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Innerworldly Individualism: Charismatic Community and its Institutionalization by Adam B. Seligman 9781412862936
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.06Inner worldly Individualism looks to colonial history, in particular, seventeenth-century New England, to understand the sources of modern nation building. Seligman analyses how cultural assumptions... -
Lessons from Ground Zero: Media Response to Terror by Jay Perkins 9781412813365
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $79.78It ranked among journalism's finest hours. That is what was heard in the weeks following September 11, 2001. They made mistakes, of course, but in covering one of the biggest disasters ever to hit... -
Marriage Matters: Perspectives on the Private and Public Importance of Marriage by Janice Crouse 9781412863179
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.06In Marriage Matters, Janice Shaw Crouse argues that marriage is a critical element in a free society and that society's most vulnerable communities, especially minorities and the poor, suffer the... -
Women and the Public Interest: Policy and Protest in American Life by Jessie Bernard 9780202362113
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.18Jessie Bernard, in this serious book, pulls into an analytic framework the research, theory, and polemics about the status and problems of women as they relate to public policy. With a scholarly,... -
Behavior Therapy with Children: Volume 2 by Anthony M. Graziano 9780202362830
RRP: $142.78Booksplease Price: $128.00The term behavior modification refers to the systematic analysis and change of human behavior and the principal focus is on overt behavior and its relationships to environmental variables. Behavior... -
Popular Government in the United States: Foundations and Principles by Charles S. Hyneman 9780202363479
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.18Political theory consists in clarification of language and concepts, in description and analysis of institutions and behavior, and in appraisal and evaluation of political events. Hyneman's theory is... -
Hot Spots: American Foreign Policy in a Post-Human-Rights World by Amitai Etzioni 9781412855068
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.13There are important reasons for the distinct yet significant course adjustments in American and Western foreign policy, which currently focuses on Middle Eastern and Chinese "hot spots." In... -
Reform and Growth: Evaluating the World Bank Experience by R. Kyle Peters 9781412805230
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $65.50Although the quest for growth remains as elusive as it was more than a decade ago, there is now much greater consensus on the policies and institutional changes that are needed to foster growth and... -
Perspectives on the History of Higher Education: Volume 25, 2006 by Roger L. Geiger
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $61.93Volume Twenty-Five of Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, the silver anniversary edition, offers three fresh contributions to the understanding of American higher education in the... -
After Sputnik: America, the World, and Cold War Conflicts by Alan J. Levine
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $97.63On October 4, 1957 in the midst of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first artificial earth satellite. For the West, and especially the United States, it was a shattering blow to... -
The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy Michael Prawdin 9781412805193
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $100.04In his prologue to The Mongol Empire, Michael Prawdin sets the stage for the last and mightiest onslaught of the nomads upon the civilized world. He tells of the many rejoicings in Europe over the... -
Language and Human Nature by Mark Halpern
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $103.61"Language and Human Nature" exposes a century's worth of flawed thinking about language, to exhibit some of the dangers it presents, and to suggest a path to recovery. It begins by... -
Science, Ideology, and the Media: The Cyril Burt Scandal by Ronald Fletcher
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $92.90In 1976, five years after his death, serious charges were leveled against the distinguished British scientist Sir Cyril Burt. His research on the nature of intelligence was challenged as fraudulent... -
Fundamental Rights: History of a Constitutional Doctrine by Milton R. Konvitz
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $92.27One of the most important modern developments in American constitutional law has been the extension of the Bill of Rights to the states. The most important guarantees of the first eight amendments... -
The Presidential Dilemma: Revisiting Democratic Leadership in the American System by Michael A. Genovese
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $92.27This brief, thought-provoking text evaluates the performance of recent presidents from Johnson to Bush, finding that, overall, each has failed to live up to public expectations. Written by one of the... -
British Miscalculations: The Rise of Muslim Nationalism, 1918-1925 Isaiah Friedman 9781412863001
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $97.63In the aftermath of World War I there was furious agitation throughout Islam against the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. Coupled with the powerful effect of the principle of self-determination,... -
Art, Education, and African-American Culture: Albert Barnes and the Science of Philanthropy by Mary Ann Meyers
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $92.90A physician who applied his knowledge of chemistry to the manufacture of a widely used antiseptic, Albert Barnes is best remembered as one of the great American art collectors. The Barnes Foundation,... -
House with Wisteria: Memoirs of Turkey Old and New Halide Edib 9781412810029
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $96.45This edition of Halide Edib Adivar's Memoirs, prefaced with Sibel Erol's excellent introduction, is important and timely. When stereotypes of women in the Muslim world abound, Halide's memoirs remind... -
Ideology and the Ideologists Lewis S. Feuer 9781412814423
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $102.98The revival of ideology, which began early in the second half of the last century, has led to reconsideration of the following questions: What underlies the pattern of the rise and decline of the... -
Animals and Criminal Justice Carmen M. Cusack 9781412865210
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $69.07Mahatma Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Since civil societies are ruled by law, they can be evaluated, both... -
