Wayward Contracts or Identities Affiliations and Allegiances

Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674

Author: Victoria Ann Kahn

Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract theory in terms of the origins of liberalism, with its notions of autonomy, liberty, and equality before the law.

Drawing on literature as well as political theory, state trials as well as religious debates, Kahn argues that the sudden prominence of contract theory was part of the linguistic turn of early modern culture, when government was imagined in terms of the poetic power to bring new artifacts into existence. But this new power also brought in its wake a tremendous anxiety about the contingency of obligation and the instability of the passions that induce individuals to consent to a sovereign power. In this wide-ranging analysis of the cultural significance of contract theory, the lover and the slave, the tyrant and the regicide, the fool and the liar emerge as some of the central, if wayward, protagonists of the new theory of political obligation. The result is must reading for students and scholars of early modern literature and early modern political theory, as well as historians of political thought and of liberalism.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	An anatomy of contract, 1590-1640	29
Ch. 2	Language and the bond of conscience	31
Ch. 3	The passions and voluntary servitude	57
Pt. II	A poetics of contract, 1640-1674	81
Ch. 4	Imagination	83
Ch. 5	Violence	112
Ch. 6	Metalanguage	134
Ch. 7	Gender	171
Ch. 8	Embodiment	196
Ch. 9	Sympathy	223
Ch. 10	Critique	252
Ch. 11	Conclusion	279

Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances

Author: Seyla Benhabib

Where do political identities come from, how do they change over time, and what is their impact on political life? This book explores these and related questions in a globalizing world where the nation state is being transformed, definitions of citizenship are evolving in unprecedented ways, and people's interests and identities are taking on new local, regional, transnational, cosmopolitan, and even imperial configurations. Pre-eminent scholars examine the changing character of identities, affiliations, and allegiances in a variety of contexts: the evolving character of the European Union and its member countries, the Balkans and other new democracies of the post-1989 world, and debates about citizenship and cultural identity in the modern West. These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the political and intellectual ferment that surrounds debates about political membership and attachment, and will be of interest to students and scholars in the social sciences, humanities, and law.

J M Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual or Shermans March through the Carolinas

J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual

Author: Jane Poyner

In September 2003 the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, confirming his reputation as one of the most influential writers of our time. J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual addresses the contribution Coetzee has made to contemporary literature, not least for the contentious forays his work makes into South African political discourse and the field of postcolonial studies. Taking the author’s ethical writing as its theme, the volume is an important addition to understanding Coetzee’s fiction and critical thinking. While taking stock of Coetzee’s singular, modernist response to the apartheid and postapartheid situations in his early fiction, the volume is the first to engage at length with the later works, Disgrace, The Lives of Animals, and Elizabeth Costello. J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual explores Coetzee’s roles as a South African intellectual and a novelist; his stance on matters of allegory and his evasion of the apartheid censor; his tacit critique of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; his performance of public lectures of his alter ego, Elizabeth Costello; and his explorations into ecofeminism and animal rights. The essays collected here, which include an interview with the Nobel Laureate, provide new vantages from which to consider Coetzee’s writing.

Table of Contents:

	J. M. Coetzee in conversation with Jane Poyner	21
1	The life and times of Elizabeth Costello : J. M. Coetzee and the public sphere	25
2	The writer, the critic, and the censor : J. M. Coetzee and the question of literature	42
3	Against allegory : Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, and the question of literary reading	63
4	Death and the space of the response to the other in J. M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg	83
5	A belief in frogs : J. M. Coetzee's enduring faith in fiction	100
6	J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, and the limits of the sympathetic imagination	118
7	Sorry, sorrier, sorriest : the gendering of contrition in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace	135
8	Going to the dogs : humanity in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, The Lives of Animals, and South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission	148
9	What is it like to be a nonracist? : Costello and Coetzee on the lives of animals and men	172
10	A feminist-vegetarian defense of Elizabeth Costello : a rant from an ethical academic on J. M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals	193
11	Textual transvestism : the female voices of J. M. Coetzee	217

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Sherman's March through the Carolinas

Author: John Gilchrist Barrett

In retrospect, General William Tecumseh Sherman considered his march through the Carolinas the greatest of his military feats, greater even than the Georgia campaign. When he set out northward from Savannah with 60,000 veteran soldiers in January 1865, he was more convinced than ever that the bold application of his ideas of total war could speedily end the conflict. Before him lay South Carolina, the birthplace of secession. Beyond were North Carolina and Virginia, where Grant and Lee stood deadlocked.

Convicted In The Womb or Battleground Chicago

Convicted In The Womb

Author: Carl Upchurch

Once Carl Upchurch was an elementary school dropout fighting for survival on the streets of South Philadelphia, a gang member wedded to a life of violence, a bank robber facing a future in federal penitentiaries.  Now he is a respected community organizer and one of the most compelling and visionary leaders of the civil rights movement.  Catapulted into the national spotlight following his organization of a summit that brought together the country's most notorious gangs.  Carl Upchurch has found himself in direct conflict with other African American civil right leaders.  This is his scathing critique of t he established civil rights movement and his bold manifesto for solving the critical problems facing today's urban American.  And this is his own unforgettable story-reality of urban crime gang warfare, and racial injustice from one who knows firsthand what it's like to be Convicted in the Womb

Publishers Weekly

Upchurch tells his up-from-prison story well and with conviction. He calls his childhood "niggerization," describing the Philadelphia ghetto deprivations and depredations that turned him into a pre-teen criminal. Later he was politicized by Martin Luther King's assassination, but he reverted to criminality and became a violent prisoner. In prison, he discovered Shakespeare (by accident), then James Baldwin, Dostoyevski, Twain and other writers. Thus began what Upchurch terms "deniggerization," fighting his self-hatred and despair. After 10 years in prison, he was set free at 31. He pursued a college degree, married and, in 1992, founded the Council for Urban Peace and Justice (based in Columbus, Ohio) to work for gang truces and other ways of bringing progress to inner cities. He describes the 1993 Kansas City gang summit he organized as bringing hope, but it is still unclear what lasting effects it had. Upchurch concludes his book with proposals for "antiniggerization," challenging African Americans to take personal responsibility, proposing that they use boycotts to shape society and urging black leaders (he's suspicious of Jesse Jackson, hopeful about Kweisi Mfume) to challenge both their followers and the powers that support "American apartheid." (Sept.)

Library Journal

In this account of his tough childhood, the founder and director of the Council for Urban Peace and Justice reveals his encounters with violence, gangs, and reform schools and how by educating himself he finally escaped from that life. (LJ 9/1/96)

Kirkus Reviews

A provocative memoir of life as an enemy of society.

Born in 1950, Upchurch freely admits that he has been a bad man for much of the last half century: a robber, a thief, prone to violence, and quick with a lie. He was educated in his bad ways by the mean streets of South Philadelphia; "I was niggerized by my environment," Upchurch writes, "governed by a careless, heartless ruthlessness fostered by a pervasive sense of inferiority." Stints in reform schools followed his earliest forays in criminality, and there Upchurch found that the "cumulative caring" of those assigned to guard him took the place of family love. That caring was still not enough to set him straight, and as a young adult Upchurch drifted, committing crimes petty and major, eventually winding up in a federal prison in Michigan. There, in a narrow cell, he discovered the works of William Shakespeare—an earlier occupant had used a copy of the sonnets to prop up a crooked table—and other writers, and he educated himself in a program of self-improvement that, while not likely to earn Upchurch a spot on William Bennett's list of culture heroes, could well serve as an inspirational model for others seeking a way out. His narrative is sometimes marred by self-righteous passages, but Upchurch, now a community activist, has much of value to say about the way American society marginalizes its ethnic minorities, forcing many of its citizens to endure hellish lives. For all that, he is quick to accept ultimate responsibility for his actions. "I could choose to wallow in niggerhood—shooting drugs, robbing people, committing murder, going to jail, disrespecting people—or I could choose to rediscover my humanity and work against being a nigger for the rest of my life," he writes. "I chose the latter."

In doing so, Upchurch has become a thinker and social critic well worth paying attention to.

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Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Author: Frank Kusch

The 1968 Democratic Convention, best known for police brutality against demonstrators, has been relegated to a dark place in American historical memory. Battleground Chicago ventures beyond the stereotypical image of rioting protestors and violent cops to reevaluate exactly how—and why—the police attacked antiwar activists at the convention.
Working from interviews with eighty former Chicago police officers who were on the scene, Frank Kusch uncovers the other side of the story of ’68, deepening our understanding of a turbulent decade.

