Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha
“Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial Meanings” offers a provocative look at what it means to belong in modern socialist Cuba. Drawn from her extensive travels throughout Cuba over the past decade, author L. Kaifa Roland pulls back the curtain on a country that has remained mysterious to Americans since the mid-20th century.
Qualitative Communication Research Methods
This book is the only guide dedicated to qualitative research methods in communication. It introduces readers to every step of the qualitative research process, from developing research topics and questions, through writing a final report. In addition to covering the theories and methods currently used in qualitative communication research, the authors also discuss important trends influencing the future of that research.
Conducting Track II Peace Making
Although international conflicts have never been simple, the international and internal conflicts of the post–Cold War world tend to be especially complex. They typically involve ethnic disputes; many actors; numerous apparently incompatible interests and needs; long, violent histories; and complex international entanglements.
Charms of the Cynical Reason
The impetus for “Charms of the Cynical Reason” is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Housed in one handy volume for the first time are several of the seminal essays on W.E.B. Du Bois’ contributions to sociology and critical social theory: from Du Bois as inventor of sociology of race, to Du Bois as the first sociologist of American religion; from Du Bois as a pioneer of urban and rural sociology, to Du Bois as innovator of sociology of gender and culture; and, finally, from Du Bois as groundbreaking sociologist of education and critical criminologist, to Du Bois as dialectical critic of the disciplinary decadence of sociology and the American academy.
Hip Hop’s Inheritance
“Hip Hop’s Inheritance” arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, “inherited” from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics.
The Evolution of Modern States
“The Evolution of Modern States” is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism and social-science methodology. The book begins with a simple question: Why do rich capitalist democracies respond so differently to the common pressures they face in the early 21st century?
Psycholinguistics
For students in speech-language pathology, language education, psychology, linguistics, and for working language professionals, this text provides a clear and attractive introduction to current thinking on how our brains process language in speaking, understanding and reading.
Missionary Scientists
“Missionary Scientists” explores the scientific activities of Jesuit missionaries in colonial Spanish America, revealing a little-known aspect of religions role in the scholarship of the early Spanish Empire. Grounded in an examination of the writings and individuals authors who were active in South American naturalist studies, this study outlines new paths of research often neglected by current scholarship.
Statistical Mechanics
Paul D. Beale and R. K. Pathria have published the third edition “Statistical Mechanics.” The classic graduate-level textbook has been a leader in the field since Pathria published the first edition in 1972.
