Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507301Description: A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted because the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507301http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489891Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489891http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491193Description: In 1960, the FDA approved the contraceptive commonly known as "the pill." Advocates, developers, and manufacturers believed that the convenient new drug would put an end to unwanted pregnancy, ensure happy marriages, and even eradicate poverty. But as renowned historian Elaine Tyler May reveals in America and the Pill, it was women who embraced it and created change. They used the pill to challenge the authority of doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and lawmakers. They demonstrated that the pill was about much more than family planning--it offered women control over their bodies and their lives. From little-known accounts of the early years to personal testimonies from young women today, May illuminates what the pill did and did not achieve during its half century on the market.--Publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491193http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491192Description: Examines the impact of religion on American life and how that impact has changed in the last half-century.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491192http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503311Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503311http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492623Description: From the Publisher: Animating Difference studies the way race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are portrayed in recent animated films from 1990 through the present. Ranging from Aladdin to Toy Story to Up, these popular films are key media through which children (and adults) learn about the world and how to behave. While racial and gender stereotypes may not be as obvious as they may have been in films of decades past, they often continue to convey troubling messages and stereotypes in subtle and surprising ways.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492623http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496013Description: On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three men. The army blamed "human error" and a sordid love triangle. Though overshadowed by Three Mile Island, SL-1 remains the only fatal nuclear reactor incident in American history.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496013http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489653Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489653http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490715Description: Peek chronicles the exclusion that Muslim American men and women faced before and especially in the aftermath of 9/11. Personal narratives describe the range of discrimination they experienced, the personal and collective impacts of the backlash, and the ways in which Muslims adapted in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490715http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493203Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493203http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507304Description: Tablets, smart phones, and social networks all promise better opportunities to connect and stay connected. Yet what they really do is replace face-to-face interactions and disguise our growing inability to trust others. According to recent surveys, at any given moment, sixty million Americans, 20 percent of the population, feel sufficiently isolated to report that loneliness is a major source of unhappiness. Have we arrived at a new kind of consciousness in which electronic interfaces receive most of our attention to the detriment of real interpersonal communication and empathy? In this book the author offers a bracing look at an America where intimacy with machines is increasingly replacing mutual human intimacy. In a sweeping overview that ranges from the late nineteenth century to the present, he reveals how consumer technologies changed from analgesic devices that ameliorated the loneliness of a newly urban generation in the Gilded Age to prosthetic machines that act as substitutes for companionship in contemporary America. Mining insights from neuroscience, the author delves deeply into the history of this transformation, showing why Americans use certain technologies to mediate their connections with other human beings instead of seeking out face-to-face contacts. In a final investigative section, he describes ways in which some people are bucking the trend by consciously including interpersonal strategies that build empathy, community, and mutual acceptance. This interdisciplinary synthesis provides many insights into our increasingly artificial relationships and a vision of how we can rediscover genuine community and human empathy.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507304http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507305Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507305http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496014Description: Orbach diagnoses the crisis in our relationship to our bodies, and points the way toward a process of healing.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496014http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496545Description: Provides key principles of both macro and microeconomics, discussing such issues as why budget deficits matter, what the Federal Reserve actually does, and why health insurance is so expensive.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496545http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507698Description: "The only comprehensive history available of suicide bombing from its origins in Imperial Russia to the current day, The Business of Martyrdom examines the bombers, their societies, and the organizations that train and sponsor them. Writing for a broad audience, Lewis draws on the history and philosophy of technology in order to explain the evolution and diffusion of suicide bombing across time and from region to region. Lewis presents a model for suicide bombing that integrates individual psychology, organizational motivations, and social support. He argues that suicide bombing is a technology that has been invented and re-invented at different times in different areas, but always for the same purpose: resolving a mismatch in military capabilities between antagonists by utilizing the available cultural and human resources. To explain inconsistencies in the use of suicide bombing by different groups, he examines suicide bombing as a technological system that is flexible enough to be adapted to specific local conditions. He views suicide bombers as components within a much larger system that has been shaped by a host of social, cultural, and operational constraints throughout its existence. Incorporating insights from the historical analysis of other technological systems with current thinking on suicide bombing, the book helps readers develop a full appreciation of the unified yet diverse phenomenon. His explanations of the global decline in suicide bombing and the success of some countries in reducing the threat of it add significantly to a better understanding of the subject."