Popular Culture Review: Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer 2016

Edited by Felicia F. Campbell, Associate Editor Gina M. Sully Purchase through Amazon  |   Open Access Popular culture studies are pertinent to many academic fields, ranging from art, music, communications, marketing, and history to political science and anthropology. The subject has had a tremendous impact on research. For example, as political history became less the… Continue reading Popular Culture Review: Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer 2016

A World of Old and New Water Issues: Volume 2, Number 2 of New Water Policy and Practice

Edited by Jeff Camkin and Susana Neto Purchase through Amazon  Welcome to the fourth issue of New Water Policy and Practice Journal: A Platform for the World’s Emerging Water Leaders and Thinkers. One of our main aims at New Water Policy and Practice Journal is to support emerging water leaders and thinkers to develop and… Continue reading A World of Old and New Water Issues: Volume 2, Number 2 of New Water Policy and Practice

New Challenges and New Roles in World Food Policy

by Keokam Kraisoraphong Purchase World Food Policy (WFP) in its third issue, features research-based papers on food policy from global perspectives, inclusive of regional and national cases. Revisiting the green revolution, a number of articles take issue with the phenomenon through interestingly different lens. This also includes exploring the implications for policy intervention occurring through… Continue reading New Challenges and New Roles in World Food Policy

European Policy Complexities and Conundrums

Purchase European Policy Analysis • is a double blind peer-reviewed journal on policy research in Europe • focuses on policy research a) with an emphasis on European countries, issues and studies (and/or) b) which follows a comparative approach (and/or) c) which contributes to the theoretical understanding of policy research European Policy Analysis • invites original… Continue reading European Policy Complexities and Conundrums

New Crimes and New Solutions: International Journal of Criminology

New Crimes and New Solutions: International Journal of Criminology Edited by Alain Bauer Purchase through Amazon Coming to Kindle soon! Is using the humanities and social sciences (psychology, sociology,law, etc.) to understand the crime, the criminal, the victim, criminality, and society’s reaction to crime ascience? A crime is the unique combination of a perpetrator, a victim,… Continue reading New Crimes and New Solutions: International Journal of Criminology

Strategies for Online Education: New Paradigms: Internet Learning Journal: Vol. 4, No. 1

by Melissa Layne Purchase through Amazon Internet Learning Journal (ILJ) is a biannual, open-access, doubleblind peer-reviewed academic publication sponsored by The Policy Studies Organization (PSO) and American Public University System (APUS). The aim of Internet Learning Journal (ILJ) is to provide a venue for the publication of quality academic research with an emphasis on representing… Continue reading Strategies for Online Education: New Paradigms: Internet Learning Journal: Vol. 4, No. 1

The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funeral Archeology

by E. A. Wallis Budge Purchase through Amazon E. A. Wallis Budge, despite having to leave school at the age of twelve to work, never stopped learning. He studied languages such as Hebrew and Assyrian, and volunteered at the British Museum. There he was introduced to leaders in Egyptian study, including Samuel Birch and George… Continue reading The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funeral Archeology

New Ideas for Online Learning: Keeping up with the Changes

Edited by Melissa Layne Purchase through Amazon  |  Open Access Can a growing number of students in distance education reach such levels that conventional education is permanently changed? Does online education reflect the current economic crisis? Are faculty becoming less and less conventional, while adjunct ranks swell still further? Is “education by Skype” potentially more… Continue reading New Ideas for Online Learning: Keeping up with the Changes

Europe’s Welfare Policies: The Frayed Safety Net

European Policy Analysis, Vo. 1, No. 1: Europe’s Welfare Policies: The Frayed Safety Net Edited by Klaus Schubert, Nils Bandelow, Peter Biegelbauer, and Fritz Sager Purchase on Amazon  |  Open Access Contents: Editorial Introduction to the First Issue of European Policy Analysis Enhancing gender equity through evidence-based policymaking? Theorizing and tracing the use of systematic knowledge in… Continue reading Europe’s Welfare Policies: The Frayed Safety Net

Feeding the Global South: Food in Asian and African Societies

Edited by Keokam Kraisoraphong Purchase through Amazon  |  Open Access The second issue of World Food Policy (WFP) Journal continues to bring together research-based papers by invited authors. Diverse in topic and geographical coverage, the papers offer insightful food policy analysis from the approach of the contributors’ area of expertise. Examining food policy agenda from… Continue reading Feeding the Global South: Food in Asian and African Societies

The Symbolic Tradition of Freemasonry

Edited by Pierre Mollier Purchase This volume, full of significant work on Freemasonry and kindred subjects, is the result of a bold effort to make the best in articles about fraternalism appearing in tonguesother than English available to the English-speaking scholarly world. The productivity and sophistication of researchers in Europe has meant that important progress… Continue reading The Symbolic Tradition of Freemasonry

New Frontiers in Criminology

Edited by Alain Bauer Purchase through Amazon  Criminology owes a great deal as a discipline to the eighteenth century social philosophers, particularly those like Cesare Beccaria who partly built some of their arguments on social contract theory. Certainly some of the aspects of the debate over free will date from then. The publishing of Beccaria’s Dei… Continue reading New Frontiers in Criminology

Designing, Adapting, Strategizing in Online Education

 Edited and Introduced by Phil Ice This volume emerged from the increasingly well known International Scientific Conference on eLearning and Software for Education, an event which wrestles with the development of technology for teaching and is indeed thoroughly international in the education leaders who participate. Adapting software to individual learners, social media in the classroom,… Continue reading Designing, Adapting, Strategizing in Online Education

Criminology in a Hostile Environment

Edited by Alain Bauer Is using the humanities and social sciences (psychology, sociology, law, etc.) to understand the crime, the criminal, the victim, criminality, and society’s reaction to crime a science? A crime is the unique combination of a perpetrator, a victim, and a set of circumstances. Its individual and quantitative analysis requires scientific methods… Continue reading Criminology in a Hostile Environment

NEW Kindle Matchbook program

Beginning in October, the Kindle Matchbook program will be available for all Westphalia Press titles currently on Kindle. What this means is when you buy a paperback version of a book, you can get the Kindle version for $1.99! This price applies to all books, no matter the paperback price (unless, of course, we offer… Continue reading NEW Kindle Matchbook program

New Sources on Women and Freemasonry

 Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace Edited and Introduced by Pierre Mollier There has been a great lack in international scholarship concerned with ritual and secrecy because so much of the good work is being done in languages that the mono-lingual English-speaking world has no idea exist. The strength of the articles in this collection… Continue reading New Sources on Women and Freemasonry

Meeting Minutes of Naval Lodge No. 4 F.A.A.M. 1812

Purchase through Amazon Edited and Introduced by Isaiah Akin This book contains the Meeting minutes of Naval Lodge No. 4 F.A.A.M. of Washington DC from 1812, along with articles about the people mentioned and the Washington Navy Yard where many of them worked, and gives insight into Freemasonry in early America. In the book, you… Continue reading Meeting Minutes of Naval Lodge No. 4 F.A.A.M. 1812