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by Geri-Ann Galanti
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Healthcare providers in the American medical system may find that patients from different cultures bring unfamiliar expectations, anxieties, and needs into the examination room. To provide optimal care for all patients, it is important to see differences from the patient's perspective and to work...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
In the fall of 2008, the world watched in horror as the U.S. housing finance system shattered, triggering a global financial panic and ultimately the Great Recession. Now, nearly a decade later, the long and slow housing recovery has reached a critical moment. Though the housing finance system has...
Regulatory Breakdown
The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation brings fresh insight and analytic rigor to what has become one of the most contested domains of American domestic politics. Critics from the left blame lax regulation for the housing meltdown and financial crisis—not to mention major...
A Nation Dedicated to Religious Liberty
The Constitutional Heritage of the Religion Clauses
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Here is a concise overview of the historical development and judicial interpretation of the First Amendment religion clauses. It begins with a survey of the history of American religious liberty, goes on to present the views of the Founding Fathers, and then considers the core value of religious liberty...
The Metropolitan Airport
JFK International and Modern New York
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was...
by Karen Rasler, William R. Thompson, Sumit Ganguly
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Rivalry between nations has a long and sometimes bloody history. Not all political opposition culminates in war—the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union is one example—but in most cases competition between nations and peoples for resources and strategic advantage does lead to...
Hosts and Guests
The Anthropology of Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Tourism—one of the world's largest industries—has long been appreciated for its economic benefits, but in this volume tourism receives a unique systematic scrutiny as a medium for cultural exchange. Modern developments in technology and industry, together with masterful advertising, have created...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
In the early twenty-first century, the citizens of many Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela, elected left-wing governments, explicitly rejecting and attempting to reverse the policies of neoliberal structural economic adjustment that had prevailed in...
Who Speaks for Nature?
On the Politics of Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
When natural scientists speak up in public about the material phenomena they have observed, measured, and analyzed in the lab or the field, they embody a distinctive version of political authority. Where does science derive its remarkably resilient, though often contested, capacity to give voice to...
The Writing on the Wall
How Asian Orthography Curbs Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Students in Japan, China, and Korea are among the world's top performers on standardized math and science tests. The nations of East Asia are also leading manufacturers of consumer goods that incorporate scientific breakthroughs in telecommunications, optics, and transportation. Yet there is a startling...
Looting and Rape in Wartime
Law and Change in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Women were historically treated in wartime as property. Yet in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, prohibitions against pillaging property did not extend to the female body. There is a gap of nearly a hundred years between those early prohibitions of pillage and the prohibition of rape finally...
Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom
The School of Nisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries C.E. and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom provides a history both of the School and of the scholastic culture of the...
War Is Coming
Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a "postwar" era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead,...
Misogyny
The Male Malady
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
"Yes, women are the greatest evil Zeus has made, and men are bound to them hand and foot with impossible knots by God."—Semonides, seventh century B.C.
Men put women on a pedestal to worship them from afar—and to take better aim at them for the purpose of derision. Why is this...