Politics and Sociology

On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first C

Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn Ifill’s On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings a

Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People (Academic M

Emerging from the growing interest in studying the relationship between indigenous peoples, and governments, and other indigenous groups, this collection of essays explores academic and public policy covering indigenous treaties. A comprehensiv

Britain and European Integration since 1945: On the Sidelines

This book provides both a comprehensive introduction and a perceptive examination of Britain’s relations with the European Community and the European Union since 1945, combining an historical account with political analysis to illustrate

The End of European Integration: Anti-Europeanism Examined

Paul Taylor’s The End of European Integration is one of the new millennium’s most thoughtful contributions to Europeanist scholarship. He skilfully situates Europeans and the European Union within the unpromising context of early 21st century

Introducing Social Geographies

This major new text offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this important area of human geography. It presents a broad overview of the topic, clearly outlining the key theoretical and political positions, and making extensive use

Urban Land Reform in China

This book presents an authoritative account of urban land reform in China - a unique attempt to merge the existing socialist landownership system with market mechan-isms. Compared with urban land reform in other transition economies, China’s r

Das verfassungsrechtliche Beitrittsverfahren zur Europischen Union

Die Europische Union wird in wenigen Jahren einen neuen Erweiterungsschub durch Lnder auf dem Westbalkan und in Südosteuropa erleben, denen bereits eine konkrete Beitrittsperspektive eingerumt wurde. Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert vor diese

Weltmacht Im Treibsand: Bush Gegen Die Ayatollahs

The blowing sand, it can be seen in the Brockhaus encyclopedia, called "schluffreiche fine sand or sandy silt with very little clay content, which move in water saturation under pressure for a pressure relief, for example, into a pit." And

Defining Drugs: How Government Became the Arbiter of Pharmaceutical Fact

Drug-related morbidity and mortality is rampant in contemporary industrial society, despite or perhaps because, government has assumed a critical role in the process by which drugs are developed and approved. Parrish asserts that, as a peop

Drugs: Dilemmas and Choices

The ’drug problem’ is getting steadily worse. Convictions for drug offences, number of known addicts and Customs seizures have been rising inexorably for 40 years. So has the number of young people using illegal drugs.Similar changes are

John Naisbitt - High Tech, High Touch: Technology and Our Search for Meaning

A penetrating look at technology in business and contemporary society, taking the reader on a tour of what the author describes as our ’technology immersion’ and our accelerated search for meaning. Examines and probes key trends, focusing

Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Resolution: Theory, Practice, and Annotated References

The literature surveyed indicates that while in many areas there has been extensive research and analysis, there continues to be a need for more studies on the specific situations that lead to conflicts over water and other environmental re

Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA

Description Since the 1970s early exit from work has become a major challenge in modern welfare states. Governments, employers, and unions alike once thought of early retirement as a peaceful solution to the economic problems of mass unempl

Coverage Matters: Insurance and Health Care

First report in a series of six the IOM will issue over the next two years to evaluate and consolidate knowledge of the causes and consequences of lacking health insurance. Softcover. It is the first of six reports on the problems of uninsu

In the Land of Mirrors: Cuban Exile Politics in the United States

In the Land of Mirrors is a journey through the politics of Cuban exiles since the 1959 Cuban Revolution. It explores the development of Cuban exile politics and identity within a context of U.S. and Cuban realities, as well as within the b

Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America

In a newly enlarged edition of this eye-opening book, David T. Courtwright offers an original interpretation of a puzzling chapter in American social and medical history: the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction--from respecta

Recasting Ritual: Performance, Media, Identity (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalization and technology affect ritual performance and how minorit

Politics and the Other Scene

As one of Louis Althusser’s most brilliant students in the 1960s, Etienne Balibar contributed to the collective theoretical masterpiece of Reading Capital. Since then he has established himself amongst the most subtle philosophical and politica

The Left, The Right and The State

Lew Rockwell’s new manifesto is a clarion call creative and thought-provoking on every page for a principled liberty in our time. There are very few books in which you can open up any page and immediately find a quotable and inspiring passage t

Comparative Federalism Theory and Practice

This book uses a comparative approach to examine and explain the contemporary nature and meaning of federalism and federation. The author provides both a detailed theoretical study and empirical case studies on contemporary federations

The Political Economy of the European Constitution

The enlargement process, the creation of the Monetary Union and the need to promote further the political and economic integration of Europe have ignited an intense debate at the European level among researchers and policy-makers. This book

Public Relations for the New Europe

This book is essential for anyone interested in Public Relations in New Europe Whether you are working in PR, studying PR, a journalist dealing with PR, or just interested in this fascinating and fast growing market, this book offers readers a v

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters

Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, he has exposed some of the most egregiou

After the Breakup of a Multi-Ethnic Empire: Russia, Successor States, and Eurasian Security

Birgerson examines the endurance of economic and political institutions established during the Soviet period and how their endurance has comprised the independence of the former republics. These successor states are struggling to establish stabl

Strobe Talbott - Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb

On May 11, 1998 , three nuclear devices exploded under the Thar, or Great Indian Desert, shaking the surrounding villages--and the rest of the world. The immediate effect was to plunge U.S.-India relations, already vexed by decades of tension an

