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As common schooling emerged in the 1830s, providing white children of all classes and ethnicities with the opportunity to become full-fledged citizens, it redefined citizenship as synonymous with whiteness. This title shows why opposition erupted where it did across the United States in antebellum America.

Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In this book, the author offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanaians living in Ghana and abroad.

Why do some issues go viral and then just as quickly fall off the radar? How is it that the media can sustain public interest for months in a complex story like negotiations over Obamacare while ignoring other important issues in favor of stories on "balloon boy"? This title deals with these questions.

Takes a view of Vivian Paley's many books and articles, charting the evolution of Paley's thinking while revealing the seminal characteristics of her teaching philosophy.

From high school cafeterias to the floor of Congress, from "The Daily Show" to every comments section on the internet, insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous cultural practice with a long and earthy history. This title deals with the subject of insult.

Parasites are masterful works of evolutionary art. The tiny mite Hisliostoma laboratorium, a parasite of Drosophila, launches itself, in an incredible display of evolutionary engineering, like a surface- to-air missile at a fruit fly far above its head.

Demonstrates how indigenous power in Ecuador is energized by disagreements over values and priorities, eloquently contending that the plurality of Andean communities, not their unity, has been the key to their political success.

Presents the English translation of "Protogaea", a central text in natural philosophy and an account of terrestrial history.

Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women entered the sexual economy in hope of finding a European husband. This book chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar's economic liberalization.

As a philosopher, Ted Cohen is interested in how jokes work, why they work and when they don't. He considers questions of audience, selection of joke topics, the ethnic character of jokes and their morality, all with of examples that should make the reader either chuckle or wince.

This text presents an analysis of censorship from the perspective of a writer who has lived and worked under its shadow. Seeking to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring, Coetzee focuses on the ways authors have historically responded to censorship.

Traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize - winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physicist Erwin Schrodinger, artists of the Vienna Secession, and a leader of Vienna's women's movement.

Drawing on life histories of several children, this book shows that children and childhood are being redefined by desires of a young country struggling to position itself in international community. It reveals how Ugandans are constructing childhood as an identity for development of nation.

In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, 'He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.' This book offers a response to Darwin's challenge.

Founded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival event Burning Man at Nevada's Black Rock Desert presents challenges to its organizers. This title tracks how a small, underfunded group of organizers transformed into an unconventional corporation with a ten-million-dollar budget and two thousand volunteers.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation together fund more than $40 billion of research annually in the US and around the globe. Suitable for those who want to learn how federal legislation and regulations affect laboratory research, this primer reveals the often obscured intersection of government and science.

Among the momentous decisions that leaders of a state are called upon to make is whether or not to initiate warfare. How their military will fare against the opponent may be the first consideration, but not far behind are concerns about domestic political response. This title makes clear the relationship between these two distinct concerns.

Charting the development of jazz photography from the swing era of the 1930s to the rise of black nationalism in the '60s, this title offers an account of the partnership between two of the twentieth century's innovative art forms. It introduces us to the great jazz photographers - including Gjon Mili, William Gottlieb, Herman Leonard, and more.

Explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, and magic lantern exhibitions. This work suggests that the distance separating academic thinking and popular wisdom about social transformation is narrower than we generally suppose.

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies - telegraphy, photography, cinematography - this title locates the reverberations of this 'perceptual moment' throughout culture.

Arguing that the presidency is not defined by the Constitution, but by what presidents say and how they say it, "Deeds Done in Words" has been the definitive book on presidential rhetoric. This title reveals how our media-saturated age has transformed the rhetorical strategies presidents use to increase and sustain the executive branch's powers.

The earth's climate changes abruptly every few thousand years, with breathtaking speed, cooling the climate worldwide. For most mammals this has a devastating effect on population. This volume argues that the cycle has instigated the increase in brain size and complexity of human beings.

Makes an impassioned case for reversing the rapid decline of the trial before we lose one of our public culture's greatest achievements. This title lays out the catastrophic consequences of losing an institution that so perfectly embodies democratic governance.

Helps draw the road map for counterinsurgency in the postmodern world. This book is suitable for cadets and junior military leaders - as well as general readers seeking a deeper understanding of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Patent law encourages technological innovation. But as the patent system stands, are all governed by the same rules even though they innovate very differently. The result is a crisis in the patent system. This title argue that courts should use legal tools already present in the patent statute to suit the needs of various industries.

Tracing the argument of the Ethics as it emerges through that approach, this book shows how Aristotle represents ethical virtue from the perspective of those devoted to it while standing back to examine its assumptions and implications.

In this incisive history of the expanded city, Robert Bruegmann argues that urban sprawl is a positive and logical consequence of economic development and social mobility.

Drawing on ethnographic research in four distinct communities - the Chicago neighborhoods of Andersonville and Argyle and the New England towns of Provincetown and Dresden - this title paints a colorful portrait of how residents new and old, from wealthy gay homeowners to Portuguese fishermen, think about gentrification.

Despite George W Bush's opposition to big government, federal spending increased under his watch more quickly than it did during the Clinton administration. This book shows that efforts to expand markets and shrink government have the ironic effect of expanding government's reach by creating problems that force legislators to enact new rules.

This work demonstrates the advantages of macroecology for conservation, showing how it allows scientists to look beyond endangered species and ecological communities in order to consider the long history and large geographic scale of human impacts.