Michael T. Klare, one of the world’s most renowned experts on energy and security issues, is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies and Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (a joint appointment at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst). He is the defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and a Contributing Editor of Current History.

From the author of Resource Wars, comes a landmark assessment of the critical role of petroleum in America’s actions abroad. With clarity and urgency, Blood and Oil delineates the United States’ predicament and cautions that it is time to change the country’s energy policies, before it spends the next decades paying for oil with blood.
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This sobering look at the future of warfare predicts that conflicts will now be fought over diminishing supplies of our most precious natural resources. This is a look at the future of warfare in an era of heightened environmental stress and accelerated economic competition.
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Surveying the energy-driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape where all materials vital for the functioning of modern industrial societies (not just oil and natural gas but uranium, coal, copper, and others) are finite and being depleted at an ever-accelerating rate, Michael Klare forecasts a future of surprising new alliances and explosive danger.
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In Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws, Michael Klare takes on the great post-Cold War dilemma: with the collapse of the Soviet Union, what should U.S. national security strategy be and what, more recently, has it become?
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George Gerbner (1919-2005) was dean emeritus of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania for over thirty years. In 1968 Gerbner implemented the Cultural Indicators Project, an ongoing study designed to examine television content and its effect on Americans.

In this text, Dr. Michael Morgan (communication, University of Massachusetts-Amherst) brings together for the first time an extensive collection of Gerbner’s writings. Forty-five selections are grouped into sections on Gerbner’s early theories about communication, education and the media, early studies of media institutions and content, the theory and method of Cultural Indicators, Gerbner’s key writings about violence, samples of Gerbner’s Cultural Indicator studies on a variety of topics, and critical studies and opinion pieces on a variety of topics.
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Its Rise, Fall and Renewal.
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Michael Kimmel is among the leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity in the world today. The author or editor of more than twenty volumes, his books include Men Confront Pornography and the documentary history Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990, which chronicled men who supported women’s equality since the founding of the country.

A vocal minority of American men have actively supported women’s struggles for equality, better wages, suffrage, the right to abortion and other causes. This pioneering volume, an anthology of writings by men who have either advocated or campaigned for women’s rights, will serve as an inspirational sourcebook for both men and women.
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Changing Men assembles some of the most innovative and exciting research on men and masculinity. As such, it contributes to the demarcation of a new field called men’s studies, as well as to the examination of masculinity within traditional academic disciplines.
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Here, one of the world’s pioneers in the field of masculinity studies explores the construction of male sexuality, pornography, and sexual violence. Michael S. Kimmel analyzes what male sexuality is, where it comes from, how it works, what affects it, pornography’s impact on it, what fantasies men have about sex, what people think about sex, and how male ideas about sex affect what men actually do.
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They say that we come from different planets (men from Mars, women from Venus), that we have different brain chemistries and hormones, and that we listen, speak, and even define our morals differently. How is it then that men and women live together, take the same classes in school, eat the same food, read the same books, and receive grades according to the same criteria? Kimmel examines our basic beliefs about gender, arguing that men and women are more alike than we have ever imagined.
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A collection of historical articles and essays on the history of American and British masculinities by a pioneer in the developing field of masculinity studies.
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For more than three decades, the women’s movement and its scholars have exhaustively studied women’s complex history, roles, and struggles. In Manhood in America, author Michael Kimmel — a leading authority in gender studies — argues that it is time for men to rediscover their own evolution.
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In 35 groundbreaking essays, men candidly examine the role of pornography in their own lives.
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In the past, research in the field of gender has mainly addressed issues about women, and has for the most part been developed by women. Recently, the study of gender has rapidly expanded and there has been a growing interest in men’s and boys’ identities, conduct, and problems. This handbook is an interdisciplinary and international culmination of the growth of men’s studies that also offers insight about future directions for the field.
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Edited by two of the field’s most prominent researchers, this best-selling reader on men and masculinity takes a life-course perspective, using the idea that men (as well as women) are “gendered” and that this gendering process is a central experience for men.
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In this anthology on the experience of privilege in America — as it relates to holding the identity of the dominant gender, class, race, and sexual preference — sociologists Michael Kimmel and Abby Ferber, along with a wide range of contributors, challenge students to think more critically about the myriad inequalities in society and to become more aware of how the dynamics that create inequality for some also benefit others.
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The concept and reality of revolution continue to pose some of the most challenging and important questions in the world today. In Revolution, Michael S. Kimmel examines why the study of revolution has attained such importance, and he provides a systemic and historical analysis of key ideas and theories offered by nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century theorists, such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Tocqueville, and Freud.
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In the late 1960s two sociologists, John Gagnon and William Simon, developed the concept of sexual scripts as part of a larger project of treating sexuality like any other social phenomenon. In the end, their vision of social construction turned Kinsey on his head, and their model spurred the development of an entire field of Sexuality Studies. Michael Kimmel has gathered together essays from three generations of scholars influenced by this perspective on sexuality.

