This book explores complex interplay between the power of social structures to constrain individuals and the ways women…

This book provides an excellent introduction and presents some of the most exciting and influential contemporary work on…

This volume contains several case studies to explain the causes and consequences of Asian contagion's spread within or among…

This book explores the evolution and transformation of the American diet from colonial times to the present. It explains how…

This book, drawing upon a wealth of inaccessible archival sources, offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism…

A survey of international relations which explains concepts of global order from the Westphalian system to current issues.…

This book examines the first national election in which the Internet played a major role. It addresses the people who are…

These forward-thinking essays serve as a springboard for national debate and provide an ambitious agenda for the next…

This book marks a major, interdisciplinary step forward in filling the void in the social-psychology of religion. It…

Through comparative analysis and several country case studies, this book examines the consequences of the redefinition of…

Since the elections of 1987, the Political Studies Association of Ireland has published books on each Irish general election…

Based on detailed research in a variety of sources, this volume provides dramatic revisions of simplistic notions about…

Taking as his base a classical conception of virtue and vice, Joseph H. Kupfer offers an in-depth examination of Groundhog…

Explores the mismatch between perception and physical reality, and describes the many factors that influence the perception…

The purpose of this anthology is to deepen Western understanding of the sources and substance of the foreign policy of the…

This book explores the constructs of collectivism and individualism and the wide-ranging implications of individualism and…

This book explores the clash of civilizations between the secular government and Muslim traditions in West Africa,…

This book brings together a selection of the most analytically sophisticated writing on how Latinos have been portrayed in…

From the early efforts that emerged in the struggle against Nazism, and over the past half century, the field of genocide…

This work aims to share an understanding of how it feels and what it means to do qualitative research, as well as to provide…

This book improves Western understanding of the sources, objectives, and impact of contemporary Russian foreign policy. It…

This book explores the role of political culture studies as one of the major investigative fields in contemporary political…

This book surveys all the main theories and approaches in comparative politics. It provides background on the history of the…

This volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive…

This book is well suited for use as a text in the growing number of upper-division undergraduate courses in ethnic studies,…

This book examines how the shared cultural values of employees in a Polish firm influenced management attempts to transform…

The story of the Chicago City Council serves as a microcosm af the struggle for democracy and justice in the U.S. over the…

The book integrates political and economic analysis of Europe's Economic and Monetary Union in a format accessible to…

Development has come to mean doing away with friction so that the distance between the decision to act and the action itself…

Political Worlds of Women provides a comprehensive overview of women's political activism, comparing formal and informal…

This book traces the often tumultuous history of U.S.-Indonesian relations as experienced by those who witnessed and shaped…

This book steers a middle path between those who argue that the theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels have been…

Herzberger connects the study of child, partner, sibling, and elderly abuse to the varied disciplinary perspectives of…

This book examines the institutional, cultural, and psychological changes that accompanied racial transition in a single…

Provides a foundation for the study of GLBT families. This book focuses not only on the factors within GLBT families, but…

Studies of ideology have tended to range themselves for or against particular viewpoints, or have concerned themselves with…

A comprehensive and student-friendly introduction to Congress that uses "Congress as board of directors" as an overarching…

Taking their cue from the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas, the authors of Cultural Theory have created a…

This book examines a sociopolitical policy that in various national contexts has proven to be the most appropriate way of…

Social Welfare Policy Analysis and Choices gives you a thorough introduction to social welfare policy analysis. The…

In introducing 11 contributions, Geffner (California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego, CA) overviews the scope…

Social Services in the Workplace: Repositioning Occupational Social Work in the New Millennium will help you meet the…

An explanation of changes in US Congress policies that affect the management of rangeland, timber, energy, mineral, and…

This book is an account of the life and times of Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin al-Zarb, the most prominent nineteenth-century…

This book provides the comprehensive and detailed study of the contemporary Ukrainian political system. It explains…

Produkt Lean Culture for the Construction Industry - Santorella, Gary (Interactive Consulting, Fountain Hills, Arizona, USA)…

This book offers an up-to-date analysis of the foreign policies of Latin American Nations and its international positioning…

This book brings individual women, men, and children in the United States into view to show through stories that span a time…