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Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century
(University of California Press, 2012)Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the ... -
Radical Political Theology: Religion and Politics After Liberalism
(Columbia University Press, 2011)In the 1960s, the strict opposition between the religious and the secular began to break down, blurring the distinction between political philosophy and political theology. This collapse contributed to the decline of modern ... -
Radiology Case Review Series: MSK Imaging
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)Access interactive cases on musculoskeletal imaging for the best board review possible! Part of McGraw-Hill's Radiology Case Review Series, this unique resource challenges you to look at a group of images, determine the ... -
The RAF's French Foreign Legion, 1940-45: De Gaulle, the British and the Re-Emergence of French Airpower
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011)This book is respectfully dedicated to the French airmen who served alongside the RAF between 1940 and 1945. They showed fortitude in refusing to be defeated, contempt for their countrymen who wished to collaborate with ... -
The Rage Against God
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)This book, like all such books, is aimed mainly at myself. All polemical authors seek to persuade themselves above all. I hope it may also be of some value to others, perhaps to believers whose friends or family members ... -
Raised under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism
(Cornell University Press, 2017)In Raised under Stalin, Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin’s regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist ... -
Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance: Higher Education, Innovation and Competitiveness
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of indicator-based global knowledge ... -
The Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan
(Cornell University Press, 2012)Islamic schools, or madrasas, have been accused of radicalizing Muslims and participating, either actively or passively, in terrorist networks since the events of 9/11. In Pakistan, the 2007 siege by government forces of ... -
The rationality of perception
(Oxford University Press, 2017)On a traditional conception of the human mind, reasoning can be rational or irrational, but perception cannot. Perception is simply a source of new information, and cannot be assessed for rationality. Susanna Siegel argues ... -
The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking
(MIT Press, 2016)Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people do foolish things all the time. Misjudgments and bad decisions by highly educated bankers and money managers, for example, brought us the financial crisis ... -
Rawls's 'A Theory of Justice': A Reader's Guide
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011)John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, first published in 1971, is arguably the most important work of moral and political philosophy of the twentieth century. A staple on undergraduate courses in political theory, it is a ... -
(Re)imagining the World: Children's literature's response to changing times
(Springer, 2013)(Re)Imagining the world: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times considers how writers of fiction for children imagine ‘the world’, not one universal world, but different worlds: imaginary, strange, familiar, ... -
Re-Emergence: Locating Conscious Properties in a Material World
(MIT Press, 2011)The presence of sentience in a basically material reality is among the mysteries of existence. Many philosophers of mind argue that conscious states and properties are nothing beyond the matter that brings them about. ... -
Re-Visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africa’s formal educational systems. Using the context of Ubuntu-inspired education, the authors explore innovative ways to tackle the challenges ... -
Read, Reason, Write
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2014)Read, Reason, Write unites instruction in critical reading and analysis, argument, and research strategies with a rich collection of readings that provide both practice for these skills and new ideas and insights for ... -
Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to e-readers. Inventive methodology offers numerous ... -
Reading Children in Early Modern Culture
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early ... -
Reading for Wonder: Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements. Yet this deeply felt experience—at once cognitive, ... -
Reading Statistics and Research, 6th Edition
(Pearson Education , 2012)Employing a non-intimidating writing style that emphasizes concepts rather than formulas, this uniquely welcoming text shows consumers of research how to read, understand, and critically evaluate the statistical information ... -
Readings and cases in information security : law and ethics
(Cengage Learning, 2011)These readings provide students with a depth of content and analytical perspective not found in other textbooks. The fundamental tenet of Readings & Cases in Information Security is that Information Security in the modern ...
