Exchange-Rate Regimes and Capital Flows

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 579
• Recent international financial crises have brought the issue of reforming the international financial system to the forefront of debates. Is the curre... Lees meer

Rethinking Sustainable Development

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 590
• Throughout the past decade, the meaning of "sustainable development" - which rose to prominence following after the 1992 United Nations Conference on ... Lees meer

Shelter from the Storm

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 604
• Watching the disastrous response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was like watching "a train wreck in slow motion." Katrina exposed the weakness ... Lees meer

Transitioning to Adulthood in Asia: School, Work, and Family Life

• Hardcover | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 646
• In the past decade or so, scholars in the United States have identified the emergence of a new, distinct stage of life, as adolescence has become prot... Lees meer

Overweight and Obesity in America's Children: Causes, Consequences, Solutions

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 615
• For the past several years, researchers have been examining possible causes of the rise in of childhood overweight and obesity in the U.S. Now at near... Lees meer

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 667
• Divisive party politics, unconventional campaigning, shifting and unpredictable voting behavior, and electoral accountability mark this election cycle... Lees meer

Shelter from the Storm

• Hardcover | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 604
• Watching the disastrous response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was like watching "a train wreck in slow motion." Katrina exposed the weakness ... Lees meer

Use and Usefulness of the Social Science

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 600
• Publishing the 600 th volume of The Annals is dedicated to reflecting on how selected disciplines and fields of study have promoted their use and usef... Lees meer

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 675
• This volume of The ANNALS outlines the infrastructures that will need to be built to make sure data providers and empirical researchers can best serve... Lees meer

The End of Television?

Elihu Katz, Paddy Scannell

• Hardcover | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 625
• Is television dead? The classic television era of the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by limited choices of programs broadcast on over the air channels... Lees meer

Race, Racial Attitudes and Stratification Beliefs

• Hardcover | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 634
• Barack Obama′s election as the forty-fourth president of the United States reinvigorated discussions of race, ideology and inequality in America. This... Lees meer

Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged: The Role of Systems, Institutions, and Organizations

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 647
• Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged: The Role of Systems, Institutions, and Organizations THE ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social... Lees meer

The Biology of Political Behavior

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 614
• This fascinating issue of The ANNALS draws on the recent advancements in biological insights and applies them to political science. Pulling from a ran... Lees meer

Fathering Across Diversity and Adversity: International Perspectives and Policy Interventions

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 624
• Over the past few decades, scholarly and policy interest in fatherhood and fathering has burgeoned, in large part because of profound social changes i... Lees meer

Cultural Sociology and Its Diversity

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 619
• What is the cultural approach to sociology? Although there are many paths to understanding society, all branches of sociology integrate meaning. A cul... Lees meer

Being Here and Being There

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 595
• Contemporary ethnography is much too large, too diverse, too contentious to be represented in its entirety in a single collection of articles. This un... Lees meer

Perspectives on Africa and the World

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 632
• This volume of the ANNALS, Perspectives on Africa and the World , provides a unique opportunity for fresh insight into the continent′s past, present, ... Lees meer

Continental Divides: International Migration in the Americas

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 630
• Since Mexico-U.S. migration represents the largest sustained migratory flow between two nations worldwide, much of the theoretical and empirical work ... Lees meer

Race, Crime, and Justice: Contexts and Complexities

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 623
• To what extent does racial discrimination exist within the criminal justice system, and to what extent is that inequality in crime and justice an outg... Lees meer

The Globalization of Class Actions

Deborah R Hensler, Christopher Hodges, Magdalena Tulibacka

• Hardcover | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 622
• This groundbreaking volume of The ANNALS provides the first overview of class action laws and related mechanisms around the world. It features 30 "cou... Lees meer

The African American Male in American Life and Thought

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 569
• No longer can scholars and practitioners ignore the influence the African American male has on all facets of American culture and academia. Currently,... Lees meer

The End of Television?

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 625
• Is television dead? The classic television era of the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by limited choices of programs broadcast on over the air channels... Lees meer

Mommies and Daddies on the Fast Track:

• Hardcover | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 596
• Can women - or men - in fast-track jobs have it all? Or are they being forced into delayed parenthood - or even denied parenthood? Do fast track worke... Lees meer

The Shape of the New American City

• Paperback | Engels | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scien | nr. 626
• What does the future hold for America′s cities and metropolitan areas? This special volume of The ANNALS analyzes demographic trends, housing preferen... Lees meer