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In this major study, Paul Hollander seeks to understand why so many distinguished Western intellectuals of the 20th century admired the various communist systems, o ften in their most repressive historical phases.

Ce rapport est bas sur une tude de cas originale, incluant des entretiens extensifsavec les forces arm es en R publique D mocratique du Congo (RDC). En explorant de mani re critique et remettant en question de mani re convaincante les st r otypes existants et r cits sur les violences sexuelles dans des lieux de conflit, les auteurs mettent en lumi re le besoin d'une compr hension nuanc e des violences r sultant de pratiques traditionnelles et ...

The use of social structure as a defining concept has produced a large body of creative speculations, insights, and intuitions about social life. In its broad-ranging examination of the kind of data that form the basis for the systematic study of social structure, this book marks a significant methodological advance.

When Reclaiming the American Dream was first published in 1965, a New York Daily News editorial called it "dynamite between book covers" and compared its potential influence to that of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Two years later, George Gallup said the book had sparked "the most dramatic shift in American thinking since the New Deal." Robert Bremner, the leading historian of the American philanthropic tradition, later listed the publication of Reclaimi...

The world is increasingly concerned with bridging the developmental gap between the developed and developing countries. With the establishment of a number of institutions for funding the projects including the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and many other agencies, the need to develop mechanisms to assess economically viable projects is more important than ever. The Social-Cost Benefit Analysis (SCBA) is an important technique used in for...

Provides a companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Topics covered include angels, sympathies, the four elements and the cosmic dance.

Originally published in 1927 by Harcourt, Bracny and Company, Inc.

A new generation of ruthless pragmatists carves a parallel state across Mexico and Central America. Most powerful among them is Los Zetas, ruled over by Heriberto Lazcano, known as The Executioner. Lazcano and his men have forced a tectonic shift among drug trafficking organizations in the Americas, forever altering how criminal business is conducted in the Western Hemisphere. This narrative brings an unprecedented level of detail in describin...

Originally published in 1951 by Augustus M. Kelley, Inc.

Rumours may be the oldest medium of mass communication of information or ideas. Even before there were newspapers, radio, or television, rumours communicated by word-of-mouth made and shattered reputations, and set off riots and wars. Yet contrary to predictions, rumours continue to thrive, in spite of and parallel to mass media. What accounts for the puzzling persistence and continuing significance of this little-studied social phenomenon? Je...

Originally published in 1912 by Williams and Norgate.

Originally published in 1974 by University Publishing Projects, Ltd.

This final volume of Vernon Louis Parrington's Pultzer Prize-winning study deals with the decay of romantic optimism. It shows that the cause of decay is attributed to three sources: stratifying of economics under the pressure of centralization, the rise of mechanistic science, and the emergence of a spirit of skepticism which, with teachings of the sciences and lessons of intellectuals, has resulted in the questioning of democratic ideals. Pa...

Diversity and perspective by incongruity define the approach to changing times in this fourth volume of the First of the Year series.

Arthur F. Bentley originally wrote this book over the years 1896-1908 while working as a Chicago newspaper reporter and editor, during which time he had a "sense of tremendous social activity taking place, " and a feeling that "all the politics of the country, so to speak, were drifting across [his] desk." This prompted Bentley to develop an analysis of group interests, which he believed to be the true dictators of government decisions. He was...

As a priest and a physician, Richard Frechette has known the body, heart, and soul of people in the most anguishing of circumstances. He has carried out his double ministry over the past twenty-five years in settings of extreme poverty, violence, social upheaval, and natural disasters. This personal experience of tough realities has been at once a descent into chaos and an ascent into compassion, never more so than in his work in Haiti. The re...

Originally published in 1992 by the Center for Urban Policy Research.

Originally published in 1978 by the Center for Urban Policy Research.

Originally published: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Center for Urban Policy Research, c1989. With new introd.

The plight and fate of female victims during the course of genocide is radically and profoundly different from their male counterparts. Like males, female victims suffer demonization, ostracism, discrimination, and deprivation of their basic human rights. They are often rounded up, deported, and killed. But, unlike most men, women are subjected to rape, gang rape, and mass rape. Such assaults and degradation can, and often do, result in horrib...