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Explores a number of questions about media use and its relation to democratic engagement, analyzing the effects of communication forms on the 2004 presidential elections. This book contributes to an important goal in political communication studies creating an integrated, and precise picture of how media affects democratic engagement.

As HIV/AIDS wreaked havoc on the worlds of some of the most marginal and disenfranchised people in New York, they came together to create a shared response, forming an organizational field within which their various efforts were coordinated. This work offers a study of how communities organize in response to threats to their lives and well being.

Written by a veteran high school and university teacher and staff developer, this volume weaves sound scholarship with real-world examples from classrooms and the media. If offers a compelling blueprint for working with diverse students and for improving schools.

Through interviews with prominent legal academics, Outsiders Within presents the trials and accomplishments of black women law professors who began to enter the legal academy in the 1970s and 80s.

Discusses the notion of knowledge cultures in relation to claims for the economy and the communicative turn, as well as cultural economy and the politics of postmodernity. This book also focuses on national policy constructions of the knowledge economy, fast knowledge and the role of the so-called new pedagogy and social learning.

One of Japan's best-known prime ministers, Yoshida Shigeru witnessed history in the making. This autobiography talks about Shigeru's service in China, his travel abroad as a member of Japan's mission to conclude World War I, the interwar years spent as a high-rank diplomat to Europe, and his role in the days leading up to the Pearl Harbor attack.

Surveys the transformation that is taking place in urban America. In the belief that technology is the force that has created and recast cities throughout history, this book addresses the important question of how the modern-day technology affects cities and how it will shape cities in the future.

Covering German foreign policy since the end of World War II, this book explores Germany's recovery from wartime defeat and destruction. Through a chronological series of case studies, it offers a document-based account of sixty years of German policymaking. It is for scholars and students of Germany, Europe, and East-West relations.

Provides with chapters specifically devoted to how bureaucrats interpret their role in the policy process, how the organizational environment influences their ability to play that role, and to the interactions between bureaucrats and the institutions of what we call the Constitutional government the President, the Congress, and the Courts.

This clear and timely book presents the first sustained and structured analysis of globalization in the East Asian context, exploring the strategies used by East Asian countries to cope with the forces of globalization.

This text challenges the assumption that African American literature aptly reflects black American social consciousness. It delineates the social and political forces that shaped leading black literary works and shows that divisions between political thinkers prevailed throughout the 20th century.

What did President Bush say to justify American military actions in the post 9/11 world? And how did the public hear what he said, especially as it was filtered through the news media? This work shows how public perception of what the president says is shaped by media bias.

"The ethnics are coming" - and the fear of many observers is that the quality of traditional disciplines will suffer as a result. This collection of essays show that such fear is unfounded.

This book considers the relevance of Schmitt's work for contemporary debates surrounding democratic sovereignty and global politics.

Based on careful research and hundreds of interviews, this information-packed narrative is regarded as a classic in the field of conservation. This updated edition includes two new chapters that chart the course of conservation during the past twenty years and explore how the movement to protect rivers will likely change in the twenty-first century.

Argues that the foreign policy of the United States reflects the divisions and dysfunctions we see in our domestic culture and society. This text tackles such issues as ethnocentrism (our inability to understand other countries) in foreign policy as well as US efforts to extend democracy, human rights, and civil society in other countries.

In The Faiths of Our Fathers, widely acclaimed historian Alf J. Mapp, Jr. cuts through the historical uncertainty to accurately portray the religious beliefs of eleven of America's founding fathers, including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.

Provides an introduction to the field of comparative politics. This book explores different innovative directions in the field, its main approaches, including political development, political culture, dependency theory, corporatism, indigenous theories of change, state-society relations, rational choice, and the institutionalism.

The Career Mystique examines taken-for-granted rules of the career game - that continuous, full-time, hard work pays off - deeply embedded in the American Dream.

Argues that the fundamental principles of American democracy not only allow but require the legalisation of same-sex marriage. In addition to explaining the theoretical issues at stake, this book provides a short history of marriage, disentangling its interpersonal, communal, religious and civil components.

Caught in the Crossfire presents a multi-faceted explanation of why people participate in something as dangerous and uncertain as a revolutionary movement.

Comprehensive in its chronology, the works it discusses, and the commentators it critically examines, Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals tells the surprising story of Tocqueville's reception in American thought and culture from the time of his 1831 visit to the United States to the turn of the twenty-first century.