--book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507698http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491191Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491191http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490714Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490714http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493207Description: "In Class Dismissed, John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and inequality in the United States can be solved through education. Using sophisticated analysis combined with personal experience in the classroom, Marsh not only shows that education has little impact on poverty and inequality, but that our mistaken beliefs actively shape the way we structure our schools and what we teach in them. Rather than focus attention on the hierarchy of jobs and power--where most jobs require relatively little education, and the poor enjoy very little political power--money is funneled into educational endeavors that ultimately do nothing to challenge established social structures, and in fact reinforce them. And when educational programs prove ineffective at reducing inequality, the ones whom these programs were intended to help end up blaming themselves. Marsh's struggle to grasp the connection between education, poverty, and inequality is both powerful and poignant"-- Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493207http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492565Description: How do college students really conduct research for classroom assignments? In 2008, five large Illinois universities were awarded a Library Services and Technology Act Grant to try to answer that question. The resulting ongoing study has already yielded some eye-opening results. The findings suggest changes ranging from simple adjustments in service and resources to modifying the physical layout of the library. In this book the editors, both anthropological researchers have been involved with the project since its beginning. This book: Summarizes the study's history, including its goals, parameters, and methodology; Offers a comprehensive discussion of the research findings, touching on issues such as website design, library instruction for faculty, and meeting the needs of commuter and minority students; Details a number of service reforms which have already been implemented at the participating institutions. This book deepens our understanding of how academic libraries can better serve students' needs, and also serves as a model for other researchers interested in a user-centered approach to evaluating library services.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492565http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504881Description: Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of America's colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504881http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493222Description: Provides information on resources, products, and services for people with disabilities.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493222http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496547Description: "Critical Rural Theory is an attempt to bring together the concepts of structure, space, and culture in order to explain the relationship between rural communities and urban society. The overarching theme revolves around the many ways-structural, spatial, and cultural-in which urban systems create and maintain a hegemonic relationship with rural areas and people. Central to this theme is the concept of urbanormativity: the cultural assumption of the dominance and superiority of urban communities and patterns of life. Urbanormativity is an outgrowth of the structural forces in an urban society that favor the interests of cities over those of the countryside, of a generally exploitative relationship between the two. The structure of a society is encoded in the settlement space, which in turn influences one's experience. The experience of social space produces cultural dynamics that are reproduced from generation to generation. These mechanisms are explored through popular culture, physical patterns of urban expansion, and historical patterns of social change."--pub. desc.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496547http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507314Description: "Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, Damned Lies and Statistics has emerged as the go-to handbook for spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers."--book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507314http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491190Description: Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491190http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490713Description: "The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower chronicles how four groups of activists convinced the public and Congress that campus crime posed a new danger to college students and the Ivory Tower itself"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490713http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507306Description: Over the last decade the West has undergone a political and demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the frontier. Now, in "Desert America," a work of powerful reportage and memoir, Rubâen Martâinez, acclaimed author of "Crossing Over," evokes a new world of extremes: outrageous wealth and devastating poverty, sublime beauty and ecological ruin.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507306http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496548Description: ""Digital Vertigo provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful for Keen who makes me stop and think before committing myself fully to the social revolution." --Larry Downes, author of The Killer App In Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen presents today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of "social" companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age. The tragic paradox of life in the social media age, Keen says, is the incompatibility between our internet longings for community and friendship and our equally powerful desire for online individual freedom. By exposing the shallow core of social networks, Andrew Keen shows us that the more electronically connected we become, the lonelier and less powerful we seem to be. "--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496548http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492566Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492566http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490379Description: Explains how years of desegregation and affirmative action have led to the revelation of four distinct African American groups who reflect unique political views and circumstances, in a report that also illuminates crucial modern debates on race and class.