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Contemporary Women's Poetry is a unique resource for students, teachers, and anyone interest in contemporary poetry.

America's current transformation from an industrial to a new information-based culture presents new challenges as well as new perspectives on old debates.

America's Soluble Problems , while recognising the many successes of the US economy, analyses its well known problems with a fresh new approach. America's Soluble Problems argues that they are not, and that entirely achievable changes in macro - economic policy could transform the prospects for the US economy and for most American citizens.

Political participation is falling and citizen alienation and cynicism is increasing. This volume brings together the first work of this kind by leading scholars in the US and Europe to consider the issue. Four of the leading philosophers of deliberative democracy contribute their commentaries on the groundbreaking empirical research.

Violent politics in Northern Ireland has lasted thirty years and cost four thousand lives and billions of pounds. It identifies the key factors driving violent politics and the range of counter-strategies. It analyzes the course of the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the results of the countermeasures used.

The story of conflict in an island community offers a valuable case study for the analysis of early modern German political culture.

In his 1889 novella The Kreutzer Sonata Lev Tolstoy declared war on human sexuality. Psychoanalysis of Tolstoy's diaries and other private materials reveals that Tolstoy's anti-sex position was grounded in a sadistic attitude towards women (including his wife Sonia) and a punishing, masochistic attitude towards himself.

Focusing on the chemical sector, the author compares the policies and behaviour of three multinational corporations with three large, local firms. The research shows that in fact the multinational companies have out-performed local companies in the phenomenon of 'greening'.

Examines change in workplace structures and relations, and considers what the contemporary workplace looks like. This book contains a range of issues and examples from factory and office, manual and non-manual work, and public and private sector that illustrate the nature of the future of work.

This book is a cutting-edge exploration of the UK commercial banking industry, as reflected primarily in the experience of the four main clearing banks: Barclays, Lloyds, Midland and NatWest.

The book examines the rapid growth and dramatic changes in capital flows globally and to emerging markets. The book makes innovative proposals on how best national governments - and especially - international organisations can avoid such crises.

Britain was victorious in the Second World War, and yet thirty years later she had many of the characteristics of a defeated nation. Using original sources, this book marshals the evidence to support a compellingly written interpretation of events.

The Politics of Crisis is an interpretation of the most dramatic periods of modern British political history - the decade and a half between 1931 and 1945.

This book describes the origins of the concept of liberty in the legal and political thought of Rome, Italy, England, France and the United States of America.

The Global Politics of Drug Control sets the drug problem into a theoretical framework which aids understanding of the phenomenon by focusing on changing international values and norms.

The 1973 military coup gave previously peripheral elements of the right the opportunity to exercise almost unlimited political and economic power. However, with the return to democracy in 1990, the right had to adapt to electoral politics. This book examines whether it is conforming to the rules of the electoral game.

The book sets out to show the current state of macroeconomics, from three main perspectives: methodology, theory and economic policy. These are based on wide questionnaires, covering jointly almost all the topics of macroeconomic theory, as well as questions of methodology, real economy, and even academic systems and future lines of research.

The relationship between the Adventist church and society at large has always been ambiguous. He begins by looking at the church's history, theology and ethics in order to discover reasons for the inconsistencies in its approach to human rights, and then moves on to propose a more comprehensive approach to its social ethics.

During the week of 21-28 May 1871, between 20, 000 and 30, 000 Parisians were killed in the repression of the Paris Commune;

Nearly 20 years after it first became an elected institution, it is time to assess the impact of the European Parliament on the process of European integration.

Professionalism is currently undergoing a process of radical change. Changes in the welfare state and in the market place have impacted upon professional organisations forcing them to change the ways in which they perform their jobs.

Multinational companies have learnt through bitter experience that cultural differences can be very damaging in terms of bad communication, high staff turnover and low morale.

Since 1945, Britain's political and cultural landscape has been transformed by social movements campaigning on issues of gender, race, disability, sexuality, the environment and peace.

Focusing on the formative 1974-1981 years, the central theme of this book is the building of democracy in contemporary Greece and the role played in it by the newly-emergent political parties.

Cecilia Ng documents the changing position of women in Malaysia. The final section attempts to link feminist theory and practice as articulated in the nascent Malaysian women's movement, and discusses the relevance of feminist theories in explaining the experiences of women in the developing world.

A European Security Architecture after the Cold War provides a critical account of the re-projection and redefinition of Western values and security institutions in the post-Coldwar era.

The author examines from different perspectives (theological and philosophical as well as socio-political and historical) the significance of the concept of the individual in the ways of thinking of Iranians.

Looking at global change in terms of unipolarisation in international security, globalisation in the world economy, and democratisation in global governance, the volume provides a refreshingly Japanese angle on addressing complex interplays between the social forces underlying these themes.

Ken Post examines the 'turn to the East' by the international communist movement in fostering world revolution after the success in Russia in 1917, which led to communism's greatest gains after the Second World War.

Provides an update for those seeking system solutions beyond the confines of traditional approaches. The book offers advice on how to manage complex transactions and share distributed databases on client servers and the Internet.