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A look at the history of Western "civilization", and the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals. David Nibert argues that throughout history the exploitation of other animals has gone hand-in-hand with the oppression of women, people of colour, and other oppressed groups.

By exploring the relationship between domestic and international human rights discourses, this study offers new insights not only into the Chinese but the Western human rights debate as well. Students and scholars should find this work an important tool for understanding the issues of human rights.

Drawing on detailed case studies of Latvia, Ukraine and Belarus, Andrei Tsygankov explores how culture shapes foreign economic policy in post-Soviet states, bringing a national identity perspective to bear on international political economy theory.

Since the 1967 publication of "Studies in Ethnomethodology", Harold Garfinkel has indelibly influenced the social sciences and humanities worldwide. This book, the sequel to "Studies", comprises Garfinkel's work over three decades to further elaborate the study of ethnomethodology.

Spurred by the dramatic landscape transformation associated with European colonization of the Americas, this work creates a prototype theory to explain relationships between colonialism and landscape.

Bina Gupta strives to obtain a harmonious balance between the traditions of Eastern and Western philosophy. Using ancient and modern sources from these traditions, Gupta introduces the sources' insights on questions such as: Who am I? What is the meaning of life? How ought I to act?

Mills argues for a new critical theory that develops the insights of the black radical political tradition. While challenging conventional interpretations of key Marxist concepts and claims, the author contends that Marxism has been 'white' insofar as it has failed to recognize the centrality of race and white supremacy to the making of the modern world.

This work argues that there are forces developing that might constitute a "counterproject" to the project of globalizing capitalism. It articulates, as a successor-system to capitalism, a model of "economic democracy", a system that extends democracy to the workplace and investment finance.

In an age marked by global hegemony and festering civilization clashes, this text charts a path toward a cosmopolitan democracy respectful of local differences. The main emphasis of the study is on linkages or meditation, arranged along the two axes of "local-global" and "self-other" relations.

This work analyzes Paz's political thought, arguing that it is rooted in two separate and often antagonistic traditions, Liberalism and Romanticism. This work also provides a discussion of the political culture and democratization of Mexico.

Cinematic Shakespeare takes the reader inside the making of a number of significant adaptations to illustrate how cinema transforms and re-imagines the dramatic form and style central to Shakespeare's imagination.

An examination of the United States' responses to global warming negotiations through an ethical lens. The text concludes that many of the United States' positions in global climate change negotiations are ethically bankrupt no matter what ethical theory is used in the analysis.

Ranging from discussions of the natural world, livelihoods, and religious and intellectual encounters to language play, crime and punishment, and gender, this book replays the themes of enduring hybridity and "creolization" of cultures dating from the first great encounter between Europe and Asia.

Offers a thorough and accessible analysis of Catholic teaching on war and warmaking from its earliest stages to the present.

The twentieth century has been scarred by political violence and genocide, reaching its extreme in the Holocaust. Yet, at the same time, the century has been marked by a growing commitment to human rights.

By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic experience and the art of living, and providing a compellingly rigorous defense of popular art, this volume re-orients aesthetics towards a fresher and socially progressive agenda.

This text explains what religious terrorists and religious peacemakers share in common and what causes them to take different paths in fighting injustice. It proposes that a deeper understanding of religious extension must be integrated more effectively into our thinking about conflict.

A handbook providing educators with practical help in dealing with disruptive classroom behaviour. Based on the author's extensive work with New York City schoolteachers, it discusses over 100 problems, from what to do about talking in class to how to prevent violence from erupting.

Media prognosticators have been declaring the death of radio, daily newspapers, journalistic ethics, and even journalism itself. This is an introductory text on how to think, report, write, and present news across platforms. It aims to prepare journalism students for the future of news reporting.

Despite repeated predictions of the demise of America and the english-speaking natiosn as the world's predominant culture, James C. Bennett believes that this gap will widen in the coming decades.

This volume explores the lives and thought of three powerful theorists who shaped the foundations of the centre, left and right of the political spectrum in the 20th century. Hoover examines how each thinker developed his ideas, and why and how their views evolved into ideologies.

Sharing Words may be an example of a new way of writing about educational theory and practice, one that results in a captivating and enjoyable experience that invites the reader to share and comment with colleagues, students, and friends.

Centred around a series of conversations with spiritual writers Sr. Joan looks at the common questions or dimensions of life as we know them in our daily lives, not answers as we've been given them, in an attempt to unravel their many meanings, to give them flesh, to honour their spiritual import now and here, in our own time and lives.

In this text, Peter Levine draws inspiration from Robert M. La Follete, Sr, and his circle, which include John Dewey, Jane Addams and Louis Brandeis. He argues that their ideal of fair and deliberative democracy is right for our time.

This updated edition includes analyses of the recent literature in epistemology. In addtion, a case is made for the strong connection between epistemology and artificial intelligence.

This volume is a primer on media governance at a global level and the key influencing forces and organizations, such as ITU, WTO, UNESCO, WIPO and ICANN. It raises key questions and suggests where more complete answers can be found.

This book provides a unique conceptualization of: 1) embodiment as a lived aspect of gender, 2) how masculine practices may be constructed by both boys and girls, 3) how such embodied social actions are related to violence and nonviolence, and 4) the fallacy of the mind-body, sex-gender, and gender difference binaries.

This text uses examples and perspectives from economics, technology and mass media to show how globalization is producing unprecedented impacts on education and culture. The author points to governmental and school policies that can actively shape the future of education.

Explores American influences not only on European television, fashions, fast food, and rock music, but also on youth organizations, literature, UFO culture, and religious faith.