From gender issues in Desperate Housewives, to race in Ugly Betty, gender biases in video games, and portrayals of the American family in Extreme Makeover, to analyzes of new genres like fandom and social media - no other book is so successful in engaging students in critical me…
Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied …
In the wake of the international summits in Copenhagen and Cancun, there is an urgent need to consider the role of intellectual property law in encouraging research, development, and diffusion of clean technologies to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.This book…
Rules regulating access to knowledge are no longer the exclusive province of lawyers and policymakers and instead command the attention of anthropologists, economists, literary theorists, political scientists, artists, historians, and cultural critics. This burgeoning interdisc…
Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentiet…
Provides information on identification and uses of edible prairie plants.
Piñon country stretches from trans-Pecos Texas to the Santa Ynez Mountains of Souther California, and from the sound of Idaho deep into Mexico. This book tells the story of the piñon pine through time: geological, prehistoric, historic, and current and documents the relationship…
Abstract: A 2-part final report of 4 committees (identification of toxic chemicals for toxicology testing; statistical sampling strategies; toxicity data elements; priority mechanisms for human health hazards) of the Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards identifie…
Television corrupts our children, induces us to spend needlessly, and stimulates hostility and violence. Or does it? Jib Fowles sees television as a "grandly therapeutic force," that television is indeed good for you. He examines why nearly every American regularly watches telev…
