Social Sciences

One Against All: Lenin and His Legacy

Author: 

Echeverran, Roberto

Credentials: 

Roberto Echeverran is a poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he studied philosophy and law. He then pursued graduate studies in philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and received his Ph.D. at the University of Paris VIII. Echevarren taught at the University of London before a twenty-year career teaching at New York University. He has published five novels, notably his last three short novels combined under the title Archipiélago (Archipelago). He was recently awarded the 2021 Amado Alonso International Prize of Literary Criticism for his book El pensamiento chino (Chinese Thought).

A century on, scholars can achieve a certain balance in views of what Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin’s government meant for Russia and for the world. Roberto Echaverren synthesizes all that we know about Lenin and his government by taking data from new and original sources. With auxiliary chapters on the evolution of land tenancy in Russia, the collectivization of land under Stalin, and the suppression of sexual minorities under Soviet rule, this book adds breadth and scope to our understanding of Lenin’s government and legacy.

Market: 
History, Political Science, Social Science, Russia, Russian History, Eurasian Studies, Intellectual History, Communism, Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, Revolution, Twentieth Century
Release Date: 
December 13, 2022
ISBN: 
9781680534481 Hardcover
Price: 
Price: $49.95
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6x9
Pages: 
150
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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The Making of Afro-Caribbean Consciousness and Identity in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson, David Dabydeen, and Fred D’Aguiar.

Author: 

Sarikaya, Dilek Bulut

Credentials: 

Dilek Bulut Sarıkaya is an adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Cappadocia
University, in Turkey. She graduated from English Language and Literature Department
at Gaziantep University in 2000 and received her masters and doctoral degrees at
Hacettepe University.

In the context of a diversified and pluralistic arena of contemporary literature embodying
previously marginalized voices of region, ethnicity, gender, and class, black poets living
in Britain developed a distinct branch of contemporary poetry. Having emerged from a
struggle to give voice to marginalized groups in Britain, the poetry of Linton Kwesi
Johnson, David Dabydeen, and Fred D’Aguiar helped define national identity and
explored racial oppression. Motivated by a sense of responsibility towards their

Market: 
Literature, African Studies, Social Science, Identity Studies, Caribbean Studies, Poetry, Contemporary British Poetry, Black British poetry, Afro-Caribbean Identity, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Fred D’Aguiar, David Dabydeen
Release Date: 
September 1, 2022
ISBN: 
9781680536980 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
150
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Carl vs. Karl: Jung and Marx, Two Icons for our Age

Author: 

Driscoll, James P., Ph.D.

Credentials: 

A scholar of Renaissance drama and Jungian psychology, James P. Driscoll, Ph.D., explores psychological approaches to the arts, religion, and public philosophy. He has written seven previous books: Identity in Shakespearean Drama, The Unfolding God of Jung and Milton, Shakespeare and Jung: The God in Time, Shakespeare’s Identities, How AIDS Activists Challenged America, Jung’s Cartography of the Psyche, and The Devil and Dr. Fauci. Driscoll has long applied his academic skills and original thinking to the LGBT, HIV, and patient rights causes. During the 1990s, he led the AIDS activist movement for FDA reform. Since then, he has distinguished himself with trenchant criticisms of oppressive bureaucracies and his work implementing critical reforms.

By drawing on the opposing ideas of Carl Jung and Karl Marx, James Driscoll’s develops fresh perspectives on urgent contemporary problems. Jung and Marx as thinkers, Driscoll contends, carry the projections of archetypal complexes that go back to the hostile Old Testament brothers Cain and Abel, whose enduring tensions shape our postmodern era.

Market: 
Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science, Psychology, Economics, Sociology, Carl Jung, Karl Marx
Release Date: 
August 1, 2022
ISBN: 
9781680536966 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
248
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Nuclear Energy: Perception or Reality?

Author: 

Akyüz, Emrah Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Emrah Akyüz is Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Energy Politics at Bingol University, in Turkey. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds with a thesis on the effects of the Fukushima and Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accidents on human rights.

Nuclear energy is the most controversial energy source in the 21st century. Both nuclear energy advocates and nuclear energy opponents try to manipulate society by providing incomplete or incorrect information about nuclear energy. Nuclear Energy: Perception or Reality? provides readers with objective information about both the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear energy and explains many common myths about it.

Market: 
Science, Social Science, Public Health, Energy, Physics, Nuclear Energy
Release Date: 
August 1, 2022
ISBN: 
9781680536928 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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The Communist Temptation: Rolland, Gide, Malraux, and Their Times

Author: 

Conner, Tom, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Tom Conner is Professor of Modern Language and Literatures at St. Norbert College, in De Pere, Wisconsin. He received his Ph.D. at Yale University and also studied at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier, and at the Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has taught French at St. Norbert College for the past 5 years, as well as at Miami University of Ohio, Yale, Nihon University in Japan, the University of the Philippines-Diliman, and at the Johns Hopkins University Center for International studies at Nanjing University, in China. He has published five previous books, including The Dreyfus Affair and the Emergence of the French Intellectual, 1898-1914. He and his wife Ikuko live in Green Bay, Wisconsin and Tokyo.

The Communist Temptation: Rolland, Gide, Malraux, and Their Times traces the evolution of the committed left-wing public intellectual in the interwar period, specifically in the 1930s, and focuses on leading left-wing intellectuals, such as Romain Rolland, André Gide, and André Malraux, and their relationships with communism and the broader anti-fascist movement.

