BCL Recent Arrivals: Books and Media

Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label

2012-01-26T06:33:00.000-08:00

In association with Def Jam, a celebration of the first twenty-five years of the label that defined hip-hop music and culture, in the words and photographs of its founders and artists.

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Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity

2012-01-26T06:18:00.000-08:00

The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the way in which he viewed the increasing dominance of modern life. In doing so, it revises some of our most common assumptions about the unresolved tensions that emerged in Baudelaire’s writing during a time of political and social upheaval. [from the publisher]

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Die Free: A Heroic Family Tale

2012-01-26T06:15:00.000-08:00

Television anchor Wills began pursuing her family history in the hope of settling issues about her long-dead father and to better understand her family's past. Instead, she traced her line directly to Sandy Wills, a Civil War veteran whose bravery was passed down to Sandy's descendents, along with a tenacity that has unfortunately been matched by tragedy. [Publishers Weekly]

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Ethics and Animals: An Introduction

2012-01-26T06:09:00.000-08:00

In this fresh and comprehensive introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically and empathetically reflect on our treatment of other animals. In clear and accessible language, Gruen provides a survey of the issues central to human-animal relations and a reasoned new perspective on current key debates in the field. She analyses and explains a range of theoretical positions and poses challenging questions that directly encourage readers to hone their ethical reasoning skills and to develop a defensible position about their own practices. Her book will be an invaluable resource for students in a wide range of disciplines including ethics, environmental studies, veterinary science, women's studies, and the emerging field of animal studies and is an engaging account of the subject for general readers with no prior background in philosophy. [provided by the publisher]

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Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History

2012-01-26T06:06:00.001-08:00

Women and Slavery offers readers an opportunity to examine the establishment, growth, and evolution of slavery in the United States as it impacted women-enslaved and free, African American and white, wealthy and poor, northern and southern. The primary documents-including newspaper articles, broadsides, cartoons, pamphlets, speeches, photographs, memoirs, and editorials-are organized thematically and represent cultural, political, religious, economic, and social perspectives on this dark and complex period in American history. [Provided by publisher]

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The Shah

2011-12-07T08:51:00.000-08:00

This comprehensive and gripping account shows us how Iran went from politically moderate monarchy to totalitarian Islamic republic. [Image and text provided by publisher]

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The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World

2011-12-07T07:56:00.000-08:00

In The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education —and why this revolution should be welcomed, not feared. [Image and text provided by publisher]

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Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma

2011-12-07T07:51:00.000-08:00

How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? [Image and text provided by publisher]

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The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide

2011-12-07T07:46:00.000-08:00

From January 1945, in the last months of the Third Reich, about 250,000 inmates of concentration camps perished on death marches and in countless incidents of mass slaughter. They were murdered with merciless brutality by their SS guards, by army and police units, and often by gangs of civilians as they passed through German and Austrian towns and villages. Even in the bloody annals of the Nazi regime, this final death blow was unique in character and scope. [Image and text provided by publisher]

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Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions

2011-12-07T07:42:00.000-08:00

Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. [Image and text provided by publisher]

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The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and LawK

2011-12-07T07:39:00.000-08:00

Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be hired and promoted, and are assumed less likely to have desirable traits, such as goodness, kindness, and honesty. Three quarters of women consider appearance important to their self image and over a third rank it as the most important factor. Our annual global investment in appearance totals close to $200 billion. [Image and text from publisher]

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Rapid Climate Change: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

2011-11-30T11:15:00.000-08:00

The book reviews the science of climate change and explains why it is one of the most difficult problems humanity has ever tackled.

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Seeing through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography

2011-11-30T10:43:00.000-08:00

Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

2011-11-30T10:37:00.000-08:00

Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society.

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Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History

2011-11-30T10:17:00.000-08:00

Women and Slavery offers readers an opportunity to examine the establishment, growth, and evolution of slavery in the United States as it impacted women - enslaved and free.

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The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today: Ethnography, Ethnology, and Change in a Complex Region

2011-11-30T10:06:00.000-08:00

The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today offers an anthropological treatment of the ethnography and ethnology of Southeast Asia, covering both the mainland and the insular regions.

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Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching

2011-11-30T08:49:00.000-08:00

Southern Horrors provides a startling view into the Jim Crow South where the precarious and subordinate position of women linked black and white anti-rape activists together in fragile political alliances.

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The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon

2011-11-30T08:39:00.000-08:00

An American Western made by a Taiwanese director and filmed in Canada, Brokeback Mountain was a global cultural phenomenon even before it became the highest grossing gay-themed drama in film history. Few films have inspired as much passion and debate, or produced as many contradictory responses, from online homage to late-night parody.

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Performing American Masculinities: The 21st-Century Man in Popular Culture

2011-11-30T08:27:00.000-08:00

This collection highlights the fluidity of masculinity in American popular culture at the turn of the new millennium and beyond by examining possibilities for male identity formation.

