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Exploring the tremendous influence of women and African American televangelists, Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global offers a unique examination of the phenomenal growth of American religious broadcasting beyond the U.S., particularly in the Caribbean.

This book proposes an original interpretation of the French philosopher Michel Foucault's late work on rights and human rights and relates this interpretation to current developments in contemporary political theory.

This book develops a typology of crisis narratives (accounts of blame, stories of renewal, victim narratives, heroic tales, and memorials), that provide an organizing framework for analyzing crises and understanding how competing stories battle for dominance in the wake of a disaster.

This book provides a framework for understanding family business success and introduces a set of tools that can be used to build "family business champions": firms that continue to excel while transitioning successfully from generation to generation.

In The Diplomat in the Corner Office, Timothy L. Fort argues that businesses must adopt a "corporate foreign policy" and play a central role in working to create international peace in order to thrive in the twenty-first century.

The Full Severity of Compassion is both a modular retrospective of Yehuda Amichai's poetric project and a reassessment-by attending closely to the theory embedded in the poetry-of major issues in contemporary literary studies, from the politics of form to radical allusion, and from metaphor to translation.

The book explores the drama of the Hebrew poetry coping with the violence of the Holocaust and the Israel-Arab war.

Anthropology's Politics provides a hard-hitting account of what it's like to study and teach about Middle East politics and culture in the heart of U.S. empire.

"Based on the First Edition by Mauro Cappelletti, John Henry Merryman, and Joseph M. Perillo."

This book examines a group of multicultural Jewish poets, Algerian Sadia Levy, Argentine Juan Gelman, and Israeli Margalit Matitiahu, to address the issue of multilingualism within a context of minor languages and literatures, nationalism, and diaspora.

The book describes the central role of workers and the unemployed in the run up to and the aftermath of the popular uprisings of 2011 in Tunisia and Egypt.

In Hive Mind, Garett Jones draws on an array of research from psychology, economics, management, and political science to make the case that IQ scores are a strong predictor of national prosperity.

The book evaluates Michel Foucault's thought on the state and how it has shaped the widespread and dogmatic anti-statist thinking in the humanities, social sciences, public policy and governance.

This book examines the political challenge that pluralism raises to ideologies of national citizenship in contemporary Turkey.

This book is a no-nonsense look at the business, economics, and culture of college sports.

Explores how the headscarf has become a political symbol used to reaffirm or transform national stories of belonging. Anna Korteweg and Goekce Yurdakul juxtapose current cultural and political debates and interviews with social activists in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Turkey to chart how the headscarf can reaffirm old or produce new national identities.

DRAFT (to be approved by sponsor):The Guarani and Their Missions on the South American Frontier is a socioeconomic history of the Guarani and their missions in the frontiers of the Rio de la Plata.

A critical revaluation of humanism, this book makes a case for the 20th-century as the "anticolonial century" by returning to the scientific Enlightenment and following a neglected intellectual tradition that led to what we today call Marxism.

The first ethnography of Wikipedia's organization, governance, and power structure, Common Knowledge argues that many criticisms of Wikipedia have been rooted in misconceptions, spread by outsiders who overlook its true strengths and weaknesses. This book examines how Wikipedia does and does not work from the inside out.

A significant new interpretation of Hegel's crucial criticisms of Kant.

This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space.

Author Shirli Kopelman shows us that successful negotiation is not solely driven by calculated self-interest; as a negotiator it is possible to be both strategic and real. Kopelman's techniques and exercises will teach readers how to reconcile the disparate hats that they wear in everyday life-with families, friends, and colleagues-into one "integral hat" to wear at the negotiation table.