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Introduces and explains the dynamics of conflict and resolution particularly in ethnic, ethnopolitical, and intercultural or intergroup conflicts. This book provides an overview of the elements of group conflict, ethnicity, identity, and diasporas. It explores key ways of using communication principles to resolve conflict.

Helps readers understand the fascination with do-it-yourself media. Useful for students, this guide lays out the difficult theoretical terrain that community media theory and advocacy has located itself in, including the ideals of participation, community, and social change.

Exploring the linkages between war and emergency response, this book focuses on the impact of wars with non-state actors. It traces the evolution of the international humanitarian system from 1860s through the challenges cast by US military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, and is suitable for students.

A guide on how to use international law, constitutional law, and the laws of war to defend peaceful non-violent protestors against governmental policies that are illegal and criminal. It focuses especially on the aftermath of 9/11 and the implications of the war on Afghanistan, the war on terrorism, and the war on Iraq.

Follows George W Bush's lifelong association with the press, showing how he has developed and, over the years, modified his tactics. This book not only presents interesting stories about the president from reporters' points of view, but also raises important issues that any civically engaged citizen will want to explore.

Are Americans obsessed with shopping? Shop til You Drop is a lively look at our consumer culture and its role in our everyday lives and society. Arthur Asa Berger considers the sacred roots of consumer culture, the demographics of consumption, theories about competing cultures, and the semiotics of shopping.

Exploring the people and events that shaped America in the 20th century, this book analyzes the political, diplomatic, social and cultural developments. It also focuses on the diverse and contradictory human experiences that characterized this dynamic period in American history.

Examining the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding, this book states that late eighteenth century practices reshaped mothers' bodies. As a result, it is difficult for them to establish and maintain healthy and safe boundaries and appropriate divisions between public and private space.

Learning Through Dialogue offers an alternative approach to teaching and learning, which utilizes Martin Buber's dialogical principles: turning toward, addressing affirmatively, listening attentively, and responding responsibly. The book first presents Buber's educational theory and method and second presents specific examples of how Buber's dialogical philosophy can be applied in the classroom.

Through a reading of major publications, this book recreates a postwar mood sympathetic to radical social change, thus casting doubt on the standard view of the communists' rise to power. It also raises questions about the relationship between war and radical social change, the communist takeover of the region, and the role of intellectuals.

By examining the institutions of government through the lens of constitution-making, this book provides an introduction to comparative politics. It is drawn from a series of lectures given in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Deals with the internal evolution of the regime in the final years of Soviet power. This book examines the contradictory approaches, taken by Gorbachev in relation to the role and organization of the Communist Party, which paralyzed the party as a functioning political organization and provoked a dynamic that led to the fall of the system.

Explores the lives of twelve influential American reformers placed in the historical context of the Gilded Age, Populist, and Progressive eras. From Ida B Wells to Louis Brandeis, Jane Adams to Charles Macune, this book examines the ideas and approaches that characterized this dynamic period in American history.

Explores the relations between global wealth and poverty, American and European elites and Third World indigenous societies and the role schools play in the destruction of cultures. This book examines how the dark underside of capitalism, called neoliberalism, is using schools to destroy an American generation.

Examines America's history of immigration pressures, policy debates, and choices. Assessing the past, present, and future of immigration, this book shows that the failure to control the influx of foreigners is leads America towards security risks, population growth, imported workers competition with American labour, and social fragmentation.

Explores the decade through the controversies between radicals, liberals, and conservatives. This book focuses on four main areas of contention social welfare; civil rights; foreign relations; and social order. It also examines the emergence of the New Left and the modern conservative movement.

Poverty and Power asserts that American poverty is a structural problem resulting from failings in our social system, rather than individual failings of the poor. The second edition has been revised throughout with new statistical information, analysis of the recent recession, the Obama presidency, increasing political polarization, and more.

Designed for upper-level senior and graduate criminological theory courses, this text examines the ideas and assumptions underlying each major theoretical perspective in criminology. This book provides students with an overview of criminological theory that enables evaluative comparisons among different theorists.

Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account of the most critical political period of U.S. involvement in Vietnam--the Kennedy/Diem era--remains as fresh and stimulating today as when it was first published in 1965. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal provides crucial background information that was unavailable when the book was written.

Resistant Learners: Reach Me Before You Teach Me focuses on those students whose behavior limits their learning and challenges their teachers while perhaps interrupting the learning cycle of their peers. Each chapter explains the theoretical and research background for each topic.