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The Profitable Artist: A Handbook for All Artists in the Performing, Literary, and Visual Arts

2011-11-30T08:20:00.000-08:00

With decades of experience training and helping artists, the expert staff of the New York Foundation for the Arts have compiled a “best practices”
approach to planning and organizing an art career.

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Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment

2011-11-30T08:14:00.000-08:00

The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia.

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The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing

2011-11-30T08:06:00.000-08:00

This Companion introduces readers to the range of debates that inform studies of works by lesbian and gay writers and of literary representations of same-sex desire and queer identities.

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Land of the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women

2011-11-30T08:01:00.000-08:00

Reaching beyond sensational headlines, Land of the Unconquerable at last offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women.

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Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics

2011-11-30T07:53:00.000-08:00

Rap’s critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the “hip-hop mayor” of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail.

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Music!

2011-11-17T08:38:00.000-08:00

Sean Wilentz discovered Bob Dylan’s music as a teenager growing up in Greenwich Village. Now, almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. [Image and text from the publisher]

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Habeas Corpus!

2011-11-17T08:31:00.000-08:00

Anyone interested in American history, the Constitution, and the Civil War will be anxious to read this excellent book. -- Frank J. Williams, former Chief Justice of the Rhode Island

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Race Identity!

2011-11-17T08:16:00.000-08:00

Here, TourÉ divulges intimate, funny, and painful stories of how race and racial expectations have shaped his life and explores how the concept of Post-Blackness functions in politics, society, psychology, art, culture, and more.

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True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School

2011-10-19T12:35:00.000-07:00

Twenty-seven pioneering thinkers share their discovery of and commitment to feminism in this essential collection.

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Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America

2011-09-26T13:06:00.000-07:00

In a fitting tribute to the two hundredth anniversary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's birth, Bancroft Prize-winning historian David S. Reynolds reveals her book's impact not only on the abolitionist movement and the American Civil War but also on worldwide events. [Description from the publisher]

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The United States Government Manual 2011

2011-09-26T13:01:00.000-07:00

This annual resource provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, as well as quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates, boards, commissions, and committees.

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Illuminations

2011-09-26T12:42:00.001-07:00

John Ashbery has gifted us with an exquisite, untainted translation of Rimbaud; a transmission as pure as a winged dove driven by snow. (Patti Smith)

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Practical Research: Planning and Design 9th ed.

2011-09-19T08:36:00.000-07:00

Practical Research is a comprehensive and practical guide to research methodology. Suited for self-instruction, this easy-to-read manual guides the beginning researcher, step by step, through the entire research process with practical suggestions. [Publisher Description]

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Clinical Consult for Psychiatric Mental Health Care

2011-09-19T08:17:00.001-07:00

This quick reference serves as an authoritative clinical guide to diagnostic treatment and monitoring recommendations for patients with mental disorders in the primary care setting.

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Nutrition in Public Health, Third Edition

2011-09-19T08:13:00.001-07:00

Nutrition in Public Health, Third Edition defines the state of public health nutrition and the services offered in the United States today.

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The Grants Register 2012: The Complete Guide to Postgraduate Funding Worldwide

2011-09-19T08:06:00.000-07:00

The most authoritative and comprehensive guide available to postgraduate and professional funding worldwide!

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An Illustrated Guide to Infection Control

2011-09-19T07:52:00.000-07:00

This all-encompassing volume assists nursing students and beginning-level RNs in developing a practical understanding of infection control issues as they relate to many different areas of health care. {Publisher Description]

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Evidence-Based Teaching In Nursing

2011-09-16T13:35:00.000-07:00

Designed to assist aspiring, novice, and experienced faculty members in obtaining a strong foundation for Evidence-Based Teaching (EBT), Evidence-Based Teaching in Nursing: A Foundation for Educators explores past, present, and future aspects for teaching nursing in a variety of settings. This text promotes and demonstrates practical approaches for classroom, clinical, and simulation learning experiences while incorporating technology, generational considerations, and evidence. What's more, it addresses the academic environment while considering a wide array of teaching and learning aspects. [Publisher Description]

Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between

2011-09-16T13:33:00.000-07:00

Critical Care takes us with Brown as she struggles to tend to her patients' needs, both physical (the rigors of chemotherapy) and emotional (their late-night fears). Along the way, we see the work nurses do to fight for their patients' dignity, in spite of punishing treatments and an often uncaring hospital bureaucracy. We also see how a twelve-hour day of caring for the seriously ill gives Brown herself a deeper appreciation of what it means to be alive. Ultimately, this is a book about embracing life, whether in times of sickness or health.

Davis's Basic Math Review for Nurses: with Step-by-Step Solutions

2011-09-16T13:31:00.000-07:00

A path to conquering the math skills essential for nursing success...and reducing the anxieties math often induces! Step by step, skill by skill...students progress from simple to complex calculations, building their proficiencies and testing it along the way. It perfect for course review and quick reference. [Publisher Description]

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The Post-American World: Release 2.0

2011-08-23T06:05:00.000-07:00

"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering.