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Featuring a variety of readings, this interdisciplinary anthology addresses such key questions as: How are sexualities socially constructed? Why are sexualities more than just natural “urges” or “drives”? and How are sexualities personal, social, and political? Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society focuses on gender, using multiple disciplines, international populations, and theories to explore sexualities.
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Sociology has always offered a way to make sense of the complex and sometimes contradictory forces that shape our social lives in any era. Sociology Now explains sociology as both a body of knowledge and a way of seeing, showing how two such forces in particular have come to preoccupy sociologists and influence the way they look at the events and experiences of the early twenty first century.
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Jackson Katz is one of America’s leading anti-sexist male activists. An educator, author and filmmaker, he is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in gender violence prevention education with men and boys. He has lectured on hundreds of college and high school campuses and has conducted hundreds of professional trainings, seminars & workshops. He is the co-founder of the Mentors In Violence Prevention (MVP) program, the leading gender violence prevention initiative in professional and college athletics.

This is the first book to make the case that violence against women is a male issue as well as a female one — and that men who care have an obligation to better understand it and to do something about it. Pioneering anti-violence educator Jackson Katz offers cogent explanations for why so many men harass and hurt women, and he shows both women and men what they can do to stop the violence.
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Jean Kilbourne is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on alcohol and tobacco advertising and the image of women in advertising. Her films, slide lectures and television appearances have been seen by millions of people throughout the world. She was named by The New York Times Magazine as one of the three most popular speakers on college campuses today.

Many advertisements these days make us feel as if we have an intimate, even passionate relationship with a product. But as Jean Kilbourne points out in this fascinating and shocking exposé, the dreamlike promise of advertising always leaves us hungry for more. We can never be satisfied, because the products we love cannot love us back.
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Internationally recognized experts in childhood development and the impact of media on kids, Levin and Kilbourne have teamed up to offer parents the information, skills, and confidence they need to raise kids with a healthy understanding of sex and sexuality.
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Sut Jhally is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation (MEF). He is one of the world’s leading scholars looking at the role played by advertising and popular culture in the processes of social control and identity construction. The author of numerous books and articles on media, he is also an award-winning teacher (a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Massachusetts, where the student newspaper has also voted him “Best professor”).

Enlightened Racism is a major intervention into the public debate about race and perceptions of race — a debate at the heart of American political and public life. This book offers a radical challenge to the conventional wisdom concerning racial stereotyping in the U.S. and demonstrates how apparently progressive programs like The Cosby Show, despite good intentions, actually help to construct “enlightened” forms of racism.
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Hijacking Catastrophe is a riveting collection of 28 interviews with leading political thinkers (Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky, Scott Ritter, Medea Benjamin, Chalmers Johnson and others) that shows how the Bush administration has used the trauma of 9/11 and the war on terrorism to advance a radical and longstanding neoconservative plan for global geopolitical domination.
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Sut Jhally’s influential work as an activist, writer, film producer, and educator has had a far-reaching impact on the course and concerns of media criticism. This volume captures the full range of Jhally’s thought and covers a variety of issues including the role of advertising in contemporary life, the cultural politics of sport, race, and gender coding in the coverage of current events, and the power of media education to name just a few of the themes covered in this crucial, new work.
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Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist for the New York Times, and author. Two of her books The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies were both international bestsellers. In 2004, she released The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories, co-produced with director Avi Lewis.

Fences and Windows is a history of the rise of the anti-globalization movement from Seattle to September 11th.
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No Logo uncovers a betrayal of the central promises of the information age: choice, interactivity, and increased freedom. Equal parts cultural analysis, political manifesto, mall-rat memoir, and journalistic exposé, No Logo puts the new resistance into pop-historical and clear economic perspective.
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Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world — through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.
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Stuart Hall, a leading figure of the British left over the past thirty years and a visionary race theorist, had made profound contributions to the field of cultural studies at the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University. His work has made possible multiple conversations taking place around questions of culture, race and ethnicity.

