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Caring for America's Greatest Natural and Historic Treasures
''A clarion call to action, a message that our park system is a living legacy, entrusted to the care of the National Park Service. . . . Read this book, and then bring, if you haven't already, the national parks into your life.'' -- Stewart L. Udall, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior This is the first comprehensive look at America's national ......
''An excellent representation of the interdisciplinary thrust of peace studies.'' -- Paul Joseph, Tufts UniversityViolence is a topic of concern everywhere--in the media, in churches, in the halls of governments. In every land and in every culture violence is considered by most to be taboo, a last resort. Yet under certain conditions, from the ......
''An excellent addition to . . . ethnomusicological studies of nontraditional music in America.''-- Choice ''A well-deserved look at the musical world of immigrant Jews, who, in finding and creating an expressive medium for self-identity, helped shape and give life to American popular culture.''-- Ethnomusicology ''Employing the tools of the ......
Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives
Why do women choose an occupation that has been ranked the most dangerous in the nation? What do women give up--and get in return--when they take on the tasks of fishermen? The Entangling Net explores these issues through the stories of twenty women who have chosen to work in this extremely risky, male-dominated profession.Leslie Leyland Fields ......
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 1998.In The New American Sport History sixteen scholars, many of them among the best known in the field, explore topics as diverse as the historical debate over black athletic superiority, the ''selling'' of sport in society, the eroticism of athletic activity, sexual fears of women athletes, and the marketing ......
Beyond Left and Right is a sweeping overview of political insurgency in the United States from the 1880s to the present. It is at once a stunning synthesis, drawing on a large number of scholarly works, and an ambitious and original piece of research. The book ranges over diverse individuals and groups that have attacked the established order, ......
When David Wagoner's last collection, Through the Forest: New and Selected Poems, was published, Harold Bloom noted that Wagoner's ''study of American nostalgias is as eloquent and moving as that of James Wright, and like Wright's poetry carries on some of the deepest currents in American verse.'' The same could be said of Walt Whitman Bathing, in ......
In this volume, leading communication scholars integrate cutting-edge research with real-world dilemmas as they address ethical problems associated with technological and cultural changes and demographic shifts.In eleven chapters, the fourteen contributors to Communication Ethics in an Age of Diversity consider the implications of these changes to ......
