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In "The Geography of Survival" Wolfson speaks out about the world's choice to embrace the cause of our collective survival or to let desertisation, pollution, disaster, famine, epidemic, and war work their own solution.

This study of crime and justice is motivated primarily by the idea that individual behaviour is influenced both by self-interest and by conscience, or by a sense of community responsibility.

This work examines the relationship between the theory of wealth and the theory of power. It examines various theories of class, state and power either explicitly or implicitly avowed in the diverse social science disciplines of politics, economics and sociology.

These essays address the industrial, commercial, urban and regional reforms of China's planned economy during the 1980s. The emphasis is on the dominating institutional and bureaucratic presence of the state even as it sought to loosen the pre-1979 vertically structured command system.

Moving from the adoption of the "post-Stalin" Constitution of 1977 through its subsequent implementation under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko to the radical legal "restructuring" of the Gorbachev era, the author traces the gradual evolution of a nascent constitutionalism in the former USSR.

A collection of original studies of the Soviet executive under Gorbachev. Topics covered include the major ministries, the presidency, the cabinet, and questions of presidential-ministerial, presidential-presidential, legislative-executive, and party-state relations.

This exploration of the Jewish political tradition elucidates a long, rich and diverse experience of both sovereignty and dispersed statelessness, holding insights for anyone interested in comparative and ethnic politics, Jewish history, and the prehistory of contemporary Israeli politics.

Assesses the impact on the Asia-Pacific region of the detente in great power relations attendant upon the end of the Cold War. The book explores prospects for tension reduction in the region, reconciliation opportunites for ASEAN and Indochina, and the great power search for new roles in the area.

Derives from an unprecedented seminar held at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in November 1990. At the seminar, leading Western diplomatic and military historians and Vietnam scholars met with prominent Vietnamese Communists to reflect on the Vietnam War.

Discusses and compares men's and women's career patterns in state government. It is based upon newly conducted original research surveys in six states, and generalizations are made concerning commonalities and differences between men's and women's experiences in public administration.

Aims to provide an exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life of Russia's 18th century tsar/reformer and the theme of progress through violence in Russia.

This is the first volume in a set covering the writings of Mao-Tse-tung and charting his progress from childhood to full political maturity. This work contains essays, letters, notes and articles in the period 1912 to 1920, which saw him move from liberalism, through anarchism to Marxism.

This collection of papers brings together legal specialists and human rights activists from the US and the Commonwealth of Independent States to discuss their past and recent history, pending problems, and immediate goals in the field of human rights.

Soviet managerial culture, however resistant to change, is in fact changing. This volume attempts to reveal the direction of those changes. It spotlights the problems that are preparing students, career managers, and the employees of Western ventures for work in a very different environment.

In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth". Updating and expanding its basic arguments and perceptions, this volume is an inquiry into the fundamental factors, needs, prospects, and limits of modern Chinese society.

This is an annotated collection of recent studies of Russian folk religion, village organization and family life, including the rituals associated with childbirth, and paying special attention to women's roles and to the specificity of Siberia in Russian culture.

This collection of essays by both Western and East European experts examines the efforts to develop strategies for dealing with the environmental crisis both by governments and at the grassroots level of newly emerging green movements.

This is a collection of papers from a US-Soviet conference on labour issues in the face of political democratization and economic liberalization. It considers the possible response of the emerging independent unions to anticipated rises in unemployment.

In this volume scholars from Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia examine the Janus face of pluralism, with case studies of electoral politics in the republics and of what were once the country's institutions of integration - the League of Communists, the managerial elite, and the army.

Covering the period from the Neolithic era to the troubled present, this book studies the peoples, societies and cultures of the area situated between the Adriatic Sea in the west and the Black Sea in the east, between the Alpine region and Danube basin in the north and the Aegean Sea in the south.

The pre-Columbian culture of the Mississippi woodlands has received little attention from historians. Studying this culture, which was in many respects highly advanced, opens a new perspective on what we are used to thinking of as "American" history.

Traces the dialectical development of economic thought from the Physiocrats through Marx to the present. It is a broad treatment of the history of intellectual thought that bridges economic and the social sciences on the one hand, with natural science and biology on the other.

This collection of papers on financial instability and its impact on macroeconomic performance honours Hyman P. Minsky and his life's work. Based on a conference at Washington University, it includes among the authors Benjamin M. Friedman, Charles P. Kindleberger, Jan Kregel and Steven Fazzari.

An exploration of how and why false bad news is produced, stating that government reports are often the basis for environmental news scams and doomsday analyses. It examines the intellectual basis of concepts that lead to scares, and considers whether institutional structures could be changed.

Trundle argues that metaphysical principles and our understanding of science have become subordinated to ideological dreams. Fascism and Nazism are not historical aberrations, but essential consequences. He shows why scientific truth demands a modal defence integrating science, ethics and politics.

This volume provides a thorough review of current concepts and practices in the areas of strategic management, branding, and conglomerization in the electronic media industry. For researchers, scholars, and students in media economics and management and business.