“Frank Kusch’s compelling account of the clash between Mayor Richard Daley’s men in blue and anti-war rebels reveals why the 1960s was such a painful era for many Americans. . . . to his great credit, [Kusch] allows ‘the pigs’ to speak up for themselves.”—Michael Kazin

“Kusch’s history of white Chicago policemen and the 1968 Democratic National Convention is a solid addition to a growing literature on the cultural sensibility and political perspective of the conservative white working class in the last third of the twentieth century.”—David Farber, Journal of American History

Table of Contents:

Preface to the Paerback Edition

Preface

Timeline

1 "An American City": The Roots of a Creed 1

2 "Freaks, Cowards, and Bastards": The War at Home 17

3 "What's America Coming To?": January-June 1968 31

4 "On to Chicago": Countdown to August 43

5 "A Perfect Mess": Convention Week 69

6 "Terrorists from Out of Town": Fallout in the Second City 115

7 "Half the Power of God": Chicago in '68 Revisited 135

Conclusion 159

Notes 163

Bibliography 193

Index 201

International Human Rights or Modern Weapons Caching

International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy, and Practice

Author: Richard B Lillich

This long-awaited revision presents a refreshing new alternative for students and instructors. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS: Problems of Law, Policy, and Practice, Fourth Edition, takes a problem-oriented approach to covering all global and regional human rights systems as they currently operate, along with a discussion of the theoretical foundations of human rights, US foreign policy and human rights, and key current issues.

This student-friendly casebook:

• retains a problem-oriented focus designed to help students understand contemporary debates about human rights from a political as well as a legal perspective
• addresses practical issues of implementation, as well as recent developments in substantive human rights jurisprudence in Europe, Latin America, and national courts
• contrasts differing views on the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention in Kosovo, Rwanda, Darfur, and elsewhere
• discusses the theoretical foundations of human rights and cultural relativism
• examines historical developments in human rights as well as current problems

This significant revision addresses the many changes in human rights over the last 10 years, with:

• the additional insight of two new authors: James Anaya has written several books and numerous articles about international human rights and the rights of Native Americans. Dinah Shelton is the author of two prize-winning books on human rights as well as many articles on international law, human rights law, and international environmental law.
• extensive new material alongside the best of the original Lillich and Hannumedition, carefully updated for today¿s classes
• a thorough discussion of the impact on human rights of the ¿war on terrorism,¿ including analysis of command responsibility for the mistreatment of prisoners in Abu Ghraib and the legality of detention without trial at Guantanamo
• new material on indigenous rights, the environment, and the responsibility of corporations and other non-state actors for human rights violations
• added discussions of freedom of expression and religion and the International Criminal Court

Modern Weapons Caching: A Down to Earth Approach to Beating the Government Gun Grab

Author: Benson Ragnar

The time to prepare is now. In the race against the firearm roundup in the U.S., gun owners who refuse to give up the freedoms that are their birthright must take their weapons underground-bury them-before it's too late. Ragnar will show you how to do it right.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 - The French Resistance

Loving Enemies or Masculinities

Loving Enemies: A Manual for Ordinary People

Author: Randy Klassen

Like parents and grandparents everywhere, Randy and Joyce Klassen are deeply concerned about the state of the world in which their children and grandchildren will be living. Will violence and wars escalate? Or will the world's peoples, including those in a United States so often involved in war, try a different way? Will even ordinary people commit ourselves to selfless love? Will we strengthen and expand the reality of justice and peace in our world? This book is a manual for those of us ready to try. As Robert K. Johnston, Fuller Theological Seminary, observes in the Foreword, the authors "remind us how inspired we become by the illogic of nonviolence, how moved we are by the redemptive role of forgiveness, how alluring and inviting the example of those like Martin Luther King Jr. or Christians in the Philippines."

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Masculinities: An Anthropology of Football, Polo and Tango

Author: Eduardo P Archetti

The complex relationship between nationalism and masculinity has been explored both historically and sociologically with one consistent conclusion: male concepts of courage and virility are at the core of nationalism. In this ground-breaking book, the author questions this assumption and advances the debate through an empirical analysis of masculinity in the revealing contexts of same-sex (football and polo) and cross-sex (tango) relations. Because of its rich history, Argentina provides the ideal setting in which to study the intersection of masculine and national constructs: hybridization, creolization and a culture of performance have all informed both gender and national identities. Further, the author argues that, counter to claims made by globalization theorists, the importance of performance to Argentinian men and women has a long history and has powerfully shaped the national psyche.

But this book takes the analysis far beyond national boundaries to address general arguments in anthropology which are not culture-specific, and the discussion poses important comparative questions and addresses central theoretical issues, from the interplay of morality and ritual, to a comparison between the popular and the aristocratic, to the importance of 'othering' in national constructions - particularly those relating to sport.

This book represents a major contribution, not only to anthropology, but to the study of gender, nationalism and culture in its broadest sense.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Prologue
	Introduction: Frameworks and Perspectives	1
Pt. I	Hybridization	21
Ch. 1	Situating Hybridity and Hybrids	23
Ch. 2	Male Hybrids in the World of Football	46
Ch. 3	Hybridization and Male Hybrids in the World of Polo	77
Pt. II	Masculine Moralities	111
Ch. 4	Locating Masculinities and Moralities	113
Ch. 5	Masculinities and Morality in the Poetics of the Argentinian Tango	128
Ch. 6	Masculine National Virtues and Moralities in Football	161
Ch. 7	The Masculine Imagery of Freedom: the World of Pibes and Maradona	180
	Epilogue	190
	Bibliography	194
	Index	208

Social Work and Human Rights or Civil Disobedience Solitude and Life without Principle

Social Work and Human Rights: A Foundation for Policy and Practice

Author: Elisabeth Reichert

As social work students and practitioners encounter the term "human rights" with greater frequency, there is a pressing need for them to understand its meaning, especially in contradistinction to the related concept of "social justice." This book is an overview of human rights ideas and laws for social workers that stresses the importance of human rights in all types of social work policy and practice. The volume first traces the history and development of human rights from the passage of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and subsequent international documents. In particular, Social Work and Human Rights addresses issues relating to vulnerable groups, including women, children, disabled persons, the HIV- or AIDS-infected population, gays and lesbians, victims of racism, and older persons. The book concludes with indispensable case studies that illustrate the application of human rights theory in real-life settings. These case studies demonstrate how to identify relevant human rights issues and then connect these issues to ethical responsibilities in order to form an appropriate intervention scenario with the client.

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Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life without Principle

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion. In these selections from his writings, we see Thoreau the individualist and opponent of injustice. "Civil Disobedience" (1849), composed following Thoreau's imprisonment for refusing to pay his taxes in protest against slavery and the Mexican War, is an eloquent declaration of the principles that make revolution inevitable in times of political dishonor. "Solitude," from his masterpiece, Walden (1849), poetically describes Thoreau's oneness with nature and the companionship solitude offers to those who want to be rid of the world to discover themselves. "Life without Principle" (posthumously published 1863) decries the way in which excessive devotion to business and money coarsens the fabric of society: in merely making a living, the meaning of life gets lost.

Table of Contents:

	Civil Disobedience	11
	Solitude	47
	Life Without Principle	61

Someday Well All Be Free or Arms and Influence

Someday We'll All Be Free

Author: Kevin Powell

Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 may have been wake-up calls to Americans insulated from the effects of poverty and terrorism, but according to Kevin Powell, similar disasters have been happening in slow motion throughout America for years. Instead of through floods and bombs, these disasters take place via things like rampant unemployment and police brutality, with consequences that are ultimately longer lasting and more damaging. Full of uncomfortable truths and difficult facts, Someday We'll All Be Free lays out Powell's case for how freedom and democracy are being subverted in 21st-century America. More than just a catalog of sins, Someday We'll All Be Free also finds Powell loudly calling for African-Americans to stand up and finish the work begun by MLK. The most blistering book yet from an author equally recognized for intellectual rigor and scalding rhetoric, Someday We'll All Be Free firmly establishes why Powell is widely considered one of America's brightest leaders and thinkers.

The Washington Post - Hakim Hasan

The enlightening essays in Someday We'll All Be Free are an interpretive collage of tragic events in American life that are redefining our debates about civil liberties and the unspoken expendability of the poor. Powell argues that the key to the future of American democracy is the willingness of Americans to assess their history and to reject rabid nationalism as a form of patriotism. He makes the point that freedom is measured by an evolving recognition of our shared humanity. Through this realization, problems such as poverty, natural disaster and terrorism can be addressed effectively.

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Arms and Influence

Author: Thomas C Schelling

In this landmark book, Nobel laureate Thomas C. Schelling considers the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used as bargaining power.  This edition contains a new foreword by the author where he considers the book’s relevance over forty years after its first publication.  Included as an afterword is the text of Professor Schelling’s Nobel acceptance speech in which he reflects upon the global taboo that has emerged against nuclear weapons since Hiroshima.

"This is a brilliant and hardheaded book.  It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing."—Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review

Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished University Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.
 

