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Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street, " popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On the one hand, the idea of popular sovereignty has gained wide acceptance. On the other hand, the proliferation of security and welfare technologies h...

Elie tells the story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God: Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Walker Percy, and Flannery OConnor.

JACQUES FUTRELLE (1875-1912) is widely considered "the American Sherlock Holmes" for his series of stories about Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, who is better known as The Thinking Machine. Van Dusen, a master of logic, believed he could think himself out of any situation-and solve any crime-through the use of his immense intellect. Through dozens of stories, The Thinking Machine solved locked-room puzzles, kidnappings, and more murde...

Blinking lights ahead broke the early dimness that held this Montana morning in a light fog. The lights glowed larger than the simple, yellow bulbs they were. The yellow beacons announced Pete's Crossroads Café. Tires crunching the cold, hard gravel, Scott eased his pickup into the parking lot..." This is a story of strong love. Scott loved the mountains and all they gave him. The rugged beauty of sunrises turning the peaks and canyons shades ...

David Bailey, author of When The Forest Bleeds, has once again written another, "could not put down, " riveting novel. When Carmen Hopper woke up in the morning, it started as any other. Her husband, Dan, had gone to work early and she was about to start another boring day, but it would hardly end that way. When the bank called asking where Dan was, it started a day that would change her life for eternity. Love and life as she had known it wou...

Sojourns in West Africa is a memoir of a young man's month-long hitchhiking trip through West Africa and a tale of lasting relationships begun far from home. Join Steven Keenan on three separate West African journeys. Catch a ride on a four-thousand-mile hitchhiking trek across West Africa at the peak of the cold war. Return in 1998 with a refugee boy who, following medical treatment in the United States, is returning to his family in Ivory Co...

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Hugo Gernsback, and the start of a serious study of the contribution he made to the development of science fiction. . . . It seemed to me that the time was due to reinvestigate the Gernsback era and dig into the facts surrounding the origins of Amazing Stories. I wanted to find out exactly why Hugo Gernsback had launched the magazine, what he was trying to achieve, and to consider ...

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This is a unique collection of essays illustrating the author's distinctive approach to cross-cultural research, and a valuable companion volume to Graves's Behavioral Anthropology. Graves and his co-authors offer fifteen research essays as supplemental readings in research methodology, to convey the challenge and excitement of conducting systematic behavioral science research cross-culturally. For those concerned with a behavioral, scientific...

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In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Hugo Gernsback, and the start of a serious study of the contribution he made to the development of science fiction. . . . It seemed to me that the time was due to reinvestigate the Gernsback era and dig into the facts surrounding the origins of Amazing Stories. I wanted to find out exactly why Hugo Gernsback had launched the magazine, what he was trying to achieve, and to consider what...

In the sprawling Northwest, from the upper Mississippi River valley to Puget Sound, no railroad shaped the landscape and society like the Great Northern Railway Company. This is the complete history of that enterprise, from 1856, when the first charter was granted, through the era of James J. Hill-known as the Empire Builder-to its maturation and eventual merger in 1970, when the eight-thousand-mile Great Northern was incorporated into the mas...

Jason Dent, a young down-and-out sociologist living in Cairo, is hired by an Egyptian businessman to retrieve stolen archaeological evidence. He must travel to Cape Town, South Africa, infiltrate a group of the victim's colleagues, and identify the murderer and thief. He is welcomed by the Orion Society members, who believe he knows more than he does. His mission is complicated by his attraction to the sister of the leading suspect. Problems a...

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Loyal Soldiers in the Cocaine Kingdom opens a window on a rarely glimpsed world: the couriers who transport drugs from Colombia into the United States and Europe. Written by one of Colombia's leading writers, the book lets English-speaking readers get a good look -- for the first time -- at the people behind the drug trade. Colombians from many different backgrounds and parts of the country tell the story of how they got involved in smuggling ...

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Politics from Anarchy to Democracy offers both a primer in political philosophy and an introduction to rational choice theory, one of the dominant paradigms in political science. Unique in its scope, this volume is both accessible and provocative, and I expect it will have a significant impact on both theory and practice." --Michael C. Munger, Duke University "This volume is an important addition to the rational choice library. It contains an ...

Approximately how many languages compose the Bantu language group of central and southern Africa? What is the name of the language spoken in Hawaii by an estimated two thousand people? What Western European language is not known to be related to any other language family in the world -- and is considered by linguists to be one of the most difficult to learn?These are only a few of the questions language lovers, linguists, and lay readers will ...

In this powerful story collection--the first such work of fiction by a woman who served in Vietnam--Susan O'Neill offers a remarkable view of the war from a female perspective. All the nurses who served there had a common bond: to attend to the wounded. While men were sent to protect America's interests at any cost, nurses were trained to save the lives of anyone--soldier or citizen, ally or enemy--who was brought through the hospital doors. I...

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