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How vulnerable are the internet and world wide web to malicious cyber hackers? What are the limits of privacy online? How real is internet addiction and to what extent is the news media responsible for this phenomenon? This book is suitable for anyone who wants to know where the new digital economy is heading.

The story of John Devoy's 1876 Catalpa rescue is a tale of heroism, creativity, and the triumph of independent spirit in pursuit of freedom. This work tells the story from John Devoy's own records and from the ship's logbooks. It includes an introduction by Terry Golway and the personal diaries, letters, and reports from John Devoy and his men.

At the height of the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans wrote moving letters to Dr Benjamin Spock, America's pediatrician and an opponent of the war. These missives from Middle America provide an intriguing glimpse into the conflicts that took place over the dinner table as people wrestled with this divisive war and with their consciences.

When a high-minded and formerly half-starved shoeshine boy rises to greatness in the dazzling and treacherous world of a lavish dinner club for the "gastronomical elect" he finds himself unprepared for the collapse of the grand and glittering world he helped create.

"Race" does not speak to most white people. This title demonstrates "transparency" phenomenon - the invisibility of whiteness to white people - profoundly affects the ways in whites make decisions: they rely on criteria perceived by the decisionmaker as race-neutral but which in fact reflect white, race-specific norms.

Provides the reader with a sense of the historical range of Kabbalah, as well as examples of various kinds of approaches, including those of intellectual and social history, history and phenomenology of religions, motif studies, ritual studies, and women's studies. This book discusses mystical motifs, theological ideas and devotional practices.

Provides a geographic window on the pressing social issues of our time. This book covers topics such as: cultural diversity and immigration; income, poverty and unemployment; lifestyle risks including drug abuse, smoking and auto fatalities; access to medical care; medical costs; status of women, and senior citizens; marriage and divorce and more.

Designed for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and students of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, this volume focuses on those contributions directly relevant to the clinical situation, without neglecting fundamental descriptive and theoretical contributions.

Proposes an ambitious solution to the problem of how the Constitution impacts national security: a First Amendment that makes sure the voices of opposition are heard.

Reveals the varied and powerful lives led by black women in nineteenth century New York

Details the complexities of the modern-day workplace

Focuses on the efforts among the Southern and Northern Methodist churches to create a unified national Methodist church, and how their plan for unification came to institutionalize racism and segregation in unprecedented ways.

More than one hundred years after her death, Elizabeth Cady Stanton still stands - along with her close friend Susan B Anthony - as the major icon of the struggle for women's suffrage. This title reintroduces, contextualizes, and critiques Stanton's numerous contributions to modern thought.

By tracing cross-cultural influences and global cultural trends, this title includes essays that bring Asian American studies, in all its richness, to bear on a broad spectrum of cultural artifacts. It is suitable for understanding Asian American popular culture and also contemporary US culture writ large.

An authoritative collection of writings from a prominent public intellectual.

Most fathers parent less than most mothers. This book explores the barriers to redefinition, including concepts of masculinity, the interconnections between fathers and mothers, male violence and homophobia. It offers a progressive view on how men, and society at large, can change understandings and practices of fatherhood.

Controversy about women in the military continues, yet women's relations with the military go far beyond whether they serve in the ranks. This book examines the experiences of women outside of the military, such as "comfort women" near US bases, women engaged in peacework, and women workers affected by military spending in the federal budget.

Firearms have long been at the core of our national narratives. This title documents and analyzes the history of firearms in America, exploring various aspects of gun manufacture, ownership, and use - and importantly, the cultural and political implications which this history reveals.

Discusses the American racial scene, touching on such issues as the role of minorities in an age of global markets and competition, the black left, the rise of the black right, black crime, feminism, law reform, and the economics of racial discrimination.

Offers insight into the primary concerns of both the religious leaders and the laity in nineteenth century America

Discusses how the demand for donor eggs and sperm has spawned a booming industry in the US with few rules

Brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work spans the interdisciplinary fields of Chicana/o studies and cultural studies. This work provides an overview of the debates, locating Chicana/o cultural criticism at the intersections of these fields.

Explores how widows were portrayed in early American culture, and how widows themselves responded to their unique role

The essays in Queer Globalizations bring together scholars of postcolonial and lesbian and gay studies in order to examine from multiple perspectives the narratives that have sought to define globalization.

Takes us into the world of independent journalists, and the daily challenges they face confronting dictators, hostile military, and narcoterrorists. This book explores the dilemmas and strategies of journalists who persevere in the face of war, repressive governments, and criminal aggression, with particular emphasis on the role of the Internet.

Based on 46 interviews with formerly addicted individuals, this book examines their reasons for avoiding treatment, the strategies they employed to break away from their dependencies, the circumstances that facilitated untreated recovery, and implications of recovery without treatment for treatment professionals and for prevention and drug policy.

Examines how American law purports to reflect - and actively promotes - a laissez-faire capitalism that disproportionately benefits the entrepreneurial class. This title proposes that the quality of American life depends also on fairness and equality rather than simply the single-minded and formulaic pursuit of efficiency and utility.

John Edward Bruce, a premier black journalist from the late 1800's until his death in 1924, was a vital force in the popularization of African American history. "Bruce Grit," as he was called, wrote for such publications as Marcus Garvey's nationalist newspaper, The Negro World. This book collects the study of African American themes.

A study that explores the influence of social change on Proust's vision. Concentrating on the motif of speed, it establishes the centrality of the modern world to the novel's main themes and produces a far- reaching synthesis that demonstrates the work's profound structural unity.

These papers address the central question of how classical Christian images of Jews have been acted out or muted in interreligious encounters in the USA. The book is organized according to the salient issues that divide Jews from the Christian majority, with sections on anti-Semitism.