302.2 M166L 1988
AUT McLuhan, Marshall ; McLuhan, Eric.
TIT Laws of media : the new science.
PUB Toronto, Can. ; Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, c1988. 302.23 G536a 2006
AUT Gitelman, Lisa.
TIT Always already new : media, history and the data of culture.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Media as historical subjects -- I: The case of phonographs -- New media publics -- New media users -- II: The question of the Web -- New media bodies -- New media Doing media history. 302.23 P958p 2007
AUT Prior, Markus.
TIT Post-broadcast democracy : how media choice increases inequality in political involvement and polarizes elections.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Conditional political learning -- pt. 1: The participatory effects of media choice. ch. 3. Broadcast television, political knowledge, and turnout -- Appendix to ch. 3. Measuring political knowledge, NES 1952-1968 -- ch. 4. From low choice to high choice : the impact of cable television and Internet on news exposure, political knowledge, and turnout -- Appendix to ch. 4. Description of knowledge measures -- ch. 5. From low choice to high choice : Does greater media choice affect total news consumption and average turnout? -- pt. 2: The political effects of media choice. ch. 6. Broadcast television, partisanship, and the incumbency advantage -- ch. 7. Partisan polarization in the high-choice media environment -- Appendix to ch. 7. Using a selection model to simulate partisan vote strength in the full electorate ch. 8. Divided by choice : audience fragmentation and political inequality in the post-broadcast media environment. 302.234 F911f2 2006
AUT Friedman, Lester D.
TIT Fires were started : British cinema and Thatcherism. - 2nd ed.
PUB London ; New York : Wallflower, 2006.
CON Contents: The empire strikes out: an American perspective on the British film industry / Lester D. Friedman -- The religion of the market: Thatcherite politics and the British film of the 1980s / Leonard Quart -- The last New Wave: modernism in the British films of the Thatcher era / Peter Wollen -- Images for sale: the 'new' British cinema / Thomas Elsaesser -- History with holes: Channel 4 television films of the 1980s / Paul Giles -- The repression of communities: visual representations of Northern Ireland during the Thatcher years / Brian McIlroy -- Re-presenting the national past: nostalgia and pastiche in the heritage film / Andrew Higson -- Free from the apron strings: representations of mothers in the maternal British state / Mary Desjardins -- Power and territory: the emergence of black British film collectives / Manthia Diawara -- Encounters with Thatcherism: four women filmmakers / Deborah Tudor. Contents: Women's independent cinema: the case of Leeds Animation Workshop / Antonia Lant -- The body politic: Ken Russell in the 1980s / Barry Keith Grant -- 'Everyone's an American now': Thatcherite ideology in the films of Nicolas Roeg / Jim Leach -- Insurmountable difficulties and moments of ecstasy: crossing class, ethnic and sexual barriers in the films of Stephen Frears / Susan Torrey Barber -- No such thing as society: television and the apocalypse / Sean O'Sullivan -- The masochistic fix: gender oppression in the films of Terence Davies / Tony Williams -- Local focus, global frame: Ken Loach and the cinema of dispossession / James F. English -- Allegories of Thatcherism: Peter Greenaway's films of the 1980s / Michael Walsh -- Private practice, public health: the politics of sickness and the films of Derek Jarman / Chris Lippard and Guy Johnson -- Low hopes: Mike Leigh meets Margaret Thatcher / David Sterritt. 302.34 G657h 2006
AUT Goodwin, Marjorie Harness.
TIT The hidden life of girls : games of stance, status, and exclusion.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
CON Contents: Multimodality, conflict, and rationality in girls' games -- Social dimensions of a popular girls' clique -- Social organization, opposition, and directives in the game of jump rope -- Language practices for indexing social status : stories, descriptions, brags, and comparisons -- Stance and structure in assessment and gossip activity -- Constructing social difference and exclusion in girls' groups. 302.34 K82g 2003
AUT Kontos, Louis ; Brotherton, David ; Barrios, Luis.
TIT Gangs and society : alternative perspectives.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2003. 302.6 C244m 2007
AUT Caplan, Bryan Douglas.
TIT The myth of the rational voter : why democracies choose bad policies.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. 303.38 F219w 2007
AUT Farber, David R.
TIT What they think of us : international perceptions of the United States since 9/11.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. 303.482 T656t 2007
AUT Tombs, Robert ; Tombs, Isabelle.
TIT That sweet enemy : the French and the British from the Sun King to the present. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Knopf, 2007. 303.6 K11v 2006
AUT Kaarsholm, Preben ; Kaarsholm, Preben.
TIT Violence, political culture & development in Africa.
PUB Oxford, U.K. : James Currey ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006.
CON Contents: States of failure, societies in collapse? : understandings of violent conflict in Africa / Preben Kaarsholm -- Insurgencies in the shadow of state collapse / William Reno -- A societal view on violence & war : conflict & militia formation in eastern Congo / Koen Vlassenroot -- Debating the Rwandan genocide / Nigel Eltringham -- Darfur : peace, genocide & crimes against humanity in Sudan / Douglas H. Johnson -- Legacies of violence in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe / Jocelyn Alexander -- The past as contested terrain : commemorating new sites of memory in war-torn Ethiopia / Alessandro Triulzi -- Violence as signifier : politics & generational struggle in KwaZulu-Natal / Preben Kaarsholm -- War, violence & videotapes : media & localised ideoscapes of the Liberian civil war / Mats Utas -- Forced labour & civil war : agrarian underpinnings of the Sierra Leone conflict / Paul Richards. 303.6 K12t 2006
AUT Kahler, Miles ; Walter, Barbara F.
TIT Territoriality and conflict in an era of globalization.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Territoriality and conflict in an era of globalization / Miles Kahler -- Bounded communities : territoriality, territorial attachment, and conflict / Hein Goemans -- On giving ground : globalization, religion, and territorial detachment in a Papua New Guinea society / Joel Robbins -- The resilience of territorial conflict in an era of globalization / David Newman -- Diasporas and homeland conflict / Terrence Lyons -- Territory and war : state size and patterns of interstate conflict / David A. Lake, Angela O'Mahony -- Globalization, economic development, and territorial conflict / Erik Gartzke -- The death of distance? The globalization of armed conflict / Halvard Buhaug, Nils Petter Gleditsch -- The evolution of territoriality : international relations and American law / Kal Raustiala -- Trade and territorial conflict in Latin America : international borders as institutions / Beth A. Simmons -- Conclusion / Barbara F. Walter. 304.2 R628m 2003
AUT Roach, Catherine M.
TIT Mother/nature : popular culture and environmental ethics.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2003.
CON Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Wilderness--within and without -- Heart-of-darkness environmentalism ; Mother Nature in popular culture ; Tools of analysis : religion, psychology, and gender -- I. Nature as good mother -- Love your mother -- Loving Mother Earth : case study of a bumper sticker ; Ecofeminist critique ; Are women closer to nature? -- Mothers and mother nature -- Unconscious and the environment ; Nature of mothering ; Case study revisited -- II. Nature as bad mother -- She will try to drown you -- Threatening mother : case study of two commercials ; And ye shall be as gods : fantasies of aseity, a theological analysis ; Human badness and environmental discourse -- Splitting Mother Nature -- Psychoanalytic perspective ; Bad mother ; Why popular culture attacks Mother Nature -- III. Nature as hurt mother -- Our mother needs our help -- Green knights : case study of a public service announcement ; Relational self : toward a theory of environmental right relation ; Earth healing and the environmental movement : four criteria -- Healing Mother Nature -- Environmentalism and the tragic ; Mother Nature, human nature : concluding appraisals -- Toward the future. 304.8 M585L 2007
AUT Messina, Anthony M.
