Books published by University Press of America

Nigeria After the Nightmare/I is an in-depth look into the Nigerian experience, explaining what went wrong during the countryOs thirty years of dictatorship. The book describes Nigeria's problems including oil, corruption, and dictatorship, but also provides a way for Nigeria to recover and become a leading democratic state.

This book recounts Buckler's life in the Peace Corps after a heartbreaking divorce and demanding career prompt him to make a change. Assigned to a village school in Malawi, Buckler opens his home to three boys, embarking with them on a journey of cross-cultural discovery, personal sacrifice, and transformative growth.

Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the history of the United States, concluding that white American women collaborated with white American men as 'Co-Whites' or co-partners in the management and maintenance of white supremacy in the United States.

This book explores the complicated, multi-faceted uprising by analyzing its underlying causes: increased taxes, rising costs of foodstuffs, the forced implementation of this new metric system, fear of being drafted into the military and, finally, the imprisonment of two of the leading bishops in Brazil, known as the Religious Question.

This extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon, detailing the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from various racial and ethnic backgrounds. The book chronicles specific protective factors and processes in the students' lives and several symbiotic relationships between groups of protective factors.

This book advances the argument that the events of July 14, 1958, when Iraqi military officers overthrew the British-installed Iraqi monarchy, constituted simultaneously as a coup and a revolution for a number of reasons, including military involvement, popular participation, and policies that radically departed from those of the previous regime.

Author Patrick Mendis explores unseen forces that have guided America to global dominance. He details how the creation of Madison's "Universal Empire" through Hamilton's "Federalism" realizes Jefferson's "Empire of Liberty." The author then unveils America's Masonic endgame of universal brotherhood: E Pluribus Unum.

This book tells the Korean immigrants' life stories in California's eight San Joaquin Valley farm communities. It describes how they survived through discrimination and injustices in the early 20th century America, and also details the Korean immigrants' efforts to regain their lost motherland from Japanese colonialism (1910-1945).

This collection of biographies of twentieth-century U.S. ambassadors to France explores their personal and professional lives, highlighting accomplishments and challenges in Franco-American relations and world history. These men demonstrated courage, intelligence, and character in their attempts to encourage French cooperation in furthering joint diplomatic goals and ideals of peace.

This book explores the relationship between God, the Jewish people, and the Land of Israel, bringing clarity to issues of great moment - both in the past and in our time. The author's analyses are rooted in Biblical and rabbinic texts themselves, in addition to other scholarly disciplines that relate.

This book is about the economics of developing countries' rise, based on the case of China and focuses on economic growth theory. It features traditional political economics and Chinese characteristics of socialism to examine the great economic development achievements of China within such a short period of time.

This book transports the reader from the world of mainstream economics, in which the object of observation is The Market (exchange), to a world in which the object of observation is the economic process. Both producer and consumer must, respectively, be legitimate owners of real wealth and monetary wealth.

This book tells the story of Henry Roe Cloud, the first Native American to graduate from Yale. His contributions to theological inquiry, the education of Native Americans, and the formulation of government policies contribute to his inclusion in any list of the most prominent Native Americans in history.

This text, designed for a third or fourth year college Spanish course, presents the history, theory and practice of Spanish-to-English translation. The emphasis is on general material to be found in current journals and newspapers, with some specialized material from the fields of business, the social sciences, and literature.

This book is divided into two sections: the transformation of the child in society, which examines how childhood has changed in important areas of social life, and the transformation of the child in contemporary culture, which examines important areas of contemporary culture in which images and the status of childhood have become significant.

This study investigates the procedural techniques, significance and the tangible effects of the laying on of hands in the New Testament.

Shows that John Rawls' framework of liberal public reason includes an unacknowledged call for a Richard Rortian poeticized culture. This book argues that, despite Rawls's intentions, his framework within which he proposes justice as fairness demands a Rortian ironic perspective and does not allow for citizens to hold literal religious beliefs.

Contributes to a revived confidence in the integrity of corporate accounts, and thereby sustains the vitality of America's capital markets, which are vital to our future economic well-being.

Hopeless Cases describes the futile search for those responsible for a series of apparently related terrorist attacks and plots in the World War I-Red Scare era during the final surge of early 20th century anarchist violence in the United States.

Three decades after the Civil War-amidst a resurgent patriotic fervor, a new Christian Awakening and an enveloping modernization promising heretofore unimagined heights of prosperity and well-being-a new generation of Americans in rural Nelson and Washington Counties, Kentucky, were experiencing what Lincoln in their fathers' war had promised: a new birth of freedom.

Explores how the Reagan administration's (1981-1988) fiscal policy changed the national economy and adversely impacted unemployment among African Americans.