The cover photo of a declassified 1971 reconnaissance mission over the Israeli Dimona Nuclear Research Center substantiates perennial speculation about Israel's nuclear capability. Based on numerous n
The first 100 pages of this book are devoted to six essays discussing recent military strategic developments in the Middle East, including the state of the middle eastern economy, the role of Turkey,
Morningside Heights, the institutional heart of New York City, is also one of the city's most architecturally distinguished neighborhoods. The high plateau that forms Morningside Heights is geographic
Craig (diplomatic history, U. of Hawaii-Manoa) gives the total warrior of World War II credit for avoiding nuclear war during his term as US president. Eisenhower, he says, was personally horrified by
From millenarists to Antichrist hunters, from the Sibyls to the Hussites, Visions of the End is a monumental compendium spanning the literature of the Christian apocalyptic tradition from the period
During an expedition in Sonora, Mexico, paleontologist Mark A. S. McMenamin unearthed fossils of creatures dated at approximately 600 million years old -- making them the oldest large body fossils eve
No period in recent history has been as tumultous as the last half-decade. John Ruggie's "Winning the Peace" puts the years since the end of the cold war in their proper historical context. Understand
The Sounds of Commerce is the first book to present a detailed historical analysis of popular music in American film, from the era of sheet music sales, to that of orchestrated pop records by Henry Ma
What makes good drama? How does drama matter in our lives? In Three Uses of the Knife, one of America's most respected writers reminds us of the secret powers of the play. Pulitzer Prize-winning playw
This second of four volumes focuses on a period of fundamental political, economic, and social change that permanently transformed German Jewry. Contains chapters on legal status and emancipation, pop
The last major work by one of our century's most influential social theorists, The Germans is a penetrating account of German social development, from the seventeenth century to the present. Enhanced
Editors E. Brooks (Chinese language and literature, U. of Massachusetts-Amherst) and A. Taeko Brooks, a scholar of Japanese history previously combined talents to product their 1974 Chinese Character
The rising tide of ethnic nationalism that has swept across Central Asia in the past decade has energized efforts by the Chinese government to win favor among its ethnic minorities. As a result, China
These days, who still has a soul? asks Julia Kristeva in her psychoanalytic exploration, New Maladies of the Soul. Hailed by Peter Brooks in the New York Times as "a critic of great psychoanalytic i
In the 1970s, the Thai state organized the Village Scout movement to counter communist insurgency. The movement was soon used to thwart growing demands for democratic reform, recruiting five million m
Corrects the widespread western notion that the states of the Middle East mysteriously appeared when Britain stepped in to establish order after World War I out of a political chaos endemic to the Ara
Going against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the impact of Jewish questions in early modern England, James Shapiro presents how Elizabethans imagined Jews
Heiss provides a detailed account of the 1951 seizure of British oil holdings in Iran by prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh, a turning point in cold war history.
Negotiations traces the intellectual journey of a man widely acclaimed as one of the most important French philosphers. A provocative guide to Deleuze by Deleuze, the collection clarifies the key crit
The authors discuss how democracies engage in foreign policies that are vastly different from those of other regimes; the comparison of transitional or liberalizing democracies in Spain, Eastern Europ
In a prose form as startling as its content, The Shutter of Snow portrays the post-partum psychosis of Marthe Gail, who after giving birth to her son, is committed to an insane asylum. Believing herse
Until recently, efforts to promote safe sex among gay men ages thirty to forty-four were thought to be successful. Yet this group, while informed about the risks of contracting HIV, no longer consiste
Explores the use of ritual in nation-state formation, demonstrating how the Village Scout initiation ritual sought to inspire nationalist sentiment in order to ward off apparent external threats of co
For many years the study of pre-seventeenth-century English drama was shaped largely by an understanding that everything written revolved around the individual author, either as part of the tradition
In the spring of 1994 the tiny African nation of Rwanda exploded onto the international media stage, as internal strife reached genocidal proportions. But the horror that unfolded before our eyes had
"Comprehensive and useful analysis of region's urbanization process. Compares eastern and western segments, and illustrates heterogeneity of urban frontier. Concludes that current theories of urbaniza
Teachers, college instructors, and workshop leaders working in classroom settings; and social scientists working in grassroots multicultural communities and socioeconomic institutions, recount their f
In Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell has written an extraordinary memoir of the circle of intellectuals in London early in this century know as the Bloomsbury group. Bell offers remarkable judgments a
When American anthropologist Andrea Rugh rented a room in a small Syrian village, hoping to find the time to finish a book she was writing, she never expected to be drawn so deeply into the lives of h
Three plays by one of contemporary Japan's most prominent writers -- Involuntary Homicide, The Green Stockings, The Ghost is Here -- translated for this volume reveal Kobo Abe's deep love of absurdit
A spirited exploration of the culture created when advertising becomes not just a central institution, but the central institution. Twitchell eloquently excoriates the standard dull rants about the ev
This volume presents translations of over 200 poems by the master of The Way of Poetry, who is generally considered to be the last great poet of the classical uta form.
Gikandi explores the politics of identity to analyze how the colonial experience inspired narrative forms that changed the nature of the English identity by surveying the British imperial tradition si
The title refers to Song of Solomon , in which Guitar answers "What else but love?" when he identifies the emotion that fuels the most deliberate action he is capable of: racial revenge. The author i
An invaluable resource for readers seeking to understand how traditional religious ideas and values relate to modern ideas of human rights, how Western models of human rights are perceived in non-West
The second of five volumes of writings by the political philosopher in the tradition of Western Marxism, based on 29 notebooks he wrote while he was imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime. This seco
