Current Events Books

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Story of a society in which all books are to be burned.

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<p>The author models the discussion of each topic in this text on the social scientific process by asking if theories exists to explain personal observations in politics and the media and if there is evidence to support the theories. End-of-chapter Active Learning exercises provide real-world examples of important concepts and ask students to collect and analyze data from various print and electronic media sources.</p><p>The text includes an entire chapter on agenda setting-the media&#039;s ability to insert issues into public consciousness or increase perceived importance-which illuminates the related concepts of priming and framing.</p><ul><li>Data Sets from the NES and GSS can be downloaded from the <i>Mass Media and Politics</i> web site. </ul>

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Policing Public Sex probes the new crisis points that have emerged in gay/lesbian/queer politics and AIDS activism in the second decade of the epidemic. Contributors include well-known activists and writers such as: Priscilla Alexander, Allan Berube, Lisa Duggan, Amber Hollibaugh, Carol Leigh (a.k.a. Scarlot Harlot), Jose Munoz, Walt Odets, Scott O'Hara, Andrew Ross, Kendall Thomas, and more.

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When terrorists flew jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, the social effects were as dramatic as the visual images. Individual lives, families, friendship networks, corporations, global financial flows, and politics were all transformed. Moving behind headlines, first impressions, political speeches, and soundbites, knowledge from the social sciences is a basic resource for understanding these changes&#151;and also what has not changed. The social sciences fill in necessary background, provide contexts for interpretation, and offer vital analytic perspectives. They help us see deep roots to some parts of the current crisis and also the influence of social change. They show how religious and cultural factors intertwine with economic and security concerns. They help us make sense of the role of Islam, the impact on international relations, and the challenges for democratic societies.<BR><I>Understanding September 11</I> is written by many of today's foremost anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, and sociologists; by specialists on Islam, war, terrorism, and Central Asia. It offers the most complete account available, not just of terror and tragedy but of the challenges we face now and the issues we must understand to make informed choices about our future.

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In the sequel to Separation of Power, CIA operative Mitch Rapp, on domestic assignment after his high-profile mission to Iraq, finds himself investigating an attack on a team of Navy SEALs in the Philippines, searching for a possible State Department traitor, and racing against time to stop a Middle Eastern assassin out to ignite World War III. Reprint.

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Having earned numerous enemies in his more than fifteen years on the front lines of the war on terror, CIA operative Mitch Rapp is targeted by the influential father of a terrorist who is demanding retribution for his son's death. Reprint.

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Based on unprecedented access to Rupert Murdoch, his family, and his associates, a incisive portrait of the powerful media mogul and his empire furnishes an insider's study of a man with extraordinary influence on the global media, the impact of that power, and the family members being groomed to succeed him. 200,000 first printing.

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"I know of no more incisive, detailed assessment of the growing threat of mass destruction terrorism than America's Achilles' Heel. This outstanding book is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in American national security." -- U.S. Senator Richard Lugar Nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons delivered covertly by terrorists or hostile governments pose a significant and growing threat to the United States and other countries. Although the threat of NBC attack is widely recognized as a central national security issue, most analysts have assumed that the primary danger is military use by states in war, with traditional military means of delivery. The threat of covert attack has been imprudently neglected. Covert attack is hard to deter or prevent, and NBC weapons suitable for covert attack are available to a growing range of states and groups hostile to the United States. At the same time, constraints on their use appear to be eroding. This volume analyzes the nature and limits of the covert NBC threat and proposes a measured set of policy responses, focused on improving intelligence and consequence-management capabilities to reduce U.S. vulnerability.

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The best-selling author of <IT>The Last Juror<RO>, <IT>The Runaway Jury<RO>, <IT>A Time to Kill<RO>, and other tales of legal suspense presents his first work of nonfiction, in a compelling real-life legal thriller that follows the case of Ron Williamson, an aspiring ballplayer convicted of murder in a case tainted by lies and manufactured evidence. Reprint.

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Learning about an imminent terrorist attack, CIA operative Mitch Rapp takes the lead in a daring commando raid into northern Pakistan, where he obtains information about a planned nuclear attack but suspects that a greater threat has yet to be uncovered. By the author of Executive Power. Reprint.