TIT The logics and politics of post-WWII migration to Western Europe.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: Immigration and state sovereignty -- The origins and trajectory of post-WWII immigration -- The organized nativist backlash : the surge of anti-immigrant groups -- Immigration and state sovereignty : implications of the British and German cases -- The logics and politics of a European immigration policy regime -- The domestic legacies of postwar immigration : citizenship, monoculturalism, and the Keynesian welfare state -- The logics and politics of immigrant political incorporation -- Conclusions. 305.072 J84m 2007
AUT Josselson, Ruthellen ; Lieblich, Amia ; McAdams, Dan P.
TIT The meaning of others : narrative studies of relationships. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2007.
CON Contents: Narrative and relation : the place of the other in the story of the self / Mark Freeman -- Love in the narrative context : a study of the relationship between Henry Murray and Christiana Morgan / Ruthellen Josselson -- Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin : a Lacanian poetics / Annie G. Rogers -- From island to archipelago : narratives of relatedness in an urban youth organization / Nancy L. Deutsch -- Earning a secure attachment style : a narrative of personality change in adulthood / Valory Mitchell -- Transitions in the process of identity formation among Japanese female adolescents : a relational viewpoint / Kazumi Sugimuri -- The relational emplotment of mixed racial identity / Brian Schiff and Tracie O'Neill -- Vicissitudes of "holding" in the immigration experience : the case of Ethiopian Israeli adolescents / Danna Pessach-Ramati and Ruthellen Josselson -- Connections of care : relationships and family caregiver narratives / Jennifer F. Dobbins -- Telling stories about therapy : ego development, well-being, and the therapeutic relationship / Jonathan M. Adler and Dan P. McAdams -- Give love a chance : difficulties of young adults in establishing long-term romantic relationships / Alon Raz, Hadas Wiseman, and Ruth Sharabany -- Ongoing relationships : recounting a lost parent's life as a means to re-member / Ron Nasim. 305.23 S797U 2007
TIT The state of the world's children 2007 : women and children : the double dividend of gender equality.
PUB New York : United Nations Children's Fund, c2006.
CON Contents: A call for equality -- Equality in the household -- Equality in employment -- Equality in politics and government -- Reaping the double dividend of gender equality. 305.235 D582p 2001
AUT Dimitriadis, Greg.
TIT Performing identity/performing culture : hip hop as text, pedagogy, and lived practice.
PUB New York : P. Lang, c2001. 305.242 D199p 2007
AUT Danziger, Sheldon ; Rouse, Cecilia Elena.
TIT The price of independence : the economics of early adulthood.
PUB New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2007.
CON Contents: pt. I. Securing employment and completing schooling. Failure to launch : cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence / Lisa Bell, Gary Burtless, Janet Gornick, and Timothy M. Smeeding -- Is the company man an anachronism? : trends in long term employment, 1973-2005 / Henry Farber -- Health insurance and the transition to financial adulthood / Helen Levy -- Blurring the boundary : changes in the transition from college participation to adulthood / Maria D. Fitzpatrick and Sarah E. Turner -- pt. II. Living with parents longer and starting families later. Labor market experiences and transitions to adulthood / Carolyn J. Hill and Harry Holzer -- Young adults leaving the nest : the role of cost-of-living / Aaron S. Yelowitz - Sticking around : delayed departure from the parental nest in Western Europe / Katherine Newman and Sofya Aptkekar -- To have and to hold : an analysis of young adult debt / Ngina S. Chiteji -- pt. III. Family background, incarceration and the transition to adulthood. Family background and children's transition to adulthood over time / Melanie Guldi, Marianne E. Page, and Ann Huff Stevens -- Early incarceration spells and the transition to adulthood / Steven Raphael. 305.42 D815e 2007
AUT DuBois, Ellen Carol ; Cándida Smith, Richard.
TIT Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist as thinker : a reader in documents and essays.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2007. 305.4889 P872c 2004
AUT Pough, Gwendolyn D.
TIT Check it while I wreck it : Black womanhood, hip-hop culture, and the public sphere.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Northeastern University Press, c2004.
CON Contents: Hip-hop is more than just music to me : the potential for a movement in the culture -- Bringing wreck : theorizing race, rap, gender, and the public sphere -- My cipher keeps movin' like a rollin' stone : Black women's expressive cultures and Black feminist legacies -- I bring wreck to those who disrespect me like a dame : women, rap, and the rhetoric of wreck -- (Re)reconstructing womanhood : Black women's narratives in hip-hop culture -- Girls in the hood and other ghetto dramas : representing Black womanhood in hip-hop cinema and novels -- Hip-hop soul mate? : hip-hop soul divas and rap music, critiquing the love that hate produced -- You can't see me/you betta recognize : using rap to bridge gaps in the classroom -- Imagining images : Black womanhood in the 21st century. 305.8 C799r 2003
AUT Corlett, J. Angelo.
TIT Race, racism, and reparations.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
CON Contents: Race and ethnicity -- What is Latino identity? -- Defending the genealogical concept of Latino identity -- What is racism? -- Surviving evil in the United States: African and Native Americans -- Affirmative action for Latinos? -- Ethnic identity and public policy -- Reparations to Native Americans? -- Reparations to African Americans?. 305.8097 L674m 2006
AUT Lewis, George.
TIT Massive resistance : the white response to the civil rights movement.
PUB London : Hodder Arnold ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The origins of massive resistance -- 'Massive resistance' : meanings and metaphors -- The impact of histories -- The concomitant conversations of resistance -- Patterns of segregation, traditions of supremacy -- The selective rhetoric of resistance -- The timing and trajectory of 'massive' resistance -- Brown and its aftermath, 1954-1956 -- Political responses to Brown : diffidence and indecision -- Mixed messages from the grassroots : referendums in Louisiana and Georgia -- An alternative model : Hoxie, Arkansas -- The Citizens' Councils : aims, organization and propaganda tactics -- The case of Emmett Till -- The southern legislative response to Brown : three case studies -- North Carolina and the progressive facade -- Virginia and the role of personal politics -- Louisiana : 'neo-populism' versus 'neo-Bourbonism' -- Resisters in search of homogeneity : interposition and the Southern Manifesto -- Resistance rampant, 1956-1960 -- Massive resistance and the Cold War -- Massive resistance and religion -- Massive resistance in Alabama : setback and success -- Grassroots militancy : Mansfield, Sturgis, Clay and Clinton -- The 1957 Little Rock schools crisis -- Selecting the enemies of resistance : the campaign against the NAACP -- The day-to-day terror of grassroots resistance -- The increasing sophistication of resistance propaganda -- Responsive resistance, c. 1960-1965 -- The 1960 New Orleans school crisis -- The continuing refinement of the resistance canon -- Massive resistance and the North -- Losing the initiative : resistance, reaction and the sit-ins -- Open violence on a national stage : massive resistance meets the Freedom Rides -- James Meredith and massive resistance at Ole Miss -- George C. Wallace and the schoolhouse door : the Appomattox of segregation? -- Resisting non-violent direct action : Laurie Pritchett, Bull Connor and Jim Clark -- The confederate chameleon -- Resistance moves to Washington : opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act -- An end to massive resistance? -- A 'second generation of subterfuges' -- The politics of southern resistance on a national stage : George C. Wallace -- State-level resisters and the quest for a northern audience -- From massive resistance to individual rights -- The dissolution of massive resistance. 305.894 K14u 2007
AUT Kaltman, Blaine.
