Simply put, says Stamos (philosophy, York U., Toronto), the problem is whether biological species are real and if so, what the nature of their reality is. He synthesizes the literature on the problem,
In his "relatively unmodified" revision of a 1990 work, Pontuso (political science, Hamden-Sydney College) discusses the critique of Marxism and communism that can be found in The Gulag Archipelago
Mori Arinori's Life and Resources in America sheds much light on the shape of an American society, government, and economy recovering from the Civil War. This book—originally published in English in W
Marsh (political science, Asian Studies, Baylor University) and Dreyer (political science, University of Miami) present contributors in political science, foreign policy, and international studies, di
This third book in the Global Perspectives on Social Issues series grants scholars and policy makers an overview of the steps being taken by governments and educational organizations worldwide to incr
In The Sacred Monstrous author Wendy Hamblet traces the historical and social fact of violence through the work of Girard, Bloch, Lorenz and Burket. She takes up the charge advanced by social theorist
In order to explain why some postcolonial states have had greater success than others at consolidating democracy and promoting economic development, Budd (political science, Fitchburg State College) f
Unlike many other books about the American founding, this new work by two of the most prominent scholars of American political history emphasizes the coherence and intelligibility of the social compac
In Out of the Revolution, Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene Young collect thirty-one of the nation's top scholars to provide a complete reference for understanding the impetus for, the development of, a
One of the world's leading entrepreneurs speaks about human creativity and its reflection of God's creative work. These are the words of a man who sees business as a vocation and seeks to walk the pat
Out of the Crucible offers an informative and inviting study of the novels and short stories of the lives of the zhiqing - the Chinese urban youths sent to rural areas during the rustication movement
This brief monograph presents a close reading of the first two chapter's of Beyond Good and Evil and offers an interpretation that places Nietzsche in opposition to the Platonic and Socratic traditi
Japan is now having to live with the positive and negative consequences of its explosive economic growth beginning after the end of World War II, says Alexander, an economist who has served in various
In Capitalism and Commerce, Edward Younkins provides a clear and accessible introduction to the best moral and economic arguments for capitalism. Drawn from over a decade of business school teaching,
The First Great Political Realist is a succinct and penetrating analysis of one of the ancient world's foremost political realists, Kautilya. Kautilya's treatise Arthashastra stands as one of the grea
Martin D. Yaffe's Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader is a well-conceived exploration of three interrelated questions: Does the Hebrew Bible, or subsequent Jewish tradition, teach environmental
The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly
The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly
A study of the Maori of New Zealand and analysis of the new regime of "neotribal capitalism," in which tribal ownership of resources, financed by the government, became the basis of a new from of capi
Investigates the relationship between dependency and quality of life in less developed countries (LDCs). Provides an empirical test of the relationship between dependency and economic development in L
Commodity checkoff programs have become an increasingly important way for U.S. agricultural producers to advertise and promote their products, both domestically and in foreign markets. Checkoffs - man
Organized by region, boasting an international roster of contributors, and including summaries of selected creative and critical works and a guide to selected terms and figures, Salhi's volume is an i
This book studies the views from countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin American of the United States and the 2016 presidential election. Twelve researchers of American politics evaluate how these persp
Based on the Brazilian and British cases, this book explores the politics behind aid and cooperation norms, unveiling how actors use such norms to achieve a range of objectives beyond the purported go
This study examines the history of Chicago soccer from 1887 to 1939 from the perspectives of recreation, immigration, labor, and urban history. The author analyzes the championship tournaments, teams,
This book is a careful study of both Immanuel Kant’s work and the context of that work in Early Modern Philosophy. Roecklein's chief concern is the philosophy of perception, which is manifes
The 2016 presidential race is arguably already over in 40 states and the District of Columbia. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2016, Democrats in Texas
This project analyzes how political women rhetorically perform—discursively, visually, and physically—their positions of power and how these performances are read, time again, against and with other w
This book traces how innovation occurs through new forms of screen production enabled by social media platforms and in public broadcasting. It notes that creative workers offer fresh ideas across the
This book examines how the work of Frantz Fanon might be best appropriated for contemporary political and cultural issues. Reviewing the field of “Fanon studies” and bringing Fanon into conversation w
Democracy and Leadership: On Pragmatism and Virtue presents a theory of leadership drawing on insights from Plato’sRepublic, while abandoning his authoritarianism in favor of John Dewey’s democratic t
"`Follow the money' is an apt aphorism for this book. Politically minded students will learn how money is raised and where the jobs are. Highly recommended."---Bill Edwards, Columbus State UniversityC
The essays in this volume present new scholarship on imperial expansion through colonization and globalization from a variety of postcolonial perspectives. Most of the articles are grounded in literar
"Winning the Unwinnable War shows how our own policy ideas led to 9/11 and then crippled our response in the Middle East, and it makes the case for an unsettling conclusion. By subordinating military
This book disturbs the 'normal' and depoliticized meaning of virtue through a genealogical reading of the debates, conceptual struggles, and ambiguities that were cleansed by virtue ethicists to produ
Inequity in Education represents the latest scholarship investigating issues of race, class, ethnicity, religion, gender, and national identity formation that influenced education in America throughou
This book explores why the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) and the allied Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) have been reluctant to embrace calls from employers and bourgeois parties to
The editors (both of the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.) present the product of a September 2008 meeting bringing together social and
Through the study of Charles Testut's Le Vieux Salomon, a nineteenth-century southern Francophone antislavery novel, this book encourages a reassessment of the southern experience and of the canon of
A Theory of Feelings examines the problem of human feelings, widely understood, from phenomenological, analytical, and historical perspectives. It begins with an analysis of drives and affects, and pu
