Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> General

In the groundbreaking A Lure of Knowledge, Judith Roof demonstrates that representations of lesbian sexuality...

Friends Or Rivals? offers a comprehensive analysis of Japan policy under the Bush and Clinton administrations. Here too are Armacost's predictions and suggestions for the future.

Armacost examines the promise and frustrations of interdependencies at a time when the world is changing. He chronicles American efforts to reduce a massive trade imbalance, arrange a more...

The 1920s and 1930s marked some of the most important developments in the history of the American mass media: the film industry's conversion to synchronous sound, the rise of radio networks and advertising-supported broadcasting, the establishment of a federal regulatory framework on which U.S. communications policy continues to be based, the development of several...

..". an imaginative and dispassionate re-examination of the significance of the Mongol Conquest and its aftermath for Russia's historical development." --Slavic Review

"On all counts Russia and the Golden Horde infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations." --History

"Combining rigorous analysis of the major scholarly findings with his own research, Halperin has produced both a much-needed synthesis and an important original work." --Library Journal

"Halperin's new book combines sound scholarship and a flair for storytelling that should help publicize this...

"This book will be a monumental contribution to the topic and a staple of scholarship for decades." --Michael B. Katz

"A remarkable volume of critical synthesis and passionate revisionism." --Journal of Economic History

..". ambitious and stimulating... required reading not only for social historians but also for policy-makers and activists." --Histoire Sociale

"Clearly an important book... marks a significant point in the history of literacy studies." --History of Education Quarterly

"A stimulating challenge to traditional assumptions and scholarly commonplaces."...

"This volume of finely crafted case studies is also the vehicle for an important general theory of divination.... this is a book overflowing with ideas that will powerfully stimulate further research." --Journal of Ritual Studies

"The essays in this collection provide a very useful overview of both the diversity of African divination systems and of recent approaches to their study." --Choice

This unique collection of essays by an exceptional international group of Africanists demonstrates the central role that divination continues to play throughout Africa in maintaining...

"A grim... expose by hazing expert Nuwer of the continuing yet largely unacknowledged crisis of death and injury among fraternity and sorority pledges.... F]or its sustained examination of these rarely questioned traditions, Nuwer's work is invaluable." --Kirkus Reviews

What forces young men and women to accept inhuman and degrading rituals in order to belong to a social club, sorority, or fraternity? Why do college administrators and Greek fraternities and sororities continue to allow practices that risk death or permanent psychological damage? Hank Nuwer confronts these questions...

In this major contribution to contemporary political theory, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato argue that the concept of civil society articulates a contested terrain in the West that could become a primary locus for the expansion of democracy and rights.