This highly respected title comes revised and updated in a second edition to provide you with a contemporary overview of violence and society.Clearly and lucidly written, this book offers broad covera
This highly respected title comes revised and updated in a second edition to provide you with a contemporary overview of violence and society.Clearly and lucidly written, this book offers broad covera
This book raises questions about gender as an organizing social relation and will develop students' capacity to use gender analysis to interrogate social life more broadly. Bold, concise and intellect
This book presents a review and criticism of all sociological literature on suicide, from Emile Durkheim's influentialSuicide (1897) to contemporary writings by sociologists who have patterned their o
Examining the Berlin crises of 1948-49 and 1961, the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1958, and the Cuban crisis of 1962, the author elucidates various intermediate and highly politicized forms of internationa
Justice Douglas surveys our national situation, finds it ominously defective at several points, and with a practicality that matches his sense of alarm and urgency shows what must be done to safeguard
In this arresting volume Kenneth Thompson has combined academic research with acute observation in approximately equal proportions. Research has been focused on the theories and practices of those who
Mr. Harrison warns that unless a new democratic lender arises when Nehru steps down, India will face Balkanization or authoritarian control based on army force. His disturbing book "is a study of
The fate of the newly independent nation is absorbing the attention of statesmen and scholars. This comprehensive study of Ceylon since its independence in 1947 provides a case study of the fundamenta
