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A comprehensive analysis of China's epochal war with Japan. Examining developments in the Nationalist, communist, and Japanese-occupied areas of the country, it portrays the impact of the war on every dimension of Chinese life, including politics, the economy, culture, legal affairs and science.

Explores the subjugation of Kurds by Arab, Ottoman, and Persian powers for almost a century, and explains why Kurds are now evolving from a victimized people to a coherent political community. David L. Phillips describes Kurdish rebellions and arbitrary divisions in the last century, chronicling the nadir of Kurdish experience in the 1980s.

Draws on related disciplines to better understand the biological, psychological, and social aspects of aging. This work covers areas of central interest to those coping with the needs of an aging population. It addresses assessment of the aging, taking into account biological age, psychological age, and socio-cultural and spiritual age.

Although politics, political theory, and political philosophy are often conflated because they interact, they actually are distinct. This book discusses about these disciplines.

"Originally published in 2004 by Transaction Publishers"--Verso.

In the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen incident, Yin Jiagi has emerged as a leading Chinese dissident and theorist of the Democracy Movement. This collection of essays documents his views on a range of subjects, crucial to China's future.

Reviews important changes, cross-cultural differences, and management issues in the turbulent Islamic business environment.

"A Center for Urban Policy Research book."

A lively and accessible exploration of the historical, cultural, and legal contexts that underlie religious political engagement in the United States

This volume examines the evolution of credit in the western world and its relationship to power. Spanning several centuries of human endeavour, it focuses on western Europe and the United States and also considers how the western system became the global credit system.

Now in its sixth edition, this classic text continues to be the most comprehensive and authoritative geographical study of the region

Analysing journalistic usage and misusage, this concluding volume of "The Language of Journalism," gauges the cultural and political health of the society, and the declining standards of journalism. The scope is cross-cultural with special emphasis on the conflicting but mutually influential styles of American and British journalistic practice.

Space was at the center of America's imagination in the 1960s. The Apollo mission's success in July 1969 made almost anything seem possible, but the Cold War made space flight the province of governmental agencies in the United States. This book details the US and international laws dealing with space use, settlement, and exploration.

Rev. ed. of: Human behavior in the social environment: a social systems approach / Ralph E. Anderson and Irl Carter with Gary R. Lowe. 5th ed. 1999.

Explores Individual Development Accounts to determine their effectiveness. This book offers lessons to those interested in saving and asset accumulation among the poor. It not only breaks new ground in the scientific study of savings behavior, but also offers recommendations to improve policies designed to encourage the poor to save.

An account of Tibet and the Tibetan people that emphasises the political history of the 20th century. This book attempts to reach beyond the polemics by considering the various historical arguments, using archival material from several nations and drawing conclusions focused on available documents.

Interest-group lobbying is a controversial activity in American politics and this book provides a study of group power. This edition includes expanded coverage of the changing dynamics of power politics in America; new media venues and grassroots organizing; and the perennial issue of reform.

Originally published in the early 1970s, this critical edition revisits the central themes of the book and reconsiders them in the light of major new theoretical and documentary understandings of the Chinese communist revolution.