new york university press mär 2007 (24 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedom throughout American history, Pregnancy and Power explores the many forces-social, racial, economic, and political-that have shaped women's reproductive lives in the United States.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Philosophical reflections on the phenomenon of globalization.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An in-depth look at the history of plagiarism in light of todays Web-based plagiarism detection services.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Critical re-evaluation of the concept of hybridity withing postcolonial studies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The power and presence of dread in recent American cinema.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contributors seek to promote reasoned debate about emerging security threats and potential military responses.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and disturbing detail, the nature of fraternity gang rape. Drawing on interviews with both victims and fraternity members, Peggy Reeves Sanday reconstructs daily life in the fraternity, highlighting the role played by pornography, male bonding, and degrading, often grotesque, initiation and hazing rituals.In a substantial new introduction and afterword, Sanday updates the incidences of fraternity gang rape on college campuses today, highlighting such recent cases as that of Duke University and others in the headlines. Sanday also explores the nature of hazing at sororities on campus and how Greek life in general contributes to a culture which promotes the exploitation and sexual degradation of women on campus. More broadly, Sanday examines the nature of campus life today and the possibility of creating a rape-free campus culture.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This well-known 'underground' classic critique of legal education is available for the first time in book form. This edition contains commentary by leading legal educations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Colker's book provides a comprehensive review of the ADA's history and a thorough analysis of how effective it has been in vindicating the rights of the disabled. She does not paint a pretty picture, but it is an accurate, empirically based assessment.'--Trial'ÝA¿ comprehensive, factually-supported, and carefully reasoned book in a manner worthy of academic interest. At the same time, ÝColker¿ writes in a plain style free of academic jargon and returns consistently to the human-interest arena of practical ramifications.'--New York Law Journal'This book is must reading for teachers, school administrators, parents, vocational rehabilitation counselors, disability rights lawyers, and Deaf Community leaders who hope to help take the citizen ship interests of deaf and hard-of-hearing people to the next level. The book helps these constituencies make the essential connections between raising and educating deaf children and the rights and opportunities those children hope to enjoy.'--Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education'The Disability Pendulum chronicles societal views and court reactions to the evolving ADA. Ruth Colker shows that public acceptance and inclusion of persons with disabilities into society is as much driven by attitudes about disability as by law and policy themselves. Colker offers an enriched and fresh analysis of the forces affecting the civil rights movement of persons with disabilities in American society.'--Peter Blank, Charles M. and Marion Kierscht Professor of Law and Director, Law, Health Policy & Disability Center, University of Iowa College of Law'Ruth Colker's book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in disability rights. Colker has long been oneof the most astute observers of the development of disability rights in the courts. This.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Read this book to understand the important nexus between terrorism and crime! This cutting edge analysis suggests a new approach to defeat the terrorist threat to the United States.'--Marc Sageman, author of Understanding Terror Networks 'Hamm's clear writing style, careful research and theoretical insights promise to make this a classic in criminology.'--William J. Chambliss, author of Power, Politics, and Crime'ÝProvides¿ the first detailed account of how crime provides logistical support for terrorist strikes. By blending the study of terrorism and criminology, Hamm offers the possibility of detecting and stopping terrorism through the pursuit of conventional methods of criminal investigation.'--Gary LaFree, author of The Nature of CrimeCar bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. In Terrorism as Crime Mark S. Hamm presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods. Whether in Oklahoma City or London, Terrorism as Crime demonstrates that criminal activity is the lifeblood of terrorist groups and that there are simple common denominators at work that can remove the mystery surrounding many of these terrorist groups. Once understood the vulnerabilities of these organizations can be exposed.This important volume focuses in on six case studies of crimes committed by jihad and domestic right wing groups, including biographies of more than two dozen terrorists along with descriptions of their organizations, strategies, and terrorist plots. Terrorism As Crimeoffers an original and significant framework for explaining international and domestic ter.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Where does power come from Why does it sometimes disappear How do groups, like the Puerto Rican community, become impoverished, lose social influence, and become marginal to the rest of society How do they turn things around, increase their wealth, and become better able to successfully influence and defend themselves Boricua Power explains the creation and loss of power as a product of human efforts to enter, keep or end relationships with others in an attempt to satisfy passions and interests, using a theoretical and historical case study of one community-Puerto Ricans in the United States. Using archival, historical and empirical data, Boricua Power demonstrates that power rose and fell for this community with fluctuations in the passions and interests that defined the relationship between Puerto Ricans and the larger U.S. society.