TIT Under the heel of the dragon : Islam, racism, crime, and the Uighur in China.
PUB Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Uighur ethnic enclaves -- Cultural marginalization and institutionalization of blocked Uighur mobility -- Han-Uighur relations -- Migration: overcoming blocked mobility -- Living under the heel of the dragon. 305.896 N445t 2007
AUT Nericcio, William Anthony.
TIT Tex[t]-Mex : seductive hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America. - 1st ed.
PUB Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2007.
CON Contents: A decidedly odd tale of what happened when Hollywood killed Vaudeville, postcards boomed, and the United States invaded Mexico -- Hallucinations of Miscegenation and murder: dancing along the Mestiza/o borders of proto-Chicana/o cinema with Orson Welles's Touch of Evil -- When electrolysis proxies for the existential : a somewhat sordid meditation on what might occur if Frantz Fanon, Rosario Castellanos, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Spivak, and Sandra Cisneros asked Rita Hayworth her name at the Tex[t]-Mex beauty parlor -- Autopsy of a rat : sundry parables of Warner Brothers Studios, Jewish American Animators, Speedy Gonzales, Freddy Lopez, and other Chicano/Latino marionettes prancing about our first world visual emporium ; Parable cameos by Jacques Derrida and, a dirty joke -- Lupe Velez regurgitated; or, Jesus's Kleenex : cautionary, Indigestion-inspiring ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" toilets -- XicanOsmosis: Frida Kahlo and Mexico in the eyes of Gilbert Hernandez -- Conclusion(with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche):"have i been understood? XicanOsmosis versus the Tex[t]-Mex". 306.2 O98D 2007
AUT Dalton, Russell J ; Klingemann, Hans-Dieter.
TIT Oxford handbook of political behavior.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. 306.3 M913s 2007
AUT Moss, Mark Howard.
TIT Shopping as an entertainment experience.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2007.
CON Contents: Liminality, magic, and the pleasure of the shopping place -- Shopping, leisure, and the spectacle of entertainment -- The department store -- The mall -- The e-store -- Shopping as entertainment therapy -- Shopping as an edu-tainment experience--dressing history : the domain of Lauren -- Shopping as a cultural experience : museums, merchandising, and the marketing of culture -- Conclusion. 306.766 G489s 2006
AUT Gilreath, Shannon.
TIT Sexual politics : the gay person in America today. - 1st ed.
PUB Akron, Ohio : University of Akron Press, 2006.
CON Contents: A world not of their making : the closet in American life -- "Through a glass darkly" : American religious fundamentalism and homophobia -- Gay citizenship : the politics of transformation -- What gay people want : equality, and I will be free -- Epilogue : who has believed our report?. 306.84 J58e 2007
AUT Jessop, Carolyn ; Palmer, Laura.
TIT Escape.
PUB New York : Broadway Books, 2007. 306.848 P578s 2006
AUT Phy-Olsen, Allene.
TIT Same-sex marriage.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006. 306.85 A452f 2006
AUT Almond, Brenda.
TIT The fragmenting family.
PUB Oxford, U.K. : Clarendon Press ; Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: pt. I. Understanding family : philosophy's contribution. Family ; Permanent relations? Love, marriage, and philosophical lives ; From philosophy to law ; Feminist aims, family consequences -- pt. II. Shaping families : science's contribution. Having and not having children ; New reproductive technologies : whose human rights? -- pt. III. New frontiers : family, law, and politics. Family choices : what do children really want? ; Law, policy-making, and the contemporary family -- pt. IV. Preserving identities : a future for the family? Family, identity, and community ; Finding a way through the wood. 306.874 H576s 2006
AUT Hertz, Rosanna.
TIT Single by chance, mothers by choice : how women are choosing parenthood without marriage and creating the new American family.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: pt. I. The big decision -- 1. "Why can't I have what I want?" -- 2. Liminality and the courage to change : making the decision to become a single mother -- 3. Moving on : when baby makes two -- pt. II. After baby, now what? -- Introduction : "Where do we fit?" -- 4. The father as an idea -- 5. Romance, intimacy, and pregnancy : father involvement outside of marriage -- 6. Adoption and fitting in -- Conclusion : ordinary lives, extraordinary circumstances -- pt. III. Composing a family -- Introduction : recycling and reconstituting families -- 7. What does single mean? -- 8. Downshifting careers while financing motherhood : relying on the gift-giver, the roommate, and the careworker -- 9. A world without men, Amen? -- Conclusion : what does it mean to be a good mother? -- Conclusion : projecting single mothers into the future -- Epilogue : completing families, completing lives -- Appendix 1 : demographic appendix : featured women -- Appendix 2 : methods and sampling. 320.51 N425t 2006
AUT Nelson, Craig.
TIT Thomas Paine : enlightenment, revolution, and the birth of modern nations.
PUB New York : Viking, c2006.
CON Contents: The mission of atonement -- Begotten by a wild boar on a bitch wolf -- Pragmatic utopians -- Hell is not easily conquered -- The Silas Deane affair -- The missionary bereft of his mission -- Droits de l'homme, or droits du seigneur? -- The sovereigns among us -- The religion of science -- The perfidious Mr. Morris -- Utopian dissolves -- Provenance. 320.52 S413L 2007
AUT Schweizer, Peter ; Hall, Wynton C. ; Schweizer, Peter.
TIT Landmark speeches of the American conservative movement. - 1st ed.
PUB College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: "I broke away from the Communist Party" / Whittaker Chambers (1948) -- "Today we are educated men" / William F. Buckley Jr. (1950) -- "The time has come" / Everett Dirksen (1964) -- "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" / Barry Goldwater (1964) -- "A time for choosing" / Ronald Reagan (1964) -- "Is the new morality destroying America?" / Clare Boothe Luce (1978) -- "The first inaugural" / Ronald Reagan (1981) -- "Evil empire" / Ronald Reagan (1983) -- "Child abuse in the classroom" / Phyllis Schlafly (1987) -- "The controversy ends here" / Barbara Bush (1990) -- "The contract with America" / Newt Gingrich (1995) -- "Our mission and our moment" / George W. Bush (2001) -- "A unipolar world" / Charles Krauthammer (2004). Ref 320.95 P769 2007
TIT Political handbook of Asia.
PUB Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2007-. 320.973 A613r 2007
TIT A republic divided.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press ; [Radnor, Pa.] : Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, c2007.
