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025.52 F229s 2007
AUT Farkas, Meredith G.
TIT Social software in libraries : building collaboration, communication, and community Online.
PUB Medford, N.J. : Information Today, c2007.
CON Contents: What is social software? -- Blogs -- Blogs in libraries : practical applications -- RSS -- Wikis -- Online communities -- Social networking -- Social bookmarking and collaborative filtering -- Tools for synchronous online reference -- The mobile revolution -- Podcasting -- Screencasting and vodcasting -- Gaming -- What will work @ your library -- Keeping up : a primer -- Future trends in social software.

070.433 R815w 2007
AUT Rosenstiel, Tom.
TIT We interrupt this newscast : how to improve local news and win ratings, too.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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133.4 E47L 2004
AUT Ellis, Bill.
TIT Lucifer ascending : the occult in folklore and popular culture.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2004.
CON Contents: Wizards vs. muggles: a long-standing debate -- What were witches really like? -- Black books and chain letters -- Satanic bibles -- Why is a lucky rabbit's foot lucky? -- Visits to forbidden graveyards -- Table-setting and mirror-gazing -- The @#$%&! Ouija board -- The Welsh revival: Evangelical Christianity meets the occult -- Learning from Lucifer.

150.72 S697p5 2002
AUT Sommer, Robert ; Sommer, Barbara Baker.
TIT A practical guide to behavioral research : tools and techniques. - 5th ed.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
CON Contents: Multimethod approach -- Ethics in behavioral research -- Search the technical literature -- Observation -- Mapping and trace measures -- Experimentation -- Simulation -- Interview -- The questionnaire -- Attitude and rating scales -- Content analysis -- Personal documents and archival measures -- Case study -- Action research -- The big fuzzies : research on difficult-to-define concepts -- Standardized tests and inventories -- Sampling -- Descriptive statistics -- Inferential statistics -- Writing and reviewing a research report -- After the report -- Concluding notes -- Appendix A. Critical values -- Appendix B. Statistical tests -- Appendix C. Using computer software for data analysis -- Appendix D. Example of a manuscript prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association -- Appendix E. Example of style used for a technical report.

150.92 D186c 2007
AUT Daniels, Harry ; Cole, Michael ; Wertsch, James V.
TIT The Cambridge companion to Vygotsky.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Vygotsky in context : 1900-1935 / René van der Veer -- Vygotsky's demons / David Bakhurst -- An interesting resemblance : Vygotksy, Mead and American pragmatism / Anne Edwards -- Vygotsky, Mead, and the new sociocultural studies of identity / Dorothy Holland and William Lachicotte, Jr. -- Vygotsky on thinking and speaking / Vera P. John-Steiner -- Terminology in L.S. Vygotsky's writings / Boris G. Meshcheryakov -- Mediation / James V. Wertsch -- Vygotsky and culture / Michael Cole and Natalia Gajdamaschko -- Thought and word : the approaches of L.S. Vygotsky and G.G. Shpet / Vladimir P. Zinchenko -- The development of children's conceptual relation to the world, with focus on concept formation in preschool children's activity / Mariane Hedegaard -- Inside and outside the Zone of proximal development : an ecofunctional reading of Vygotsky / Pablo del Río and Amelia Álvarez -- Pedagogy / Harry Daniels -- Sociocultural theory and education of children with special needs : from defectology to remedial pedagogy / Alex Kozulin and Boris Gindis -- Putting Vygotsky to work : the change laboratory as an application of double stimulation / Yrjö Engeström.

155.2 S688b8 2009
AUT Sollod, Robert N ; Wilson, John P. ; Monte, Christopher F.
TIT Beneath the mask : an introduction to theories of personality. - 8th ed.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.

155.2072 H236 2007
AUT Robins, Richard W ; Fraley, R. Chris ; Krueger, Robert F.
TIT Handbook of research methods in personality psychology.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Designing a personality study -- Methods for assessing personality at different levels of analysis -- Analyzing and interpreting personality data.

155.283 G739ma4 2006
AUT Graham, John R.
TIT MMPI-2 : assessing personality and psychopathology. - 4th ed.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. Development of the MMPI and MMPI-2 -- 2. Administration and scoring -- 3. The validity scales -- 4. The clinical scales -- 5. Code types -- 6. Content interpretation -- 7. Restructured Clinical (RC) and Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) scales -- 8. Supplementary scales -- 9. Psychometric considerations -- 10. Use with special groups -- 11. An interpretive strategy -- 12. Computerized administration, scoring, and interpretation -- 13. Forensic applications of the MMPI-2 -- Appendix A. Composition of standard validity and clinical scales -- Appendix B. T-score conversions for standard validity and clinical scales -- Appendix C. Composition of Harris-Lingoes subscales -- Appendix D. Linear t-score conversions for Harris-Lingoes subscales -- Appendix E. Composition of SI subscales -- Appendix F. Linear t-score conversions for SI subscales -- Appendix G. Composition of content scales -- Appendix H. Uniform t-score conversions for content scales -- Appendix I. Composition of content component scales -- Appendix J. Uniform t-score conversions for content component scales -- Appendix K. Koss-Butcher critical item numbers -- Appendix L. Composition of restructured clinical (RC) scales -- Appendix M. Uniform t-score conversions for restructured clinical (RC) scales -- Appendix N. Composition of personality psychopathology five (PSY-5) scales -- Appendix O. Uniform t-score conversions for personality psychopathology five (PSY-5) scales -- Appendix P. Composition of supplementary scales -- Appendix Q. Linear t-score conversions for supplementary scales -- Appendix R. Intercorrelations of MMPI-2 scales for normative sample -- Appendix S. Percentile equivalents for uniform t scores -- Appendix T. Data for four practice cases.

155.4 H825r 2007
AUT Hosin, Amer A.
TIT Responses to traumatized children.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

155.937 D658L 2007
AUT Doka, Kenneth J.
TIT Living with grief : before and after the death.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Hospice Foundation of America, c2007.
SER Living with grief series.

170.92 L533n 2007
AUT Leiter, Brian ; Sinhababu, Neil.
TIT Nietzsche and morality.
PUB Oxford, U.K. : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction / Brian Leiter and Neil Sinhababu -- Nietzsche : Perfectionist / Thomas Hurka -- The will to power and the ethics of creativity / Bernard Reginster -- Nietzschean 'animal psychology' versus Kantian ethics / Mathias Risse -- The case for Nietzschean moral psychology / Joshua Knobe and Brian Leiter -- Ressentiment, value, and self-vindication : making sense of Nietzsche's slave revolt / R. Jay Wallace -- Guilt, bad conscience, and self-punishment in Nietzsche's Genealogy / Christopher Janaway -- Honest illusion : valuing for Nietzsche's free spirits / Nadeem J.Z. Hussain -- Nietzsche and moral objectivity : the development of Nietzsche's metaethics / Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick -- Affect, value, and objectivity / Peter Poellner -- Vengeful thinking and moral epistemology / Neil Sinhababu -- Perspectives, fictions, errors, play / Simon Blackburn.

174.2 G545b 2007
AUT Glannon, Walter.
TIT Bioethics and the brain.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Brain, body, and self -- Neuroimaging -- Pharmacological and psychological interventions -- Neurosurgery, psychosurgery, and neurostimulation -- Brain death.

193 T396tK 2003
AUT Kant, Immanuel ; Walford, David ; Meerbote, Ralf.
TIT Theoretical philosophy, 1755-1770. - 1st pbk. ed.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
SER The Cambridge edition of the works of Immanuel Kant.

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200.974 B194r 2006
AUT Balmer, Randall Herbert ; Silk, Mark.
TIT Religion and public life in the Middle Atlantic region : the fount of diversity.
PUB Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2006.
SER Religion by region. ; 7.
CON Contents: Introduction : the proving ground for pluralism / Randall Balmer -- The religious diversity of an immigrant region / Vivian Z. Klaff -- Protestants in the Middle Atlantic region / James Hudnut-Beumler -- Catholicism in the Middle Atlantic / James T. Fisher : Jews : Middle Atlantic and beyond / Lawrence Grossman -- Religions of immigrants in the Mid-Atlantic states / Wendy Cadge -- Conclusion : the pluralist imperative / Randall Balmer.

