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This work describes the emergence of the professions in late tsarist Russia and their struggle for autonomy from the aristocratic state. It also examines the ways in which the Russian professions both resembled and differed from their Western counterparts.

This reader introduces core cultural and historic themes of Russia's civilisation. Each text has resonance throughout the arts - in Rublev's icons, Meyerhold's theatre, Mousorgsky's operas, and Prokofiev's symphonies. The material is supported by introductions, annotations and bibliographies.

An anthology of contemporary Korean fiction including: "The Wife and Children"; "The Post Horse Curse"; "Mountains"; "Kapitan Ri"; "The Winter"; and "A Dream of Good Fortune".

Refutes the arguments that administrative ethics cannot be studied in an empirical manner and that empirical analysis can deal only with the trivial issues in administrative ethics. Topics covered include understanding public corruption, ethics as control, and ethics as administration and policy.

This study of official corruption and the politics of anti-corruption campaigns offers a comprehensive empirical, comparative and theoretical analysis of this phenomenon as both system and symptom. It highlights the structure, impact and function of political elite corruption from 1965-1990.

Maintains that what the author calls "The Happy Convention," an informal and unwritten rearrangement of "passing the buck" of government powers, is done to avoid blame and approval ratings becoming lower for a particular person or party.

This work describes and analyses the new social movements that have arisen in India over the past two decades, in particular the anti-caste movement (of both the untouchables and the lower-middle castes), the women's liberation movement, the farmers' movement and the environmental movement.

This seven-volume set provides readers with a detailed economic history of the USA. It traces the development of agriculture, transportation, labour movements and the factory system, foreign and domestic commerce and technology from 1775 until World War II.

A comprehensive analysis of China's epochal war with Japan. Examining developments in the Nationalist, communist, and Japanese-occupied areas of the country, it portrays the impact of the war on every dimension of Chinese life, including politics, the economy, culture, legal affairs and science.

Mahatma K. Gandhi's dedication to finding a path of liberation from an epidemic of violence has been well documented before. The central issue and the novelty of this book is its focus on what Gandhi wanted to liberate us for. The book also provides an assessment of how viable his positive vision of humanity is.

While the incidence of perinatal HIV has decreased, there has been a significant growth in HIV/AIDS among minorities and adolescents. Drawing upon statutes and court decisions, Dickson presents a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the many facets of HIV/AIDS law today.

Explores the subjugation of Kurds by Arab, Ottoman, and Persian powers for almost a century, and explains why Kurds are now evolving from a victimized people to a coherent political community. David L. Phillips describes Kurdish rebellions and arbitrary divisions in the last century, chronicling the nadir of Kurdish experience in the 1980s.

Draws on related disciplines to better understand the biological, psychological, and social aspects of aging. This work covers areas of central interest to those coping with the needs of an aging population. It addresses assessment of the aging, taking into account biological age, psychological age, and socio-cultural and spiritual age.

The goal of this volume is to explore the social and political dynamics of rumour and the related concept of urban or contemporary legend. The volume emphasizes the connection of rumour to a set of social concerns from government corruption and corporate scandal, to racial, religious, and other prejudices.