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This study of illegal drugs in the Caribbean examines the nature and scope of drug operations, probing the security implications of those operations and the problems they cause, and assessing countermeasures for dealing with drug traffic and resulting problems.

A series of essays which scrutinize Martin Heidegger's thought, written by an American scholar who has already translated into English Heidegger's works "Early Greek Thinking", "Nietzsche" and "Basic Writings".

The essays in this volume address fundamental questions about the ontology and meaning of music, about composition, performance and song. They range over problems in the evaluation of music and of the place of music in history and culture especially.

A comprehensive analysis of the US criminal justice system as it operates in the international arena. The book examines how and why US law enforcement officials have extended their efforts beyond American borders and looks at the history of US law enforcement abroad.

This text is a study of the black messianic tradition in American literature and history, brought up to date with treatment of recent black leaders, from Jesse Jackson to Louis Farrakhan.

Written at a time when the lumber industry had shifted westward, the chapters in this book recall the days when giant rafts carried lumber down the rivers of Pennsylvania.

Concentrating on lived religious experience, "Orthodox Russia" brings together some of the best contemporary scholarship on Russian Orthodox beliefs and practices covering a broad historical period - from the Muscovite era through the immediate aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

This text studies slave narratives as a source for a constructive black theology, while paying attention to their literary and rhetorical value. It explores from a theological, historical and literary perspective the oral traditions of African American culture, and its impact on slave narrative.

These essays by philosophers of art consider what can be learned from the meaning of art about society, morality and life in general. This leads to discussion of other issues. Is art distinct from life? Is a concern with art's messages consistent with an aesthetic appreciation of its works?

Using as a reference point the issues and theories that dominated social science research on Latin America in the period 1960-80, this volume contributes to "rethinking development", by examining the historical events that accounted for the erosion or demise of once-dominant paradigms.

An analysis of the perception of the New World in Italian literature and culture of the 18th and early 19th centuries. This study begins by analysing the motivations and circumstances behind the emergence of the myth of the "noble savage".

In this study of the culture of opposition, the strategies of the Polish Communist party for remodelling national culture are examined. This is followed by a history of the rise of Solidarity, the circumstances that led to it, and why it did not happen in other communist-run countries.

A collection of essays tracing the history of the Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, with emphasis on the greater Philadelphia area. Includes discussions of the diversity of practice and belief within the church, and between the church and the wider national culture.