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This volume emphasizes variations in the way different nations receive immigrants as causes of differences in immigrant behaviour.

Drawing on her own family stories, as well as those of a hundred other people, Elizabeth Stone shows how we are shaped by the tales and lore that we absorb from the family circle, how stories teach us values, inspirations, warnings and incentives.

Immigration remains the primary driving factor of population growth in the US. Because immigrants tend to move into urban areas and to compete for employment towards the lower end of the wage scale, this has a disproportionate effect on the African American community.

This is an analysis of that quintessential conservative, Prince Metternich, and offers evidence that cultural and political conservatism may perhaps be best adapted to sustain a free and reasonable society.

This study of the effect of unemployment and of the ways of relieving it upon actual, typical families of the 1930s and 1940s is a picture of the demoralizing influence and consequences of America's relief policies during the Depression years.

Using Machiavelli as a springboard, Dennis and Ching Ping Bloodworth map out 3000 years of Chinese political-military history - from Confucius to Mao Zedong - using Machiavell's discourse of power politics.

A detailed account of the FBI's investigations within the context of an overview of the history of American sociology. It argues that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI marginalized sociologists such as W.E.B. Du Bois and tried to suppress the development of a Marxist tradition in American sociology.

Long a shadowy figure in the history of philosophy, it was only in the 20th century that Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) achieved renown as a major and original thinker. This text approaches Vico's thought in terms of its relevance to problems of modern philosophy.

An exploration of various forms of nationalism. The author categorizes these as a force for unity; a force for the status quo; a force for independence; a force for fraternity; a force for colonial expansion; a force for aggression; a force for economic expansion; and a force for anti-colonialism.

This work asserts that government regulation or intervention to provide stability in the capitalist marketplace is a necessity. It argues that self-directed stable economics, devoid of an appreciation of social and psychological factors, are essentially illusory.

What can industrial nations learn from the habits of other civilizations? Cultural anthropologist Wilton S. Dillon suggests that modern communities and alliances would be enhanced greatly if we understood how gift exchange and reciprocity helped to balance earlier institutions and societies.

An analysis of how America came to see various forms of suffering as "mental illness", arguing that social and historical dynamics, not scientific discovery, provided this notion. It critiques four cultures of therapy: psychoanalysis, behaviourism, cognitive therapy and biological therapy.

Written during the height of the ecology movement, The Ecological Transition is a stunning interdisciplinary work. It combines anthropology, ecology, and sociology to formulate an understanding of cultural-environmental relationships. While anthropologists have been studying relationships between humans and the physical environment for a very long time, only in the last thirty years have questions inherent in these relationships broadened beyond description and classifi cation. For example, the concept of environment has been extended beyond the physical into the social.

This work anticipates the central issues of a rapidly changing world. Peter Drucker argues that events of the next 30 to 40 years, or even further on, have already largely been defined by events of the previous half-century. This edition is updated and features a new preface by the author.

Written in 1910, this text warned of the approaching conflict of World War I. Alfred Thayer Mahan's geopolitical approach focuses on the permanent and enduring features of international relations that affect how nation-states interact on the global stage. This edition contains a new introduction.

An analysis of the geopolitical structure of world politics at the dawn of the 20th century. Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote at a time when the USA was becoming a world power, and he called America and her leaders to recognise that US security was tied to the balance of power in Asia as well as Europe.

The decades separating the 21st century from the Armenian Genocide, the prototype of modern-day nation-killings, have fundamentally changed the political composition of the region. This work states that Turkey needs a new approach to move on from the Genocide era.

This work covers all aspects of China's book, magazine, and online publishing industry. It discusses the different market segments of trade, scientific, technical, professional, education, and children's books. The economics and distribution of both book and magazine publishing are also covered.

This work shows that the Hollywood film industry, like most work communities, is dominated by a highly productive and visible elite who exercise major influence on the control of available resources, career chances, and access to opportunity.

Central to this volume are the views of Ludwig von Mises on war and foreign policy. Mises argues that war, along with colonialism and imperialism, is the greatest enemy of freedom and prosperity, and that peace cannot be achieved until major nations become limited in scope and power.

This text analyzes the tendencies that oppose the realization of democracy, and claims that these tendencies can be classified in three ways: dependence upon the nature of the individual; dependence upon the nature of the political structure; and dependence upon the nature of organization.

Walter Lippmann has been hailed as the greatest journalist of his age. For more than 60 years he exerted an unprecedented influence on American public opinion through his writing. This biography explores the other roles Lippmann fulfilled.

The authors detail a number of criminal opportunities which accompany the new technologies, including electronic vandalism and terrorism and the transmission of pornography or other offensive material. They suggest however, that technology also provides the means to prevent and detect such crimes.

In this text, Abraham Kaplan emphasizes what unites the behavioural sciences, more than what distinguishes them from one another. This is not a formal exercise in the philosophy of science, but rather a critical assessment of the developing standards and strategies of contemporary social inquiry.

Developed to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of "The Journal of American Ethnic History", this collection of articles and essays aims to integrate interdisciplinary perspectives and scholarship on important themes and issues related to immigration and ethnic history.

Joins the preceding volumes in this series in presenting contemporary research by leading political scientists addressing topics of interest to those concerned with African-American affairs. This volume aims to capture the expanding boundaries of black politics and the persistent interests of the black community at large.

For nearly three decades, the English political scientist Harold Laski was the gray eminence of American liberalism and its most influential Marxist public intellectual. Gary Dean Best traces the trajectory of Laski's American career and accounts for its ultimate failure.

The Russian Revolution excited men, and captured their imaginations

The Evolution of Urban Societyis concerned with the presentation and analysis of regularities in the two best-documented examples of early, independent urban society: Mesopotamia and central Mexico

This important work brings together a range of perspectives in contemporary urban analysis