This ambitious and accessible history of the nation's highest court contains information important for every American to know.

Keeping the Faith: A Cultural History of the U.S. Supreme Court

History

John E. Semonche

Americas

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

The line dividing public life and private behavior in American politics is more blurred than ever. When it comes to questions about sex, substance abuse, and family life, anything goes on the political desk in many newsrooms, including uncorroborated hearsay disguised as news. Peepshow looks behind the scenes at news coverage of political scandals, analyzing what gets reported, what doesn't, and why. The authors talk with top news editors to get a fix on what will make the evening news and what we're likely to read about in the next campaign season.

Peepshow: Media and Politics in an Age of Scandal

Humor & Entertainment

Larry J. Sabato

S. Robert Lichter

Mark Stencel

Movies

Chomsky on Mis-Education (Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire)

Noam Chomsky's prolific writings have made him one of the most-quoted educators in history―the only living writer on a most-cited list that includes Plato, Shakespeare, and Freud. Yet until now, no book has systematically offered Chomsky's influential writings on education. In Chomsky on MisEducation, Noam Chomsky encourages a larger understanding of our educational needs, starting with the changing role of schools today, and broadening our view of new models of public education. Chomsky weaves global technological change and the primacy of responsible media with the democratic role of schools and higher education. A truly democratic society, he argues, cannot thrive in a rapidly changing world unless our approach to education―formal and otherwise―is dramatically reformed. Chomsky's critique of how our current educational system "miseducates" students―and his prescriptions for change―are essential reading for teachers, parents, school administrators, activists, and anyone concerned about the future.

Chomsky on MisEducation (Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire)

Education & Teaching

CHOMSKY, Noam.

Schools & Teaching

In this book Dr. Waitzkin offers a comprehensive analysis of the current problems of costs, coverage, and access to medical care in the United States. He takes the reader into the examination room with vivid patient-doctor encounters that portray dilemmas patients frequently face. Dr. Waitzkin describes how changes in medical care have affected the decision making of doctors, as well as communication between patients and doctors. He offers an analysis of how spiraling costs, managed care organizations, declining coverage, and new technologies have changed the decisions and the course of care chosen. Visit our website for sample chapters!

At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients...and What We Can Do About It

Waitzkin, Howard

Health, Fitness & Dieting

African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas

This multidisciplinary volume highlights the African presence throughout the Americas, and African and African Diasporan contributions to the material and cultural life of all of the Americas, and of all Americans. It includes articles from leading scholars and from cultural leaders from both wellknown and littleknown African Diasporan communities. Privileging African Diasporan voices, it offers new perspectives, data, and interpretations that challenge prevailing understandings of the Americas.

Reference

American Indians and the Urban Experience (Contemporary Native American Communities)

Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the popular and scholarly perceptions of Native Americans, but this is a false expression of a complex and constantly changing reality. When viewed from the Native perspectives, our concepts of urbanity and approaches to American Indian studies are necessarily transformed. Courses in Native American studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, and urban studies must be in step with contemporary Indian realities, and American Indians and the Urban Experience will be an absolutely essential text for instructors. This powerful combination of path-breaking scholarship and visual and literary arts―from poetry and photography to rap and graffiti―will be enjoyed by students, scholars, and a general audience. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book.

American Indians and the Urban Experience (Volume 5) (Contemporary Native American Communities, 5)

Carol Miller

Joy Harjo

Jack D. Forbes

Dugan Aguilar

Octaviana V. Trujillo

Joan Weibel-Orlando

Deborah Davis Jackson

Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization

In Gilligan Unbound, distinguished Shakespeare scholar and literary critic, Paul A. Cantor, proves once and for all that popular culture can be every bit as complex, meaningful, and provocative as the most celebrated works of literature--and a lot more fun. Cantor analyzes and interprets a wide variety of classic television programs with the same seriousness, care, and creativity as he would Hamlet or Macbeth to reveal how dramatically America's image of itself has evolved from the 1960s to the present. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Cantor, Paul A.

Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights

With the dawning of the 21st Century a new human rights movement burst unexpectedly onto the global stage. Initially motivated by concern for persecuted Christians around the world, unlikely alliances emerged, and the movement grew to encompass a broader quest for human rights. Now, American evangelicals provide grassroots muscle for causes joined by a wide array of activists―from Jews to Catholics, feminists to Pentecostals, African American leaders to Tibetan Buddhists―in the most important human rights movement since the end of the Cold War. Given unprecedented insider access, author Allen D. Hertzke charts the rise of this faith-based movement for global human rights and tells the compelling story of the personalities and forces, clashes and compromises, strategies and protests that shape it. In doing so, Hertzke shows that by bringing attention to issues like religious persecution, Sudanese atrocities, North Korean gulags, and sex trafficking, the movement is shaping American foreign policy and international relations in ways unimaginable a decade ago.

Hertzke, Allen

World

This unique book compiles some 120 remarkable letters from Japanese citizens to General Douglas MacArthur during the postwar occupation of Japan (1945-1952). Painstakingly culled from a vast collection, these letters evoke the unfiltered voices of people of all classes and occupations during the tremendous upheaval of the early postwar period, when the Japanese were coming to terms with the devastating losses of the war, adjusting to a new political system, and creating the framework for economic and social recovery. Visit our website for sample chapters! This unique book compiles some 120 remarkable letters from Japanese citizens to General Douglas MacArthur during the postwar occupation of Japan (1945-1952). Painstakingly culled from a vast collection, these letters evoke the unfiltered voices of people of all classes and occupations during the tremendous upheaval of the early postwar period, when the Japanese were coming to terms with the devastating losses of the war, adjusting to a new political system, and creating the framework for economic and social recovery.

Dear General MacArthur: Letters from the Japanese during the American Occupation (Asian Voices)

Sodei, Rinjiro

Literature & Fiction

What is it like to be a black person in America today? The voices of middle class African Americans captured in this book will surprise those who think the era of racial discrimination is past. The Many Costs of Racism is a vivid account of the mental, physical health, and economic effects of everyday racism for Black Americans--and of racism's high costs for all Americans. The Many Costs of Racism is a vivid and startling account of the mental and physical health effects of racism. Drawing on well documented studies, it vividly portrays the damage done to individuals, families, and communities by stress from workplace discrimination. It shows the strong connection between discrimination and health problems, describing these as costs above and beyond the economic trials of discrimination. The book is an ideal text, accessible to students in sociology, law, psychology, and medicine. Visit our website for sample chapters!

The Many Costs of Racism

Politics & Social Sciences

Feagin, Joe R.

Social Sciences

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