CON Contents: The role of public education in educating for democracy / Daniel Romer, Patrick E. Jamieson, and Bruce W. Hardy -- The effectiveness of the press in serving the needs of American democracy / Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Bruce W. Hardy, and Daniel Romer -- Understanding the public's relationship to government / Mary McIntosh -- The three branches of government : powers, relationships, and checks / Mark A. Peterson -- The legislative branch : assessing the partisan Congress / Paul J. Quirk -- The executive branch in red and blue / Joel D. Aberbach -- The judicial branch : judging America's judges / Kevin T. McGuire -- The three branches of government : comparative trust and performance / Mark A. Peterson. 322.1 D626r 2007
AUT Djupe, Paul A ; Olson, Laura R.
TIT Religious interests in community conflict : beyond the culture wars.
PUB Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: Toward a fuller understanding of religion and politics / Paul A. Djupe & Laura R. Olson -- God and gaming : community conflict over a proposed Indian casino in west Michigan / James M. Penning & Andrew Storteboom -- Sweet land of liberty : the gay marriage amendment in Nevada / David F. Damore, Ted G. Jelen, & Michael W. Bowers -- Clergy and controversy : a study of clergy and gay rights in Columbus, Ohio / Paul A. Djupe, Jacob R. Neiheisel, & Anand Edward Sokhey -- Religious interests in community collaboration : the quiet fight for health care in south Omaha / Sue E.S. Crawford -- Homelessness, ecumenism, and politics in Racine, Wisconsin / Laura R. Olson -- Religious interests and the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday in Greenville, South Carolina / James L. Guth ... [et al.] -- Salt Lake City's Main Street plaza controversy / J. Quin Monson & Kara L. Norman -- From riots to reconciliation : the religious interests involved in healing Cincinnati after racial unrest / Anand Edward Sokhey -- Unity in the face of the faceless : clergy opposition to the Ku Klux Klan in northwest Arkansas / Franklyn C. Niles -- Conclusion: A meditation on and meta-analysis of the public presence of religious interests / Paul A. Djupe & Laura R. Olson. 322.42 A935u 2006
AUT Austin, Curtis J.
TIT Up against the wall : violence in the making and unmaking of the Black Panther Party.
PUB Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Chronology of the Black Panther Party -- Civil wrongs and the rise of Black power -- The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense -- Speaking of violence -- Publicizing the party -- Growth and transformation -- Unjustifiable homicides -- Southern discomfort -- To the East-- and back -- The rift. 322.42 Z19i 2004
AUT Abou Zahab, Mariam ; Roy, Olivier.
TIT Islamist networks : the Afghan-Pakistan connection.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press in association with the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales, Paris, 2004.
CON Contents: Ex-Soviet Central Asia: -- The Tajik party of the Islamic Renaissance (PIR) -- The Islamic movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) -- Hizb ul-Tahrir (Party of liberation) -- -- Afghanistan : from the Islamists to the Taliban and Al-Qaida -- -- Pakistan : from religious conservatism to political radicalism: -- Deobandi movements and violent action -- The active jihadist tendency in Kashmir and Afghanistan from the Harakat ul-Ansar to the Jaish-i-Muhammad -- Salafism and jihadism -- -- Connections and dynamics: -- The al-Qaida movement and the Afghans : the fusion between the Taliban and al-Qaida, the role of Pakistan, the Pakistani military intelligence services and the radical tendency -- Pakistani Islamists at the heart of transnational links -- The Pakistanisation of Al-Qaida -- The blurring of strategic and ideological alignments. 323.0973 D261n 2007
AUT Davis, Darren W.
TIT Negative liberty : public opinion and the terrorist attacks on America.
PUB New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : a climate of threat and vulnerability -- Context : the promise of 72 virgins -- Value conflict : civil liberties versus national security -- Explaining the support for civil liberties -- Acceptable consequences -- Civil liberties in an evolving context -- Spiral of silence : partisan orientations in a climate of threat -- Racial reactions -- Social group affect, intolerance, and threat -- Conclusion. 323.1196 G629L 2007
AUT Goluboff, Risa Lauren.
TIT The lost promise of civil rights.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Transition, uncertainty, and the conditions for a new civil rights -- Claiming rights in the agricultural South -- Claiming rights in the industrial economy -- The work of civil rights in the Department of Justice -- A new deal for civil rights -- Work and workers in the NAACP -- Litigating labor in the wartime NAACP -- Eliminating work from the NAACP's legal strategy -- Brown and the remaking of civil rights. 323.1197 M437i 2007
AUT Matthew, Laura ; Oudijk, Michel R ; Matthew, Laura.
TIT Indian conquistadors : indigenous allies in the conquest of Mesoamerica.
PUB Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : the genre of conquest studies / Susan Schroeder -- Mesoamerican conquistadors in the sixteenth century / Michel R. Oudijk and Matthew Restall -- The conquest in images : stories of Tlaxcalteca and Quauhquecholteca conquistadors / Florine G.L. Asselbergs -- Whose conquest? : Nahua, Zapoteca, and Mixteca allies in the conquest of Central America / Laura E. Matthew -- Concubines and wives : reinterpreting native-Spanish intimate unions in sixteenth-century Guatemala / Robinson A. Herrera -- Conquest, coercion, and collaboration : Indian allies and the campaigns in Nueva Galicia / Ida Altman -- Forgotten allies : the origins and roles of native Mesoamerican auxiliaries and indios conquistadores in the Conquest of Yucatan, 1526-1550 / John F. Chuchiak IV -- The indios conquistadores of Oaxaca's Sierra Norte : from Indian conquerors to local Indians / Yanna Yannakakis -- Nahua Christian warriors in the Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco, Cholula Parish / Stephanie Wood -- "By the force of their lives and the spilling of blood" : flechero service and political leverage on a Nueva Galicia frontier / Bret Blosser -- Conclusion / Laura E. Matthew and Michel R. Oudijk. 324.2 G895re 2007
AUT Grzymaa-Busse, Anna Maria.
TIT Rebuilding Leviathan : party competition and state exploitation in post-communist democracies.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Competing for the state -- Developing the formal institutions of the state -- The expansion of state administration : exploitation or patronage? -- Privatizing the state : party financing strategies -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Party organizations in post-communist democracies -- Appendix B. Measuring state administration employment -- Appendix C. Anchoring vignettes. 324.256 N882h 2007
AUT Norton, Augustus R.
TIT Hezbollah : a short history.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Origins and prehistory of Hezbollah -- The rise of Shi\u02BFi politics from the mid-twentieth century to the Lebanese civil war -- The role of Musa al-Sadr -- The resurgence of Amal -- The founding of Hezbollah -- The Iraq connection -- The 1982 Israeli invasion -- Hezbollah emerges -- The Hezbollah worldview -- Implementing the design -- Being a Shi`a Muslim in the twentieth century -- Ritual and identity -- The intersection of ritual and politics -- Resistance, terrorism, and violence in Lebanon -- Hezbollah and terrorism -- Occupation in southern Lebanon -- The "rules of the game" -- The 2000 Israeli withdrawal -- Playing politics -- Hezbollah's decision to participate -- Municipal elections -- The revolt of the hungry -- The rich texture of Shi\u02BFi institutions -- From celebration to war -- The changing social tapestry in post-civil war Lebanon -- Lebanon's love-hate relationship with Rafiq Hariri, and his assassins -- Setting the stage for war -- The start of hostilities, July 2006 -- Prosecuting the war -- Conclusion: Hezbollah in a fractured postwar Lebanon -- What next?. 324.273 B627d 2007
AUT Black, Earl ; Black, Merle.
