This book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema while championing the literary critical practice of close reading to show how literature reflects, promotes, and contests pervasive sociocultural ideas like race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
The Lebanese Connection uncovers for the first time the story of how Lebanon became one of the world's leading suppliers... Læs mere
Promised Land questions the prevailing assumption that Eastern European Jews were motivated by Zionism to immigrate to Palestine in the early twentieth century.
Approaches the theories, organization, and practices of criminal justice from a sociological perspective so that students can simultaneously... Læs mere
This book explores Egypt's legal history under British rule, revealing the centrality of the "human" to Egyptian legal and colonial history.
Confronts head-on the myth that organizational giantism leads to economic efficiency and well-being in the modern... Læs mere
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California (and indeed the American West) has produced, but a major poet of the 20th century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. This volume covers his work from 1939-1962.