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Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies East Asian Social Movements: Power Protest and Change in a Dynamic Region (Hardcover)

In the study of civil society and social movements most cases are based in Western Europe and North America. These two areas of the world have similar histories and political ideals and structures in common which in turn affect the structure of its... more

Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices: Advancing Social Studies Education Through Self-Study Methodology: The Power Promise and Use of Self-Study in Social Studies Education (Hardco

Advancing Social Studies Education through Self-Study Methodology provides a collection of works that highlights ways in which self-study of teaching and teacher education practices can advance conversations and knowledge in social studies... more

Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches Perspectives Case Studies from Europe and America (Hardcover)

The pictorial turn in the humanities and social sciences has foregrounded the political power of images and the extent to which historical political social and cultural processes and practices are shaped visually. Political iconographies are taken... more

Encyclopedia of Power (Hardcover)

Request a free 30-day online trial to this title at www.sagepub.com/freetrial Power is a central concept in many disciplines in the social sciences including political science sociology social-psychology organization studies urban politics and... more

Power in the 21st Century: Conversations with John Hall (Hardcover)

Michael Mann s The Sources of Social Power has transformed our way of thinking about power. Here he reflects on the meaning of his project as a whole both as a contribution to social theory and as a guide to the options and constraints that face the... more

Between Movement and Establishment : Organizations Advocating for Youth (Paperback)

This volume examines how organizations advocating on behalf of youth maneuver between grassroots social movements pressing for reform and the established systems of power and authority to improve conditions for youth in urban communities. more

Palgrave MacMillan Transnational History The Establishment Responds: Power Politics and Protest Since 1945 (Paperback)

Protest movements have been analyzed widely within several disciplines in recent decades but the larger repercussions they caused in social institutions and international affairs have largely been neglected. This volume fills this gap by examining... more

Cornell Studies in Political Economy: Networked Politics: Agency Power and Governance (Paperback)

The concept of network has emerged as an intellectual centerpiece for our era. Network analysis also occupies a growing place in many of the social sciences. In international relations however network has too often remained a metaphor rather than a... more

Social Issues in Literature: Justice in Arthur Miller s the Crucible (Paperback)

Responding directly to the era of U.S. politics known as McCarthyism Arthur Miller s 1953 play The Crucible positions the Salem witch trials at the center of a narrative that seeks to dance with and around questions of justice power and suspicion.... more

Culture Place and Nature Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power Place and Everyday Life (Paperback)

Winner of the 2013 ICAS Book Prize (Social Sciences) The Tahiti that most people imagine - white-sand beaches turquoise lagoons and beautiful women - is a product of 18th century European romanticism and persists today as the bedrock of Tahiti s... more

The Nature of Supreme Court Power (Hardcover)

Few institutions in the world are credited with initiating and confounding political change on the scale of the United States Supreme Court. The Court is uniquely positioned to enhance or inhibit political reform enshrine or dismantle social... more

Power Crisis and Education for Liberation: Rethinking Critical Pedagogy (Paperback)

This book proposes a groundbreaking framework for liberatory education and social movements which responds to contemporary crises created by globalization conservative retrenchment and the new imperialism. De Lissovoy reinterprets the work of... more

Power Sales Writing Revised and Expanded Edition: Using Communication to Turn Prospects Into Clients (Paperback)

High-impact language for today s lightning-fast world of sales Filled with practical writing tips shortcuts and examples Power Sales Writing brings you up to date in a world where e-mail social media and smart phones dominate sales communication. If... more

Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor (Paperback)

This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social world they inhabit. It explores their use of metaphors their myths... more

Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape Power and Working-Class Communities (Paperback)

Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics social protest and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories... more

Mass Media and Environmental Conflict: America′s Green Crusades (Paperback)

Throughout the history of the environmental movement the mass media environmentalists governments and various power groups have interacted at various levels to affect social change. The authors of Mass Media and Environmental Conflict emphasize... more

Oxford World s Classics The Forsyte Saga (Paperback)

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy s masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider... more

The Power of Social Innovation (Hardcover)

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Very Short Introductions Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)

Aristocracies or nobilities dominated the social economic and institutional history of all European counties until only a few generations ago. The relics of their power in traditions and behavior in architecture and the arts are still all around us.... more

