Russia on the Edge

Edith W Clowes

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• Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historic... Lees meer

Reconstructing the World

Harilaos Stecopoulos

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• "The unending tragedy of Reconstruction," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois, "is the utter inability of the American mind to grasp its... national and worldwide ... Lees meer

The Humanitarianism in Question

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• Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled ar... Lees meer

Anger's Past

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• Books have rarely been written about the history of any emotion except love and shame, and this volume is the very first on the meaning of anger in th... Lees meer

The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico

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• The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher's intellec... Lees meer

The French Revolution in Global Perspective

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• Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its ... Lees meer

Korean Politics

John Kie-Chiang Oh

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• Extraordinary political and economic changes have rocked the Republic of Korea over the past fifty years. John Oh, a Korean-born political scientist, ... Lees meer

The New Science of Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico

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• A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's New Science is acknowledged today to be one of the fe... Lees meer

Playing for Dollars

Paul D Staudohar

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• Fans of professional sports have been forced to pay attention to labor relations in the last five years. The 1994--1995 season reminded baseball enthu... Lees meer

Strategic Negotiations

Richard E Walton, Joel E Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Robert B McKersie

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• Strategic Negotiations makes a significant contribution to the literature on strategic choice (the explicit structuring by management and labor of bus... Lees meer

Fighting Faiths

Richard Polenberg

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• Jacob Abrams et al. v. United States is the landmark Supreme Court case in the definition of free speech. Although the 1918 conviction of four Russian... Lees meer

Symbolic Economies

Jean-Joseph Goux

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• A major participant in the influential Tel Quel group in France, Jean-Joseph Goux here offers a bold reevaluation of both the Marxist economic model a... Lees meer

Devil

Jeffrey Burton Russell

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• "Evil--the infliction of pain upon sentient beings--is one of the most long-standing and serious problems of human existence. Frequently and in many c... Lees meer

The Forest of Symbols

Victor Turner

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• A collection of ten of the most brilliant and important essays on ritual yet written. These papers by Victor Turner... are all seminal and distinguish... Lees meer

Activists in City Hall

Pierre Clavel

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• In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among community activists. Taking office as the Reagan administration was withd... Lees meer

The Colony of New Netherland

Jaap Jacobs

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• The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his... Lees meer

The Fear of Conspiracy

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• First published by Cornell in 1971, The Fear of Conspiracy brings together eighty-five speeches, documents, and writings--the authors of which range f... Lees meer

American Literature and the Culture Wars

Gregory S Jay

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• Gregory S. Jay boldly challenges the future of American literary studies. Why pursue the study and teaching of a distinctly American literature? What ... Lees meer

China's Water Warriors

Andrew Mertha

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• Today opponents of large-scale dam projects in China, rather than being greeted with indifference or repression, are part of the hydropower policymaki... Lees meer

Manifest Design

Thomas R Hietala

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• Praise for the earlier edition-- "A fascinating, thought-provoking book.... Hietala shows that it was not destiny but design and aggression that enabl... Lees meer

The Art of Quartet Playing

David Blum

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• This collection of conversations with the Guarneri members explores all the most important facets of chamber-music playing. Lees meer

Cultivating a Landscape of Peace

Matthew Dennis

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• This book examines the peculiar new worlds of the Five Nations of the Iroquois, the Dutch, and the French, who shared cultural frontiers in seventeent... Lees meer

Marxian Socialism in the United States

Daniel Bell

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• First published in 1952 then out of print in recent years, this classic account of the American Left is once again available. In his introduction to t... Lees meer

Operas of Puccini

William Ashbrook

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• The performance history of each of Puccini's operas are reviewed and related to events in his life. Lees meer