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490379http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507315Description: Men have been the dominant sex since the dawn of mankind. But the author has noticed that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true. At this unprecedented moment, by almost every measure, women are no longer gaining on men: they have pulled decisively ahead. And "the end of men", the title of her Atlantic magazine cover story on the subject, has entered the lexicon as dramatically as Betty Friedan's "Feminine Mystique," Simone de Beauvoir's "Second Sex," Susan Faludi's "Backlash," and Naomi Wolf's "Beauty Myth" once did. In this book, the author reveals how this new state of affairs is radically shifting the power dynamics between men and women at every level of society, with profound implications for marriage, sex, children, work, and more. With wide-ranging curiosity and insight unhampered by assumptions or ideology, the author shows how the radically different ways men and women today earn, learn, spend, couple up, even kill, has turned the big picture upside down.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507315http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491189Description: For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the "Green Revolution" succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year--most of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse. In the west we think of famine as a natural disaster, brought about by drought, or as the legacy of brutal dictators. But in this powerful investigative narrative, Thurow & Kilman show exactly how, in the past few decades, American, British, and European policies conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491189http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491188Description: Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman - and the first black woman ever -- to serve as Secretary of State. But until she was 25 she never learned to swim. Not because she wouldn't have loved to, but because when she was a little girl in Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor decided he'd rather shut down the city's pools than give black citizens access. Throughout the 1950's, Birmingham's black middle class largely succeeded in insulating their children from the most corrosive effects of racism, providing multiple support systems to ensure the next generation would live better than the last. But by 1963, when Rice was applying herself to her fourth grader's lessons, the situation had grown intolerable. Birmingham was an environment where blacks were expected to keep their head down and do what they were told -- or face violent consequences. That spring two bombs exploded in Rice's neighborhood amid a series of chilling Klu Klux Klan attacks. Months later, four young girls lost their lives in a particularly vicious bombing. So how was Rice able to achieve what she ultimately did? Her father, John, a minister and educator, instilled a love of sports and politics. Her mother, a teacher, developed Condoleezza's passion for piano and exposed her to the fine arts. From both, Rice learned the value of faith in the face of hardship and the importance of giving back to the community. Her parents' fierce unwillingness to set limits propelled her to the venerable halls of Stanford University, where she quickly rose through the ranks to become the university's second-in-command. An expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs, she played a leading role in U.S. policy as the Iron Curtain fell and the Soviet Union disintegrated. Less than a decade later, at the apex of the hotly contested 2000 presidential election, she received the exciting news -- just shortly before her father's death -- that she would go on to the White House as the first female National Security Advisor. As comfortable describing lighthearted family moments as she is recalling the poignancy of her mother's cancer battle and the heady challenge of going toe-to-toe with Soviet leaders, Rice holds nothing back in this remarkably candid telling. This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl -- and a young woman -- trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world and of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community, that made all the difference. -- Book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491188http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490712Description: Examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness and brings alive feminist theories about aging, beauty work, femininity, and the body.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490712http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491187Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491187http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492624Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492624http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491047Description: Offers an assessment of the successes, misconceptions, and future implications involved in the rapidly growing gaming industry as it continues to influence the world.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491047http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507316Description: "A comprehensive biographical survey from ancient Chinese courtiers to pioneers of gay liberation in the twenty-first century, from the unknowable relationships of the distant past to the frankest affirmations of modern sexual identity"--Publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507316http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499018Description: "Most American college campuses are home to a vibrant drinking scene where students frequently get wasted, train-wrecked, obliterated, hammered, destroyed, and decimated. The terms that university students most commonly use to describe severe alcohol intoxication share a common theme: destruction, and even after repeated embarrassing, physically unpleasant, and even violent drinking episodes, students continue to go out drinking together. In Getting Wasted, Thomas Vander Ven provides a unique answer to the perennial question of why college students drink. Vander Ven argues that college students rely on "drunk support:" contrary to most accounts of alcohol abuse as being a solitary problem of one person drinking to excess, the college drinking scene is very much a social one where students support one another through nights of drinking games, rituals and rites of passage. Drawing on over 400 student accounts, 25 intensive interviews, and one hundred hours of field research, Vander Ven sheds light on the extremely social nature of college drinking. Giving voice to college drinkers as they speak in graphic and revealing terms about the complexity of the drinking scene, Vander Ven argues that college students continue to drink heavily, even after experiencing repeated bad experiences, because of the social support that they give to one another and due to the creative ways in which they reframe and recast violent, embarrassing, and regretful drunken behaviors. Provocatively, Getting Wasted shows that college itself, closed and seemingly secure, encourages these drinking patterns and is one more example of the dark side of campus life." -- Amazon.com.