This book brings together scholars who are engaged in class analysis that addresses continuing debates over the relationship between class structure and human agency, the centrality of class relations, the dynamics of class formation, class culture, ideology, and consciousness.
This book reveals the painful process by which Soviet policy makers came to accept the failure of Leninism and to forge an alternative... Læs mere
This book explores how bureaucracies perceive and respond to technological risk in organizational theory. It examines the implications of the organizational failures leading to the Three Mile Island and Challenger accidents.
This book offers a full discussion of the issues surrounding bovine somatotropin (BST) and a comprehensive review of research findings on the probable consequences of BST, highlighting what is currently known and unknown about this technology.
This book is basically an attempt to study the religious, cultural, and political significance of Buddhism in late Ch'ing intellectual thought through an... Læs mere
This collection of essays by distinguished Brazilian and U.S. scholars and representatives of both the Sarney and Reagan administrations features the first penetrating analysis of Brazil's economic prospects and its monetary program.
This book is concerned with the myriad of foreign security commitments and the means available to America to fulfill them. It represents the scholarly results of the collective project (on US security horizons) mounted by the Queen's University Centre for International Relations.
This book looks at the physical and metaphorical attributes of the human body as a site of contention, politics, and cultural protest. It discusses a range of... Læs mere
This book is a guide designed to help Third World planners to orient planning procedures for bioenergy projects... Læs mere
In this book, the author argues that the roots of protracted conflict lie in unacknowledged feelings of shame and rage. He builds from the assumption that the... Læs mere
Analyzing the meanings of masculinity in contemporary culture, this book examines specific cultural male icons like Muhammad Ali, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Claude... Læs mere
This book examines the potential for—and the obstacles to—regional co-operation and the process of regional institution-building, emphasizing the need to develop a genuine and indigenous capability for managing and resolving conflict.