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This text was written in response to the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis, with the intention of presenting an overview of the connection between Islam and political power through history. It is also relevant after September 11 when American attention was again focused on Islam and Muslims.

Most accounts of ethnic and race relations in Western states are optimistic at heart. They assume that equal participation by minorities will be achieved, because it is a "public good" from which citizens will benefit. This title challenges these idealistic commentaries.

This study asserts that in times of crisis the US should be governed differently to how it is governed in times of tranquility. It argues - in light of the horror attacks on the United States - that Americans are forced to accept leglisative changes that might be unthinkable at other times.

The rate at which African American men are involved in the criminal justice system, whether through incarceration, probation, or parole, is at near epidemic proportions. The effects on the African American family as a result are widespread. This volume takes a look at the impacts.

This text examines different approaches in the social sciences to the analysis of problems of youth and generations. The book, a republication of a text from 1956, includes several new chapters.

This volume contains works by Theodor Reik which are concerned with the love life and sexual activity of men and women.

Before World War II, the great majority of practising doctors in England and Wales were general practitioners. They performed their own surgery, and were accustomed to treating a wide variety of illnesses and symptoms.

A study of congressional government, written by Woodrow Wilson as a student. It covers: the need for a federal constitution; the functions of the House of Representatives; taxation and financial administration; the Senate's role in the legislative process; the electoral system; and more.

A study of constitutions and why they matter. It argues that while a constitution, being a manmade document, is subject to interpretation and does not always delineate in a lucid framework its parameters for future generations, it is clear that constitutions do matter.

The world of the rich and influential philanthropic foundations, is a little known but pervasive power network in the US. In this text the author examines the 36 largest of these institutions and the invisible money that goes into them.

The first part of the author's treatise "Ethics" looks at the structure of ethical phenomena and criticises utilitanarism, Kantianism, and relativism as misleading approaches. The essence of moral values, including their absoluteness and ideal being, and the essence of "ought" are discussed.

Hispanics in the United States represents a collective exploration providing a basic foundation of the information available to understand Hispanics in the United States and create an effective policy agenda. Hispanics are projected to be the largest minority group in the United States in the twenty-first century. The contributions define an agenda which will be useful for students, scholars, service practitioners, political activists, as well as policy makers. The opening essays define the diversity of the Hispanic experience in America and put each of the other essays within a larger context. This edition adds a new introduction by the editors incorporating and evaluating the implications of the results of the national 2000 census.The book is organized into two sections: the first establishes the historical, demographic, religious, and cultural context of Hispanics in the United States. The second describes the major issues facing this population in the American social structure, specifically the areas of health care, the labor market, criminal justice, social welfare, and education. The work concludes with a discussion of the role played by Hispanics in the political life of the nation. The contributors, all of whom are scholars with demonstrated competence in the areas, include: Teresa A Sullivan, David Maldonado, Melissa Roderick, Barry Chiswick, Michael Hurst, Zulema Suarez, Alvin Korte, Katie McDonough, Cruz Reynoso, and Christine Marie Sierra, as well as David Engstrom and Pastora San Juan Cafferty. Together they have produced a book which will be extremely useful to anyone developing public polices and creating social interventions at either the national or local levelsduring the coming decade. This new edition is a valuable contributor to discussions about the issues defining the population that will be the largest minority group in the United States in this century.

How to behave in the diaspora has been a central problem for Jews over the ages, and it was also a central problem in the Joseph stories in the Book of Genesis. This work demonstrates the grand alternatives of Judaism, instilled in two larger-than-life figures.

In the 1980s alone, some 100 periodicals were published by and for inmates of America's prisons. In this volume James McGrath Morris seeks to address the history of this medium, the lives of the men and women who brought it to life, and the controversies that often surround it.

Let's face it, declare the authors of this analysis: males and females, boys and girls, men and women have a fundamental difference that derives from biology. David Barash and Judith Lipton explain the evolutionary aspects of male-female differences, integrating work from a variety of fields.

A study of the philosophy of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) by Benedetto Croce (1866-1952), an influential philosopher of the 20th century. The work fuses Croce's brand of idealism and aesthetic philosophy with Vico's epistemological, ethical and historical theories.

A classic of American political science, and a subtle criticism of the American founding fathers produced during the Progressive Era. Woodrow Wilson discusses the three branches of government in the USA - the state, federal and party governments - and the relationship between them.

Taking on the challenge of the postmodernists of politics, Kenneth Minogue argues forcefully and persuasively that the current dominant philosophies of education rest upon a mistake. The belief that the university is society's handmaiden is confronted by a view of the university as an institution with an independent vitality and function.

Advances, such as the Internet, are often sudden and unpredictable, and therefore frightening. A better fundamental understanding of how technology develops might make it less so. David Clarke brings together nine authors who try to understand technology from a variety of viewpoints.

In this provocative re-examination of theories of accelerated development, or "catching up," Vladislav Inozemtsev traces the evolution of thinking about how countries lagging behind can most swiftly move forward, and assesses their prospects for success in this effort.

It is generally assumed that anthropologists do their research in remote and uncomfortable parts of the world - places with monsoons, mud huts, and malaria. In this volume, social anthropologist Kate Fox has taken on an altogether more enjoyable assignment, the study of the arcane world of British horseracing. For Fox, field research meant wandering around racetracks in a pink hat and high heels (standard tribal costume) rather than braving killer insects and primitive sanitation. Instead of an amorphous racing crowd, the author finds and discusses a complete subculture with its own distinctive customs, rituals, language and etiquette.

Arnold Beichman's comprehensive study of the writings of Herman Wouk, one of America's leading writers, shows how Wouk's plays and novels exemplify an extraordinary and often highly perceptive preoccupation with American society in war and in peace.

When "The New Democracy" first appeared in 1912, it was widely regarded as one of the most influential works of the Progressive Era, and remains one of the most important links in the development of a liberal-progressive theory of democracy.

Are abstract ideas and information proper subjects of ownership? What role should privacy rights play? This book provides answers and strategies for dealing with these and other questions while mounting a philosophical defense of rights to intellectual and intangible property.

Two new criminological approaches are defined and applied to categories of crime. Routine activity analyzes the criminal event, and avoids motivations and psychology as topics for discussion, whereas rational choice approaches crime as purposive behavior designed to meet the offender's commonplace needs, such as money, status, sex, and excitement.

By almost any measure, higher education is a vital part of the U

Mary Chamberlain explores the nature and meaning of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere in this oral and social history, based on life-story interviews across three or more generations of Barbadian families.

Information technologies have become both a means and an end, transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This volume specifically examines the institutional and social environment of the workplaces that information technologies have created.

Focusing on the experiences of workers in Japanese transnational finance companies, this work raises timely questions and insights concerning the emerging multi-cultural work experiences world-wide.

Drawing from the fields of sociology, political science, history, and criminology, this collection describes the sociological and political dimensions of violence.