Author: Meg Greene
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: biographies, greenwood, biography, teresa, mother
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-08-30
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0313327718
ISBN-13: 9780313327711

In this new biography, students will follow Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity as Mother Teresa. The nun who attended to the dying and diseased in Calcutta, India, and established her Missionaries of Charity around the world is revealed to have a singular determination from a young age. As a woman in the patriarchal Catholic system, she had to prove to the hierarchy, even the Vatican, that she was capable of handling each project she proposed. Her vision to live and work among the "poorest of the poor" as one of them led to the founding of a new order t

Author: Melissa Hope Ditmore
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: volumes, work, sex, prostitution, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 848
Published: 2006-08-30
List price: $225.00
ISBN-10: 0313329680
ISBN-13: 9780313329685

The cliche is that prostitution is the oldest profession. Isn’t it time that the subject received a full reference treatment? This major 2-volume set is the first to treat in an inclusive reference what is usually considered a societal failing and the underside of sexuality and economic survival. The A-to-Z encyclopedia offers wide-ranging entries related to prostitution and the sex industry, past and present, both worldwide (mostly in the West) and in the United States. The topic of prostitution has high-interest appeal across disciplines, and the narrative entries illuminate literature

Author: David Curtis Wright
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: modern, nations, histories, greenwood, china, history
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2001-04-30
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 031330940X
ISBN-13: 9780313309403

Every school and public library should update its resources on China with this engagingly written and succinct narrative history of China from prehistoric times to 2000. The world’s oldest continuing civilization, China’s technological, cultural, and philosophical developments have influenced the world throughout its long history. Wright, an expert on China, has written a fascinating history that not only makes the complex history of China clear to the reader, but weaves into each era of that history the thematic strands of diplomatic, cultural, and technological history.

Author: Kelly Boyer Sagert
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: history, culture, popular, american, 1970s
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2007-01-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0313339198
ISBN-13: 9780313339196

Few conventions were left unchallenged in the 1970s as Americans witnessed a decade of sweeping social, cultural, economic, and political upheavals. The fresh anguish of the Vietnam War, the disillusionment of Watergate, the recession, and the oil embargo all contributed to an era of social movements, political mistrust, and not surprisingly, rich cultural diversity. It was the "Me Decade," a reaction against 60s radicalism reflected in fashion, film, the arts, and music. Songs of the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and Patti Smith brought the aggressive punk-rock music into the mainstream, introduc

Author: Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: handbooks, folklore, greenwood, handbook, proverbs
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $60.95
ISBN-10: 0313326983
ISBN-13: 9780313326981

Proverbs offer a concise record of folk wisdom and have appeared in oral tradition, literature, art, and popular culture for centuries. Written by the foremost authority on proverbs, this reference gives high school students, undergraduates, and general readers a concise yet comprehensive overview of proverbs in world culture. The volume begins with definitions and classifications of proverbs, followed by discussions of several notable examples. The book then examines approaches to the study of proverbs and the place of proverbs in literature, politics, popular songs, and everyday life. It clo

Author: Lawson Bowling
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: shapers, american, debates, dictionary, biographical, debate, society
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $78.95
ISBN-10: 0313314349
ISBN-13: 9780313314346

In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson announced his vision of the Great Society, a plan to use the power of the national government to create a better society. Johnson’s Great Society was all-encompassing, but the debate about its particulars centered on specific questions dealing with civil rights, poverty, federal aid to education, health care, and the proper role of the national government and its appropriate limitation. This work describes the lives of the individuals involved in these debates and presents their varying perspectives on these issues. Readers will understand how both these

Author: William G. Staples
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: volumes, privacy, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 744
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $199.95
ISBN-10: 0313334773
ISBN-13: 9780313334771

Writing in their famous Harvard Law Review article of 1890, Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren asserted what many have considered one of the most cherished American values: the "right to be let alone." Yet in this post-9/11 world, it seems that personal privacy is under siege. New threats to privacy have arisen in the face of competing social, political, and economic demands, rapid technological change, and an intrusive and voyeuristic mass media. Citizens are barraged on a daily basis with stories of corporate data mining, government surveillance programs, identity theft, and computer hacking o