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Robert O. Collins is one of the most prolific authors on Africa, the Sudan, and the Nile

The European Union's "democratic deficit" and ways that might be found to resolve it are hot issues in both academic debate and practical politics. This title offers a fresh approach to this subject by bringing together a range of authors who have been involved either in analyzing the activities of the European Union or participating in them.

Focuses on what is distinctive about Jewish jokes and Jewish humor. This book makes a "radical" suggestion about the origin of Jewish humor - such as, that Sarah and Abraham's relation to God, and the name of their son Isaac (which, in Hebrew, means laughter), recognizes a special affinity in Jews for humor.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 created a new political landscape and a new era of warfare. This book offers insights into the impact and influence of 9/11 upon our cultural social, and political life. It is useful for cultural studies specialists, sociologists, journalists, political scientists, historians, as well as general readers.

Brings together, in a sustained and engagingly written narrative, the leading revolutionaries who have shaped the ideological disposition of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. It provides particular attention to the larger, more enduring ramifications of this revolution for radical Islamic revivalism in the entire Muslim world.

An authoritative work in defense of educational testing, pointing out that much research conducted by education insiders on the topic is based on ideological preference or profound self-interest. It explains and refutes many of the common criticisms of testing, and describes testing opponents' strategies, through case studies of Texas and the SAT.

The juvenile justice system in the US has become a detrimental rather than a remedial experience, often reinforcing youths' defiance of authority. The book contains a comprehensive discussion of the primary considerations policymakers should use for providing services and opportunities to these youths, constructively guiding their future behavior.

Modern families are economic institutions of great productivity. Here, the author shows how long-standing inequalities of income and class are flexible and changing in post-industrial societies. The book draws on two strands of research, one on children and families and the other on social inequality; both summarize detailed statistical analysis.

Laying the groundwork for analyses of important aspects of corporate behavior, this book defines corporate crime and finds ways of locating corporate violations from various sources. Among the issues tackled are whether corporate crime is greater and the laws to control corporate crime and alternative approaches.

Written as a fictional dialogue, clearly delineates the psychic interdependence of creativity and sexuality, as well as the integration of the concepts as they are defined by both Jewish mysticism and modern psychology.It both reconstructs the interdisciplinary bridge between Judaism and psychology and deconstructs some exegetical traditions.

This classic set of essays by Nobel Laureate and leading monetary theorist Milton Friedman presents a coherent view of the role of money, focusing on specific topics related to the empirical analysis of monetary phenomena and policy.

Offers an account and defense of the culture that the people of the United States have inherited from Great Britain. The book discerns four areas of influence. The language and literature, the common and positive law, the form of representative government, and the ethical heritage - moral habits, beliefs, conventions and customs.

Rogin shows us a Jackson who saw the Indians as a menace to the new nation and its citizens

During the 1960s, traditional thinking about crime and its punishment, deviance and its control, came under radical attack. The discipline of criminology split into feuding factions, and various schools of thought emerged, each with quite different ideas about the nature of the crime problem and its solutions.

An analysis of the history of the American Civil Liberties Union, this book represents an account of the ACLU's record.

In this highly influential study of art forms as models for a theory of communications, Hugh Dalziel Duncan demonstrates that without understanding of the role of symbols in society, social scientists cannot hope to develop adequate models for social analysis. He reviews critically major contributions to communication theory during the past century: Freud's analysis of dream symbolism, Simmel's concept of sociability, James' insights into religious experience, and Dewey's relating of art to experience.

Raymond Aron, French scholar, journalist, philosopher, sociologist, and historian, is internationally recognized as one of the great thinkers in the modern social sciences, bringing to contemporary history the insights of both philosophy and social science

After an eloquent and moving analysis of what he sees as the disillusion of themodern age, Lippmann posits as the central dilemma of liberalism its inability to find an appropriate substitute for the older forms of authority - church, state, class, family, law, custom - that it has denied

This absorbing intellectual history vividly recreates the unique social, political, and philosophical milieu in which the extraordinary promise of Einstein and scientific contemporaries took root and flourished into greatness. Feuer shows us that no scientific breakthrough really happens by chance; it takes a certain intellectual climate, a decisive tension within the very fabric of society, to spur one man's potential genius into world-shaking achievement. Feuer portrays such men of high imaginative powers as Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, influenced by and influencing the social worlds in which they lived.

This book examines the social attitudes that distinguish today's youth from their predecessors, identifies the sources of these attitudes in the social experiences of today's youth, and analyzes the stereotype implied in the term "Anti-American Generation." These essays show clearly that the issue between the dissenting, primarily middle-class youth and their elders and most of the working class (regardless of age) is a difference of opinion not about Americanism but about moral behavior and the scope of moral judgment. What distinguishes the generations is not so much their feelings about their country, as' their feelings about what people should do about their feelings and the role feelings should have in the conduct of one's life. The attitudes of the young are largely in conflict with an older cultural tradition that promotes the subordination of impulse and personal conviction to rational control for the sake of common purposes and future acceptability and effectiveness.

Like it or not, contemporary man is man-in-bureaucracy

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Osiel argues that international and military law could more effectively prevent combat atrocities by studying how and why they occur. The author explores the moral and legal ambiguity of military discipline and the dilemma of obedience. The evidence is drawn from a wide array of recent wars and peace enforcement operations.

An inquiry contradicts Marx's contention that the 1848 June Insurrection led to the defeat of the proletariat by the agents of the bourgeoisie. The Mobile Guard and National Workshops show that individuals' participation in these institutions of the Second Republic helped determine their loyalties.

The results of an experiment in interdisciplinary collaboration to clarify theories of morality and anthropology and philosophy, showing how each may be enriched by borrowing from the other. The authors attempt to systematically map a wide range of moralities throughout the world.

A consideration of what makes us laugh and why with a claim that apart from 'good-natured play' humour is rarely as innocent as it appears, arising as it so often does from mischances, infirmities and indecencies.

In this cultural history, John R. Hall presents a reasoned analysis of the meaning of the murders and mass suicide at Jonestown: why it happened and how it is tied to our history as a nation, our ideals, our practices, and the tensions of modern culture.

Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) was the major theorist of Italian fascism. This volume makes available some of his writings produced shortly before and after the Fascist accession to power in Italy.

This volume argues that by sacrificing the future in order to pay ever-larger federal benefits through programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and federal pensions, entitlement spending has become a crushing burden to American workers.

Futures studies is a field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. This manual brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories and exemplars of the field.