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A luminous work about everyday citizens that should free up local democratic energies across the land!'--Aihwa Ong, author of Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America 'Local Democracy Under Siege argues persuasively that American democracy is at a pivotal moment where the forces of exclusion and the ideology of market rule contest with new forms of political activism and engaged citizenship. Readers will take away new perspectives on power, race, class, and activism from this cogent and timely analysis.'--Louise Lamphere, co-author of Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory 'This unique study provides a vital enquiry into the troubled times of local democracy and poses critical questions about its future in the USA.'--John Clarke, author of Changing Welfare, Changing StatesWhat is the state of democracy at the turn of the 21st century To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. They observed public meetings of all sorts, had informal and formal interviews with people, and listened as people conversed with each other at bus stops and barber shops, soccer games and workplaces. Their collaborative ethnography allows us to understand how diverse members of a community-not just the elite-think about and experience 'politics' in ways that include much more than merely voting. This book illustrates how the social and economic changes of the last three decades have made some new routes to active democratic participation possible while making others more difficult. Local Democracy Under Siege suggests how we can account for the current limitations of U.S. democracy and how remedies can be created that ensure moremeaningful participation by a greater range of.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Internet has dramatically altered the landscape of crime and national security, creating new threats, such as identity theft, computer viruses, and cyberattacks. Moreover, because cybercrimes are often not limited to a single site or nation, crime scenes themselves have changed. Consequently, law enforcement must confront these new dangers and embrace novel methods of prevention, as well as produce new tools for digital surveillance--which can jeopardize privacy and civil liberties.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A well-researched, skillfully-written, and carefully-argued diplomatic history examining connections between the United States, Brazil, Africa, and Europe as they relate to the transatlantic slave trade. Horne sheds considerable light upon the ideas, ruminations, and practices of U.S. nationals in their interactions with and encounters of Brazil over the question of slavery, especially from the mid-nineteenth century on, and makes a valuable and important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of (American) hemispheric relations and trajectories, both eventual and potential.'--Michael A. Gomez, editor of Diasporic Africa: A ReaderDuring its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and Brazil. The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals - before and after Emancipation -- continued to actively participate in this odious commerce by creating diplomatic, social, and political ties with Brazil, which today has the largest population of African origin outside of Africa itself.Proslavery Americans began to accelerate their presence in Brazil in the 1830s, creating alliances there - sometimes friendly, often contentious - with Portuguese, Spanish, British, and other foreign slave traders to buy, sell, and transport African slaves, particularly from the eastern shores of that beleaguered continent. Spokesmen of the Slave South drew up ambitious plans to seize the Amazon and develop this region by deporting the enslaved African-Americans there to toil. When the South seceded from the Union, it received significant support from Brazil, which correctly assumed that a Confederate defeat wouldbe a mortal blow to slavery south of the border. After the Civil War, many Confederates, with slaves in tow.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Most will find this book alone as satisfying as a plate of praties or an endearing tin-whistle tune.' --Foreword Magazine'This lavish compendium looks at the Irish and America from a variety of perspectives.' --USA Today'For anyone with the slightest interest in the history of Irish immigrants in America, Lee and Casey's book is a wonderful foundation on which to build a knowledge base.'--Northeast Book Reviews'From the double-meaning of its title to its roster of impressive contributors, Making the Irish American is destined for the bookshelves of all readers who aim to keep up on Irish-American history.' --Irish America'For the astute editorial selection of the number of general and somewhat specialized articles, expertise of the authors, and documentation in articles and appendices plus notes and biographies, Making the Irish American is a major text tying together this field of ethnic studies with American history and social history.'--Midwest Book ReviewIrish America- a land of pubs, politics, music, stories and St. Patricks Day. But of course, it's also so much more.Making the Irish American is one of the most comprehensive books of its kind.'--NYU Today'In Making the Irish American, editors J.J. Lee and Marion R. Casey have compiled an illustrated 700-page volume that traces the history of the Irish in the United States and shows the impact America has had on its Irish immigrants and vice versa. The book's 29 articles deal with various aspects of Irish-American life, including labor and unions, discrimination, politics, sports, entertainment and nationalism, as well as the future of Irish America. Among the contributors are Calvin Trillin, Pete Hamill, Daniel Patrick Moynihanand the editors.' --Associated Press'This massive volume, copublish.