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An investigation into the causes of delinquency. It attempts to state and test a theory of delinquency, seeing in the delinquent a person relatively free of the intimate attachments, the aspirations, and the moral beliefs that hold most people to a life within the law.

This volume has a bold thesis: the denied dark side of love that can show us love's true nature. It proposes that by acknowledging our "negative" feelings, we can come into the full spectrum of emotion and hear the message of our darker feelings, thus increasing our capacity for love.

This brief volume is an eloquent statement on the meaning of Jose Marti's thought as well as on how his thought has been harnessed to the needs of ideology in present-day Cuba

The first C. Wright Mills Award-winning book, Delinquency and Drift has become a recognized classic in the fields of criminology and social problems

Originally published in 1980 by McGraw-Hill.

This is John Maynard Keynes's prophetic analysis of the effects that the peace treaty would have on Germany and, even more fatefully, the world. This edition includes an introduction by David Felix, who explores Keynes's arguments and the historical context of the period during which he wrote.

A discussion of the political causes of the manifold forms of alienation that underwrite the human quest for community. It demonstrates that the sovereign political state is inseparable from its successive penetrations of man's economic, religious, kinship and local allegiances.

This work explains why the publication of "The Satanic Verses" became a cataclysmic event with far-reaching political and social consequences. It looks at the Rushdie affair in both its political and cultural aspects.

This text offers a methodology for the interpretation of a major popular phenomenon. Arthur Asa Berger explores the cultural significance of the expanding popularity and sophistication of video games, and considers the biological and psychoanalytic aspects of this phenomenon.

Nation-Building and Citizenship examines how states and civil societies interact in their formation of a new political community

Many studies of the origins of National Socialism claim that the volkisch and proto-Nazi movement arose largely as a reaction to the materialistic ideas of 19th-century science and especially to the naturalistic philosophy of Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League. Daniel Gasman calls this generalization into question.

Corruption is once again high on the international policy agenda as a result of globalization, the spread of democracy, and major scandals and reform initiatives

An analysis of a range of forms of remembrance, from public commemorations orchestrated by nation-states to personal testimonies of war survivors. The text also covers cultural memories of war represented in films, plays and novels and investigations of wartime atrocities in courts of human rights.

First published in 1955, this political reflection seeks to show how noble ideas can slide into the tyranny of "secular religion". It stresses how political thought has the responsibility of telling the truth about social and political reality - in all its imperfections and complexities.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's highest and most permanent achievement as a novelist lies in his exploration of man's religious complex, his world and his fate. This volume culminates twenty years of studying, teaching, and writing on Dostoevsky

Commons opened Institutional Economics by declaring: "My point of view is based on my participation in collective activities, from which I here derive a theory of the part played by collective action in control of individual action

This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media

In this extraordinary analysis of the meaning of the remembered past, Lukacs discusses the evolution of historical consciousness since its first emergence about three centuries ago. Among the diverse subjects he examines are the endurance of national characteristics; the development of language, history, and democracy; public opinion; the problem of religious history; memory and time; history and physics; motives and causes; and the end of the Modern Age. In a new introduction, Lukacs comments on the continual decline of historical knowledge and the teaching of history.

One of the foremost experts in public policy here attempts not only to describe what public policy is, but given societal changes in the last two decades, to account for its present status

The authors of this work enunciate principles that are at the core of contemporary social science preoccupations, including the precarious balance between social integration and conflict. This edition includes the collaborative group's introductory statement.

A collection of graphs will be used to explore the game of baseball. Graphical displays will be used to show how measures of batting and pitching performance have changed over time, to explore the career trajectories of players, to understand the importance of the pitch count, and to see the patterns of speed, movement, and location of different types of pitches. Each chapter would consist of a series of graphs together with paragraphs of description and explanation so the reader fully understands the variables, any statistical methods, and the message communicated by the graphic.

The Instinct of Workmanship, originally issued in 1914, is described by Murray Murphey as his "most important work." It is in this volume that the theoretical foundations are put forth on full display. Veblen's juxtaposition of the instinctive values of community welfare in contrast to the pecuniary values of commercial exchange was the basis of his later, more famous works. The book makes plain Veblen's basic dichotomy between technological institutions for making goods and the pecuniary institutions for making money.

This study was conducted in 1930 in Austria during the depression, and examines the prolonged effects of unemployment on workers. It combines statistical data, case studies, historical background and reports to offer an insight into how creative innovations can assist in overcoming deprivation.

This work explores how older people think and behave in relation to partner change. It considers the choices and constraints that influence decisions about new romantic relationships after divorce or the death of a spouse, along with how these differ with respect to age, gender and culture.

Gustave LeBon's The Crowd is not only a classic, but one of the best-selling scienti¬c books in social psychology and collective behavior ever written. Here, LeBon analyzes the nature of crowds and their role in political movements. He presents crowd behavior as a problem of science and power, a natural phenomenon with practical implications. Originally published in 1895, LeBon's book was the ¬rst to expand the scope of inquiry beyond criminal crowds to include all possible kinds of collective phenomena. Its continuing signi¬cance is evident even in the Los Angeles riots of 1992 in which LeBon's theories were cited in testimony.

A. James Gregor examines the thought of Gentile, Italian Fascism's major theorist. In Gregor's reading, Gentile's fascism was, and remains, an anti-democratic reaction to what was seen to be the domination by advanced industrial democracies of less-developed or status-deprived communities and nations languishing on the margins of the Great Powers.

This book provides an overview of religion in Japan, from ancient times to the present. It also emphasizes the cultural and attitudinal manifestations of religion in Japan, withough neglecting dates and places.

The third edition presents new developments, including losses in tank walls and a simpler method to calculate temperatures and flows in directed flow windings, and a chapter on optimization to achieve a low cost transformer design. The book includes a section on correcting the linear impedance boundary method for non-linear materials.

This book presents state-of-the-art solutions to the theoretical and practical challenges stemming from the leverage of big data and its computational intelligence in supporting smart network operation, management, and optimization.

The evidence is becoming stronger for a direct link between increased genome/epigenome damage and increased risk for adverse health outcomes. It is clear micronutrients are critical as cofactors for many cellular functions such as DNA repair enzymes or DNA oxidation. The field of Nutrigenomics has been the focus of research because it provides an opportunity to apply genomics knowledge in nutrition research, making the associations between specific nutrients and gene expressions which has significant relevance clinically and can be applied in disease prevention. This book brings a new perspective on disease prevention strategy based on the genomic knowledge of individuals and their diet.