This book examines the success and failure of social movements to bring about change in American society. Joseph Luders focuses on the targets of protests and affected bystanders, their interests, and their responses to explain the diverse outcomes of social movements.
Captures the history of dendrimer discovery, key developments in scientific and commercial applications and future uses in nanotechnology.
The contributors to this volume consider whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that are... Læs mere
Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age offers a radical reassessment of Constantine as an emperor, a pagan and a Christian.
Schweber argues that justifications based on particular religious doctrines inaccessible to nonadherents cannot be a proper basis for... Læs mere
Split into two parts, The Construction of the Heavens first takes the reader on a biographical tour of Herschel's ideas and the development of... Læs mere
This book develops a new theoretical framework for understanding cosmopolitan communications and uses it to identify the conditions... Læs mere
This book represents the first compilation of the key works in the area of critical tax theory.
This interdisciplinary book provides a class-tested, accessible overview of continuum mechanics. It surveys solid, fluid and gas dynamics and explores new... Læs mere
Sellers examines strategic communication campaigns in the U.S. Congress, arguing that they create cycles of spin: leaders create messages,... Læs mere
The book addresses central issues in democratic theory by analyzing the sources of widespread dissatisfaction with democracies around the world. The focus is... Læs mere
Through an ethnographic study of a Papua New Guinea cultural group, Geoffrey Saxe traces the emergence of numerical representations and... Læs mere