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Across the world, workers labor without pay for the benefit of profitable businesses - and it's legal. Labor trends like outsourcing and technology hide some workers, and branding and employer mandates erase others. This book gathers essays by prominent sociologists and legal scholars to illuminate how and why such labor has been hidden from view.

Invisible workers who remain under-protected by wage laws include retail workers who function as walking billboards; waitstaff at "breastaurants"; and inventory stockers at grocery stores who go hungry to complete their shifts. This book includes essays that illuminate how and why such labor has been hidden from view.

Explores the religious dimensions of American popular culture in places such as: baseball, the Human Genome Project, Coca-Cola, rock 'n' roll, the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the charisma of Jim Jones, Tupperware, and the free market.

Discusses the evidence for the origins of the early Upper Paleolithic and its relationship to the origin of modern humans. With primary data from archaeological sites and regions and discussions of materials from difficult-to-find sources, this title urges readers to reconsider the process of modern human behavioral origins.

Demonstrates that Polybius' work performs a literary and political balancing act of heretofore unappreciated subtlety and interest. This book shows how Polybius contrived to tailor his historiography for multiple audiences, comprising his fellow Greeks, whose freedom Rome had usurped in his own generation, and the Roman conquerors.

History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation - the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE). This text provides an examination of this democracy transformed by war.

Drawing on the literature, especially the historiography, composed by the members of the elite who conducted Roman foreign affairs, this book reevaluates the roots, motivations, and goals of Roman imperial foreign policy especially as that policy related to warfare.

This revisionist exposition of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" addresses the themes and passages in the text which seem to require an idealist thesis and shows how they may be better understood without ascribing any idealist philosophy to Kant.

Paints a picture of the religious revolutionaries altering the political landscape in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. This title situates the growth of religious nationalism in the context of the political malaise of the modern West.

Treats Nietzsche's youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine; the question of periodicization in romantic and neo-romantic music; the underlying kinship between Brahms' and Wagner's responses to the central musical problems of their time; and, the true significance of musical nationalism.

This work brings together the three volumes of Olson's long poem (originally published in 1960, 1968 and 1975 respectively) in one book.

Considers how models and ideas from evolutionary biology can improve national security strategies ranging from risk assessment, security analysis, and public policy to long-term strategic goals.

Considers Italian filmmaking during the Fascist era and offers a different approach to the interwar years. This study investigates the complex relationship between the totalitarian regime and Italian cinema. It looks at the films themselves, the industry, and the role of cinema in daily life, and offers insights into this important period.

Discusses the ways that scientists have observed and modeled glaciers, tells how climate change is altering their size and distribution, and looks at their effect on human life.

Offers advice on turning a dissertation into a book or journal articles that will appeal to publishers. This book helps prospective authors master writing and revision skills, better understand the publishing process, and increase their chances of getting their work into print. It also features planning tables to facilitate project scheduling.

The great snowy range of California has provided fulfillment to generations of trappers, immigrants, engineers, naturalists, and tourists. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, and maps, this book synthesizes into a single narrative the various aspects of human endeavor related to the history of the Sierra Nevada.

Gives general readers and students a comprehensive history of the twelve years of the Third Reich - from political takeover of January 30, 1933 to the German capitulation of May 1945. This book's illustrations are treated as documents that illuminate the visual power of Nazi ideology.

Water in California is controlled, stored, delivered, and managed within a complex network of interlocking and cooperating districts and agencies. Unraveling and understanding this system is not easy. This book describes how the system works and discusses the issues that face elected officials, water and resource managers, and the general public.

This text examines the social meanings of music as they have been shaped not only by hearing, but also by seeing music in performance. The author is particularly interested in the relation of music to the human body, arguing that musical practices are inseperable from discourses of power.

Contains eighteen original essays by leading Joyce scholars on the eighteen separate chapters of "Ulysses". This book attempts to explore the richness of Joyce's extraordinary novel. It covers Joyce's habit of using, when writing each chapter in "Ulysses", a particular style, tone, point of view, and narrative structure.

How can we compare national systems of higher education, since their organization varies from country to country? This title identifies the basic elements common to all such systems, and includes thematic comparisons among a number of countries.

Demonstrating how the Buddhist revival in Tibet must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan autonomy, the authors discuss ways that Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring their religion through a process of social, political and economic adaptation.

Brings together a series of essays - many recognized as classics in the field - that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly 'lived' religion. Celebrating the diversity for which Hinduism is known, this volume begins its journey in the 'new India' of Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley, where global connections and local traditions rub shoulders daily.

An illustrated guide to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, covering the broad areas of life, such as people, politics, religion, the world of the dead, and places and monuments. It emphasizes the archaeological and literary evidence pertaining to Mesopotamia during the period before the arrival of Alexander the Great.

In 2004, Michael Burawoy, speaking as president of the American Sociological Association, generated far-reaching controversy when he issued an ambitious and impassioned call for a 'public sociology'. He argued that sociology should speak beyond the university. This book features the debate on the perils and the potentials of his challenge.

Explores middle-class blacks who live in suburbs where poor blacks are not present. This book examines the sense of identity that individuals in these groups craft to manage their interactions with lower-class blacks, middle-class whites, and other middle-class blacks as they seek to reap the benefits of their middle-class status.

Late 19th century Britain saw the privileged classes forsake society balls and gatherings to turn their resources to investigating and relieving poverty. By the 1890s at least half a million women were involved in philanthropy, particularly in London. This book presents the writings of these lady explorers, who were active in London slums.

Presents ancient Egypt in photographs and textual descriptions of Egyptian art, culture, and government. This book provides a view of the civilization as a whole, and includes a section on the history of Egyptology, the invasions and excavations, and a section on where the artifacts can be seen today.