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Race and Ethnicity

Author(s): Naomi Zack

RACE AND ETHNICITY explores and challenges ideas about race and ethnicity in the United States, asking students to examine their own beliefs. The book focuses on the formation of modern-day racial classification and stratification as well as the histories and lived realities of U.S. racial and ethni...

Leonardo Balada and Surrealism in Music

Author(s): Ivan Ivanov, Richard Miller

Surrealism from its inception in 1919 has been an interarts movement encompassing the visual arts, film, theater, literature, and music. Many people can point to the surrealist paintings of Dali, Magritte, and de Chirico, the poetry and prose of Apollonaire and Breton, the films of Cocteau and Bunue...

Social and Criminal Justice in Moral Perspective

Author(s): Christopher Dreisbach

SOCIAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN MORAL PERSPECTIVE provides an overview of the different understandings of what justice is. The text will examine social and criminal justice and how it affects our private, public, and professional lives.  These elements include interpersonal relationships, beliefs, cu...

Isker Bey and the Last Timekeeper: The Saga of Isker Bey, Volume 1

Author(s): Shawn M Lynch

In 2187 of the Fifth Long Age, a mother he did not remember brought Isker Bey into the world and into the slavery that burdened all the survivors of the conquered Bensahari nation. Ripped from the only family he did remember at the age of four, Isker found himself in the violence-prone dormitories o...

Thinking Critically About Social Psychology

Author(s): Whitney Whitaker

Social Psychology is all about common sense, right? Sometimes. Other times, the beliefs and attitudes we have about human behavior are nothing but myths we’ve picked up along the way. It is these myths that Dr. Whitney Jeter’s Thinking Critically About Social Psychology helps dispel. Through an educ...

Do Good and Prosper: Interplay Between Philanthropy and Business Innovations

Author(s): Edison Tse

Philanthropy consists of private initiatives for the public good. Market economy consists of private initiative for private good. Government welfare consists of public initiative for public good. In the literature, these three systems have been treated separately. However, there is a strong interpla...