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This book examines certain aspects of the condition of the fine arts in the age of the mass media. It identifies the differences between these two relatively autonomous realms and discusses the ways in which they interact.

This book sketches the emergence and history of Niger, showing how its component societies were influenced by changes in the physical environment, the introduction of beliefs, and patterns of world trade. It presents a sharply drawn portrait of factors shaping the contemporary Sahelian nation.

This survey contains statistical data that delineate various aspects of and major issues in international terrorism, focusing on the ongoing affair of foreign hostages in Lebanon. It presents an analysis of trends in Palestinian international terrorism.

This book analyzes the development of social welfare policy in modern America and provides a critical assessment of the dominant "progressive" and "social control" theoretical perspectives. It focuses on the link between changing social attitudes and beliefs and the content of public policy.

This book explores the tradition of ethnographic film on the Northwest Coast and its relationship to the ethnography of the area. It points out the complex relationships between particular epistemological positions, aesthetic strategies, and institutional politics.

This book highlights that the availability of recombinant DNA techniques and the discovery of the Ti plasmid system have opened the plant kingdom to gene transfer experiments. It outlines biotechnology and biological techniques to elucidate interesting biological pathways unique to plants.

This book discusses the major schools of thought or paradigms in comparative politics: development theory, political culture, dependency analysis, corporatism, state-society relations, political economy, theories of change, comparative public policy, institutionalism, and rational choice theory.

This book presents a collection of essays that shows that Renaissance thinkers revived ancient ideas about what inspires laughter and whether it could ever truly be innocent. It reveals the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the God of the Old and New Testaments is a dangerous one.

This book focuses on local perspectives on Central African land ethics and Africa's diverse and vibrant oral traditions. It presents the discovery of Central African perceptions and ways of using the forest and what they have to teach us about living sustainably on the earth.

This book compares and contrasts two attempts to replicate the American system of land-grant model in India and Nigeria. It aims to understand the basis of Africa's dismal agricultural institutional showing, and to suggest socioeconomic conditions and management interventions.

This book describes the origins, growth, and decline of the massive Soviet nuclear weapons production complex. It provides an overview of what is known about the environmental contamination that resulted from building tens of thousands of bombs, a legacy that will remain for many decades to come.

This book looks at how firms in four sectors of the U.S. economy-textiles, banking, retailing, and business services-are using, or failing to use, technological, organizational, and training changes to respond to the new economic world.

This book examines the impact on nuclear proliferation of the dramatic changes in U.S.-Soviet relations. It provides greater emphasis to domestic political developments in the emerging nuclear states and to the security concerns that give rise to their nuclear ambitions.

This book traces out complex interactions among three critical processes-migration, fertility, and marriage-in a lucid and compelling analysis of rural areas in Central Java. It focuses on how women fare vis-a-vis other household or family members in making major household decisions.

This book identifies and examines the way in which New Right liberal theorists in the United States have employed a conception of liberty in their attack on welfare provision for the poor, and contrasts that concept with liberal justifications for public welfare that are grounded in equality.

This book is a study of four separate-but-related German Questions, as perceived, interpreted and answered by members of the postwar generations who constitute a majority of the citizens in the 'old states' of the now united Bundesre publik.

This book tracks the financial prospects for American companies cultivating aquatic plants and animals. Art Tiddens surveys the support currently available from state and federal governments and scientific institutions and urges that more is needed.

This encyclopedia includes entries on the concepts, issues and theories starting with alphabets L to Q that define public policymaking, evaluation, management and implementation. It also includes entries on the individuals, commissions and organizations that have contributed to these fields.

This book presents information on the land and people, history, politics, economy, society, and culture of Equatorial Guinea. It includes views of the author on economic dependency, ethnic rivalry, and lack of infrastructure based on the visits to Equatorial Guinea.

This book is based on the research project "Integration and nation-building in bi-cultural post-Soviet societies, the cases of Latvia and Kazakstan." It focuses on a wide variety of theoretical and methodological sources concerned with either nation-building and/or ethnic integration.