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Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnectby P. Gary Wyckoff(May 2009) Associate Professor of Government Gary Wyckoff has written a book titled Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnect, published in May by Urban Institute Press. Wyckoff directs Hamilton’s Public Policy Program. More ... |
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Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbulby Erol Balkan(January 2009) Professor of Economics Erol Balkan and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Henry Rutz have co-authored “Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul,” a text published in January by Berghahn Books. More ... |
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Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the Worldby S. Brent Plate(November 2008) S. Brent Rodriguez Plate, visiting associate professor of religious studies, recently published the book, Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World with the London-based film studies press, Wallflower (distributed in the US via Columbia UP). The book is one of the first truly interdisciplinary works on the topic, investigating religions via film studies, and film via religious studies. Religions and films are akin, Plate argues, in that they both create worlds for their seers, hearers, doers, believers. At the altar and before the screen, audiences are invited to become participants via myths and rituals, cinematography and editing. More ... |
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Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Contextby(October 2008) Professors of Government Carol Drogus and Stephen Orvis have written a textbook, Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context, that has been published by CQ Press. More ... |
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Greek Tragedyby Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz(February 2008) Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, has published a new book titled Greek Tragedy (Wiley and Blackwell). More ... |
