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"Based on in-depth interviews with 74 intellectuals of the lefts in Cuba and Mexico, Reinventing Revolution explores the rapidly changing thinking of progressives on the big--and enduring--questions of d"

An account of the drought and the civil war in the Sudan, describing how attempts by international agencies and humanitarian organizations to provide food and medical relief have been thwarted by bureaucratic in-fighting, corruption, greed and ineptitude.

"Using a framework that highlights how societal and international factors have shaped state capacities, Philip Mauceri examines Peru's volatile politics in the country's move from a "developmentalist"

Exploring the relationship between gender and the State in the construction of national-identity politics in 20th-century Sudan, this work focuses on the mechanisms that the State and political and religious-interest groups employ to achieve political and cultural hegemony.

This book focuses on the coherent theme of "conflict versus compromise" in the American political system and the positive role of citizenship in shaping good government, providing an accessible yet sophisticated overview of American politics.

An interdisciplinary anthology of significant contributions to feminist theory. This reader provides material on both the historical development of feminist theory and the current state of the field. It emphasizes common themes and interests in the humanities and the social sciences.

"The 'German Question,' long a subject of debate, is considered here at the close of a turbulent century, after Germany's defeat in two world wars, the Weimar failure and Nazi disaster, Cold War divisi"

Is "conservative environmentalism" an oxymoron? Is more environmental regulation actually good for business? Why political conservatives should, on first principles, support pro-conservation, pro-environment policies.

This book explores an issue of vital importance: the growing disjunction between education and paid work in advanced industrial economies, and shows how beneath the rhetoric of a 'healthy economy' lies a much more complex reality of underemployment and wasted talent.

"Environmental Injustice in the United States provides systematic insight into the social, economic, and political dynamics of environmental decision-making, and the impacts of those decisions on mino"

This book provides a summary and critique of the charter school movement. It explodes the myth that the charter schools operating in an educational 'marketplace' will recast public education to better serve America's children and promote democratic civic values.

The Selva Lacandona of Chiapas, Mexico has received a tremendous amount of attention since the Zapatista uprising began in 1994

"Nearly two thousand years ago a physician named Galen of Pergamon suggested that much of the variation in human behavior could be explained by an individual's temperament. Since that time, inborn disp"

Presenting a spectrum of individual stories of people who saw the Cultural Revolution in China through the eyes of a child, The Red Mirror explores what it was like to be caught up in revolutionary fervor.

"This up-to-date, well-illustrated, and thoughtful introduction to the life and works of one of the giants of Western Painting also surveys the golden age of Venetian Painting from Giovanni Bellini to"

Describing the elements of voter disaffection, party decline, mass mediation, social conflict and government by referendum which are prevalent in US politics, these essays offer a perspective on what is happening, how the present situation has been reached, and what the future may hold.

This is an exploration of the nature of the friction between the Muslim world and the West, looking at legitimate perceptions and grievances on both sides. Arguing that "Islam versus the West" does not represent the arena of the next global ideological struggle, the authors examine specific issues.

This book analyzes monetary integration and the choice and collapse of exchange rate regimes from a positive political economy perspective.This approach offers new insights to the widely discussed but

The book describes a statistical approach to the basics of plasma physics.

"This volume includes perspectives on public service selected from six decades of major public administration journals. Recurring themes include: motivations to enter the public service, positive and n"

A geopolitical analysis of global issues in which the contributors focus on topics such as spatial-data technology, IGOs/NGOs, gender and world politics, boundary disputes, refugee flows, ecological degradation, and UN intervention in civil wars.

This invaluable study offers the first systematic institutional analysis of the Yishuv's responses to the imperative of saving German and European Jewry from the growing Nazi threat between 1933 and 1939

Considers the possibility of opening up economies and societies of the Third World to democracy; specifically the role of civil society in contributing to democracy and the varieties of civil society and state-society relations in distinct Third World areas.

"For thirty years, the World Bank has proposed policies that have produced few economic benefits but have eroded the traditional strengths of African society--even the Bank itself now admits this. But w"

Applying a feminist and environmentalist approach to an investigation of how the changing global economy affects rural women, the author focuses on land ownership and use, cropping systems, and women's work with animals in highly industrialized as well as developing countries.

"The phenomenon of political Islam continues to dominate the political and social map of the Arab world, with the increasingly open struggle between the ruling elites and Islamists becoming the main so"

"What has happened to Russia since the collapse of communism in 1991 and where is the country going in the new century? Russia has escaped widespread social disorder or political collapse, but few obse"

Offers a thorough, evenhanded review of contemporary empathy research. Davis' approach is explicitly multidimensional, and he presents a novel organizational model to help classify and interpret previous findings. Valuable to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on altruism, helping, and moral development.

"In the face of the popular crusade to link new religious movements to dangerous cults, brainwashing, and the need for deprogramming, Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe argue that many cults are in fact the"

Key religious women speak frankly about their faith and it's history with women.