Columbia Themes in Philosophy Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will Language and Political Power (Paperback)

Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious rational social ethical language-using political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless meaningless... more

The Fair Society : The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice (Hardcover)

We ve been told again and again that life is unfair. But what if we re wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? What if we have the power--and more the duty--to change society for the better? We do. And our very nature inclines us to do... more

Beginning IOS Apps with Facebook and Twitter APIs: For Iphone Ipad and iPod Touch (Paperback)

Beginning iOS Apps with Facebook and Twitter APIs shows you how to add the power of social networking to your mobile apps on iPhone iPad and iPod touch. With this book as your guide you can write apps that connect to Facebook and Twitter quickly... more

The Things They Carried (Paperback)

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war memory imagination and the redemptive power of storytelling more

An Absolute Scandal : A Novel (Paperback)

An inside view of the greed and social power plays behind the closed doors of upper-crust society An Absolute Scandal looks at a world where money isn t everything . . . sometimes it s the only thing. And when the money disappears in the thick of a... more

Twitter for Good: Change the World One Tweet at a Time (Hardcover)

Silver Medal Winner Social Networking 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards Silver Medal Winner Business and Leadership 2012 Nautilus Book Awards The official word from Twitter on how to harness the power of the platform for any cause. As recent events in... more

Teaching/Learning Social Justice Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race (Paperback)

Knowingly and unknowingly we all grapple with race every day. Understanding White Privilege delves into the complex interplay between race power and privilege in both organizations and private life. It offers an unflinching look at how ignorance can... more

Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies (Paperback)

Corporate executives struggle to harness the power of social technologies. Twitter Facebook blogs YouTube are where customers discuss products and companies write their own news and find their own deals but how do you integrate these activities into... more

Issues in Biomedical Ethics Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy (Paperback)

In bioethics discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many... more

Learning from the Land: Teaching Ecology through Stories and Activities (Paperback)

This all-new set of original science tales for children utilizes the power of storytelling to explore ecology s big ideas providing extensive accompanying teacher support for maximum impact. Former teacher and an acclaimed author Brian Fox Ellis is... more

The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology (Paperback)

Few concepts have been so intensively discussed or so widely sponsored as that of ideology. Whether read as the expression of social classes or attributed a material independence and efficacy whether devalued as false and non-scientific or asserted... more

Agency in the Margins : Stories of Outsider Rhetoric (Hardcover)

This collection attempts to answer the question of how do people who are defined as outsiders create agency? How do they become agents of change of social political spiritual and cultural power outside of those spaces that we traditionally... more

The Cultural Logic of Computation (Hardcover)

Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and different from previous technologies they are sure to resolve many of our existing social problems and perhaps even to cause a positive political... more

Real Beautiful the Secret Energy of the Mind Body and Spirit : Uncovering the Sacred Science Behind Creating Your Own Beauty Power Healing Magic (Hardcover)

The painful search women experience as they try to reach the unrealistic levels of beauty and perfection promised in magic pills wrinkle creams digitally enhanced photos media messages and social learning disappears the minute they learn the... more

Borderlands : Ethnographic Approaches to Security Power and Identity (Paperback)

This book examines how different kinds of security and insecurity manifest and interconnect at state borders encompassing the personal and the political the social and the economic in ways that reinforce or undermine the identities of those whose... more

Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies Conflict Transformation and Social Change in Uganda: Remembering After Violence (Hardcover)

Drawing on the concept of hermeneutics the book argues that the successes and setbacks of conflict transformation in Teso can be understood through analyzing the impact of memory identity closure and power on social change and calls for a... more

Surveillance : Power Problems and Politics (Paperback)

Surveillance is commonly rationalized as a solution for existing problems such as crime and terrorism. This book explores how surveillance often disguised as risk management or harm reduction is also at the root of a range of social and political... more

Critical Issues in Crime and Society: Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity (Paperback)

Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity fuses advanced theoretical accounts of state power and neoliberalism with original research from the social settings in which insecurity dynamics play out in the new century. It explores the... more

Texts in Social Psychology: The Social Psychology of Gender : How Power and Intimacy Shape Gender Relations (Paperback)

The Social Psychology of Gender: How Power and Intimacy Shape Gender Relations more