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Between Jihad and McWorld(Updated)
Voices of Social Justice, Papers Presented at a Conference with Benjamin Barber
by David Perusek
Hardcover, 235 Pages, Published 2010 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Unabridged
ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-1968-8, ISBN: 1-4438-1968-9

"This volume is the outgrowth of a conference aimed at situating questions of social justice within the broad social-historical context of our times as outlined by Benjamin Barber in the international bestseller 'Jihad vs. McWorld'. In it, 15 contributors from across the academic spectrum grapple with questions of inequality, culture, communication, education, language, representation, democracy, poverty and power in a variety of local, ..."

Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2
Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
by Philip A. Greasley, Crystal S. Anderson, David D. Anderson, Kathie Ryckman Anderson, Patricia Anderson, Marilyn Judith Atlas, Thomas Fox Averill, Paul Baggett, William Barillas, Jill Barnum, Anne Beck, Robert Beasecker, James M. Boehnlein, Sheena Denney Boran, Victoria Brehm, Rachel Breneman, Roger Bresnahan, Emily Thornton Calvo, Sharon Carlson, Jennifer Cathey, Haeja K. Chung, Emily Churilla, Hannah L. Coffey, Daniel P. Compora, Sheila Marie Contreras, Leslie Czechowski, Edward Dauterich, Todd Fleming Davis, Theresa Delgadillo, Jill Doerfler, Robert Dunne, Maureen N. Eke, Carol Fadda-Conrey, Katherine Fama, Timothy C. Frazer, Philip L. Gerber, Kenneth B. Grant, Marsha O. Greasley, Øyvind T. Gulliksen, Benjamin Hale, Willie J. Harrell, Stephen C. Holder, Ashley Hopkins, Jeffrey Hotz, William E. Huntzicker, Katherine Joslin, Immaculate Kizza, Sara Kosiba, Joyce R. Ladenson, Clarence Lindsay, Larry Lockridge, Loren Logsdon, Paul W. Miller, David Newquist, Marcia Noe, Mary Dejong Obuchowski, Sally E. Parry, Steve Paul, David Perusek, John R. Pfeiffer, Rod Phillips, Denise Pilato, Ronald Primeau, David Radavich, Kristy Nelson Raine, Milton Reigelman, Garyn G. Roberts, John Rohrkemper, Robert L. Root, Margaret Rozga, Herbert K. Russell, Mike Ryan, David K. Sauer, Ann L. Seaton, James Seaton, Marc Kelly Smith, Joyce Caldwell Smith, Crystal Stallman, Jeffrey Swenson, Guy Szuberla, Thom Tammaro, Jon C. Teaford, Catherine Tobin, Ellen Serlen Uffen, Lance Weldy, Johnnie Wilcox, Keith Wilhite, Douglas Wixson, Joseph Wydeven, Susan Yanos
Hardcover, 1,064 Pages, Published 2016 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-02104-5, ISBN: 0-253-02104-9

"The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation’s Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on thirty-five pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary jour ..."

Between Jihad and McWorld
Voices of Social Justice: Papers Presented at a Conference with Benjamin Barber
by David Perusek
Paperback, 234 Pages, Published 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-2042-4, ISBN: 1-4438-2042-3

"Special thanks go to Vicki Cleveland for multidimensional secretarial support leading up to the conference and for working with us during it. Thanks to (then) Provost Paul Gaston for his support and for his introductory remarks at the conference. The faculty conference committee was comprised of Edward Murray, Payman Nasr, Diane Murry, David Perusek and Carol Murray. Special thanks to Carol Murray whose role was instrumental. Thank ..."

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