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31. Defending the First

    Commentary on First Amendment Issues and Cases

    Edited by Joseph Russomanno

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Defending the First provides a collection of new perspectives on the First Amendment in legal and communication contexts. Editor Joseph Russomanno brings together a roster of major figures who have participated in the shaping of First Amendment law over the past 30 years. Readers are taken into a...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
32. Empedocles

    An Interpretation

    By Simon Trepanier

    Series: Studies in Classics

    Offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles – one of the founding figures of Western philosophy – since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his lost work to light. ...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
33. Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960

    By Gloria Chuku

    Series: African Studies

    This study analyzes the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society, with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro....

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
34. Public Relations in Britain

    A History of Professional Practice in the Twentieth Century

    By Jacquie L'Etang

    In this book the author asks a big question: how did public relations develop in Britain and why? The question is answered through a broad ranging narrative which links the evolution of British public relations in the early twentieth century to key political, economic, social, and technological...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
35. Cleaning Up

    The Transformation of Domestic Service in Twentieth Century New York

    By Alana Erickson Coble

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    Over the course of the 20th century, American domestic service changed from an occupation with a hierarchical, top-down structure to one in which relationships were more negotiated. Many forces shaped this transformation: shifts in women's role in society, both at home and in the work force;...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
36. Mistresses of the Transient Hearth

    American Army Officers' Wives and Material Culture, 1840-1880

    By Robin D. Campbell

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    This book explores the ways in which mid-19th Century American army officers' wives used material culture to confirm their status as middle-class women....

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
37. The Politics of Social Policy Change in Chile and Uruguay

    Retrenchment versus Maintenance, 1973-1998

    By Rossana Castiglioni Nunez

    Series: Latin American Studies

    This work explains the causes of social policy reform in Chile and Uruguay in the areas of health care, pensions and education. Until the 1970s, Chile and Uruguay shared striking similarities....

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
38. Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord

    Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1655

    By Timothy L. Wood

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    This book explores the authorities of Puritan Massachusetts balanced concern for the stability of the colony and the integrity of its Puritan mission with the hopes of reconciling dissidents back into the colonial community....

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
39. Dualism

    The Original Sin of Cognitivism

    By William R. Uttal

    Directed to scholars and senior-level graduate students, this book is an iconoclastic survey of the history of dualism and its impact on contemporary cognitive psychology. It argues that much of modern cognitive or mentalist psychology is built upon a cryptodualism--the idea that the mind and brain...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
40. Legislating Authority

    Sin and Crime in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

    By Ruth Miller

    Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

    Legislation Authority addresses issues of law, state violence, and state authority within the Ottoman and Turkish context....

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge