A collection of articles on the controversial topic of role models and debates the issue of placing athletes in a position where they become heroes to millions of youngsters and teens in spite of their sometimes questionable character.
Examines writings about war from around the world and throughout history, focusing on the impacts of war, including the impacts on mind, body, gender and gender relations, families, communities, countries, death, values, aesthetics, and posterity.
Examines writings about war from around the world and throughout history, focusing on the experiences of writers, including combatants, women at war, prisoners, refugees, exiles, the home front, and change.
Provides background on the life of American poet Walt Whitman and his influences, features thirteen articles that explore his views on democracy as reflect in his writings, and examines issues of democracy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Contains brief essays on literature that circulate as or comment on propaganda and mass persuasion, focusing on textsproduced by parties and factions, dissidents and rebels, various social classes, and cultural critics.
Presents volume three of a three-volume encyclopedia that provides an overview of the practices and beliefs of the major religious groups and subgroups around the world organized alphabetically from M to Z according to their particular country.
