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From Reconstruction to Lyndon Johnson and beyond, Jill Quadagno reveals how American social policy has continuously foundered on issues of race. She draws on extensive primary research to show how social programs became entwined with the civil rights movement and subsequently suffered by association at the hands of a white backlash.

In a dramatic and colorful narrative of a pivotal moment in American history, we see how the campaign developed in a web of hard choices by many actors on both sides of the Delaware. 91 halftones,15 maps.

Whether placing Fletcher Henderson's life in the context of the Harlem Renaissance or describing how network radio made the Henderson-Goodman style a national standard, Magee brings to life a monumental musician who helped to shape an era.

A guide to understanding and helping a teenager with schizophrenia. This work is designed for parents of teens who have been diagnosed with this complicated illness, or who are at risk of developing it, and for other adults, such as teachers and guidance counsellors, who are in contact with at-risk adolescents.

A guide to understanding and helping a teenager with an anxiety disorder. It explains the four anxiety disorders especially common among adolescents - social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Tsong khapa (14th-century) is arguably the most important and influential philosopher in Tibetan history. This work is a commentary on Nagarjuna's "Mulamadhyamakakarika" ("Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way"). It discusses alternative readings of the text and prior commentaries and provides a detailed exegesis.

A comprehensive text on the pharmacological, medical and legal aspects of drug abuse. This work includes a chapter on medical effects which focuses on infections that develop in IV drug abusers, and the chapter on drug abuse and the law extends to the international regulation of drug use.

Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur and a daring risk taker, who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. This book captures not only this colorful individual, but also the vibrant interplay of technology, business, money, politics and culture that defines the Silicon Valley.

The Creole Band, which existed from 1914-1918, was the first important jazz band, bringing jazz to the wider American public, from California to Massachusetts. This is the first history of the important group, written by a renowned scholar of early jazz.

This is a fascinating examination of the explosion of black television programming in the 1980s and 1990s. Locating a persistent black nationalist desire - yearning for home and community - in the shows produced by and for African Americans in this period, Zook shows how the Fox hip-hop sitcom both reinforced and rebelled against earlier black sitcoms from the sixties and seventies.

'Hindu God, Christian God' offers an in-depth study of key themes common to the Hindu and Christian religious traditions. It redefines how we think about Hinduism, comparative study, and Christian theology. It invites not only Hindus and Christians, but also theologians from all religious traditions, to enter into conversation with one another.

Draws on a rich variety of previously untapped archival sources to reconstruct the religious world of the lay people. Focusing on various "centres" of their religious life - the temple, chapels, feasts, icons, and the Virgin Mary - the author follows the religious processes and communal dynamics that lent these centres meaning.

Soren Kierkegaard's "Works of Love", a series of deliberations on the commandment to love one's neighbour, has often been condemned by critics. This book seeks to rehabilitate "Works of Love" as one of Kierkegaard's important works. It shows that Soren's deliberations on love are highly relevant to some important themes in contemporary ethics.

The Beatles as Musicians is a comprehensive, chronologically ordered study of every aspect of the group's musical life-composition, performance, recording and reception histories-in its transcendent late period, from 1966 to 1970. Richly authoritative interpretations are interwoven through a documentary study of many thousands of audio and other sources.

A comprehensive volume on all facets of vocal performance, which considers in detail established vocal techniques, the specifics of interpretation and communication, the factors contributing to career preparation and maintenance, and the application of functional information to the art of singing.

This book has two major emphases: it is an analysis of the methods employed by social scientists, historians, and literary critics in the study of African American religion; and it is a constructive theological statement regarding African American religion. The Negro Spiritual serves as the source material for both purposes.

Third revised edition, previously published in 1973 by Harper Collins, of a collection of texts stressing the universal themes of mythology. They range from the Bible to English literature, to C Jung and others, to illustrate the archetypal aspects of the universal hero. This edition includes heroine myths and an updated bibliography.

In this fifth volume of Starr's history of California life and culture, the focus is on the positive aspects of California life during the 1930s - especially how the state developed a style of life that would greatly influence American society as a whole.

Passion and Reason draws on four decades of research to bring readers the first book to move beyond both clinical jargon and 'feel-good' popular psychology to explain how emotions are aroused, how they are managed, and how they critically shape views of ourselves and the world around us.

The theme of McLuhan's book is the distinction between two quite different traditions of reasoning which have grown up in Western and Eastern countries, and how global communications have brought these two traditions into contact.

This work argues that slave resistance was much more prevalent and widespread than has usually been attributed, and, specifically, that slaves attempted to run away from their masters whenever they could. It examines contemporary documents to how slaves resisted and the punishments they were meted.

This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

In The Last Word, leading philosopher Thomas Nagel presents a timely and vigorous defense of reason against the fashionable relativism that is all-too-pervasive in contemporary intellectual culture. His construction of a coherent framework beyond subjectivism is refreshing, erudite, and impressive, and should generate intense interest both within and without the philosophical community.

Through research into the D'Oyly Carte collection of documents, Ainger offers an account Gilbert and Sullivan's starkly different backgrounds and long working partnership. Ainger suggests that it is the clash between these two strong personalities that accounts for the success of their work, as each challenged the other to produce his best work.

Records of prices span the entire range of history, from medieval grain prices to modern statistics. Going beyond the economic data, this text gives a history of the people of the Western world: the economic patterns they lived in, and the politics, culture and society they created as a result.

Following on from the author's previous work, "Early Jazz", this detailed history of jazz covers the crucial era which saw the rise of big band swing and the transition to the more "avant-garde" bop style which revolutionized jazz in the 1940s.