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Treacherous Texts: U.S. Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946

2011-08-23T06:01:00.000-07:00

Treacherous Texts collects more than sixty literary texts written by smart, savvy writers who experimented with genre, aesthetics, humor, and sex appeal in an effort to persuade American readers to support woman suffrage.

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Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires: A New History of the Borderland

2011-08-23T05:36:00.000-07:00

A startling history of modern Afghanistan: the story of a country caught in a vortex of terror.

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The Slave Trade

2011-08-23T05:31:00.000-07:00

A wealth of evocative images—photographs, paintings, objects, and contemporary maps—give further insight into the horrors and global impact of the transatlantic slave trade.

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

2011-08-11T12:12:00.000-07:00

“Scholarly but very readable, this book, for all its rigor, is so absorbing, it should come with a caveat: Pick it up only when you can lose yourself entirely.” — O, The Oprah Magazine

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The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear

2011-08-11T11:57:00.000-07:00

The Panic Virus is a riveting and sometimes heart-breaking medical detective story that explores the limits of rational thought. It is the ultimate cautionary tale for our time.

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Gendering the African Diaspora

2011-08-11T10:49:00.000-07:00

Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland
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New Criminology Title!

2011-08-10T13:27:00.000-07:00

"Paik''s extraordinary data illuminates the tension between therapy and punishment in juvenile drug courts. A terrific read!"
(Aaron Kupchik)

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A Black Soldier's Story

2011-08-10T13:21:00.000-07:00

A Black Soldier's Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence

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Animal rights!

2011-08-10T13:17:00.000-07:00

The Animal Rights Debate presents the views of two preeminent thinkers working on a key debate in the study of the moral status of animals.

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Global Institutions: Global Poverty

2011-08-10T13:10:00.000-07:00

Provides an important resource for all students and scholars of international relations, development studies and international political economy.

You Know Nothing of My Work!

2011-08-10T13:05:00.000-07:00

A crackling look at the philosopher whose founding ideas were at once obscure and eerily prophetic.

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Decision Points

2011-05-12T12:25:00.000-07:00

In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.

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Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-

United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.

The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South

2011-05-12T12:16:00.000-07:00

A gripping saga of race and retribution in the Deep South and a story whose haunting details echo the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird.

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McGee, Willie, 1915-1951 -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Capital punishment -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.

Capital punishment -- Social aspects -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.

Discrimination in capital punishment -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.

Executions and executioners -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.

Race discrimination -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.

Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

Madison and Jefferson

2011-05-12T12:07:00.000-07:00

An important, thoughtful, and gracefully written political history from the viewpoint of the young nation's two most intellectual founding fathers.[Publishers Weekly]

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Friends and associates.

Madison, James, 1751-1836 -- Friends and associates.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.

Founding Fathers of the United States -- Biography.

Presidents -- United States -- Biography.

Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era

2011-05-12T11:59:00.000-07:00

In this lively and engaging work, Carolyn Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early years of the Cold War.

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Sex -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Heterosexuality -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Married people -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Sexual Behavior -- history -- United States.

Heterosexuality -- history -- United States.

History, 20th Century -- United States.

Paternalism -- United States.

Physician's Role -- history -- United States.

Presidential Prerogative: Imperial Power in an Age of Terrorism

2011-05-12T11:53:00.000-07:00

This book challenges the view that in foreign affairs and anti-terrorism matters, the President is the law and is above the law.

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Executive power -- United States.
War and emergency powers -- United States.
Presidents -- United States.
Constitutional history -- United States.
Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention.

Freud on Madison Avenue

2011-05-12T11:47:00.000-07:00

Freud on Madison Avenue tells the story of how and why mid-twentieth-century advertisers adopted Freudian psychology to sell products.

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Motivation research (Marketing) -- United States -- History.
Subliminal advertising -- United States -- History
Advertising -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- History.
Consumer behavior -- United States -- History.

The Anthology of Rap

2011-05-12T11:40:00.000-07:00

In The Anthology of Rap, editors Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois demonstrate that rap is also a wide-reaching and vital poetic tradition born of beats and rhymes.

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Rap (Music) -- History and criticism
Rap (Music) -- Texts

In the Shadow of the Black Beast: African American Masculinity in the Harlem and Southern Renaissances

2011-05-12T11:29:00.000-07:00

Leiter presents the first book-length study of the sexually violent African American man, or black beast, as a composite literary phenomenon.

