Falk (sociology, State University College of New York) explores the social conditions and cultural implications of American football, and discovers that, football is the essence of the American spirit which has made the United States the leader of the world. He examines the college football athlete and coach, football as a profession, the psychol

The restoration of Israel to the Holy Land was originally an English, Protestant idea. Jewish Zionism came later and succeeded only because of the Holocaust. The principal impetus for the promotion of a Jewish return to Zion was religious and began with the translation of the Bible from the Hebrew to English by Tindale.
Because literature in the English language depicted Jews almost always in an unfavorable light, both British and American religious and political leaders were ambivalent about Jews. Nevertheless, the religious impulse to restore Israel became political in the twentieth...

Examines modern advances in gender equality and contemporary feminist discourse as a result of the American sexual revolution. This title explains how and why the sexual revolution of the 1960s continues to have profound effects on modern views of femininity and what it means to be an American woman.

This book describes twelve inventions that transformed the United States from a rural and small-town community to an industrial country of unprecedented power. These inventions demonstrate that no one person is ever responsible for technological advances and that the culture produces a number of people who work together to create each new invention. The book also shows the influences of technology on society and examines the beliefs and attitudes of those who partake in technological advances. The book is both a sociological analysis and a history of technology in the United States in the...

Der Band prasentiert den Abschlussbericht der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung des funfjahrigen Mediationsverfahrens am Flughafen Wien-Schwechat. Er beinhaltet sowohl die Dokumentation des Verfahrens als auch Hintergrundtheorien zur Mediation als Widerspruchsmanagement, ihrem Verhaltnis zu Politik und Offentlichkeit und ihrer Rechtswerdung."

Martin Luther's viciously anti-Jewish pamphlet, Vom Schem Hampboras , presented here in its original German and its first-ever English translation, is but one of the many sources translated here for the first time from Latin, Hebrew and German.

This study reviews the earliest Christian writings concerning the Jews and shows how Christian synods and influential theologians legitimised and reinforced hatred of the Jewish people. The book also examines the modern attempts in Protestant and Catholic theology to promote friendship toward the Jewish people.

Falk focuses on refugees who fled from Nazi tyranny in the 1930s, immigrated to America, and succeeded despite immense obstacles. This book includes a review of the most prominent academics that made major contributions to science, medicine, art, and literature in America.

This book reviews the achievements of American women in the American economy; in education; in government; in religion; in the military; in law enforcement and in communications. The author predicts the feminization of American life with particular reference to changes in the American family and the ever increasing dominance of women in all American institutions.