The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series

Dear Mrs Roosevelt or U S Presidents Factbook

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression

Author: Robert Cohen

Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt used her newspaper columns and radio broadcasts to crusade for expanded federal aid to poor children and teens. She was the most visible spokesperson for the National Youth Administration, the New Deal's central agency for aiding the needy young, and she was adamant in insisting that federal aid to young people be administered without discrimination so that it reached blacks as well as whites, girls as well as boys.

This activism made Mrs. Roosevelt a beloved figure among poor teens and children, who between 1933 and 1941 wrote her thousands of letters describing their problems and requesting her help. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt presents nearly 200 of these extraordinary documents to open a window into the lives of the Depression's youngest victims. In their own words, the letter writers confide what it was like to be needy and young during the worst economic crisis in American history.

Revealing both the strengths and the limitations of New Deal liberalism, this book depicts an administration concerned and caring enough to elicit such moving appeals for help yet unable to respond in the very personal ways the letter writers hoped.

KLIATT

A world of deep need comes into focus through a sampling of letters written by young people to Eleanor Roosevelt during the 1930s, the years when the Great Depression caused great economic and social distress. Ninety percent of the letters requesting aid of the president and his wife during this time were written by adults, but Cohen's search through archives reveals that children and teens, girls more often than boys, also wrote. Mrs. Roosevelt composed columns for the newspapers of the time and made radio broadcasts in which she spoke of great concern for the poverty-stricken state of the population, especially the youth, and invited listeners to write to her. President Roosevelt, in a memorable speech, said that one third of the nation was "ill clothed, ill housed, and ill fed," and here is very human evidence that he was correct. Cohen introduces the letters at length, and examples of the letters are clustered in chapters, which also begin with interpretive material. The letters almost always start with a note of apology for writing, and then reveal a heartrending desperation. The great majority of the writers requested clothing and imagined that Mrs. Roosevelt could dip into an extensive wardrobe of her personal discards or into a trove of used clothing it was rumored was stored in the White House attic. They believed that she could send them a package by return mail. It appears that the lack of proper clothing meant not only that the young people could not protect their bodies from the elements, but that it degraded them socially and prevented them from participating in important events surrounding high school graduation. Many asked for money and often offered to pay it back withinterest. They wanted it for daily needs (requests for food are surprisingly largely absent, and doctors reported little evidence of starvation), for gifts and bicycles, for medical and dental care for themselves and their families, and for books, tuition and typewriters. Government agencies developed income scales with which they estimated the lifestyle achievable at varying levels, and many of the correspondents clearly fell well below the minimum at which a family could sustain life with dignity. A final brief chapter comments on the response of Mrs. Roosevelt and her staff to the letters. A very few were answered fulfilling the request; most received rather cool form letters telling the writer that, because of the many similar letters Mrs. Roosevelt received, she could not send the desired aid. The editor feels the staff could have done a better job of personalizing the replies. The editor's essays are scholarly and will be challenging reading for most high school students, but they will appreciate the letters for how, through them, their counterparts of the 1930s become real persons. Teachers who treat the period will be delighted to find this fresh material on the library shelf. KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2002, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 266p. illus. notes. index., Boardman

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U. S. Presidents Factbook

Author: Elizabeth Jewell

Up-to-date through the 2004 election, the ultimate resource on the American presidency

Whether students are writing an essay on American history or parents are choosing which candidate gets their vote, the U.S. Presidents Factbook is one of the best resources on presidential history.

• Up-to-date with presidents from George Washington to the winner of the 2004 election. This is the only comprehensive and unbiased coverage of more than 200 years of American leadership.

• Includes each president's family history, career decisions, notable appointments, major legislative acts, and major successes and failures.

Main Street Revisited or Americas Lost War

Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America

Author: Richard V Francaviglia

Main Street has come to symbolize a place of honest aspirations and few pretenses, a place where economics, community pride, and entertainment generate an intuitive appreciation of the small town as a vital part of the American experience. As an archetype for an entire class of places, Main Street has become one of America's most popular and idealized images. In Main Street Revisited, the first book to place the design of small downtowns in spatial and chronological context, Richard Francaviglia finds the sources of romanticized images of this archetype, including Walt Disney's Main Street USA, in towns as diverse as Marceline, Missouri, and Fort Collins, Colorado. Francaviglia interprets Main Street both as a real place and as an expression of collective assumptions, designs, and myths; his Main Streets are treasure troves of historic patterns. Using many historical and contemporary photographs and maps from his extensive fieldwork and research, he reveals a rich regional pattern of small-town development that serves as the basis for American community design. He underscores the significance of time in the development of Main Street's distinctive personality, focuses on the importance of space in the creation of place, and concentrates on popular images that have enshrined Main Street in the collective American consciousness. As a historical geographer with a long-standing interest in American popular culture, Francaviglia looks sympathetically but realistically at the ways in which Main Street's image developed and persists. He reaffirms that life can imitate art, that the cherished icons surrounding Main Street have become the substance of popular culture. Ultimately, his book is about the material culture that architects, town developers, and image makers have left us as their legacy. Seen through the lives of the visionaries who created them in their search for the perfect community, Main Streets above all symbolize both individual and collective human ene

Publishers Weekly

Whether in Sinclair Lewis novels, Jimmy Stewart films or Norman Rockwell paintings, no American image is as uniformly depicted as that of Main Street, with its Fourth of July parades, five-and-dime stores and barber poles. This book, part of Iowa's American Land and Life series, asks how and why the recognizably generic streetscape took shape. Francaviglia, an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington, documents the physical changes in downtown America over the years and offers 16 axioms that define the design and development of the small-town commercial center. Photographs taken from Maine to California reveal Main Street's material culture: building styles and materials, street plans, road surfaces and lighting. An interesting paradox emerges: that Main Street is both mundane and utopian, mundane in its aspirations to uniformity but utopian in that it embodies an ideal of life in America. Francaviglia's otherwise bland study culminates in a somewhat belabored defense of the influence of Disneyland's Main Street, U.S.A. on the very form and existence of America's downtown shopping districts since the 1950s. For historians of architecture and town planning, this book will offer a useful review of Main Street's development. But readers interested in why Main Street came to represent American ideals may be disappointed. Photos and illustrations. (June)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Sect. 1	Time and Main Street: The Origins and Evolution of an Image	1
Sect. 2	Space and Main Street: Toward a Spatial and Regional Identity	65
Sect. 3	Image Building and Main Street: The Shaping of a Popular American Icon	130
	Notes	193
	Glossary	203
	Bibliography	207
	Index	217

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America's Lost War: Vietnam: 1945-1975 9American History Series)

Author: Charles E Neu

In college and high school classrooms across the United States, students display a keen interest in knowing more about what they rightly sense was a pivotal event in the recent past, one that brought a sea change in the life of the nation.

In a long-awaited alternative to the lengthy and overly expensive texts on the Vietnam War, Charles Neu presents America’s Lost War, a balanced, lively narrative account of that tragic conflict, one that sweeps across the whole time-span of the war and explores American, Vietnamese, and international perspectives. Recreating the physical and psychological landscape of the war, Neu fluidly describes policy disputes—among leaders of both the United States and North Vietnam—as well as individual policy makers, battles, and military realities, tracing the legacy of the “Vietnam” phenomenon that shapes American domestic politics and elections, as well as foreign relations, to the present day.

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government or Worlds Apart

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. 1

Author: Jefferson Davis

The North had their orders: "Capture or kill Jefferson Davis," the rebel President of the Confederate South. Davis was captured, and upon his release from federal prison, crafted this intimate Civil War document that gives a powerful firsthand account of the South's defeat and the reasons behind its secession from the Union.

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Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America

Author: Cynthia M Duncan

This book takes us to three remote rural areas in the United States to hear the colorful stories of their residentsthe poor and struggling, the rich and powerful, and those in between - as they talk about their families and work, the hard times they've known, and their hopes and dreams. Cynthia M. Duncan examines the nature of poverty in Blackwell in Appalachia and in the Mississippi Delta town of Dahlia. She finds in these towns a persistent inequality that erodes the fabric of the community, feeds corrupt politics, and undermines institutions crucial for helping poor families achieve the American Dream. In contrast, New England's Gray Mountain enjoys a rich civic culture that enables the poor to escape poverty. Focusing on the implications of the differences among these communities, the author provides powerful new insights into the dynamics of poverty, politics, and community change.

(American Journal of Sociology) - David Brown

Analyzing data from over 350 in-depth interviews conducted during 1990-95, Cynthia Duncan provides a vivid and highly nuanced description of life in rural America's poor communities. . . . I am enthusiastic about this book, and I recommend it highly.

