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In this volume of original essays, leading political scientists examine key components of the American agenda and assess the current administration's position in light of historical precedents and future trends.

Detailed study of the variations in family systems throughout the world, focusing on the ways they interact with their societies. Tracing the development cycle in a wide range of times and places, Harrell shows how family members must cooperate to perform various activities and thus organise themselves.

During infancy, children master the rudiments of communication, including the intricacies of social interaction. This work explores the pre-verbal domain of the infant, tracing children's developmental path from birth to the third year, providing an integrative view of their accomplishments.

The book is a sustained philosophical reflection on some of the metaphysical and moral issues presented by genetics and different forms of genetic intervention.

The story of the Roman military machine beginning with the crisis that enveloped Rome in the late second century B.C., when soldiers became the Empire's worst enemy, pillaging citizens and creating social turmoil

In this controversial work, Herv arenne and Ray McDermott explore education as cultural phenomenon?a construct of artifice and reality we impose upon ourselves

This book argues the relationship between culture and politics can be productively explored by delving into the nature of the cultural politics enacted by Latin American social movements and by examining the potential of this cultural politics for fostering social change.

This book surveys the broad terrain covered by the concept of ''the security dilemma'' and points out landmarks along the route proceeding from proliferation to economic interests, showing that the arms trade is built into development of both industrial technology and political competition.

"The study of government policy and public decision-making has experienced a renaissance in recent years as economists and political scientists have come together to form the new field of collective, o"

In Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica, Rex Koontz, Kathryn Reese-Taylor, and Annabeth Headrick investigate the meaning of Ancient Mesoamerica through analyses of the built environment, performance, and cultural poetics. They explore what Ancient Mesoamerican urban space meant to its inhabitants, and how this meaning was created and disseminated.

"In 1996, Bangladesh celebrates its 25th anniversary. When the country became independent from Pakistan in 1971, it proclaimed itself a parliamentary democracy with four goals--democracy, secularism, so"

The U.S.-led intervention in Somalia that began in December 1992 is the most significant instance to date of "peacemaking" by the international community. Learning from Somalia is therefore critical i

"Because homoerotic relations can be found in so many cultures, Gilbert Herdt argues that we should think of these relations as part of the human condition. This new cross-cultural study of gays, lesbi"

No Foreign Food explores the evolution and transformation of the American diet from colonial times to the present. How and why did our bland colonial diet evolve into today's restless melange of exot

The massacre in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 raised issues about the nature of revolution and protest in China and the attitude of China's leaders to calls for reform. This book explores the 1989 student movement in a broad historical and cultural context.

A history of the causes, conduct and consequences of World War II which aims beyond traditional military and diplomatic accounts to present the era in its broader context. The book is written for the general reader, and for use in courses on World War II and on recent American history.

This volume marks the coming into its own of a discipline in philosophy: theory of desire. It presents discussions whose primary focus is on desire, with secondary mention of its implications for ethics, action, emotion, mind, and so forth.

Disarmed and Dangerous is a fascinating study of brothers linked by faith and the dreams of peace and social justice in a century bloodied by war, mass murders, and weapons of immense destructive power. It is, above all, an original contribution to modern American history that is sure to be widely read and discussed.

This book explores complex interplay between the power of social structures to constrain individuals and the ways women negotiate the constraints to carve out places for themselves. It offers life histories of Hindu and Muslim women to present a variety of class positions and domestic circumstances.

This book examines the "light and shadow" of Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have stood apart from workers in other industrialized countries. It highlights dilemmas facing Japanese labor on the shop floor and in the labor movement.

This reference explores recent efforts to realize a practical physical device that follows the neural network principles of the brain, incorporating research from the last 50 years in nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, supramolecular chemistry, and materials science.

Challenging the practice of teaching the classics and the canon of acceptable literary works far removed from students' experiences, this volume has an emphasis on across-the-curriculum teaching of critical-thinking, critical-reading and critical-viewing skills.

American motion pictures still dominate the world market with an impact that is difficult to measure. Their role in American culture has been a powerful one since the 1930s and is a hallmark of our cu

This book analyzes the historical processes of Brazil's development from the European encounter in 1500 to independence in 1822. It offers a detailed treatment of Brazil's contemporary government and politics, including the 1994 elections, exploring its rich cultural heritage.

"One of the prevailing myths about the American family is that there once existed a harmonious family with three generations living together, and that this "ideal" family broke down under the impact of"

Examines the causes of the economic turmoil in Asia in an effort to provide the most up-to-date overview available on the region's financial downturn.

"This book examines critically the ideas and performance of Paulo Freire as secretary of education in Brazil in the early 1990s, during the socialist democratic administration of the Workers' Party in"

"This engaging book sketches an intimate portrait of the life of Wang Fucheng, an illiterate peasant who served for thirty years as Communist party secretary of an impoverished village on the north Chi"

A vivid, compelling vision for transforming classroom teaching to achieve excellence, inclusion, fairness, and harmony for all students--theory, research and practical instruction.

This collection of papers focuses on markets organized as double auctions. In a double auction, both buyers and sellers can actively present bids (offers to buy) and asks (offers to sell) for standardized units of well-defined commodities and securities.