TIT Divided America : the ferocious power struggle in American politics.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.
CON Contents: Competitive America -- America's political regions -- The Republican strongholds -- The Democratic strongholds -- The divided Midwest -- The presidential power struggle -- The power struggle in the House of Representatives -- The power struggle in the Senate -- The American power struggle. 324.3 H233r 2007
AUT Han, Lori Cox ; Heldman, Caroline.
TIT Rethinking Madam President : are we ready for a woman in the White House?.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.
CON Contents: Is the United States really ready for a woman president? / Lori Cox Han -- Cultural barriers to a female president in the United States / Caroline Heldman -- The significance of social and institutional expectations / Sue Thomas and Jean Reith Schroedel -- Shaping women's chances : stereotypes and the media / Gina Serignese Woodall and Kim L. Fridkin -- Masculinity on the campaign trail / Georgia Duerst-Lahti -- Money and the art and science of candidate viability / Victoria Farrar-Myers -- Political parties : advancing a masculine ideal / Meredith Conroy -- Women as executive branch leaders / Karen M. Hult -- Leadership challenges in national security / Meena Bose -- A woman in the White House? Never say never / Ann Gordon. 324.65 H568v 2007
AUT Herrnson, Paul S.
TIT Voting technology : the not-so-simple act of casting a ballot.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Preface and acknowledgments -- The study of electronic voting -- A new generation of voting systems -- Voter reactions to electronic voting systems -- The accuracy of electronic voting systems -- Inequality in the voting booth -- Vote verification systems -- Toward more user-friendly voting and election systems -- Appendixes -- A. Voter information guides and questionnaires -- B. Characteristics of respondents in the field studies -- C. Regression results for chapters 5 and 6 -- Notes -- Authors -- Index. 324.96 B299v 2007
AUT Basedau, Matthias ; Erdmann, Gero ; Mehler, Andreas.
TIT Votes, money and violence : political parties and elections in Sub-Saharan Africa.
PUB Stockholm : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Research on electoral systems, parties and party systems in Africa / Gero Erdmann, Matthias Basedau and Andreas Mehler -- Political parties, elections and patronage: random thoughts on neo-patrimonialism and African democratization / E. Gyimah-Boadi -- Party research: Western European bias and the 'African labyrinth' / Gero Erdmann -- Political parties in Africa: different, functional and dynamic? Reflections on Gero Erdmann's 'party research: Western European bias and the "African labyrinth"' / Peter Burnell -- Political parties in Africa and the representation of social groups / Vicky Randall -- Do party systems matter for democracy? / A comparative study of 28 Sub-Saharan countries / Matthias Basedau -- Pathos of electoral reform in Africa / Christof Hartmann -- Electoral systems, party systems and ethnicity in Africa / Matthijs Bogaards -- Political parties and violence in Africa: systematic reflections against empirical background / Andreas Mehler -- Insights into electoral violence in Africa / Liisa Laakso -- Banknotes and symbolic capital: Ghana's elections under the Fourth Republic / Paul Nugent -- Conclusion: The research agenda ahead / Gero Erdmann, Matthias Basedau and Andreas Mehler. 324.973 A671h 2006
AUT Archer, J. Clark.
TIT Historical atlas of U.S. presidential elections 1788-2004.
PUB Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Presidential elections -- Political parties and presidential elections -- The nomination process -- Changes in the electorate -- Political geography of settlement -- Historical trends in suffrage and voter participation -- Previous works in mapping U.S. presidential elections -- Construction of the presidential elections maps -- 1788-1789 presidential election -- 1792 presidential election -- 1796 presidential election -- 1800 presidential election -- 1804 presidential election -- 1808 presidential election -- 1812 presidential election -- 1816 presidential election -- 1820 presidential election -- 1824 presidential election -- 1828 presidential election -- 1832 presidential election -- 1836 presidential election -- 1840 presidential election -- 1844 presidential election -- 1848 presidential election -- 1852 presidential election. Contents: -- 1856 presidential election -- 1860 presidential election -- 1864 presidential election -- 1868 presidential election -- 1872 presidential election -- 1876 presidential election -- 1880 presidential election -- 1884 presidential election -- 1888 presidential election -- 1892 presidential election -- 1896 presidential election. Contents: -- 1900 presidential election -- 1904 presidential election -- 1908 presidential election -- 1912 presidential election -- 1916 presidential election -- 1920 presidential election -- 1924 presidential election -- 1928 presidential election -- 1932 presidential election -- 1936 presidential election -- 1940 presidential election -- 1944 presidential election -- 1948 presidential election -- 1952 presidential election -- 1956 presidential election -- 1960 presidential election -- 1964 presidential election -- 1968 presidential election -- 1972 presidential election -- 1976 presidential election -- 1980 presidential election -- 1984 presidential election -- 1988 presidential election -- 1992 presidential election -- 1996 presidential election -- 2000 presidential election -- 2004 presidential election. 327.7308 B978P 2007
AUT Prevost, Gary ; Campos, Carlos Oliva.
TIT The Bush doctrine and Latin America. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : the Bush doctrine and Latin America / Gary Prevost -- The United States, Latin America and the Caribbean : from Neopan-Americanism to the American system for the twenty-first century / Carlos Oliva Campos -- The axis of misunderstanding : the Bush administration, intelligence, and hemispheric security after September 11, 2001 / Patrice Elizabeth Olsen -- The summits of the Americas : continuities and changes in the hemispheric agenda of William Clinton and George W. Bush / Luis Fernando Ayerbe -- Plan Colombia : a key ingredient in the Bush doctrine / German Rodas Chavez -- Amazonia, MERCOSUR, and the South American regional integration / Enrique Amayo -- Latin America vis-à-vis the FTAA : between relaunching and alternatives / Jorge Mario Sánchez-Egozcue and Lourdes Regueiro Bello -- Free trade Agreements, CAFTA, and FTAA : key pieces in the accumulation of transnational capital / Raúl Moreno -- Social movements, hegemony and resistance / Harry E. Vanden -- Geostrategic resources in Latin America and U.S. control mechanisms / David Alejandro Alvarez Dieppa -- Drinking water, the new strategic resource of the twenty-first century : the particular case of the Guarani aquiferous / Elsa M. Bruzzone -- Latin American integration and environment / Antonio Elizalde Hevia. 328.73 Q8L 2005
AUT Quirk, Paul J. ; Binder, Sarah A.
TIT The legislative branch.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Congress and the constitutional system / Charles Stewart III -- Institutional development of congress / Eric Schickler -- Actions in the public sphere / David R. Mayhew -- Modern campaigns and representation / Gary C. Jacobson -- Elections, parties, and governance / Sarah A. Binder -- Representing racial and ethnic minorities / David T. Canon -- Committees and policy formulation / David W. Rohde -- Parties and leadership in the house / Barbara Sinclair -- Parties and leadership in the Senate / Steven S. Smith -- Interests, constituencies, and policy making / Frances E. Lee -- Deliberation and decision making / Paul J. Quirk -- Foreign affairs and war / Christopher J. Deering -- Budgets and fiscal policy / Eric Patashnik -- Advice and consent : cooperation and conflict in the appointment of federal judges / Forrest Maltzman -- Congress and the bureaucracy / Charles R. Shipan -- Images of congress / John R. Hibbing -- Politics of congressional reform / C. Lawrence Evans -- Institutional politics, performance, and reform / Paul J. Quirk and Sarah Binder. 328.914 L434L 2007
AUT Leader, Zachary.
