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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has achieved celebrity status in many Western countries, yet despite considerable effort to prove its existence as a «real» disorder, ADHD still suffers from a crisis of legitimacy. Nonetheless, diagnosis and prescription of medication has grown at a phenomenal rate since the late 1980s, particularly in Western culture. Numerous accounts exist explaining how the ADHD diagnosis functions as a conv...

Journalism in the Civil War Era examines the contributions of newspapers and magazines to the American public's understanding of the nation's greatest internal conflict. It documents the effect the Civil War had on journalism, and the effect journalism had on the Civil War. It describes the politics that affected the press, the constraints placed upon it, and the influence of technology. The book discusses the editors and reporters who covered...

A full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology in Germany, based on exhaustive research in primary sources.

A new appraisal of the relationship between theology and culture.

An annotated reference guide to Barber's life, works and achievements, it will prove valuable for anyone seeking information on him.

This is a comparative literary study of apocalyptic themes and narrative techniques in the contemporary North and Latin American novel.

Transmuted Past summarizes the attempts to estimate the age of the Earth during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Theory of formation of national literatures, based on analysis of 200 American and Canadian novels.

This timely book describes and explains the American people??'s alleged hatred of Congress and political institutions.

A collection of Owen Chadwick's principal writings on Lord Acton, distinguished Victorian historian and founder of THE CAMBRIDGE MODERN HISTORY. Some of these pieces are no longer readily available, while one has never before appeared in English. Chadwick explains the important aspects of Acton's complex mind and his great contribution to historical studies.

This book arguing that policies which foster economic equality can also promote economic efficiency.

Research in Africa is now accepted as an integral part of global archaeological studies. As well as providing archaeologists with the oldest material, Africa is also widely recognised as the birthplace of modern man and his characteristic cultural patterns. Archaeological study of later periods provides unique and valuable evidence for the development of African culture and society, while ongoing research in Africa provides insights relevant t...

This accessible introduction to the philosophy of William James reveals a significant division between a Promethean type of pragmatism and passive mysticism which Richard Gale integrates. While James' "pragmatist" persona conceives of truth and meaning as a means to control nature and make it do our bidding, his "mystic" persona eschews the use of concepts to penetrate the inner conscious core of all being, including nature at large.

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The first Japanese economic history seen from the perspective of entrepreneurs and local innovative communities.

Explores shifting conceptions of constitutional political economy and suggests possible future strategies for change.

Long considered a "strategic backwater" from Washington's perspective, South Asia has emerged in the 21st century as increasingly vital to core U.S. foreign policy interests. India, the region's dominant actor with more than one billion citizens, is often characterised as a nascent major power and "natural partner" of the United States, one that many analysts view as a potential counterweight to China's growing clout. Washington and New Delhi ...

Focusing on minority rights and recognition, this interdisciplinary collection addresses the position of minorities in democratic societies. Featured topics include the constructed nature of ethnicity, class and the "new racism, " different forms of nationalism, self-determination and indigenous politics, the politics of recognition versus the politics of redistribution, and the re-emergence of cosmopolitanism.

Thirteen 2005 essays show worldwide perspectives of how early modern governments attempted to regulate religious life.

A groundbreaking work based on detailed and sensitive readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran, and Central Asia between about 1400 and 1800. This is the first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama) that links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultural contact. The authors’, close reading of these travel-accounts help us enter the me...