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This book provides insights to various stakeholders for making the commercial use of biodiversity a gainful enterprise for both the poor and the rich. The benefits from genetic resources are mostly drawn from the commercial use of traditional knowledge held by indigenous communities. This book discusses the issues of access to these resources and the equitable sharing of benefits drawn from them by examining a range of worldwide biodiversity p...

A sweeping study of political murder in Latin America.

The concluding volume in a trilogy advancing a systematic philosophical theology, this book presents a plausible sacred worldview for religious participation.

Explores the ideological and emotional trauma created after the withering of the socialist utopia in Cuba.

Thorough exploration of the distinct culture of the Mappila Muslims of Kerala, India.

Comparative analysis of gender equality reforms enacted in ten post-communist states who became members of the European Union.

Comprehensive overview of the inroads made by Complexity Thinking approaches and ideas in the study and practice of world politics.

Demonstrates how the success of universities depends on the working conditions of the younger academic generation.

Examines how states, schools, and postsecondary institutions might best help improve college readiness and completion.

Explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for thinking about the connection between philosophy, Jewish thought, and history.

Explores how individuals and groups adapt to the challenges of globalization.

Discusses how William James's work suggests a world without will, self, or time and how research supports this perspective.

Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Synthesizes the most important recent work on wonder and brings a number of disciplines into conversation.

Argues for revitalizing the place of honor in contemporary life.

From its Presocratic beginnings, Western philosophy concerned itself with a quest for unity both in terms of the systematization of knowledge and as a metaphysical search for a unity of being-two trends that can be regarded as converging and culminating in Hegel's system of absolute idealism. Since Hegel, however, the philosophical quest for unity has become increasingly problematic. Jussi Backman returns to that question in this book, examini...

Explores facets of North American Buddhism while taking into account the impact of globalization and increasing interconnectivity.

An original philosophical account of relational ontology drawing on the work of Descartes, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Heidegger.

A fresh reading of Oakeshott's contributions to the ongoing conversation of modern political thought.

New edition of the provocative history of the tenuous relationship between the scientific study of politics and the real world of American democracy.