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Food and Place
A Critical Exploration
2020 || Paperback || Pascale Joassart-Marcelli e.a. || Rowman & Littlefield
This text provides a comprehensive and critical exploration of food from the unique perspective of place. It shows that our experiences with food are deeply influenced by their cultural, social, economic, and political contexts. The authors explore a wide range of questions such as: Do GMOs threaten rural livelihoods? Why don't we eat dogs? Does your neighborhood make you fat? Do community gardens encourage urban gentrification? Can cheese save a local economy? Why are gourmet burgers appeari...
Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture / 6th edition
Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society
2020 || Paperback || Arthur Asa Berger || Rowman & Littlefield
The fifth edition of this approachable text draws on both academic and applied perspectives to offer a lively critique of contemporary advertising's effects on American character and culture. Berger explains how advertising works by employing a psycho-cultural approach, encouraging readers to think about advertisements and commercials in more analytical and profound ways. Among the topics he addresses are the role of brands, the problem of self-alienation, and how both relate to consumption.
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Food Geographies / 1st Edition
Social, Political, and Ecological Connections
2022 || Paperback || Pascale Joassart-Marcelli || Rowman & Littlefield
This text introduces students to the main issues, theories, and methods related to the study of food from a geographic perspective. Concise and accessible, it provides an overview of key issues in the study of food and illustrates them with current examples from around the world. As the first textbook on this topic, it provides students with theoretical concepts and analytical approaches grounded in the subfields of geography, showcasing the integrative nature of the discipline and its unique...
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A Concise History of Modern Europe / 5th edition
Liberty, Equality, Solidarity
2022 || Paperback || David S. Mason || Rowman & Littlefield
Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on the enduring theme of revolution, David S. Mason explores the political, economic, and scientific causes and consequences of revolution; the development of human rights and democracy; and issues of European identity and integration.
He deliberately avoids a detailed chronology of every count...
Global Journalism / 1st edition
Understanding World Media Systems
2021 || Paperback || Daniela V. Dimitrova || Rowman & Littlefield
Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems provides an overview of the key issues in global journalism today and traces how media systems have evolved over time in different world regions. Taking into account local context as well as technological change across media industries, the book lays down the foundation for today's journalism students learning about the practice, growth and impact of global media. It offers an up-to-date, thorough overview of media developments in all world...
Getting Agencies to Work Together
The Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftsmanship
1998 || Paperback || Eugene Bardach || Rowman & Littlefield
Collaboration between government agencies, an old joke goes, is an unnatural act committed by nonconsenting adults. Eugene Bardach argues that today's opinion climate favoring more results-oriented government makes collaboration a lot more natural--though it is still far from easy. In this book, Bardach diagnoses the difficulties, explains how they are sometimes overcome, and offers practical ideas for public managers, advocates, and others interested in developing interagency collaborative n...
Challenges of the Developing World / 9th edition
2019 || Paperback || Howard Handelman e.a. || Rowman & Littlefield
The updated ninth edition of Challenges of the Developing World examines political, social, and economic development in the diverse countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. In doing so, it explores the political economy of policymaking, investigates the uncertain dynamics of democratization, highlights the impact of ethnic and religious tensions on developing countries, and looks at revolution and military intervention in politics. Key issues such as the environment, sus...
Multi-Level Governance and European Integration
2001 || Paperback || Liesbet Hooghe e.a. || Rowman & Littlefield
European politics has been reshaped in recent decades by a dual process of centralization and decentralization. At the same time that authority in many policy areas has shifted to the suprantional level of the European Union, so national governments have given subnational regions within countries more say over the lives of their citizens. At the forefront of scholars who characterize this dual process as multi-level governance, Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks argue that its emergence in the sec...
Globalization and Culture / 4th edition
Global Mélange
2019 || Paperback || Jan Nederveen Pieterse || Rowman & Littlefield
Now updated with new chapters on culture and on populism, this seminal text disputes the view that we are experiencing a "clash of civilizations" as well as the idea that globalization leads to cultural homogenization. Instead, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that we are witnessing the formation of a global melange culture through processes of cultural mixing or hybridization. From this perspective on globalization, conflict may be mitigated and identity preserved, albeit transformed.
In a new ...
Human Security / 1st edition
Theory and Action
2018 || Paperback || David Andersen-Rodgers e.a. || Rowman & Littlefield
Human security refers in its broadest sense to the protection of individuals from harm. Human Security: Theory and Action explores the theory and application of concepts central to this notion of security. It examines the conceptual roots of human security, connecting its origins to its applications and challenges in war and peacetime.
With a unique focus on the evolving notion of responsibility for security, the text introduces the critical questions and priorities that underpin policies and...