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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
African American men in literature
African Americans in literature
Masculinity in literature
African American men -- Race identity

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

2011-05-12T11:19:00.000-07:00

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies shines the spotlight on historically neglected plays and performances that challenged early twentieth-century notions of the stratification of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. On Broadway stages, in Harlem nightclubs and dance halls, and within private homes sponsoring rent parties, African American performers of the 1920s and early 1930s teased the limits of white middle-class morality. Blues-singing lesbians, popularly known as "bulldaggers," performed bawdy songs; cross-dressing men vied for the top prizes in lavish drag balls; and black and white women flaunted their sexuality in scandalous melodramas and musical revues. Race leaders, preachers, and theater critics spoke out against these performances that threatened to undermine social and political progress, but to no avail: mainstream audiences could not get enough of the riotous entertainment. [Information provided by the publisher]

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The Three-Legged Woman and Other Excursions in Teaching, Robert Klose, (9781584659273)

2011-03-15T06:40:00.000-07:00

The Three-Legged Woman and Other Excursions in Teaching, Robert Klose, (9781584659273)

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The Promise, Jonathan Alter, (9781439101193)

2011-03-07T11:33:00.000-08:00

The Promise, Jonathan Alter, (9781439101193)

This brilliant blend of journalism and history offers the freshest reporting and most acute perspective on the biggest story of our time. It will shape impressions of the Obama presidency and of the man himself for years to come. [Description provided by Barnes & Noble]

The Obama Victory, (0195399560), Kate Kenski

2011-03-07T11:28:00.000-08:00

The Obama Victory, (0195399560), Kate Kenski

Synopsis

Barack Obama's stunning victory in the 2008 presidential election will go down as one of the more pivotal in American history. Given America's legacy of racism, how could a relatively untested first-term senator with an African father defeat some of the giants of American politics?

In The Obama Victory, Kate Kenski, Bruce Hardy, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson draw upon the best voter data available, The National Annenberg Election Survey, as well as interviews with key advisors to each campaign, to illuminate how media, money, and messages shaped the 2008 election. They explain how both sides worked the media to reinforce or combat images of McCain as too old and Obama as not ready; how Obama used a very effective rough-and-tumble radio and cable campaign that was largely unnoticed by the mainstream media; how the Vice Presidential nominees impacted the campaign; how McCain's age and Obama's race affected the final vote, and much more.

Briskly written and filled with surprising insights, The Obama Victory goes beyond opinion to offer the most authoritative account available of precisely how and why Obama won the presidency. [Description courtesy of Barnes & Noble]

The Other Wes Moore, Wes Moore, (9780385528207)

2011-03-07T11:21:00.000-08:00

The Other Wes Moore, Wes Moore, (9780385528207)

Publishers Weekly

Two hauntingly similar boys take starkly different paths in this searing tale of the ghetto. Moore, an investment banker, Rhodes scholar, and former aide to Condoleezza Rice, was intrigued when he learned that another Wes Moore, his age and from the same area of Greater Baltimore, was wanted for killing a cop. Meeting his double and delving into his life reveals deeper likenesses: raised in fatherless families and poor black neighborhoods, both felt the lure of the money and status to be gained from dealing drugs. That the author resisted the criminal underworld while the other Wes drifted into it is chalked up less to character than to the influence of relatives, mentors, and expectations that pushed against his own delinquent impulses, to the point of exiling him to military school. Moore writes with subtlety and insight about the plight of ghetto youth, viewing it from inside and out; he probes beneath the pathologies to reveal the pressures—poverty, a lack of prospects, the need to respond to violence with greater violence—that propelled the other Wes to his doom. The result is a moving exploration of roads not taken.

Embodying Black Experience, Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Series, Harvey Young, (9780472051113)

2011-03-07T11:11:00.000-08:00

Embodying Black Experience, Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Series, Harvey Young, (9780472051113) Paperback - Barnes & Noble

Embodying Black Experience pinpoints selected artistic and athletic performances—-photography, boxing, theater/performance art, and museum display—-as portals through which to gain access to the lived experiences of a variety of individuals. The photographs of Joseph Zealy, Richard Roberts, and Walker Evans; the boxing performances of Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and Muhammad Ali; the plays of Suzan-Lori Parks, Robbie McCauley, and Dael Orlandersmith; and the tragic performances of Bootjack McDaniels and James Cameron offer insight into the lives of black folk across two centuries and the ways that black artists, performers, and athletes challenged the racist (and racializing) assumptions of the societies in which they lived.

I Am Your Sister, (9780195341485), Rudolph P. Byrd

2011-03-07T11:01:00.000-08:00

I Am Your Sister, (9780195341485), Rudolph P. Byrd, Textbooks - Barnes & Noble

Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the arts, parenting, and resistance, and they have served as a transformative and important foundation for theorists and activists in considering questions of power and social justice. Lorde embraced difference, and at each turn she emphasized the importance of using it to build shared strength among marginalized communities.