A collection of the pioneering work from The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.
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An important survey of contemporary black photographers worldwide, specifically focusing on the theme of identity, Different presents approximately 40 black photographers producing work since 1985 on race, nationality, gender and sexual identity.
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Explores the questions which lie at the heart of debates in cultural studies and social theory. This book considers such issues as: whether the identities of gender, sexuality, race, class and nationality, which have long defined the social and cultural world of modern societies, are in decline.
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This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as ’systems of representation’.
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Considers the social and cultural aspects of 20th-century modern industrial social formations, focusing on Britain and Europe, and with some reference to North America and Australasia.
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Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the US. He has spoken to over 300,000 people in 48 states, and on more than 350 college campuses. Wise has provided anti-racism training to teachers, physicians, medical industry professionals, and law enforcement officials on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions. Wise served as adjunct faculty member of the School of Social Work at Smith College, where he taught a Master’s level class on Racism in the US. Wise also serves as the Race and Ethnicity Editor for LIP Magazine.

This text takes a detailed look into this controversial but topical subject in all realms of education. Wise compares the magnitude of white racial preference with the policies typically envisioned when the term “racial preference” is used, and he demonstrates that the U.S. system of education is both a reflection of and a contributor to a structure of institutionalized racism.
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Racial privilege shapes the lives of white Americans in every facet of life, from employment and education to housing and criminal justice. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise shows that racism not only burdens people of color, but also benefits those who are “white like him” — whether or not they’re actively racist.
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Dr. Mary Pipher is a clinical psychologist and best-selling author. Dr. Pipher’s work combines her training in both the fields of psychology and anthropology, examining how American culture influences the mental health of its people. She has received two American Psychological Association Presidential Citations. Dr. Pipher has appeared on the Today Show, 20/20, The Charlie Rose Show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and National Public Radio’s Fresh Air.

Mary Pipher, author of the bestselling and groundbreaking Reviving Ophelia, which charts the troubled passage of girls into adolescence, has nimbly covered yet another psychological passage: that into old age, which May Sarton called “a foreign country.”
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We live in an appearance-obsessed culture. Fashion ads, magazine covers, TV shows, and movies idealize a body type that is impossible for most real women to achieve. In this comforting, liberating book, Dr. Mary Pipher offers advice, counsel, and practical solutions for understanding our needs, our fears, and our many hungers. She shows us how we can at last learn to live at peace with the natural differences in our bodies and appetites.
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Dr. Pipher shares what she has learned in thirty years as a therapist, helping warring families, alienated adolescents, and harried professionals restore peace and beauty to their lives. Letters to a Young Therapist gives voice to her practice with an exhilarating mix of storytelling and sharp-eyed observation. While her letters are addressed to an imagined young therapist, every one of us can take something away from them.
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In cities all over the country, refugees arrive daily. Lost Boys from Sudan, survivors from Kosovo, families fleeing Afghanistan and Vietnam: they come with nothing but the desire to experience the American dream. Their endurance in the face of tragedy and their ability to hold on to the virtues of family, love, and joy are a lesson for Americans. Working as a cultural broker, teacher, and therapist, Mary Pipher opens our eyes — and our hearts — to those with whom we share the future.
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Here, for the first time, are girls’ unmuted voices from the front lines of adolescence, personal and painfully honest. By laying bare their harsh day-to-day reality, Reviving Ophelia issues a call to arms and offers parents compassion, strength, and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias’ lost sense of self.
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Drawing on the fascinating stories of families rich and poor, angry and despairing, religious and skeptical, and probing deep into her own family memories and experiences, Pipher clears a path to the strength and energy at the core of family life. Wise, compassionate, and impassioned, The Shelter of Each Other challenges each of us to face the truth about ourselves and to find the courage to protect, nurture, and revivify the families we cherish.
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In these tumultuous times, don’t we all want to be heard? Who doesn’t want to transform the world? And who doesn’t harbor a secret ambition to write? Writing to Change the World is intended to help people who have a message they’re passionate about to convey it clearly through writing.
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