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Westview Press is a leading publisher of best-selling undergraduate and graduate textbooks.
Westview is the distinguished publisher of academic and college books in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
Westview Press was founded in 1975 in Boulder, Colorado, by distinguished publisher and intellectual Fred Praeger. Westview began as a scholarly press of social science textbooks, monographs, and general interest books.
Today, Westview, a proud member of the Perseus Books Group, publishes high-quality undergraduate and graduate level textbooks in core disciplines such as American politics, anthropology, area studies, art history, history, international relations, philosophy, and sociology. With textbooks developed, written, and edited with professors’ and students’ needs in mind, Westview Press continues its long history of publishing “books that matter” to the academic audience.
New texts like Sexualities in Context by Rebecca Plante, David B. Grusky’s The Inequality Reader, and Latin America’s Political Development by Ronald Schneider join best-selling classics A History of the Modern Middle East, Third Edition by William Cleveland, Jay MacLeod's Ain't No Makin' It, A Concise History of the Middle East, Eighth Edition by Arthur Goldschmidt and Lawrence Davidson, Leland Roth’s Understanding Architecture, Second Edition, and many others.
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Metaphysics by Peter van Inwagen (Thid Edition) published by Westview Press in 2008. When author of Metaphysics Peter van Inwagen was introduced to metaphysics as an undergraduate, he was given the following definition: metaphysics is the study of ultimate reality. This still seems to him to be the best definition of metaphysics he has seen...
Peter van Inwagen wrote a superb book which contains an introduction to the basic issues of metaphysics. He examines three profound questions: Why is there a world? What are the most general features of the world? What is the place of human being in the world?
This third edition includes a new chapter on ontology and presents a theory of the nature of being and proceeds to apply this theory to two problems of ontology: the problem of universals and of non-existent objects. This fabulous title is recommended to a wide range of readers: from the most sophisticated philosophers to first-time students.
Peter van Inwagen is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and the author of numerous books.
Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction by Rosemarie Tong (Third Edition) published by Westview Press in August, 2008. This book is an introduction to the major traditions of feminist theory. Feminist Thought includes examinations of radical feminism, liberal feminism, socialist and Marxist feminism, ecofeminism, and psychoanalytic feminism. This edition has been expanded and reformulated. This is a new chapter on care-focused feminism, an exploration of the connections of global and multicultural feminism with post-colonial feminism, and a consideration of the linkages between third-wave and postmodern feminism.
Feminist Thought is a guide to the diversity of feminism. It is the invaluable resource for students and those, who would like to understand the complexities of feminist debates: key feminist theorists such as Virginia Held, Judith Butler, Martha Nussbaum, Eva Feder Kittay receive extended or new discussions...
Rosemarie Tong is Director of the Center for Professional Applied Ethics at the University of N. Carolina, Charlotte and is Distinguished Professor of Health-Care Ethics. Rosemarie is recent past chair of the Committee on the Status of Women for the American Philosophical Association and executive board member of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Among her many publications are New Perspectives in Health Care Ethics (2006) and Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (1997).
4th edition of Africa in World Politics: Reforming Political Order - edited by John W. Harbeson and Donald Rothchild - published by Westview in 2008. This edition focuses on issues of reforming and strengthening states and their economies in sub-Saharan Africa. The nation-state and the primacy of the nation-state remains a bedrock of most contemporary theories of international relations. In the 5th decade of Africa's independence, this inheritance has been affected both by state weakness and by prospects for real political and economic reform, by continuing marginalization globally and by evolving new relationships with the world community. Including Africa's growing economic engagement with China, new readings on the AIDs crisis, the regional war on terrorism, this text remains an invaluable resource for students of African and world politics.
John W. Harbeson is professor of political science in the Graduate School and at City College of the City of New York. Donald Rothchild was professor of political science at the University of California at Davis until his passing in 2007.
Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind - Second Edition - by Curtis Keim published by Westview in 2008. Updated, this edition includes an entirely revised chapter on Africa in images, which analyzes portrayals of Africa in media, including print advertising by corporations such as Dow Chemical, IBM, Vogue magazine, Honda, ExxonMobil, and Snapple. Over the years that Curtis Keim has been teaching Africa survey courses, he has found that students' ability to approach the continent is deeply influenced by American stereotypes about Africa. Curtis Keim has written this book for students and others who are just beginning to think about Africa and need to consider how we commonly misperceive and misrepresent Africa. The chapters in this volume are brief, and each chapter can more or less stand on its own. This book is mostly about what Africa is not. Also Curtis has added a brief section at the end of the book on how to learn more about Africa and how to find teaching resources.
Curtis Keim is professor of history and political science at Moravian College. He is the recipient of the College's Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the author of African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire and editor of The Scramble for Art in Central Africa.
