This two volume set examines how the evolution of gender roles in United States has changed family dynamics, business practices, and our concepts of womanhood as well as affected debates about equality, political military servi
Sunni Shi'i relations have undergone significant transformations in recent decades. In order to understand these developments, contributors to present volume demonstrate complexity of by analyzing political, ideol
A psychiatrist examines how the world's four most important mind altering substances alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates have played a significant role throughout human history, explains these powerful drugs affect brain cause
This book addresses important current and historical topics in astrobiology the search for life beyond Earth, including extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The first section covers plurality of worlds debate from antiquity
Hannah Arendt (1906 1975) first argued that there were continuities between age of European imperialism and of fascism in in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed theories of race, notions of racial an
Paula Hyman broadens and revises earlier analyses of Jewish assimilation, which depicted the Jews as though they were all men, by focusing on women domestic as well as public realms. Surveying accommodations to new conditions
This book explores contemporary maritime piracy in Southeast Asia, demonstrating utility of using historical context in developing policy approaches that will address roots of this resurgent phenomenon. The depth and breadth of
Because of illness and age the Jesuit theologian philosopher Bernard Lonergan never completed systematic study on Christology, doctrine concerning person of Christ, that he had planned to write. History, written
Ever wondered why primroses have three sorts of flowers; or about pesticide resistance in rats and mice, mosquitoes green fly; antibiotic in disease organisms all are examples of genetical adjustment, explained in this book. This
Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts Afro Modernist epic. Within context of Classical traditions, early 20th century American modernist long poems, griot of West