TIT The life of Kingsley Amis. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Pantheon Books, [2007]. 330 P359s 2006
AUT Pearce, Joseph ; Schumacher, E. F.
TIT Small is still beautiful : economics as if families mattered.
PUB Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, c2006. 330.07 C683m 2007
AUT Colander, David C ; Klamer, Arjo.
TIT The making of an economist, redux.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. 331 O98A 2005
AUT Ackroyd, Stephen.
TIT The Oxford handbook of work and organization.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. 331.88 B471w 2007
AUT Bennett, James T ; Kaufman, Bruce E.
TIT What do unions do? : a twenty-year perspective.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2007.
CON Contents: What do unions do? A twenty-year perspective / James T. Bennett and Bruce E. Kaufman -- What unions do: insights from economic theory / Bruce E. Kaufman -- Historical insights: the early institutionalists on trade unionism and labor policy / Bruce E. Kaufman -- What effect do unions have on wages now and would Freeman and Medoff be surprised? / David G. Blanchflower and Alex Bryson -- Unions and wage inequality / David Card, Thomas Lemieux, and W. Craig Riddell -- The effect of unions on employee benefits and non-wage compensation: monopoly power, collective voice, and facilitation / John W. Budd -- What do unions do for economic performance? Barry T. Hirsch -- Union voice / John T. Addison and Clive R. Belfield -- What do unions do in the workplace? Union effects on management and HRM policies / Anil Verma -- Unionism and employment conflict resolution: rethinking collective voice and its consequences / David Lewin -- The impact of unions on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover / Tove Helland Hammer and Ariel Avgar -- De-unionization and macro performance: what Freeman and Medoff didn't do / Daniel M.B. Mitchell and Christopher L. Erickson -- Two faces of union voice in the public sector / Morley Gunderson -- Unionism viewed internationally / John Pencavel -- Has management strangle U.S. unions? / Robert J. Flanagan -- Organized labor's political scorecard -- Marick F. Masters and John T. Delaney -- What do unions do? Evaluation and commentary / Bruce E. Kaufman -- What do unions do? A management perspective / Kenneth McLennan -- What do unions do? A unionist's perspective / Stephen R. Sleigh -- What do unions do? The 2004 M-Brane Stringtwister edition / Richard B. Freeman. 333.73 D476o 2006
AUT De Steiguer, Joseph Edward.
TIT The origins of modern environmental thought.
PUB Tucson, Az. : University of Arizona Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Foundations of environmental thought -- Post-World War II socioeconomic conditions -- Rachel Carson's Silent spring -- Harold Barnett and Chandler Morse's Scarcity and growth -- Stewart L. Udall and The quiet crisis -- Roderick Nash's Wilderness and the American mind -- A. C. Pigou, Ronald Coase, and the Development of environmental economics-- Kenneth Boulding and Spaceship earth -- Lynn White and "The historical roots of our ecologic crisis" -- Paul Ehrlich and The population bomb -- Garrett Hardin and "The tragedy of the commons" -- Barry Commoner and The closing circle -- Herman Daly and the Steady-state economy -- The MIT Team and The limits to growth -- E. F. Schumacher's Small is beautiful -- Arne Naess and the Deep ecology movement-- Beyond the age of the environmental philosophers. 333.79 S729e 2007
AUT Sovacool, Benjamin K ; Brown, Marilyn A.
TIT Energy and American society - thirteen myths.
PUB Dordrecht : Springer, c2007.
CON Contents: The compelling tangle of energy and American society / Benjamin K. Sovacool and Marilyn A. Brown -- Energy myth one - Today's energy crisis is "hype" / Marilyn A. Brown -- Energy myth two - The public is well informed about energy / Rosalyn Mckeown -- Energy myth three - High land requirements and an unfavorable energy balance preclude biomass ethanol from playing a large role in providing energy services / Lee R. Lynd...[et al.] -- Energy myth four - The hydrogen economy is a panacea to the nation's energy problems / Joseph Romm -- Energy myth five - Price signals are insufficient to induce efficient energy investments / Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren -- Energy myth six - The barriers to new and innovative energy "technologies are primarily technical : The case of distributed generation (DG) / Benjamin K. Sovacool and Richard F. Hirsh -- Energy myth seven - Renewable energy systems could never meet growing electricity demand in America / Rodney Sobin -- Energy myth eight - Worldwide power systems are economically and environmentally optimal / Thomas R. Casten and Robert U. Ayres -- Energy myth nine - Energy efficiency improvements have already reached their potential / Amory B. Lovins -- Energy myth ten - Energy efficiency measures are unreliable, unpredictable, and unenforceable / Edward Vine and MarfiyKushler and Dan York -- Energy myth eleven - Energy R&D investment takes decades to reach the market / Daniel M. Kammen and Gregory F. Nemet -- Energy myth twelve - Climate policy will bankrupt the U.S. Economy / Eileen Claussen and Janet Peace -- Energy myth thirteen - Developing countries are not doing their part in responding to concerns about climate change / Thomas J. Wilbanks -- Conclusions - Replacing myths with maxims : Rethinking the relationship between energy and American society / Benjamin K. Sovacool and Marilyn A. Brown. 333.91 P359w 2006
AUT Pearce, Fred.
TIT When the rivers run dry : water, the defining crisis of the twenty-first century.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. The human sponge -- 2. North America : crossing the Rio Grande -- 3. Riding the water cycle -- 4. Pakistan : the unhappy valley -- 5. India : a colossal anarchy -- 6. Halliburton's job for Qaddafi -- 7. The world's largest mass poisoning -- 8. Mirages -- 9. The common wealth -- 10. Lake Chad : tragedy of the floodplains -- 11. Seas of death -- 12. Mekong : feel of the pulse -- 13. China : the hanging river -- 14. Changing climate -- 15. Wonders of the world -- 16. Sun, silt, and stagnant ponds -- 17. Dams that cause floods -- 18. Palestine : poisoning the wells of peace -- 19. The first modern water war -- 20. Swords of Damocles -- 21. Elisha's spring and the mysteries of Angkor -- 22. Losing the west -- 23. Aral sea : the end of the world -- 24. Taking the water to the people -- 25. Sewage on tap -- 26. Closed basins and closed minds -- 27. Out of thin air -- 28. Catch the rain -- 29. On the grapevine -- 30. Unfailing springs -- 31. Learning to love the floods -- 32. Freeing Saddam's captives -- 33. More crop per drop -- 34. Water ethics. 333.95 R824p 2006
AUT Ross, Ken.
TIT Pioneering conservation in Alaska.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2006. 338.272 S528o 2006
AUT Shankleman, Jill.
TIT Oil, profits, and peace : does business have a role in peacemaking?.
PUB Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The international oil industry -- Links between oil and conflict in producing areas -- Corporate social responsibility -- Azerbaijan : oil, conflict, and the business role in peace building -- Angola : oil, conflict, and postconflict reconstruction -- Sudan : oil wealth, civil war, and the peace agreement -- Conclusions. 338.272 S537p 2007
AUT Shaxson, Nicholas.
