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Drawing on historical, legal, and literary sources, Jalal traces the intellectual itinerary of jihad through several centuries and across the territory connecting the Middle East with South Asia.

Deeply immersed in the culture, everyday and otherworldly, this anthropological tour, from ancient cosmology to Communist kitsch, allows us to see as never before how the people of Beijing-and China-work and live.

Law is a specific form of social regulation distinct from religion, ethics, and even politics, and endowed with a strong and autonomous rationality. Its invention, a crucial aspect of Western history, took place against the backdrop of the Roman Empire's gradual consolidation. Schiavone reconstructs this development with clear-eyed passion.

While parents spend significant time as well as money on children, most estimates of the "cost" of children ignore the value of this time. Folbre provides a startlingly high but entirely credible estimate of the value of parental time per child by asking what it would cost to purchase a comparable substitute for it.

Combining the history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, this title explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. It presents an interpretation of the relationship between capitalism and the French Revolution.

Insurance may be an efficient way of organizing resources, but the deep social and human ties that constitute community are weakened by the shift from reciprocity to market relations. This book dissects the ways in which foundational assumptions of economics justify a world in which social connections are impoverished.

McGarity and Wagner reveal the range of sophisticated legal and financial tactics political and corporate advocates use to discredit or suppress research on potential human health hazards. This book exposes an astonishing pattern of corruption and makes a compelling case for reforms to safeguard both the integrity of science and the public health.

Part riveting account of fieldwork and part rigorous academic study, this book offers a unique perspective on the advertising and marketing culture of China. Wang's experiences in the worlds of Beijing advertising agencies and the U.S. academy offer a unique perspective on China during its accelerated reintegration into the global market system.

Drawing on both extensive demographic data and compelling case studies, this book reveals the depths of the educational crisis looming for Latino students, the nation's largest and most rapidly growing minority group.

Brown examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Communist takeover of China. He seeks to understand how the 1949-1953 period was experienced by various groups, including industrialists, filmmakers, ethnic minorities, educators, rural midwives, philanthropists, standup comics, and scientists.

Taking us deep into Martin Luther King, Jr.'s backstage discussions with colleagues, his preaching to black congregations, his exhortations in mass meetings, and his crossover addresses to whites, Jonathan Rieder tells a powerful story about the tangle of race, talk, and identity in the life of one of America's greatest moral and political leaders.

Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Lee offers an insider's view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors.

The United States has a long history of citizens rendering service to their communities. Examples of government-sponsored voluntary service organizations include the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Peace Corps, and Volunteers in Service to America. This title presents a study of how service shapes the lives of young people.

How can schools meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population of newcomers? Do bilingual programs help children transition into American life, or do they keep them in a linguistic ghetto? This title explores what national identity means in an age of globalization, transnationalism, and dual citizenship.

The search for durable peace in lands torn by ethno-national conflict is among the most urgent issues shaping our global future. Looking at contemporary peace processes in Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka, Bose addresses questions of how peace can be made, and kept, between warring groups with seemingly incompatible claims.

Chapais shows that our knowledge about kinship and society in nonhuman primates supports, and informs, ideas proposed by Claude Levi-Strauss. He contends that only a few evolutionary steps were required to bridge the gap between the kinship structures of our closest relatives-chimpanzees and bonobos-and the human kinship configuration.

Emphasizing the importance of parental choice, quality of care, and work opportunities, Waldfogel guides readers through a maze of social science research to offer comprehensive answers and a vision for change. He proposes a plan to better meet the needs of children in working families while respecting the core values of choice, quality, and work.

Tells the story in which public schools forced a draconian Americanization on the great waves of immigration. Ranging from the 1890s through the World War-II years, this title argues that Americanization was a far more nuanced and negotiated process from the start, much shaped by immigrants themselves.

By examining the role of McGeorge Bundy and the NSC, Preston demonstrates that policymakers escalated the conflict in Vietnam in the face of internal opposition, external pressures, and a continually failing strategy. This book has two inseparable themes: the acquisition and consolidation of power; and how that power is exercised.

Dupre examines the way courts have wrestled with student expression in school. Speaking Up offers eye-opening history for students, teachers, lawyers, and parents seeking to understand how the law attempts to balance order and freedom in schools.

Johnson begins with the most elementary thing we know: deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims upon us are fraudulent. She revolutionizes the method by showing that the inanimate thing exposed as a delusion is central to fantasy life, that fantasy life, however deluded, should be taken seriously.

This book explains how and why apes and dolphins are so distantly related yet so cognitively alike and what this teaches us about another large-brained mammal: Homo sapiens. Noting that apes and dolphins have had no common ancestor in nearly 100 million years, the authors describe the parallel evolution that gave rise to their intelligence.

This book is a chilling history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. By illuminating the shadowy corners of American history, Kanstroom shows that deportation has long been a legal tool to control immigrants' lives and is being used with increasing crudeness in a globalized but xenophobic world.

Most psychologists claim we begin to develop a "theory of mind" at age two or three, by inference, deduction, and logical reasoning. But does this mean small babies are unaware of minds? Reddy deals with the persistent problem of "other minds" that we know other minds if we can respond to them. And we respond most richly in engagement with them.

A leading theorist on literature and media reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin's thought by focusing on the critical suffix "-ability" that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The result is an illuminating perspective on Benjamin's thought by way of his language.

Neely considers the war's destructiveness in a comparative context, revealing the sense of limit that guided the conduct of American soldiers and statesmen. Modern overemphasis on violence in Civil War literature has led many scholars to go too far in drawing analogies with the 20th century's "total war" and the grim guerrilla struggles of Vietnam.

In this inventive book, Peter Fritzsche explores how Europeans and Americans saw themselves in the drama of history, how they took possession of a past thought to be slipping away, and how they generated countless stories about the sorrowful, eventful paths they chose to follow.

Eisgruber offers practical, moderate, and appealing terms for the settlement of many hot-button issues that have plunged religious freedom into controversy. He calls Americans back to the project of finding fair terms of cooperation for a religiously diverse people, and it offers a valuable set of tools for working toward that end.

One child in five in America is a child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book details the lives, dreams, academic journeys, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants.

This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or end of the story, O'Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War.