I Am Your Sister is a collection of Lorde's non-fiction prose, written between 1976 and 1990, and it introduces new perspectives on the depth and range of Lorde's intellectual interests and her commitments to progressive social change. Presented here, for the first time in print, is a major body of Lorde's speeches and essays, along with the complete text of A Burst of Light and Lorde's landmark prose works Sister Outsider and The Cancer Journals. Together, these writings reveal Lorde's commitment to a radical course of thought and action, situating her works within the women's, gay and lesbian, and African American Civil Rights movements. They also place her within a continuum of black feminists, from Sojourner Truth, to Anna Julia Cooper, Amy Jacques Garvey, Lorraine Hansberry, and Patricia Hill Collins. I Am Your Sister concludes with personal reflections from Alice Walker, Gloria Joseph, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and bell hooks on Lorde's political and social commitments and the indelibility of her writings for all who are committed to a more equitable society. [All information from website]

Organizational Stress Management, Frank Bond, (9780230203921)

2011-02-15T11:09:00.000-08:00

Organizational Stress Management, Frank Bond, (9780230203921)

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Forced to Be Good, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, (9780801446436)

2011-02-15T11:06:00.000-08:00

Forced to Be Good, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, (9780801446436)

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United States and Mexico, (9780415992190), Fernandez de Castro

2011-02-15T11:00:00.000-08:00

United States and Mexico, (9780415992190), Fernandez de Castro

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Understanding Iran, William R. Polk, (9780230103436)

2011-02-15T10:57:00.000-08:00

Understanding Iran, William R. Polk, (9780230103436)

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Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand, (9781400064168)

2011-02-15T10:55:00.000-08:00

Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand, (9781400064168)

D805.J3.Z364

Spirituality, Health, and Healing, (9780763779429), Caroline Young

2011-02-15T10:48:00.000-08:00

Spirituality, Health, and Healing, (9780763779429), Caroline Young

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The Culture of Teenage Mothers, Joanna Gregson, (9781438428864)

2011-02-15T10:45:00.000-08:00

The Culture of Teenage Mothers, Joanna Gregson, (9781438428864)

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Latin America s Left Turns, (9781588267399), Maxwell A. Cameron

2011-02-15T10:43:00.000-08:00

Latin America s Left Turns, (9781588267399), Maxwell A. Cameron

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For All the World to See, (9780300121315), Maurice Berger, Textbooks - Barnes & Noble

2011-02-15T10:40:00.000-08:00

For All the World to See, (9780300121315), Maurice Berger,

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Amazon.com: Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed (9780230618879): Larry Rohter: Books

2011-02-15T10:37:00.000-08:00

Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed (9780230618879): Larry Rohter: Books

F2538.3 .R64

Inside the Indian Business Mind: A Tactical Guide for Managers

2010-12-16T07:19:00.000-08:00

This practical guide identifies the ingredients that make up Indian culture and uniquely translates them into useful tools to help Western commercial initiatives succeed. [from the publisher] HD70.I4.Z83

Impact of 9/11 on Economics: the Business of Terror: The Day That Changed Everything?

2010-12-16T07:13:00.000-08:00

The Impact of 9-11 on Business and Economics is the second volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything? edited by Matthew J. Morgan. The series brings together from a broad spectrum of disciplines the leading thinkers of our time to reflect on one of the most significant events of our time. The volume reflects on the changes in organizational practices, changes to various industries from transportation and logistics, risk management, food, and the emerging war service industry, and changes to the international financial system. Contributors include Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Paul Smith, Jay Sultan, and other leading scholars. [description provided by the publisher] HV6432.7.I437

Issues in Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: Selections from CQ Researcher

2010-12-16T07:10:00.000-08:00

Synopsis

The Obama Presidency: Can Barack Obama deliver the change he promises?
Middle-Class Squeeze: Is more government aid needed?
Gay Marriage Showdowns: Will voters bar marriage for same-sex couples?

These are just a few of the provocative questions contested in Issues in Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class. This engaging reader allows students to see an issue from all sides and to think critically about topics that matter to them. Classroom discussion will never be dull again!

In the tradition of nonpartisanship and current analysis that is the hallmark of Congressional Quarterly, CQ Researcher titles investigate important and controversial policy issues. Offer your students the balanced reporting, complete overviews and engaging writing that CQ Researcher has consistently provided for more than 80 years. Each article gives substantial background as well as current analysis of the issue as well as useful pedagogical features to inspire critical thinking and to help students grasp and review key material:

A Pro/Con box that examines two competing sides of a single question
A detailed chronology of key dates and events
An annotated bibliography and Web resources
Outlook sections that address possible regulation and initiatives from Capitol Hill and the White House over the next 5 to 10 years
Photos, charts, graphs, and maps

[product description provided by the publisher] E184.A1.I8453

The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture

2010-12-16T07:05:00.000-08:00

Patrick Manning follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In joining these stories, he shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking shaping across the globe.

Manning begins in 1400 and traces the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a global community. He tracks discourses on race, changes in economic circumstance, the evolving character of family life, and the growth of popular culture. He underscores the profound influence that the African diaspora had on world history and demonstrates the inextricable link between black migration and the rise of modernity. Inclusive and far-reaching, The African Diaspora proves that the advent of modernity cannot be fully understood without taking the African peoples and the African continent into account. [from the publisher] DT16.5.M35

Hybrid Learning: The Perils and Promise of Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education

2010-12-16T07:02:00.000-08:00

A call for the extension of hybrid learning urges that it become not just a quick fix or a boon for the bottom line, but an educational mode that re-envisions quality teaching and learning for the 21st century. [from the publisher] LB2395.7.S545

The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Economy: How Liberals and Conservatives Both Got It Wrong