(World & I) - Linda Simon

[An] absorbing, provocative book. . . . In her lavish use of direct quotes and firsthand observations, skillfully interwoven with commentary and historical and economic background, Duncan achieves an authenticity and believability rare in academic work, which make one take her seriously. . . . For an examination of persistent rural poverty in America, Worlds Apart is excellent.

(America) - Thomas Bokenkotter

The debate goes on, and Cynthia Duncan's Worlds Apart is must reading for anyone involved. Those who advocate the need for greater sense of social responsibility in our attitude toward the poor will find much support in this study.

Choice

The description of rural poverty in Worlds Apart are interesting and read almost like a novel. Sociologist Duncan compiles accounts of residents who describe their lives in three rural areas: a coal-mining town in Appalachia, a cotton-plantation town in the Mississippi Delta, and a mill town in northern Maine. . . . All levels.

Doubletake

Duncan combines theoretical sophistication with the gravity of real-life stories to tell of the absence of democratic processes in these areas, a main reason why the cycle of poverty continues. . . . Duncan weaves a narrative that should cause us profound national embarrassment over how, in a land of plenty, so many can have so little.

(Appalachian Journal) - Jim Sessions

This is a good book. It is imminently readable, filled with rich and revelatory interviews with both 'haves' and 'have nots' in 'Blackwell,' a coal county in Appalachia; 'Dahlia,' an agricultural plantation county of the Mississippi Delta; and 'Gray Mountain,' a mill town in northern New England. . . . . [Duncan] pursue[s] the ways in which poverty is perpetuated and what can be done about it.

Kirkus Reviews

University of New Hampshire sociologist Duncan (Rural Poverty in America, not reviewed) looks at the social relations and political and economic institutions that perpetuate poverty in rural America. "Blackwell" (place names have been changed) in Appalachia and "Dahlia" on the Mississippi Delta, are two of the poorest areas in the US. Duncan studied the lives of the residents of these places, and what she found was communities where the "haves" and "have nots" inhabit different worlds within historically structured, rigid class and, in Dahlia, race divisions. In both places local elites—coal company operators in Blackwell, plantation owners in Dahlia—control not only the economic life of the community but the political life as well. Their power is near absolute, and they use public institutions, including schools, to further their own interests and punish those who cross them. The poor remain "powerless, dependent, and do not participate" in civic life. A kind of stasis sets in where the poor see no option but to give way to those who have always had power, and the powerful resist change as it may threaten their status. In contrast, "Gray Mountain," in northern New England, is a town with a strong civic culture based on a blue-collar middle class that has created public institutions—from little league to effective schools—that serve all in the community. Duncan, through in-depth investigation and interviews, concludes that only a strong civic culture, a sense among citizens of community and the need to serve that community, can truly address poverty. Yet class and race relations in places like Blackwell and Dahlia preclude such a sense of community. Her answer, goingagainst so much conventional wisdom, is federal government intervention, especially to create equitable school systems where they do not exist. Only such intervention, Duncan asserts, will give the poor the knowledge of alternatives, the hope they now lack. Moving and troubling. Duncan has created a remarkable study of the persistent patterns of poverty and power. (The book's foreword is by Robert Coles.)

What People Are Saying

Robert Coles
A documentary exposition of great moral energy, informed by impressive intellectual skills: an extraordinary mix of social history, economic and political analysis, and direct observation by a boldly original researcher.

Table of Contents:

	Map of Northern New England, Central Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta
	Foreword
	Preface
	List of People Profiled
ch. 1	Blackwell: Rigid Classes and Corrupt Politics in Appalachia's Coal Fields	1
	"Good Rich People" and "Bad Poor People"	3
	Blackwell Yesterday: Developing Appalachia's Coal Fields	11
	The Families That Run Things	17
	The Politics of Work in the Mountains	30
	Blackwell's Have-Nots: Scratching a Living Up the Hollows	39
	Blackwell's Haves: The Good Life on Redbud Hill	53
	Bringing Change to Blackwell	59
ch. 2	Dahlia: Racial Segregation and Planter Control in the Mississippi Delta	73
	Dahlia's Two Social Worlds	74
	Work in Dahlia: Creating and Maintaining the Plantation World	90
	Class and Caste in the Delta	96
	White Planters, Politicians, and Shopkeepers	111
	Leadership in the Black Community: The Old and the New "Toms"	123
	Dahlia's Emerging Middle Class	140
ch. 3	Gray Mountain: Equality and Civic Involvement in Northern New England	152
	A Blue-Collar Middle-Class Mill Town	154
	Participation and Investment in the 1990s	164
	The Big Middle "Continuum"	177
	Difficult Times Ahead: Putting Civic Culture to the Test	184
ch. 4	Social Change and Social Policy	187
	Cultural and Structural Causes of Persistent Poverty	187
	Class and Politics in Rural Communities	191
	Equality, Democracy, and Social Change	198
	Policies to Encourage Mobility and Build Civic Culture	200
	Appendix	209
	Notes	223
	Acknowledgments	229
	Index	231

Public Finance Administration or Seeking Higher Ground

Public Finance Administration

Author: B J Reed

A unique, clearly written, and logically organized volume, Public Finance Administration, Second Edition provides a comprehensive focus on the management of public funds. Ideal for the nonexpert with a public administration background, this easy-to-read new edition is updated in content and examples. Authors B. J. Reed and John W. Swain begin with a broad introduction to public finance administration, including its relationship to public budgeting, the practice of public sector accounting, and the economic concepts of money and value. Next, they cover revenues and expenditures, including how they are administered and the importance of forecasting and cost analysis. Later chapters deal with such technical areas as managing cash flow, investment, debts, risk, purchasing, capital budgets, and the financial components of human resource management. The volume includes a look at the evaluative side of public finance such as auditing, assessing financial conditions, and the emerging use of development finance. In addition, the authors point to relevant web sites on the Internet for more information on public finance administration. Filling a need for courses in public finance administration, this volume provides a public administration based approach to the subject with a highly practical orientation.

Booknews

A textbook for class or self-study by readers with a background in public administration but not necessarily in finance. Describes the day-to-day handling of money belonging to government agencies or non-profit organizations, and the related technical support activities, rather than the political aspects of budgeting. The date of the first edition is not noted; the second updates the contents and examples, appends discussion questions to the chapters, and provides a Web site linked to Internet places relevant to specific chapters. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	Budgeting and Finance Administration	11
3	Public-Sector Accounting	20
4	Money and Values: Monetary Values	54
5	Public Revenues	72
6	Revenue Administration	97
7	Forecasting and Estimating	114
8	Cost Analysis	135
9	Expenditure Administration	169
10	Purchasing	182
11	Cash Management	204
12	Investment Administration	219
13	Capital Budgeting	235
14	Public Debt Administration	245
15	Risk Management	269
16	Personnel and Pension Administration	285
17	Auditing	301
18	Assessing Financial Conditions	316
19	Financing Economic Development	332
	Index	349
	About the Authors	369

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Seeking Higher Ground: The Hurricane Katrina Crisis, Race, and Public Policy Reader

Author: Manning Marabl

Hurricane Katrina of August-September 2005, one of the most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history, dramatically illustrated the continuing racial and class inequalities of America. In this powerful reader, Seeking Higher Ground, prominent scholars and writers examine the racial impact of the disaster and the failure of governmental, corporate and private agencies to respond to the plight of the New Orleans black community. Contributing authors include Julianne Malveaux, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Ronald Walters, Chester Hartman, Gregory D. Squires, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Alan Stein, and Gene Preuss. This reader is the second volume of the Souls Critical Black Studies Series, edited by Manning Marable, and produced by the institute for Research in African-American Studies of Columbia University.

The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy or Copyrights Paradox

The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy

Author: Joel Blau

The first edition of The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy reinvented the standard social welfare policy text to speak to students in a vital new way. This second edition builds on its strengths, with a more accessible graphic design and a thorough update of the effects of recent political and legislative changes on social welfare programs.
The book begins by discussing how social problems are constructed. After an analysis of social welfare policy, its purposes, and functions, a unique policy model bolsters the text's overarching progressive narrative. Through this model, students learn how five key social forces-ideology, politics, history, economics, and social movements-interact both to create and to change the social welfare system. By applying this model to five critical social welfare policy issues-income security, employment, housing, health, and food-the text demonstrates to students that every kind of social work practice embodies a social welfare policy. The model is also telling in identifying the triggers of social change and the effects of race, class, and gender.
By applying the policy model to the latest developments in social welfare, the chapter-long case studies in this second edition equip students with knowledge about social welfare policy and the tools for comparative analysis. With this knowledge, students begin to understand that both the whole and the parts of the social welfare system affect what they actually do as social workers. Once they grasp this concept, they'll understand why it is so important to learn social welfare policy.
The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy 2E captures the fluidity and change inherent in social policy like noother textbook. Its approach remains the most invigorating, forward-thinking one available. Highlights from this edition include:
* Revised data in text, charts, and graphs show how government policies are proving the points made throughout the chapters
*Exhaustive statistics are included about every major social program's budget, benefits, and participants
*Underlying policy model has been updated in response to the evolving political environment
*Content and writing style are appropriate to both bachelor's- and master's-level programs
*More graphics and attractive new two-color interior design make debates easier to grasp and the book easier to navigate
Visit www.oup.com/us/dynamics for access to the instructor's manual and test bank.

