WESTVIEW PRESS

(H/B) SCHOOL, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools addresses a fundamental question in education today: How will colleges and universities prepare future teachers, administrators, counselors, and other education professionals to conduct effective programs of family and community involvement that contribute to students' success in school? The work of Joyce L. Epstein has advanced theories, research, policies, and practices of family and community involvement in elementary, middle, and high schools, distric...
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(P/B) TEACHERS AS CULTURAL WORKERS
In Teachers as Cultural Workers, Freire speaks directly to teachers about the lessons learned from a lifetime of experience as an educator and social theorist. Freire's words challenge all who teach to reflect critically on the meaning of the act of teaching as well as the meaning of learning. He shows why a teacher's success depends on a permanent commitment to learning and training, as part of an ongoing appraisal of classroom practice. By opening themselves to recognition of the different roads students take in order to learn, teachers ...
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(P/B) WOMEN, ART AND POWER
Women, Art, and Power - seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND NEW TECHNOLOGY
The emergence of new communication technologies (such as the Internet and social media networking sites and platforms) has strongly affected social movement activism. In this compelling and timely book, Victoria Carty examines these movements and their uses of digital technologies within the context of social movement theory and history. With an accessible and unique mix of theory and real-world examples, Social Movements and New Technology takes readers on a tour through Move On and Tea Party e-mail campaigns, the hacktavist tactics of An...
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(P/B) THE EARLY UNIVERSE
The Early Universe has become the standard reference on forefront topics in cosmology, particularly to the early history of the Universe. Subjects covered include primordial nubleosynthesis, baryogenesis, phases transitions, inflation, dark matter, and galaxy formation, relics such as axions, neutrinos and monopoles, and speculations about the Universe at the Planck time. The book includes more than ninety figures as well as a five-page update discussing recent developments such as the COBE results. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) STUDIES IN ICONOLOGY
"Only two or three other books in the literature of the history of art have had an effect comparable to "Studies in lconology". In it Erwin Panofsky showed that the knowledge of the meaning of a work of art of the past increased not only its relevance to us but also its beauty, and for the determination of this meaning he presented precise historical methods, subject to objective control. The book, however, is not only a landmark in the discipline and in the humanities as a whole. Zestful, illuminated by a rare intelligence and an even rar...
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(P/B) PUBLIC OPINION
Public Opinion is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of public opinion formation and change. The authors (Carroll J. Glynn is professor and director of the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. Susan Herbst is Provost and Executive VP for Academic Affairs at the State University of New York, Center at Albany. Garrett J. O'Keefe is professor of journalism at Colorado State University. Robert Y. Shapiro is professor of political science at Columbia University. Mark Lindeman is assistant professor of political s...
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(P/B) BATTLE - A HISTORY OF COMBAT AND CULTURE

(P/B) THE NEW URBAN SOCIOLOGY

(P/B) THEORIES OF THE POLICY PROCESS

THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST (P/B)

(P/B) SOCIAL THEORY
This first truly multicultural anthology collects important texts representative of the full range of social theory from the nineteenth century to the present. Now that social theory is practiced in many disciplines, it is necessary to reflect on the variety of theories being read today and the earlier sources that are customarily neglected. If today we read Donna Haraway, Henry Louis Gates, and Michel Foucault, we should also read and understand Charlotte Perkins Gilman and W.E.B. Du Bois, alongside Weber, Simmel, William James, and other...
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(P/B) RELIGION AND POLITICS IN AMERICA

(P/B) CONCEPTS OF IDENTITY: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY IMAGES

(P/B) PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS

(P/B) THE NUDE - THE CULTURAL RHETORIC OF THE BODY IN THE ART OF

(P/B) THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN WORLD HISTORY

(P/B) PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

(P/B) INEQUALITY - CLASSIC READINGS IN RACE CLASS & GENDER

(P/B) REVOLUTIONS AND REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS