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Honduras in Dangerous Times is a historical and ethnographic study of the evolution of popular resistance in modern Honduras. This book contributes to understanding societal change in dangerous contexts, connecting everyday lives to broad societal movements, and emphasizing popular resistance as both critical and creative.

Romanticism and Civilization examines romantic alternatives to modern life in Rousseau's foundational novel Julie. It argues that through the novel's drama and characters, Rousseau seeks to recover the sincerity and longing of the heart and the unity of life.

Restorative Free Will recognizes the basic biological value of both libertarian and compatibilist elements of free will, and explains how these traditionally opposed accounts of free will capture an essential element of foraging animals' free will.

This book analyzes newspaper coverage of four pioneering women politicians between the 1870s and 2000s to understand how media discourse of women politicians has and hasn't changed over 150 years. In addition, the book provides historical context of the political, feminist, and journalistic cultures that influenced how reporters covered these women.

In Fate and Freedom in the Novels of David Adams Richards, MacDonald and Craig explore the Christian foundation of Richards's writing and reveal an account of freedom that is fulfilled only in love.

This book critiques Ayn Rand's secular philosophy of religion while simultaneously highlighting the fundamental contradiction of the Tea Party movement's dual basis, that is, Randian economics and conservative Christianity.

African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound is an exploration of the conditions of living for residents of the unincorporated subdivision in the deep south from 1890 to 1919.

The debate over emancipation in 1829-32 Virginia set the solidified the peculiar institution in the country. This book articulates the success of the pro-slave interests in these debates that paved the way for the development of the positive good thesis.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary path of Nigeria's political development. Drawing from the historical themes that existed before and after independence, Kalu N. Kalu elucidates the challenging role of an oil-dependent economy in the struggle for control of state power in the face of political corruption, clientelism, and market failures.

This book explores biomedical and sociological theories of aging and their inter-relationship to historical, contemporary and future issues affecting social welfare and older people.

In an age when the visual landscape dominates our communication, War Images offers the rationale and the method by which we can critically engage images. Though focused on war images, this book provides a broad appreciation of how "reading" images is an act of social courage and personal responsibility.

With rare exceptions, few large institutions change bosses every two or three years. Yet the U.S. Government has temps on top. American government has 3,000 presidential political appointees and thousands more state and local political appointees, who refer to their in-and- out bosses as Christmas help.

This text presents a comprehensive analysis of the political economies of refugee encampments. It draws upon studies of over 30 encampments to illustrate the economic interaction between the camps and the neighbouring host communities.

Taking the revival of civic republicanism as the point of departure, this book examines the relationship between property, civic virtue, and democracy in post-socialist political thought. It also outlines a theory of democratic stakeholding in which citizens have rights of inhabitation in their commonwealth.

Gay and Lesbian Communities the World Over provides an innovative examination and comparison of the treatment and status of gays and lesbians in 21 countries. The book contains a country-by-country profile of each of the issues, describes treatment and status, reports on the pubic opinion data, and compares countries against each other.

Taiwan was an international prize sought by British, American, French, and Japanese adventurers along the South China coast in the nineteenth century. This study provides a framework for understanding the political and legal issues surrounding the China-Taiwan struggle.

Charles Corm: An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese "Young Phoenician" delves into the history of the modern Middle East and an inquiry into Lebanese intellectual, cultural, and political life as incarnated in the ideas, and as illustrated by the times, works, and activities of Charles Corm (1894-1963).

The Dark Mirror explores the richness of psychiatric imagery in film noir and how the popularization of psychoanalysis in the U.S. during the 1940s and 1950s influenced film noir as a whole. Santos examines many little-known films and unearths surprising discoveries about the psychological underpinnings of noir.

This study is an interpretation of the choices the tragedians made in regard to certain forms of standardized variations in word order and prosody. Those choices were made in response to the competing demands of metrical constrain and the poets' sense of what was stylistically appropriate for tragic trimeters.

Undertaking a historical-cultural analysis of humanitarian NGO rhetoric and politics, the author focuses on Mdecins Sans Frontires and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. This book offers to the disciplines of political science, cultural studies, and sociology a model with which to consider the political and social roles of NGOs.

Examines the evolution of conservative politics in China, which has become increasingly present following the death of Mao Zedong in 1978. This book traces the roots of conservatism through the imperial system, the Republican period, and the pre-Cultural Revolution People's Republic, all of which influence contemporary Chinese politics.