Exploring the interaction among system, state, and society, this book illuminates the social and economic history of late…

In this book on the cultural and social history of a unique and fragile city, Macau, Jonathan Porter examines it as an…

Veterans of all wars face a demanding task in readjusting to civilian life…

An important contribution in the burgeoning literature relating to the delivery of medical care, and to the broader question…

This volume brings together diverse and divergent essays on communication as viewed by outstanding scholars in various…

This is a collection of essays exploring the deep-rooted problems presented by the Three Gorges dam project that the Chinese…

The obstacles to assimilation and fair treatment of immigrant women are major issues confronting immigrant receiving…

Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of slavery in its historical context…

This reconstruction of Middle East politics and ideology focuses on the rise of the Zionist settlement in Palestine, the…

Ilchman and Uphoff believe that political science has failed in the past to meet its own standards of rigor and cogency and…

The integration of psychiatry into the mainstream of American society following World War II involved rethinking and…

This book is about learning and ethnography in the context of technologies. Learning and technology are intertwined to tell…

A major dimension of modern Jewish life has been the revival of conscious political activity on the part of the Jewish…

This book provides the major economic, social, and psychological impacts associated with the siting of noxious facilities…

In this comprehensive new study of human free agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom critically surveys contemporary philosophical…

This study analyzes the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and…

This book explores the personal, domestic, regional, and international factors that led Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak…

This book is a study detailing what happens to people and what life is like in a rehabilitation program…

This book looks at situations where a dramatic transformation of the political environment made existing institutions…

This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa and the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global and comparative…

Democracy Indian Style explores the social and cultural factors underlying India's successful democracy by describing and…

In this concise, single-authored text, renowned scholar and professor Michael Boylan examines the moral justifications…

This edition brings the story of 20th-century Southern politics up to the present day and the virtual triumph of Southern…

This book addresses questions dealing with national identity and international obligations. It focuses on the concerns…

This book examines historical periods when the dilemma of Supreme Court policymaking was most acute. It discusses…

This book traces the emergence of the ideas and institutions that evolved to give people mastery over their own destiny…

Peace and Conflict is a biennial publication that provides key data and follows trends in national and international…

Prisoners in Prison Societies is a study of criminal career patterns over time, demonstrating specifically how and in what…

This book presents a broad overviews on inter-American relations after the Cold War; Latin America's relations with major…

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As the world faces a multitude of complexly-interwoven challenges, new values and new worldviews are emerging to change the…

Between Work and Leisure aims to debunk the prevailing myth that work and leisure are separate and mutually antagonistic…

In this book, Michael J. Kryzanek discusses issues central to American politics-citizenship, power, leadership, problem…

In eleven original studies by social scientists, this is the first volume to focus on television reality crime programming…

In their target article, the authors of this book argue that narrative forms of metal representation are the basic…

Political Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century covers five main topics: equality, justice, liberty, democracy, and human…

Workshop leaders play a central role in your company's efforts to implement TPM…

The author puts this book in the best possible context by referring to the "magisterial and paradoxical Dr…

The chapters in this volume represent some of Dennis Wrong's best and most enduring essays…

This book shows how the use of power and repression has played out in U.S. institutions of law and government, in economic…

Urged on by a powerful ideological and political movement, George W…

"Think theory is thoroughly removed from explaining international crises such as those in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Korea? Think…

In this compendium of related and cross-referential essays, David R…

Designed for classroom use, this book develops a framework for the comparative analysis of political ideologies and examines…

This book highlights the necessity of analyzing Latin American society and politics within broad comparative frameworks. It…

This book describes the adoption and implementation of the Single European Act and the accompanying institutional changes…

The authors pull together many disparate political changes to construct a clear, synthetic framework, identifying eight core…

Placing the film industry in the context of American society, this book points out that Hollywood's creative leadership…

This work investigates a case of political persecution that occurred over 50 years ago (the Wang case), but which still…