200.974 W223r 2004
AUT Walsh, Andrew ; Silk, Mark.
TIT Religion and public life in New England : steady habits, changing slowly.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2004.
SER Religion by region. ; 3.
CON Contents: Introduction: religion in New England: reckoning with Catholicism / Andrew Walsh -- The demographic layout: a tale of two New Englands / Stephen Prothero -- Catholics I: majority faith with a minority mindset / James M. O'Toole -- Catholics II: in the flux of crisis / Michele Dillon -- Mainline Protestants: custodians of community / Maria Erling -- Conservative Protestants: prospering on the margins / Andrew Walsh -- Jews and African Americans: holding down the fort / Daniel Terris -- Conclusion: on common ground / Andrew Walsh.

200.975 W747r 2005
AUT Wilson, Charles Reagan ; Silk, Mark.
TIT Religion and public life in the South : in the evangelical mode.
PUB Walnut Creek, [Calif.] : AltaMira Press, 2005.
SER Religion by region.

200.976 L753r 2005
AUT Lindsey, William D., 1950- ; Silk, Mark ; Lindsey, William D.
TIT Religion and public life in the southern crossroads : showdown states.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2005.
SER Religion by region. ; 5.
CON Contents: INTRODUCTION-AT THE CROSSROADS / William Lindsey -- RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION IN THE SOUTHERN CROSSROADS AND THE NATION- Religious Self-Identification and Adherents Claimed by Religious Groups, National and Regional Comparisons -- THE SOUTHERN CROSSROADS: RELIGION AND DEMOGRAPHY / Bill Leonard -- PROTESTANTS: FROM DENOMINATIONAL CONTROVERSIALISTS TO CULTURE WARRIORS / Andrew Manis -- HOLINESS AND PENTACOSTAL TRADITIONS: MAKING THE SPIRIT COUNT / Jane Harris -- NEGOTIATING CATHOLICISM: RELIGIOUS IDENTITY VS. REGIONAL CITIZENSHIP / Kathlyn Breazeale -- AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND NATIVE-AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FOLK: DOWN BUT NOT OUT / Cheryl Kirk-Duggan -- CONCLUSION: SHOWDOWNS / William Lindsey and Mark Silk.

200.977 S583r 2004
AUT Barlow, Philip L ; Silk, Mark.
TIT Religion and public life in the midwest : America's common denominator?.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2004.
SER Religion by region. ; 4.

200.978 S583r 2004
AUT Shipps, Jan, 1929- ; Silk, Mark ; Shipps, Jan.
TIT Religion and public life in the Mountain West : sacred landscapes in transition.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2004.
SER Religion by region ; 2.
CON Contents: Introduction : religion in the Mountain West : geography as destiny / Jan Shipps -- Religious affiliation in the Mountain West and the nation : religious self-identification and adherents claimed by religious groups, national and regional comparisons -- The religious demography of an oasis culture / Walter Nugent -- How religion created an infrastructure for the Mountain West / Ferenc Morton Szasz -- Catholic heartland in transition : Arizona and New Mexico / Randi Jones Walker -- The Mormon corridor : Utah and Idaho / Kathleen Flake -- Polarized Tribes : Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana / Philip Deloria -- Conclusion : sacred landscapes in transition / Jan Shipps.

200.979 R776r 2005
AUT Roof, Wade Clark ; Silk, Mark.
TIT Religion and public life in the Pacific region : fluid identities.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Alatmira Press, c2005.
SER Religion by region.
CON Contents: Preface / Mark Silk -- Introduction: Religion in the Pacific region / Phillip E. Hammond -- Religious affiliation in the Pacific region and the nation - Religious self-identification and adherents claimed by religious groups, national and regional comparisons -- Religion in the Pacific region : demographic patterns / Wade Clark Roof -- Toward an established mysticism : judeo-Christian traditions in post-World War II, California and Nevada / Douglas Firth Anderson -- New players and new patterns / David W. Machacek -- The influence of alternative religions / Tamar Frankiel -- Pono and Kapu : righteousness and taboo in Hawaii / George J. Tanabe, Jr -- Conclusion: Faith and spirituality in a fluid environment / Wade Clark Roof.

200.9795 K48r 2004
AUT Killen, Patricia O'Connell ; Silk, Mark.
TIT Religion and public life in the Pacific Northwest : the none zone.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2004.
SER Religion by region. ; 1.
CON Contents: Patterns of the past, prospects for the future: religion in the None Zone / Patricia O'Connell Killen -- Surveying the religious landscape: historical trends and current patterns in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska / Patricia O'Connell Killen and Mark A. Shibley with assistance from Kellee Boyer and Kellie A. Riley -- Contesting the soul of an unlikely land: mainline Protestants, Catholics, and Reform and Conservative Jews in the Pacific Northwest / Dale E. Soden -- The churching of the Pacific Northwest: The rise of sectarian entrepreneurs / James K. Wellman, Jr. -- Religions of the Pacific Rim in the Pacific Northwest / Lance D. Laird -- Secular but spiritual in the Pacific Northwest / Mark A. Shibley -- Religious futures in the None Zone / Patricia O'Connell Killen.

201.7 P713s 2007
AUT Plante, Thomas G ; Thoresen, Carl E.
TIT Spirit, science, and health : how the spiritual mind fuels physical wellness.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.
CON Contents: Spirituality, religion, and health : what's the deal? / Carl E. Thoresen -- Prayer and health / Kevin S. Masters -- A few good measures : assessing religion and spirituality in relation to health / Peter C. Hill, Katie J. Kopp, and Richard A. Bollinger -- How does one learn to be spiritual? : the neglected role of spiritual modeling in health / Doug Oman and Carl E. Thoresen -- Meditation : exploring the farther reaches / Shauna L. Shapiro and Roger Walsh -- The eight-point program of passage meditation : health effects of a comprehensive program / Tim Flinders, Doug Oman, and Carol Lee Flinders -- Mantram or holy name repetition : health benefits from a portable spiritual practice / Jill E. Bormann and Doug Oman -- Compassion and health / Amy B. Wachholtz and Michelle Pearce -- The calling protocol : promoting greater health, joy, and purpose in life / Diane E. Dreher and Thomas G. Plante -- Religion/spirituality and health in adolescents / Sian Cotton, Daniel H. Grossoehme, and Joel Tsevat -- Spirituality and cancer / Allen C. Sherman and Stephanie Simonton -- Spirituality and HIV/AIDS / Heidemarie Kremer and Gail Ironson -- Spirituality at the end of life : issues and guidelines for care / Kathryn Z. McNichols and David B. Feldman -- Spirituality, religion, and health : ethical issues to consider / Thomas G. Plante.

261.709 H449c 2007
AUT Heclo, Hugh ; Bane, Mary Jo ; Kazin, Michael.
TIT Christianity and American democracy.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
SER Alexis de Tocqueville lectures on American politics.

282.09 B813v 2000
AUT Braham, Randolph L.
TIT The Vatican and the Holocaust : the Catholic Church and the Jews during the Nazi era.
PUB [New York] : Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies Graduate Center/City University of New York ; Boulder : Social Science Monographs ; [New York] : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2000.
SER East European monographs. ; no. 550 Holocaust studies series.
CON Contents: Origins of anti-semitism / Hyam Maccoby -- The Vatican : remembering and forgetting ; The Catholic Church and the Jews during the Nazi era / Randolph L. Braham -- Reaction of a Catholic theologian to the Vatican's We remember document / John F. Morley -- Reaction of a Protestant theologian to the Vatican's We remember document / Franklin H. Littell -- Reaction of a Jewish theologian to the Vatican's We remember document / A. James Rudin -- Appendixes. Letter of Pope John Paul II (March 12, 1998) and We remember : a reflection on the Shoah (March 16, 1998) -- Ecumenical Council Vatican II. Nostra Aetate (no. 4) (October 28, 1965) -- Guidelines and suggestions for implementing the conciliar declaration Nostra Aetate (no. 4) (December 1, 1974) -- Notes on the correct way to present the Jews and Judaism in preaching and catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church (June 24, 1985).

