This timely book provides a balanced and deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since Christopher Columbus's first arrival in 1492. With decades of ...

Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in ...

Within the past ten years, social media such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, and others have grown at a tremendous rate, enlisting an astronomical ...

Written as a travelogue, Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia tackles the most pressing issues of cultural-heritage management ...

This book looks at retirement beginning before it starts and considers not just the positive rewards of this stage of life but also the attendant emotions ...

Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution examines the intellectual and institutional context in which Alexis de Tocqueville developed his understanding ...

Journalists - even those working simultaneously in print, on air and on the Web - trade in words. Using language well across platforms is a vital skill; ...

The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays consider philosophical ...

Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City is a collection of eight essays that explore Tokyo urban space from the perspective of memory in works of the ...

This third edition collection provides a contemporary survey of current international issues in bioethics and human rights for study across social science ...