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Westview is the distinguished publisher of academic and college books in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
Westview Press was founded in 1975 in Boulder, Colorado, by distinguished publisher and intellectual Fred Praeger. Westview began as a scholarly press of social science textbooks, monographs, and general interest books.
Today, Westview, a proud member of the Perseus Books Group, publishes high-quality undergraduate and graduate level textbooks in core disciplines such as American politics, anthropology, area studies, art history, history, international relations, philosophy, and sociology. With textbooks developed, written, and edited with professors’ and students’ needs in mind, Westview Press continues its long history of publishing “books that matter” to the academic audience.
New texts like Sexualities in Context by Rebecca Plante, David B. Grusky’s The Inequality Reader, and Latin America’s Political Development by Ronald Schneider join best-selling classics A History of the Modern Middle East, Third Edition by William Cleveland, Jay MacLeod's Ain't No Makin' It, A Concise History of the Middle East, Eighth Edition by Arthur Goldschmidt and Lawrence Davidson, Leland Roth’s Understanding Architecture, Second Edition, and many others.
_______________________________
Metaphysics by Peter van Inwagen (Thid Edition) published by Westview Press in 2008. When author of Metaphysics Peter van Inwagen was introduced to metaphysics as an undergraduate, he was given the following definition: metaphysics is the study of ultimate reality. This still seems to him to be the best definition of metaphysics he has seen...Peter van Inwagen wrote a superb book which contains an introduction to the basic issues of metaphysics. He examines three profound questions: Why is there a world? What are the most general features of the world? What is the place of human being in the world?
This third edition includes a new chapter on ontology and presents a theory of the nature of being and proceeds to apply this theory to two problems of ontology: the problem of universals and of non-existent objects. This fabulous title is recommended to a wide range of readers: from the most sophisticated philosophers to first-time students.
Peter van Inwagen is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and the author of numerous books.
Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction by Rosemarie Tong (Third Edition) published by Westview Press in August, 2008. This book is an introduction to the major traditions of feminist theory. Feminist Thought includes examinations of radical feminism, liberal feminism, socialist and Marxist feminism, ecofeminism, and psychoanalytic feminism. This edition has been expanded and reformulated. This is a new chapter on care-focused feminism, an exploration of the connections of global and multicultural feminism with post-colonial feminism, and a consideration of the linkages between third-wave and postmodern feminism.Feminist Thought is a guide to the diversity of feminism. It is the invaluable resource for students and those, who would like to understand the complexities of feminist debates: key feminist theorists such as Virginia Held, Judith Butler, Martha Nussbaum, Eva Feder Kittay receive extended or new discussions...
Rosemarie Tong is Director of the Center for Professional Applied Ethics at the University of N. Carolina, Charlotte and is Distinguished Professor of Health-Care Ethics. Rosemarie is recent past chair of the Committee on the Status of Women for the American Philosophical Association and executive board member of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Among her many publications are New Perspectives in Health Care Ethics (2006) and Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (1997).
4th edition of Africa in World Politics: Reforming Political Order - edited by John W. Harbeson and Donald Rothchild - published by Westview in 2008. This edition focuses on issues of reforming and strengthening states and their economies in sub-Saharan Africa. The nation-state and the primacy of the nation-state remains a bedrock of most contemporary theories of international relations. In the 5th decade of Africa's independence, this inheritance has been affected both by state weakness and by prospects for real political and economic reform, by continuing marginalization globally and by evolving new relationships with the world community. Including Africa's growing economic engagement with China, new readings on the AIDs crisis, the regional war on terrorism, this text remains an invaluable resource for students of African and world politics.
John W. Harbeson is professor of political science in the Graduate School and at City College of the City of New York. Donald Rothchild was professor of political science at the University of California at Davis until his passing in 2007.
Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind - Second Edition - by Curtis Keim published by Westview in 2008. Updated, this edition includes an entirely revised chapter on Africa in images, which analyzes portrayals of Africa in media, including print advertising by corporations such as Dow Chemical, IBM, Vogue magazine, Honda, ExxonMobil, and Snapple. Over the years that Curtis Keim has been teaching Africa survey courses, he has found that students' ability to approach the continent is deeply influenced by American stereotypes about Africa. Curtis Keim has written this book for students and others who are just beginning to think about Africa and need to consider how we commonly misperceive and misrepresent Africa. The chapters in this volume are brief, and each chapter can more or less stand on its own. This book is mostly about what Africa is not. Also Curtis has added a brief section at the end of the book on how to learn more about Africa and how to find teaching resources.
Curtis Keim is professor of history and political science at Moravian College. He is the recipient of the College's Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the author of African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire and editor of The Scramble for Art in Central Africa.
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www.westviewpress.com
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