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Although their plight now dominates television news worldwide, the Bosnian Muslims were until recently virtually unknown outside of Yugoslavia. This meticulously researched, comprehensive book traces the turbulent history of the Bosnian Muslims and shows how their mixed secular and religious identity has shaped the conflict in which they are now so tragically embroiled.

"From the 1980s through the 1990s, children in many areas of the world benefited from new opportunities to attend school, but they also faced new demands to support their families because of continuin"

"Today over forty million Latin Americans classify themselves as Protestant, of which the overwhelming majority belong to some form of Pentecostalism. The rapid dissemination of Pentecostal beliefs has"

An exploration of Latino religion which compares a century-old presence of Latinos and Latinas under the US flag with the biblical story of Emmaeus. It argues for a new paradigm that breaks with the conventional view of Latinos and Latinas as just another immigrant group.

An insightful and timely look at one of the hottest policy issues in education today: the initiative to move education from the public sector to the private sector.

"As Maoism recedes, and especially after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Beijing has increasingly turned to patriotic nationalism for its ideological inspiration and legitimation. Return of the Dra"

The most comprehensive treatment to date of the unique intellectual, political, and military role of an ethnic and religious minoritythe Armeniansin the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911), the bases of that participation, the causes of involvement, and the collaborative (and at times conflicting) relations among Armenian and Iranian constitutionalist elements.

Using recent US environmental-law cases, this work explores the often troubled relationship between the legal system and the environment, discussing topics such as population and biodiversity. The book includes explanatory introductions, study questions, and references to relevant literature.

"A lucid text addressed to students and scholars, this book explores some of the key controversies that have stimulated the scientific study of crime: disputes about the connections between gender, cla"

"Most foundational works in political philosophy have made fundamentally false and far-reaching assumptions concerning the culturally homogeneous character of the polity. Deliberative Democracy, Polit"

Vectors and Tensors in Engineering and Physics develops the calculus of tensor fields and uses this mathematics to model the physical world. This new edition includes expanded derivations and solutions, and new applications, to make this successful text an even more useful and user-friendly book than the first edition.

"Utilizing ethnographic and archaeological data and an updated paradigm derived from the best features of cultural ecology and ecological anthropology, this extensively illustrated book addresses over"

This book brings together leading experts on Russia's foreign relations, providing the most comprehensive coverage of contemporary Russian foreign policy currently available in a single volume. Detailed case studies of relations with specific countries and regions are complemented by chapters that examine the process of decision-making and conflict among domestic institutional actors.

Taking on one of the most popular issues of the day--crime and the way we make sense of it--Julian Roberts and Loretta Stalans reveal the mismatch between the public perception of crime and the reality

The Congressional ethics process has been transformed into a lethal, partisan political tool, feared by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle.

"This 1989 Yoshino Sakuzo prize-winning book is essential reading for understanding Japan's postwar constitution, political and social history, and foreign policy. In this, the most complete English ac"

Specialists from Turkey, other parts of Europe, and the United States address important aspects of Turkey's role in the changing international arena, including its historical and contemporary place in Europe, the Cold War legacy, and strategies for future political and economic development.

Accompanies Einstein through his life and his scientific work, and reminds us of the day-to-day applications of his ideas: from the principle behind the laser to the dispersion of aerosols in the atmosphere. Through a selection of scenes from Einstein's life, this book involves readers in the formation of his theories.

"Widely misunderstood and misinterpreted at its most basic level, critical pedagogy provides a lens through which educators and students are better able to examine and interact with the real, underlyin"

"Unlike the outcry over street crime committed by males, concerns about women and violence have centered primarily on their roles as victims of sexual and physical violence committed by strangers and b"

Each chapter of this book focuses on a different aspect of teaching, offering analysis of the difficulties and trade-offs inherent in teaching practice and suggesting ways of addressing these problems.

This text is designed to assist beginning and intermediate level students of public policy, and to stir the imaginations of readers concerned with public policy and administration.

The author directly challenges the view that narrative cinema inherently supports the dominant social interests by examining the way popular films about "unlikely couples" explore, expose, and criticize societal attitudes, boundaries, and prejudices.

This work reveals the hidden world of the "laogaidui" - the PRC's labour reform camps. The author, a political prisoner for 19 years, describes their ideological origins, complex structures and living conditions and analyzes the camps' contribution to the economic health of the PRC.

Presents a descriptive and causal model of human personality in accord with the major concepts of experimental psychology and the physiological and neurological mechanisms that form the biological basis of behavior patterns. The author postulates the causal links between personality variables and neurological and physiological discoveries.

Focusing upon the laws and judicial opinions that have shaped practices in New York and in other states, this work provides an historical account to explain how and why getting a nonprofit corporate charter came to be a matter of right instead of a privilege.

This book offers a collection of journal entries, interviews, fiction, and poetry by twentieth-century Middle Eastern and South Asian women writing about war and political conflicts. It reflects the realization that through their writing, women have created a new mythology of the war-peace paradox.

Taking as his base a classical conception of virtue and vice, Joseph H. Kupfer offers an in-depth examination of Groundhog Day, The African Queen, Parenthood, Rob Roy, Fresh, Jaws, and Aliens to investigate the value of virtue within social contexts.

This book explores the Polish and East German communist parties' pursuit of conflicting national interests--rather than common socialist goals--during the height of the Cold War, and how this weakened the unity of the Soviet bloc.