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Copyright's Paradox

Author: Neil Weinstock Netanel

The United States Supreme Court famously labeled copyright "the engine of free expression" because it provides a vital economic incentive for much of the literature, commentary, music, art, and film that makes up our public discourse. Yet today's copyright law also does the opposite--it is often used to quash news reporting, political commentary, church dissent, historical scholarship, cultural critique, and artistic expression.
In Copyright's Paradox, Neil Weinstock Netanel explores the tensions between copyright law and free speech, revealing how copyright can impose unacceptable burdens on expression. Netanel provides concrete illustrations of how copyright often prevents speakers from effectively conveying their message, tracing this conflict across both traditional and digital media and considering current controversies such as the remix and copying culture rampant on YouTube and MySpace, hip-hop music and digital sampling, and the Google Book Search litigation. The author juxtaposes the dramatic expansion of copyright holders' proprietary control against the individual's newly found ability to digitally cut, paste, edit, remix, and distribute sound recordings, movies, TV programs, graphics, and texts the world over. He tests whether, in light of these developments and others, copyright still serves as a vital engine of free expression and he assesses how copyright does--and does not--burden speech. Taking First Amendment values as his lodestar, Netanel argues that copyright should be limited to how it can best promote robust debate and expressive diversity, and he presents a blueprint for how that can be accomplished.
Copyright and free speech will always stand in sometension. But there are ways in which copyright can continue to serve as an engine of free expression while leaving ample room for speakers to build on copyrighted works to convey their message, express their personal commitments, and create new art. This book shows us how.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: A "Largely Ignored Paradox"     3
From Mein Kampf to Google     13
What Is Freedom of Speech? (And How Does It Bear on Copyright?)     30
Copyright's Ungainly Expansion     54
Is Copyright "the Engine of Free Expression"?     81
Copyright's Free Speech Burdens     109
The Propertarian Counter-Argument     154
Copyright and the First Amendment     169
Remaking Copyright in the First Amendment's Image     195
Notes     219
Index     269

What to Do when the Shit Hits the Fan or What Every American Should Know about the Rest of the World

What to Do When the Shit Hits the Fan

Author: Dave Black

Would you know how to prepare for an unforeseen emergency, or handle an unexpected disaster? With real-world considerations in mind, disaster preparedness consultant David Black shows us how to stay alive when tragedy strikes. His step-by-step actions can help us make it safely through a variety of crises, from catastrophic weather to terrorism to civil unrest. Black presents tailor-made plans for individuals, businesses, organizations, small groups, and communities to follow, in all regions of the country and broken down by type of emergency and environment. In addition, he provides a hierarchy for response including communication, healthcare, food, water, and shelter in the absence of institutions and commercially available services and supplies.

New interesting textbook: Nantuckets Bounty or Cookin with Honey

What Every American Should Know about the Rest of the World

Author: M L Rossi

What's the difference between Khomeini and Khaddafi? How can you tell a Tutsi from a Hutu? Is life really any better in Qatar? Learn the answers to these questions and more in What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World.

What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World, an entertaining guide to political science, current events, foreign affairs, and history is filled with:

*Straightforward explanations
*Cross-referenced entries
*Handy pronunciation guides
*Illustrations and maps

What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World is the complete guide to what's happening at a time when knowledge about events on an international scale has never been more important.

About the Author:

Melissa Rossi is an award-winning veteran journalist who has penned articles for Newsweek, Newsday, Esquire, George, MSNBC, The New York Observer, and, until recently, wrote a regular column for National Geographic Traveler. She has written extensively about Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and has lived abroad for many years.

Ann Hart - KLIATT

Inspired by September 11, in the author's words, "this book aims to provide you with: a contextual mapping of the world's geopolitical hot spots and a familiarity with the names, terms and ideas you need to know to decipher global events." Part almanac, part narrative, injected with subtle humor and commentary, it is informative, non-scholarly and formatted for a sound bite-accustomed audience, making the information easy to find. Forty-five topics, countries or regions are grouped by prominence in global politics under the headings: "Tickers," "Slow Tickers," "Talkers," and "The Big Picture." Touching on every world region, it mostly deals with the Middle East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and some Latin and South American countries. The role of the United States, positive or negative, is always included. An Afterword discourages complacency and discusses reader participation in the geo-political situation. Rossi's experience as a journalist living abroad is a reassuring measure of her authority on her subjects. Her Korea chapter completely agreed with a Today Show feature aired on May 19, 2003. She includes small maps, photos, a glossary, bibliography, list of resources, notes and an index. As a reference tool, this is not as comprehensive as traditional almanacs in facts on economy, education, and history and geography, but it is a must-have for supplementing the current events curriculum. This type of work is outdated as soon as it is published (we have experienced the Iraqi War since), but it will continue to be extremely valuable in understanding the issues. Recommended for every literate and thinking American citizen. KLIATT Codes: JSA—Recommended for junior and seniorhigh school students, advanced students, and adults. 2003, Penguin Putnam, Plume, 382p. illus. maps. notes. bibliog. index.,

Three Approaches to Abortion or Spies for Hire

Three Approaches to Abortion: A Compassionate and Thoughtful Guide to the Most Controversial Issue Today

Author: Peter Kreeft

The popular author and professor Peter Kreeft tackles the most controversial issue of our times in his always unique and compassionate style. He presents approaches to the abortion issue from a logical and psychological explanation of the pro-life position. Kreeft hopes that clear reason, rather than force, will help convince people of the truth about abortion and the need to protect innocent human life. Using a dialogical method he presents the objective logical arguments against abortion, the subjective, personal motives of the pro-life movement, and how these two factors influence the dialogue between the two sides of the abortion issue.

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Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing

Author: Tim Shorrock

In Spies for Hire, investigative reporter Tim Shorrock lifts the veil off a major story the government doesn't want us to know about -- the massive outsourcing of top secret intelligence activities to private-sector contractors.

Running spy networks overseas. Tracking down terrorists in the Middle East. Interrogating enemy prisoners. Analyzing data from spy satellites and intercepted phone calls. All of these are vital intelligence tasks that traditionally have been performed by government officials accountable to Congress and the American people. But that is no longer the case.

Starting during the Clinton administration, when intelligence budgets were cut drastically and privatization of government services became national policy, and expanding dramatically in the wake of 9/11, when the CIA and other agencies were frantically looking to hire analysts and linguists, the Intelligence Community has been relying more and more on corporations to perform sensitive tasks heretofore considered to be exclusively the work of federal employees. This outsourcing of intelligence activities is now a $50 billion-a-year business that consumes up to 70 percent of the U.S. intelligence budget. And it's a business that the government has tried hard to keep under wraps.

Drawing on interviews with key players in the Intelligence-Industrial Complex, contractors' annual reports and public filings with the government, and on-the-spot reporting from intelligence industry conferences and investor briefings, Spies for Hire provides the first behind-the-scenes look at this new way of spying. Shorrock shows how corporations such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, CACIInternational, and IBM have become full partners with the CIA, the National Security Agency, and the Pentagon in their most sensitive foreign and domestic operations. He explores how this partnership has led to wasteful spending and threatens to erode the privacy protections and congressional oversight so important to American democracy.

Shorrock exposes the kinds of spy work the private sector is doing, such as interrogating prisoners in Iraq, managing covert operations, and collaborating with the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans' overseas phone calls and e-mails. And he casts light on a "shadow Intelligence Community" made up of former top intelligence officials who are now employed by companies that do this spy work, such as former CIA directors George Tenet and James Woolsey. Shorrock also traces the rise of Michael McConnell from his days as head of the NSA to being a top executive at Booz Allen Hamilton to returning to government as the nation's chief spymaster.

From CIA covert actions to NSA eavesdropping, from Abu Ghraib to Guantánamo, from the Pentagon's techno-driven war in Iraq to the coming global battles over information dominance and control of cyberspace, contractors are doing it all. Spies for Hire goes behind today's headlines to highlight how private corporations are aiding the growth of a new and frightening national surveillance state.

