BOOKS

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 >

Security in the Caribbean Basin: The Challenge of Regional Cooperation
Joseph S. Tulchin and Ralph H. Espach, editors

Since the end of the Cold War, the security environment of the Caribbean Basin has dramatically changed from the containment of communism to a series of transnational threats—drug    More >

European Monetary Integration and Domestic Politics: Britain, France, and Italy
James I. Walsh

This book explains why three countries—Britain, France, and Italy—that have faced similar problems of high inflation and currency depreciation since the 1970s—Britain,    More >

Consolidating Democracy in South Korea
Larry Diamond and Byung-Kook Kim, editors

Since its inception in 1987, Korean democracy has been an arena of continual drama and baffling contradictions: periodic waves of societal mobilization and disenchantment; initial continuity    More >

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