286.09 J76b 2008
AUT Jonas, William Glenn.
TIT The Baptist river : essays on many tributaries of a diverse tradition.
PUB Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2008.
SER Baptists.
CON Contents: Defining a tradition: a river runs through it / Glenn Jonas -- American Baptists / Deborah Van Broekhoven -- Southern Baptists / C. Douglas Weaver -- National Baptists / Sandy D. Martin -- Independent Baptists / Jerry L. Faught -- The National Association of Free Will Baptists / William F. Davidson -- The Primitive or Old School Baptists / John G. Crowley -- The North American Baptist Conference / Philip E. Thompson -- Baptists in Canada / William H. Brackney -- Seventh Day Baptists / Don A. Sanford -- The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship / Walter B. Shurden -- Baptist Americanus / Lydia Huffman Hoyle.

291.03 O13a 2007
AUT O'Brien, Joanne ; Palmer, Martin ; Barrett, David B.
TIT The atlas of religion.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Pt.1 Beginnings : Popular religions -- Arrivals -- Roots and branches. Contents: Pt.2 Beliefs : Christianity -- Islam -- Hinduism -- Buddhism -- Judaism -- Sikhism -- Traditional beliefs -- Catholicism -- New religious movements -- New departures -- Non-believers. Contents: Pt.3 Structures : State attitudes to religion -- Christian finance -- Religious education -- Christian missionaries -- The word -- Christian broadcasting -- Aid and development -- Islamic law. Contents: Pt.4 Conflicts and tensions : Faultlines -- Emerging from persecution. Contents: Pt.5 Contemporary challenges : Shared world -- Equal rites -- Environmental protection -- Ethical investment -- The future. Contents: Pt.6 The heartlands : Origins -- Holy natural -- Fundamentals of the faiths. Contents: Pt.7 Social context.

291.9 S819c 2003
AUT Stein, Stephen J.
TIT Communities of dissent : a history of alternative religions in America.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.
CON Contents: Talking about religious outsiders -- Early dissenters and popular religion -- Peace movements in colonial America -- Communitarians living on the margins -- Apocalyptic traditions: watching and waiting for the end -- Healers and occultists: women of spiritual means -- Sectarians in the city -- Twentieth-century sects and cults.

294.5211 K92 2007
AUT Bryant, Edwin F.
TIT Krishna : a sourcebook.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Krishna in the Mahabharata: the death of Karna / Alf Hiltebeitel -- Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita / Robert N. Minor -- Harivamsa: the dynasty of Krishna / Ekkehard Lorenz -- Krishna in the tenth book of the Bhagavata Purana / Edwin F. Bryant -- Orissa: Shri Krishna Jagannath: the Mushali-parva from Sarala's Mahabharata / Bijoy M. Misra -- Assam: Shankaradeva's Parijata Harana Nata / William L. Smith -- Tamil Nadu: weaving garlands in Tamil: the poetry of the Alvars / Vasudha Narayanan -- Maharashtra: games with God: Sakhya-bhakti in Marathi Sant poetry / Vidyut Aklujkar -- Braj: fishing in Sur's Ocean / John Stratton Hawley -- Rajasthan: Mirabai and her poetry / Nancy M. Martin -- Gujarat: Krishna-Lila in the songs of Narasinha Mehta / Neelima Shukla-Bhatt -- Sanskrit from Tamil Nadu: at play in the forests of the Lord: the Gopalavimshati of Vedantadeshika / Steven P. Hopkins. Contents: Krishna in Advaita Vedanta: the supreme Brahman in human form / Lance E. Nelson -- Ramanuja and the meaning of Krishna's descent and embodiment on this earth / Francis X. Clooney, S.J. -- Madhva Vedanta and Krishna / Deepak Sharma -- The six Sandarbhas of Jiva Gosvami / Satyanarayana Dasa -- A selection from the Bhaktirasamritasindhu of Rupa Gosvamin: the foundational emotions (sthayi-bhavas) / David Haberman -- The divine feminine in the theology of Krishna / Graham M. Schweig -- Kumbhandas: the devotee as salt of the earth / Richard Barz -- The Bade Shikshapatra: a Vallabhite guide to the worship of Krishna's divine images / Paul Arney -- Vaishnava pilgrimage: select Puranic texts / Paul H. Sherbow -- Chaitanya Vaishnavism and the holy names / Neal Delmonico.

294.55 D993h 2007
AUT Dwyer, Graham ; Cole, Richard J.
TIT The Hare Krishna movement : forty years of chant and change.
PUB London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
CON Contents: List of plates -- Introduction -- PART 1. ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENTS AND ORGANISATIONAL PATTERNS. 1965 was a very good year and 2005 is better still -- Forty years of chanting: a study of the Hare Krishna movement from its foundation to the present day -- (Comment on) Moving into phase three: an analysis of ISKCON membership in the UK -- PART 2. DREAMS AND DEVOTION. Dreams of Prabhupada and devotional life the in the Hare Krishna movement -- The consciousness of surrender and the surrendered consciousness: ecstatic dreams of Lord Krishna -- PART 3. TRADITION AND MODERNITY. Bringing the Lord's song to a strange land: Srila Prabhupada's strategy of "cultural conquest" and its prospects -- Spiritual solutions to material problems: ISKCON and the modern world -- For love of Krishna: forty years of chanting -- PART 4. IDENTITY AND PERCEPTION. ISKCON's search for self-identity: reflections by a historian of religions -- Thealogising Radha: the feminine and feminist dimensions of deity -- Notes and references -- Notes on contributors -- Appendix -- Glossary of Sanskrit terms -- Index.

294.5512 R678h 2007
AUT Rochford, E. Burke.
TIT Hare Krishna transformed.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2007.
SER New and alternative religions series.

297.0973 B274a 2007
AUT Barrett, Paul.
TIT American Islam : the struggle for the soul of a religion. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

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301.01 N348t 2003
AUT Nealon, Jeffrey T. ; Giroux, Susan Searls.
TIT The theory toolbox : critical concepts for the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2003.
SER Culture and politics series.

301.01 S359t 2006
AUT Schneider, Mark A.
TIT The theory primer : a sociological guide.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
CON Contents: Theories and theorizing. A definition of theory ; Theory and explanation ; Theorizing as a process ; Theories, causal narratives, and descriptive narratives ; Theories and paradigms -- Karl Marx and capitalism. Capitalism as a problem ; Creating a theory to explain the change ; Evaluating Marx's theory -- Historical materialism and its legacy. The paradigm of historical materialism ; The legacy of Marx -- Max Weber and capitalism. Weber's program : theoretical modesty and use of analytic typologies ; Weber's Protestant ethic account of capitalism ; Evaluating the Protestant ethic thesis ; Weber and historic idealism ; Weber and verstehen -- Max Weber and analytic typologies. What is an analytic typology? ; What makes for a good typology? ; Weber's typologies ; Charismatic authority and the sociology of charisma ; Bureaucratic authority and the sociology of bureaucracies ; Rationalization and historical change ; Stratification and conflict -- Émile Durkheim on the division of labor and suicide. The division of labor ; Durkheim on suicide ; Evaluating Durkheim's theory of suicide -- Émile Durkheim and functionalism. The social function of crime ; Functionalism as a paradigm ; Structuralism : Durkheim on the origins of religion -- G. H. Mead and symbolic interaction. Mead and social behaviorism ; Erving Goffman and symbolic interaction ; The affect control subparadigm.

302.23 G475g 2007
AUT Gill, Rosalind.
TIT Gender and the media.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity, 2007.
CON Contents: Gender and the media -- Analysing gender in media texts -- Advertising and postfeminism -- News, gender, and journalism -- Talk shows : feminism on TV? -- Gender in magazines : from Cosmopolitan to Loaded -- Postfeminist romance -- Postfeminist media culture?.

302.23 I58g 2007
AUT Inness, Sherrie A.
TIT Geek chic : smart women in popular culture. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
CON Contents: Who remembers Sabrina? Intelligence, gender, and the media / Sherrie A. Inness -- Beauty and the geek: changing gender stereotypes on the Gilmore girls / Karin E. Westman -- Lab coats and lipstick: smart women reshape science on television / Lorna Jowett -- "You can see things that other people can't:" changing images of the girl with glasses, from Gidget to Daria / Cindy Conaway -- "Pretty smart": subversive intelligence in girl power cartoons / Rebecca C. Hains -- Super slacker girls: dropping out but divinely inspired / Michele Paule -- Back to the future: the brilliant witches in Bewitched / Linda Baughman, Allison Burr-Miller, and Linda Manning -- Dangerous minds: the woman professor on television / Leigh H. Edwards -- Raising the bar: brilliant women lawyers from Ann Kelsey to Miranda Hobbes / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan -- Savvy women, old boys' school politics, and The west wing / Beth Berila -- Heckling Hillary: jokes, late-night television, and Hillary Rodham Clinton / Jeannie Banks Thomas.

