"…a tireless observer, and one of unparalleled brilliance and prescience, with a remarkable ability to draw strangers to serious talk. Here, in visits of a few months, he manages to see and describe m
For Italian intellectuals, the terms fascist and antifascist continue to be the hard currency of contemporary political debate. When Professor Renzo de Felice suggests that fascism describes a moment
Gamal Abdel Nasser was arguably one of the most influential Arab leaders in history. As President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970, he could have achieved a peace agreement with Israel, yet he preferred to
"Having been exposed early in life to the dangers of extreme nationalism, journalist and historian Walter Laqueur chose to align his thinking with Victor Hugo's ideal of a "European Brotherhood" where
Success and career growth in academic life depend upon reaching and influencing the widest audience possible. To do so, scientists strive to develop personalized trust. They do so by establishing a la
How does a family function? How does a family make a distinctive life of its own while living according to the values of society? In what ways is a family a unit when all its members have personalitie
Social intelligence is defined as the ability to be aware of relevant social situational contexts; to deal with the contexts or challenges effectively; to understand others’ concerns, feelings, and em
Deceptive Images is a profoundly thoughtful effort by a social scientist—who is a participant observer in American Jewish life—to come to terms with his concerns about how American Jews and Judaism ha
This essential volume for professionals and academics proposes a new approach to environmental ethics and to environmental policymaking in particular. All too frequently, policy makers focus only on w
Inner worldly Individualism looks to colonial history, in particular, seventeenth-century New England, to understand the sources of modern nation building. Seligman analyses how cultural assumptions o
An Islamic terrorist movement, ISIS (also dubbed IS or ISIL), has taken advantage of the chaotic “Arab Spring” in Syria and Iraq to declare an Islamic Caliphate wherever it has been able to rise to po
The International Evaluation Research Group devoted one of its annual meetings to addressing a spectrum of actions sponsored by private-sector organizations to product public value. The 11 papers in t
Segre contributes to explaining the impact of two alternative models of business relations on their ability to face international competition. He draws on the writing of German sociologists Max Weber
John M. Legge shows the many ways in which the real world diverges from economics textbooks. He argues that mainstream economic theory took a disastrous turn 140 years ago, when it attempted to use ca
Legge sets out a series of empirical facts about the way a modern market economy works and contrasts them to predictions from the economics literature. He hopes to explain to entrepreneurs, managers,
This book examines society’s responses to many kinds of experimentation, focusing on both creation of and assessment of risks. As people seek new ways to make their lives safer and happier, the widesp
The relationship between survey design and the quality of survey data is the central focus of this book. With regard to data quality, the emphasis is on two aspects that seem to be the most relevant i
In a just society the law not only applies to all equally, but also arises from the consent of the people it embraces. As such, justice implies that people have access to governance. A just society pr
This book deals with teleology, truth, predication, knowledge and belief, universals, body and mind, soul, and reason. Its approach is integrative, scholastic and analytic. Teleology is required for c
Editors Smith and Kirkpatrick bring together expert contributions from a wide variety of disciplines to examine possible interventions to move the city of Detroit forward from its current state of fis
In part of a series of books about social interactions, Glaser analyzes the social processes central to having a private home built, though they would also apply to remodeling or repairing a house or
How would Socrates and Plato react to a modern world where secularism and religious fundamentalism are growing while the gap between the human mind and animal mind is narrowing? Using some creative li
In this book Rossano examines the philosophical works of Plato and Socrates attempting to ascertain how the philosophers might have understood the contemporary state of human societies. He utilizes a
Marcus explores how the nexus of the industrial city of Manchester, a period of crisis in human relations there about 1835 to 1850, and the visit of the young German industrialist Friedrich Engels to
In recent years the social sciences and the humanities have drawn closer to each other in thought and method. This rapprochement has led to new perceptions of human behaviour by sociologists, as well
This volume is focused on the social intelligence (SI) of leaders. SI is generally defined as the ability to be aware of relevant social situational contexts; to deal with the contexts or challenges e
This volume is a reassessment of free will and, as such, seeks to answer the question: Do humans ever act under the guidance of the will? To determine if humans have free will, Rescher first examines
Søren Kierkegaard sought to clarify what it means to be a Christian. He concluded that a one-on-one relationship with God is required, to encounter the “Absolute Paradox,” defined as an immutable bein
Historically, an important role of museums has been to contribute to national homogenization. The book specifically engages with how the Swedish museum sector addresses new demands from a society that
Reopening the question of Machiavelli’s relationship to neoclassical, humanist, and republican thought (“civic humanism”), Hulliung questions scholars’ perceptions of Machiavelli as a misunderstood hu
Hoebeke examines the corruption and political maneuvering that led to the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the move away from the original intent of the framers of t
This book aims to chart the extent to which residents of the Netherlands perceive that they are subject to discrimination, from the perspectives of group identities, discrimination grounds, and societ
Rescher argues for a realistic and rationalistic pragmatism, that is systemically viable, and yet does justice to traditional pragmatism. He further argues for a reconstructive approach to retooling p
Intersex/DSD is an umbrella term used to describe various congenital conditions in which the development of sex differs from what medical professionals generally understand to be "male" or "female." T
The problems and issues arising from globalization are difficult to resolve, in part because our ways of conceptualizing the conflicts and responding to them are inadequate. This book fills this gap,
This publication unveils creative ideas on knowledge transfer from historical references to commercialization of cultural products. It adopts multidisciplinary, cross cultural, and experimental approa
While the study of race relations in the United States continues to inspire and influence European thinking, Europeans have yet to confront their own history. To be black in Europe—whether during the
Huang has revised his original nine essays and added two more. One of them describes the experiences of Mainland Chinese visitors to Taiwan in the early years after World War II as an inspiration for
Citing the effectiveness of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) of 1995, as equal to posting the Sixth Commandment in a strip club, Bennett spotlights the unfunded federal mandate--popular with bo
Although the period leading up to the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews has been well recorded, few sources convey the incremental effect of specific decrees aimed to dehumanize Jews caught in Hitler's n