Publishers Weekly

Even James Bond is temping these days. According to investigative journalist Shorrock, the CIA and other intelligence agencies now have more contractors working for them than they do spies of their own. Often former staff hired back at double or triple their former government salaries, these private contractors do everything from fighting in Afghanistan to interrogating prisoners, aiming spy satellites and supervising secret agents. Shorrock gives a comprehensive-at times eye-glazing-rundown of the players in the industry, and his book is valuable for its detailed panorama of 21st-century intelligence work. He uncovers serious abuses-contractor CACI International figured prominently in the Abu Ghraib outrages-and nagging concerns about corrupt ties between intelligence officials and private corporations, industry lobbying for a national surveillance state, the withering of the intelligence agencies' in-house capacities and the displacement of an ethos of public service by a profit motive. However, the bulk of the outsourcing Shorrock unearths is rather pedestrian, involving the management of mundane IT systems and various administrative services, and this exposé insinuates more skullduggery than it demonstrates. (May)

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Kirkus Reviews

Private corporations employing former high-ranking federal government and military officials are making huge profits from secret contracts with the CIA, NSA and various baronies in the Defense Department, avers freelance journalist Shorrock. In his first book, the author penetrates the covert worlds of corporations with names like CACI International Inc., Mantech International and Booz Allen Hamilton, as well as government agencies spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars with no accountability. Dozens of previous titles have examined U.S. failures of information collection and analysis, especially leading up to and after 9/11. Shorrock excavates new dirt by focusing on the business of intelligence: the bottom line in dollars at the private corporations that win government contracts, often without competitive bidding or even public disclosure. The author does a remarkable job of learning as much as he can: gaining entry into conventions of defense contractors usually closed to journalists; sitting through the hearings of congressional committees whose members are regularly stonewalled by the government agencies they are supposed to oversee; reading through partially declassified documents. Peppered with acronyms, descriptions of highly technical hardware and hundreds of unfamiliar names both corporate and human, the book can be difficult to read, but Shorrock's prose is lucid, his passionate brief for open government inspiring. Occasionally, he describes fiascoes already known to the public, such as the nasty interrogation techniques at Abu Ghraib, that illuminate the shadowy role of private corporations performing highly profitable contracted duties once handled by governmentemployees. Shorrock forcefully makes the case that only members of Congress, ostensibly accountable to the citizens who elected them, can halt the inefficiencies and occasional outright financial corruption emanating from the private contractor/intelligence agency nexus. A sterling example of why investigative journalists are valuable during an era of deep, broad and unconscionable government secrecy. Agent: John Ware/John Ware Literary Agency

Table of Contents:

Prologue 1

1 The Intelligence-Industrial Complex 9

2 Booz Allen Hamilton and "The Shadow IC" 38

3 A Short History of Intelligence Outsourcing 72

4 The CIA and the Sacrifice of Professionalism 115

5 The Role of the Pentagon 154

6 The NSA, 9/11, and the Business of Data Mining 185

7 Intelligence Disneyland 228

8 The Pure Plays 261

9 The Rise of the National Surveillance State 304

10 Conclusion: Ideology, Oversight, and the Costs of Secrecy 356

Acknowledgments 383

Notes 391

Index 423

Antiquities Under Siege or International Political Economy

Antiquities Under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War

Author: Lawrence Rothfield

As Saddam Hussein's government fell in April 2003, news accounts detailed the pillage of Iraq's National Museum. The museum's looting grabbed headlines worldwide, and public attention briefly focused on Iraq's threatened cultural heritage. Less dramatic, though far more devastating, was the subsequent epidemic of looting at thousands of archaeological sites around the country. Illegal digging on a massive scale continues to this day, virtually unchecked; Iraq's ten thousand officially recognized sites are being destroyed at a rate of roughly 10 percent per year.

This book contains the first full published account of the disasters that have befallen Iraq's cultural heritage, and it analyzes why the array of laws and international conventions, the advocacy efforts of cultural heritage organizations, and the military planning and implementation of cultural protection operations all failed, and continue to fail, to prevent massive and irreversible loss. Looking forward, the book identifies new planning procedures, policy mechanisms, and implementation strategies capable of succeeding, so the mistakes of Iraq will not be replicated in other regions in crisis whose cultural heritages are at risk. Both archaeologists and policymakers will benefit from this detailed study.

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International Political Economy: An Intellectual History

Author: Benjamin J Cohen

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe--and today is an essential part of both political science and economics. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of this important field's development, the contrasting worldviews of its American and British schools, and the different ways scholars have sought to meet the challenges posed by an ever more complex and interdependent world economy.

Benjamin Cohen explains the critical role played by the early "intellectual entrepreneurs," a generation of pioneering scholars determined to bridge the gap between international economics and international politics. Among them were brilliant thinkers like Robert Keohane, Susan Strange, and others whose legacies endure to the present day. Cohen shows how their personalities and the historical contexts in which they worked influenced how the field evolved. He examines the distinctly different insights of the American and British schools and addresses issues that have been central to the field's development, including systemic transformation, system governance, and the place of the sovereign state in formal analysis. The definitive intellectual history of international political economy, this book is the ideal volume for IPE scholars and those interested in learning more about the field.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Abbreviations     xiii
Introduction     1
The American School     16
The British School     44
A Really Big Question     66
The Control Gap     95
The Mystery of the State     118
What Have We Learned?     142
New Bridges?     169
References     179
Index     199

Women of the Harvest or Democratic Education

Women of the Harvest: Inspiring Stories of Contemporary Farmers

Author: Holly L Bollinger

Their vocations may vary from alpacas and vineyards to organic vegetables and medicinal herbs, but the women of Women of the Harvest: Inspiring Stories of Contemporary Farmers share one common thread—a deep connection to the land and to nature borne of their love for farming. Through the profiles of these seventeen amazing women from all over the United States, you will feel that bond—the warm sun beating on your face; your hands in the cool, moist dirt; tending and nurturing plants; raising animals. May the stories of Women of the Harvest inspire you to cultivate your dreams!

“Women who give in to their farm fantasies (I’ve never met a woman yet who hasn’t, at some point in her life, had a farm fantasy) are in for a sensory journey like none other. Digging in the soil makes you whole. It’s as simple and as complicated as that.
As our numbers grow, so do the abundance of opportunities and ideas. Sit back, read, and be inspired. There’s a whole new frontier awaiting us, but it starts here, armed with the inspiration of women farmers who’ve already landed their dream.”
—MaryJane Butters, founder of MaryJanesFarm and author of MaryJane’s Ideabook, Cookbook, Lifebook

Table of Contents:

Contents
Foreword by MaryJane Butters [to come]
Introduction
Chapter 1: Patricia Orlowitz, Washington, D.C.
Chapter 2: Lini Mazumdar, Londonderry, Vermont
Chapter 3: Donna Betts, Whipple, Ohio
Chapter 4: Sarah Polyock, Chetek, Wisconsin
Chapter 5: Eloise Stewart, Pinetta, Florida
Chapter 6: Laura Adams, Cedar Key, Florida
Chapter 7: Rose Koenig, Gainesville, Florida
Chapter 8: Jessica Norfleet, Newberry, Florida
Chapter 9: Jana Sweets, Tucson, Arizona
Chapter 10: Nancy Wilson, Fossil, Oregon
Chapter 11: Carolyn Lattin, Olympia, Washington
Chapter 12: Julie Safley, Hillsboro, Oregon
Chapter 13: Michelle Bienick, Applegate, Oregon
Chapter 14: Emma Jean Cervantes, La Mesa, New Mexico
Chapter 15: Maud Powell, Jacksonville, Oregon
Chapter 16: Maria Largaespada, Jacksonville, Oregon
Chapter 17: Peggy Case, Pagosa Springs, Colorado
Index

Interesting book: Thyme or The Family Table

Democratic Education

Author: Amy Gutmann

Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length study of the democratic theory of education. The author tackles a wide range of issues, from the democratic case against book banning to the role of teachers' unions in education, as well as the vexed questions of public support for private schools and affirmative action in college admissions.

The Theology of the Hammer or A Death in Brazil

The Theology of the Hammer

Author: Millard Fuller

The Fullers sold their business, donated all the money to charity, and went in search of a new dream. Twenty years later, Fuller and his wife are sharing that dream: Habitat for Humantity Interna-tional.

Publishers Weekly

The founder and president of Habitat for Humanity International, Millard Fuller, here shares his concept of ``hammer theology'' and his dream of eliminating poverty-ridden housing worldwide. Interweaving Christian scripture with his narrative, Fuller tells of the dramatic changes Habitat's hands-on ministry has effected in the lives both of the recipients of the organization's quality housing and of the volunteers who build it. He also writes autobiographically of his own spiritual journey, explaining how he came to start Habitat's phenomenal grassroots ministry. One is left, upon completing the book, with an almost mind-boggling sense of just how far-reaching, substantial and laudable Habitat has become. (May)

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A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions

Author: Peter Robb

Deliciously sensuous and fascinating, Robb renders in vivid detail the intoxicating pleasures of Brazil’s food, music, literature, and landscape as he travels not only cross country but also back in time—from the days of slavery to modern day political intrigue and murder. Spellbinding and revelatory, Peter Robb paints a multi-layered portrait of Brazil as a country of intoxicating and passionate extremes.