302.23 L574r 2007
AUT Lenthall, Bruce.
TIT Radio's America : the Great Depression and the rise of modern mass culture.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

302.23 S819s 2008
AUT Stein, Laura Lynn.
TIT Speech rights in America : the First Amendment, democracy, and the media. - First Illinois paperback ed.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 2008.
SER History of communication.
CON Contents: The First Amendment and communication in democratic societies -- Rethinking speech rights -- Social mediation in print and broadcast media -- The right to public space -- Democratic speech rights on the Internet -- The future of democratic communication.

303.484
AUT Snow, David A ; Soule, Sarah Anne ; Kriesi, Hanspeter.
TIT The Blackwell companion to social movements.
PUB Oxford, U.K. : Blackwell, 2007.
SER Blackwell companions to sociology.

303.484 M113c 1996
AUT McAdam, Doug ; McCarthy, John D. ; Zald, Mayer N.
TIT Comparative perspectives on social movements : political opportunities, mobilizing structures, and cultural framings.
PUB Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
SER Cambridge studies in comparative politics.

303.484 M875f 1992
AUT Morris, Aldon D ; Mueller, Carol McClurg.
TIT Frontiers in social movement theory.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c1992.
CON Contents: Building social movement theory / Carol McClurg Mueller -- The political context of rationality / Myra Marx Ferree -- The social psychology of collective action / William A. Gamson -- The social construction of protest and multiorganizational fields / Bert Klandermans -- Collective identity in social movement communities : lesbian feminist mobilization / Verta Taylor and Nancy E. Whittier -- Master frames and cycles of protest / David A. Snow and Robert D. Benford -- Collective identity and activism / Debra Friedman and Doug McAdam -- Mentalities, political cultures, and collective action frames / Sidney Tarrow -- Resource mobilization versus the mobilization of people : why consensus movements cannot be instruments of social change / Michael Schwartz and Shuva Paul -- Communities of challengers in social movement theory / Clarence Y.H. Lo -- Mobilizing technologies for collective action / Pamela E. Oliver and Gerald Marwell -- Consensus movements, conflict movements, and the cooptation of civic and state infrastructures / John D. McCarthy and Mark Wolfson -- Normalizing collective protest / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- Looking backward to look forward / Mayer N. Zald -- Political consciousness and collective action / Aldon D. Morris.

303.625 C312i 2007
AUT Carr, Matthew.
TIT The infernal machine : a history of terrorism.
PUB New York : New Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Beginnings -- The hero takes the stage -- Anarchists and dynamitards -- Terror and resistance -- Freedom fighters -- Savages -- The romance of the urban guerrilla -- The revolutionary festival -- Patriots -- The terrorist decades -- The dawn of international terrorism -- The first war on terror -- The armies of God -- Waiting for catastrophe -- A raid on the path: 9/11 and the war on terror -- Epilogue: In a time of terror.

304.8 M919a 2007
AUT Motomura, Hiroshi.
TIT Americans in waiting : the lost story of immigration and citizenship in the United States.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: immigrants in America -- Contract and classical immigration law -- Promises, promises -- All persons within the territorial jurisdiction -- Alienage and the ties that bind -- The most tender connections -- The lost story of Americans-in-waiting -- Transition at a crossroads -- The meaning of transition -- Race, belonging, and transition -- Taking transition seriously -- Conclusion : the idea of Americans-in-waiting -- Notes.

304.873 M416n 2008
AUT Massey, Douglas S.
TIT New faces in new places : the changing geography of American immigration.
PUB New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2008.
CON Contents: Places and peoples : the new American mosaic / Charles Hirschman and Douglas S. Massey -- The geographic diversification of American immigration / Douglas S. Massey and Chiara Capoferro -- The structure and dynamics of Mexican migration to new destinations in the United States / Mark A. Leach and Frank D. Bean -- Changing faces, changing places : the emergence of new nonmetropolitan immigrant gateways / Katharine M. Donato ... [et al.] -- New Hispanic migrant destinations : a tale of two industries / Emilio A. Parrado and William Kandel -- The origins of employer demand for immigrants in a new destination : the salience of soft skills in a volatile economy / Katharine M. Donato and Carl L. Bankston III -- Prejudice toward immigrants in the Midwest / Katherine Fennelly -- New midwesterners, new southerners : immigration experiences in four rural American settings / David Griffith -- Hispanic immigration, Black population size, and intergroup relations in the rural and small-town South / Helen B. Marrow -- Nashville's new "Sonido" : Latino migration and the changing politics of race / Jamie Winders -- The ambivalent welcome : Cinco de Mayo and the symbolic expression of local identity and ethnic relations / Debra Lattanzi Shutika -- Race to the top? the politics of immigrant education in suburbia / Michael Jones-Correa -- Assimilation in a new geography / Douglas S. Massey.

305.23 S399m 1999
AUT Schwartz, Eugene.
TIT Millennial child.
PUB Great Barrington, Mass. : Anthroposophic Press, c1999.

305.31 M398c 2006
AUT Mason, Christopher P.
TIT Crossing into manhood : a men's studies curriculum.
PUB Youngstown, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Masculine biology -- Masculine development through the life cycle -- Uniquely masculine issues: masculine initiation -- Uniquely masculine issues: finding the father -- Archetypes of a mature masculine identity -- Encountering the feminine: sexuality and relationships -- Matters of health and spirituality -- Matters of masculine diversity -- The boarding school as an initiatory experiences -- Summary and discussion.

305.396 H292r 2007
AUT Harold, Claudrena N.
TIT The rise and fall of the Garvey movement in the urban South, 1918-1942.
PUB New York : Routledge, c2007.
SER Studies in African American history and culture.
CON Contents: Garveyism and the rise of new Negro politics in the Jim Crow South -- "We are constantly on the firing line": the Garvey Movement in New Orleans, 1920-1935 -- "I am a stranger here": Bahamians and the Garvey Movement in Miami, Florida, 1920-1933 -- Virginian Garveyism, 1918-1942 -- Life after the Garvey Movement.

305.4 R588f 2002
AUT Ripa, Yannick.
TIT Les femmes, actrices de l'histoire : France, 1789-1945.
PUB Paris : A. Colin, c2002.
SER Campus. Histoire.

305.488 M682w 2007
AUT Mitchell, S. E. ; Schell, Patience A.
TIT The women's revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2007.
SER Latin American silhouettes.
CON Contents: The faces of rebellion: from revolutionaries to Veterans in nationalist Mexico / Martha Eva Rocha -- Educating the mothers of the nation: the project of revolutionary education in Yucatán / Stephanie J. Smith -- Challenging legal and gender constraints in Mexico: Sofía Villa de Buentello's criticism of family legislation, 1917-1927 / Carmen Ramos Escandón -- The meaning of the women's vote in Mexico, 1917-1953 / Sarah A. Buck -- Of the sublime mission of mothers of families: the union of Mexican Catholic ladies in Revolutionary Mexico / Patience A. Schell -- Theater of operations: reform politics and the battle for prostitutes' redemption at revolutionary Mexico City's syphilis hospital / Katherine Elaine Bliss -- "The proletarian women will make the social revolution": female participation in the Veracruz rent strike, 1922-1927 / Andrew Grant Wood -- Por la liberatión de la mujer: women and the anti-alcohol campaign / Stephanie Mitchell -- Improving mothers: poverty, the family, and "modern" social assistance in Mexico, 1937-1950 / Nichole Sanders.

305.4889 B599i 2007
AUT Billson, Janet Mancini ; Mancini, Kyra.
TIT Inuit women : their powerful spirit in a century of change.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.

305.8 B449o 2005
AUT Bell-Villada, Gene H.
TIT Overseas American : growing up gringo in the tropics. - 1st ed.
PUB Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, c2005.
SER Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.