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499018http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503442Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503442http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490711Description: This book offers a practical yet powerful way to understand the psychological appeal and strong motivation to play video games. Video games have come a long way, from Atari's pinging, monochromatic Pong to the garish mayhem of Grand Theft Auto and the stylish sophistication of Beatles Rock Band. And it is no longer just teenagers that are hooked, audiences both young and old can't seem to get enough. But while "video-game addict" has become a common term, are these games really physically and psychologically addictive? With video game sales in the billions and anxious concerns about their longterm effects growing louder, this volume brings something new to the discussion. It is a research-based analysis on the games and gamers, addressing both the positive and negative aspects of habitual playing by drawing on significant recent studies and established motivational theory. Filled with examples from popular games and the real experiences of gamers themselves, it gets to the heart of gaming's powerful psychological and emotional allure, the benefits as well as the dangers. It gives everyone from researchers to parents to gamers themselves a clearer understanding the psychology of gaming, while offering prescriptions for healthier, more enjoyable games and gaming experiences.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490711http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493224Description: "On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital, along with a team of volunteers, to lend his services to the injured. In this vivid narrative, Farmer describes the incredible suffering--and resilience--that he encountered in Haiti. Having worked in the country for nearly thirty years, he skillfully explores the social issues that made Haiti so vulnerable to the earthquake--the very issues that make it an "unnatural disaster." Complementing his account are stories from other doctors, volunteers, and earthquake survivors. Haiti after the earthquake will both inform and inspire readers to stand with the Haitian people against the profound economic and social injustices that formed the fault line for this disaster"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493224http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496016Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496016http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490710Description: Examines the impact of legalized gambling on American culture, describing the appeal of legalized gambling as a tool for politicians to raise revenues and create jobs, discussing a rise in gambling addictions, and explaining how gambling addiction can lead to higher indebtedness and increased amounts of divorces, suicides, and gambling-related crime.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490710http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492621Description: The author reopens the politically incorrect question of just how much children need their parents, especially their mothers. She contends that absent parents--and children who feel like just another chore to be outsourced--are the common denominator of recent epidemics among young people, including obesity, STDs, behavioral problems such as attention deficit disorder, and the use of psychiatric medication in even very young children; and asks whether this trend has already reached a tipping point in American society.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492621http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490709Description: In Homophobic Bullying, Ian Rivers reviews primary data from key studies conducted in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, and Scandinavia that have shaped the way we view homophobia in educational contexts.--[book jacket]http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490709http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491186Description: Intertwining philosophy and historical narrative, Appiah has created a remarkably dramatic work, which demonstrates that honor is the driving force in the struggle against man's inhumanity to man--and the foundation of democratic movements such as the emancipation of women, slaves, and the oppressed.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491186http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489645Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489645http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499019Description: "Contributions from 101 of the most prestigious thinkers, writers, public figures, and other luminaries on a wide range of topics fill the pages of this meditation on how to make the world a better place. Focusing on the large problems of the world as well as the little challenges people face, How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth tackles the momentous question of what each of us can do to improve our community, our country, and our world, one step at a time"--Cover, p. 4.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499019http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496017Description: In this book, the author, an Emmy award winning broadcaster chronicles the influence of television on the baby boomer generation. Spellbound by Howdy Doody and The Ed Sullivan Show, those children often acted out their favorite programs, purchased the merchandise promoted by performers, and were fascinated by the personalities they saw on screen, often emulating their behavior. It was the first generation raised by TV, and the author looks at both the promise of broadcasting as espoused by the inventors and how that promise was both redefined and lost by the corporations who helped spread this revolutionary technology. -- From Book jacket..http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496017http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490938Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490938http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490704Description: Examines a sharp decline in marriage rates among the African-American middle class while analyzing probable causes, tracing the rise of educated and independent black women and evaluating the potential of interracial marriages.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490704http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496556Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496556http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507307Description: When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker threatened the collective bargaining rights of the state's public-sector employees in early 2011, the massive protests that erupted in response put the labor movement back on the nation's front pages. It was a powerful reminder of a not-so-distant past when the "labor question", and the power of organized labor, was part and parcel of a century-long struggle for justice and equality in America. Now, as the reverberations from the "Occupy Wall Street" movement continue to be felt across the nation, the lessons of history, in seemingly short supply, are a vital handhold for the thousands of activists and citizens everywhere who sense that something has gone terribly wrong, and who believe that the labor movement can, and must be saved. This volume provides readers with an understanding of the history that is directly relevant to the economic and political crises working people face today, and points the way to a revitalized twenty-first-century labor movement. With original contributions from leading labor historians, social critics, and activists, the book makes crucial connections between the past and present, and then looks forward, asking how we might imagine a different future for all Americans.