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This book analyzes the increasing Catholicization of American political life and the increasing Americanization of the Catholic Church

Arguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own species, this book explores different types of voices, both natural and artificial, in the name of helping us to decipher the complex cacophony of an increasingly imperiled planet.

A Taste for Home places the middle-class home of late Ottoman Beirut at the intersection of global transformations in urbanity, taste, consumption, and intellectual trends.

Bureaucracies have become a relic of the industrial era. The knowledge economy is quickly becoming passe. In today's business environment, doing beats knowing. Fast/Forward presents a new way of working, teaching readers how to embrace decisive action and emotional conviction to gain tomorrow's competitive advantage.

Hard Times fills a gap in our conversation about leadership by focusing on the context within which leadership takes place. Written as a checklist, it introduces readers to what they need to know in order to lead wisely and well in 21st Century America.

Highlighting the roles and functions of three essential players-creators, producers, and intermediaries-this book leads readers to better understand the nature of creative industries and the impact that they have on business and culture.

A fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across the "islandologies" of different cultures and argues for a world of islands.

This book is the first of a two-volume study of photography that challenges both how photography has been theorized and how it has been historicized.

Resources for Reform explores how people's lives intersect with the global oil industry through a close look at Argentina's experiment with privatizing its national oil company in the name of neoliberal reform.

H. C. for Life, That Is to Say . . . is Jacques Derrida's tribute to Helene Cixous-the author, her works, and their lifelong mutual reading and intellectual friendship.

The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history. In this dramatic and succinct narrative, Sheldon M. Stern enables the reader to follow the often harrowing twists and turns of the crisis.

Directly opposing ideas constructed and perpetuated by pundits and the media at large, The Latino Threat challenges the suggestion that Latino immigrants are unwilling to integrate and reveals that citizenship is not just about legal definitions, but about participation in society.

The Romantic era in England and Germany saw a sudden renewal of prophetic modes of writing, arising from a new-found freedom of biblical interpretation. This text surveys developments in 18th-century biblical hermeneutics, culminating in close readings of works by Blake, Holderlin and Coleridge.

A provocative reassessment of President Truman's profound influence on US foreign policy and the Cold War. The author contends that throughout his presidency, Truman remained a parochial nationalist who lacked the vision and leadership to move the United States away from conflict.

Building on the critical foundations established by Edward Said's Orientalism, this book examines the relationship between the Orientalist tradition in French art and literature and France's colonial history. It focuses on a central dimension of this exchange: the prevalent figure of the "oriental woman," and the interplay of race and gender in both domestic and colonial history.

This volume addresses such questions as: how similar actually were the Leninist regimes before their dissolution, and how similar were their demises?; and how did the way communism fell affect the founding of democratic states in Eastern Europe, notably in Poland and Czechoslovakia?

Incorporating the results of recent research, this is a new edition of a book that received the American Musicological Society's Otto Kinkeldey Award for the best musicological book in English published in 1982-83.

This literary and cultural history of the rise of modern leisure shows how American writers from Henry David Thoreau to Zora Neale Hurston both responded to and helped shape19th- and early-20th-century ideas of work and play.

This approach to anthropology focuses on negotiating the social meanings used in making sense of the world, and on the processes of identification that create the difference between same and other.

Though the two traditions are considered incompatible, this book brings classical and modern criminology together by requiring that their conceptions be consistent with each other and with the results of research.

In The Angel of History, Moses looks at three philosophers-Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem-who formulated a new vision of history informed by Jewish messianism in 1920s Germany.

This book reveals and analyzes the ways in which highly contested, deeply divided urban space can generate opportunities for negotiation and new alliances over freedoms and rights.

From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893-1941), a Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism, who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer.

"Feminine Capital" offers new insight into the emerging power of women entrepreneurs. Drawing on four decades of award-winning research, Barbara Orser and Catherine Elliott show how women are changing the global economic landscape, one venture at a time. The authors offer tips, diagnostics tools, and checklists to help readers recognize opportunities, and refine their skills and competencies.