Books published by University Press of America

This book represents perhaps the single most important volume to be published on the Constitution during the Bicentennial. With over sixty contributing authors, it brings together the best of American constitutional scholarship for a comprehensive and provocative discussion of the Constitution's history, its principles and its current meaning.

Composed by nine of his former students on the occasion of the Miller Center's tenth anniversary, these essays commemorate Dr. Kenneth W. Thompson's educational leadership and support. It is fitting that the contributors to this volume have chosen to present Dr. Thompson with a collection of essays devoted to moral reasoning and statecraft.

In this study the author examines the socialist society of the German Democratic Republic. Throughout the book, questions are raised about the nature of representation, the role of subjectivity in ideological formations, and especially the role of such subjectivity when westerners attempt to 'tell the objective truth' about socialist societies.

The great merit of this textbook resides in its sensitivity to the problems of the intermediate student, for whom Catullus will represent a first exposure to 'real Latin.'...Overall, this is a very responsible textbook....

Presents an overview of what the authors see as the roots of Western traditional thought: Homer, the tragedians, Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible. Each section of the book offers lucid intepretations of a major figure through discussion of seminal texts.

Examines the different types of border disputes by going beyond the traditional questions of 'titles of territory' and issues of the location of the boundary.

This third volume of Facets of Faith and Science presents case studies covering astronomy, biology, cosmology, and physics.

This study outlines and defines key terms and concepts behind negotiation tactics that have been effective throughout history. It is completed with a glossary of over 50 terms used in negotiations.

Presents for the first time in textbook form a collection of the finest writings of noteworthy theologians of the key doctrinal themes in Christianity.

This study provides an in-depth analysis of the bizarre relationship between Senator Joe McCarthy and the Hearst press from 1942-57. Concentrating on the "Journal-American" and the "Mirror" in New York, the book looks deep into the controversy and arrives at some surprising conclusions.

In the Spring of 1994 teacher-educators from representative institutions within the Christian College Coalition met to consider the question: Just what is it that Christian colleges of education should do in preparing teachers for the nation's schools? This well-constructed volume begins to answer that question.

This volume notes the accomplishments of key figures among the Italian-Americans of the 20th century. The men and women featured differ in personality and profession, but are similar in the intensity involved in achieving their goals and in making a contribution to the American dream.

This study acknowledges the power that pornographic images continue to assert in a culture whose conscious intention is to deny their attraction. It brings together a wide range of sources in an attempt to explain the prevalence of pornographic themes and imagery in sexual arousal and fulfilment.

Studies and analyzes the changes and other developments in the American Jewish community, its organizations and leadership, as it reacted to the Holocaust and the establishment of an independent state of Israel.

This learner's dictionary for students whose native language is other then English is an educational aid that provides over 3400 entries. It indicates the primary stress, the part(s) of speech, the various meanings of the word in simple English and a description of how the word is used.

"With the translations of these articles, original GDR essays are made available to the English-speaking public. The editors achieved their aim to present material 'essential for an understanding of the German Democratic Republic.' The introductions to each chapter, the footnotes, and the questions for discussion attest to their dedication."--GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW

This "how-to" guide provides instructions for writers to follow in taking a potential novel from its initial germination as an idea to a complete blocking-out. It is flexible enough to account for all the possible modes and genres - from children's fairytale to mainstream bestseller.

This book presents every inflectional pattern in the Greek New Testament, explaining the pattern in terms of a formula, showing how principles of phonetic change alter the application of the formula, and giving every word which follows each inflectional pattern.

This work aims to be a comprehensive analysis of human growth and development and social processes, reflecting the primary concerns of social alienation, cultural problems and existential relevancy facing the 21st-century world.

This title aims to contribute to the debate about Americans taking an active part in shaping their lives and communities. It considers the possibilities for social action at a time of disillusionment for many Americans with their prospects for influencing events and policies.

This book examines the central aspects of modernity and the underlying factors at work in the process of modernization.

This study analyzes the writings of Rabbi Haim Hirschensohn, a Hebrew cultural pioneer who laid the foundation for the Zionist enterprise. His writings focused on finding a philosophical basis that could reconcile the Torah with the transformation forced upon the Jewish people by modernity.

This study is a strategic assessment of the power of nations in the world of the 1990s and recommendations as to the U.S. strategic role appropriate to that world.

Describes the basic relational qualities that characterize all experiential psychotherapy whether done by gestaltists, transactionalists, behavioral modifiers, rational-emotives, family therapists, psychoanalysts, or non-directive therapists.

This book, based on in-depth interviews of radical social workers, who at one time were associated with the Catalyst collective, explores through oral history the social psychological effects of upward mobility on political ideology.

Lessing's Spinozism looms up out of the numerous intellectual riddles of the past. Almost everything has been tried in an effort to sound and weigh the exact amount of Spinozism Lessing betrayed in his conversations with Jacobi.