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The 12th-century bishop Otto of Freising was an outstanding historian of his century. "The Two Cities" was his masterwork, spanning in time from Adam and Eve to the coming of the last days - which he believed were imminent.

Looking at approaches to understanding the interactions among three critical players, China, Japan and the United States, the authors of this text show that understanding the effects of cultural divides between Asian and American policymakers is crucial to building effective policies in the future.

This is a survey of real-life moments when people working in the news had to make critical decisions. Questions of craft, ethics, competition and commerce combine in case studies that examine the issues that shape the production and presentation of the news in the 21st century.

Many nursing home residents experience physical and/or cognitive debilitation and increased dependence as older adults, and cultural and situational differences create variations in how these changes are experienced and addressed. This volume touches upon these areas and provides a comprehensive examination of cultural and practice phenomena.

The second edition of The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works greatly expands the range of one of the oldest continuously published reference works in the United States.

Presents the literary works on the subject of female homosexuality. This book explores the emergence and transformation of the "idea of lesbianism": its conceptual origins and how it has been transmitted, and transformed.

Grand, sensational, and exotic, Art Deco design was above all modern, exemplifying the majesty and boundless potential of an industrialized world. This title documents the ubiquity of Art Deco in mainstream consumerism and its connection to the emergence of the "New Woman" in American society.

The first comprehensive guide to all aspects of digital publishing, from rights to eBooks, to accessibility, to content management.

The first comprehensive guide to all aspects of digital publishing, from rights to eBooks, to accessibility, to content management.

This important book is among the few attempts to assess the impact of the efforts of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to build democratic institutions. The case studies presented here provide a portrait of the mechanisms by which ideas commonly associated with democratic states have evolved in formerly communist states, revealing conditions that help as well as hurt the process.

This important book is among the few attempts to assess the impact of the efforts of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to build democratic institutions. The case studies presented here provide a portrait of the mechanisms by which ideas commonly associated with democratic states have evolved in formerly communist states, revealing conditions that help as well as hurt the process.

More than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the conflict in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a American "way of war." This volume includes an overview of the war. It explores the conflict's relationship to US strategy, the Revolution in Military Affairs, and American civil-military relations, among other topics.

As official atheism is replaced by varying models of church-state arrangements in eastern Europe, how much will the rule of law prevail against resurgent nationalism and intolerance toward minorities? These nineteen essays consider this question. The authors represent eleven countries and include theologians, political and social scientists, legal scholars, and human rights professionals.

This study of eighteenth-century French playwriting and playwrights reviews individual authorial strategies for "self-fashioning" and the playwrights' intellectual, social, and institutional contexts, using research in original sources and analysis of the contentious historiography and competing analytic contructs in cultural theory and criticism.

What was the reality of convivencia? The local laity and religious practice in the Spanish villages studied by Mary Halavais actually made little distinction between old and new Christians. The marginalization of the new-the Moriscos-was imposed by central authorities; it did not emerge from local antagonisms.

Propaganda, a term invented in or near the the French Revolution, was artfully crafted and used by the young and very ambitious emporer-to-be, as the author shows in this unique study.

Updated to reflect changes in the composition of New York City's immigrant population, this volume aims to show how new immigrants are transforming the city - and how New York, in turn, has affected the newcomers' lives.

This book surveys the past, present, and potential future variability of hurricanes and typhoons on a variety of timescales using newly developed approaches based on geological and archival records, in addition to more traditional approaches based on the analysis of the historical record of tropical cyclone tracks.

The first major anthology of criticism devoted exclusively to poetry. Spanning thousands of years and including some of the most influential critical essays ever written, this is a collection of influential writings on poetry ranging from Aristotle to Laura (Riding) Jackson.

Through fiction, memoir, music, and art, this book offers a glimpse of the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continuing impact on American culture. The book features contributions from such writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Vivian Gornick; and original contributions from historians, sociologists, and scholars of American and Judaic studies.

This collection of translated sources investigates all aspects of economic life in the Mediterranean world. It draws on a variety of documents and other contemporary writings, from Arab and Jewish, as well as Christian sources.

Through fiction, memoir, music, and art, this book offers a glimpse of the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continuing impact on American culture. The book features contributions from such writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Vivian Gornick; and original contributions from historians, sociologists, and scholars of American and Judaic studies.

Within their conceptual framework of a medieval Mediterranean World and a commercial revolution, Lopez and Raymond assemble 208 merchant documents celebrating capitalism. They present them in topical sections on the origins of the revolution; markets, merchants, merchandise, and means of exchange;

Offers insights in jazz historiography, highlighting the political stakes in telling the story of the music and evaluating its cultural import in the United States. This book contains articles such as Salim Washington's meditation on Charles Mingus and the avant-garde or George Lipsitz's polemical juxtaposition of Ken Burns' documentary "Jazz".

The authors of this work advocate the development of readily available, accessible and professionally sanctioned practice guidelines for social work intervention, a necessity in an age of managed care and increased demand for accountability, effectiveness and efficiency in practice.

The authors of this work advocate the development of readily available, accessible and professionally sanctioned practice guidelines for social work intervention, a necessity in an age of managed care and increased demand for accountability, effectiveness and efficiency in practice.

Tells the story of the evolution of American technology since World War II. This book links pop culture icons with landmarks in technological innovation and shows how postwar politics left their mark on everything from television, automobiles, and genetically engineered crops to contraceptives, Tupperware, and the Veg-O-Matic.

By utilizing the perspectives of present and former faculty who have been deeply involved in developing the CUSSW's exemplary curriculum, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the school's historical evolution, current practice methods, and fields of special practice.

Addresses questions about the analysis and construction of masculinity in contemporary society. This book examines the ways male privilege and power are constituted and represented and explores the effect of such constructions on both men and women. It links the analysis of masculinities with feminism's ethical and political agenda.