2010-12-16T07:00:00.000-08:00

This highly original book puts the crash of 2008 into a broad perspective by digging deeply into the misguided theories behind the policies that allowed it to happen. [from the publisher] HC106.83.W55

Prelude to Catastrophe: FDR's Jews and the Menance of Nazism

2010-12-10T11:28:00.000-08:00

The Jews who so deeply admired Roosevelt made up the richest, most influential Jewish community in the world, leaders in government, commerce, and the arts. Yet by the time Franklin Roosevelt died in office, six million European Jews had been murdered by the Nazis while neither FDR nor American Jews lifted much more than a finger to help them. How did the president, the nation he led, and American Jewry allow this to happen? There is no simple answer, but Robert Shogan seeks a partial explanation by examining the behavior of a handful of Jews, so close to Roosevelt and supposedly so influential that they could be considered the president's Jews. [provided by the publisher]

With All Thine Heart: Love and the Bible

2010-12-10T11:26:00.000-08:00

Is the Bible actually a love story between a deity and a people? And what does this love story have to do with the modern world? In With All Thine Heart distinguished cultural critic Ilan Stavans speaks to freelance writer Mordecai Drache about love in the Bible.

Presented in an engaging, conversational format and touched with striking artwork, the textured dialogue between Stavans and Drache is meant to show how the Bible is a multidimensional text and one that, when considered over the course of history, still has the power to shape our world. The theme of love provides the connective tissue that binds this work.

Addressing a wide range of topics, from biblical archaeology and fundamentalism to Hollywood movies, lexicography, and the act of praying, With All Thine Heart suggests that the Hebrew Bible is a novel worth decoding patiently, such as one does with classics like Don Quixote de la Mancha, In Search of Lost Time, and Anna Karenina. Similar to the protagonists in these tales, biblical characters, although not shaped with the artistic nuance of modern literature, allow for astonishing insight. This exploration of love through the pages of the Bible—organized chronologically from Genesis to Exodus and followed by insightful meditations on the Song of Songs and the Book of Job-is a delightful intellectual and spiritual treat . . . Shema Ysrael!

Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror

2010-12-10T11:24:00.000-08:00

"At a time and on an issue that cry out for fresh, critical, and constructive thinking, Ian Shapiro has performed a great service by laying out a bold yet pragmatic idea for dealing with the threats America faces in the post-September 11 world. He has adapted an old idea that worked--the containment of communist expansion during the Cold War--to the task of replacing a policy that has, to a spectacular and tragic degree, not worked: military preemption and the attempt to impose democracy in the name of waging 'the War on Terror.' His critique of both the Bush administration and many of its Democratic opponents is hard-hitting and well substantiated; his recommendations are compelling; and his presentation is concise and forceful. The result is a major contribution to the debate over the single most vexing and important political challenge facing the U.S. and the world."--Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution, former Deputy Secretary of State

Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society

2010-12-10T11:22:00.000-08:00

The past 30 years have seen vast changes in our attitudes toward crime. More and more of us live in gated communities; prison populations have skyrocketed; and issues such as racial profiling, community policing, and "zero-tolerance" policies dominate the headlines. How is it that our response to crime and our sense of criminal justice has come to be so dramatically reconfigured? David Garland charts the changes in crime and criminal justice in America and Britain over the past twenty-five years, showing how they have been shaped by two underlying social forces: the distinctive social organization of late modernity and the neoconservative politics that came to dominate the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s.

Garland explains how the new policies of crime and punishment, welfare and security—and the changing class, race, and gender relations that underpin them—are linked to the fundamental problems of governing contemporary societies, as states, corporations, and private citizens grapple with a volatile economy and a culture that combines expanded personal freedom with relaxed social controls. It is the risky, unfixed character of modern life that underlies our accelerating concern with control and crime control in particular. It is not just crime that has changed; society has changed as well, and this transformation has reshaped criminological thought, public policy, and the cultural meaning of crime and criminals. David Garland's The Culture of Control offers a brilliant guide to this process and its still-reverberating consequences. [from the publisher]

Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell

2010-12-10T11:20:00.000-08:00

"This book helps to set the record straight, not just through the facts of O'Dell's life, but through introducing the reader to O'Dell's powerful analysis."—Bill Fletcher Jr., coauthor of Solidarity Divided

"Jack O'Dell describes an 'easy journey. . .[and] an easy course' through his extraordinary life. But there was and is nothing easy about the roles Jack played—and continues to play—as strategist, tactician, mentor, and leader in so many campaigns for justice. As often behind the scenes as in front of the microphone, Jack fought for internationalism in the African-American freedom movement and held the internationalist movement accountable for fighting racism. Jack O'Dell resides among the greats in the pantheon of our movements and of our country. His words continue to shape our history."—Phyllis Bennis, author of Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy U.S. Power

"Jack O'Dell is one of the great unsung heroes of the Black Freedom Movement. Climbin' Jacob's Ladder offers a fascinating and inspiring chronicle of O'Dell's long career through his own writings. With a brilliant and exhaustive introduction by Nikhil Singh, one of the sharpest radical thinkers of his generation, this collection is a vital addendum and corrective to our existing knowledge of the 'long' Civil Rights Movement and its legacy."—Barbara Ransby, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam

2010-12-10T11:18:00.000-08:00

The tenth parallel—the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator—is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims live along the tenth parallel; so do sixty percent of the world’s 2 billion Christians. Here, in the buzzing megacities and swarming jungles of Africa and Asia, is where the two religions meet; their encounter is shaping the future of each faith, and of whole societies as well.

