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For over half a century, policymakers committed to population control have perpetrated a costly, and inhumane fraud upon the human race. Determined to stop population growth, the "population controllers" as the author calls them have abused women, targeted racial and religious minorities, and encouraged dictatorial actions if not dictatorship.
The collapse of communism marked the close of an era of world history. This work brings together leading scholars of Soviet history, who show why the experiment failed and how it has destroyed the laboratory of socialist utopias. It also shows that the debate on the legacy of communism and a rethinking of modern history is just beginning.
Aims to contribute to the understanding of the historic role of capitalism. After reviewing the gestation of the system, this book explains the emergence of capitalism in the eighteenth century, taking it into the nineteenth and its link to the industrial revolution.
Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist counterinsurgency. It also chronicles the two cases of indigenous resistance to genocide and extermination.
Aimed at literary scholars, intellectual historians, cultural studies specialists, and sociologists, this book attacks the neo-Darwinist approach to the arts and articulates a defense of humanist criticism. It shows that in moving beyond their area of competence, the neo-Darwinists commit an ideology, not a science.
A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field.
This work treats the region of Inner Asia as a single unit, providing both an account of the region's past and an analysis of its present and its prospects in a thematic, rather than a strictly country-by-country manner.
These essays consider the implications for Chinese socialism of the repudiation of the Cultural Revolution and the legacy of Mao Zedong as well as the meaning of the new definition and direction Mao's successors have given socialism.
An anthology of 16 readings dealing with military, political, diplomatic, and social aspects of World War II and its consequences for the contemporary world. The readings consist of complete articles or integral chapters so that each author's argument can be read in its original form.
This work examines how the telephone reveals gender relations in a way not predicted by feminist theories, how it can be used to protect and invade personal privacy, and how people harness telephone answering machines to their advantage.
Joseph Scotchie provides an intellectual history of the Old Right, treating its main figures and defining its conflict with the traditional left-right political mainstream. As Scotchie's account makes clear, the Old Right and its descendants have articulated an arresting and powerful worldview.
Looks at the role of evaluation and of audit as key elements in democratic accountability processes. This book includes case studies and is aimed at serious people who think about trends in the use of evaluation and audit in seeking to hold governments accountable for their actions and performance.
Presents a picture of how people communicate using camera phones and other mobile multimedia devices. Using a variant of social science research known as ethnomethodology, this book explores the kinds of images people take with camera phones and how they use sound to enhance these images.
What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? (Answer: Both became public scapegoats for an outrageous era of greed and excess.) Discussing such questions, this book traces the history of financial scandals from the early days of the young republic through the Enron/WorldCom debacle of modern times.
Challenging many of the assumptions scholars have made about the Cuban Revolution's impact on healthcare, this volume recounts one anthropologist's quest to discover the truth behind the complicated relationship between Cuba's revolution, politics, and healthcare system.
Examines identity formation among a generation of Czech and Slovak Jews who grew up under communism, coming of age during the de-Stalinization period of 1962-68. This book shows how history, generational, and individual biography intertwine in the formation of ethnic identity and its ambiguities.
Explains the role played by prominent Jews in turning Israel into an isolated pariah nation. This book contains essays that seek to understand and throw back the assault on Israel led by such Jewish liberals and radicals as Tony Judt, Noam Chomsky, George Steiner, Daniel Boyarin, Marc Ellis, Israel Shahak, and many others.
Focusing on financial markets and investment strategies, this book explores the intriguing topic of initial public offerings (IPOs) of securities, among the most significant phenomena in the United State stock markets. It is a useful financial read for future financiers.
An ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political and drug-related violence in a country undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of Medellin reconfigure their lives and cultural worlds in the face of widespread violence.
Seeks to show that historical insights extrapolated from an understanding of history are essential for grasping and solving the basic problems facing Taiwan, including the Taiwan-Mainland relationship in the twenty-first century. This book elaborates on the "where from" and the "where to" of the Taiwan transformation.
Democratization is motivated by the ambition of ensuring the real equality of citizens, and not simply their formal equality. This book offers a critique of democratization that will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, and historians.
In a very personal approach to public policy, Weidenbaum has distilled four decades of writing to focus on: economic policy, government programmes, business decision-making, government regulation, the defense sector and the international economy.
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