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Presents a study of baboons, which aims to reveal a new depth to their behavior. The author maintains an open research strategy - respecting her subjects by approaching them with the open mind of an ethnographer and immersing herself in the complexities of baboon social life before formulating her research design.

An account of Tibet and the Tibetan people that emphasises the political history of the 20th century. This book attempts to reach beyond the polemics by considering the various historical arguments, using archival material from several nations and drawing conclusions focused on available documents.

Interest-group lobbying is a controversial activity in American politics and this book provides a study of group power. This edition includes expanded coverage of the changing dynamics of power politics in America; new media venues and grassroots organizing; and the perennial issue of reform.

Originally published in the early 1970s, this critical edition revisits the central themes of the book and reconsiders them in the light of major new theoretical and documentary understandings of the Chinese communist revolution.

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) was an influential German critic and philosopher, whose ideas included "cultural nationalism" - that every nation has its own personality and pattern of growth. This anthology contains excerpts from Herder's writings on world history and related topics.

In this study, experts provide both a comprehensive introduction to the Bosnian crisis, and a detailed case study of the attempts of the conflicting parties, external powers, and international organizations to resolve it. It draws out the long and short-term implications of the Bosnian case.

Discusses the thought of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, reform and its dilemmas, regionalism in greater China and autonomous areas, and nationalism.

Citing her own accurate predictions of the collapse of the Communist empire, the post-Yugoslavia wars and 9/11, the author warns that we must anticipate the changes in the world before they are upon us, and that we must employ predictions to strengthen nations and principles.

Tells the story of specialized journalists who, because of their expertise, their experience, or their willingness, regularly write about environmental issues. This book provides a view of American journalism in the first decade of the new century, when newspapers and television were the major source of news in America.

Offers a framework for cross-disciplinary research in race and intellectual consensus and conflict. Thsi title considers questions such as: How does the literature on antiracism improve our understanding of conflict resolution? How and why should the literature on anti-racism expand research in international relations?

Offering a tribute to Joseph A Schumpeter, a great figure in the history and development of economics, this work brings together his brilliantly crafted lectures delivered more than a century ago. It shows the limitations and weaknesses of nineteenth-century economics and how the field could be and was improved.

In the US and Western Europe the political novel flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, the crisis years of economic depression, fascism, the Spanish Civil War, the consolidation of Stalinism, and the Second World War. This title examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history.

Articulates positions shared by military figures and political heroes. This work covers America at war and Bolshevism in Russia, ranging in place from the Middle East to Latin America and stops along the way to Byzantium. It examines military reform, great powers grown small, and drugs, crime and corruption as part of common culture of the West.

Presents a reassessment of free will and, as such, seeks to answer the question: Do humans ever act under the guidance of the will? To determine if humans have free will, this book first examines what exactly free will is and how it should function. It also examines the role of nature, nurture, and free choice.

Written by a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a speaker at meetings at the Brookings Institution, the Cato Institute, and the Heritage Foundation, this work examines the political economy of these vital institutions.

For many, especially those on the political left, the 1950s are the "bad old days". This work shows that the commonly accepted picture of the 1950s is flawed. It shows that the conventional view of the 1950s stands in opposition to the reality of the decade.

For over half a century, policymakers committed to population control have perpetrated a costly, and inhumane fraud upon the human race. Determined to stop population growth, the "population controllers" as the author calls them have abused women, targeted racial and religious minorities, and encouraged dictatorial actions if not dictatorship.

The collapse of communism marked the close of an era of world history. This work brings together leading scholars of Soviet history, who show why the experiment failed and how it has destroyed the laboratory of socialist utopias. It also shows that the debate on the legacy of communism and a rethinking of modern history is just beginning.

Aims to contribute to the understanding of the historic role of capitalism. After reviewing the gestation of the system, this book explains the emergence of capitalism in the eighteenth century, taking it into the nineteenth and its link to the industrial revolution.