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,…

Homelessness has become a lasting issue of vital social concern. As the number of the homeless has grown, the complexity of…

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

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,…

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

Most writing on sociological method has been concerned with how accurate facts can be obtained and how theory can thereby be…

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…

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…

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

A comparative analysis of the impact of the post-war "Baby-Boom" generation on Christianity around the world. Taking a…

Pastoralists is an authoritative synthesis of the varieties of pastoral life. At an ethnographic level, the concise volume…

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

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This work is a multidisciplinary study of the behaviour of complex organizations as entities. It considers individual…

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…

In Power and Society, Harold D…

The disability of blindness is a learned social role…

Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-1987) was known in the United States primarily as a political scientist…

This book chronicles the struggle among non-Communist leftists and liberals over American relations with the Soviet Union…

Angles of Vision is a compact text that provides students with basic information about social problems and teaches them a…

This volume examines race, gender, and identity in African American culture…

Thirty years ago American political life was all relentless, painful, and confounding: the Tet Offensive brought new…

This book analyzes Talcott Parsons' largest-scale effort to overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences…

The role, status, and treatment of women is one of the major issues confronting the military today…

This book uses the dramatic occupation of Tiananmen Square as the foundation for rethinking the cultural dimensions of…

This intellectual portrait of Romain Rolland (1866-1944)--French novelist, musicologist, dramatist, and Nobel prizewinner in…

This work comprises the major papers of this extraordinary Nobel Laureate in economics…

Inventory movement, the pacemaker of the assembly line along with inventory management, how and where parts are used within…

Tamotsu Shibutani is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara…

Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in…

Highlights innovative programs and interventions targeted toward underserved, vulnerable and marginalized populations.…

By including material from literary, philosophical, and anthropological sources, and by selecting readings which consider…

Ioffe and Nefedova provide a geographical perspective of Russia in modern times.…

The subject of Detente, Democracy and Dictatorship has been with us since the breakdown of the Cold War and the termination…

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This book focuses on an alternative perspective on the relevance of today's conservatism in American thought and politics.…

Greater involvement of grandmothers in caring for children has seemed to offer a solution to many social problems, such as…

This book explores historical and contemporary issues relating to libel suits against media organizations, emphasizing the…

This book explores Hinduism by empirically discovering the problems that it faces and the solutions that it offers to those…

This series of the Israeli Sociological Society, whose object is to identify and clarify the major themes that occupy social…

Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of…

"Written by Jewish and Christian educators for use by college and adult learners, this volume explores eight basic questions…