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507307http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490708Description: Los Angeles has long been a place where cultures clash and reshape. The city has a growing number of Latina/o authors and filmmakers who are remapping and reclaiming it through ongoing symbolic appropriation. In this illuminating book, Ignacio Lâopez-Calvo foregrounds the emotional experiences of authors, implicit authors, narrators, characters, and readers in order to demonstrate that the evolution of the imaging of Los Angeles in Latino cultural production is closely related to the politics of spatial location. This spatial-temporal approach, he writes, reveals significant social anxieties, repressed rage, and deep racial guilt. Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction sets out to reconfigure the scope of Latino literary and cultural studies. Gathering histories of different regions and nations, the book sets the interplay of unresolved contradictions in this particular metropolitan area. The novelists studied here stem from multiple areas, including the U.S. Southwest, Guatemala, and Chile. The study also incorporates non-Latino writers who have contributed to the Latino culture of the city. The first chapter examines Latino cultural production from an ecocritical perspective on urban interethnic relations. Chapter 2 concentrates on the representation of daily life in the barrio and the marginalization of Latino urban youth. The third chapter explores the space of women and how female characters expand their area of ooperationsfrom the domestic space to the public space of both the barrio and the city. A much-needed contribution to the fields of urban theory, race critical theory, Chicana/o-Latina/o studies, and Los Angeles writing and film, Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction offers analysis from multiple theoretical perspectives---including urban theory, ecocriticism, ethnic studies, gender studies and cultural studies---contextualized with notions of transnationalism and post-nationalism.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490708http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496018Description: "Graduating high school and moving on to further education or the workplace brings with it a whole new set of challenges, and this is especially true for students with disabilities. The authors describe the legal landscape as it applies to students with disabilities in the USA, and how to obtain the proper disability documentation to ensure that the student receives the right support and accommodations in college. Focussing specifically on the issues that affect students with disabilities, they offer advice on everything from dealing with college entrance exams and the college application process, to selecting the right college, visiting the campus, and achieving medical and financial independence away from home."--From publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496018http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507318Description: This book investigates the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body's most visible trait influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. The author begins with the biology and evolution of skin pigmentation, explaining how skin color changed as humans moved around the globe. She explores the relationship between melanin pigment and sunlight, and examines the consequences of rapid migrations, vacations, and other lifestyle choices that can create mismatches between our skin color and our environment. Richly illustrated, this book explains why skin color has come to be a biological trait with great social meaning-- a product of evolution perceived by culture. It considers how we form impressions of others, how we create and use stereotypes, how negative stereotypes about dark skin developed and have played out through history. Offering examples of how attitudes about skin color differ in the U.S., Brazil, India, and South Africa, the author suggests that a knowledge of the evolution and social importance of skin color can help eliminate color-based discrimination and racism.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507318http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492625Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492625http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490707Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490707http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490706Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490706http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493226Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493226http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490705Description: Studies middle class Mexican American families across three generations and their experiences of racism and assimilation.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490705http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490703Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490703http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490702Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490702http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491185Description: "Seeking the truth about UFOs in America, Mark Pilkington and his friend John Lundberg uncover a sixty-year-old stranger than any conspiracy thriller. Through the fascinating account of their quest, Pilkington reveals the long history of UFOria and its parallels in little-known tales from the murky worlds of espionage, psychological warfare, and advanced military technology. Along the way, he discovers that the truth about flying saucers is stranger and more complex than either theufologists or debunkers would have us believe. As he crosses America meeting intelligence agents, disinformation specialists, and UFO hunters, Pilkington is confronted with a dizzying array of ever more outrageous claims and counterclaims. As a result, he begins to suspect that, instead of covering up stories of crashed flying saucers, alien contacts, and secret underground bases, the U.S. intelligence agencies have actually been promoting them all along"--Cover, p. 2.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491185http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496019Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496019http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507320Description: With Mormonism on the verge of an unprecedented cultural and political breakthrough, an eminent scholar of American evangelicalism explores the history and reflects on the future of this native-born American faith and its connection to the life of the nation. In 1830, a young seer named Joseph Smith began organizing adherents into a new religious community that would come to be called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (known informally as the Mormons). Here, religious historian Matthew Bowman presents more than 180 years of Mormon history and doctrine. He recounts the church's origin and development, explains how Mormonism came to be one of the fastest-growing religions in the world by the turn of the 21st century, and sets the scene for a 2012 presidential election that has the potential to mark a major turning point in the way this faith is perceived by the wider American public--and internationally.