracies
Colombia, Costa Rica, Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Using the cases of Columbia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela, Peeler compares the evolution and maintenance of liberal democratic regimes in the Latin American context. These regimes are shown to be products of the normal Latin American political processes, under particular conditions that have permitted...
Abiding Courage
African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region's expanding defense industry and its reputation for greater racial tolerance. Drawing on fifty...
Picturing Identity
Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
In this book, Hertha D. Sweet Wong examines the intersection of writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American writers and artists who employ a mix of written and visual forms of self-narration. Combining approaches from autobiography studies and...
by Susan Strehle
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. She calls this new fiction actualism, and within that framework she offers a critical analysis of major novels by Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, William Gaddis, John Barth, Margaret...
Good Guys with Guns
The Appeal and Consequences of Concealed Carry
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Although the rate of gun ownership in U.S. households has declined from an estimated 50 percent in 1970 to approximately 32 percent today, Americans' propensity for carrying concealed firearms has risen sharply in recent years. Today, more than 11 million Americans hold concealed handgun licenses,...
Claudian's In Eutropium
Or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
From A.D. 395 to 404, Claudian was the court poet of the Western Roman Empire, ruled by Honorius. In 399 the eunuch Eutropius, the grand chamberlain and power behind the Eastern Roman throne of Honorius's brother Arcadius, became consul. The poem In Eutropium is Claudian's brilliantly nasty response....
Beyond Chrismukkah
The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was. How is this development understood and regarded by Americans generally, and what does it tell us about the nation's religious life? Drawing...
Devotions and Desires
Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
At a moment when "freedom of religion" rhetoric fuels public debate, it is easy to assume that sex and religion have faced each other in pitched battle throughout modern U.S. history. Yet, by tracking the nation's changing religious and sexual landscapes over the twentieth century, this...
William Alexander Percy
The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex...
Rudolf Otto
An Introduction to His Philosophical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Almond places Otto's theory of religion within the context of his life (1869-1937), looking closely at the significant influences on Otto's thought, among them thinkers as different as Kant and the German Pietists. Elements of Otto's theories are shown to be closely related to the social and intellectual...
The Sin of Sloth
Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Wenzel presents the history of the concept of acedia, of spiritual sloth," from its origins among the Egyptian desert monks through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The investigation proceeds in chronological order and pays close attention to the different emphases and changes the concept...