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This work provides a statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. The essays offer arguments and information on how local experience interacts with the world at large. The places disccused include Los Angeles and New York.

This is a detailed study of some of the most racially divisive issues that America has encountered in the 1990's. It contains over 40 surveys which explore race-based opinion differences on numerous high-profile controversies including the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson cases.

This is a behind-the-scenes look at news coverage of political scandals in America. It analyzes what gets reported, what doesn't and why, and looks at the forces driving attack journalism and the influence they have on voters and candidates.

Reflects on the central mystery of faith: how new life springs from death. Invites readers to contemplate the central mysteries of Christ's incarnation, passion, death, and new life.

This text looks at sociology as a social act in arguing for a public sociology that can more fully embrace and address crucial public issues. It describes how social science reproduces the existing social world, and shows how it could be crafted differently.

A collection of 15 essays which discuss the nature and limits of moral reasoning. It argues that moral philosophy can subvert received opinion and replace it with something better. Issues such as euthanasia, the rights of animals, privacy and affirmative action are discussed.

Hikes varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, this guidebook is for everyone, including families.

Blending theory and case studies, this book looks at community-building in rural America, and how civic-minded people come together through a variety of ways, such as hosting and attending festivals, addressing conflict, planning the community, and maintaining heritage museums.

This work aims to reach out to the growing number of missionaries, pastors, Bible translators and teachers, mission and theological educators and students dealing with communicating the gospel. It covers God's message, and how spreading it has changed through the generations.

Charting the rise of the faith-based movement for global human rights, the author tells the story of the personalities and forces, clashes and compromises, strategies and protests that shape it. In doing so, she shows that by raising issues such as global religious persecution and others, the movement is impacting foreign policy around the world.

In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors.

Presenting a concise history of the Napoleonic Wars, this title argues that Napoleon was the master of the broken play, so confident of his ability to improvise, cover his own mistakes, and capitalize on those of the enemy that he plunged his armies into uncertain, seemingly desperate situations, only to emerge victorious as he blundered to glory.

In defending just war against Christian pacifism by arguing that decisions regarding war must be governed by "political prudence", the author joins a line of theological reasoning that traces its antecedents to Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas.

This volume examines the effects of the unconscious on emotional experience asking if our drives are friend or foe in the search for a satisfactory life.

An examination of how complex organizational structures and actions create and perpetuate class, gender and racial inequalities. This second edition retains its argument for an emerging "double-diamond" social structure and is revised to include new sections, concepts, figures and tables.

In this book, teachers discover the power of uncommon sense that this author shares with respect to pedagogy, politics, and the personal health of professionals.

From the 'Five Things Teens Need from Grown-Ups' to the 'Seven Grown-Up Skills,' this book covers all aspects of the adult-teenager relationship and provides educators with guidance and practical tips on how to increase their effectiveness in their work with teenagers in schools.

This book offers experiences and important lessons about teaching and classroom life at all grade levels, illuminating the perspective of both teachers and students. Knitting teacher and student voices together, this book inspires practicing teachers and those who are learning to teach, with universal insights drawn from elementary school, middle school, high school, and college.

'Last Rights' examines end of life decisions in the context of the Roman Catholic tradition, a heritage rich in its teaching about the human person, the value of life, and the moral rights and responsibilities inherent to every human being.

Tracing the course of conflicts throughout Asia, this work explores systematically the nexus of war and state terrorism. Challenging states' definitions of terrorism, it focuses especially on the nature of Japanese and American wars and crimes of war.

Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowledgeable biography of this fascinating and influential man, telling a deeply human and captivating story that still resonates today.

This work applies the functional theory of political campaign discourse - analyzing how messages acclaim, attack, or defend - to several different forms of campaign communication in the 2000 US presidential primary and general election. These forms include TV talk show appearances.

In this text, two historians offer competing interpretations of the past, present, and future of American immigration policy and American attitudes towards immigration. Through essays and supporting primary documents, the authors provide recommendations for future policies and legal remedies.