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Presents a research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspora away from its focus solely on the Americas.

Focusing on modern South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, this volume provides an overview of the events and trends that have rocked the increasingly volatile region over the years. It also contains maps, as well as a "Recent Chronology of Events" that provides information on the region.

An accessible, comprehensive guide to the legal battles that finally gave George W. Bush the Presidency five weeks after election night. Abner Greene provides a step by step, non-partisan explanation and analysis of the major legal issues involved in resolving the presidential contest.

Chief Justice John Marshall was among the major figures of American law, and widely regarded as the father of the Supreme Court. This is a study of the pre-Marshall Supreme Court and its justices, with a view to offering a better understanding of the origins of American constitutionalism.

Repudiating the fallacy of welfare state dependency, the contributors to these studies seek to reveal the true impact of neoliberal reforms to the US economy that have increased social inequality and economic polarization.

Features a selection of Hall's love letters to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian emigre with whom Hall fell in love in the summer of 1934. These letters detail Hall's growing obsession, the pain to her life partner Una Troubridge of this betrayal, and the poignant hopelessness of a happy resolution for any of the three women.

American business schools from their inception in the 1880''s, have grown dramatically both in quality and in numbers. Regarded as late as the 1950''s as essentially vocational schools whose role in academia was still to be resolved, they are now among the most respected professional schools in the university community. In recent decades, this increase in prestige has been matched by the growth of both Bachelor''s and MBA programs. The forces and events shaping this dramatic rise in importance have been recounted by Dean Emeritus of New York University''s Stern School of Business, Abraham L. Gitlow. He brings his 45 years of experience as a faculty member at the Stern School to bear as he analyzes the educational and philosophical issues and tensions that marked the history of the school, and of American higher education in general, in the twentieth century.

Perhaps nothing is more revealing about people than their reading habits. In 1938, when Freud fled the Nazis, he brought with him from Vienna to London a large portion of his annotated library. This is a guided tour of his collection, including the major sources he used for his work.

In 1973, three women and two men were held hostage in a bank in Stockholm by two ex-convicts. This book describes how the hostages and their captors formed a bond (now known as the "Stockholm Syndrome"); and how survival mechanisms for the women could be seen to mirror those employed in daily life.

With essays on the religious, social, political, and economic origins of European and American anti-semitism as well as some Jewish responses, this volume traces the image of the Jew and the attitudes toward the Jew over the past two thousand years.

Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms? What do they mean? Drawing on cultural studies and critical theory, Rita Felski examines a range of themes central to debates about postmodern culture, including changing meanings of class.

How can feminist theory be made more relevant to struggles undertaken by women today? How can feminism be directed into more effective social activism? These are some of the questions tackled in this title, and aims to relate academic and social movement feminism.

In this book, the author examines the life-course and daily experiences of elderly residents of El Barrio. This title also focuses on the economy of immigrant neighbourhoods and the personal experiences of Latinos ageing in Spanish Harlem.

Tells the story of Diana, a beautiful woman who sought love in the strange by-paths of Lesbos.

Long before there were Jewish communities in the land of the tsars, Jews inhabited a region which they called medinat rusiya, the land of Russia. Focusing on the social and intellectual odysseys of merchants, and their varied attempts to combine Judaism and European culture, this book chronicles the story of these first modern Jews of Russia.

What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. This book represents the first private and non- governmental indigenous effort to stimulate public debate of Japanese foreign policy.

How did Martin Luther King Jr's birthday become a national holiday? Why do we exchange presents on Christmas and Chanukah? What do bunnies have to do with Easter? How did Earth Day become a global holiday? This title answers these questions.

How is it possible for an innocent man to come within nine days of execution? This title answers that question through an analysis of the case of Earl Washington Jr, a mentally retarded, black farm hand who was convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of a 19-year-old mother of three in Culpeper, Virginia.

Leading scholars discuss strategies and methodology in American literary studies.

Collects Woodrow Wilson's most influential work, from early essays on religion to his famous "Fourteen Points" speech, which introduced the idea of the League of Nations. His writings allow us to trace the intellectual struggle that took the nation from a position of neutrality in World War I to its role as a central player on the world stage.

China's dramatic transformation over the past fifteen years has drawn its share of attention and fear from the global community and world leaders. This title provides an overview of the region, highlighting key issues as they developed in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Offers data and suggestions for practical intervention for those who study and work to support Latinas. This book highlights the challenges these young women face, as well as the ways in which they successfully negotiate those challenges. It is of interest to those who study and work with Latina youth.

Brings to life a world of great wealth and poverty, of Prohibition and class conflict. Celia Cooney launched the largest manhunt in New York City's history, humiliating the police with daring crimes and taunting notes. Sifting through conflicting accounts, the authors show how Celia's story was used to explain the world.

Brings together a group of US Supreme Court Justices and US Court of Appeals Judges, who are some of our most prominent legal scholars, to discuss an array of topics on civil liberties. This title examines issues as how legal error should be handled, the death penalty, reasonable doubt, and racism in American and South African courts.

A history of the politics of air pollution.

Presents a more complex and accurate view of ancient Greek politics, sex, and religion. This title recounts the tales of Daedalus and Artemis, for example, conveying their complexity and passion, while also unearthing actions and beliefs that do not square so easily with "family values."

Taking the novel approach of framing the Christian Right as a revitalization movement, this book shows how it seeks to effect cultural transformation in order to bring public education - and our society more generally - in line with its worldview. It also assesses the religious viability of the Christian Right as a social movement.

Though personal in tone, these meditative poems reach insistently outward to the natural and social worlds, moving beyond today's confessionalism. This title explores the tenuousness of each individual moment while affirming a necessary - if difficult - existence of the free spirit.

When the United States entered World War II on December 7, 1941, only one group of American soldiers had already confronted the fascist enemy on the battlefield. This book contains 154 letters selected from thousands held in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives at NYU's Tamiment Library, provides a fresh perspective on aspects of World War II.