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This is a brief biography that explores the life of Sally Hemings. This book is a part of Westview?s `Lives of American Women? series, edited by Carol Berkin. Each title in the series features brief biographies of figures whose lives serve as a lens onto a major trend, event, movement, or crisis of their eras, and whose stories will be the entry point for a deeper understanding of a particular historical time.

The Guerilla Dynasty describes the evolution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) state, presenting an accessible and up-to-date account of North Korea's political, economic and foreign policy since its foundation, with particular emphasis on the period 1980-1997.

"In A Nation in Waiting, Adam Schwarz spans a wide variety of issues of concern in today's Indonesia, providing a detailed view of one of the world's most populous, yet least-understood, nations. He ch"

In an age of virtual offices, urban flight and planned gated communities, are cities becoming obsolete? Moshe Safdie argues in this book that, as crucibles for creative, social and political interaction, vital cities are an organic and necessary part of human civilization.

Challenging the approach of military histories which start with the Graeco-Persian wars and emphasize the pre-eminence of Greek heavy infantry, this account traces the origins of war, not to the Iron Age or even the Bronze Age, but to the emergence of settled life itself, nearly 10,000 years ago.

This book presents a sociocultural approach to language, literacy, and learning that deals directly with the new work order and that integrates concern for schools with concern for workplaces. It helps readers to confront complex problems and to construct their own broader theories.

This book calls for a reassessment of feminism's relationship to modern humanism. It argues that despite its very thorough and necessary critique of mainstream formulations of humanist ideals, feminism itself remains strongly committed to humanist values.

An exploration of the interdependence between the Caribbean states and the USA. The book looks at their changing relationships throughout history. The author traces the history of these relationships form 1823 to the end of the Cold War and examines the US response to the Marxist challenge.

Revised and updated throughout, this unique anthology examines global environmental politics from a range of perspectives and capturing the voices of both the powerless and the powerful.

This book offers a fresh, detailed examination of the modern security challenges that threaten human beings, their societies, and their governments.

Pop Culture Freaks encourages students to develop further research questions and projects from the material. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses are brought to bear in Kidd's examination of the labor force for cultural production, the representations of identity in cultural objects, and the surprising differences in how various audiences consume and use mass culture in their everyday lives. This new, revised edition includes update examples and date to reflect a constantly changing pop culture landscape.

The Modern History of Iraq is a remarkably readable account of contemporary Iraq, placing in historical perspective the crises and upheavals that continue to afflict the country. This text weaves together several important themes, including the search for a national identity, to provide readers with a holistic understanding of modern Iraq.

Dustin Kidd presents a cultural study of social media, focusing on issues of identity and inequality.

An innovative examination of Congress' performance, using benchmarks and aspirations to assess whether or not it can be considered a successful legislative body

A compelling and highly effective analysis of the politics of U.S. education policy and the difficulties in achieving effective education policy in America that is consistent with democratic ideals.

Providing a broad historical perspective on Africa's political and economic development and an overview of current problems and prospects, this collection of articles offers insight into the major questions, theories and challenges in African development.

"In this innovative book, David Smith ultimately links what happens on the ground in the neighborhoods where people live to the larger political and economic forces at work. He takes the emerging polit"

In A Democracy of Despots correspondent Donald Murray provides an eyewitness account of the struggle for power in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev and in Russia under Boris Yeltsin, showing how both men used and abused the democratic institutions they helped make possible.

Based on the use of puzzles to motivate the study of perennial issues, Stephen Hetherington has written an engagingly informal survey of epistemology. With its light and undogmatic touch, Knowledge Puzzles is an ideal way to introduce students to the problem of knowledge.

This book brings women into the center of the urban landscape, using case studies to illustrate their contributions to family, community, work, and political life. It discusses how women's work in trade and agriculture has been the foundation of African urbanization.

An anthology of essays on different critical approaches and methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of American art and artists. The book contains 20 selections from academic journals on American art from colonial times to 1940.

This book discusses romanticism as an historical phenomenon, not as a state of mind found in all periods and cultures. It is an erudite thematic study that exerts upon Western culture and particularly the visual arts.

This is a nonchronological introduction to Baroque, one of the great periods of European art. John Martin's descriptions of the essential characteristics of the Baroque help one to gain an understanding of the style.

Emile Male's book aids understanding of medieval art and medieval symbolism, and of the vision of the world which presided over the building of the French cathedrals.

An introduction to the art of tribal peoples of North America, Africa, and the South Pacific with an emphasis on the art in cultural context and as a system of visual communication within each tribal area.

This book argues that Economic Democracy, a competitive economy of democratically run enterprises that replaces capitalist financial markets with more suitable institutions, will be more efficient than capitalism, more rational in its growth, more democratic, more egalitarian, and less alienating.

This will be a comprehensive overview of the latest research, technologies and innovations in minimally invasive imaging of the prostate gland and prostate cancer imaging. A major focus will be 3D image segmentation along with computer-aided-diagnosis techniques for prostate cancer.

III-V semiconductors have attracted considerable attention due to their applications in the fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices as light emitting diodes and solar cells. This book covers all known information about phase relations in quaternary systems based on III-V semiconductors.

The first book of its kind to highlight the unique capabilities of laser-driven acceleration and its diverse potential, Applications of Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration presents the basic understanding of acceleration concepts and envisioned prospects for selected applications.