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This ethnography describes and explains how Mennonite Disaster Service, following a well-established tradition of helping their neighbors, organized volunteer efforts for the 2005 and 2008 Gulf Coast storms.

The seven microstates of Europe are remarkable not only for their size, but their persistence as well. It is a sociopolitical phenomenon that has rarely been addressed, but this book shows how it may have clues for the larger understanding of the conflicting agencies of nationalism and globalism currently seen around the world.

This book works toward general ethics of technology by studying the somewhat uncharted territory between critical thinking on technology in continental philosophy, practically motivated applied ethics, and sociological studies on science and technology.

Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, in many ways defines the meaning of the United States. This extensively researched work reveals that Jefferson was in fact generally favorable to the Haitian Revolution, before and during his presidency, and supportive of its independence.

Burlin's book provides an analysis of some of the broad themes and currents of 19th century American expansion in the Pacific through a discussion of a number of Maine inhabitants, either going to Hawai'i or other areas of the archipelago. Individuals covered include Sanford Dole, Luther Secerance, John L. Stevens, and James G. Blaine.

This book of six original essays explores the deep significance of previously neglected religious themes of the Founding Era. Hutson's essays challenge current scholarship on the Founding Era, which often downplays the importance of Christian ideals in the formation of the American government.

Using the 1998 blackout of the central business district of Auckland, New Zealand, as a case study, the authors reveal many important insights into the central challenges of crisis governance in post-industrial, democratic societies. This book describes and explores the general and recurring problems faced by crisis managers around the world.

After introducing the early work of philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero, Machiavelli, and Kant on the matter, this book critically examines the literature over the past four decades on the topic of posthumous harm.

This work studies Shakespeare's portrayal of the founding of Athens through a close reading of one of the Bard's most memorable comedies. It shows how Shakespeare's portrayal of this first democracy illuminates the natural doubleness of the human soul.

Lomax pays particular attention to the problematic concept of nobility, which concerned Nietzsche during his later years. This study provides a close textual analysis and a thoughtful reconceptualization ofBeyond Good and Evil.

The history and language of abortion in early America is the focus of this book.It moves beyond the rhetoric about abortion and general histories of medicine, science and women to analyze how the articulation of cultural memory presented abortion as threatening to cultural order.

This text turns the spotlight on the role of faith in the public square and the spiritual consequences of public policy making. It brings together 14 American writers on the intersection of faith and public policy to discuss the changing roles of government, church, education and the family.

Temporal divergence creates a need for new narratives and paradigms. In this text David Carvounas supports this assertion through detailed expository and diagnostic readings of Kant, Hegel and Marx. He focuses on their contribution to our understanding of modernity.

This work explores the relation of liberatory philosophical thought to social and class movements in 2001. It considers the logic of capitalism on Latin American soil, the ecological crisis in Latin America and the concept and practice of self-liberation.

This study traces the beginnings of the malediction of play in western metaphysics. It analyzes how the distinction between the serious and the playful developed, charting play's changing ontological status, and ethical and aesthetic dimensions, from the logocentric to the bacchanalian.

This book's focused case studies analyze each of America's quasi-colonies, revealing how the perpetuation of a this 'imperialist' strategy has rendered the inhabitants second class citizens.

In this title, Joseph Varacalli describes how and why Catholic America has essentially failed to shape the American Republic in any significant way. He sees trends of thought that would propose viable alternatives to philosophies and ideologies that currently dominate the American public sphere.

This study compares the professed ideals and actual realities of conservative reformism leading up to and during the Reagan presidency, and examines Ronald Reagan's defence programme, his policies to reduce the size of the federal government, and regulatory reform.

This study unites Montaigne's thought and demonstrates the role he played in establishing liberal ethos in the West. The author also articulates Montaigne's ideas in relation to ideas such as individuality and subjectivity and theorists like Nietzsche, Heidegger and Richard Rorty.

This volume attempts to explain the seemingly a priori antagonisms of the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War. It contends that the Cold War eventually arose out of the clash of two ideologically motivated political systems.

A controversial analysis of the relationship between equality and pluralism. Tackling an issue central to modern political thought, the author contrasts and critiques the prevailing models for balancing equality with pluralism from thinkers Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls, and others.

In this text, Alan Mittleman looks at some of the central problems of political philosophy - such as fundamental rights and the common good - from the point of view of rabbinic Judaism.

Examines the political debates and underlying communications strategies over proposed state lotteries that took place in the Southeastern US between 1986 and 2005. This book is based on research from thousands of media articles, government documents, and interviews with politicians, religious leaders, and journalists.

In the Wake of Terror focuses on the controversies over the linkage of class exploitation and the ideology of racism, the role of nationalism in postcolonial politics, and ethnic exclusion.

Suggests that the texts of both the Jewish and Confucian tradition talk in riddles of a special kind riddles, which are introduced-and answered-by religious forms of life. Using a dialogue of riddles, this book presents a comparative perspective of Confucianism and Judaism regarding the relatedness between contradictory expressions in texts.