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Organized thematically, this book examines contestations surrounding the term "Bollywood," changing relations between the state and the film industry, convergence with television and new media, online fan culture, film journalism, and the reception and negotiations of gender and sexuality in diverse socio-cultural contexts.

In the aftermath of World War II, the American president and Secretary of War established the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, to determine the effectiveness of the wartime air power. This book analyzes the final document to reveal how it reflected the American conceptual approach to bombing.

The feminist pornography debates are centered around the opposition between pro-censorship factions and the pro-sex radicals or sex positives. But what exactly is the relationship between these debates and postmodern theories of reading and performativity? What is the history behind today's sexual radicalism? This title deals with these questions.

Does it really help women to think of sexual harassment primarily as a legal issue? This text questions the assumption that women are passive victims and instead explores strategies for providing a balanced workplace and applies these strategies to a variety of workplaces.

The Al-Qaeda terror attacks of September 11, 2001 aroused a number of extraordinary counter measures in response, including an executive order authorizing the creation of military tribunals or "commissions" for the trial of accused terrorists. This title explains what military tribunals are, and how they function.

Demonstrates how and why 20- and 30-something women have evolved to act and think more like men sexually, while also creating their own distinct sexual patterns and appetites. Based on more than one hundred interviews with women across the country, this book reports the real story of today's enhanced sexual expectations and choices.

What do narratives by British suffragettes of being forcibly fed have in common with the representation of indigenous women in Canadian police archives? How are literary representations of domestic violence related to the use of silence as a strategy of resistance in African American women's writing? This title deals with these questions.

In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs and conduit for the entry of drugs into China. Which organizations are behind the heroin trade? What problems and prospects of drug control in the so-called ¿Golden Triangle¿ drug-trafficking region are faced by Chinese and Southeast Asian authorities? In The Chinese Heroin Trade, noted criminologists Ko-Lin Chin and Sheldon Zhangexamine the social organization of the trafficking of heroin from the Golden Triangle to China and the wholesale and retail distribution of the drug in China. Based on face-to-face interviews with hundreds of incarcerated drug traffickers, street-level drug dealers, users, and authorities, paired with extensive fieldwork in the border areas of Burma and China and several major urban centers in China and Southeast Asia, this volume reveals how the drug trade has evolved in the Golden Triangle since the late 1980s. Chin and Zhang also explore the marked characteristics of heroin traffickers; the relationship between drug use and sales in China; and how China compares to other international drug markets. The Chinese Heroin Trade is a fascinating, nuanced account of the world of high-risk drug trafficking in a tightly-controlled society.

Discusses the abolition of marriage as a legal status

Traces the development of freedom and free societies from the earliest times, showing that an emphasis on social pluralism, on the rule of law, strong property rights, and on the value of the individual have traditionally led to constitutional government and eventually to democracy.

Provides an introduction that updates the author's four-stage model with statistical evidence, applications to textbooks, and historical interpretation. This work also introduces diagrams and models to improve pedagogy in the classroom: the "natural" rate of interest hypothesis.

Questions of religious freedom continue to excite passionate public debate. Proposals involving school prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools and courtrooms perennially spur controversy. The author argues that we must get over our presumption that all religions are equally true and virtuous and authentically American.

After the first war in Chechnya in 1994 the world discovered the "warlike" Muslim peoples intent on liberating themselves from domination by a distant Russian government. This work focuses on the impact of the Sufi brotherhoods to analyze the formation of resistance in Chechnya and Daghestan.

A collection of hundreds of sexually-themed stories and jokes from college students that tell us what they reveal about our sexual attitudes and show us how they have changed over time.

This study examines Edgar Allan Poe's influence on the 20th-century French writer Paul Valery, arguing that it was profound. The author shows that Valery's poetics and approach to literary criticism have direct connections to Poe's "Philosophy of Composition" and "Poetic Principle".

Explores how understandings of godly love function to empower believers

At the time of Serbia's emergence from the ruins of Tito's Yugoslavia and of Milosevic's regime, Stevan Pavlowitch shuns the "doomed to violence" and the "doomed to martyrdom" paradigms favored respectively by some Western and Serbian analysts in order to pose difficult questions about Serbian history.

Celebrates the fluid media landscape and its possibilities

An examination of the crucial role that humanism has played in African American struggles for dignity, power and justice. It collects examples of African American humanism and shows how its embrace by prominent figures has served as a basis for activism and resistance to racism and sexism.

From obscurity to leader of the antiwar movement, this is a biography of a man who bridged the gap between the Old Left and the New Left. The story of a stubborn visionary torn between revolution and compromise, it reveals the perils of dissent in America through the struggles of one our most important dissenters.

For nearly a decade Ralph Bunche, United Nations Under-Secretary, was the most celebrated contemporary African American, both domestically and internationally, but today he is virtually forgotten. This biography sets out to recapture the essence of his service to America and the world.

While the general understanding of prenatal care as crucial to the wellbeing of mothers and their babies is now enshrined in American culture, Strong draws upon scientific research to show that few procedures are as helpful as we think, aiming to dispel misconceptions about prenatal care.