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America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and economic crises. This title offers a comprehensive historical account of what American foundations have done with that independence and power. It focuses on their organization, donors, and leaders, and their intentions.

Drawing on a variety of sources including private documents, this work argues that women actually played an important role in the formation of the public identity of the Victorian middle class. It offers numerous insights for the reader into the public lives of women in this fascinating period.

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Sweeping changes in work and academe are threatening placement centers with irrelevancy. Freeman presents specific ideas for invigorating old programs and creating dynamic new ones, offers a redefinition of the external relationships, applies process reengineering to strategy, and presents a vision of placement centers linked with learning.

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Issues a persuasive call for greater coherence, clarity, and public candor from the American government regarding its detention policy and practices, and greater citizen awareness of the same. This title illustrates how US detention policy is a tangle of obfuscation rather than a serious set of moral and legal decisions.

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Christopher Mayhew gives a fascinating account of his early life at Oxford and the attraction of communism - so common among many of his contemporaries - and of his visit to the Soviet Union which was followed by disillusionment and the beginning of his strong anti-Communist beliefs.

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The authors analyze the rhetorical discourse characteristic of the Chicano protest movement of the sixties and seventies, focusing on four prominent activists, Cesar Chavez, Rodolfo Corky Gonzalez, Jose Angel Gutierrez, and Reies Lopez Tijerina.

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Describes inner cities as structures of subordination. Given the government's role in creating and maintaining segregation, this work argues, justice demands no less than the sweeping federal action. It includes ten responses from scholars, journalists, and practicing lawyers. It is aimed at those interested in social justice, and domestic policy.

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This intriguing book introduces the first Social Security reform proposal tailored to meet the nation's fiscal challenges and care for an aging population.

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A Winter of Discontent addresses both the broad spectrum of movement activity and the political context surrounding it.

The text explores the challenge of the nuclear freeze movement to the content of United States national security policy and the policy making process.

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This study assembles the evidence in search of an integrated view of royal women's position and power in critical functions of monarchy, challenging customary assumptions about women's place in the royal harem.

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Through history, interviews, anecdotes, and popular culture, this book examines pregnancy from all angles, covering changing expectations for pregnancy; new definitions of when fatherhood begins; the implications of new, earlier connections to the fetus; and the political, economic, and social consequences to the public.

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Tracing public and critical responses to TV from its pioneering days, this work gathers and gives context to the reactions of those who saw television's early broadcasts. It also shows how social and media critics, literary and visual artists, and others expressed their charmed or chagrinned responses to television in its earliest decades.

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his Workbook teaches the tools essential to analyzing and understanding the meaning of nonfiction texts that assert arguments.

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We live in the grip of a great illusion about politics, Pierre Manent argues in A World beyond Politics It's the illusion that we would be better off without politics--at least national politics, and perhaps all politics. It is a fantasy that if democratic values could somehow detach themselves from their traditional national context, we could ent