Dying to Win(1st Edition) The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Anthony Pape, CornellUnivPr Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2005 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-6317-8, ISBN: 1-4000-6317-5
"Suicide terrorism is rising around the world, but there is great confusion as to why. In this paradigm-shifting analysis, University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape has collected groundbreaking evidence to explain the strategic, social, and individual factors responsible for this growing threat.One of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject, Professor Pape has created the first comprehensive database of every suicide ..."
"Over the past decade, America's research universities have been accused, with increasing frequency and passion, of a wide variety of sins. Universities do not devote enough attention to undergraduate education, the charge goes, or they pursue unnecessary research, or they award doctoral degrees that focus too narrowly and take too long to complete. What have these institutions done to provoke such criticism and why has financial support ..."
"As middle-class Chinese women have entered the Hong Kong work force in unprecedented numbers over the past two decades, the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. Approximately 150,000 individuals now serve on two-year contracts, and the vast majority are women from the Philippines. Nicole Constable tells their story. Interweaving her analysis with anecdotal evidence collected in interviews with individual domestic workers, she ..."
"The Golden Age of Ancient Egypt comes alive as Guillemette Andreu recreates the details of daily life. Construction sites teem with workers building the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx. Administrators bustle to and fro, handling their assignments from the pharaoh's court. Scribes train themselves to draft a variety of letters.Andreu describes the Egyptians as they spend a day in the marshes with family and friends. They glide on light ski ..."
"But his problem with the Holland Land Company extended beyond his
delinquency because he too was guilty of trespass. Wetmore "admitted that he
had cut pine trees to make eight logs." The company struck a deal with him,
granting him permission to use the logs to rebuild a cabin recently destroyed by
fire in return for his pledge "to report any trespasses which shall be committed by
others under his observations." Theodore Talbot, th ..."
Stranger in Our Midst Images of the Jew in Polish Literature (Leaders; 18) by Harold B. Segel, CornellUnivPr Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 1996 by CornellUniversity Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-2865-4, ISBN: 0-8014-2865-3
"A vibrant Jewish community flourished in Poland from late in the tenth century until it was virtually annihilated in World War II. In this remarkable anthology, the first of its kind, Harold B. Segel offers translations of poems and prose ..."
A Mighty Baptism Race and Gender, in the Creation of American Protestantism by Susan Juster, Lisa Macfarlane, CornellUnivPr Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1996 by CornellUniversity Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-3024-4, ISBN: 0-8014-3024-0
"The UNIA, like the Black church, was an oasis of racial dignity, affirmation, and
self-determination within a dominant society of oppression. ... The white habits
worn by the Black Cross Nurses signified a revised image of Black ... the imperial
model of Victorian England" (Wilson Moses, "Marcus Garvey: The Resurrection of
the Negro and the Redemption of Africa," in Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms:
Social and Literary Manipulations o ..."
Their Lives and Numbers(1st Edition) The Condition of Working People in Massachusetts, 1870-1900 (Documents in American Social History) by Henry F. Bedford, CornellUnivPr Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1995 by CornellUniversity Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-8258-8, ISBN: 0-8014-8258-5
Transforming Women's Work(Updated) New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution by Thomas L. Dublin, CornellUnivPr Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 1995 by CornellUniversity Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-8090-4, ISBN: 0-8014-8090-6
""No historian has done more to illuminate the achievements of female labor in the early textile mills than Thomas Dublin. . . . In this latest book, he provides a broad account of women's work during the industrial transformation of America, giving us the chance to test the typicality of the factory experience against other forms of female employment. He mines a breathtaking array of sources, including business records, census data, dee ..."
"Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929) is recognized not only as one of the century's preeminent art and renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general. Warburg's 1923 lecture, first published in German in 1988 and now available in the first complete English translation, offers at once a window on his career, a formative statement of his cultural history of modernity, and a doc ..."