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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…

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…

This book represents a milestone in Dominican studies, offering an analysis of the formation of the Dominican state and…

Touch and Blindness approaches the study of this topic from the perspectives of psychological methodology and the most…

This book offers the systematic, critically informed political and institutional study of television yet published in the…

This book explores Thailand's diverse sexual population, including male sex workers, 'toms' - masculine Thai lesbians -…

Basing her analysis on extensive fieldwork and archival research, the author examines the social dimension of labor…

This book explores transitional role of the state in Taiwan's economic development and focuses on impact of trade with…

This book discusses biological, cognitive, educational, sociological, and interactive to discuss the nature of learning…

Provides key data and documents trends in national and international conflicts ranging from isolated acts of terrorism to…

Although there is growing concern over Satanism as a threat to American life, the topic has received surprisingly little…

Private prisons have become an integral part of the penal system in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia…

This book presents an invaluable comparative examination of politics and government in three Asian nations: India, China,…

This work treats the region of Inner Asia as a single unit, providing both an account of the region's past and an analysis…

This latest volume in the Culture & Civilization seriesgathers interdisciplinary voices to present a collection of essays on…

Professions, Work and Careers addresses some of the central themes that preoccupied the eminent sociologist Anselm Strauss…

This book focuses on a particular cultural domain, surveying the historical origins of Russian beliefs and behaviors, and…

This book focuses on the intersection of Islamic and Indian Ocean histories, illustrating relationships among ideology,…

Marxism: The Inner Dialogues covers a wide range of basic issues and problems arising from what has been said for, against,…

Black Politics in a Time of Transition appears at an historic point in American politics…

This unprecedented in-depth account of how our major institutions respond to the crime of rape is the first empirical study…

In this book William English Walling drew on his close association with Samuel Gompers and other leaders of the American…

For Harry Redner, the phrase "beyond civilization" refers to the new and unprecedented condition the world is now…

This clear & authoritative text provides a trenchant critique of dichotomous thinking & describes & exemplifies an…

This book outlines the politics and meaning of citizenship in various epochs and inquires into what contemporary citizens…

This book presents a range of issues from cultural self-representation in China to more general problems of…

A salient feature of modern poetics is its direct connection with cultural history and politics…

This volume presents a compact introduction to state-local relations as they have been, as they are now, and as they are…

The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists…

Physicians are not alone in their concern with stress…

A portrait of sociology's troubles, proposing a controversial remedy. In the authors' view, sociology's crisis has deep…

In social anthropology, as in other branches of science, there is a close relationship between research methods and…