This book interprets popular American belief and sentiment about cities, suburbs, and small towns in terms of community ideologies. Based on in-depth interviews with residents of American communit...
This book is the first to provide a summary of the state of knowledge about communication in Japan and the United States. Included is an overview of the major approaches used in the study of commu...
The world appears bedeviled with violence. But violence has not done anybody any good. Proponents of nonviolence still hold that the path of peace and love is the best way to get redress. This book...
For Aristotle, ethics is the search for happiness, and the science that accompanies it. It concerns friendship as well as virtues. But the Stagirite does not seek to revolutionize morality, far fro...
Reviews classic and contemporary theories of conflict, focusing on five main ways people try to resolve their conflicts--coercion, negotiation, adjudication, mediation, and arbitration.
Human history encountered many challenging epidemics in past, including 1918 influenza pandemic and in recent times H1N1, SARS, MERS and Ebola, which outburst fast with strong contagiousness and se...
It is no more news that the Coronavirus has ravaged the whole world and this has crippled the global economic activities of both developed and developing countries of the world. Since been recorded...
While science often uses methods to try to explain observations of a wide range of phenomena, creationists use faith in the texts of the Bible to the same end. Much of the scientific discoveries in...
Theories of criminality and theories of victimization have traditionally been discussed as though they bore no relationship to one another. Yet, a complete explanation for crime must examine both t...
The American administration facing these days tough choices in front of the complex and the successive developments in the Middle East and in the forefront of emerging powers to regulate the Islami...
Recent studies show that methodologies that use the 1st and 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics together present a better performance in determining the optimal points of operation for the reactive processe...
Combining case studies and critical analysis, this book examines how the electronic and print media's representation of cultural groups such as African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native America...
Nullement comme au temps d'alors dans l'histoire, on n'a probablement écrit autant de traités et de tentatives, produite autant de théories et d'analyses sur la culture et l'altérité. Ce qui est d'...
Computing and communication systems are becoming increasingly interdependent is evident in almost every aspect of society. Applications of these integrated systems are also spreading. As this trend...