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This work examines how the telephone reveals gender relations in a way not predicted by feminist theories, how it can be used to protect and invade personal privacy, and how people harness telephone answering machines to their advantage.

Joseph Scotchie provides an intellectual history of the Old Right, treating its main figures and defining its conflict with the traditional left-right political mainstream. As Scotchie's account makes clear, the Old Right and its descendants have articulated an arresting and powerful worldview.

Looks at the role of evaluation and of audit as key elements in democratic accountability processes. This book includes case studies and is aimed at serious people who think about trends in the use of evaluation and audit in seeking to hold governments accountable for their actions and performance.

Presents a picture of how people communicate using camera phones and other mobile multimedia devices. Using a variant of social science research known as ethnomethodology, this book explores the kinds of images people take with camera phones and how they use sound to enhance these images.

What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? (Answer: Both became public scapegoats for an outrageous era of greed and excess.) Discussing such questions, this book traces the history of financial scandals from the early days of the young republic through the Enron/WorldCom debacle of modern times.

Challenging many of the assumptions scholars have made about the Cuban Revolution's impact on healthcare, this volume recounts one anthropologist's quest to discover the truth behind the complicated relationship between Cuba's revolution, politics, and healthcare system.

Examines identity formation among a generation of Czech and Slovak Jews who grew up under communism, coming of age during the de-Stalinization period of 1962-68. This book shows how history, generational, and individual biography intertwine in the formation of ethnic identity and its ambiguities.

Explains the role played by prominent Jews in turning Israel into an isolated pariah nation. This book contains essays that seek to understand and throw back the assault on Israel led by such Jewish liberals and radicals as Tony Judt, Noam Chomsky, George Steiner, Daniel Boyarin, Marc Ellis, Israel Shahak, and many others.

Focusing on financial markets and investment strategies, this book explores the intriguing topic of initial public offerings (IPOs) of securities, among the most significant phenomena in the United State stock markets. It is a useful financial read for future financiers.

An ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political and drug-related violence in a country undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of Medellin reconfigure their lives and cultural worlds in the face of widespread violence.

Seeks to show that historical insights extrapolated from an understanding of history are essential for grasping and solving the basic problems facing Taiwan, including the Taiwan-Mainland relationship in the twenty-first century. This book elaborates on the "where from" and the "where to" of the Taiwan transformation.

Democratization is motivated by the ambition of ensuring the real equality of citizens, and not simply their formal equality. This book offers a critique of democratization that will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, and historians.

In a very personal approach to public policy, Weidenbaum has distilled four decades of writing to focus on: economic policy, government programmes, business decision-making, government regulation, the defense sector and the international economy.

This work brings together the reflections and ruminations of statesmen, policy-makers and academics on developments and forecasts relating to Russia, one of the world's leading geopolitical actors. The articles have all appeared in "The National Interest".

Based mainly on representative samples in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, this is a survey of moral values in Scandinavia. It combines interview questions on crime and justice with moral questions concerning equality, tolerance, and personal, social, religious, political and national values.

This work asserts that, as a people, Americans need to understand how it is that government became the arbiter of pharmaceutical fact. It states that the consequences of our failure to understand may threaten individual choice and forestall the development of responsible therapeutics.

This volume builds upon earlier studies and field work to offer a broad look at dam-building projects in six countries and to review the outcome of Bank policy, learn from experience and assess outside criticism.

This book provides a broad history of East and Southeast Asia in both regional and country-specific contexts from prehistory to the current day.

This is a collection of 46 essays by specialists in Asian literature, who offer a wide range of possibilities for introducing Asian literature to English-speaking students. It is intended to help in promoting multicultural education.

A practical approach for professionals working with people suffering from dementias, this book focuses on dementias, including Alzheimer's disease, from a multi-cultural perspective.