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A comparative and global history of the Jews for the early modern period, 1400-1700. This book traces the remarkable demographic changes experienced by Jews around the globe and assesses the impact of those changes on Jewish communal and social structures, religious and cultural practices, and relations with non-Jews.

The federal government is deeply entrenched in American public education and virtually dictates what can be taught to students. Why? At what cost? And what are the benefits to public school students? To public schools? The author challenges the constitutionality of the feds in the classroom.

Present a synthetic treatment of the colonial colleges, tracing their role in the intellectual development of early America through the American Revolution. This work focuses on Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, the College of New Jersey (Princeton), King's College (Columbia), the College of Philadelphia (Penn), among others.

Introduces readers to politics by exploring the cultural foundations of American political ideals and understandings. This work discusses the basic values of America's liberal political inheritance in order to identify the common political vision that unites the country and forms a common polity.

The victorious end to the first World War offered hope to African Americans who had fought for freedom abroad and hoped to find it at home. Mark R. Schneider recounts the history of this turbulent era, paying particular attention to the ways in which African Americans actively challenged Jim Crow and firmly expressed pride in their heritage.

Explores some of the places on the campus made famous by television and movies, such as 1993's "Rudy". This book also delves into the hidden or unknown areas of campus.

Examines social problems around the world.

Tells the story of Kennedy versus Nixon with an eye for political developments. This book shows why the whole political season that resulted in Kennedy versus Nixon is critical to understanding American politics.

Explores the life plans of advanced law and MBA students for work, family, and leisure. This study contextualizes four ongoing social transformations, which include the individualism, the gender revolution, the rise of dual-career couples, and growing employment uncertainty.

Examines the complex role of Chinese American scientists and engineers in their ever-growing role in Silicon Valley. They learn how to utilize new social networks and make sense of a changed ethnic identity. This book presents important knowledge on the connection of Chinese ethnicity to high-skilled labor and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley.

One in the series New Dialogues in Philosophy, edited by Dale Jacquette, J. Kellenberger brings together a group of hypothetical individuals from different backgrounds with real philosophical views to discuss their ideas on morality and moral relativism. The dialogues examine arguments for and against adopting a relativistic stance on morality.

Class counts. Class differences and class warfare have existed since the beginning of western civilization, but the gap in income and wealth between the rich (top 10 percent) and the rest has increased steadily in the last twenty-five years.

This book analyzes the different roles that interest groups play in congressional elections, with supporting material from interviews with Washington insiders.

In this book Michael Traugott and Paul Lavrakas give voters everything they need to know about election polls and why it matters that we understand them. If statistics are worse than lies, just think what misreading the polls can do!

Describes why the practice of benefit-cost analysis in environmental settings is heavily biased against the environment. This book provides environmentalists with the tools necessary to show policy-makers that pursuing many policies with apparent costs greater than benefits are, in fact, welfare-enhancing.

The core problem of reviews is credibility. Concerns about credibility organize the formulation of reviews and audiences. This title offers theories and data that encompass reviews of various types of products - including the arts (theater, books, and music) and consumer products (cars, software, and appliances).

Wherever Jews have settled and whatever languages they spoke, they created a community with a single set of common values. A single book explains how this came about - the Talmud. This book introduces readers to the Talmud, defining it, explaining its historical context, and illustrating why it remains relevant.

Focuses on early childhood to late teen issues like kidnapping and child safety, childhood obesity, school safety and zero tolerance policies, teen drivers, hazing, bullying and risk-taking behavior.

Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice is a comprehensive assessment of the environmental justice movement, examining the achievements and challenges confronting the movement, along with an emphasis on new strategies of environmental problem-solving and innovations in environmental policy.

Focusing on the topic of the processes of change, this book discusses the domestic gender practices on many different levels. Its theoretical approach connects the discussion of gender practices within the home to the interactions and negotiations that individuals engage in on a day-to-day basis. It also includes empirical evidence for change.

Describes the varied types of brutalization women experience through the life course, as well as historical and theoretical perspectives of global violence against women. This book illuminates the diverse ideologies and cultural conditions that condone and perpetuate the brutality that victimizes women.

In the midst of the Vietnam war, two titans of the Senate, J William Fulbright, and John C Stennis, held public hearings to debate the conflict's future. This work provides comparative analysis of the inquiries and the senior southern Senators who led them.

First published in 1902, William James's Varieties of Religious Experience is considered a classic in religious studies and the psychology of religion. But how has James's classic study weathered decades of development in psychology and behavioral sciences?

Teachings by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

Talks about Puerto Ricans' struggles of incorporation into US society, and the conditions under which members of the Puerto Rican middle-class move back and forth between the mainland and island. This book illustrates how structures of inequalities based on race, class, and gender affect Puerto Ricans' subjective assessments of incorporation.

Proposes a method for doing theology which does not divorce it from the practical applications of science. Starting with the sciences that examine happiness - particularly biology, genetics, and psychology - this book seeks to understand the spiritual nature of humans and, through it, the nature of God.

This book is an explication of social class and the adjudication of repetitive property offenders within the under class. It describes their class-informed subculture and near absence of any politicized action or strategy.