Authors:Patrick Nolan, Gerhard Lenski,
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Keywords: eleventh, macrosociology, introduction, societies, human
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2008-08-30
List price: $63.95
ISBN-10: 1594515786
ISBN-13: 9781594515781

The eleventh edition of Human Societies covers many new developments of our rapidly changing times. Among many global updates are changing political ideologies, cyber warfare, biofuels and the problems they present, new population control initiatives, and the increasing democratization and economic power of China. More than 20 new photos grace the newly designed pages of this classic, influential text.

Author: Paulo Freire
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Keywords: narrative, critical, series, indignation, pedagogy
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-10-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1594510512
ISBN-13: 9781594510519

The last book written by Paulo Freire before his death, Pedagogy of Indignation speaks to the necessity of making and remaking one’s self throughout a lifetime, the role of education in personal development, and the daily life tensions between freedom and authority. The book sharpens our sense of the critical faculties of children. It shows how a teacher, drawing upon his or her own depth as a person, may work with children to help them realize their potential intellectually and as human beings. These topics are also explored in relation to the wider world: the social constitution of the

Author: Henry A. Giroux
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Keywords: media, radical, imagination, new, challenge, terrorism, global, uncertainty, spectacle
Number of Pages: 118
Published: 2006-03
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 159451240X
ISBN-13: 9781594512407

Prominent social critic Henry Giroux explores how new forms of media are challenging the very nature of politics in his most poignant and striking book to date. The emergence of the spectacle of terror as a new form of politics raises important questions about how fear and anxiety can be marketed, how terrorism can be used to recruit people in support of authoritarian causes, and how the spectacle of terrorism works in an age of injustices, deep insecurities, disembodied social relations, fragmented communities, and a growing militarization of everyday life. At the same time, the new media su

Author: Helena Cobban
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Keywords: war, crimes, genocide, nations, atrocity, healing, amnesty
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1594513171
ISBN-13: 9781594513176

In Amnesty after Atrocity? veteran journalist Helena Cobban examines the effectiveness of different ways of dealing with the aftermath of genocide and violence committed during deep intergroup conflicts. She traveled to Rwanda, Mozambique, and South Africa to assess the various ways those nations tried to come to grips with their violent past: from war crimes trials to truth commissions to outright amnesties for perpetrators. She discovered that in terms of both moving these societies forward and satisfying the needs of survivors, war crimes trials are not the most effective path. This work pr

Authors:Charles Tilly, Sidney Tarrow,
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Keywords: politics, contentious
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-08-30
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1594512469
ISBN-13: 9781594512469

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly’s and Sidney Tarrow’s Contentious Politics. The book presents a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of these very different sorts of contention. Drawing on many historical and contemporary cases, the book shows that similar principles describe and explain a wide variety of struggles as well as many more routine forms of politics. Tilly and Tarrow have written th

Author: John K. Wilson
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Keywords: politics, promise, democracy, cultural, enemies, correctness, academic, freedom, patriotic
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-07-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1594511942
ISBN-13: 9781594511943

After 9/11, liberal professors and students faced an onslaught of attacks on their patriotism and academic freedom. In a lively narrative this book tells the story of attacks on academic freedom in the past five years. It highlights nationally prominent and lesser known cases, drawing upon media reports, university documents, and reports and studies seldom seen by the public. It shows how conservative attacks on higher education distort the facts in order to pursue an assault on liberal ideas. A wave of Web sites and think-tanks urge students to spy on their professors for any sign of deviatio

Author: Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Keywords: imperium, constitution
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2009-03-30
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1594515778
ISBN-13: 9781594515774

The title of this book is a play upon several important concepts and forces in the ongoing debate about American empire. Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration and its counsels in the U.S. Department of Justice have been both constituting an empire of American hegemony and, in so doing, violating the spirit and the law of the American Constitution at home and abroad. The U.S. Constitution has been doing work in the nonsovereign spaces of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, and CIA black detention sites around the world. The reach of this constitution is becoming visible in