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…

When Roots of Radicalism first appeared…

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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…

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

In this volume leading Latin American scholars evaluate Juan Linz's contribution to the study of Latin American politics, in…

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

This volume brings together a group of some of the most outstanding scholars in political science, history, and historical…

Contemporary intellectuals still struggle over the relationship of ends to means, especially in political discourse…

This book reexamines the Anglo-American literary genre known as the ?Indian captivity narrative? in the context of the…

This book narrates a number of stories from the early clerical history of the church to illustrate how authority came to be…

Hilton Kramer, well known as perhaps the most perceptive, courageous, and influential art critic in America, is also the…

Who was the real Richard Nixon and why did he behave the way he did? In this innovative work, a distinguished historian,…

First published at the height of the Vietnam War, this book argues that America's involvement in the conflict arose…

This volume introduces readers to the complexities of writing for the screen, and demonstrates how to structure drama,…

This book aims to move philosophers, bioethicists, and readers in general to reflect on the extent to which genes determine…

This collection provides a critical overview of university-level distance education, examining how to assess and assure…

Machiavelli has been viewed as the forerunner of the humanists of our day, liberals and socialists, who have discovered that…

This comprehensive survey of religion and its profound effects on history provides a historical context for in-depth…

The idea of enlightenment entails liberty, equality, rationalism, secularism, and the connection between knowledge and well…

"Kolbas stakes out new territory in assessing the war over literary canon formation, a subject that contemporary polemicists…

This book explores how the science and art of public administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative.…

Examines the issue of animal consciousness by drawing comparisons with humans: how we think; how we remember; how we learn.…

"A companion volume to Free Will: A Philosophical Study, this new anthology collects influential essays on free will,…

The book presents a new theory of syntax that is efficiency and computationally oriented and is compatible with the…

This book focuses on formative three-and-one-half decades (1898-1932) of U.S. colonial rule and provides a comprehensive…

Provides an overview of the history, philosophy, theory and practice of social group work and action in the promotion of…

Encounters with Civilizations is a broad-ranging work, uniting sweeping themes such as history, culture, the media, social…

Certain readers and critics have faulted Henry James for two contradictory reasons…

Each chapter in Christianity and Political Philosophyaddresses a philosophical problem generated by history…

The prophet of social decadence, the theorist of violence and advocate of the general strike, the critic who stood Marx on…

This book is a methodological primer on how historians gather evidence, presume reliability of witnesses, and develop forms…

Complaints about the decline of critical standards in literature and culture in general have been voiced for much of the…

This collection of essays examines how Russia's distinctive traditions of law-and lawlessness-are shaping the current…