Market: 
History, Philosophy, Social Science, Sociology, France, European History, Intellectual History, Public Intellectuals, Twentieth-Century Europe, Communism, Anti-Fascism, Romain Rolland, André Gide, André Malraux
Release Date: 
July 15, 2022
ISBN: 
9781680536881 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
198
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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French Intellectuals at a Crossroads, 1918-1939

Author: 

Conner, Tom, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Tom Conner is Professor of Modern Language and Literatures at St. Norbert College, in De Pere, Wisconsin. He received his Ph.D. at Yale University and also studied at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier, and at the Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has taught French at St. Norbert College for the past 5 years, as well as at Miami University of Ohio, Yale, Nihon University in Japan, the University of the Philippines-Diliman, and at the Johns Hopkins University Center for International studies at Nanjing University, in China. He has published five previous books, including The Dreyfus Affair and the Emergence of the French Intellectual, 1898-1914. He and his wife Ikuko live in Green Bay, Wisconsin and Tokyo.

French Intellectuals at a Crossroads examines a broad array of interrelated subjects: the effect of World War I on France’s intellectual community, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the rise of international communism, calls for pacifism, the creation of an “Intellectuals’ International of the Mind,” the debate over the myth of the disengaged intellectual, the apolitical group of “intellectuels non-conformistes,” and, finally, the challenges of surrealism.

Market: 
History, Philosophy, Social Science, Sociology, France, European History, Intellectual History, Public Intellectuals, Twentieth-Century Europe, World War I, World War II, Communism, Surrealism
Release Date: 
July 1, 2022
ISBN: 
9781680536867 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
198
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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The Emergence of the French Public Intellectual

Author: 

Conner, Tom, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Tom Conner is Professor of Modern Language and Literatures at St. Norbert College, in De Pere, Wisconsin. He received his Ph.D. at Yale University and also studied at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier, and at the Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has taught French at St. Norbert College for the past 5 years, as well as at Miami University of Ohio, Yale, Nihon University in Japan, the University of the Philippines-Diliman, and at the Johns Hopkins University Center for International studies at Nanjing University, in China. He has published five previous books, including The Dreyfus Affair and the Emergence of the French Intellectual, 1898-1914. He and his wife Ikuko live in Green Bay, Wisconsin and Tokyo.

The Emergence of the French Public Intellectual provides a working definition of “public intellectuals” in order to clarify who they are and what they do. It then follows their varied itineraries from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the nineteenth century. Public intellectuals became a fixture in French society during the Dreyfus Affair but have a long history in France, as the contributions of Christine de Pizan, Voltaire, and Victor Hugo, among many others, illustrate.

Market: 
History, Philosophy, Social Science, Sociology, France, European History, Intellectual History, Public Intellectuals, Zola, Dreyfus Affair
Release Date: 
July 1, 2022
ISBN: 
9781680536843 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
198
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Football in American Society: Fandom and the Dallas Cowboys

Author: 

Martinez, Jose, Ph.D

Credentials: 

Jose Martinez, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology (ret.), University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Author of Inequality in American Education: The Entrenchment of a Two-Tiered System,
Diversity, Funding, and Standardized Testing in American Education,
and Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society

Football affects the lives of many in substantial ways. This book first addresses the notion that this is “merely entertainment.” The significance of why football emerged atypically in Texas is discussed as well as what this portends for American society. Unsurprisingly, Texan disparities in income and racial segregation dissolved in the mirage that all people are equal at game time as spectators. Major institutions such as the military additionally mesh with the ethos of pro football in various ways.

Market: 
Sociology, Political Science, American Studies, Football, Sports, Entertainment, Economics, Race & Ethnicity, Identity Politics, Minority Studies
Release Date: 
July 1, 2022
ISBN: 
9781680536775: Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
194
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Letters To My Grandchildren

Author: 

Knoll, Reinhold

Credentials: 

Reinhold Knoll, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Vienna

Translator: Kenneth Quandt, Ph.D.

Distinguished Austrian sociologist Reinhold Knoll’s letters to his grandchildren, written daily during the Covid-19 pandemic, evolved into an obituary of European culture, politics, and society. They also embody a gesture of thanks to the United States, which took a different path from Europe and then saved it in World War I and World War II.

Market: 
Political Science, Sociology, Culture, Covid-19, European History, Western Civilization, Religious History, Philosophy, Cultural History, Modernity, Post-Modernity, Decadence, Decline of the West
Release Date: 
May 24, 2022
ISBN: 
9781680538748: Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
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6x9
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None
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Publisher: 

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Earning and Spending in Rural India: The Case of Tamil Nadu

Author: 

Karthikeyan, E.

Credentials: 

E. Karthikeyan holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Bharathidasan University and is now working as a Research Associate with the RUSA 2.0 SS Thematic Project on Water Sanitation and Hygiene at Bharathidasan University.

India has one of the world’s largest tribal populations. According to the 2011 census, the total tribal population was estimated at 8.6 percent in India. In Tamil Nadu, the tribal population is about 1.1 percent spread among six major primitive tribal communities. Consumption expenditure is one of the indicators of wellbeing and standard of living in households. This book focuses on the Malaiyali Tribe, which inhabits the Jawadhu hills. This tribal group lives below the poverty line, deriving main sources of income from seasonal agricultural and agricultural labor work.

Market: 
Economics, Sociology, Asian Studies, India, Development Studies, Finance
Release Date: 
July 15, 2022
ISBN: 
9781680536829: Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
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