New York Times

A Death in Brazil is not strictly about travel. It deals with Brazil's history, landscapes, society, culture, food and the baroque flamboyance of its political life...Mr. Robb writes about his themes not as a scholar or analyst but as if he were trekking through them hungrily, strenuously and sometimes at risk.—Richard Eder

The New Yorker

One night twenty years ago in Rio de Janeiro, the author was attacked by a knife-wielding burglar, who then broke down and stayed until dawn, unburdening his soul. Robb became fascinated with Brazil, and here offers a seductive synthesis of history, gastronomy, literature, pop culture, and current events. He is most drawn to the landscape of the northeast. Once home to communities of escaped slaves, the region has, more recently, produced such figures as the disgraced President Fernando Collor de Mello, who was impeached in 1992, and Luis (Lula) Inácio da Silva, a former metalworker who was elected President a decade later. Between the mouthwatering dishes and caipirinhas, Robb explores the extreme contrasts of wealth and poverty, beauty and brutality—tens of thousands of violent deaths each year—in what he considers the “most thrilling country in the Western Hemisphere.”

Publishers Weekly

The death of the title refers to a recent event, but Times Literary Supplement writer Robb gets his mysterious subtitle most directly from Machado de Assis, a 19th-century Brazilian novelist considered at length for his ability to weave discussion of the nation's racial and economic disparities into his wildly popular serial fictions for women's magazines. The term's origins, however, are biblical; First and Second Chronicles were called "Omissions" because they contained information left out of the preceding Books of Kings. Although Robb tries to fill in some of the gaps in recent Brazilian history, he doesn't so much uncover new data on the spectacularly corrupt 1990-1992 presidency of Fernando Collor as pull together some of the many disparate sources. Collor's rise and fall, and the murder of his chief henchman, form a solid backbone for the book, but one from which Robb frequently wanders to ruminate on centuries of Brazilian history filled with eroticism and violent upheaval. He also recounts his own travels through modern Brazil, devoting as much attention to the sensual delights of buchada de bode (stuffed goat's stomach) as he does to a threatening encounter with the military police. The overall result is a bit of a jumble, but it's a delightful jumble: a Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with a Latin beat. At various points, Robb compares the unfolding Collor scandal to the soap opera staples of Brazilian television, and he's managed to capture the story's lurid surrealism with a deft, erudite touch. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

The motivation for Robb's latest work is unclear; perhaps he was in pursuit of a story as absorbing and darkly disturbing as his Midnight in Sicily, which he certainly found. Robb left Naples for Brazil's northeastern territory of Pernambuco, where he restricted his travels to the towns of Recife, Maceio, and Palmares, a viper's triangle of Brazil's corrupt ruling elite and home of Fernando Collor de Mello, who in 1990 became Brazil's first democratically elected president in 29 years (he would resign two years later over charges of corruption). Using this historic event as a touchstone, Robb weaves a narrative consisting of three threads: a montage of historical flashbacks of the region; an account of his investigations of government deceit, chicanery, and murder from 1989 to the recent election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ("Lula"); and a description of his travels and encounters. What the reader discovers is that the book's title is intentionally disingenuous-there have been thousands of deaths in Brazil over the years, beginning with the massacre of indigenous tribes and resistance groups to the current "disappearance" of political dissenters and street urchins. Robb's revelations of political nepotism, intrigue, and passion read like a horribly real soap opera. Recommended for all libraries.-Lonnie Weatherby, McLennan Lib., McGill Univ., Montreal Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Under intellectual scrutiny from a part-time resident, the world's fifth largest country comes alive as "the oddest and most thrilling" in our hemisphere. Readers who pick this up expecting a travel guide will have to look beyond open sewers befouling pristine beaches and bags of garbage flung from apartment windows into the street where urchins sleep in cardboard boxes-and those are the lucky ones-to find Brazil's real allure. But Robb (M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio, 2000, etc.) does find it, and it runs sensuously deep and mysterious. The biggest mystery: Why is a country of such beautiful people with such variegated lushness still constantly gashed by violence, cruelty, and corruption? The source, Robb offers, is a gap between richest and poorest "six times greater than countries like China, India, and Pakistan" and perhaps unequaled anywhere. He tracks Brazil's culture of concentrated personal power and wealth from the colonial era, finding a strain of conspiratorial racism perversely at odds with a society where slavery was officially banned in 1888 and racial mixing has been energetically pursued for half a millennium. His "researches," which include an attempt (after a few Scotches in a bar) to confront a political thug suspected of several murders, reveal how a government deformed by influence peddling, corruption, and a menacing military has managed to ignore the most basic needs of traditionally disenfranchised constituents. Robb, however, views current President Lula da Silva as something of a messiah in a country where pursuit of sensual pleasures and a big lunch has thus far thwarted development of a public conscience. Fortunately for adventurous readers, a researcher ofmysteries also has to take time to nourish body and soul with things like grilled needlefish or the sumptuous polyglot bean stew called feijoada, washed down with Antarctic beer chilled to the point of freezing. An affectionate, probing cultural portrait, as stark as it is entertaining.

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Computer Forensics and Cyber Crime: An Introduction

Author: Marjie T Britz

Computer Forensics and Cyber Crime: An Introduction explores the current state of computer crime within the United States. Beginning with the 1970's, this work traces the history of technological crime, and identifies areas ripe for exploitation from technology savvy deviants. This book also evaluates forensic practices and software in light of government legislation, while providing a thorough analysis of emerging case law in a jurisprudential climate. Finally, this book outlines comprehensive guidelines for the development of computer forensic laboratories, the creation of computer crime task forces, and search and seizures of electronic equipment.

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Economics of Monetary Union 7e

Author: Paul De Grauw

The seventh edition of 'Economics of Monetary Union' provides a concise analysis of the theories and policies relating to monetary union. De Grauwe analyses the costs and benefits associated with having one currency as well as the practical workings and current issues involved with the Euro.
In the first part of the book the author considers the implications of joining a monetary union through discussion based on an economic cost-benefit analysis. The second part of the book looks at the reality of monetary unions by analysing Europe's experiences, such as how the European Central Bank was designed to conduct a single monetary policy.
The seventh edition has been revised to include more discussion of monetary unions outside Europe and, to reflect this fast-moving area, updated coverage of new member states in transition and an updated discussion of the stability pact.
Online Resource Centre
An online resource centre, featuring supplements for lecturers including PowerPoint slides and an instructor manual, has been updated for this edition.

Racism in the United States or Christianity and American Democracy

Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions

Author: Joshua Miller

With this fascinating text, you will start to analyze the social and psychological dynamics of racism and the implications it will carry for you as helping professional. Authors Joshua Miller and Ann Marie Garran investigate the many facets of racism in the United States, examining how racism exists not only outside of us, but inside of us as well. Human service workers must confront and challenge racism in both these areas. Those in the helping professions are ethically obligated to work for a society of fairness and social justice and to provide culturally responsive services to all clients, ensuring equal access and quality. The authors demonstrate that it is insufficient to solely focus on social structures, services, institutional practices, or on changing other people. They show that we must also look within and explore our own biases and blind spots which influence how we view ourselves and those whom we are committed to helping.

Table of Contents:

