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This study of illegal drugs in the Caribbean examines the nature and scope of drug operations, probing the security implications of those operations and the problems they cause, and assessing countermeasures for dealing with drug traffic and resulting problems.

A series of essays which scrutinize Martin Heidegger's thought, written by an American scholar who has already translated into English Heidegger's works "Early Greek Thinking", "Nietzsche" and "Basic Writings".

The essays in this volume address fundamental questions about the ontology and meaning of music, about composition, performance and song. They range over problems in the evaluation of music and of the place of music in history and culture especially.

A comprehensive analysis of the US criminal justice system as it operates in the international arena. The book examines how and why US law enforcement officials have extended their efforts beyond American borders and looks at the history of US law enforcement abroad.

This text is a study of the black messianic tradition in American literature and history, brought up to date with treatment of recent black leaders, from Jesse Jackson to Louis Farrakhan.

Written at a time when the lumber industry had shifted westward, the chapters in this book recall the days when giant rafts carried lumber down the rivers of Pennsylvania.

Bringing together leading scholars of the informal economy and informal politics, this book addresses how globalization has influenced local efforts to resolve political and economic needs - and how these seemingly separate issues are indeed deeply related.

Concentrating on lived religious experience, "Orthodox Russia" brings together some of the best contemporary scholarship on Russian Orthodox beliefs and practices covering a broad historical period - from the Muscovite era through the immediate aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

This text studies slave narratives as a source for a constructive black theology, while paying attention to their literary and rhetorical value. It explores from a theological, historical and literary perspective the oral traditions of African American culture, and its impact on slave narrative.

These essays by philosophers of art consider what can be learned from the meaning of art about society, morality and life in general. This leads to discussion of other issues. Is art distinct from life? Is a concern with art's messages consistent with an aesthetic appreciation of its works?

Using as a reference point the issues and theories that dominated social science research on Latin America in the period 1960-80, this volume contributes to "rethinking development", by examining the historical events that accounted for the erosion or demise of once-dominant paradigms.

This treatise proposes that reading written texts be regarded as a performance, a unique kind of play that transposes what had once been an oral-dramatic situation into an imaginary stage. The author supplies models drawn from the psychology of play to support his theory.

An analysis of the perception of the New World in Italian literature and culture of the 18th and early 19th centuries. This study begins by analysing the motivations and circumstances behind the emergence of the myth of the "noble savage".