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
"An extraordinarily fine collection of essays---wide-ranging yet coherent and profound---that pays fitting tribute to the work of Thomas L. Pangle, one of the truly great scholars and teachers of our
"`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
Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) is one of the nation's premier institutions for research on foreign policy, comparative politics, security policy, and international rela
From October 28, 1940 until February of 1947, Sotiria Salivaras provided a unique eye-witness account of life in Kalamata, Greece before, during, and after World War II through her meticulous diary en
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
By examining the proposed drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska,Caribou and Conoco explores the constant tension between environmental policy and energy policy and shat
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
From Diversity to Unity is a community study of settlement and adaptation of Southern and Appalachian migrants to the neighborhood of Uptown Chicago. Oral histories, community newspapers, and secondar
This book explores the emergence and significance of 'a Nietzschean heroic model' in 20th-century popular culture, some notable examples of which are James Bond, Tarzan, and Hannibal Lecter.
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
The American Revolution radically changed the lives of many, some of them friends of the Revolution, some not, and some who wished to have no part of it for either side. Rarely did one of these reluct
Within this collection, American and Mexican policy-oriented migration experts provide an up-to-date, binational analysis of Mexico-U.S. migration. They recommend specific forms of bilateral collabora
This study links the concepts of patriotism, Christianity, and English national identity in the journalistic writings of G. K. Chesterton. It is the first work on Chesterton to explore in full the Eng
The Trouble with America critiques the theory and practice of American government—government too weak to solve our public problems, restrained more in its ability to do good than in its ability to do
Katherine E. Graney examines one of the most important, puzzling, and ignored developments of the post-Soviet period: the persistence of the claim to possess state sovereignty by the ethnic republic o
Two Novellas by YAE comprises two works by Youssouf Amine Elalamy, also known as YAE, translated from French into English for the first time. A Moroccan in New York and Sea Drinkers provide a glimpse
Ethics of Compassion places central themes from Buddhist (primarily) and Christian moral teachings within the conceptual framework of Western normative ethics. What results is a viable alternative eth
Speaking of Teaching: Lessons from History focuses on teaching as a fundamental act of all human beings, viewing the question of teaching through the lens of five famous thinkers and two contemporary
Shaping Membership, Defining Nation explores and interprets the social politics, religion, and history of Africans (Habshis/Siddis) in Karnataka of South India. Focusing on the continuous dialog betwe
This volume features the research of international scholars, whose work addresses the representative history of small cities and urban networking in various parts of the Indian Ocean world in an era o
State of Corruption, State of Chaos provides a base of knowledge upon which critical analyses on the nature and causes of violence can draw. Studies in this volume were selected for their unique contr
The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse immigrant populations in the United States.
Dismantling American Common Law provides new insights into the political implications and philosophical origins of the American common law tradition, the importance of which has largely been ignored b
The first book-length study on the subject in any language, Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time treats Tolstoy's experience not as a conversion moment but as the evolution of his religious o
Julia Kristeva and Elizabeth Grosz provide stimulating philosophical examinations of intellectual time in this collection of essays and case studies, noting the differences between feminist time and t
This book sheds light on the causes and consequences of ethnic cleansing in the twentieth century Balkans with particular reference to the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. In providing a thorough and c
Anastaplo collects 17 essays he has written over the several decades of his academic career on a range of biblical passages and topics. Though they were produced for various and specific audiences and
Allowing legislators to pick the voters that make up their districts is a fundamental conflict of interest and central concern for the popular sovereignty of American elections. In The Realities of Re
This is a paperbound reprint of a 2007 book. Rothgeb (political science, Miami U., Oxford, Ohio) and Chinapandhu (political science, Ramkhamhaeng U., Bangkok, Thailand) present a case study of U.S.-Th
thirtysomething examines one of television's most emotionally and culturally resonant programs and its treatment of subjects such as the role of women, the nature of masculinity, and the problem of ma
Drawing on the work of feminist scholars and postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and poststructuralist theories, Saunders (English, U. of Miami) explores what she views as the "limits" of the Calibanesque t
This collection of 14 papers comes from workshops held in May 2002 ("Political Theory and Dialogue of Civilizations") and May 2003 ("Political Science and Dialogue of Civilizations") in Tehran, sponso
Justice, Humanity and Social Toleration develops the concept of normative justice as setting human affairs right in accordance with the principles of human rights, human goods, and human bonds. Defend
The Relay of Gazes is a demonstration that analysis of a variety of films and television programs is the key to revealing how dramatically Japan's image has evolved in recent decades. The films and pr