Preface     xvii
Acknowledgment     xxii
Introduction: Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions     xx
Background: Social Identity and Situating Ourselves     1
Social Identity     4
Situating Ourselves     5
Power, Privilege, and Social Identity     7
Comfort Zones, Learning Edges, Triggers, and Creating a Context for Learning     9
Setting Guidelines     10
Journal Writing     10
Creating a Safe Environment     11
Conclusion     11
Social Identity     11
Exploring Triggers     12
Racial Identity Formation     12
What Is Racism?     13
How Race and Racism Have Been Conceptualized     15
Historical Underpinnings     16
The Western Concept of Race     16
Theories about Racism     17
Ethnicity Theories     18
Race Relations Theories     19
Theories of Prejudice     20
Structural Theories of Racism     23
Critical Race Theory     25
The Contours of Racism     28
Levels of Racism     28
Direct and Indirect Racism     29
Intentional and Unintentional Racism     30
Sites of Racism     30
Frequency and Magnitude of Racism     30
The Spectrum of Racism     30
Intrapersonal     31
Interpersonal     32
Intergroup     32
Institutional     32
Official and State     32
Extreme, State Sanctioned     33
Conclusion     33
Applying the Spectrum of Racism     33
A Brief History of Racism in the United States and Implications for the Helping Professions     34
The Racial Contract     36
Native Americans     36
African Americans     38
Latinos/Hispanics     41
Asian Americans     44
Factors Common to Anti-Immigrant Racism     46
White Ethnic Groups     47
Push and Pull Factors     47
Discrimination Against White Ethnic Groups     48
Ethnicity and Race     49
Liminality     51
Racism and the Helping Professions in Historical Perspective     52
Progressive Era     52
The New Deal     55
The Civil Rights Movement and the Great Society      57
Conclusion     59
Differential Group Experience     60
The Web of Institutional Racism     61
The Nature of the Web of Racism     63
Residential Racism: Neighborhoods and Housing     66
Educational Racism: Public, Private, and Higher Education     68
Employment Racism     70
Racism and Wealth Accumulation and Upward Mobility     71
Environmental and Health Racism     73
Mental Health Racism     75
Access     75
Services Offered     75
Who Provides Treatment     76
The Structure of Services     76
Theoretical Biases     76
Racism in Clinical Encounters     77
Racism in the Criminal Justice System     78
Political Racism     80
Media Racism     83
Implications of the Web of Racism for the Helping Professions     84
Conclusion     86
The Web of Racism and Passports of Privilege     86
Why Is It so Difficult for People with Privilege to See Racism?     87
Consciousness     88
Invisible Knapsacks of Privilege     90
Socialization into White Privilege     91
The Role of the Family     92
The Discourse of Denigration and the Creation of Other     93
Renounced Targets     93
Triangulation     94
Stereotypes and What Can Be Done about Them     95
Sources of Resistance     95
Consequences of Unexamined Stereotypes     96
Confronting Stereotypes     98
Conclusion     101
Personal Audit     101
Confronting Stereotypes     102
Social Identity Formation and Group Membership     103
Identity     104
Racial and Ethnic Identity Theory     106
Multiracial/Biracial Identity Development     110
Theoretical Assumptions     111
Conceptual Expansions of Ethnic and Racial Identity Theory     111
Multidimensional Social Identity Development     112
Assumptions     114
Axes of Social Identity     115
Dimensions     116
Lifespan Context     117
Environmental Context     117
Resolutions/Stances     118
Social Identity Development Phases     119
Targeted Identity     121
Agent Identity     123
Identity and Intergroup Relations      125
What Can Prevent or Alleviate Intergroup Conflict?     127
Implications for the Helping Professions     129
Conclusion     130
Multidimensional Social Identity Exercise     131
Intersectionality, Racism and Other Forms of Social Oppression     134
Common Aspects of Social Oppression     135
Tilly's Model of Categorical Inequalities     135
Bell's Features of Social Oppression     136
Racism and Class Oppression     137
Race and Class Visibility     139
Race, Class, and Politics     141
Interaction of Race and Class Today     142
Racism and Sexism     143
Social Consequences of Racism and Sexism     145
Social Roles and Social Identity     146
Racism and Heterosexism     148
Heterosexism     149
The Interaction of Racism and Heterosexism     151
Immigration and Racism     153
Dynamics of Immigration     154
Significant Legislation     156
Immigration and Racism Today     156
Conclusion     161
Intersectionality     161
Racial Dialogue: Talking about Race and Racism     163
Why Undertake Racial Dialogues?     165
Why Is Racial Dialogue so Challenging?     166
Conducting Successful Racial Dialogues     168
Important Dimensions of Dialogue     171
Models and Stages of Intergroup Dialogue     172
Managing Effective Racial Dialogues     175
Racial Reconciliation and Inter-Racial Justice     180
Recognition     180
Responsibility     180
Reconstruction     180
Reparation     181
Conclusion     181
Preparing for Dialogue     182
Responses to Racism in the Community     183
Millville     184
Snapshots of Millville Residents     185
Racism in Millville     186
The Dynamics of Racism in Communities     187
Structural/Institutional Racism     187
Political Power     188
Social Identity and Group Membership     190
The Phenomenology of Community Racism     191
Social Cohesion and Community Integrity     192
Responding to Racism in the Community     194
Public Dialogue     194
Re-Storying the Community     195
Structural Interventions     196
Generating Social Capital in the Quest for Community Integrity     198
Anti-Racism Work in the Community     200
Assessment and Prioritization     200
Working with Existing Groups and Organizations     202
Working in Coalitions     203
Disruptive Strategies     204
Participatory Efforts     205
Self-Care     206
Conclusion     207
Mapping Your Community     207
Confronting Racism in Agencies and Organizations     209
Terminology     210
Types of Organizations     211
How Racism Is Manifested in Social Service Organizations     212
Policies     212
Interpersonal Relationships     215
Organizational Power     215
Resources Devoted to Anti-Racism     217
Developmental Models of Organizational Change     218
The Process of Becoming an Anti-Racism Organization     222
Mission Statement     223
Project Group     223
Assessment and Prioritization     224
An Anti-Racism Audit     224
Conclusion     225
Anti-Racism Agency Assessment     225
Cross-Racial Clinical Work      226
First Steps     228
Social Identity     228
Culture, Values, and Worldview     229
Power     231
Legacies of Racism Seen in Clinical Work     232
Anger     232
Rage     232
Guilt     233
Shame     233
Stress and Trauma     234
Grief and Mourning     234
Theoretical Biases     235
Barriers to Effective Cross-Racial Clinical Work     236
Internalized Racism     236
Inattention to Power and Privilege     237
Defensive Racial Dynamics     237
Guidelines for Effective Cross-Racial Clinical Work     239
Working with Social Identity     239
Focusing on Strengths     240
Listening and Observing     240
Working with Racial Transference and Counter-Transference     241
Ability to Tolerate and Respond to Strong Affect     242
Situating Clients in Their Historical and Social Context     243
Mirroring and Empathy     243
Bringing up Issues of Race and Racism     244
Responding to Bias     245
Issues for Clinicians Who Identify as White     246
Issues for Clinicians Who Identify as People of Color or Multiracial     247
Supervision and Consultation     247
Structural and Environmental Issues     249
Environment     249
Access     249
Staffing and Board Representation     250
Conclusion     250
Crossed Racial Identity between Worker and Client     250
Exploring Emotions     251
Teaching about Racism     252
Examples     255
Regina     255
Alicia     256
Michael     256
Course and Class Structure     257
Classroom Climate     259
Classroom Safety     260
Classroom Norms     261
Caucus Groups     262
Instructor Self-Awareness     263
Resistance     264
Supporting Anti-Racism Teaching     265
Understanding Students     266
Teaching Strategies and Techniques     267
Exercises     268
Interviewing in Fairs     269
Maintaining Balance     269
Availability of Teachers     270
Feeling Stuck     271
Conclusion     273
Exercise 12.1     273
Dismantling Racism: Creating the Web of Resistance     275
Creating the Web of Resistance     277
Core Values     277
The Intrapersonal Realm: Introspection and Education     279
The Interpersonal Realm: Engaging in Dialogue/Working in Coalitions     280
The Organizational Realm: Creating Anti-Racism Organizations     281
The Community Realm: Creating Inclusive Communities     281
Being Heard: The Realm of Discourse and Culture     281
The Political and Social Realm: Laws, Institutions, and Practices     282
Maintaining Motivation     285
Self-Care     285
Self-Compassion     286
Avoiding Humiliating Others     286
Working Together     287
Taking the Long View     287
Valuing the Process as Well as the Product     287
Growing as Activists     288
Eternal Vigilance     288
Anti-Racism Activist Self-Audit     289
Confronting Racism Without Humiliating Others     289
Study Circles Dialogues     291
Steps to Successful Intergroup Conversation: A Critical-Dialogic Model     292
Issues to Consider When Confronting Institutional Racism      294
Activities Toward Becoming an Anti-Racist Organization     295
Cultural Values and Worldviews     297
Culturally Influenced Behaviors     299
Questions about Cross-Cultural Contacts     300
Further Reading about Cross-Racial/Cultural Clinical Practice     301
Imaginary Letter     303
References     305
Index     320

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Christianity and American Democracy

Author: Hugh Heclo

Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other.

Heclo shows that amid deeply felt religious differences, a Protestant colonial society gradually convinced itself of the truly Christian reasons for, as well as the enlightened political advantages of, religious liberty. By the mid-twentieth century, American democracy and Christianity appeared locked in a mutual embrace. But it was a problematic union vulnerable to fundamental challenge in the Sixties. Despite the subsequent rise of the religious right and glib talk of a conservative Republican theocracy, Heclo sees a longer-term, reciprocal estrangement between Christianity and American democracy.

Responding to his challenging argument, Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, and Alan Wolfe criticize, qualify, and amend it. Heclo's rejoinder suggests why both secularists and Christians should worry about a coming rupture between the Christian and democratic faiths. The result is a lively debate about a momentous tension in American public life.