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Interview with Marcia Pally on the 2008 US presidential election, the future US foreign policy, and her new book, Warnung vor dem Freunde.
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Out in October 2009:
Liebeserklaerungen aus Kreuzberg und Manhattan
[Love Letters from Kreuzberg and Manhattan]
Berlin University Press, 2009, 249 pages, ISBN 978-3-940432-68-I
A collection of essays written in the German-speaking press from 1989 through 2009. These short satires and longer analytical pieces interrogate contemporary events to reveal structural differences between the US and Europe in societal values, assumptions, and organization. These have dispositive effect on foreign policy and trans-Atlantic relations.
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Out in Fall 2008:
Die hintergründige Religion:
Der Einfluss des Evangelikalismus auf Gewissensfreiheit,
Pluralismus und die US-amerikanische Politik
[Religion Behind the Scenes: The influence of evangelicalism
on Freedom of Conscience, Pluralism and US politics]
Berlin University Press, 2008, 160 pages, ISBN 978-3-940432-30-8
by Marcia Pally
Though freedom of conscience and church-state separation are today considered children of the secular Enlightenment, these linchpins of democracy were first developed by ardent believers. Die Hintergründige Religion [Religion Behind the Scenes] traces the religious argument for these classic liberal institutions, first among the devout in Europe and then in the US, especially among evangelicals, who were at the vanguard of these issues since the colonial era. The book looks at the importance of this religious tradition to America’s robust ability to integrate immigrants, and to America’s vibrant economy and pluralism. Die Hintergründige Religion [Religion Behind the Scenes] turns to the case study of Muslim-Americans, who are the unintended beneficiaries of evangelical traditions. Relative to Europe, Muslims in the US experience greater participation in the US economy, politics, and society, even after the September 11th attacks.
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Out in March, 2008:
Warnung vor dem Freunde:
Tradition und Zukunft amerikanischer Aussenpolitik
[The Religion, Values and Foreign Policy of the Country with the Biggest Guns]
Parthas Verlag, 2008, 272 pages, ISBN: 978-3-86601-601-9
by Marcia Pally
The first rule of elections is that it makes a difference who wins. We expect the next president to get us out of the hole Bush dug. He or she will return the country to its true self, meaning that Bush’s foreign policy is “untrue” and that some other approach is the American norm--the approach in postwar Europe, perhaps. Yet should the next US president return America to some pre-Bush policy, how much “better” it will be depends on how good it was in the first place. And it was exactly as good as America’s fundamental interests and approaches allowed it to be. Bush’s foreign policy unexceptionally falls within these interests and approaches. The wiggle room of any candidate is constrained by them as well. They would be a far better basis for our expectations than idealized pasts or campaign hoopla.
Warnung vor dem Freunde: Tradition und Zukunft amerikanischer Aussenpolitik investigates the deep structure of US foreign policy and the influence of evangelicalism on it, throughout US history, regardless of the president or party in power.
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Critique Abandoned: The ceding of democracy
by Marcia Pally
Berlin Verlag (Random House) 20003, 352 Pages, Paper, ISBN: 3-8270-0461-4
Why do Western democracies at once offer their citizens the greatest freedoms and opportunities and yet are unable to solve many of their fundamental problems? With a dual-focus on Europe and the US, "Critique Abandoned" looks at how citizens of modern democracies think about public policy matters, with examples that investigate the Mideast/Central Asia, new political alignments in Europe, the Bush administration's post-9/11 policies, the global economy, the debate on stem cell research, on violence, among others. The book looks at the consequences of failing to think critically for both the particular issue and for democracy itself.
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Sustained Content Teaching in Academic ESL/EFL: A Practical Approach
by Marcia Pally (Ed.)
Boston: Houghton-Mifflin 2000, 247 Pages, Paper, ISBN: 0-395-96076-2, $29.96
Through close examination of content-based instruction, this book gives readers a broad sense of the possible applications of sustained content instruction in an ESL setting, and enables them to assess its effectiveness. Praticing teachers and teacher trainers learn the value of teaching ESL students to apply skills within the context of a specific subject, providing familiarity both with the subject and the forms used to present it.
Each chapter contains sustained course overviews, practical suggestions for developing CBI classrooms, examples of a tested course that teaches skills through sustained study of one subject, specific content areas and how to integrate skills into content, classroom activities and assignments, examples of student accomplishments and difficulties, sample units, study aids, assignment and assessment measures, and excerpts of student work.
The book offers a wide demographic reach, appealing to private, public, two-, and four-year colleges.
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Sex & Sensibility:
Reflections on Forbidden Mirrors and the Will to Censor
by Marcia Pally
Hopewell: The Ecco Press 1994, 198 Pages, Paper, out of print
Sex & Sensibility examines the growing impulse to blame images for society's deeply rooted ills. In this evocative and extensively researched text, Marcia Pally adresses the issues theat lie at the heart of one of America's most troubling social problems and most treasured rights and freedoms.
"Those who thought the censorship wars had been won with Ulysses, The Well of Loneliness, Tropic of Cancer, or Lolita will be amazed to discover that censorship rebounded strongly in the 80's and is now at levels that would gratify Anthony Comstock. In Sex & Sensibility, Marcia Pally documents this alarming trend and raises fascinating questions about the nature of censorship itself."
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