This book traces the People's Liberation Army's revolutionary transition, examines the structural changes associated... Læs mere
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the Zimbabwean struggle for independence in its international context. It is... Læs mere
This book focuses on describing, explaining, and evaluating the changing central-local relationship in China. It presents a... Læs mere
This book examines contemporary developments broadly associated with postmodernism, and with feminist critiques of psychology and other social... Læs mere
This book illuminates the progress of children's ideas about numbers in a way that would make clear both how it is that young children know as much as they do and how it is that they often have so much trouble with mathematics.
Choices and Chances is an ideal supplement to introductory textbooks. By showing how theories can apply to everyday life, it demonstrates the ways sociology—a living, growing discipline—can shed light on issues of immense personal and social importance.
China in the Post-Utopian Age is an interdisciplinary book about China in the post-utopian age, focusing on the transformations that have occurred during the leaderships of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
In the face of a parliamentary alternative to the American presidential system, this book illustrates how the constitutional... Læs mere
This book aims to allow Chinese to speak for themselves. By so doing, it provides a firsthand portrait of China by Chinese. The book shows how, from muddy village crossroads to raucous city streets, Chinese exhilarated by new dreams are shaping the future of their nation. .
This book examines the need to emphasize the influence of the environment in responding clinically to the needs of abusive families. It documents the utility of... Læs mere
This book explores the foundation and nature of the relationship between capitalist accumulation and the state in East Asia and Latin America that has profoundly influenced industrialization and macroeconomic performance. .
This book examines what China's military modernization means for the global and regional balance of power and for China's internal political-economic system. It focuses on China's acquisition of foreign technology, its military education system, and its nuclear weapons program.