An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the tenth parallel: in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The stories she tells in The Tenth Parallel show us that religious conflicts are also conflicts about land, water, oil, and other natural resources, and that local and tribal issues are often shaped by religious ideas. Above all, she makes clear that, for the people she writes about, one’s sense of God is shaped by one’s place on earth; along the tenth parallel, faith is geographic and demographic.
An urgent examination of the relationship between faith and worldly power, The Tenth Parallel is an essential work about the conflicts over religion, nationhood and natural resources that will remake the world in the years to come. [from the publisher]

Cather Studies, Volume 8: Willa Cather: A Writer's Worlds

2010-12-10T11:12:00.000-08:00

The essays in Cather Studies, Volume 8 explore the many locales and cultures informing Willa Cather’s fiction. A lifelong Francophile, Cather first visited France in 1902 and returned repeatedly throughout her life. Her visits to France influenced not only her writing but also her interpretation of other worlds: for example, while visiting the American Southwest in 1912, a region that informed her subsequent works, she first viewed that landscape through the prism of her memories of Provence. Cather’s intellectual intercourse between the Old and the New World was a two-way street, moving both people and cultural mores between the two. But her worlds extended far beyond France, or even geographical locations. This new volume pairs Cather innovatively with additional influences—theological, aesthetic, even gastronomical—and examines her as tourist and traveler cautiously yet assiduously exploring a diverse range of places, ethnicities, and professions. [from the publisher]

Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom

2010-12-10T11:04:00.000-08:00

Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history, from Dolores Del Rio in the 1920s to Jennifer Lopez in the 2000s, began as a dancer or danced onscreen. While cinematic depictions of women and minorities have seemingly improved, a century of representing brown women as natural dancers has popularized the notion that Latinas are inherently passionate and promiscuous. Yet some Latina actresses became stars by embracing and manipulating these stereotypical fantasies.

Introducing the concepts of "inbetween-ness" and "racial mobility" to further illuminate how racialized sexuality and the dancing female body operate in film, Priscilla Peña Ovalle focuses on the careers of Dolores Del Rio, Rita Hayworth, Carmen Miranda, Rita Moreno, and Jennifer Lopez. Dance and the Hollywood Latina helps readers better understand how the United States grapples with race, gender, and sexuality through dancing bodies on screen. [from the publisher]

1776 History!

2010-12-10T08:13:00.000-08:00

Extremely well researched, and written only as David McCullough can, 1776 is a tremendously meticulous insight into both sides of the American Revolution!

With All Thine Heart: Love and the Bible

2010-12-10T08:09:00.000-08:00

Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World

2010-02-24T12:24:00.000-08:00

Product Description

The art of Spain and Spanish America during the 17th century is overwhelmingly religious—it was intended to arouse wonder, devotion, and identification. Its forms and meanings are inextricably linked to the beliefs and religious practices of the people for whom it was made. In this groundbreaking book, scholars of art and religion look at new ways to understand the reception of use of these images in the practice of belief. As a result, the book argues for a fundamental reappraisal of the cultural role of the Church based on an analysis of the specific devotional and ritual contexts of Spanish art.

Handsomely illustrated essays discuss paintings, polychrome sculptures, metalwork, and books. They call attention to the paradoxical nature of the most characteristic visual forms of Spanish Catholicism: material richness and external display as expressions of internal spirituality, strict doctrinal orthodoxy accompanied by artistic expression of surprising unconventionality, the calculated social projection of new devotional themes, and the divergence of popular religious practices from officially prescribed ones. [Description provided by the publisher]

Understanding and Preventing Suicide: The Development of Self-Destructive Patterns and Ways to Alter Them

2009-12-17T08:59:00.001-08:00

Book Description

Illustrated with vignettes from the author's experience, this book offers a clear understanding of how suicidal thought develops, what we can do to change that way of thinking, how suicidal people can recover, and how the rest of us can cope when life is nonetheless lost. [Description provided by the publisher]

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

2009-12-17T08:52:00.000-08:00

Product Description

Dorothea Lange’s photographs define how we remember the Depression generation; now an evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy. We all know Dorothea Lange’s iconic photos—the “Migrant Mother” holding her child, the gaunt men forlornly waiting in breadlines—but few know the arc of her extraordinary life. In this sweeping account, renowned historian Linda Gordon charts Lange’s journey from polio-ridden child to wife and mother, to San Francisco portrait photographer, to chronicler of the Great Depression and World War II. Gordon uses Lange’s life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, re-creating the bohemian world of San Francisco, the Dust Bowl, and the Japanese American internment camps. She explores Lange’s growing radicalization as she embraced the democratic power of the camera, and she examines Lange’s entire body of work, reproducing more than one hundred images, many of them previously unseen and some of them formerly suppressed. Lange reminds us that beauty can be found in unlikely places, and that to respond to injustice, we must first simply learn how to see it. 128 photos. [Description provided by the publisher]