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Examines the Taliban and its form of Islamic fundamentalism, explains how the organization rose to power, and discusses its impact on Afghanistan and why the country has become a center for international terrorism.

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An incisive study of the notorious terrorist organization examines the leadership, ideology, tactics, and finances of Al Qaeda; discusses how the organization trains fighters; and outlines the international response that will be necessary to destroy the organization. Reprint.

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<B>The authorized hardcover, indexed edition of the national bestseller.</B><BR><BR>Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its soil.<BR><BR>In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission. This independent, bipartisan panel was directed to examine the facts and circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks, identify lessons learned, and provide recommendations to safeguard against future acts of terrorism.<BR><BR>This hardcover volume is the authorized edition of the Commission's final report, and includes a full index.

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Describes the harrowing May 2001 attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds on a trek that cost fourteen lives.

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In 1982, a Roman Catholic nun became the spiritual advisor to a condemned murderer who was soon executed. Powerfully and persuasively, with a compassion that embraces not only the terrified killer but the families of his victims and the men who executed him, Prejean narrates Patrick Sonnier's walk to the electric chair.

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A former white-collar employee and conservative southerner describes how he walked away from a lucrative career as an advertising executive and spent a year working a series of minimum-wage jobs as a fast-food jockey, a construction worker, and more.

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Explores the cultural meanings of the swimsuit issue and shows how Sports Illustrated secures a large audience of men by creating a climate of hegemonic masculinity. "The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is the cultural keystone of what is worst about male-dominated sport media. This book is the most systematic treatment of the SI swimsuit issue to date, and it reveals some of the ways that sexism, racism, heterosexism, and Western ethnocentrism have been woven into the cultural fabric of menis sports. But it is more than an analysis of SI. Davis unfurls cutting-edge critical analysis of media through this ostensible exercise in the study of a sport magazine issue. The book is a fine example of the explanatory power of feminist analysis that takes other multiple systems of domination into account; i.e., race, ethnicity, nationalism, and sexual orientation". -- Don Sabo, coauthor of Sex, Violence, and Power in Sports: Rethinking Masculinity This cultural study of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue shows how it encourages individual and institutional practices that create and maintain inequality. Laurel Davis illustrates how the interactions of media production, media texts, media consumption, and social context influence meaning, and how individual's reactions and interpretations are influenced by their views about gender and sexuality, views that have been shaped by their personal social experiences. Based on extensive interviews with Sports Illustrated consumers, producers, editors, and models, as well as the author's analysis of every swimsuit issue from the first in 1964 to those of the 1990s, it argues that Sports Illustrated uses the swimsuit issue to secure a large maleaudience by creating a climate of dominant masculinity that tramples women, gays and lesbians, people of color, and people from the postcolonialized world on the way to the bank.

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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" soNormal><B></B> A comprehensive guide to the world body's institutions, procedures, policies, specialized agencies, historic personalities, initiatives, and involvement in world affairs, <I>The New United Nations</I> is organized thematically, blending both topical and chronological explanations making reference to current terms and theories. The first book of its kind on the market, it presents the UN in its evolving role in this new era since the Cold War and shows its responsibilities for meeting challenges to the global community. <B></B> Written in a clear, narrative style, <I>The New United Nations </I>discusses such topics as human rights, the new judicial diplomacy, peacekeeping, state-building, peacemaking, women's issues, sustainable development, non-governmental actors in the UN process, the environment, disease (particularly HIV/AIDS), the role of world conferences, the global compact, and smart sanctions<B>.</B> <B></B> An excellent reference and handbook for anyone involved in international relations.</P>

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Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to Americas inner cities--from fatherless households to drugs and violent crime--stem directly from the disappearance of blue-collar jobs in the wake of a globalized economy. Wilsons achievement is to portray this crisis as one that affects all Americans, and to propose solutions whose benefits would be felt across our society. At a time when welfare is ending and our country's racial dialectic is more strained than ever, When Work Disappears is a sane, courageous, and desperately important work."Wilson is the keenest liberal analyst of the most perplexing of all American problems...[This book is] more ambitious and more accessible than anything he has done before."--The New Yorker

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