Open Source Democracy

In shaping our vision of the future we must not only be aware of the potential inherent in interactive media, but also recognise how the experience of these developments influences public life itself. It is in understanding this process that Dou

On Ordered Liberty: A Treatise on the Free Society (Religion, Politics, and Society in the New Millennium)

On Ordered Liberty goes beyond the liberal and conservative divide, asking its readers to think about the proper ends of human choice and actions in a free society. Beginning with the insights of Alexis de Tocqueville and some natural law s

Nigel Rapport - Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts

Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is the ideal introduction to this discipline, defining and discussing its central terms with clarity and authority. Among the concepts explored are: cybernetics, ecriture, feminine, gossip, huma

Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War II

The author explores the way Jews were portrayed in film and the various ethnic stereotypes American moviegoers watched. This stereotyping reinforced the negative view of Jews in society.

Forbidden Psychological Tactics

Consider yourself warned! This information is definitely not for the faint-hearted. If you aren’t playing with the full deck of these power packed, Forbidden Psychological Tactics, fasten your seatbelts

David E. Sanger, "The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power"

Readers of The New York Times know David Sanger as one of the most trusted correspondents in Washington, one to whom presidents, secretaries of state, and foreign leaders talk with unusual candor. Now, with a historian’s sweep and an insider’s

Discrimination (Writing the Critical Essay)

Discrimination is practiced against innumerable types of people and comes in many forms. Though it is often associated with racial and ethnic prejudice, discrimination often goes far beyond this common form of the practice. People can be discrim

James McAuley - An Introduction to Politics, State and Society

Text equips students with a comprehensive understanding of contemporary politics, state and society in the United Kingdom today. Discusses key concepts, issues, theorists, and writers. For undergraduate students in politics or political sociolog

Understanding Political Violence

The American omen

Freedom as we know it is a condition of ego. Prosperity is a condition of things. Increase these satisfactions to any degree and there is still that knowledge of incompleteness which torments the spirit.

Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy

The Republicans who run American government today have defied the normal laws of political gravity. They have ruled with the slimmest of majorities and yet have transformed the nation’s governing priorities. They have strayed dramatically

The Crisis of Social Democratic Trade Unionism in Western Europe

This book outlines a developing crisis of social democratic trade unionism in Western Europe and examines emerging alternatives. The authors define ’social democratic trade unionism’ and its associated party-union nexus and explain how this tr

Taking Trade to the Streets: The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization

In the wake of civil protest in Seattle during the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting, many issues raised by globalization and increasingly free trade have been in the forefront of the news. But these issues are not necessarily new. Taking Tr

Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia: Trends, Causes and Policy Dilemmas

This book brings together work on the low fertility countries of East Asia with an analysis of trends in fertility, what we know about their determinants and consequences, the policy issues and how these are being addressed in the various countr

Ursula Smartt - Criminal Justice

’This Course Companion in Criminal Justice by Ursula Smartt is to be applauded. It is an essential handbook for all students and practitioners who are studying the criminal justice system. The user-friendly framework provides students with prac

Journalism, Ethics and Society

Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty

Today Iran is once again in the headlines. Part of President George W. Bush’s

A Deeper Freedom: Liberal Democracy as an Everyday Morality

Today those who believe in liberal democracy must reexamine and reaffirm their commitments. Here, Charles Anderson probes our urgent concerns and questions. Even those who believe that liberal democracy is the best form of government may think t

The Handbook of National Legislatures: A Global Survey

Where is the power? Students of politics have pondered this question and social scientists have scrutinized formal political institutions and the distribution of power among agencies of the government and the state. But we still lack a rich bank

Social Theory at Work

Work is fundamental to human society and modern organizations, and consequently has been central to the thinking of major social theorists and social science disciplines. This book offers a ’one-stop-shop’ guide to classical and contemporary p

PR- A Persuasive Industry?: Spin, Public Relations and the Shaping of the Modern Media

Like it or loathe it, PR has become a key ingredient in our lives, but surprisingly little serious thought is given to what PR is and what its practitioners do. Glancing, usually disparaging references to PR abound, and journalists and others fe

Kate Holbrook, Ann S. Kim - Global Values 101: A Short Course

Global Values 101 grew out of one of the most popular courses ever offered at Harvard University, in which some of the most original thinkers of our day sat down with students and explored how ideas have made them—and can make us—more engaged,

Immigration in America Today: An Encyclopedia

America today is witnessing the largest and most sustained wave of immigrants its borders have ever seen. Although factors like the Great Depression, World War II, and quota restrictions had slowed the massive influx of Europeans from the early

A Muslim Archipelago: Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia

This study focuses on Islam in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. It is intended as the beginning of a knowledge base for policy makers and analysts. The author was Dean of the School of Intelligence Studies at the National

Henryk Kierzkowski - Europe and Globalization

Globalization has provoked passionate debate and street demonstrations reminiscent of May 1968.The central question of Europe and Globalization is ’what did Europe do for globalization in the past, and what is globalization doing for Europe tod