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A look at various science fiction, fantasy, and horror films directed by Steven Spielberg, one of the contemporary filmmakers.

This book delves deep into school culture and the school shooter. The authors generate a more comprehensive picture of school violence including the personal, interpersonal, and environmental factors that help to generate a school serial killer.

Observing the brain while in action provides rich information on the behavior of teenagers giving us insight into their emotional and cognitive state. This book combines research from neuroscience and psychology along with common sense and humor to offer parents important strategies to support and guide their teenager.

Rethinking Sexual Identity in Education responds to the wide-spread abuse of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning persons (LGBTQs) in diverse educational environments by utilizing published narratives of LGBTQs educational experiences.

Recounts the tale of a career UN official caught in the turmoil of international and domestic politics swirling around Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge.

Arguing that ethnicity and multiculturalism are essential for understanding globalization, this book offers sustained treatments of their reach beyond a limited national context. It proposes ethnicities and global multiculture as alternative, wide-angle perspectives on cultural diversity.

This book offers a cogent overview of U.S. relations with Asia. Noted scholar Sutter provides a balanced analysis of post-Cold War dynamics in Asia. He assesses how the United States has responded to Asia's growing strength while at the same time trying to maintain its leading position as an Asian power despite China's rising influence.

The Catholic Church has had an impact on both the structure and understanding of criminal justice. This book surveys the history of the church to suggest that despite demonstrable abuses, a coherent theory of criminal justice can be constructed that is harmonious with biblical sources, tradition, and normative emphases in Catholic social thought.

Explores the history of Hong Kong from the early 1800s through the post-1997 handover, when this former colony became a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. This book explores Hong Kong from four interlinked angles Chinese history, British colonial history, world history, and as a place with its own unique identity.

Ecumenical consciousness has not always been part of the Catholic experience. This title traces how the concern for ecumenism came about - from uneasy tension to confidence in the true grace of catholicity.

Aims to overturn the long-standing reputation of Thomas Aquinas as the most moderate and rational exponent of the Christian faith. The author seeks to reveal Aquinas to be one of the most zealous Dominicans (Domini Canes) or Hounds of the Lord - an ardent defender of papal supremacy, the Inquisition, and the persecution of Jews.

Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions is a concise overview, from antiquity to the present, of all the major Western religious esoteric movements. Topics covered include alchemy, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy and many more.

Traces the relationship between Europeanization and multi-level governance. This study illustrates how the EU has affected the vertical and horizontal dimensions of domestic policymaking. It focuses especially on Britain, comparing its experiences to that of ten other member states.

Presents seminal exploration of Che Guevara's contributions to Marxist thinking. This title traces Che's ideas about Marxism both as they related to Latin America and to more general philosophical, political, and economic issues. It captures his views on humanity, his contributions to the theory of revolutionary warfare, and more.

The story of a passion for rivers, trout, and fly fishing, and their sustaining power.

Tells the story of Paraguay's most notorious ruler Francisco Solano Lopez. Despite the heroic stature he gained after his death, Lopez was a monumentally flawed leader who made the disastrous decisions in 1864 and 1865 to invade Brazil and Argentina. This work offers an analysis of Paraguayan politics and Lopez's life and erratic rule.

The best journalists are masters at their craft. With a comma and a colon, a vivid verb and a colorful adjective, they not only convey important information but also create a sense of place and evoke powerful emotions. This book examines the ethical implications of narrative techniques commonly used in journalism.

Aimed at advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, this book covers the theory of foreign policy analysis. Beginning with an overview, it then tackles theory and research at multiple levels of analysis, ending with an examination of the areas in which the next generation of foreign policy analysts can make important contributions.

Attempts to challenge conventional wisdom that education consists of small, incremental changes. Using case studies of personal transformations, or metamorphoses, this book examines Malcolm X, Shaw's Eliza Doolittle, Victor of Aveyron and others to demonstrate how education is a fundamental determinant of the human condition.

Presents a history that traces the 300-year saga of the pirates and warlords who poured out of Scandinavia between the eighth and eleventh centuries, terrorizing, conquering, and settling vast stretches of Europe. This work provides an account of this early medieval period that became known as the Viking Age.

Examines key Jewish texts on leadership and applies these concepts to various issues associated with leading and managing organizations. Discussing authority, charisma, uses and abuses of power, and shared power, this book offers an understanding of classical models of Jewish leadership and translates these models into issues and questions.

Addresses the issue of whether, and to what extent, the opposition to Israel on the liberal-left embodies anti-Semitic stances. This book argues that the dominant climate of liberal opinion does, however inadvertently, disseminate a range of anti-Semitic assertions and motifs of the most traditional kind.

For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the US financed his tyranny. This book traces the tragic history of the so-called Diem experiment from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese soldiers in 1963.

This book is based on the notion that an adequate response to globalization challenges requires a holistic approach to several different dimensions - immigration, technology, economy, and environment - as well as effective collaboration and coordination among the central domains of education: curriculum, teaching, and teacher education.

In this book, Vicki Snider describes six teaching myths that prevent reform in education, examines the beliefs that guide teaching practices, and she uses current research on teaching reading to illustrate the faulty premises that underlie the myths and their harmful effects on children and adolescents.

In this text, Stanley Aronowitz argues for the decline of "the job" as the backbone of American society. New economic and global technological changes have enabled an emerging culture of cynicism between workers and their employers that threatens social stability and well-being.