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507320http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491046Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491046http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507699Description: "Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction. The new social operating system of 'networked individualism' liberates us from the restrictions of tightly knit groups; it also requires us to develop networking skills and strategies, work on maintaining ties, and balance multiple overlapping networks. Rainie and Wellman outline the 'triple revolution' that has brought on this transformation: the rise of social networking, the capacity of the Internet to empower individuals, and the always-on connectivity of mobile devices. Drawing on extensive evidence, they examine how the move to networked individualism has expanded personal relationships beyond households and neighborhoods; transformed work into less hierarchical, more team-driven enterprises; encouraged individuals to create and share content; and changed the way people obtain information. Rainie and Wellman guide us through the challenges and opportunities of living in the evolving world of networked individuals."--book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507699http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493227Description: "The New Blackwell Companion to Social provides a comprehensive guide to the principal traditions of social theory, while also exploring critical contemporary issues and engaging sociology with other major areas of the social sciences." "Bringing together leading scholars from various branches of social theory, this authoritative new collection covers areas from classical sociology to actor network theory, and from structuralism to the sociology of the body. It also emphasizes certain key areas of sociology which have had an important impact in shaping the discipline as a whole, such as feminist social theory, economic sociology, and the sociology of religion." "The New Companion argues for a restoration and invigoration of the role of social theory in contemporary sociology, if the discipline is to remain dynamic, critical, and relevant."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493227http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507322Description: Feminists opened up thousands of doors in the 1960s and 1970s, but decades later, are U.S. women where they thought they would be? The answer, it turns out, is a resounding no. Surely there have been gains. Women now comprise nearly 60 percent of college undergraduates and half of all medical and law students. They have entered the workforce in record numbers, making the two wage earner family the norm. But combining a career and family turned out to be more complicated than expected. While women changed, social structures surrounding work and family remained static. Affordable and high quality child care, paid family leave, and equal pay for equal work remain elusive for the vast majority of working women. In fact, the nation has fallen far behind other parts of the world on the gender equity front. We lag behind more than seventy countries when it comes to the percentage of women holding elected federal offices. Only 17 percent of corporate boards include women members. And just 5 percent of Fortune 500 companies are led by women. It is time, says the author, to change all that. Looking back over five decades of advocacy, she analyzes where progress stalled, looks at the successes of other countries, and charts the course for the next feminist revolution, one that mobilizes women, and men, to call for the kind of government and workplace policies that can improve the lives of women and strengthen their families.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507322http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493228Description: "In the era of such online spaces as Facebook, Instant Messenger, Live Journal, Blogger, Web Shots, and campus blogs, college students are using these resources and other online sites as a social medium. Inevitably, this medium presents students with ethical decisions about social propriety, self disclosure and acceptable behaviour. Because online social networking sites have proven problematic for college students and for college administrators, this book aims to offer professional guidance to Higher Education administrators and policy makers." "Online Social Networking on Campus: Understanding What Matters in Student Culture is a professional guide for Higher Education faculty and Student Affairs administrators, which rigorously examines college students' use of online social networking sites and how they use these to develop relationships both on and off campus. Most importantly, Online Social Networking on Campus investigates how college students use online sites to explore and make sense of their identities. Providing information taken from interviews, surveys, and focus group data, the book presents an ethnographic view of social networking that will help Student Affairs administrators, Information Technology administrators, and faculty better understand and provide guidance to the "neomillennials" on their campuses."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493228http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491184Description: Jeffrey S. Gurock recounts the history of Orthodox Jews in America, from the time of the early arrivals in the 17th century to the present, and examines how Orthodox Jewish men and women coped with the personal, familial, and communal challenges of religious freedom, economic opportunity, and social integration. --from publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491184http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490733Description: Divided into six parts, this substantive reference work charts how childhood studies has moved beyond developmental issues to focus on broader issues of children in society, as actors and agents, and as subjects of policy intervention. It is a comprehensive overview of key theoretical and empirical work in the field of childhood studies.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490733http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490701Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490701http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503445Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503445http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490700Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490700http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489640Description: Private investigator Sam Brower recounts his investigation of Warren Jeffs, leader of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, also known as FLDS.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489640http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496020Description: "On August 29, 2008, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving widespread death and destruction. The inept emergency response that followed exposed major institutional flaws and poor planning. Questions linger: Can this happen again? Is our government equipped to plan for, mitigate, and recover from disasters? Can the public trust government response to be fair? Does race matter?" "Racial disparities exist in disaster response, cleanup, rebuilding, reconstruction, and recovery. Race plays out in disaster survivors' ability to rebuild, replace infrastructure, obtain loans and locate housing. Generally, low-income and people-of-color disaster victims spend more time in temporary housing and are more vulnerable to permanent displacement. In exploring the geography of vulnerability, this book asks why some communities get left behind economically, spatially, and physically before and after disasters strike."