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A study of the evolution of the military balance between Israel and Syria between 1978 and 1989, and the effects of the close strategic ties that developed in this period between these states and their superpower partners. Special attention is given to the fighting in Lebanon in 1982.
Evaluation of social and education services leads to better practice, however many practitioners find the language of evaluation difficult to conceptualize. A Practical Guide to Evaluation presents the mechanisms and processes of evaluation with a clear eye toward the impact evaluation has for the l
After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India were both concerned. The CIA knew it needed to gather more information, but had few ways of achieving this. This text chronicles the effort to plant a sensing device on a Himalayan peak in order to listen in on China.
Emma Planinc argues that liberal democracies must open themselves up to a regenerative politics that accepts all claims against political convention as self-determinative—including those that desire the rejection of rights or the overturning of liberal democracies themselves.
Hongshan Li provides a groundbreaking account of the confrontation between the United States and the People’s Republic of China on the Cold War’s cultural front.
One of philosophy's traditional purposes was to question the meaning of life, a mission currently enjoying a resurgence of interest among analytic philosophers. As much a guide as it is a reader, this anthology features astutely chosen essays that define the context of this historically core philoso
Long before the 1970s and the feminist revolution that shattered traditional notions of the family, black women in America had already accomplished their own revolution. This study argues that black women in two-parent families were practicing an egalitarian lifestyle that was envisioned by few of t
Nicole M. Brown examines Black women’s leadership within the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement, calling for understanding them as sophisticated strategists who engaged the tensions among capitalism, consumerism, and economic liberation.
In early April 1536, Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada led a military expedition from the coastal city of Santa Marta deep into the interior of what is today modern Colombia. This title reconstructs the tale of the Jimenez expedition, the early stages of the Spanish conquest of Muisca territory, and the fo
Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as well as different critical methods and styles. Poets commented on range from Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz to Silvia Plath, James Merrill, and Amy Clampitt.
The Power of Critical Thinking explores the essentials of critical reasoning, argumentation, logic, and argumentative essay writing while also incorporating important topics that most other texts leave out, such as inference to the best explanation, scientific reasoning, evidence and authority, visu
Step-By-Step Instruction takes students through the complete academic writing process starting at the sentence level and ending with the researched essay.
This history of the black community of Indianapolis in the 20th century focuses on methods of political action--protracted negotiations, interracial coalitions, petition, and legal challenge--employed to secure their civil rights. These methods of polite protest set Indianapolis apart from many Nort
This book examines African American Christian involvement in Israel and Palestine to show how competing visions of “the Black Church” are changing through transnational political engagement.
The New Yorker has called Donald Keene America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature. Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese Novelist
These essays, by thirteen specialists from Japan and the United States, provide a comprehensive view of the Japanese empire from its establishment in 1895 to its liquidation in 1945. They offer a variety of perspectives on subjects previously neglected by historians: the origin and evolution of the
Ideal for courses in contemporary moral problems, applied ethics, and introduction to ethics, Disputed Moral Issues: A Reader, Sixth Edition, offers a unique pedagogical approach that bridges moral theory and applied ethics. Bringing together sixty-eight engaging articles, it also includes an access
The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students is the only book specifically designed to teach today's history students how to successfully select and use sources--primary, secondary, and electronic--to carry out and present their research. Expanded and updated, the fou
Nelson, Jill: - Jill Nelson is an associate professor of journalism at the City College of New York and has written for the New York Times Book Review , among other publications.
A formal model in the social sciences builds explanations when it structures the reasoning underlying a theoretical argument, opens venues for controlled experimentation, and can lead to hypotheses. Yet more importantly, models evaluate theory, build theory, and enhance conjectures. Formal Modeling
Michael Bérubé explores the surprising insights of classic and contemporary works of SF that depict civilizational collapse and contemplate human extinction.
Through in-depth interviews with Jews across the country, the authors, probe beneath the surface to explore the foundations of belief and behaviour among moderately affiliated American Jews. Among their thought-provoking conclusions are that the construction of Jewish meaning in America is personal
Korean writer Ch’oe Myongik was a lifelong resident of Pyongyang, a city his short stories masterfully evoke in exquisite modernist prose. This book presents a selection of Ch’oe’s short fiction in translation.
In a time of reckoning, this year's National Magazine Awards finalists and winners focus on abuse of power in many forms. Ronan Farrow's Pulitzer Prize-winning revelation of Harvey Weinstein's depredations ( New Yorker ), along with Rebecca Traister's charged commentary for New York and Laurie Penny
This book presents the first comprehensive history of Buddhism among the Uyghurs from the ninth to the seventeenth century.
Addresses two constitutional issues: first, whether the states in 1860 had a right to secede from the Union and second, what significance slavery had in defining the constitutional Union. These two matters came together when the states seceded on the grounds that the system of government they had ag
Three friends discover, surfing just got serious Book three in the Bikini Collective series sees the girls preparing for another action-packed surfing adventure, but one of them is burdened with secrets. With all of her scholarship funds exhausted, Carolyn has no choice: she'll have to drop off the
Winner 2011 Samuel French Canadian Play Contest Winner King's Cross Award for New Writing (UK) Winner Tarragon Theatre's RBC Under 30 National Playwriting Competition (Canada) If you were looking at us, you might have even thought we were friends. Old friends. If my son hadn't raped her daughter. It
Considered the Western world's leading interpreter of traditional Japanese culture, Donald Keene now offers an enjoyable introduction to Japanese literature for the general reader. Keene's deep learning enables him to construct an overview as delightful to read as it is informative. Perhaps no one i
Following up her highly praised study of the women in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, Blee discovers that many of today's racist women combine dangerous racist and anti-Semitic agendas with otherwise mainstream lives. The only national sample of a broad spectrum of racist activists and the only major work o
