Nike Davies is one of the few African women known internationally in contemporary art circles. The Woman with the Artistic Brush traces her life history and illustrates the strategies developed by wom
A product of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. The aim of this collection of letters, speeches, handbills, statements, and broadcasts is to document what the pro-democ
With an emphasis on social history, the author skillfully explains how the changing role of women in different eras influenced their participation in broadcasting. The second edition is expanded to in
Chronicles the development of anthropology in China through four distinct phases: the wholesale adoption of Western approaches before 1949, the Soviet socialist model after the revolution, the relianc
An inquiry carried out by three economists (Boyer-Xambeu, Ghislain Deleplace, and Lucien Gillard) into the historical origins of modern monetary systems. These origins can be traced back to sixteenth-
Unlike any other text on international trade, this groundbreaking book focuses on the dynamic long-run relationship between trade and economic growth rather than the static short-run relationship betw
Political scientists from across the US present eight case studies of different issues to test such propositions as that single-issue groups are the lobbies that most increase public awareness and the
Stunkel (history, Monmouth U., New Jersey) has created a fine text for undergraduate courses, lucidly describing the philosophical foundations of each culture, as part of the larger description of the
A collection of readings from political scientists, sociologists, historians, journalists, legal scholars, and public officials. The topics include blacks in American history, the role of the black vo
Analytical and to some extent comparative studies examine Chinese nationalism, which the ebbing of Maoist ideology is exposing as a bedrock of loyalty to the state. The nine essays discuss the search
This book looks at various forms of Japanese popular culture, including pop songs, jazz, enka, karaoke, comics, animated cartoons, video games, television dramas, films, and "idols" (teenage singers a
Franzen (founder of a leading advertising agency in the Netherlands and a consultant) and Moriarty (marketing communications consultant and educator) combine theoretical concepts, results from large-s
Hovland (advertising, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Wolburg (advertising and public relations, Marquette U.) offer a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in advertising and society that a
Pakistan's Drift into Extremism examines the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan and analyzes its connections to the Pakistani army's policies and fluctuating U.S.-Pakistani relations. It includes
The potential for government agencies to act as representative institutions if peopled from all sectors of society is examined in this reader. Beginning with a work with Max Weber and other "classical
Seeing Shanghai and Hong Kong as Chinese "twin cities" in many aspects of their history and development, Wong (public and social administration, City U. of Hong Kong, China), White (politics, Princeto
Introduces to Western students and scholars the political philosophy of one of China's ancient pre-Qin schools of philosophers, who perfected the science of government and the art of statecraft some 2
Without compromising on the side of simplification, Guttmann (economics, Hofstra U.) makes the issue of credit-money comprehensible even to those without a great deal of prior knowledge of economics.
This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China's leading dissidents, who was released from jail in late October 1990 again after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the
Historians and linguists examine the modern experience of the Rom in Albania, Czechoslavakian Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. The 10 essays emphasize the Nazi holocaust and the forced settlement and
