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Explains the fluctuations in Israel's military policies during the 1990s-2000s from the Oslo Accords to the al-Aqsa Intifada and the Second Lebanon War. This book offers a conceptual framework that relies on materialist militarism.

Many states suffer from internal violence and terrorism that is national rather than international, and cannot benefit from the solidarity inherent in the campaign against international terrorism. This study develops a paradigm for the systematic assessment of international responses to situations of internal violence-cum-terrorism.

This book tells the story of a unique Catholic Parish, Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco. The story tells how the original parishioners (the gray) accepted the new gay community, especially in response to the AIDS epidemic.

Based on a qualitative research study of gay and lesbian teachers, Unmasking Identities explores how gay and lesbian teachers bring together their identities in a climate where the two have historically been pitted against each other.

From Diversity to Unity is a community study of settlement and adaptation of Southern and Appalachian migrants to the neighborhood of Uptown Chicago. Oral histories, community newspapers, and secondary sources reveal the human experience of urban migration.

Condemned to Repeat It examines the historical myths that underwrote U.S. containment policy during the Cold War. Anderson argues that the historical record does not support the applicability of "lessons" learned from nineteenth-century great power diplomacy, peacemaking at the end of World War One, the Munich Agreement, and the Yalta Conference.

From Athens to America calls for the reversal of the withdrawal of the character-forming function from the political domain, arguing for public sector-federal, state, and local-involvement in character formation.

North/South, East/West analyzes the economic, cultural, and political levels of identity production on contemporary Italian television by focusing particularly on regionalism, gender, ethnicity, and immigration as central to Italian identity politics.

Examines the idea of communalism in African cultures as a dominant theme that provides the foundation for African traditional moral thoughts, moral education, values, beliefs, conceptions of reality, practices, and ways of life. This book also argues that when properly understood, it could provide the necessary foundation for Africa's development.

Contemplating social dynamics, including assimilation, acculturation, and the persistence of racial and ethnic prejudice, the author offers presents the plight of international immigration-professionals. He provides a look at where global society is headed in the twenty-first century.

Through qualitative analysis of individuals, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald studies the social construction of racial and ethnic identity in Beyond White Ethnicity.

From This Clay is an eclectic collection of reflections on American culture and society and the ongoing quest for meaning and illumination in everyday life. By virtue of their idiosyncratic and personal treatment of universal themes, the essays give voice to concerns, hopes, and consolations that resonate with authenticity.

Argues that the dissolution ties with institutions has greatly affected denominations - especially specific denominational subgroups such as Catholic religious orders, Protestant deaconesses, or women's missionary societies - in profoundly important ways shifting or obliterating their recruitment bases.

Explores the fluid relationship between high and low culture in Latin America. Paying attention to the peculiar development of the cultural fields in Latin America and to the consequences of globalization, this book examines the cr-nica in Mexico City and Guayaquil and its role in representing unofficial culture in its widest sense.

A collection of ethnographies that address the central problem, affecting United States and also other developed and developing nations around the globe affordable housing. These ethnographies offer a diverse look at housing policies and practices as well as addressing the problems associated with providing or obtaining affordable housing.

Presents a study of the autobiographical writings of three Francophone writers from the Maghreb Assia Djebar, Hlne Cixous, and Abdelkbir Khatibi. This book presents alluding to music as a means of comprehending the writers' improvisational writing styles.

Post-9/11 American Presidential Rhetoric examines the communication offensive orchestrated by George W. Bush and the members of his administration between the initial terrorism crisis of September 11, 2001 and the March 20, 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Rebuilding Communities the Public Trust Way highlights cases of community foundation assistance to Community Development Corporations (CDCs) during the final two decades of the twentieth century in Cleveland, Ohio; Florida; and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Stephanie Corinna Bille is a Swiss short-story writer, playwright, poet, and novelist and winner of the 1975 French Prix Concourt. This work assembles and translates a collection of Bille's work that exposes an English-speaking audience to Bille's exotic, captivating, and sexually provocative stories.

Exposing the "Pretty Woman" Myth presents the lived experiences of women who prostitute themselves on the streets. It is based on research conducted with prostituted women over a six-year period. Author Rochelle Dalla presents case-history analyses of the women participants and opens a window into the world of street-level prostitution.

Conceptualizes women as centers of action and demonstrates the ways in which they construct personal pathways, connect different spheres of experience, integrate new time demands into the multiple rhythms of their everyday lives, and carve out personal space.

In the face of expanding global media, Europe's linguistic minorities have begun to resist the homogenizing forces of television. Escaping the Global Village documents and analyzes various campaigns by indigenous minority language advocates throughout Europe for alternative language television services.

Changing Members is the first systematic examination of the impact of term limits on a single state legislature. Using Maine as a case study--because it is the first state in the entire nation where legislative term limits took effect in both chambers--the book shows how term limits shape legislative operations, redistribute political power, and change the very members elected to serve.