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This unique Russian-language textbook draws on printed mass media, and especially up-to-date Internet media sources, to introduce intermediate and advanced students to varied aspects of modern Russian life.

Joan DelFattore traces the evolution of school-prayer battles in the US from the early 1800s, when children could be beaten for refusing to read the King James Bible, to current disputes over having prayers before school football games.

Barbara Mujica provides an introduction to the volume in English, placing early modern Spanish women's writing within the broader context of Europe of the time. The remaining text is in Spanish, and for each of the selections Mujica offers an introduction with biographical and critical information.

Ned Rorem, composer and writer, is both a gifted memoirist and an acerbic cultural commentator. This anthology of his musings on music, people and life surveys the full range of his literary achievement and reflects the evolution of his sensibilities.

In this collection of critical writings, Gordon Rogoff tells the story of live theatre in America over the last 40 years of the 20th century. He explores the topics of acting, directing, playwriting, Shakespeare productions, opera and theatre criticism.

An educational, religious and cultural history exploring the college life of Jews at Yale University from the first Jewish graduate in 1809 to the beginning of the 21st century. It draws comparisons with the Jewish experience at other elite colleges and draws on interviews and references.

A collection of letters written by Henry McBride, who became a towering figure in art criticism during a long career beginning in 1913. In the letters, McBride describes some of the most important events and personalities of 20th-century modernism.

In this work, Courtney Jung argues that when ethnic and racial identities are politically fluid and heterogeneous, as she finds they are in South Africa, ethnic and racial politics will not undermine the peaceful and democratic potential of the government.

In this collection, a dozen scholars of international affairs consider the 20th century's recurring failure to construct a peaceful and stable international order in the wake of war. They reflect on the difficulties faced by governments as they sought to secure a world order.

Arguing why biblical justice - not merely ethical/legal justice - should be applied to matters concerning the poor, the oppressed and the marginalized, the author of this text suggests that everyone is responsible for these people, since they are involved in a covenant with God.

An examination of the controversies surrounding environmental cancer. The authors draw on surveys by cancer researchers and environmental activists to reveal differences between the two groups' viewpoints. They examine these opposing views and document how they are reflected in the media.

A record of life in the USA since the 1900s. It documents the news, entertainment, art, literature, science and technology, sports, and fashion, providing anecdotes, facts and figures, ads and fads, headlines, and memorable quotations - as well as more than a thousand photographs.

A study of the connection between Gaetano Mosca and Antonio Gramsci, maintaining that they both belong to the same political tradition of democratic elitism. It argues that Gramsci's political theory is a constructive critique of Mosca's.

This work presents a case for conceptualizing gender identity as potentially multiple, situating its argument within the history of psychoanalysis. It traces a series of conceptual lineages, each descending from Freud. Each lineage discerns an evolutionary narrative.

Samuel Beckett has long been identified with the debilitated and impotent characters he created. In this book, the author offers a new perspective on Beckett, challenging the prevalent image of him as reclusive, self-absorbed and disturbed and shows him as a kind and generous man.

Under the banner of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments, the Supreme Court of America has constitutionalized vast areas of criminal procedure law in ways that often reward the guilty whilst hurting the innocent. This book reconceptualizes the basic foundations of the criminal procedure field.

This volume investigates the relationship between racial perceptions and policy choices in America. The contributors clarify and explore images of African-Americans that white Americans hold and the complex ways that racial stereotypes shape modern political debates.

With the invention of compressed air in the 1840s, divers could reach previously inaccessible deep water, but the advances also brought with them the hazards of decompression sickness. This is a history of the wonders compressed air brought about and the suffering the bends inflicted.

This text contends that both Anglo-American analytic philosophy and continental philosophy have lost their vitality, and it offers an alternative in their place. It advocates a renewal of contemporary philosophy through a return to its origins in Socratic humanism.

Drawing on studies of the contact hypothesis - the assumption that increased contact between different ethnic groups reduces friction - this text provides a review of the theory and considers the scientific research that maintains contact between such groups can give rise to more intense conflict.

This work argues that religion - blamed for contributing to the ecological crisis - provides an ethical context that will help solve the problem. The approach suggests that the environmentally positive aspects in various Western creation stories demonstrate religion's conservation potential.

Such events as the Holocaust and civil war in Bosnia pose special problems for those who must help children make sense of acts that endanger them physically and psychically. In this text, two mental health professionals share their experiences of working with children exposed to war and violence.

This volume brings to general readers Sinaiko's thoughts on, and invitations to read or reread, a selection of major literary and philosophical works, from ancient Greek to Chinese to modern. The book deals with the perennial questions that thinking people have always raised.

This volume offers discussions of single works as well as re-evaluations of artistic and literary conventions and analyses of the economic, social and technological forces that gave them shape and were influenced by them in turn. A wide range of figures are reassessed.

Governments around the world are turning over more of their services to private or charitable organizations, but can non-profits provide more and higher-quality services than governments of for-profit businesses? This book examines the non-profit sector through a variety of theoretical lenses.

Claiming for Herodotus, the "father of history", a position in the canon of political thought, this work finds modern validity in his fundamental perceptions about the importance of stories to the coherence of political communities.

Using comparative history and organization theory, this text analyzes the politics of conscription in military and single-party regimes. It discusses the origins of administered mass organizations, civilian bodies created by authoritarian regimes, in countries such as Japan and Fascist Italy.

Offers a behind-the-scenes view of the ways in which special-interest groups influence the content of textbooks used in public and private schools throughout America. This book describes six cases resulting from attempts to suppress information on evolution, gun control and pacifism.

The nature of memory, dreams, and how the brain works is explored in this text. The author takes a multidiscipliniary approach, using data from neuroscience, psychology, biology and artificial intelligence to produce a contemporary psychobiological model of the dream process.