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Hope in Heaven [a DVD directed by Meredith Ralston and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland]Meredith Ralston Mila works at Heaven, a little bar on "blowjob alley" in Angeles city, the Philippines. Once the site of the United States Clark Air Force Base, the city is now one of the busiest and sleaziest sex tourist destination in Southeast Asia. Mila lives in tremendous hope that someday a customer will rescue her from Heaven and take her to America.
In the Philippines, prostitution is not More > | ![]() |
Reluctant Bedfellows: Feminism, Activism and Prostitution in the PhilippinesMeredith Ralston and Edna Keeble This book outlines key facets of the authors' five year development project on sex tourism and prostitution in the Philippines, and is a powerful reflection on the raging debates taking place among feminists about the Third World. Ralston and Keeble follow the history of prostitution in former military outpost Angeles City, the women and foreign men who live by the trade and the varied More > | ![]() |
Arms Control Without Negotiation: From the Cold War to the New World OrderBennett Ramberg, editor Beginning with Mikhail Gorbachev's December 1988 announcement that Moscow intended to unilaterally reduce its conventional armed forces, the spotlight on arms control has turned away from negotiated treaties toward unilateral reductions, and there have been a number of reciprocal reductions not subject to negotiation.
While these initiatives appear novel, this book demonstrates that they are More > | |
Robben Island Rainbow Dreams: The Making of Democratic South Africa’s First National Heritage InstitutionNeo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi, Noel Solani, André Odendaal, and Khwezi ka Mpumlwana, editors Following the birth of democracy in South Africa in 1994, Robben Island, once a symbol of pain, injustice, and closed spaces, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a global symbol of the commitment to democracy, tolerance, and human dignity. In the years that followed, however, conflict marred the high hopes for this cherished location. Robben Island Rainbow Dreams offers a behind-the-scenes More > | ![]() |
The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Jews and Nationalism in HungaryVera Ranki, with a foreword by Randolph L. Braham Choice Outstanding Academic Book!
Tracing the social history of Jews in Hungary from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Vera Ranki reveals how state policies shifted from encouraging assimilation to institutionalizing anti-Semitism. Her study provides a poignant illustration of the changing politics of nationalism, the failures of inclusion policies, and the role of the political More > | ![]() |
US Politics and Generation Y: Engaging the MillennialsDavid Rankin How have the momentous events of the early 21st century affected the millennial generation's political awareness and action? What accounts for the widespread youth mobilization in support of Barack Obama during the 2008 elections? How do millennials differ from past generations in the ways that they engage in politics? Addressing these questions, David Rankin goes beyond the impact of More > | ![]() |
The Political Life of Mary Kaldor: Ideas and Action in International RelationsMelinda Rankin Although more than a little controversial, Mary Kaldor's academic work and ideas have both stimulated and influenced debate in the Pentagon, the United Nations, the European Union, NATO, and beyond. How did this come about? And how did Kaldor reach the conclusions outlined in her seminal books?
Melinda Rankin traces the evolution of Kaldor's work, revealing how her thinking developed More > | ![]() |
Gender Analysis in Development Planning: A Case BookAruna Rao, Mary B. Anderson, and Catherine A. Overholt, editors These practical cases studies from India provide innovative management strategies, as well as planning and evaluation techniques, sensitive to gender issues. The cases are open-ended, enabling readers to exercise their problem-solving skills and encouraging them to reach their own solutions to the problems posed. More > | ![]() |
Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American JudaismMarc Lee Raphael, with an introduction by Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler The preeminent American rabbi during four decades, Abba Hillel Silver was one of the earliest great liberal Jewish activists and perhaps the most widely sought after Jewish speaker in America in his day. For forty-six ears, he served as spiritual leader to the largest Reform Jewish congregation in the United States, The Temple, in Cleveland, long known for its non-Zionist orientation. In the 1920s More > | ![]() |
Globalization and Inequality: Neoliberalism's Downward SpiralJohn Rapley Has the far-reaching experiment in creating a new world order along neoliberal lines succeeded? John Rapley answers with an emphatic no, contending that the rosy picture painted by neoliberal proponents of globalization was based on false assumptions.
True, Rapley acknowledges, neoliberal reforms often have generated economic growth—but at a price. The resulting increase in inequality has More > | ![]() |