Propaganda--so crucial to winning the battle of hearts and minds in warfare--witnessed a transformation during World War II, when film was fast becoming the most popular form of entertainment. In Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany, Jo Fox compares how each country exploited their national cinema for political purposes. Through an investigation of shorts and feature films, the author looks at how both political propaganda films and escapist cinema were critical in maintaining the morale of both civilians and the military and how this changed throughout the war. While both countries...

Propaganda - so crucial to winning the battle of hearts and minds in warfare - witnessed a transformation during World War II, when film was fast becoming the most popular form of entertainment. In Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany, Jo Fox compares how each country exploited their national cinema for political purposes. Through an investigation of shorts and feature films, the author looks at how both political propaganda films and escapist cinema were critical in maintaining the morale of civilians and the military, and how this changed throughout the war. While both countries...

A new assessment of the debates about Just War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the imperial wars of the nineteenth century through the age of total war, the evolution of human rights discourse and international law, to proportionality during the Cold War and the redefinition of authority with the ascendancy of terror groups.

It's June In Miami is a collection of fifteen interlocked short stories involving four Miami Families over a forty year period: The Sterns, a Jewish American family, the Mertens, a Haitian American family, the Marti-Surazes, a Cuban American family, the Rothkopf's a retired Ohio gangster's family, and their African American help. In each story, a chance meeting with someone from a different background, often a character from another story in the book, causes the characters' lives to change. Against a setting painted in vivid tropical colors, the first generation flees poverty, abuse,...

Rena Basch is an administrative assistant at a San Francisco law firm. She is a single parent with a sick child. Her six-year-old daughter needs open-heart surgery and home nursing care. In order to raise money for the nurse, Rena takes on a second job as a gestational carrier. Rena signs a contract to become implanted with a fertilized egg and to deliver the baby to its genetic parents. She finds herself in trouble when she discovers she is pregnant with twins and under threat to keep the paternity of the second fetus a secret. In the process of solving the problem of what to do with an...

The Artists Touch is a collection of ten stories which, examine the terrain upon which Art meets the marketplace. Painters, sculptors, and craftsmen interact with dealers, critics and collectors over issues of artistic integrity and free market values. Against this background, a painter walks the fine line between optimism and denial, a sculptor is presented with the opportunity to sell out, and a young critic undergoes a rite of passage "according to the Oedipal Rule."