Product Description: Hardly a day goes by when religion is not in the news, often associated with theocracy, oppression and terrorism. In this book, Marcia Pally rebuts this bleak and superficial view by offering the first in-depth look at "new evangelicals"--those who have moved away from the Religious Right toward a broadened focus on economic justice, environmental care, and democracy...read more

Product Description: Through close examination of content-based instruction, this text gives readers a broad sense of the possible applications of sustained content instruction in an ESL setting, and enables them to assess its effectiveness. Praticing teachers and teacher trainers learn the value of teaching ESL students to apply skills within the context of a specific subject, providing familiarity both with the subject and the forms used to present it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Marcia Pally, a social scientist at New York University, examines the hypothesis that government censorhip of offensive books and images will reduce anti-social behavior, including delinquency, violence, and rape. After extensive review of the sociological, psychological, criminological, and cross-cultural research, Pally finds that the causes of anti-social conduct lie in the life experiences of perpetrators, which are unfortunately not likely to be addressed by merely removing images from the public sphere...read more