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This text explores the possibility of symbolic public spaces in the context of Chinese cinema. Focusing especially on women, children and the dispossessed, it looks at the way public space is constructed and occupied, both in the Chinese cultrual sphere and in the world of international audiences.

This examination of American labour policy demonstrates that although most industrializing nations began to limit employer freedom and regulate labour conditions in the 1900's, the US continued to allow total employer discretion in decisions concerning hiring, firing, and workplace conditions.

This text examines the scientific premises and theoretical bases and the religious, ethical, and political consequences of Hobbes' theory of volition. In this study, the author reveals Hobbes' philosophical and theological assumptions in order to resolve social and ethical dilemmas.

This text provides a history of the first 108 members of the US Supreme Court. It addresses the questions of why individual justices were nominated to the highest court and how their nominations were received by legislators of the day.

This volume brings torether poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus". Employing a flexible combination of Lacanian and object-relations psychoanalytic theory, Travis investigates the tragic text's conception of the problems of human existence.

This work explores the power , processes, and circumstances that brought about the new gender relations in the African Methodist Church. Its account of the church and its many changes shows that unless women hold church positions, they are overlooked as pro-active agents of organizational power.

A philosophical exploration of the nature, scope, and significance of ecofeminist theory and practice. This book presents the key issues, concepts, and arguments which motivate and sustain ecofeminism from a western philosophical perspective.

These essays examine a crucial premise of traditional readings of Plato's dialogues: that Plato's own philosophical dialogues can be read off the statements made in the dialogues by Socrates and other leading characters. The text argues that no character should be read as Plato's mouthpiece.

An examination of the strategies used by outsiders to usurp Hawaiian lands and undermine indigenous Hawaiian culture. Drawing upon historical and contemporary examples, it investigates Captain Cook's journals, Hollywood films and commercialized hula, to show how they displace native culture.

This text argues that academic administration is different for administration or managing in business because of the special character of institutions of higher learning. The author claims that academic administration is a calling that assists institutions to carry out their mission.

In Active Duty, a distinguished group of contributors examines the role of the American civil service under the Constitution.

Drawing on ethnographic study and interviews, Putting Risk in Perspective explores the many factors associated with HIV infection among young black women.

Drawing on a broad variety of literary and philosophical sources, the author offers students and scholars strikingly original ways to think about technology, gender identity, culture, the environment and politics.

Addressing primarily practical issues such as how to motivate students, construct particular courses and give educational exams, these essays also touch on theoretical issues such as whether moral edification is a proper goal of teaching ethics.

This study of subjectivity and intersubjectivity develops an account of conceptions of the subject in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. It examines the relationship between the theories of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, language and love in the work of philosophers and psychoanalyists.

In this collection of nine essays, Will demonstrates that a social account of human knowledge is consistent with, and ultimately requires, realism.

This work illustrates the constitutional jurisprudence of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's most notable appointees to the United States Supreme Court. Drawing upon memoirs, writings, opinions and personal papers, the text examines the social/political theories of the three justices.

This work explains and defends St. Augustine's moral philosophy and examines his view of good and evil in modern life. It analyses St Augustine's views on the character of consciousness, knowledge, virtue, happiness and the attainability of a rational humane society.

Debates concerning the federal role in regulating industry and in managing the nation's public lands are becoming increasingly contentious.

The work is an interdisciplinary study of the major lyric poems of seventeenth-century British metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell. It invites Marvell readers to view the poet and some of his representative lyrics in the context of the anthropological concept of liminality and the in-between aspects of experience.

People punished by law are treated in ways that we consider immoral in other contexts. This text develops a theory of punishment that, instead of justifying it on the basis of deterrence or retribution, constructs in as analogous to individual self-defence.

This volume demonstrates that the "progressive" goal of achieving scientific management of the public lands has not been realised; instead, public land management has been dominated by interest group politics and ideology. It analyses public land policy and documents major failures.

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This text explores the struggle between the President and Congress to shape US foreign policy from World War II, through Vietnam, "Operation Desert Storm", to the Clinton Administration's policy in Somalia. Case studies are included.

'A challenging study of where America went wrong in the war on drugs. Even those who disagree will have to take notice of this well-argued book.'-John DiIulio, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

This text is an introduction to key thinkers and schools of thought in the debate regarding liberal political theory. Each chapter provides an exposition and analysis of the thought of an influential contemporary liberal thinker or leading critic of liberalism.