BOOKS

War's Offensive on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan
Julie A. Mertus

Julie Mertus explores, with cautious optimism, the progress that has been made in incorporating women and responding to gender issues in the process of dealing with humanitarian crises.    More >

The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism
David C. Korten

One of Future Survey's Super 70 books David Korten challenges capitalism's claim to being a means of creating wealth and a champion of democracy as he examines the fissure between    More >

The Contagion of Matter
Valerio Magrelli, translated by Anthony Molino

His works having already been translated the world over into as many as six different languages from their original Italian, Valerio Magrelli is one of the most innovative and exciting poets    More >

Globalization on Trial: The Human Condition and the Information Civilization
Farhang Rajaee

Farhang Rajaee provides a fresh and critical inquiry into the nature of globalization. Rajaee's staring point is the combination of the fall of the bipolar world system, the advent of    More >

Over Land and Sea: Memoir of an Austrian Rear Admiral's Life in Europe and Africa, 1857-1909 [a memoir]
Ludwig Ritter von Höhnel; Ronald E. Coons and Pascal James Imperato, editors; J. Winthrop Aldrich, consulting editor

Ludwig Ritter von Höhnel lived a fascinating life—he was an Austrian subject who achieved distinction as an African explorer, a naval officer, and a courtier. The turbulent years    More >

Cultivating Inspired Leaders: Making Participatory Management Work
Bruce Lansdale

Bruce Lansdale draws on the wealth of experience that he gained during his years at the American Farm School to show how managers can progress from their traditional roles as administrators    More >

Reconcilable Differences: Turning Points in Ethnopolitical Conflict
Sean Byrne and Cynthia L. Irvin, editors

The authors of Reconcilable Differences consider how a range of factors converge to shape the ways that ethnic conflicts are waged and how peaceful change occurs. Focusing on the    More >

How Context Matters: Linking Environmental Policy to People and Place
George Honadle

Presenting a unique method of looking at environmental policy formulation and implementation, George Honadle clarifies those elements of context that affect how policies work and outlines    More >

Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North, Revised Edition
James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton

Updated and expanded in this revised edition to reflect twenty years of new research, when published in 1979 Black Bostonians was the first comprehensive social history of an antebellum    More >

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