Black Feminist Sociology: perspectives and praxis
Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book centers Black feminist sociology (BFS) within the sociology canon and...
View ArticleGhosts, City, Sea
A bilingual career-spanning selection of poems by Wang Yin, translated by Andrea Lingenfelter. With GHOSTS CITY SEA, Wang Yin and Lingenfelter have assembled three sets of poems written between 1987...
View ArticleEducating for Peace and Human Rights: an introduction
Over the past five decades, both peace education and human rights education have emerged distinctly and separately as global fields of scholarship and practice. Promoted through multiple efforts (the...
View ArticleLife's Greatest Lessons: 20 things that matter
A collection of twenty life principles based on the values of integrity and compassion explains how to enrich one's life by embracing healthier attitudes about money, success, and having fun.
View ArticlePositive Words, Powerful Results: simple ways to honor, affirm, and celebrate...
Although we live in an ocean of words, we rarely acknowledge their power to uplift or put down, to inspire or discourage, to help or hurt. But in this jewel of a book, Hal Urban -- parent,...
View ArticleThe Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: videography, aesthetics, and...
Drawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B'Tselem, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Liat Berdugo...
View ArticleThe Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victimology, and Human Rights
Considering victimology as a reflection of the structure of American society, Elias examines its links to the broad arenas of social, political and economic relations and advocates a new victimology...
View ArticleBaseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender, and the National Pastime
One particular American sport arguably surpasses all others in reflecting U.S. society: the national pastime -- baseball. Roger Angell has suggested, "Baseball seems to have been invented solely for...
View ArticleRethinking Peace
With the development of the atomic bomb, Albert Einstein remarked that everything had changed except our thinking about the world. Einstein and Bertrand Russell warned us that "we have to learn to...
View ArticleThe Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted...
Mixing sharp political analysis and compelling lore, an eye-opening look at baseball’s relationship to American empire, from the revolutionary era to the present “The Empire Strikes Out is a rare and...
View ArticleUniversity of San Francisco
The University of San Francisco began in 1855 as a one-room schoolhouse named St. Ignatius Academy. Its founding is interwoven with the establishment of the Jesuit Order in California, European...
View ArticleMajor league rebels : baseball battles over workers' rights and American empire
A captivating history of the baseball reformers and revolutionaries who challenged their sport and society—and in turn helped change America. Athletes have often used their platform to respond to and...
View ArticleDefining Excellence in Simulation Programs
Official publication of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. This text meets the needs of the increasing numbers of healthcare practitioners, researchers, and educators using simulation...
View ArticleThe Deadly Tools of Ignorance: A Debs Kafka Mystery
The Deadly Tools of Ignorance follows the witty and feisty Debs Kafka through the dysfunctional halls of academia, into the scandal-ridden Catholic Church, down the streets of San Francisco, and into...
View ArticlePerson to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication and English...
This book maps the discursive terrain and potential of person to person peacebuilding as it intersects with, and is embedded in, intercultural communication. It foregrounds the voices and discourses...
View ArticleThe Fragrant Companions: A Play About Love Between Women
Two young gentry women meet by chance at a nunnery in Yangzhou, where they fall in love at first sight. After they exchange poetry and recognize each other’s literary talents, their emotional bond...
View ArticleVictims Still: The Political Manipulation of Crime Victims
The 1980s saw official crime policy in the United States shifting its focus from crime and criminals to victimization and victims. In this thought-provoking book, Robert Elias evaluates the...
View ArticlePsychology of Prejudice and Discrimination
Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what psychological theory and research have to say about the nature, causes, and reduction of prejudice...
View ArticleFemale Biology
Over twenty years ago I developed a course for the upper- level biology major at the University of San Francisco called Female Biology. This was from what I perceived as a gap in the undergraduate...
View Article