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496020http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491045Description: "Re-creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging provides a crucial foundation for confronting the growing aging population's demands for appropriate housing and environments. This current demographic shift is causing a transformation of attitudes and perspectives about growing older, retirement, and senior housing. To ensure that physical environments meet the changing needs of older adults, a reconception of housing, communities, and neighborhoods is required." "Drawing from the fields of gerontology, health sciences, community planning, landscape architecture, and environmental design, this groundbreaking resource provides an in-depth examination of current elder housing practices and strategies, alongside goals for the future. Housing models, such as continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs), shared housing, and co-housing, are evaluated, and best practice recommendations are presented." "The book closes with an inspiring look at opportunities for future collaboration of health sciences and planning and design professionals for the realization of supportive, life-affirming communities thai will result in healthy aging, active living, and continued community participation for older adults."--Jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491045http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507325Description: "In Ready, Elizabeth Gregory tracks the burgeoning trend of new later motherhood and demonstrates that for many women today, waiting for family works best. She provides compelling evidence of the benefits of having children later - by birth or by adoption. Gregory reveals that large numbers of women succeed in having children between 35 and 44 by the usual means (one in seven kids born today has a mom in that age range), and that many of those who don't succeed nonetheless find alternate routes to happy families via egg donation or adoption. And they're glad they waited. Without ignoring the complexities that older women may face in their quest to have children, Gregory reveals the many advantages of waiting." "Based on in-depth interviews with more than 100 new later moms and extensive collateral research, Ready shatters the myths surrounding later motherhood. Drawing on both the statistical evidence and the voices of the new later mothers themselves, Gregory delivers surprising and welcome news that will revolutionize the way we think about motherhood."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507325http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499020Description: Two professors provide a comprehensive overview of the realities of the modern American experience, providing facts and illustrations depicting the nation's changing demographics, patterns of home ownership and the kind of foods being eaten across the country.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499020http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490732Description: "In 1991, Anita Hill's courageous testimony during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings sparked a national conversation on sexual harassment and women's equality in politics and the workplace. Today, she turns her attention to another potent and enduring symbol of economic success and equality-the home. Hill details how the current housing crisis, resulting in the devastation of so many families, so many communities, and even whole cities, imperils every American's ability to achieve the American Dream. Hill takes us on a journey that begins with her own family story and ends with the subprime mortgage meltdown. Along the way, she invites us into homes across America, rural and urban, and introduces us to some extraordinary African American women. As slavery ended, Mollie Elliott, Hill's ancestor, found herself with an infant son and no husband. Yet, she bravely set course to define for generations to come what it meant to be a free person of color. On the eve of the civil rights and women's rights movements, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood experience of her family's fight against racial restrictions in a Chicago neighborhood ended tragically for the Hansberry family. Yet, that episode shaped Lorraine's hopeful account of early suburban integration in her iconic American drama A Raisin in the Sun. Two decades later, Marla, a divorced mother, endeavors to keep her children safe from a growing gang presence in 1980s Los Angeles. Her story sheds light on the fears and anxiety countless parents faced during an era of growing neighborhood isolation, and that continue today. In the midst of the 2008 recession, hairdresser Anjanette Booker's dogged determination to keep her Baltimore home and her salon reflects a commitment to her own independence and to her community's economic and social viability. Finally, Hill shares her own journey to a place and a state of being at home that brought her from her roots in rural Oklahoma to suburban Boston, Massachusetts, and connects her own search for home with that of women and men set adrift during the foreclosure crisis. The ability to secure a place that provides access to every opportunity our country has to offer is central to the American Dream. To achieve that ideal, Hill argues, we and our leaders must engage in a new conversation about what it takes to be at home in America. Pointing out that the inclusive democracy our Constitution promises is bigger than the current debate about legal rights, she presents concrete proposals that encourage us to reimagine equality. Hill offers a twenty-first-century vision of America-not a vision of migration, but one of roots; not one simply of tolerance, but one of belonging; not just of rights, but also of community-a community of equals"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490732http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499021Description: Novelist David Treuer examines Native American reservation life--past and present--illuminating misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation while also exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499021http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507326Description: "In 1975, California courts stripped a lesbian mother of her custody rights because she was living openly with another woman. Twenty years later, the Virginia Supreme Court did the same thing to another lesbian mother. In ordering that children be separated from their mothers, these courts ruled that it was not possible for a woman to be both a good parent and a lesbian. The Right to be Parents is the first book to provide a detailed history of how LGBT parents have turned to the courts to protect and defend their relationships with their children. Carlos A. Ball chronicles the stories of LGBT parents who, in seeking to gain legal recognition of and protection for their relationships with their children, have fundamentally changed how American law defines and regulates parenthood. Each chapter contains riveting human stories of determination and perseverance