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Cowboy Conservatism Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780813125763
Pub Date: 02 Jul 2010
Series: New Directions in Southern History
Illustrations: 19 b&w photos, 7 maps
Description:
During the 1960s and 1970s, Texas was rocked by a series of political transitions. Despite its century-long heritage of solidly Democratic politics, the state became a Republican stronghold virtually overnight, and by 1980 it was known as "Reagan Country." Ultimately, Republicans dominated the Texas political landscape, holding all twenty-seven of its elected offices and carrying former governor George W.

The Moravian Beginnings of Canadian Inuit Literature

Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780982170366
Pub Date: 10 Jun 2010
Imprint: International Polar Institute
Illustrations: 81 illus.
Description:
Traced here are the beginnings of literacy and literature for Inuit living in Labrador and the eastern Canadian arctic. Inuit living in Labrador in the 19th and early 20th centuries were more literate than white settlers as a direct result of the Moravian missionaries who taught them to read and write in Inuktitut in the mission schools. Many of the original Inuktitut texts used by the mission teachers and students are included as part of this exhibition.
The History and Practice of College Health Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
ISBN: 9780813129662
Pub Date: 08 Jun 2010
Description:
This volume is the first definitive reference and textbook in the one-hundred-fifty year history of college health. Written for professionals and for those working in student services and higher education administration, it covers the history of college health, administrative matters including financing and accreditation, and clinical issues such as women's health, HIV/AIDS, and mental health. The book also focuses on prevention, including immunization and tuberculin testing.
Spas Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9789185509355
Pub Date: 07 Jun 2010
Illustrations: colour & b/w illus
Description:
Recent years have seen a rapidly growing hotel business built around health and well-being. Leisurely experiences are packaged, staged and consumed as commercial commodities - the tourist complexes have become part of the so called "cultural economy". In the book, ethnologist Tom O'Dell uses spas to highlight the manner in which the culturalisation of the economy has developed.
Comparative Studies in Administration Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780822960683
Pub Date: 03 Jun 2010
Description:
This volume is intended as a contribution to the study of administration. The contributors represent several branches of social and behavioral sciences, including anthropology, economics, industrial management, sociology, and social psychology. The data for the empirical studies were gathered in the United States, Germany, Great Britain, Norway, West Africa, and the Fox Indian society, and from different types of organizations, including manufacturing, mining, shipping, higher education, hospitals, the military, and social welfare agencies.
Leadership and Decision-Making Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780822952657
Pub Date: 31 May 2010
Description:
It has become a truism that "leadership depends upon the situation," but few behavioral scientists have attempted to go beyond that statement to examine the specific ways in which leaders should and do vary their behavior with situational demands. Vroom and Yetton select a critical aspect of leadership style-the extent to which the leader encourages the participation of his subordinates in decision-making. They describe a normative model which shows the specific leadership style called for in different classes of situations.
Neither Fish, Nor Fowl Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9789185509157
Pub Date: 28 May 2010
Illustrations: b/w photos
Description:
Educational media has an immediate connection to education policies, new trends in schooling, child welfare, and pedagogical novelties. The transformation of the Swedish welfare state in the twentieth century was clearly visible in the structure and content of Swedish educational broadcasting. Media education mediated political and social change and reflected the changes of government policies as well as the fundamental cultural transformation of the Swedish society.
The Archaeology of Politics and Power Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 488
ISBN: 9781842173527
Pub Date: 13 May 2010
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Archaeology is not just about the past, but the present and future too. Much of our present condition and future prospects are inevitably bound up with what states do and what they fail to do. To understand the inner-workings and motivations of states one must understand how and why they came into existence in the first place.
Candi, Space and Landscape Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9789088900396
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2010
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Central Javanese temples were not built anywhere and anyhow. On the contrary: their positions within the landscape and their architectural designs were determined by socio-cultural, religious and economic factors. This book explores the correlations between temple distribution, natural surroundings and architectural design to understand how Central Javanese people structured the space around them, and how the religious landscape thus created, developed.
Congressional Ambivalence Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780813192628
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2010
Illustrations: 3 graphs
Description:
Is the United States Congress dead, alive, or trapped in a moribund cycle? When confronted with controversial policy issues, members of Congress struggle to satisfy conflicting legislative, representative, and oversight duties. These competing goals, along with the pressure to satisfy local constituents, cause members of Congress to routinely cede power on a variety of policies, express regret over their loss of control, and later return to the habit of delegating their power.
Workers and Welfare Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780822960454
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2010
Description:
After the revolutionary period of 1910-1920, Mexico developed a number of social protection programs to support workers in public and private sectors and to establish safeguards for the poor and the aged. These included pensions, healthcare, and worker's compensation. The new welfare programs were the product of a complex interrelationship of corporate, labor, and political actors.
Strangers to the City Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780822951353
Pub Date: 23 Feb 2010
Description:
Leonard Plotnicov offers a fascinating study of the urbanization of tribal Africans. His study is based on extensive interviews with residents of Jos, Nigeria over a two-year period. The participants come from a variety of social and cultural backgrounds, and Plotnicov portrays the difficulties associated with assimilation into a Westernized society.
For Jobs and Freedom Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9780813192598
Pub Date: 19 Feb 2010
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Illustrations: 29 photos
Description:
Work has always been central to the African American experience. Whether as slaves or freedmen, African Americans have struggled to gain economic opportunity. For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 analyzes the position of African American workers in the U.
Bitter Legacy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780813192734
Pub Date: 18 Feb 2010
Illustrations: 1 map
Description:
In this most timely book, Richard C. Lukas offers the historical perspective that any reader, scholar, or layman needs to grasp the political turmoil in Poland in the decades after World War II. Bitter Legacy is the first major analysis of Polish-American relations from the Potsdam Conference through the Polish elections of 1947, the critical period during which Poland became a satellite in the Russian sphere.
Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9780822960294
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2010
Description:
Current global estimates of children engaged in warfare range from 200,000 to 300,000. Children's roles in conflict range from armed and active participants to spies, cooks, messengers, and sex slaves. Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States examines the factors that contribute to the use of children in war, the effects of war upon children, and the perpetual cycle of warfare that engulfs many of the world's poorest nations.
New Dawn Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781932714777
Pub Date: 05 Jan 2010
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Illustrations: 28 b/w photos and 4 maps throughout
Description:
“In New Dawn, Richard Lowry presents not just a brilliant account of the battle for Fallujah, but also a useful overview of the history, economics, and culture of the region.” - Newt Gingrich, best selling author and former Speaker of the House of RepresentativesFallujah. Few names conjure up as many images of blood, sacrifice, and valour as does this ancient city in Al Anbar province forty miles west of Baghdad.