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• Reconceptualizing religious change: ethno-apostasy and change in religion among American Jews

  - 2006-12-22

  Since the 1960s, observers of American religion have recognized that individuals, through their personal choices, wield a collective power to reshape the religious landscape of the United States. Religious switching and the abandonment of religious affiliation are widely acknowledged to be inherent features of an environment where religion derives its...

  Tags: affiliation, America, analysis, Barry, Cohen, Gary, Israel, M., network, Phillips, Richard, Robert, U.S., University of Oxford

• John W. Thieret (1926-2005)-Botanist, Teacher, Editor, Author, Mentor, and Friend

  - 2006-06-01

  John W. Thieret, Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at Northern Kentucky University, retired Director of the Northern Kentucky University Herbarium, Associate Editor of Sida, Contributions to Botany, and Editor of the Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science passed away on 7 December 2005, at Alexandria, Kentucky. He was 79...

  Tags: Kentucky, Louisiana, U.S., University of Oxford

• Reading Islam

  - 2005-05-17

  PRIOR TO September 11, 2001, a substantial majority in the United States approached Islam with a strange kind of detailed ignorance. For many Americans the words Islam and Muslims evoked disjointed images of violence, religious fanaticism, rejection of the modern world, mistreated women, and praying men bowing in the direction...

  Tags: Government, Iran, professor, U.S., University of Oxford

• Walt Whitman Rostow

  - 2005-01-01

  Walt Whitman Rostow Walt Whitman Rostow (born 1916) was an educator, economist, and government official. Born in New York City on October 7, 1916, Walt Whitman Rostow was the son of Russian immigrants Victor Aaron and Lillian Helman Rostow. He attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in 1936. Following graduation,...

  Tags: Europe, FINANCE, Government, Investment, professor, Strategy, U.S., University of Oxford, Yale University

• McCarthyism: political repression and the fear of communism

  - 2004-12-22

  THE 28-YEAR-OLD SEAMAN WAS PUZZLED. LAWRENCE PARKER HAD BEEN forced off his job as a waiter on the S.S. President Cleveland in February 1951 as a "poor security risk," but had not been told why. This was not the first time he had been barred from the waterfront under the...

  Tags: America, Communism, FBI, job, Joe, president, Robert, sanction, scare, transcript, U.S., U.S. Congress, University of Oxford, worker

• Mandela, Rhodes - what do they have in common?

  - 2003-08-01

  SOUTH AFRICA/ZIMBABWE The seventh Will of Cecil John Rhodes, the British arch colonialist left, created an educational grant known as the 'Rhodes Scholarship' in 1902, But in recent weeks, hairs have been torn over the addition of the Mandela name to the Rhodes Foundation. Shingai Rukwata Ndoro reports....

  Tags: Government, Leadership, scholar, scholarship, SOFTWARE, Transportation, U.S., University of Oxford

• The New Imperialism

  - 2003-04-01

  THE NEW IMPERIALISM. By DAVID HARVEY. ix and 253 pp.; notes, bibliog., index. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2003. $22 cloth, ISBN 0199264317. The title of this book, and the dust-jacket photograph of George W. Bush strutting along a red-carpeted, neoclassical corridor of power, might lead you to...

  Tags: Iraq, theory, U.S., University of Oxford

• Walt Whitman Rostow

  - 2003-01-01

  Walt Whitman Rostow Walt Whitman Rostow (born 1916) was an educator, economist, and government official. Born in New York City on October 7, 1916, Walt Whitman Rostow was the son of Russian immigrants Victor Aaron and Lillian Helman Rostow. He attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in 1936. Following graduation,...

  Tags: Europe, FINANCE, Investment, professor, Strategy, U.S., University of Oxford, Yale University

• Mediasurface Launches Free User Network for U.S. Customers; Fortis, World Wrestling Federation, Oxford University Press, ISI and Ingersoll-Rand Already On Board

  - 2001-11-28

  Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 28, 2001 Mediasurface Will Also Host Conference for All U.S. Content Management Customers On December 3 Mediasurface, a provider of advanced e-business content management application software, has launched a U.S. version of its popular Mediasurface User Network MUNet, an online...

  Tags: B2C, board, e-business, E-business/E-commerce, Fortis, Ingersoll-Rand, INTERNET, Mediasurface, network, NETWORKING, SOFTWARE, U.S., University of Oxford

• Books received.(Bibliography)

  - 2001-10-01

  Absolute Delusion, Perfect Buddhahood: The Rise and Fall of a Chinese Heresy. By Jamie Hubbard. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. Pp. xvii + 333. Hardcover $45.00. Paper $22.95. Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China. By Wang Ping. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...

  Tags: Albany, Books, China, U.K., U.S., University of Oxford