American Cinema of the 1960s

2009-12-17T08:34:00.000-08:00

Product Description

The profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United States closer to social revolution than at any other time in the twentieth century. The country fragmented as various challenges to state power were met with increasing and violent resistance. The Cold War heated up and the Vietnam War divided Americans. Civil rights, women's liberation, and gay rights further emerged as significant social issues. Free love was celebrated even as the decade was marked by assassinations, mass murders, and social unrest.

At the same time, American cinema underwent radical change as well. The studio system crumbled, and the Production Code was replaced by a new ratings system. Among the challenges faced by the film industry was the dawning shift in theatrical exhibition from urban centers to suburban multiplexes, an increase in runaway productions, the rise of independent producers, and competition from both television and foreign art films. Hollywood movies became more cynical, violent, and sexually explicit, reflecting the changing values of the time.

In ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1960s examines a range of films that characterized the decade, including Hollywood movies, documentaries, and independent and experimental films. Among the films discussed are Elmer Gantry, The Apartment, West Side Story, The Manchurian Candidate, To Kill a Mockingbird, Cape Fear, Bonnie and Clyde, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Midnight Cowboy, and Easy Rider. [Description provided by the publisher]

To Smile in Autumn: A Memoir

2009-12-17T08:21:00.000-08:00

Product Description

Gordon Parks was born with, he says, “a stubborn need to be somebody.” Though Parks is remembered most notably as a photographer and filmmaker, on his enthralling climb to fame between 1944 and 1978 he was successful in many pursuits, including journalism, poetry, and music. It was not always an easy journey, but by thirty-six he had overcome many obstacles to become a photographer and writer for Life magazine. To Smile in Autumn is a candid revelation of a man in the prime of his life and career. This autobiography, with a new foreword by Alexs Pate, is a testament to a person much attuned to the greater world and driven to leave his mark on it. [Description provided by the publisher]

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

2009-12-17T08:15:00.001-08:00

Product Description

Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises and generate huge profits for their exploiters, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, sex slaves require no such "processing," and can be repeatedly "consumed."

Kara first encountered the horrors of slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995. Subsequently, in the first journey of its kind, he traveled across four continents to investigate these crimes and take stock of their devastating human toll. Kara made several trips to India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Albania, Moldova, Mexico, and the United States. He witnessed firsthand the sale of human beings into slavery, interviewed over four hundred slaves, and confronted some of those who trafficked and exploited them.

In this book, Kara provides a riveting account of his journey into this unconscionable industry, sharing the moving stories of its victims and revealing the shocking conditions of their exploitation. He draws on his background in finance, economics, and law to provide the first ever business analysis of contemporary slavery worldwide, focusing on its most profitable and barbaric form: sex trafficking. Kara describes the local factors and global economic forces that gave rise to this and other forms of modern slavery over the past two decades and quantifies, for the first time, the size, growth, and profitability of each industry. Finally, he identifies the sectors of the sex trafficking industry that would be hardest hit by specifically designed interventions and recommends the specific legal, tactical, and policy measures that would target these vulnerable sectors and help to abolish this form of slavery, once and for all.

The author will donate a portion of the proceeds of this book to the anti-slavery organization, Free the Slaves. [This description provided by the publisher]

Expectations and Demands in Online Teaching: Practical Experiences

2009-12-17T08:09:00.001-08:00

Despite the considerable, growing interest in online education, most studies have focused only on the students perspective. Merely a handful of studies have attempted to address the teachers perspectives and little has been published on the online teaching experience itself.

Expectations and Demands in Online Teaching: Practical Experiences offers a better understanding of how teachers experience the online environment by exploring various dimensions of online teaching, including class preparation, process effectiveness and quality, and technology utilization. The book assists educational institution administrators supporting online education improve their understanding of how teachers experience online teaching, and of the issues these teachers face in their teaching. [Description provided by the publisher]

The War on Human Trafficking: U. S. Policy Assessed

2009-12-17T07:47:00.001-08:00

Product Description

The War on Human Trafficking covers the policy battles surrounding efforts to abolish human trafficking. Anthony M. DeStefano details events leading up to the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 1000--the federal law that first addressed this phenomenon--and assesses the effectiveness and aftermath of the law. DeStefano also describes the tensions created as the Bush Administration used trafficking laws to attack prostitution and shows how the American response to these criminal activities was influenced by the events of September 11th and the war in Iraq. This important book gets beyond sensational stories of sexual servitude and explains the powerful economic conditions that impel immigrants to put themselves at risk. [Provided by the publisher]