305.8 H567s 2004
AUT Herring, Cedric ; Keith, Verna ; Horton, Hayward Derrick.
TIT Skin deep : how race and complexion matter in the "color-blind" era.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press : Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2004.
CON Contents: Skin deep: race and complexion in the "color-blind" era / Cedric Herring -- Light, bright, and almost white: the advantages and disadvantages of light skin / Margaret Hunter -- Copper brown and blue black: colorism and self evaluation / Maxine S. Thompson and Verna M. Keith -- For richer, for poorer, whether dark or light: skin tone, marital status, and spouse's earnings / Korie Edwards, Katrina Carter-Tellison, and Cedric Herring -- "Mama, are you brown?": multiracial families and the color line / Heather M. Dalmadge -- Beyond Black?: the reflexivity of appearances in racial identification among black/white biracials / Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma -- Skin tone, class, and racial attitudes among African Americans / Phillip J. Bowman, Ray Muhammad, and Mosi Ifatunji -- Toward a critical demography of neo-Mulattoes: structural change and diversity within the black population / Hayward Derrick Horton and Lori Latrice Sykes -- Demystifying color-blind ideology: denying race, ignoring racial inequalities / Kimberly L. Ebert -- Race south of the equator: reexamining the intersection of color and class in Brazil / V\u0144ia Penha-Lopes -- From biracial to tri-racial: the emergence of a new racial stratification system in the United States / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.

305.8 R328s 2007
AUT Rees, Richard W.
TIT Shades of difference : a history of ethnicity in America.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.
SER Perspectives on a multiracial America series.
CON Contents: Introduction : the invention of (the concept of) ethnicity -- From the invention of race to the rise of the inbetween people, 1840-1924 -- Whiteness and the limits of the new environmentalism in the social sciences, 1895-1921 -- Inventing ethnicity in the context of race and caste, 1930-1945 -- Black ethnicity and the transformation of a concept, 1962-1972 -- Conclusion : toward a hybrid discourse of ethnicity.

305.892 K195s 2007
AUT Katz, Steven T.
TIT The shtetl : new evaluations.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2007.
SER Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series.
CON Contents: Introduction / Samuel Kassow -- The importance of demography and patterns of settlement for an understanding of the Jewish experience in East-Central Europe / Gershon David Hundert -- A shtetl with a yeshiva : the case of Volozhin / Immanuel Etkes -- Rebbetzins, wonder-children, and the emergence of the dynastic principle in Hasidism / Nehemia Polen -- Two Jews, three opinions: politics in the shtetl at the turn of the twentieth century / Henry Abramson -- The shtetl in Poland, 1914-1918 / Konrad Zieli\u0144ski -- The shtetl in interwar Poland / Samuel Kassow -- Looking at the Yiddish landscape : representation in nineteenth-century Hasidic and Maskilic literature / Jeremy Dauber -- Imagined geography : the shtetl, myth, and reality / Israel Bartal -- Gender and the disintegration of the shtetl in modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature / Naomi Seidman -- Rediscovering the shtetl as a new reality : David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis / Mikhail Krutikov -- Agnon's synthetic shtetl / Arnold J. Band -- The image of the shtetl in contemporary Polish fiction / Katarzyna Wiec\u0142awska -- Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust : a case study of two townships in Wolyn (Volhynia) / Yehuda Bauer -- The world of the shtetl / Elie Wiesel.

305.896 T274g 2007
AUT Telles, Edward Eric ; Ortiz, Vilma.
TIT Generations of exclusion : Mexican Americans, assimilation, and race.
PUB New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2008.

305.897 P495b 2007
AUT Petrillo, Larissa ; Trejo, Melda ; Trejo, Lupe.
TIT Being Lakota : identity and tradition on Pine Ridge Reservation.
PUB Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.

306 B632J 2005
AUT Jacobs, Mark D. ; Hanrahan, Nancy Weiss.
TIT The Blackwell companion to the sociology of culture.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
SER Blackwell companions to sociology. ; 12.
CON Contents: PT. 1. PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHOD. Structure, culture and agency / Margaret S. Archer -- Culture and cognition / Albert J. Bergesen -- Difference and cultural systems: dissonance in three parts / Nancy Weiss Hanrahan -- PT. 2. CULTURAL SYSTEMS. Culture in global knowledge societies: knowledge cultures and epistemic cultures / Karin Knorr Cetina -- Media culture(s) and public life / Ronald N. Jacobs -- "Religion as a cultural system": theoretical and empirical developments since Geertz / Rhys H. Williams -- Aesthetic uncertainty: the new canon? / Vera L. Zolberg -- Pragmatics of taste / Antoine Hennion -- PT. 3. EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING. Music and social experience / Tia DeNora -- Consumer culture / Daniel Thomas Cook -- Fame and everyday life: the "lottery celebrities" of reality TV / Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams -- Labor for love: rethinking class and culture in the case of single motherhood / Maria Kefalas -- PT. 4. IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE. New developments in class and culture / David Halle and L. Frank Weyher -- Sexuality and religion: negotiating identity differences / Michele Dillon -- Race after the cultural turn / Orville Lee -- PT. 5. COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA. Collective memory: why culture matters / Barry Schwartz, Kazuya Fukuoka, and Sachiko Takita-Ishii -- Counter-memories of terrorism: the public inscription of a dramatic past / Anna Lisa Tota -- Museums and the constitution of culture / Jan Marontate -- Dilemmas of the witness / Robin Wagner-Pacifici -- PT. 6. THE CULTURE OF INSTITUTIONS. Professions as disciplinary cultures / Magali Sarfatti Larson -- Everyday life and the constitution of reality / Susan S. Silbey -- The discourses of welfare and welfare reform / John W. Mohr -- The culture of savings and loan scandal in the no-fault society / Mark D. Jacobs -- PT. 7. THE CULTURE OF CITIZENSHIP: LOCAL, NATIONAL, GLOBAL. Civic culture at the grass roots / Paul Lichterman -- Public vocabularies of religious belief: explicit and implicit religious discourse in the American public sphere / John H. Evans -- Democracy and globalization in the global economy / Diana Crane -- The autonomy of culture and the invention of the politics of small things: 1968 revisited / Jeffrey C. Goldfarb -- Toward a nonculturalist sociology of culture: on class and status in globalizing capitalism / Nancy Fraser.

306.0973 B328n 2007
AUT Batchelor, Bob ; Stoddart, Scott.
TIT The 1980s.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
SER American popular culture through history.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Timeline of Popular Culture Events -- Everyday America -- World of Youth -- Advertising -- Architecture and Design -- Fashion -- Food -- Leisure Activities -- Literature -- Music -- Performing Arts -- Travel and Recreation -- Visual Arts -- Cost of Products in the 1980s -- Works Cited -- Index.

306.0973 S129n 2007
AUT Sagert, Kelly Boyer.
TIT The 1970s.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
SER American popular culture through history.
CON Contents: Timeline of the 1970s -- Everyday America -- World of youth -- Advertising -- Architecture -- Fashion -- Food and the environment -- Leisure activities -- Literature -- Music -- Performing arts -- Travel -- Visual arts -- Cost of products in the 1970s.

306.36 J33d 2003
AUT Jankowiak, William R ; Bradburd, Daniel.
TIT Drugs, labor, and colonial expansion.
PUB Tucson, Az. : University of Arizona Press, c2003.
CON Contents: Drugs, desire, and European economic expansion / Daniel Bradburd and William Jankowiak -- Mutual exploitation? : Aboriginal Australian encounters with Europeans, Southeast Asians, and tobacco / Maggie Brady and Jeremy Long -- "They are beginning to learn the use of tobacco" : cultural context and the creation of a passion in colonial Papua New Guinea / Terence E. Hays-- Alcohol and the slave trade in West Africa, 1400-1850 / Charles Ambler -- Alcohol and the fur trade in New France and English America, 1600-1800 / Peter C. Mancall -- Rum and ganja : indenture, drug foods, labor motivation, and the evolution of the modern sugar industry in Trinidad / Michael V. Angrosino -- Inside the Windhoek lager : liquor and lust in Namibia / Robert Gordon -- Alcohol as a direct and indirect labor enhancer in the mixed economy of the BaTswana, 1800-1900 / David N. Suggs and Stacy A. Lewis -- Coca as symbol and labor enhancer in the Andes : a historical overview / Vicki Cassman, Larry Cartmell, and Eliana Belmonte -- Caffeine and culture / E.N. Anderson -- Drugs in work and trade : new directions for the study of drug use / Daniel Bradburd and William Jankowiak.

306.362 P962M 2007
AUT Mintz, Steven ; Stauffer, John.
TIT The problem of evil : slavery, freedom, and the ambiguities of American reform.
PUB Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Slavery and freedom as moral problems -- The antislavery impulse -- Imagining emancipation -- Post-emancipation America.

