133 products in Nonfiction Books

This text seeks to cover the information students need to know in order to understand the media, the mass communication process, and the role of media in society. It summarizes basic, generally

Jennifer Johnson profiles the real-life stories of more than sixty women who have no college education, are married with kids, and earn an average of $16,000 per year, giving us an important

Examining reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties, this book emphasises the vitality of little magazines and argues for their necessary place in the study

With 600 signed, alphabetically-organized articles covering the entirety of folklore in south Asia, this new resource includes countries and regions, ethnic groups, religious concepts and practices, artistic genres, holidays and traditions, and

Encyclopedia Of Music In The 20th Century (Hardcover)

Environmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when space shuttle astronauts photographed five thousand fires on a

Cyberspace entices us with the promise of an online utopia--a web of fluid identities and infinite possibilities. When we look for signs of freedom online--anywhere from chat room conversations to cyberpunk fiction--we

Undue Risk is an unprecedented and chilling history of the use of human subjects in atomic, biological and chemical warfare experiments by the U.S. government from World War II to the present.

With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia in science fiction at the end of the twentieth century. In these narratives

The unique and passionate voices in this book lay before us the questions that face not only Germany but anyone concerned with Germany's history and the future of Europe.

This is one of the few current books on African higher education, and focuses on scientific research and communication on the continent. Included are chapters on scientific journals, secondary avenues of scientific

This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of

The status of gay and lesbian literature-for centuries considered marginal at best and corrupting at worst-has changed dramatically over the last twenty-five years. Gay and lesbian studies programs now flourish in universities

bbWhat role might the New Testament have played in the cultural history of anti-Semitism that culminated in the Holocaust? And how has the Holocaust in turn affected the way we read-or should

Why is postmodernist discourse so biased against the Enlightenment? Indeed, postmodern theory challenges the validity of the rational basis of modern historical scholarship and the Enlightenment itself. Rather than avoiding this conflict,

This pioneering new book brings together an important collection of original essays by leading philosophers exploring an extensive range of diverseissues for the philosophy of science and technology. The essays gathered in