TIT Poisoned wells : the dirty politics of African oil. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: A paradox of plenty in the new gulf -- Fela Kuti: how things fell apart in the oil boom -- Pedro Montú: a morph to another world -- Abel Abra\u0101o: wielding the oil weapon -- Omar Bongo: taking the red pill -- Eva Joly: elf Africaine and the rabbit warren -- André Milondo: golden eggs -- Obiang Nguema: what caring neighbors do -- Fradique de Menezes: battening down the hatches -- Arcadi Gaydamak: between global borders -- Dokubo-Asari: corroding the soul of a nation -- Global witness: hooligans and rock stars -- Conclusion: drawing the poison. 338.47 C466i2 2006
AUT Chapman, Merrill R.
TIT In search of stupidity : over 20 years of high-tech marketing disasters. - 2nd ed.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : Apress ; New York : Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag, c2006. 338.5 T789i4 2007
AUT Tremblay, Victor J ; Tremblay, Carol Horton.
TIT Industry and firm studies. - 4th ed.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2007.
CON Contents: Airline service : the evolution of competition since deregulation / Steven A. Morrison -- Banking : an industry in transition / Robert M. Adams -- Brewing : games firms play / Victor J. Tremblay and Carol Horton Tremblay -- Cigarettes : old firms facing new challenges / Frank J. Chaloupka -- Distilled spirits : spirited competition or regulated monopoly? / Jon P. Nelson -- Health insurance : designing products to reduce costs / Lee R. Mobley and H.E. Frech III -- Motion pictures : competition, distribution, and efficiencies / Stanley I. Ornstein -- Soft drinks : the carbonated soft drink industry in the United States / Ronald W. Cotterill ... [et al.] -- The sports industry and antitrust / Rodney Fort -- General Motors : lost dominance / Seth W. Norton -- Microsoft : who is Microsoft today? / Don E. Waldman and Rochelle Ruffer -- Schlitz : why the Schlitz hit the fan / Avi Goldfarb -- TiVo : product versus incumbent advantage / Pai-Ling Yin. 338.7 Y95c 2007
AUT Yunus, Muhammad ; Weber, Karl.
TIT Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism.
PUB New York : PublicAffairs, c2007.
CON Contents: Prologue : starting with a handshake -- The promise of social business -- A new kind of business -- Social business : what it is and what it is not -- The Grameen experiment -- The microcredit revolution -- From microcredit to social business -- The battle against poverty : Bangladesh and beyond -- God is in the details -- One cup of yogurt a a time -- A world without poverty -- Broadening the marketplace -- Information technology, globalization, and a transformed world -- Hazards of prosperity -- Putting poverty in museums -- Epilogue: "Poverty is a threat to peace"--the nobel prize lecture. 338.766 V837a 2007
AUT Vitalis, Robert.
TIT America's kingdom : mythmaking on the Saudi oil frontier.
PUB Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Foreword -- Cast of characters -- Captive narratives: a brief and unexceptional introduction to the history of firms and states -- Part 1. The nearest faraway place -- Arabian frontiers -- American camp -- The wizards of Dhahran -- Part 2. Desire's empty quarter -- Ayyam al-Kadalak (days of the Cadillac) -- Eye of the desert -- El jefe rojo -- America's kingdom -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 341.23 W432o 2007
AUT Weiss, Thomas George ; Daws, Sam.
TIT The Oxford handbook on the United Nations.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: pt.1. Introduction -- World politics: continuity and change since 1945. Contents: pt.2. Theoretical frameworks -- Political approaches -- Legal perspectives -- Evolution in knowledge. Contents: pt.3. Principal organs -- General Assembly -- Security Council -- Economic and Social Council -- Trusteeship Council -- Secretariat: independence and reform -- Secretary-General -- International Court of Justice. Contents: pt.4. Relationships with other actors -- Regional groups and alliances -- Bretton Woods institutions -- Civil society -- Private sector -- Media. Contents: pt.5. International peace and security -- Disarmament -- Peaceful settlement of disputes and conflict prevention -- Peacekeeping operations -- Sanctions -- Peace enforcement -- Humanitarian intervention -- Post-conflict peacebuilding -- terrorism. Contents: pt.6. Human rights -- Norms and machinery -- International criminal court and ad hoc tribunals -- Humanitarian action and coordination -- Women and gender -- Children -- Minorities and indigenous peoples -- Human security. Contents: pt.7. Development -- Coordinating economic and social affairs -- Health and infectious disease -- Natural resource management and sustainable development -- Organized crime -- Democracy and good governance -- Human development. Contents: pt.8. Prospects for reform -- Principal organs -- Financing -- Widening participation. 342.73 G448u 2007
AUT Gibson, Alan Ray.
TIT Understanding the founding : the crucial questions.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2007.
CON Contents: Still hazy after all these years: the economic interpretation and the cloudy legacy of empirical analysis -- Democracy and the founders' constitution: toward a balanced assessment -- How should we study the American founding?: in defense of historically sensitive political philosophy -- Ancients, moderns, and Americans: the republicanism-liberalism debate revisited -- Taking historiography seriously: on identity, democracy, authority, and appropriation. 342.73 P855t 2007
AUT Posner, Eric A ; Vermeule, Adrian.
TIT Terror in the balance : security, liberty, and the courts.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: The tradeoff thesis -- The panic theory -- The democratic failure theory -- The Ratchet theory, and other long-run effects -- Institutional alternatives to judicial deference -- Coercive interrogation -- Speech, due process, and political trials -- Military force. 342.7308 G728d 2006
AUT Graber, Mark A.
TIT Dred Scott and the problem of constitutional evil.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The lessons of Dred Scott -- The constitutional politics of slavery -- Compromising with evil. 342.7308 Z67e 2006
AUT Zietlow, Rebecca E.
TIT Enforcing equality : Congress, the Constitution, and the protection of individual rights.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Congress and rights before the civil war -- Belonging, protection and equality : the Reconstruction Congress -- Belonging and social citizenship : the New Deal and the Wagner Act -- To secure these rights : the 1964 Civil Rights Act -- The new parity debate -- Rights of belonging and popular constitutionalism -- Considering rights of belonging, moral values, and community. 343.07 D657 2008
TIT Doing business 2008 : comparing regulation in 178 economies.
PUB Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2007. 345.76 W645b 2007
AUT Wiegand, Shirley A ; Wiegand, Wayne A.
TIT Books on trial : red scare in the Heartland.
PUB Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Raids and arrests, August 1940 -- Communism comes to Oklahoma, 1917-1940 -- Bob and Alan on trial, October-December 1940 -- Both sides mobilize, August 1940- April 1941 -- Eli and Ina on trial, April-August 1941 -- Swells of protest, changing times, September 1941-September 1943 -- Aftermath. 346.73 J39d 2007
AUT Jasper, Margaret C.
TIT Dealing with debt.
PUB [Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.]: Oceana Publications, c2007.
CON Contents: What is debt? -- Debt management -- Tax debts -- The debt collection process -- Debt collection harassment -- Judgment enforcement -- Consumer bankruptcy -- Rehabilitating your credit -- Appendices -- Glossary. 346.73 M617q 2007
AUT Mezey, Susan Gluck.
TIT Queers in court : gay rights law and public policy.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Forging gay rights activism -- Litigating equality and privacy rights -- Struggling over same-sex marriage -- Contesting inequality in the military -- Challenging employment discrimination -- Conclusion. 346.7303 R288s 1994
AUT Reamer, Frederic G.