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, loosely affiliated groups of writers, artists, and other politically aware individuals emerged in New York City to give voice to anti-fascist sentiment by supporting the Spanish Republic. Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War examines the participation of New Yorkers in the political struggles and armed conflict that many historians consider a critical precursor to World War II. Nearly half of the 2,800 Americans who volunteered to fight in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade against Generalissimo Francisco Franco came from the New York area. Fundraising, propaganda, and deployment for anti-fascists everywhere in America were orchestrated through New York City. At the same time, powerful voices in New York expressed sympathy for the pro-fascist side.The fighting in Spain brought to the surface the complex ideological and ethnic identities always present in New York politics. Facing Fascism examines the full range of this experience, including that of the New Yorkers who supported Franco. It addresses the role of doctors, nurses, and social workers who left New York hospitals to provide assistance to the defenders of the Spanish Republic, as well as those who remained active on the home front. The book also describes the involvement of students in the war, the key role of writers and the media, and the contributions made by members of New York's art and theater communities.Facing Fascism also serves as the catalog to an exhibition of the same name appearing at the Museum of the City of New York in the spring of 2007. The book and exhibition both make use of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives' extensive holdings, which range from historicaldocuments to video recordings of oral histories. Numerous other libraries, archives, museums, and private.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Looks at the issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. This book questions the complexities of young black women's engagement with a culture that is masculinist, misogynistic, and frequently mystifying.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Mark C. Weber is addressing an important and under-examined issue in disability law. He is exhaustively familiar with the relevant case law in both the educational and employment areas, writes exceedingly clearly, and documents his arguments well. He is truly the expert on disability harassment in both educational and employment settings.'--Robert D. Dinerstein, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, American University'Weber presents a rich and detailed understanding of disability harassment. His book is timely and important to the field, and covers the topic thoroughly.'--Peter Blanck, University Professor & Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse UniversityBuilding on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often damaging environment of physical and attitudinal barriers. The book considers courts' approaches to the problem of disability harassment, particularly the application of an analogy to race and sex harassment and the development of legal remedies and policy reforms under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). While litigation under the ADA has addressed discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and education, Weber points out that the law has done little to combat disability harassment. He recommends that arguments based on unused provisions of the ADA should be developed and new legal remedies advanced to address the problem. Disability Harassment also draws on case law to explore special problems of harassment in the public schools, and closeswith an appeal to judges and lawmakers for expanded legal protection against harassment.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recounts the life story of one of the nineteenth century's most surprising and accomplished advocates for women's rights - Belva lockwood, who was fearless in confronting the male establishment, commanding the attention of presidents, members of Congress, influential writers, and everyday Americans.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Suggests how we can account for the limitations of US democracy and how remedies can be created that ensure more meaningful participation by a greater range of people.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During its heyday in the 19th century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the US and Brazil. This work tells the story of how US nationals participated in this odious commerce by creating diplomatic, social, and political ties with Brazil, which has the largest population of African origin outside of Africa itself.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. This work presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Where does power come from Why does it sometimes disappear How do groups, like the Puerto Rican community, become impoverished, lose social influence, and become marginal to the rest of society How do they turn things around, increase their wealth, and become better able to successfully influence and defend themselves Boricua Power explains the creation and loss of power as a product of human efforts to enter, keep or end relationships with others in an attempt to satisfy passions and interests, using a theoretical and historical case study of one community-Puerto Ricans in the United States. Using archival, historical and empirical data, Boricua Power demonstrates that power rose and fell for this community with fluctuations in the passions and interests that defined the relationship between Puerto Ricans and the larger U.S. society.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ('A timely and important collection of materials from highly qualified authors. Cybercrime will provide a wealth of new insights both for general readers and for those who study and teach about the legal and policy implications of the internet.')-(David Johnson), (Visiting Professor of Law, New York Law School).