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Dialogues on Relativism, Absolutism, and Beyond
What is truth, goodness, or beauty? Can we really define these concepts without the idea of a frame of reference? In the newest addition to the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, …
Selling Sex on Screen
Whether in mainstream or independent films, depictions of female prostitution and promiscuity are complicated by their intersection with male fantasies. In such films, issues of …
Råb det fra bjergene
Da John Grimes vågner op i Harlem en lørdag i marts 1935, tror han først, at alle har glemt hans 14-års fødselsdag. Så da moren giver ham nogle penge og ønsker ham tillykke, lyser …
Focus on Mental Health and Illness
According to the Mental Health Services Administration, about one in five adults had a mental health condition in the past year. That's nearly 10 million adults with illnesses such …
Cats on Cats on Cats
Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing
Events in the United States during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s created tectonic shifts in how the police operated. This was especially true in terms of their relationship with …
Attacks on the American Press
This authoritative annotated document collection surveys and explains efforts to censor, intimidate, suppress-and reform and improve-news organizations and journalism in America, …
Hollywood and the Nazis on the Eve of War
This book establishes the profound significance of MGM's 1940 film The Mortal Storm, the first major Hollywood production to depict the plight of Jews in Germany before the …
Spotlight on the Child
Although children's theatre has been a part of American culture from early times, historians have not always included it in the documentation of our theatrical heritage. Sometimes …
Prairie Time
In its most extensive prime, the Texas Blackland Prairie formed a twelve-million-acre grassy swath across the state from near San Antonio north to the Red River. Perhaps less than …
On Impeachment
Indians on Display
Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, sometimes dangerous and …