306.461 C666m10 2007
AUT Cockerham, William C.
TIT Medical sociology. - 10th ed.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007.
CON Contents: Medical sociology -- Epidemiology -- The social demography of health -- Social stress and health -- Health behavior and lifestyles -- Illness behavior -- The sick role -- Healing options -- Physicians -- Doctor-patient interaction. Contents: The physician in a changing society -- Nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, and midwives -- The hospital in society -- Health care delivery and social policy in the United States -- Health care in developed countries -- Health care in former socialist, socialist, and developing countries.

306.461 W184s 2007
AUT Walker, Susannah.
TIT Style & status : selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : Why hair is political -- The beauty industry is ours : developing African American consumer citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s --Everyone admires the woman who has beautiful hair : mediating African American neauty standards in the 1920s and 1930s -- An export market at home : expanding African American consumer culture in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s -- Beauty services offered from head to toe : promoting beauty to African American women in the 1940s and 1950s -- All hair is good hair : integrating beauty in the 1950s and 1960s -- Black is beautiful : redefining Beauty in the 1960s and 1970s -- Conclusion : why African American beauty culture is still contested.

306.483 F727h 2007
AUT Forney, Craig A.
TIT The holy trinity of American sports : civil religion in football, baseball, and basketball. - 1st ed.
PUB Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2007.
SER Sports and religion.
CON Contents: The sports of American civil religion -- Holy rites of football, baseball, and basketball -- Football : American myth of history -- Baseball : sacred story of American aspirations -- Basketball : American story of irreversible progress -- Doctrines of the sports trinity -- The ethical dimension of football, baseball, and basketball -- Social tenets of the sports trinity -- Experience of football, baseball, and basketball -- Revelations of the sports trinity.

306.6 F334b 2003
AUT Fenn, Richard K.
TIT The Blackwell companion to sociology of religion.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2003.
SER Blackwell companions to religion. ; 2.
CON Contents: Personal reflections in the mirror of Hal\u02B9evy and Weber / David Martin -- Salvation, secularization, and de-moralization / Bryan Wilson -- The Pentecostal gender paradox: a cautionary tale for the sociology of religion / Bernice Martin -- Feminism and the sociology of religion: from gender-blindness to gendered difference / Linda Woodhead -- Melancholia, utopia, and the psychoanalysis of dreams / Donald Capps -- Georg Simmel: American sociology chooses the stone the builders refused / Victoria Lee Erickson -- Transformations of society and the sacred in Durkheim's religious sociology / Donald A. Nielsen -- Classics in the sociology of religion: an ambiguous legacy / Roger O'Toole -- Individualism, the validation of faith, and the social nature of religion in modernity / Danièle Hervieu-L\u02B9eger -- The origins of religion / Richard K. Fenn -- Secularization extended: from religious "myth" to cultural commonplace / Nicholas J. Demerath III -- Social movements as free-floating religious phenomena / James A. Beckford -- The social process of secularization / Steve Bruce -- Patterns of religion in Western Europe: an exceptional case / Grace Davie -- The future of religious participation and belief in Britain and beyond / Robin Gill -- Religion as diffusion of values. "Diffused Religion" in the context of a dominant religious institution: the Italian case / Roberto Cipriani -- Spirituality and spiritual practice / Robert Wuthnow -- The Renaissance of community economic development among African-American churches in the 1990s / Katherine Day -- Hell as a residual category: possibilities excluded from the social system / Richard K. Fenn and Marianne Delaporte. Contents: Acting ritually: evidence from the social life of Chinese rites / Catherine Bell -- Moralizing sermons, then and now / Thomas Luckmann -- Health, morality and sacrifice: the sociology of disasters / Douglas J. Davies -- Contemporary social theory as it applies to the understanding of religion in cross-cultural perspective / Peter Beyer -- The return of theology: sociology's distant relative / Kieran Flanagan -- Epilogue: toward a secular view of the individual / Richard K. Fenn.

306.7098 F877g 2007
AUT French, William E. ; Bliss, Katherine Elaine.
TIT Gender, sexuality, and power in Latin America since independence.
PUB Lanham Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
SER Jaguar books on Latin America series.
CON Contents: Vicenta Ochoa, dead many times: gender, politics, and a death sentence in early republican Caracas, Venezuela / Arlene J. Díaz -- Madame Durocher's performance: cross-dressing, midwifery, and authority in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Erica M. Windler -- Mismeasured women: gender and social science on the eve of female suffrage in Cuba / Alejandra Bronfman -- "Such a strong need": sexuality and violence in Belem prison / Pablo Piccato -- "Gentlemanly responsibility" and "insults of woman": dueling and the unwritten rules of public life in Uruguay, 1860-1920 / David S. Parker -- Work, sex, and power in a central American export economy at the turn of the twentieth century / Lara E. Putnam -- Dangerous driving: adolescence, sex, and the gendered experience of public space in early-twentieth-century Mexico City / Katherine Elaine Bliss, Ann S. Blum -- Doctoring the national body: gender, race, eugenics, and the "invert" in urban Brazil, ca. 1920-1945 / James N. Green -- Masculinity, primitivism, and power: gaucho, tango, and the shaping of Argentine national identity / Eduardo P. Archetti -- Gender, sexuality, and revolution: making histories and cultural politics in Nicaragua, 1979-2001 / Cymene Howe -- Gendering the space of death: memory, democratization, and the domestic / Lessie Jo Frazier.

306.85094 M934f 2007
AUT Mouton, Michelle.
TIT From nurturing the nation to purifying the Volk : Weimar and Nazi family policy, 1918-1945.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
SER Publications of the German Historical Institute.
CON Contents: Marriage policy in turmoil: stabilizing society, re-ordering gender roles, and guaranteeing the future -- Divorce: balancing individual freedom and the 'public good' -- From Mother's Day to forced sterilization motherhood as antidote to national health -- Alleviating the burdens of motherhood -- Morality versus mortality: negotiating policy toward single mothers and illegitimate children -- Forming families beyond blood ties: foster care and adoption.

307.7 R588f 2007
AUT Ripa, Yannick.
TIT Les femmes en France : de 1880 à nos jours.
PUB Paris : Chêne, c2007.

320.092 T164L 2007
AUT Tanguay, Daniel.
TIT Leo Strauss : an intellectual biography. - 1st English ed.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Translator's note -- Introduction -- Zionism, orthodoxy, and Spinoza's critique of religion -- Prophet and philosopher -- The theologico-political problem in relation to ancient and modern natural right -- The conflict between Jerusalem and Athens -- Conclusion.

320.512 D655r 2007
AUT Doherty, Brian.
TIT Radicals for capitalism : a freewheeling history of the modern American libertarian movement.
PUB New York : PublicAffairs, c2007.
CON Contents: Patriots, unterrified Jeffersonians, and superfluous men -- Austrian roadblocks on the road to serfdom -- The three furies of libertarianism -- Fighting for the freedom philosophy -- Objectivism, anarcho-capitalism, and the effects of psychedelics on faith and freedom -- The Goldwater movement, the objectivist crackup, and the hippies of the right -- Libertarian Zionism, the Koch Bubble, and America's third largest political party -- A mainstreamed radicalism -- The twilight of the libertarian gods.

320.52 D923f 2007
AUT Dunn, Charles W.
TIT The future of conservatism : conflict and consensus in the post-Reagan era. - 1st ed.
PUB Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 2007.
SER Religion and contemporary culture series.
CON Contents: Introduction. Conservatism on center stage / Charles W. Dunn -- 1. The uneasy future of American conservatism / George H. Nash -- 2. Four heads and one heart : the modern conservative movement / James W. Ceaser -- 3. The irony of conservative success / George W. Carey -- 4. A plea for constitutional conservatism / Harvey C. Mansfield -- 5. The electoral future of conservatism / Michael Barone -- 6. Conservatism, democracy, and foreign policy / Daniel J. Mahoney -- 7. Add, don't subtract : how Christian conservatives should engage American culture / Marvin Olasky -- 8. From Reagan democrats to social conservatives : hard choices facing the pro-family cause / Allan C. Carlson -- 9. Stuck-with-virtue conservatism / Peter Augustine Lawler -- Epilogue. The enduring Reagan / William Kristol.

