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This book is the first work to consider comprehensively the roles played by American diplomats in shaping US strategy and popular attitudes toward the Soviet Union throughout its 75 year history.

Teacher and social activist Octavia Albert added her own incisive commentary to the personal narratives of former slaves, and called for every Christian's personal acceptance of responsibility for slavery's legacies and lessons.

Based on the Locke Lectures that Nagel delivered at Oxford University in 1990, this collection of essays addresses the conflict between the claims of the group and those of the individual.

This study argues that polysynthetic languages - in which verbs are built up of many parts and where one verb can act as a whole sentence - are more than an accidental collection of morphological processes; rather they adopt a systematic way of representing predicate-argument relationships.

A collection of the author's essays on such topics as the scientific explanation of consciousness, the moral socialization of children, and the nature and issues of psychological phenomena such as multiple personality disorder and false memory syndrome.

Focusing on three diverse native American groups - the Northern Ute, Hupa and Papago - this study explores the ways in which these peoples responded to social, subsistence and environmental changes brought about by their enforced settlement on reservations.

This monograph identifies and explores a philosophical dilemma which the author calls "the division problem". This is defined as the problem of explaining why language divides up reality in one way rather than another, or the rational basis for languages to contain certain types of words.

This comprehensive study examines the refugee phenomenon originating in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and suggests the means by which the international community can assist those in greatest need.

Traces the emigration of an entire Irish village at the time of the Great Famine from their home, through Liverpool, to America. The author's textured analysis of Irish society "from the bottom up" stresses changing mentalities and the hidden pressures of famine.

The study takes a wide view of Russia's social, intellectual, and cultural history, examining party programmes, economic policy, and moral practices to recreate the spirit of idealism and experimentation before, during and after the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Why does politics no longer excite many, if not most, Americans? In this book, Michael McGerr attributes the decline in voter participation to the transformation of political style that occurred in the American North after the Civil War, showing how a vital democratic culture yielded to advertised campaigns and an emphasis on personalities rather than issues.

A study of the welfare system in the Weimar Republic. Crew examines both high-level policy and ordinary Germans' daily experiences and encounters with the welfare state. One of the pillars of the Weimar social republic, the collapse of the welfare system is shown to have speeded the rise of the Nazi racial state after 1933.

This is a history of "guerilla television", a form of TV which was part of an alternative media tide sweeping the United States in the 1960s. Inspired by the fracturing issues of the decade and the theories and writings of various exponents, guerilla television put forth "utopian" programming.

The author argues that the imperialist ideology and policies adopted by the Nazis must be seen as the result of a complex evolution of imperialist thinking in Germany which had its roots in the nineteenth century.

A discussion of influential New York Jewish intellectuals, including: Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Leslie Fiedler, Daniel Bell, Harold Rosenberg, Saul Bellow, Irving Kristol, and Norman Podhoretz.

Studies the burgeoning field of psychohistory - from Freud, its primogenitor, to its present-day academic practitioners - and argues that little, if any, psychohistory is good histor. The author systematically points out the pitfalls, sheer irrationality, and ultimately ahistorical nature of this mode of historical inquiry.

This monograph, suitable for use as an advanced text, presents the statistical mechanics of solids from the perspective of the material properties of the solid state.

The topic of a priori knowledge is central to analytic philosophy. It was introduced by Kant in his seminal work "Critique of Pure Reason" and vigorously dismissed by Quine in "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", resulting in an epistemological controversy. This work addresses questions that have, since Kant, formed the core of the debate.

A companion to his The Symphony: A Listener's Guide , Steinberg's new book covers the orchestral concerto repertoire from Bach to the present and featuring all instruments.

This volume argues that Nietzsche does in fact have a metaphysical system - but that this is to his credit. Rather than renouncing philosophy's traditional project, he still aspires to find and state essential truths, both descriptive and valuative, about us and the world.

This examination of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" provides an analysis of the metaphysical and epistemological questions of Kant's work. It presents clear and detailed discussions of Kant's arguments on these themes, as well as critical assessments of Kant's reasoning and conclusions.

Includes over 40 illustrations of pro-life and pro-choice advertisements to demonstrate the nature of the debate. This work is of interest to feminists in a range of fields including philosophy, political science, women's studies, communication, and public policy.

This text strives to answer the questions posed by time - what is time, is time travel possible, is time real, does it flow in one direction only? Issues addressed include light cones, time machines, cosmic moment lines and Lorentz transformations. Readers do not need to be experts in physics.

This is a definitive study of the American musical in the 1950s, the decade of perhaps its greatest accomplishments and when interest in the Broadway stage and its music was at its height. Ethan Mordden is a recognized authority and has written a number of significant books and articles about the Broadway musical.

Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Points on these and related questions are raised and argued by internationally recognized experts in the area of figurative language.

Arranged in four sections, this collection offers informative, biographical and critical overviews. It also contains a selection of Rodgers's letters to his wife Dorothy, and concludes with selections from his writings on creative process, the state of the Broadway theater, his bout with cancer, and his Columbia University interviews.