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Diana, the Making of a Media Saint
"In conventional Christian terms, Diana was of course no saint. Yet Diana's status as an icon, before and especially after her tragic death, resonates beatitude. In this thoughtful, illuminating work, cultural critics across disciplines take Diana's 'sainthood' as their motif and explore the nature and source of her iconic role." "Diana, it is argued, attained her popular saintly status because she seemed to represent and enshrine values with which huge numbers were able to sympathise. The contributors identify and examine Diana's sainthood, with all its attendant controversies and contradictions."--Jacket.
From Fudge to Freedom
During a routine doctor's visit, Diana Richards Golden, learned she had borderline diabetes and hypoglycemia. It was likely she would develop full-blown diabetes if she didn't change her diet. Golden was not a skinny girl, and sugar was a vice. She loved baking and making sweets, which developed into bad eating habits. She was always attracted to unhealthy foods. After suffering multiple strokes her health took another bad turn. Dietary changes due to her prescribed medications caused cramps and stomach aches at every meal. She became increasingly frustrated and knew something needed to change. Her husband, family and friends were there to help Diana discover a healthier lifestyle. By adopting a low-carbohydrate diet she became free from any diabetic factors in just nine months. In this book she shares her recipes, including smoothies, marinades, blackberry salmon, avocado chocolate mousse, broccoli salad and sweet treats. Whether you suffer from diabetes, want to drop a few pounds, or crave a healthier way of life, let From Fudge to Freedom be your guide and inspiration to make positive changes.
Political Complexity
DIVDemonstrates how non-linear models help us understand political phenomena /div
Mary
The life story of a woman who refused to accept life in one of the traditional roles assigned to Black women profiles her background on a poor North Carolina farm and chronicles her road to success
Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences
DIVApplications of chaos theory in political science, economics, and sociology /div
Windy City Christmas
No matter where you live, Marshall Field’s is a name that immediately conjures up images of the big department store in Chicago. Christmas was a magical time there for many. Diana Richards and Jan McGrath have captured that magic in Christmas Window Quilt and 14 other projects designed around memories of visiting the store during the holiday. Children’s aprons, a wall quilt, place mats and napkins, tote bags, pillows, a tree skirt, and more with embellished embroidery, piecing, and appliqué are in store for you in Windy City Christmas.
The Baltic Transformed
Why isn't the Baltic region like the Balkans? Why have the Baltic republics not experienced ethnic cleansing, border wars, authoritarian rule, and social chaos? Instead, peace, democracy, and market economies have taken root since the fall of communism. Walter C. Clemens, Jr. here uses complexity theory, which analyzes the role of self-organization in complex adaptive systems, to explain the 'Baltic miracle.' He argues that the theory is a vital tool for understanding the remarkable strides made by Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since 1991 in coping with the transition to partnership with the new Europe. The Baltic peoples have adapted well to the demands of democracy, a market economy, and ...
Strategic Justice
In Strategic Justice, Peter Vanderschraaf argues that justice can be properly understood as a body of special social conventions. The idea that justice is at bottom conventional has ancient roots, but has never been central in philosophy because convention itself has historically been so poorly understood. Vanderschraaf gives a new defense of this idea that integrates insights and arguments of past masters of moral and political philosophy together with recent analytical and empirical concepts and results from the social sciences. One of the substantial contributions of this work is a new account of convention that is sufficiently general for summarizing problems of justice, the social inter...
The Behavior of Federal Judges
Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision-makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The system permits judges to be quite secretive (and most of them are), so indirect methods are required to make sense of their behavior. Here, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge work together to construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making. Using statistical methods to test hypotheses, they dispel the mystery of how judicial decisions in district courts, circuit courts, and the Supreme Court are made. The authors derive their hypotheses from a labor-market model, which allows them to consider judges as they would any other econ...
