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This book provides both a historical account of the circumstances that led to la rivoluzione italiana and an explanation of why it took place after decades of complacency. It deals with major events that occurred within the Italian party political system between 1976 and 1991.

A collection of classic papers exploring the pivotal questions that shaped the field of physics.

This book explores the personal, domestic, regional, and international factors that led Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and other top aides to negotiate the peace accords. It describes in fascinating detail the intricacies of the Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) bargaining.

"In Mystical Society Philip Wexler, a well-known critical theorist with a background in social psychology and a special interest in spirituality, examines the revitalization of spirituality manifesting"

The two volumes of "Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya" provide archaeological perspectives on Maya courts conceived as functioning social groups. This volume (case studies) provides data and insights from key Maya sites, including Copn, Tikal, Caracol, Bonampak, and Calakmul.

"In this comprehensive overview of ancient warfare, Antonio Santosuosso explores how the tactical and strategic concepts of warfare changed between the beginning of the fifth century b.c. and the middl"

Graduate level textbook in advanced physics and astrophysics for courses that treats an overview of the relatively new field of plasma astrophysics, that includes space plasma physics, solar physics, especially studies of celestial objects, phenomena, and their evolution.

This volume is an account of what Japan was like in the last years of the Tokugawa feudal regime. Hall's journal is filled with details and insight into the conditions that created the Meiji Restoration and the role that the arrival of Americans and Europeans played in this process.

"Law is an increasingly pervasive force in our society. At the same time, however, the obstacles to law's effectiveness are also growing. In The Limits of Law, Yale law professor Peter H. Schuck draws"

"A wonderfully engaging and accessible book, Who Cares? emphasizes finding humane responses to developmentally and physically disabled individuals that are community driven rather than solely reliant o"

A classic from 1969, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered at the Les Houches Summer School of Theoretical Physics in 1955. The book outlines a general scheme of quantum kinematics and dynamics.

"In The (Magic) Kingdom of God, Michael Budde offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the "global culture industries"--increasingly powerful, centralized corporate conglomerates in television, advertisin"

The closing decades of the twentieth century have been characterized as a period of disruption and discontinuity in which the structure and meaning of economy, polity, and society have been radically altered

How can we think about God's action in a quantum world of indeterminacy? in a world that began with a Big Bang? in a world in which life evolved and is continually evolving? in a world governed by ent

This book builds on the proposition that the study of politics and economics has evolved into political economy in a number of significant ways and that the new issues and ideas that became prominent in the 1980s and 1990s will carry on into the new millennium.

Examines the issue of animal consciousness by drawing comparisons with humans: how we think; how we remember; how we learn.

"In 1989, Chicago began an experiment with radical decentralization of power and authority. Intertwining extensive narratives and rigorous quantitative analyses, this book tells the story of what happe"

"The thought-provoking quotations presented here cover a broad spectrum of topics related to leadership. The majority of authors represented are great statesmen, philosophers, or military leaders, but"

"Based on in-depth interviews with 74 intellectuals of the lefts in Cuba and Mexico, Reinventing Revolution explores the rapidly changing thinking of progressives on the big--and enduring--questions of d"

"Using a framework that highlights how societal and international factors have shaped state capacities, Philip Mauceri examines Peru's volatile politics in the country's move from a "developmentalist"

This book focuses on the coherent theme of "conflict versus compromise" in the American political system and the positive role of citizenship in shaping good government, providing an accessible yet sophisticated overview of American politics.

This book explores an issue of vital importance: the growing disjunction between education and paid work in advanced industrial economies, and shows how beneath the rhetoric of a 'healthy economy' lies a much more complex reality of underemployment and wasted talent.

The Selva Lacandona of Chiapas, Mexico has received a tremendous amount of attention since the Zapatista uprising began in 1994

A geopolitical analysis of global issues in which the contributors focus on topics such as spatial-data technology, IGOs/NGOs, gender and world politics, boundary disputes, refugee flows, ecological degradation, and UN intervention in civil wars.

"For thirty years, the World Bank has proposed policies that have produced few economic benefits but have eroded the traditional strengths of African society--even the Bank itself now admits this. But w"

Offers a thorough, evenhanded review of contemporary empathy research. Davis' approach is explicitly multidimensional, and he presents a novel organizational model to help classify and interpret previous findings. Valuable to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on altruism, helping, and moral development.

Key religious women speak frankly about their faith and it's history with women.

Addressing the problem of searching for mainstream and alternative paradigms as a guide for comparative political enquiry, this work in particular introduces developments that have taken place over the last decade.

"Educational sociologists have paid relatively little attention to children in middle childhood (ages 6 to 12), whereas developmental psychologists have emphasized factors internal to the child much mo"

"Theory in the psychology of religion is in a state of rapid development, and the present volume demonstrates how various positions in this field may be translated into original foundational work that"