Examines Brazil as a rising power. It explains Brazil's predilection for soft power through a historical analysis of Brazil's three previous attempts to achieve major power status, each of which shaped its present strategy. Though Brazil's efforts to rise have fallen short it will continue to try to overcome the obstacles to its rise, whether ......
How to Recover America's Lost Commitment to Competence
Argues for a rebirth of the Progressive spirit with a dedication to making government work better. Donald Kettl outlines the problems in today's government, including political pressures, proxy tools, and capacity for management. Government Reclaimed details the strategies, evidence and people necessary to strengthen governmental effectiveness and ......
This is a supplemental text for all sociology courses that facilitates, invigorates, and enhances student learning by teaching students to read and write effectively.
This book examines the "sweet smells of sanctity" within early Christianity and Islam. It is a comparative study of two nascent religious communities, located in disparate times and space, employing scent to define cultural, social, and theological ideals. It will be of interest to scholars of religious studies, gender studies, and history.
Historicization of Biopolitics and Forensics of Politics, Art, and Lif
This book articulates a contemporary, globalized world as one in which radical disparities in distribution of wealth are being reproduced as the basis for depoliticized social, institutional, and ideological discourses. At its center is a reorientation of global capitalism from the management of life towards making a surplus value from death. ......
In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as "modern," which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went before-a new era. With the end of World War I, an array of dizzying inventions and trends pushed American society from the Victorian era into modernity. The New Era provides a history of American thought and ......
Although he had left school aged 14, had no experience of foreign affairs and spoke only English, in 1929 Sean Lester became the Irish representative to the League of Nations in Geneva, eventually succeeding to the post of its third and last Secretary-General.
This book is a series of essays in the area of current culture and its defects, Christian religious belief and other political and philosophical issues. Issues of race, poverty, gender among others are all considered in the book.
This book gathers pioneering essays by major scholars as well as historic documents on Carlos Bulosan's work and life for the first time. This anthology provides the reader an opportunity to trace the development of a body of knowledge called Bulosan criticism within the United States and the Philippines.
