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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction to the Status of Arab-Muslim Women -- 2. The Ulama, al-Azhar and the State in Contemporary Egypt -- 3. The Egyptian Feminist Movement: Past and Present -- 4. The Egyptian Constitution and its Influence on Women's Rights -- 5. Fieldwork and Data Presentation -- 6. Discussion of Findings -- Appendix I: Egyptian Constitution -- Appendix II: Map of Egypt -- Appendix III: Qena Governorate Map -- Appendix IV: Cairo Governorate Map

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Acknowledgements -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Doctrine of the Improvement of Man -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Improvement of Man -- 1.3 The Social Conditions of Improvement -- 1.4 The Role of the Government -- 1.5 Determinism -- 1.6 Conclusion -- 2 The Future of Society: Socialism -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Critique of Capitalism and the Socialist Answer -- 2.3 Mill's Assessment of the Socialists -- 2.4 Mill's Utopia -- 2.5 Conclusion

Nicodemus was a microcosm of all the issues facing black Americans in the late nineteenth century, and Hall, McCabe, and Niles are archetypes for powerful philosophies that have persisted into the twenty-first century. This study of their ideas and the ways they shaped Nicodemus offers a novel perspective on the most famous post-Civil War African American community in the West

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Intergenerational Transmission of Memory -- Chapter 2: Social Frameworks of Memory -- Chapter 3: The Haunting Unknown -- Chapter 4: Living to Tell the Story -- Chapter 5: Unsealing the Wounds -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Cover -- Author biography -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Development of an Environmental Policy in the EU -- 3. The Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) -- 4. The Legal Setting and Discourses in Water Management in Turkey -- 5. Institutional Arrangements in Turkey's Water-Management Policy -- 6. Water Management in Turkey: Change and Continuities in Policy Networks -- 7. Turkey's Efforts towards WFD Harmonization: What Has Been Achieved? -- 8. Conclusion -- List of Interviews -- Notes -- Bibliography

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Back to the Future:The Birth of Modern Medievalism in England and America -- 2. The Birth of Camelot: The Literary Origins of the Hollywood Arthuriana -- 3. The Knights of the Round Table: Camelot in Hollywood -- 4. "Once There Was a Spot": Camelot and the Crisis of the 1960s -- 5. "Let's Not Go to Camelot": Deconstructing Myth -- 6. Old Myths Are New Again: Ronald Reagan, Indiana Jones, Knightriders, and the Pursuit of the Past

"Government surveillance as an issue exploded into modern consciousness with the revelations that Edward Snowden made about the activities of the National Security Agency in 2013. But government surveillance is actually an old issue with a long and tangled history reaching back through generations. The competing interests involved in government surveillance create deeply opposing tensions that never seem to get fully resolved or go away. Government wants to surveil in secrecy to protect home and country, and those being governed for their part want to be safe and protected. But individuals also want to have autonomy, privacy, and freedom from unfair intrusions or other abuses of government power. The nuanced and long-term interaction of this push and pull between the government's legitimate desire for surveillance and legitimate desire expressed by individuals and society as a whole for civil liberties and autonomy run deeply though America's history, laws, actions, and policies of government surveillance"--