as LGBT parents challenge the widely-held view that having a same-sexual orientation, or that being a transsexual, renders individuals incapable of being good parents. To this day, some courts are still not able to look beyond sexual orientation and gender identity in order to fairly apply legal principles in cases involving LGBT parents and their children. Yet on the whole, stories are of progress and transformation: as a result of these pioneering LGBT parent litigants, the law is increasingly recognizing the wide diversity in American familial structures. The Right to be Parents explores why and how that has come to be"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507326http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490699Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490699http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493230Description: Roberts, professor of marketing at Baylor University, studies why Americans believe and behave as if possessions will induce, increase, and enhance happiness. His inquiry provides ample psychological and historical insights as well as self-assessment quizzes on how much we spend and how vulnerable we are to status anxiety.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493230http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491183Description: In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before, a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peaceful world. The author's book on social entrepreneurship, How to Change the World, was hailed by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times as "a bible in the field" and published in more than twenty countries. Now, he shifts the focus from the profiles of successful social innovators in that book, and teams with Susan Davis, a founding board member of the Grameen Foundation, to offer the first general overview of social entrepreneurship. In a Q & A format allowing readers to go directly to the information they need, the authors map out social entrepreneurship in its broadest terms as well as in its particulars. They explain what social entrepreneurs are, how their organizations function, and what challenges they face. The book will give readers an understanding of what differentiates social entrepreneurship from standard business ventures and how it differs from traditional grant based non profit work. Unlike the typical top down, model based approach to solving problems employed by the World Bank and other large institutions, social entrepreneurs work through a process of iterative learning, learning by doing, working with communities to find unique, local solutions to unique, local problems. Most importantly, the book shows readers exactly how they can get involved. It is for anyone inspired by Barack Obama's call to service and who wants to learn more about the essential features and enormous promise of this new method of social change.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491183http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490698Description: A history of shoplifting assesses its cultural and economic significance, tracing its rise with the onset of department stores, its pathology, and its role as a symbol of anti-establishment sentiments and hyper-consumerism.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490698http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490697Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490697http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503447Description: "This text involves students in understanding and using the tools of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives. Nealon and Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and deeper questions. Written in students' own idiom, and drawing its examples from the social world, literature, popular culture, and advertising, The Theory Toolbox offers students the language and opportunity to theorize. Updated throughout, the second edition of The Theory Toolbox includes a discussion of new media, as well as two new chapters on life and nature"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503447http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490696Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490696http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507332Description: "Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval. Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507332http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499022Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499022http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488154Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488154http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492626Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492626http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507333Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507333http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490731Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490731http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496021Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496021http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503449Description: "China has become one of the largest study and teach-abroad, travel, and business destinations in the world. Yet few books offer a diversity of perspectives and locales for Westerners considering the leap. This unique collection of letters offers a rarely seen, intimate, and refreshingly honest view of living and working in China. Here, ordinary people-students, teachers, professionals, and parents-recount their experiences in venues ranging from classrooms to marketplaces to holy mountains. The writers are genuine participants in the daily life of their adopted country, and woven through their correspondence is the compelling theme of outsiders coping in a culture that is vastly foreign to them and the underlying love-hate struggle it engenders. Written in a down-to-earth, personal, often humorous, always authentic style, these tales of trials, successes, and failures offer invaluable insight into a country that remains endlessly fascinating to Westerners"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503449http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490695Description: In this book, the author, a media expert explains how and why the digital migration is transforming youth culture, identity, and everyday life. He draws from more than 500 surveys and 350 in depth interviews with young people, parents, and educators to understand how a digital lifestyle is affecting the ways youth learn, play, bond, and communicate. The book covers the influence of MySpace and Facebook, the growing appetite for "anytime, anywhere" media and "fast entertainment," how online "digital gates" reinforce race and class divisions, and how technology is transforming America's classrooms. He also debunks popular myths surrounding cyberpredators, Internet addiction, and social isolation. The result is a portrait, both celebratory and wary, about the coming of age of the first fully wired generation.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490695http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491044Description: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared-- arrested and accused of being an agent of al Qaeda.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491044