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The Global Politics of AIDSPaul G. Harris and Patricia D. Siplon, editors With more than 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS—and more than 25 million dead from related diseases since the early 1980s—the need to understand the causes and impact of the pandemic is manifest. In response, The Global Politics of AIDS explores power and politics at multiple levels, ranging from individual behavior to corporate boardrooms to international institutions and More > | ![]() |
Growing a Global Village: Making History at Seabrook FarmsCharles H. Harrison In the first half of the twentieth century, a small corner of southern New Jersey became the first and probably the only rural global village of its kind and size in America. Here, in a township that did not appear on most state maps, thousands of men, women, and children from more than 20 countries and speaking as many languages, most of them uprooted and displaced by war or poverty, came to work More > | ![]() |
Clash of Arms: How the Allies Won in NormandyRussell A. Hart A Choice Outstanding Book!
Clash of Arms examines how the Western Allies learned—on the battlefield—to defeat the Nazi war machine.
Beginning with an investigation of the interwar neglect that left the Allied militaries incapable of defeating Nazi aggression at the start of World War II, Hart examines the wartime paths the Allies took toward improved military effectiveness. He More > | ![]() |
Power Sharing and Power Relations After Civil WarCaroline A. Hartzell and Andreas Mehler, eds. There are numerous studies on the role of power-sharing agreements in the maintenance of peace in postconflict states. Less explored, however, is the impact of power sharing on the quality of the peace. Do power-sharing institutions in fact transform the balance of power among actors in the aftermath of civil wars? And if so, how? As they address these issues, seeking to establish a new More > | ![]() |
Fatima MeerShireen Hassim Fatima Meer, a South African academic, public intellectual, and activist, was a tireless fighter for social justice and human rights—for which she variously suffered banning and detention by the apartheid government. After the end of apartheid, she declined a parliamentary seat, choosing instead to continue her advocacy work. She did, however, subsequently serve the ANC government in several More > | ![]() |
Neva Again: Hip Hop Art, Activism, and Education in Post-Apartheid South AfricaAdam Haupt, Quentin Williams, H. Samy Alim, and Emile Jansen, editors The culmination of decades of work on hip hop culture and activism, Neva Again weaves together the many varied and rich voices of the dynamic South African hip hop scene. The contributors—including scholars, activists, and the artists themselves—present a powerful reflection of the potential of youth art, culture, music, language, and identities to shape both politics and world views. More > | ![]() |
Abortion Politics in North AmericaMelissa Haussman Despite legal affirmations of women's rights to abortion, actual access to the procedure in North America is increasingly curtailed. Melissa Haussman analyzes this disturbing disparity between official policies and daily realities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Haussman examines the successes of US antichoice groups—groups that have extended their reach to effectively contest More > | ![]() |
The Friar's, Summoner's, and Pardoner's Tales from the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerN.R. Havely, editor | |
Naked in Exile: Khalil Hawi's The Threshing Floors of HungerKhalil Hawi, translated and with extensive interpretive material by Adnan Haydarand Michael Beard Assembled in this volume are the Arabic and English texts of the three long poems that make up Hawi's Bayadir al-ju [The Threshing Floors of Hunger], The Cave, The Genie of the Beach, and Plurals in Singular Form: The Transformations of Lazarus 1962. The translators provide detailed essays that explain each poem and the specific problems encountered in translating it.
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Roots of African American Violence: Ethnocentrism, Cultural Diversity, and RacismDarnell F. Hawkins, Jerome B. McKean, Norman A. White, and Christine Martin What explains the well-documented racial disparities in rates of homicide and other acts of criminal violence in the United States?
Critically confronting the conventional narratives that purport to answer this question, the authors of Roots of African American Violence offer an alternative framework—one that acknowledges the often hidden cultural diversity and within-race ethnocentrism More > | ![]() |