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This analysis of the thought and action of Charles de Gaulle explores the intellectual foundations of Gaullist statecraft. Its careful exegesis of de Gaulle's major writings and speeches reveals a penetrating political thinker as well as a major political actor.

This work takes the reader through an examination of political parties and the American government. Starting with a historical overview and defence of parties, it offers an analysis of politics itself, with special focus on the number of interest groups both affecting and affected by government.

Contours of African American Politics chronicles the systematic study of African American politics and its subsequent recognition as an established field of scholarly inquiry

First published in France in 1947, this study asks whether communism could transcend its violence. It examines the Moscow trials of the late 1930s and Koestler's recreation of them, arguing that violence in the communist world can be understood only in the context of revolutionary activism.

Theory and practice in city planning have never been known for their compatibility

Defining the "unsheltered woman" and her needs is a complicated task

The Fiscal Impact Handbook is a unique manual detailing practical methods for determining the full range of revenues and costs associated with residential and nonresidential growth

Conceived by Charles Beard as a sequel to his provocative study of American Foreign Policy in the Making, 1932-1940, President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War outraged a nation, permanently damaging Beard's status as America's most influential historian

Periods of great social change reveal a tension between the need for continuity and the need for innovation

The self-sufficiency and regional outlook of farm life characterized the United States until the Civil War period

In the face of the increasingly variegated ideological landscape of contemporary America, cults have become the focus of public controversy

William Safire was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon from 1968 to 1973

Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classical Buddhism that it seems contradictory

Originally published by the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 1964.

The traditional South Indian village pictures the entire universe as an entity in which all living things and human beings play a necessary and effective role

Demonstrates from a range of perspectives, the cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory. The chapters in this volume offer a complex awareness of the workings of memory, and the ways in which different or changing histories may be explained and explores the relation between individual and social memory.

Reprint. Originally published under the title: Prescribing our future. New York: De Gruyter, c1993.

In perhaps his most famous book, The Decline of the Intellectual, Thomas Molnar launches into a fundamental critique of the intellectual class

Ideological warfare against authority, especially in the world of higher education, broke out in the 1960s, and continues into the 1990s. No source or symbol of authority escaped untouched-neither parents nor teachers nor the cop on the beat. While the hippies have gone underground or disappeared entirely, the assault on legitimate authority continues unabated. As familiar institutions crumble before our eyes, befuddled liberals and conservatives alike throw up their hands in despair. In Authority and Its Enemies, Thomas Molnar asserts that the Western world is reeling from an overdose of freedom without order or authority.

In The Qualified StudentHarold S

Facts, Frameworks, and Forecasts calls for rethinking the development of criminological theory

Young Germany explores the revolt of the younger generation in Germany from 1896 to 1933. It is a readable history of the Free Youth Movement, one of the most significant factors in shaping modern Germany. Laqueur retraces the history of the movement, its central ideas, and its cultural background.

At a time when boundaries between the nonprofit, business, and public sectors have grown increasingly confused and contested, this work on non-profit organizations offers frameworks for understanding the terrain that lies between the state and the market.

This work covers the problems of despair and fanatical religious or political reactions that arise from despair. It addresses the problem of nihilism, or the tendency towards pessimism and self/other destruction that faces us at this point in human development.

This classic book remains of interest because it focuses on voluntary personal relationships relationships that people need not enter, whose content is up to the participants, whose rules are what the participants agree they will be

Checklist of Civilizations and Culture contains all known principal civilizations and cultures of the world, with such definition as is possible of their area and time, their subdivisions and periods, and a brief indication of their character

Conservative and liberal political impulses have contended throughout the history of the U

There are many ways of writing about the moral life; Moral Obligations follows the way of what philosophers call ""meta-ethics"": the analysis, not of particular moral problems, but of how the concepts used in formulating and solving them, concepts like ""right"" and ""obligatory,"" have significance and power over us

Through her long involvement in the German Communist party, Ruth Fischer amassed valuable material on its changing fortunes, the transformation of the Bolshevik party into a totalitarian dictatorship, and the degeneration of the Comintern

Based on his research in comparative embryology, Rothschild argues that the central nervous system of animals as well as humans conveys meaning just like language, and is not merely aimed at adapting to the external environment. His theory of biosemiotics introduces the concept of inner adaptation.