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Green Rush

Daniel J Mallinson, A Lee Hannah

• Hardcover | Engels
• A state-by-state analysis of the expansion of medical marijuana access in the United States As of 2023, thirty-eight states and the District of Columb... Lees meer

Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century

• Hardcover | Engels
• Mainstream academic criticism has usually failed to engage gay work without distorting or ignoring its most central features. In gay men's writing, te... Lees meer

Moral and Political Education

• Hardcover | Engels | Nomos - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy | nr. 13
• What are the proper aims of education in a liberal democracy? Given the deep disagreement about moral and religious values in modern societies, what i... Lees meer

Promoting Democracy

Manal a Jamal

• Paperback | Engels
• How Western donor assistance can both help and undermine democracy in different parts of the world Democracy promotion is a central pillar of the fore... Lees meer

Mixed Race Hollywood

• Paperback | Engels
• A Kansas City Star 2008 Notable Book Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ... Lees meer

Generations of Youth

• Paperback | Engels
• Leading cultural critics on the lasting contributions of American youth on culture and social hierarchies America has long been fascinated by youth an... Lees meer

Desi Hoop Dreams

Stanley I Thangaraj

• Paperback | Engels
• South Asian American men are not usually depicted as ideal American men. They struggle against popular representations as either threatening terrorist... Lees meer

Essential Papers on Narcissism

Andrew P Morrison

• Paperback | Engels | Essential Papers on Psychoanalysis | nr. 13
• An essential collection on leading psychoanalyses of narcissism Narcissism has recently been the focus of debate among professionals, in large part du... Lees meer

The Sword of Ambition

ʿuthmān Ibn Ibrāhīm Al-Nābulusī

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 52
• Patronage, power, and competition in the Sultan's court The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto interreligious rivalry among elites in medieval ... Lees meer

Emerging Evangelicals

James S Bielo

• Paperback | Engels
• The Emerging Church movement developed in the mid-1990s among primarily white, urban, middle-class pastors and laity who were disenchanted with Americ... Lees meer

The Book of Charlatans

Jamāl Al-Dīn ʿabd Al-Raḥīm Al-Jawbarī

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 82
• Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to tricke... Lees meer

The United States and Torture

• Paperback | Engels
• One of the most comprehensive examinations of US torture policy, from the Cold War to the War on Terror to the debate over accountability Waterboardin... Lees meer

The Derrick Bell Reader

• Paperback | Engels | Critical America | nr. 75
• An essential collection of the writings of progressive lawyer and race activist Derrick Bell Lawyer, activist, teacher, writer: for over 40 years, Der... Lees meer

American Jewish Women's History

• Paperback | Engels
• "It gives me a secret pleasure to observe the fair character our family has in the place by Jews & Christians,"Abigail Levy Franks wrote to her son fr... Lees meer

Public Religion and Urban Transformation

• Paperback | Engels | Religion, Race, and Ethnicity | nr. 14
• American cities are in the midst of fundamental changes. De-industrialization of large, aging cities has been enormously disruptive for urban communit... Lees meer

The First Amendment in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Ronald J Krotoszynski Jr

• Paperback | Engels | Critical America | nr. 77
• The First Amendment--and its guarantee of free speech for all Americans--has been at the center of scholarly and public debate since the birth of the ... Lees meer

The Myth of Empowerment

Dana Becker

• Paperback | Engels
• The Myth of Empowerment surveys the ways in which women have been represented and influenced by the rapidly growing therapeutic culture--both popular ... Lees meer

Why Jury Duty Matters

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson

• Paperback | Engels
• An argument for the constitutional responsibility to participate in jury duty It's easy to forget how important the jury really is to America. The rig... Lees meer

Communitarianism

H Tam

• Paperback | Engels
• Although communitarianism has a long history, it has only recently emerged to pose a major challenge to the traditional left-right divide in politics ... Lees meer

Queer Christianities

• Paperback | Engels
• Queerness and Christianity, often depicted as mutually exclusive, both challenge received notions of the good and the natural. Nowhere is this challen... Lees meer

How to Watch Television, Second Edition

• Paperback | Engels | User's Guides to Popular Culture | nr. 3
• A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present We all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but... Lees meer

Marxism and the French Left

Tony Judt

• Paperback | Engels
• Unlike most books, which treat labor, Socialist and Communist history separately and view French Marxism as a self-contained philosophical phenomenon,... Lees meer

The Ways Women Age

Abigail T Brooks

• Paperback | Engels
• The story of how and why some women choose to use, while others refuse, cosmetic intervention. What is it like to be a woman growing older in a cultur... Lees meer

Propaganda

• Paperback | Engels | Main Trends of the Modern World | nr. 8
• Traces the origins of modern propaganda and its influence in modern history This volume traces the origins, ethos, and workings of modern propaganda, ... Lees meer