Product Description: Fear and terror have come to drive world politics, and the people who do the driving have shaped and used them to carry out their policies. As the world's political economy devolves into chaos, Globalization of American Fear Culture posits that violence and fear have become the new statecraft...read more

Product Description: Following the Renaissance, democracy was still considered a dangerous form of government. Democracy was often regarded as a fool’s folly and a madman’s paradise. The well-wishers of the Republican Government would have fanciful debates in intellectual circles, but paternal monarchies dominated the western and eastern world...read more

Product Description: Notions of democracy and nationhood constitute the pivotal legacy of the American Revolution, but to understand their development one must move beyond a purely American context. Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland explores the simultaneous emergence of modern concepts of democracy and the nation on both sides of the Atlantic during the age of revolutions...read more

Product Description: In 1908, a remarkable direction in community learning began in Boston and spread across the country, becoming the Open Forum lecture movement. These locally planned, trans-denominational lectures, followed by periods for questions, were characterized as “the striking of mind upon mind...read more

School Design Henry Sanoff Educators often overlook the positive impact of changing the environment of the school itself when considering how to improve the quality of education. School Design shows how to create more effective schools through a design process that involves teachers, students, parents, administrators, and architects. It reveals how to create school environments that develop the whole child, instill enthusiasm for learning, and encourage positive social relationships. Readers discover how to integrate design research, design participation, and design development to optimize school settings. Numerous case studies identify different techniques for increasing participation through the building design approach. These examples provide strategies for involving teachers, parents, and others in decision making. Included are real-life designs for early childhood, middle, high, and higher education environments. Detailed, practical methods show how to: Link behavioral objectives to spatial needs Achieve spatial efficacy without compromising education Match children’s developmental needs to facility requirements Promote greater variety in physical facilities to accommodate various teaching and learning styles Gain more valuable feedback from teachers, parents, students, and local citizens on building performance In response to today’s tight school budgets, Henry Sanoff discusses how relatively minor design modifications can have a major positive effect on school performance. He discusses cost-effective ways that design can change students’ spatial behavior, increase interaction with materials, decrease interruptions, promote more substantive questioning, and ultimately improve academic achievement. Many of the examples cited throughout the text were selected for their innovative techniques of user involvement. There are exemplary designs for child care centers, alternative schools, public and private university settings, and other institutions. This path-breaking volume will provide architects, principals, teachers, and school administrators with a wide array of insights into creating spaces that promote better learning.

Product Description: Before the Seventeenth Amendment, US senators were elected by state legislatures. To end the supposed corruption of state "machines" and make the Senate more responsive to the legislative needs of the industrial era, the Senate was made a popularly elected body in 1913...read more

Product Description: This book offers a new, European-centered approach to Tocqueville’s thought. Although Tocqueville is often revered as a classic writer on the subject of American democracy, this book focuses on the multifaceted importance of his ideas within a European context...read more

Freedom, the oldest of cliches and the most modern of aspirations, is the unifying theme in the new survey of American history by Eric Foner, the well-known historian and author of The Story of American Freedom. As the fundamental idea behind Americans' sense of themselves as individuals and as a nation, freedom is deeply embedded in the record of our history and the language of everyday life. Give Me Liberty! examines the changing meanings of freedom, the social conditions that make freedom possible, and its shifting boundaries from colonial times to the early twenty-first century.

Product Description: The leading text in a brief, full-color edition. Clear, concise, integrated, and up-to-date, Give Me Liberty! is a proven success with teachers and students. Eric Foner pulls the pieces of the past together into a cohesive picture, using the theme of freedom throughout...read more

Product Description: Americans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from the time of the founding they have also engaged in debates over what the criteria for democracy are as they seek to validate their faith in the United States as a democratic regime...read more

Product Description: In Venture Capital at the Crossroads, William Bygrave and Jeffry Timmons examine in depth the venture capital industry and its role in the creation of new businesses. They provide original research on the dimensions of the industry and how risk-taking and the time perspectives of its practitioners are changing, and they reveal how true venture capitalists practice "the art and science of the exceptional" and bring more than money to their deals...read more