320.54 S524g 2003
AUT Shabazz, Ilyasah ; McLarin, Kim.
TIT Growing up X. - 1st trade pbk. ed.
PUB New York : One World/Ballantine Books, 2003.
CON Contents: Acknowledgments -- Author's note -- Prologue: Aftermath -- Alone -- Lessons -- Camp Betsey Cox -- Mommy's home -- Played -- Hustle queen -- Roots -- Boys -- College -- Daddy's home -- Growing up X -- Recovery -- Reunited.

322.4 S921a 2007
AUT Strolovitch, Dara Z.
TIT Affirmative advocacy : race, class, and gender in interest group politics.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Closer to a pluralist heaven? -- Intersectionality and representation -- Trickle-down representation? -- Tyranny of the minority? institutional targets and advocacy strategies -- Coalition and collaboration among advocacy organizations -- Conclusion : affirmative advocacy -- Appendix A. Study design : methodology and data collection -- Appendix B. Survey script -- Appendix C. Interview protocol.

324.256 T158h 2007
AUT Tamimi, Azzam.
TIT Hamas : a history from within.
PUB Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2007.

324.62 P356d 2008
AUT Peacock, Anthony A.
TIT Deconstructing the republic : voting rights, the Supreme Court, and the founders' republicanism reconsidered.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 2008.

325.44 L675b 2007
AUT Lewis, Mary Dewhurst.
TIT The boundaries of the republic : migrant rights and the limits of universalism in France, 1918-1940.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Workers of the World Claim Rights: The Origins and Limitations of France's Guest-Worker Regime -- From Labor Contract to Social Contract: The Impact of the Depression on Migrant Rights in Lyon -- Working the "Marseille System": The Politics of Survival in the Port City -- Privilege and Prejudice: The Invention of a New Immigration Regime in the Mid-1930s -- Refuge or Refusal? The Vicissitudes of Refugee Rights between the Wars -- Subjects, Not Citizens: North African Migrants and the Paradoxes of Republican Imperialism -- The Insecurity State: Migrant Rights and the Threat of War -- Conclusion: Republican France, One and Divisible?.

325.73 L549g 2006
AUT LeMay, Michael C.
TIT Guarding the gates : immigration and national security.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.

327.172 C938L 2007
AUT Crocker, Chester A ; Hampson, Fen Osler ; Aall, Pamela R.
TIT Leashing the dogs of war : conflict management in a divided world.
PUB Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Leashing the dogs of war / Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall -- Sources of conflict and challenges to global security -- International sources of interstate and intrastate war / Jack S. Levy -- New global dangers / Michael E. Brown -- Arms acquisition and violence : are weapons or people the cause of conflict? / Geoffrey Kemp -- Terrorism and global security / Martha Crenshaw -- The challenge of weak, failing and collapsed states / Robert I. Rotberg -- State making, state breaking, and state failure / Mohammed Ayoob -- Power, social violence, and civil wars / Charles King -- Minorities, nationalists, and islamists : managing communal conflict in the twenty-first century / Ted Robert Gurr -- Turbulent transitions : why emerging democracies go to war / Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder -- Environmental change, security, and conflict / Nils Petter Gleditsch -- Economic causes of civil conflict and their implications for policy / Paul Collier -- Economic causes of conflict : an overview and some policy implications / Frances Stewart and Graham Brown -- Uses and limits of force in conflict management -- Using force for peace in the age of terror / Lawrence Freedman -- Limits on the use of force / Brian Urquhart -- Yet again : humanitarian intervention and the challenges of "never again" / Bruce W. Jentleson -- Coercive diplomacy, Robert J. Art and Patrick M. Cronin -- Expanding global military capacity to save lives with force / Michael O'Hanlon -- Economic sanctions international peace and security / Chantal de Jonge Oudraat -- Uses and limits of statecraft, diplomacy and soft power in conflict management -- The place of grand strategy, statecraft and power in conflict management / Chester A. Crocker -- Usip framework for success in international intervention / Daniel Serwer and Patricia Thomson -- The place of soft power in state-based conflict management / Joseph S. Nye, jr -- Rule of law in conflict management / Neil Kritz -- Rethinking the "war on terror" : new approaches to conflict prevention and management in the post-9/11 world / Paul B. Stares and Mona Yocoubian -- International mediation / I. William Zartman and Saadia Touval -- Contemporary conflict resolution applications / Louis Kriesberg -- The power of non-official actors in conflict management / Pamela Aall -- Uses and limits of institutions in conflict management -- An institutional architecture for peace / Brian Job -- The United Nations and conflict management : relevant or irrelevant? / Karen A. Mingst and Margaret P. Karns -- Successes and challenges in conflict management / Andrew Mack -- New roles for regional organizations / Paul F. Diehl -- Capacity and limits of NGOs as conflict managers / Diana Chigas -- The role of norms, standards, and regimes / Ruth Wedgwood -- The uses and limits of governance in conflict management -- The challenges of imposed democracy / Marina Ottaway -- Peace enforcement or liberal imperialism? / Kimberly Marten -- Economic...

327.58 R936c 2007
AUT Rumer, Eugene B. ; Trenin, Dmitri ; Zhao, Huasheng.
TIT Central Asia : views from Washington, Moscow, and Beijing.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: Central Asia in the twenty-first century / Rajan Menon -- The United States and Central Asia : in search of a strategy / Eugene Rumer -- Russia and Central Asia : interests, policies, and prospects / Dmitri Trenin -- Central Asia in China's diplomacy / Huasheng Zhao.

327.73 M678f 2007
AUT Miscamble, Wilson D.
TIT From Roosevelt to Truman : Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Preparation : the making of an (American) internationalist -- Inheritance : Franklin Roosevelt's uncertain legacy -- Initiation : tactical reversal, strategic continuity -- Instruction : Truman's advisers and their conflicting advice -- Negotiation : Truman and Byrnes at Potsdam -- Intimidation : Hiroshima, the Japanese and the Soviets -- Indecision : floundering between collaboration and confrontation -- Transformation : Truman's foreign policy.

327.73 R823s 2007
AUT Ross, Dennis.
TIT Statecraft : and how to restore America's standing in the world. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007.

327.73009 K21i 2007
AUT Kaufman, Robert Gordon.
TIT In defense of the Bush doctrine.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.
CON Contents: The imprudence of isolationism -- The perils of neorealism -- The unrealistic realism of classical realists -- The perils of liberal multilateralism -- Moral democratic realism -- Moral democratic realism and the endgame of the Cold War -- The Bush doctrine and Iraq : a sound application of a sound doctrine -- Conclusion : beyond the War on Terror.

330.9 W927Ur 2007
TIT World economic and social survey 2007.
PUB New York : United Nations, 2007.
SER World economic and social survey. ; 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- An ageing world population -- Older persons in a changing society -- Economic consequences of population ageing -- Old-age income security -- Health and long-term care systems for ageing societies -- Statistical annex.

330.9174 N789a 2007
AUT Noland, Marcus ; Pack, Howard.
TIT The Arab economies in a changing world.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2007.
CON Contents: Dimensions of the challenge. Addressing the challenge -- Growth, productivity, and welfare. Identifying the comparators. Natural resources and physical capital. Human capital. Relative international performance. Domestic growth over time. Investment and growth. Sources of differences in growth rates -- Welfare, happiness, and discontent. Social indicators. Happiness. Discontent -- Dimensions of the challenge. What are the perceived problems? Demographic changes. Employment generation and productivity growth. International trade performance. Dimensions of the problem. Foreign direct investment and financial inflows. Oil rents, aid, and remittances. Financial market development. Explanations of limited globalization. Some effects of lack of globalization -- Obstacles to, and enablers of, development. Institutions and the influence of Islam. Religious affiliation and growth across countries. Religion and institutions. legal systems and growth. Corruption and growth. Evolving understanding of development policy. Policies and their effects. An alternate view of the determinants of productivity growth -- Policy levers and constraints. Internal constraints to reform. The external policy dimension. The role of preferential agreements. Intra-Arab agreements. Club Med. Preferential agreements with the US -- Risk, credibility, and supply response. Domestic entrepreneurship. Reversing the brain drain. Arabs in North America. Arabs in Europe. The role of foreign investment. Asian experiences with diaspora and foreign entrepreneurs. Affinity, democracy, and risk -- Authoritarianism, uncertainty, and prospects for change. The political economy of reform. Implications for international exchange. Prospects for change -- Conclusions -- Defining the problem. Designing solutions. The political economy of reform.

