Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin's Russia
The result of a two-year collaboration between Russian experts and Western political scholars, this volume explores the complex roles of Russia's presidency, security services, parliament, media and other actors. The authors argue that Putin has created an "informational autocracy," which relies more on media manipulation than on the comprehensive ......
Reviews and expands upon the principles of New Atheism and answers many of its critics. The author demonstrates in detail that naturalism is sufficient to explain everything we observe in the universe, from the most distant galaxies to the inner workings of the brain that result in the phenomenon of mind.
Art museum libraries are thinking about their audiences, object-based learning, and the needs of researchers in the age of digital art history. By embracing changes in technology, research, and a shifting information landscape, these libraries are positioning themselves at the nexus of digital preservation, access, and radical experimentation.
The New Art Museum Library addresses the issues facing today's art museum libraries through a series of scholarly essays written by top librarians in the field. In 2007, the publication, Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship, edited by Joan Benedetti, was the first to solely focus on the field of art museum librarianship. In the decade since ......
Cities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, whatever else they may be, indisputably sensational. The world's tallest building is in Dubai; the 2022 World Cup in soccer will be played in fantastic Qatar facilities; Saudi Arabia is building five new cities from ......
Cities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, whatever else they may be, indisputably sensational. The world's tallest building is in Dubai; the 222 World Cup in soccer will be played in fantastic Qatar facilities; Saudi Arabia is building five new cities from ......
At the Intersection of Secularism, Science, and Spirituality
In The New Apologetics, Ian S. Markham presents a provocative defense of Christianity through a model of the world as a spiritually-infused universe. This book is an invitation to the church to rediscover a self-confident account of the faith that can accommodate the insights of modern science.
With articles by leading figures and numerous illustrations, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War remains one of the most cherished works on the war. In the same spirit and tradition as that venerable collection, Peter Cozzens and Robert Girardi have selected the very best articles from the Philadelphia Weekly Times. from 1887 to 1899.
In The New American Zionism, Theodore Sasson challenges the conventional view of waning American Jewish support for Israel. Instead, he shows that we are in the midst of a shift from a "mobilization" approach, which first emerged with the new state and focused on supporting Israel through big, centralized organizations, to an "engagement" approach ......