Kasztner's Crime Paul Bogdanor 9781412864435
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $97.63This book re-examines one of the most intense controversies of the Holocaust: the role of Rezs Kasztner in facilitating the murder of most of Nazi-occupied Hungary's Jews in 1944. Because he was... -
The Red Sea Terror Triangle: Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Islamic Terror Shaul Shay 9781412806206
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $79.97In the aftermath of the terror campaign launched on Sep- tember 11, 2001, the United States declared war against global terror. It identified the al-Qaida organization and Afghanistan under the... -
Politics in Theology by Gabriel R. Ricci
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.06This new volume examines the relationship between religion and politics from a historical perspective. Contributors address specific moments in which political governance intersects with religious... -
Climate Change and Environmental Ethics by Ved P. Nanda
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.06There is a broad consensus that climate change presents the international community with a formidable challenge. Yet progress on all fronts - prevention, mitigation, and adaptation - has been slow... -
Travel, Discovery, Transformation Gabriel R. Ricci 9781412852838
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $92.90This latest volume in the Culture & Civilization series gathers interdisciplinary voices to present a collection of essays on travel and travel narratives. The essays span a range of topics from... -
Women's Rights and the French Revolution: A Biography of Olympe De Gouges Sophie Mousset 9781412854634
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $97.63Women played a major part in the French Revolution of 1789, but have received very little recognition for their contributions. The many claims and protests put forth by women at that time were... -
Immigrants on the Threshold by Judith T. Shuval
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $47.65This first large-scale empirical work on the adjustment problems of immigrants in Israel is now updated with a new introduction by the author and a preface by Alex Weingrod. The extraordinary... -
This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950 Cesare Pavese 9781412810197
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $92.27On June 23rd, 1950, Pavese, Italy's greatest modern writer received the coveted Strega Award for his novel Among Women Only. On August 26th, in a small hotel in his home town of Turin, he took his... -
Celebrations: The Cult of Anniversaries in Europe and the United States Today William M. Johnston 9781412842334
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $92.27In the twentieth century, celebrations of historical anniversaries abounded. There was the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the 150th anniversary of photography, Bach's 300th anniversary, and... -
Long Old Road: Back to Black Metropolis by Horace R. Cayton
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $99.41From the time that he ran away to sea at sixteen, until he graduated from the University of Washington, Horace R. Cayton was a messman on a freighter, an unknowing handyman in an Alaskan brothel, a... -
Urban Theory by Ely Chinoy
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $92.27What is the future of the American city? What are the relevant contexts for the analysis of urban problems? Should attention be focused on the metropolitan area, the region, or the megalopolis? Does... -
Economic Growth and Fiscal Planning in New York by Roy W. Bahl
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $92.27In an era of federal deficits and struggling municipalities, states have emerged as the most significant governmental actors. But state governments face the major challenge of fiscal planning in the... -
Mainstream and Margins Revisited: Sixty Years of Commentary on Minorities in America by Peter Isaac Rose
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.06When his book Mainstream and Margins was published in 1983, Peter Rose's writings on American minorities and those who studied them painted a vivid picture of what life was like in America for Jews,... -
My Brother's Keeper by Eli Ginzberg 9781412808620
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $47.65This is a deeply personal memoir by the doyen of applied economics in the United States. His name is indelibly linked to the creation, expansion, and refinement of employment policy and human... -
American Land Planning Law: Case and Materials, Volume 1 by Jr. Williams 9781412848633
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $176.06The materials in American Land Planning Law are derived from decades of experience in teaching planning law at six planning schools and three law schools. Among the hypotheses included here, two are... -
Organizational Cultures and the Management of Nuclear Technology: Political and Military Sociology by Karthika Sasikumar 9781412849456
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $99.41Nuclear technology has been an organizing premise of the international system since 1945. Eight countries have officially acknowledged the possession of nuclear weapons. Many countries have harnessed... -
Psychiatry and Public Affairs: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry by Leo H. Bartemeier 9781412842839
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $100.04This stimulating collection bears witness to the insight that psychiatrists, with their special training and background and concern for human relationships, can contribute solutions to major problems... -
Varieties of the Gaming Experience by Robert Perinbanayagam 9781412854719
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $174.38The games that human societies devised over the centuries can be considered one of the most comprehensive and fertile symbolic systems ever created by human ingenuity. In all societies, members feel... -
Seeking Balance: Philosophical Issues in Globalization and Policy Making by A. Pablo Iannone 9781412853958
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $175.01The problems and issues arising from globalization are difficult to resolve, in part because our ways of conceptualizing the conflicts and responding to them are inadequate. This book fills this gap,... -
The City: A Dictionary of Quotable Thoughts on Cities and Urban Life by James A. Clapp 9781412852876
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $176.06The City is the best, funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking compilation ever assembled on the urban scene. James A. Clapp has arranged more than three thousand quotations-epigrams, epithets,...