TIT Social work malpractice and liability : strategies for prevention.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c1994. Ref 347.73 F499L2 2008
AUT Finkelman, Paul ; Urofsky, Melvin I.
TIT Landmark decisions of the United States Supreme Court. - 2nd ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2008. 347.73 H177j 2005
AUT Hall, Kermit ; McGuire, Kevin T.
TIT The judicial branch.
PUB Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: The historical foundations of the American judiciary / William E. Nelson -- Judges and democracy : the changing role of the United States Supreme Court / Cass R. Sunstein -- Judicial independence and the majoritarian difficulty / Kermit L. Hall -- The judiciary and the separation of powers / Richard A. Brisbin, Jr. -- Judicial review and interpretation : have the courts become sovereign when interpreting the constitution? / Keith E. Whittington -- Paths to the Bench : selecting Supreme Court justices in a "juristocratic" world / Joel B. Grossman -- Is judicial federalism essential to democracy? : state courts in the federal system / Paul Brace and Melinda Gann Hall -- American courts and democracy : a comparative perspective / Donald P. Kommers -- Courts in American popular culture / Lynn Mather -- What Americans know about the courts and why it matters / Gregory A. Caldeira and Kevin T. McGuire -- The impact of courts on American life / Gerald N. Rosenberg -- Judicial activism and American democracy / Doris Marie Provine -- Courts and the rights revolution / Charles R. Epp -- Discrimination through direct democracy : the role of the judiciary in the pursuit of equality / Sue Davis -- From republic to democracy : the judiciary and the political process / Mark A. Graber -- Courts and the definition of defendants' rights / David A. Yalof -- Public education, democratic life, and the American courts / Douglas S. Reed -- Property rights and democracy in the American constitutional order / James W. Ely, Jr. -- The future of the judicial branch : courts and democracy in the twenty-first century / Lawrence Baum. 349.73 A211p4 2005
AUT Adams, David M.
TIT Philosophical problems in the law. - 4th ed.
PUB Belmont, Calif. : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2005. 351 F357o 2005
AUT Ferlie, Ewan ; Lynn, Laurence E. ; Pollitt, Christopher.
TIT The Oxford handbook of public management.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. 351.73 C771d 2007
AUT Cook, Brian J.
TIT Democracy and administration : Woodrow Wilson's ideas and the challenges of public management.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Remaking the public executive -- The character of modern democracy -- Situating administration in the modern democratic state -- Enhancing democracy through administrative design and organizational practice -- Administrative reform and expansion -- Legal structure, cabinet government, and interpretive leadership -- The continuing relevance of Wilson's ideas -- Public management, representative government, and the continuation of Wilson's quest. 352.2 A143e 2005
AUT Aberbach, Joel D ; Peterson, Mark A.
TIT The executive branch.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: General introduction : the executive branch as an institution of American constitutional democracy / Jaroslav Pelikan -- Introduction : presidents and bureaucrats : the executive branch and American democracy / Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson -- The evolution of the presidency : between the promise and the fear / Scott C. James -- The evolution of national bureaucracy in the United States / Daniel Carpenter -- Giving direction to government in comparative perspective / Richard Rose -- Presidential elections and American democracy / Stephen J. Wayne -- The executive office of the president : the paradox of politicization / Matthew J. Dickinson -- Communicating from the White House : presidential narrowcasting and the national interest / Lawrence R. Jacobs -- The person of the president, leadership, and greatness / Fred I. Greenstein -- The complex organization of the executive branch : the legacies of competing approaches to administration / Colin Campbell -- The federal public service : the people and the challenge / Patricia W. Ingraham -- Caught in the middle : the president, Congress, and the political-bureaucratic system / Barry R. Weingast -- Reforming the executive branch of the U.S. government / Donald F. Kettl -- Executive power and political parties : the dilemmas of scale in American democracy / Sidney M. Milkis -- The executive branch and the legislative process / Andrew Rudalevige -- The courts, jurisprudence, and the executive branch / R. Shep Melnick -- Federalism and the executive branch / Thomas Gais and James Fossett -- Control and accountability : dilemmas of the executive branch / Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson. 355.02 B662a 2007
AUT Bøås, Morten ; Dunn, Kevin C.
TIT African guerrillas : raging against the machine.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2007. 355.02 C338i 2007
AUT Cashman, Greg ; Robinson, Leonard C.
TIT An introduction to the causes of war : patterns of interstate conflict from World War I to Iraq.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
CON Contents: World War I -- World War II in the Pacific -- The six-day war -- The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 -- The Iran-Iraq War -- The Iraq War. 361 F232i10 2006
AUT Farley, O. William ; Smith, Larry Lorenzo ; Boyle, Scott W.
TIT Introduction to social work. - 10th ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Social work practice -- Social work services -- Professional development. 362.10973 H582w 2007
AUT Herzlinger, Regina E.
TIT Who killed health care? : America's $2 trillion medical problem--and the consumer-driven cure.
PUB New York : McGraw Hill, c2007.
CON Contents: Who killed health care? -- The day health care died -- Death by a thousand cuts -- Killer number 1: the health insurers, death at the hands of a dysfunctional culture -- Killer number 2: the general hospitals, death at the hands of empire builders -- Killer number 3: the employers, death at the hands of a "choice" of one -- Killer number 4: the U.S. Congress, death at the hands of those elected to represent us -- Killer number 5: the academics, death at the hands of the elite policy makers -- The right medicine: consumer-driven health care -- How it works -- Consumer-driven benefits: lessons from other countries and industries -- How to make it happen: the carrots, the sticks, the laws -- The carrots: let medical business entrepreneurialism bloom -- The sticks: let information flow -- A bold new consumer-driven health care system: the laws and their legislators. 362.196 C539a 2007
AUT Chin, James.
TIT The AIDS pandemic : the collision of epidemiology with political correctness.
PUB Oxford ; Seattle : Radcliffe, c2007. 363.179 B891n 2007
AUT Brugge, Doug ; Benally, Timothy ; Yazzie-Lewis, Esther.
TIT The Navajo people and uranium mining.
PUB Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, [2007], c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: "So a lot of the Navajo ladies became widows" / Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis -- Leetso, the powerful yellow monster : a Navajo cultural interpretation of uranium mining / Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Jim Zion -- "I have revisited the places where I used to work" : oral history of former miner George Tutt / interview by Timothy Benally ; translation/transcription by Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Timothy Benally -- A documentary history of uranium mining and the Navajo people / Doug Brugge and Rob Goble -- "Human beings are priceless" : interview with Leroy and Lorraine Jack / interview by Phil Harrison ; translation/transcription by Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Timothy Benally -- Advocacy and social action among Navajo people : uranium workers and their families, 1988-1995 / Susan E. Dawson, Perry H. Charley, and Phillip Harrison Jr. -- "Our children are affected by it" : oral history of former miner George Lapahie / interview by Timothy Benally ; translation/transcription by Esther Yazzie-Lewis and Timothy Benally -- Psychological effects of technological/human-caused environmental disasters : examination of the Navajo people and uranium / Carol A. Markstrom and Perry H. Charley -- "It was like slave work" : oral history of miner Tommy James / interview by |