330.952 B942e 2007
AUT Bunker, Stephen G. ; Ciccantell, Paul S.
TIT East Asia and the global economy : Japan's ascent, with implications for China's future.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
SER Johns Hopkins studies in globalization.
CON Contents: Growth and crisis in the Japanese economy -- Economic ascent and hegemony in the capitalist world-economy -- The MIDAs-steel-ships nexus -- Creating Japan's coal-exporting peripheries -- Replicating Japan's new model in iron ore -- Transporting coal and iron ore -- The restructuring of global markets and the future of the capitalist world-economy.

331.892 H772g 2007
AUT Honey, Michael K.
TIT Going down Jericho Road : the Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's last campaign. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
CON Contents: Labor and civil rights -- A plantation in the city -- Dr. King, labor, and the civil rights movement -- Struggles of the working poor -- Standing at the crossroads -- On strike for respect -- Hambone's meditations : the failure of community -- Testing the social gospel -- Fighting for the working poor -- Minister to the valley : the poor people's campaign -- Baptism by fire -- Ministers and manhood -- Convergence -- Escalation : the youth movement -- "All labor has dignity" -- "Something dreadful" -- Jericho Road is a dangerous road -- Chaos in the bluff city -- "The movement lives or dies in Memphis" -- State of siege -- Shattered dreams and promised lands -- "A crucifixion event" -- Reckonings -- "We have got the victory" -- Epilogue : how we remember King.

332.72 G745s 2007
AUT Gramlich, Edward M.
TIT Subprime mortgages : America's latest boom and bust.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The new mortgage market -- The evolution of this market -- Rental housing -- Benefits, costs, and risks for the new homeowners -- Policy changes.

333.7 F453e4 2006
AUT Field, Barry C ; Field, Martha K.
TIT Environmental economics : an introduction. - 4th ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill Irwin, c2006.

333.7 M158a 2008
AUT McKibben, Bill ; Gore, Albert.
TIT American Earth : environmental writing since Thoreau.
PUB New York : Literary Classics of the United States, c2008.
SER Library of America.

335.4 S491c 2007
AUT Service, Robert.
TIT Comrades! : a history of world communism.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Pt. 1 Origins to 1917. Communism before Marxism ; Marx and Engels ; Communism in Europe ; Russian Variations ; The October Revolution ; The first Communist state -- Pt 2. Experiment: 1917-1929. European revolutions ; Communism and its discontents ; The Communist International ; Probing America ; Making sense of Communism ; The USSR in torment ; The Soviet model -- Pt. 3. Development: 1929-1947. World strategy ; Stalinist ideology ; Inside the parties ; Friends and foes ; Communism in the World War ; Forcing the peace -- Pt. 4. Reproduction: 1947-1957. The Cold War and the Soviet Bloc ; The Yugoslav road ; Western Europe ; Warring propaganda ; The Chinese Revolution ; Organising Communism ; Against and for reform -- Pt. 5. Mutation: 1957-1979. Détente and expansion ; China convulsed ; Revolutionary Cuba ; Communist order ; Rethinking Communism ; Europe East and West ; Reduced expectations ; Last of the Communist Revolutions -- Pt. 6. Endings: From 1980. Roads from Communism ; Anti-Communism in Eastern Europe ; China's capitalist Communism ; Perestroika ; The comrades depart ; Accounting for Communism.

338.4778 B531g 2007
AUT Bernstein, Arthur ; Sekine, Naoki ; Weissman, Dick.
TIT The global music industry : three perspectives.
PUB New York : Routledge, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The music business in the United States -- The music business in Canada -- The music business in Latin America and the Caribbean -- The music business in Africa -- The music business in Europe -- The music business in Asia -- Conclusion : loose ends, final thoughts, and the future.

338.6041 L234f 2007
AUT Lamoreaux, Naomi R ; Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee.
TIT Financing innovation in the United States, 1870 to the present.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : the organization and finance of innovation in American history / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Financing invention during the Second Industrial Revolution : Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920 / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- The organizing and financing of innovative companies in the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry / Steven Klepper -- Why did finance capitalism and the Second Industrial Revolution arise in the 1890s? / Larry Neal, Lance E. Davis -- Funding new industries : a historical perspective on the financing role of the U.S. stock market in the twentieth century / Mary A. O'Sullivan -- Stock market swings and the value of innovation, 1908-1929 / Tom Nicholas -- Financing fiber : Corning's invasion of the telecommunications market / Margaret B. W. Graham -- The federal role in financing major innovations : information technology during the postwar period / Kira R. Fabrizio, David C. Mowery -- Learning the hard way : IBM and the sources of innovation in early computing / Steven W. Usselman -- Trading knowledge : an exploration of patent protection and other determinants of market transactions in technology and R&D / Ashish Arora, Marco Ceccagnoli, Wesley M. Cohen -- The governance of new firms : a functional perspective / Josh Lerner -- Real effects of knowledge capital on going public and market valuation / Michael R. Darby, Lynne G. Zucker.

339 M913c 2007
AUT Moss, David A.
TIT A concise guide to macroeconomics : what managers, executives, and students need to know.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2007.

339.46 K18p 2007
AUT Karelis, Charles.
TIT The persistence of poverty : why the economics of the well-off can't help the poor.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: What poverty is -- Behavioral factors in poverty -- Some theories -- A closer look at the inefficiency argument -- Appendix. Using indifference curves to identify utility-maximizing allocations -- A new way to rationalize the conduct that prolongs and worsens poverty -- Appendix. Further exploration through graphical analysis -- Responses to challenges and questions -- Appendix. The case of Alfred Marshall -- Policy: what should we do differently if we believe that marginal utility is increasing amid scarcity? -- Economic justice reconsidered.

341.48 P887c 2008
AUT Power, Samantha.
TIT Chasing the flame : Sergio Vieira de Mello and the fight to save the world.
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2008.

342.73 W584h 2007
AUT White, G. Edward.
TIT History and the constitution : collected essays.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The historical turn in American constitutional jurisprudence -- The arrival of history in constitutional scholarship -- The constitutional journey of Marbury v. Madison -- Historicizing judicial scrutiny -- History and the reception of international law in America -- The transformation of the constitutional regime of foreign relations : the old regime under stress -- The triumph of executive discretion in the constitutional regime of foreign relations -- A customary international law of torts -- History and the Rehnquist court -- Unpacking the judicial center -- The internal powers of the chief justice : the nineteenth century legacy -- The jurisprudence of the Rehnquist court.

342.7308 B883r 2007
AUT Browne-Marshall, Gloria J.
TIT Race, law, and American society : 1607 to present.
PUB New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, c2007.
SER Criminology and justice studies.
CON Contents: Overview of race and the law in America -- Race and the struggle for education in American schools -- Property rights and ownership -- Civil liberties and racial justice -- Voting rights and restrictions -- Race and the military -- Race, crime, and injustice -- Race and Internationalism.

344.73 T462g 2007
AUT Thomas, R. Murray.
TIT God in the classroom : religion and America's public schools.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2007.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction : as seen from here -- Illustrative conflicts over religion in schools -- State, religion, secular public, and schools -- Belief constituencies -- Traditions and critical events -- Conclusion -- 2. From then to now -- A background sketch -- Trends of the times, 1600-2007 -- Summary -- 3. God and Darwin -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 4. Curricula and text materials -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 5. Prayer and scripture reading -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 6. Holidays and celebrations -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 7. Financial support -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 8. The pledge of allegiance -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 9. Released time and clubs -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 10. Symbols and maxims -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 11. Sexual matters -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 12. State/church/secularists/schools -- The state -- The church -- The concerned secular public -- The public schools -- Conclusion.

345.73 F353t 2007
AUT Ferguson, Robert A.
TIT The trial in American life.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2007.

345.73 P133m 2007
AUT Page, William H. ; Lopatka, John E.
TIT The Microsoft case : antitrust, high technology, and consumer welfare.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Origins -- Ideological sources of antimonopolization law -- Microsoft's predecessors : the public monopolization case -- Microsoft's beginnings : a post-Chicago convergence -- Decisions -- Chronology -- The liability decisions -- The remedial decisions -- The follow-on private litigation -- The European Commission decision -- Markets -- Two systems of belief about