Over the past three decades, Meyer, Jepperson, and colleagues have contributed to the development of one of the leading approaches in social theory, by analyzing the cultural frameworks that have shaped modern organizations, states, and identities. Bringing together key articles and new reflections, this volume collects the essential theoretical ideas of 'sociological neoinstitutionalism.' It clarifies the core ideas and situates them within social theory writ large. Among other topics, th...

How the university went global and became the heart of the information ageThe university is experiencing an unprecedented level of success today, as more universities in more countries educate more students in more fields. At the same time, the university has become central to a knowledge society based on the belief that everyone can, through higher education, access universal truths and apply them in the name of progress. This book traces the university's rise ove...

Faculty members, scholars, and researchers often ask where they should publish their work; which outlets are most suitable to showcase their research? Which journals should they publish in to ensure their work is read and cited? How can the impact of their scholarly output be maximized?The answers to these and related questions affect not only individual scholars, but also academic and research institution stakeholders who are under constant pressure to create and implement organiz...

Today's journalists need a wide range of knowledge, technical skills, and digital savvy. In this innovative book, experts on digital journalism share their perspectives on what digital journalism is, where it came from, and where it may be going. Addressing some of the most important issues in new media and journalism, authors take on history, convergence, ethics, online media and politics, alternative digital sources of information, and cutting-edge technology, from multimedia web sites a...

140 Civil War Journals, Diaries and Memoirs assembles an expansive documentary chorus from the American Civil War, joining battlefield recollections, camp journals, prison narratives, naval observations, military analysis, and retrospective memoir. Its range of forms preserves the uneven textures of lived history: immediate diary entries register uncertainty and exhaustion, while later accounts impose narrative shape on campaigns, command, captivity, and survival. Accounts of marching, com...

70 Civil War Memoirs of Union Soldiers assembles a capacious documentary portrait of the Union war effort, bringing battlefield recollection into conversation with camp life, military command, naval service, imprisonment, medicine, espionage, and emancipation. Its styles range from terse campaign narratives and tactical analyses to reflective autobiographical sketches and vivid eyewitness testimony. Accounts of major engagements stand beside less familiar records of marching, hunger, fear,...

Warriors of Freedom: 70 Memoirs of Union Soldiers gathers firsthand Civil War testimony into a capacious record of military service, emancipation, captivity, command, and remembrance. Its selections range from battlefield narrative and campaign history to prison recollection, naval experience, medical observation, and reflections on the war's moral stakes. Grand strategic accounts stand beside intimate scenes of marching, deprivation, comradeship, and survival, making the volume a signific...

Brother against Brother: 140 Civil War Memoirs assembles a vast documentary chorus from the American Civil War, illuminating combat, command, captivity, nursing, naval service, campaigning, and the unsettled moral terrain of national rupture. Ranging from terse battlefield recollection and military analysis to reflective autobiography and eyewitness narrative, the volume preserves the varied registers through which participants made meaning of war. Accounts of major operations stand beside...

100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...

110 Voices of the Civil War: Personal Accounts from the Frontlines assembles an expansive polyphony of witness, joining battlefield reminiscence, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, military reportage, and reflective memoir. Its accounts range from terse descriptions of combat to elaborate retrospective meditations on command, fear, endurance, emancipation, and loss. The collection's signal achievement is its juxtaposition of Union and Confederate perspectives, officer...

Zack Curtis truly dreads his thirtieth birthday. Estranged from his family and friends, he hopes his trip to Italy will lift his spirits and trigger the inspiration for a happier life. But he soon offends an elusive mobster who threatens to turn his dream trip into a nightmare. From the splendor of Amalfi, to the grandeur of Rome, to the pageantry of Siena during its Palio Festival, John Meyer presents a unique travel memoir that masterfully combines a love story with an exhilarating adven...

Part biographical sketch, part autobiography, part tragicomedy, part romance, part song-and-dance, "Heartbreaker" will have you riding the highs and lows, the love and despair — of living for two months with Judy Garland.— Bonnie J. Ross, The Post-StarJohn Meyer's book, when all is said and done, is a love story, albeit a heartbreaking one. Garland died at the too-young age of 47. She may have sung about a mythical happy place somewhere over the rainbow, but she never steppe...