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An interdisciplinary team of twenty-four scholars locates, describes, and explores cases in which media-driven rituals or ritually saturated media instigate, disseminate, or escalate conflict. The book's central question is: "e;When ritual and media interact (either by the mediatizing of ritual or by the ritualizing of media), how do the...

The Dhammapada, the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the world's great religious literature. Like all religious texts in Pali, the Dhammapada belongs to the Therev--acirc--;da school of the Buddhist tradition, adherents of which are now found primarily in Kampuchea, Laos, Sri Lanka,...

The Teacher's Guide to Grammar is unique in focusing directly on the aspects of grammar that teachers need to know and relating them to today's educational priorities. This concise and accessible book provides all the necessary technical knowledge required for confidence in the classroom....

Women in the Age of Welfare ReformHailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2.1 million in 2001. But what does this "e;success"e; look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced it? In Flat Broke, With Children, Sharon Hays...

A fascinating re-evaluation of the social history of the second world war, looking at the diaries kept by nine 'ordinary' people in wartime Britain for the Mass Observation social research organization....

Cranford is a vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early        Victorian England, dominated by its independent and refined women, a blend of social        comedy and astute observation. This edition includes two related short works by        Gaskell and contemporary comment on the novel, household management, fashion,...