Doug’s questioning on why things were the way they were would only lead to a journey of finding out that a majority of people are only by products of their own environments. Life changing events, professional setbacks and at times death of Family and loved ones led to this young man to realize that you get out of life what you put in it. And once the dust is settled, race , politics , sex and religion though these systems play major roles in the majority of the way most people interact with each other , they can also handicap human beings in such a way that it can stifle the development of human beings . Doug’s interactions and lessons learned will prove to anyone that we though we may have advanced technically and scientifically that our social development has not changed much. The climate that most people are in today and how we interact with other in some cases are archaic. His early view of the world and people would be challenged to such as degree that this young man from the back roads of North Carolina was given no choice but to begin looking deeply at his self and his own negative convictions of people and other cultures that were at once alien to soon become somewhat of a student and grasp from them aspects to help him in his own self development and apply them in his everyday life. At times there are some books that come along that can help establish dialogue across racial barriers in hopes that we can really sit down and discuss our differences openly without conflict .Our discussions on these subjects are still taboo to be discussed openly and regarded at times inappropriate in certain settings . Mason Dixon you will discover to be a conversation piece that will spark that dialogue on these items and in hopes that we can look at ourselves before judging others.

Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence. These scholars are grappling with some of the enormous challenges that will face humanity if an information-rich signal emanating from another world is detected. By drawing on issues at the core of contemporary archaeology and anthropology, we can be much better prepared for contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, should that day ever come.

When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.

Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative potential of radical feminism, and of the four-hundred-year-old dream of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow. From'the preeminent historian of black popular culture' (Cornel West), an inspiring work on the power of imagination to transform society.

Despite an extensive literature on homelessness there is surprisingly little work that investigates the roots of homelessness by tracking homeless people over time. In this fascinating and much-needed ethnographic study, Megan Ravenhill presents the results of ten years' research on the streets and in the hostels and day-centres of the UK, incorporating intensive interviews with 150 homeless and formerly homeless people as well as policy makers and professionals working with homeless people. Ravenhill discusses the biographical, structural and behavioural factors that lead to homelessness. Amongst the important and unique features of the study are: the use of life-route maps showing the circumstances and decisions that lead to homelessness, a systematic study of the timescales involved, and a survey of people's exit routes from homelessness. Ravenhill also identifies factors that predict those most vulnerable to homelessness and factors that prevent or considerably delay the onset of homelessness.

Constitutions worldwide inevitably have 'invisible' features: they have silences and lacunae, unwritten or conventional underpinnings, and social and political dimensions not apparent to certain observers. The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective helps us understand these dimensions to contemporary constitutions, and their role in the interpretation, legitimacy and stability of different constitutional systems. This volume provides a nuanced theoretical discussion of the idea of 'invisibility' in a constitutional context, and its relationship to more traditional understandings of written versus unwritten constitutionalism. Containing a rich array of case studies, including discussions of constitutional practice in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Indonesia, Ireland and Malaysia, this book will look at how this aspect of 'invisible constitutions' is manifested across different jurisdictions.