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Examining the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and South-East Asians, this volume does so, not in terms of formal models and faceless abstractions, but in the light of the institutions through which local people give meaning and moral value to business enterprise.

A study of the central philosophical ideas within the continental tradition throughout the 20th century. The author traces problems in epistemology and ontology through the key works of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Mannheim, Lukacs, Gadamer, Habermas, Foucault and Derrida.

This book analyses the French National Front's anti-Semitism, racism and ideology. It traces links between Jean-Marie Le Pen and French neo-fascist and extreme-right organizations of the 1950s and 1960s, and argues that the Front is not a party like any other but a major threat to French democracy.

This book is based on interviews in various fast food restaurants in New York City. It shows that contrary to those arguing that the fast-food industry only represents an increasing homogenization of the American workforce, fast-food chains in immigrant communities do adapt to their surroundings.

This book provides theory, comparison, and synthesis to establish a carefully considered framework for approaching the study of courts and their functions throughout the world of the ancient Maya. It is based on the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.

This book explores the origins and evolution of political reform movements in several states of francophone Africa. It presents a case for the distinctiveness of francophone Africa, based on the influences of colonial history, language, and France's contemporary role in Africa.

An innovative ethnography that uses the personal stories of four Tunisian women to explore women's experiences in a developing Muslim nation.

An engaging discussion about prekindergarten initiatives, the new roles schools are taking and how they are expanding their traditional mission.

The contributors to this volume ask why the communications media are, in their view, withholding vital information from the public. The book focuses on the increasing concentration of culture-power that, it is argued, keeps these truths from public view.

Addressing the problem of searching for mainstream and alternative paradigms as a guide for comparative political enquiry, this work in particular introduces developments that have taken place over the last decade.

"Since the elections of 1987, the Political Studies Association of Ireland has published books on each Irish general election. This latest volume covers the 1997 elections and is the first study to pro"

An examination of the evolution of Japanese schools over the past 120 years. The book aims to provide readers with the background and insight necessary to make informed judgments about the relative strength of Japanese education and the merits of various school reforms.

"Educational sociologists have paid relatively little attention to children in middle childhood (ages 6 to 12), whereas developmental psychologists have emphasized factors internal to the child much mo"

Offering a critique of traditional assumptions about the way in which journalists should go about the business of obtaining the news, this book challenges the dogmas of objectivity, neutrality and delivery of information that have shaped American journalism for the last 100 years.

"Theory in the psychology of religion is in a state of rapid development, and the present volume demonstrates how various positions in this field may be translated into original foundational work that"

The third edition of a study of Korean politics and society. The text has been reworked to take account of the recent political and economic changes in South Korea, the evolving relationship between North and South, and the implications of North Korea's leadership transition and nuclear capability.

Four leading philosophers of education offer a sophisticated but accessible introduction to the central debates about the role of gender in educational practice, policymaking, and theory.

This is a reader that applies the newest debates in political economy to the analysis of Latin America in a way that is thematically and theoretically cohesive.

Explores the tumultuous relationship between two great masters of 19th century painting, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, and the impact of that relationship on their art.

This book recovers the work of forgotten or misunderstood women philosophers from the history of philosophy

This groundbreaking book explores the relationship between the impact of urbanization on the working class in Latin American cities and the variety of responses by that group in the years between 1870

An overview of the dynamics of Israeli politics which focuses on central issues in the study of Israel's political system, such as new electoral procedures, the formation of new parties, government administrative reorganization, new personalities on the national scene, and the peace process.

"In this concise, yet sweeping look at the origins and development of ancient New World civilizations, Richard Adams provides a superb introductory overview of these unique and fascinating cultures. In"

Culture Matters explores the role of political culture studies as one of the major investigative fields in contemporary political science. Culture theory was the focal point of the late Aaron Wildavs

This volume introduces a new style of politics, the New Political Culture (NPC), which began in many countries in the 1970s. It defines new rules of the game for politics, challenging two older traditions: class politics and clientelism.

This book focuses on formative three-and-one-half decades (1898-1932) of U.S. colonial rule and provides a comprehensive interpretation of how the U.S. attempted to transform Puerto Rico from Spanish empire into one of its key props in establishing hegemony in the western hemisphere.

In A Place in the Sun, A. James Gregor offers an interpretation of the role of European Marxist and Fascist ideas on China's revolutionaries that is both original and based on a lifetime of scholarship devoted to revolutionary ideologies.

Filiation and Affiliation focuses on how group constitution conditions other features of social relations within and between groups, especially the intersecting potentials for group solidarity and intergroup conflict. It is a contribution to studies of kinship and descent.

Volume 12 in the RUSCH series continues work already begun on the School of Aristotle. It focuses on two Peripatetic philosophers who lived in the third century BCE, when Stoicism and Epicureanism flourished. Lyco of Troas was the third head of the Peripatos after Aristotle. Hieronymus of Rhodes was a member of the school and an antagonist of Lyco.

The study of Latin American and Caribbean international relations has a long evolution both within the development of international relations as a general academic undertaking and in terms of the part