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Focuses on the normative challenges that the technological transformation presents to all professionals engaged in higher education. This work concentrates on the social and technological trends. It also focuses on problems of governance and finance in the technological environment.

Features articles that chronicled and analyzed the many judiciary acts that were passed between 1789 and 1925, and illuminated the intimate connection between form and substance in the life of American law. This is a work that aids the student of the law to both love the law and remain true to its purposes.

Hume belonged to the same generation as that of his friend and fellow countryman Adam Smith. Hume's writings on economics, however, unlike those of Smith's, comprise a relatively small portion of his published works. This work examines the connection between Hume's various writings - economic, political, philosophical, and historical.

First published in 1948, this work is a study of the public administration movement from the viewpoint of political theory. It seeks to review and analyze the theoretical element in administrative writings and to present the development of the public administration movement as a chapter in the history of American political thought.

From an evolutionary perspective, individuals have a vital interest in the reproduction of their genes. Yet, this interest is overlooked by social and political theory. This book canvasses strategies and ethics for conserving our genetic interests in an environmentally sustainable manner sensitive to the interests of others.

One of the best-known books written on labor unions, "What Do Unions Do?" was first published in 1984. This volume represents a retrospective and evaluation of "What Do Unions Do?" It is a state-of-the-art survey by internationally recognized experts on the effects and future of labor unions.

Robert O. Collins is one of the most prolific authors on Africa, the Sudan, and the Nile

Originally published in 1911, this book presents the results of anthropological, demographic, pathological and sociological investigations of people who identify themselves as Jews. It is intended for those who are interested in Jewish history, as well as those interested in the history of demography in the United States.

Explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. This book also explores the capacity of trade unions to affect political policies to ensure greater accountability and fairness. It looks at the nature and extent of which internal representative democracy actually operates within trade unions themselves.

The European Union's "democratic deficit" and ways that might be found to resolve it are hot issues in both academic debate and practical politics. This title offers a fresh approach to this subject by bringing together a range of authors who have been involved either in analyzing the activities of the European Union or participating in them.

Focuses on what is distinctive about Jewish jokes and Jewish humor. This book makes a "radical" suggestion about the origin of Jewish humor - such as, that Sarah and Abraham's relation to God, and the name of their son Isaac (which, in Hebrew, means laughter), recognizes a special affinity in Jews for humor.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 created a new political landscape and a new era of warfare. This book offers insights into the impact and influence of 9/11 upon our cultural social, and political life. It is useful for cultural studies specialists, sociologists, journalists, political scientists, historians, as well as general readers.

Offers an in-depth portrayal of the Communist police state before the breakdown, followed by a blow-by-blow account of the drama of breakdown and regime transformation. This is a memorable work - one likely to sear the conscience of lovers of freedom and analysts of tyranny alike.

Brings together, in a sustained and engagingly written narrative, the leading revolutionaries who have shaped the ideological disposition of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. It provides particular attention to the larger, more enduring ramifications of this revolution for radical Islamic revivalism in the entire Muslim world.

An authoritative work in defense of educational testing, pointing out that much research conducted by education insiders on the topic is based on ideological preference or profound self-interest. It explains and refutes many of the common criticisms of testing, and describes testing opponents' strategies, through case studies of Texas and the SAT.

The juvenile justice system in the US has become a detrimental rather than a remedial experience, often reinforcing youths' defiance of authority. The book contains a comprehensive discussion of the primary considerations policymakers should use for providing services and opportunities to these youths, constructively guiding their future behavior.

Modern families are economic institutions of great productivity. Here, the author shows how long-standing inequalities of income and class are flexible and changing in post-industrial societies. The book draws on two strands of research, one on children and families and the other on social inequality; both summarize detailed statistical analysis.

Laying the groundwork for analyses of important aspects of corporate behavior, this book defines corporate crime and finds ways of locating corporate violations from various sources. Among the issues tackled are whether corporate crime is greater and the laws to control corporate crime and alternative approaches.

Written as a fictional dialogue, clearly delineates the psychic interdependence of creativity and sexuality, as well as the integration of the concepts as they are defined by both Jewish mysticism and modern psychology.It both reconstructs the interdisciplinary bridge between Judaism and psychology and deconstructs some exegetical traditions.

This classic set of essays by Nobel Laureate and leading monetary theorist Milton Friedman presents a coherent view of the role of money, focusing on specific topics related to the empirical analysis of monetary phenomena and policy.

Offers an account and defense of the culture that the people of the United States have inherited from Great Britain. The book discerns four areas of influence. The language and literature, the common and positive law, the form of representative government, and the ethical heritage - moral habits, beliefs, conventions and customs.

Rogin shows us a Jackson who saw the Indians as a menace to the new nation and its citizens

Contemporary Research on crime, prisons, and social control has largely ignored women

Treats both the art and science of campaigning, describing the procedures basic to modern professional campaigning. This practical guide to campaigns covers the entire process and gives specific strategies for every phase.

During the 1960s, traditional thinking about crime and its punishment, deviance and its control, came under radical attack. The discipline of criminology split into feuding factions, and various schools of thought emerged, each with quite different ideas about the nature of the crime problem and its solutions.

Seven decades after the destruction of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire, the Armenian genocide remains largely ignored by governments and forgotten by the world public, even though the annihilation of Armenians was headlined around the world in 1915. Scholarly investigation of the Armenian genocide is just beginning, made more difficult by the tendency of many establishment figures to rationalize the past and the attempt of perpetrator governments and their successors to deny the past.This volume is a pioneering collective attempt to assess and analyze the Armenian genocide from differing perspectives, including history, political science, ethics, religion, literature, and psychiatry. Focusing on the general implications of denial, rationalization, and responsibility, it is particularly important as a precursor to the study of the Holocaust and other genocides.

An analysis of the history of the American Civil Liberties Union, this book represents an account of the ACLU's record.

In this highly influential study of art forms as models for a theory of communications, Hugh Dalziel Duncan demonstrates that without understanding of the role of symbols in society, social scientists cannot hope to develop adequate models for social analysis. He reviews critically major contributions to communication theory during the past century: Freud's analysis of dream symbolism, Simmel's concept of sociability, James' insights into religious experience, and Dewey's relating of art to experience.

Raymond Aron, French scholar, journalist, philosopher, sociologist, and historian, is internationally recognized as one of the great thinkers in the modern social sciences, bringing to contemporary history the insights of both philosophy and social science

Providing a gripping, first-hand account of the Chmielnicki massacres in 1648-58, in which tens of thousands of Jews perished in Poland and the Ukraine, Rabbi Nathan Hanover describes the events themselves and their effect on European Jewry. Hanover's description of the atrocities commited* by Chmielnicki and his hordes makes it clear that they set the precedent for Hitler's torture chambers. Hanover's account of the events understood in their historical context 'shows how humans can transcend tragedy and rebuild their lives, developing new ways to express their heritage and culture. Professor Helmreich, in his new introduction, describes the- period of relative peace and prosperity for the Jews immediately preceding the massacres. He traces some of the important effects the massacre had on later Jewish history, such as the rise of Messianic and Hasidic movements in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the migration of Jews back toward the west, where they were situated when the Enlightenment swept through Europe.