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This text offers a comprehensive overview of the formation and administration of the empire from its origins in the early nineteenth century, to its climax at mid-century, to its denouement on the eve of World War I.

A collection of papers organized around three central themes in Hanks's work: indexicality and referential practices; discourse genres and textuality; and the historical embeddedness of language. Together, they represent the main elements of a synthetic approach to language in context.

The geography of contemporary U.S. political economy has roots that run deep into our past. Earle traces their growth to the seventeenth-century origins of liberalism, republicanism, and financial crises.

The first book to explore the historical development of Belgian politics, this groundbreaking study of the rivalry between Catholicism, Socialism, and nationalism is essential reading for anyone interested in Europe before World War I.

Using examples, this work demonstrates why Americans should turn to entrepreneurs in the private sector rather than the federal government to guarantee the protection and improvement of environmental quality. It aims to offer alternatives to traditional thinking about the environment.

This book is a major contribution to Washington scholarship.-Washington Times

Examining the fairness of the electoral procedures used in presidential nomination campaigns, this book offers an overview of the historical developments that led to the presidential nomination process and analyses the basic elements of public choice analysis as they apply to nomination campaigns.

This volume provides interdisciplinary approaches to the environment as space, place and idea. This merging of ideas between philosophers and geographers results in an exploration of the human-nature relationship.

Places modern concepts of feminism within the historical context of political thought and uses feminism as a lens through which to examine the strengths and weaknesses of liberal democracy, both in practice and in theory. It reconsiders works of literature, philosophy and political science.

The 1980s saw the emergence of New Age and neo-paganism as major new religious movements. In this study of these movements, Michael York describes their rituals and beliefs and examines the similarities, differences and relationships between them, profiling particular groups.

Examines the purposes of political parties in America's constitutional order, each major party's strongest recent manifestation and the future of the American party system.

Song of the Sirens is Ernest K. Gann's story of the ships he has sailed and owned; of his years as master of a commercial fishing vessel, of ocean crossings and of storms and emergencies encountered at sea.

The adventure-laden tales of a sailboat delivery skipper, in his own words. Consistently captivating, John Kretschmer's stories are alternately funny and harrowing.

From Bernard Boxill, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and editor of Race and Racism, comes a tightly-argued, very illuminating book that will be essential reading for anyone interested in Black/Africana philosophy.

'Between the Human and the Divine will introduce American readers to one of the most complex, troubled and troubling, luminous, path-breaking and neglected minds of our time. Dietz has taken an important step towards getting the measure of a thinker who measures our civilization.'-THE REVIEW OF POLITICS

This book is about the unintended consequences that can occur when the "good news" process becomes heavily embedded in school life-a process that creates two different worlds in a school community that often prides itself on fostering unity and belonging.

This book is a must-have for school leaders, aspiring school leaders, and those charged with preparing and supporting school leaders. It includes a wide range of information about and from superintendents, including chapters devoted to women and minority school leaders.

This work covers topics such as globalization, internationalization and multilateralism. It presents empirical data from various countries and provides examples of shifts and transformations within a specific level or modality of the educational system.

This volume examines women on American television in the 90s in an attempt to uncover the cultural obsession with tough, sexy heroines in mythical pasts, the "girl power" present, and utopic futures. Programmes covered include "Babylon 5", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and "Xena".

This study shows that New Age spirituality first flourished in America more than a century ago during the Gilded Age, under the mantle of "New Thought". Catherine Tumber demonstrates that "gnostic feminism" has surfaced during periods of triumphant corporate consolidation.

America's failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak picture-and it is-this is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking the Cycle aims to do.