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Bornstein's How to Change the World studies a remarkable group of individuals around the world--what he calls social entrepreneurs. These people are bringing innovative, and successful, grass-roots approaches to a wide variety of social and economic problems, from rural poverty in India to discrimination against gypsies in Central Europe....

A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising"e;If political advertising did not exist, we would have to invent it,"e; writes        Katherine Hall Jamieson in her widely praised study, Packaging the Presidency. Now        in a new third edition, Jamieson expands her authoritative analysis of political        advertising,...

The Mother of GunpowderThe story of the science, the technology, the politics and the military applications of saltpeter - the vital but mysterious substance that governments from the Tudors to the Victorians regarded as an 'inestimable treasure'....

Revelation is seen as a gift from God given only once. David Brown challenges this idea by examining the effect cultural development has on religious belief, narrative, and art, and exploring the nature of the relationship between historical and imaginative truth. This book argues that post-canonical traditions have functioned as imaginative...

The image of the "e;cafeteria Catholic"e;--one who blithely picks and chooses those doctrines that suit him--is a staple of American culture. But are American Catholics really so nonchalant about how they integrate the ancient devotional practices of Catholicism with the everyday struggles of the modern world? For   Sense of the Faithful,...

Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro.  Using a wide array of sources, historian...