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Este libro busca presentar a la comunidad académica nacional e internacional uno de los productos del trabajo de investigación del Observatorio de Redes y Acción Colectiva (ORAC), línea de Acción Co……続きを見る

How can we have meaningful public conversations in the algorithmic age? This book explores how digital technologies shape our opinions and interactions, often in ways that limit our exposure to dive……続きを見る

A world-leading military strategist and an IDF insider explain the improbable success of the Israeli armed forces. When the Israel Defense Forces was established in May 1948, it was small, poorly eq……続きを見る

The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international orderーthe system of institutions and norms established after World War IIーwas coming to an end. ……続きを見る

First published in 2004. The purpose of this dictionary is to provide the student with a representative vocabulary of Pahlavi in which such uncertain words have been reduced to a minimum and marked.……続きを見る

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transfo……続きを見る

Reexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970sーthe rivalries and the remarkable alliances Since the historic #MeToo movement materialized in 2017, innumerable survivors of sexual assault and ……続きを見る

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, decision fatigue and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This paperback includes……続きを見る

This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to th……続きを見る

K’Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which we have archaeological evidence through today’s culinary tourism in the ……続きを見る

In this engaging and spirited book, eminent social psychologist Robert Levine asks us to explore a dimension of our experience that we take for granted-our perception of time. When we travel to a di……続きを見る

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph Cappella-two of the nation's foremost experts on politics and media-offers a searching analysis of the conservative media establishment, from talk radio to Fox News……続きを見る

In 1960, President Kennedy warned of a dangerous future, rife with nuclear-armed states and a widespread penchant for conflict by the end of the century. Thankfully, his prediction failed to pass; i……続きを見る

In the wake of same-sex marriage legalization, most religious conservatives realize that they now share a minority viewpoint on many social issues. Such change has forced those formerly trying to fo……続きを見る

No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank, over 700 million people lived on less than US ……続きを見る

The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives by e……続きを見る

This Element presents an examination of the origins of the policy sciences in the School of Pragmatism at the University of Chicago in the period 1915–38. Harold D. Lasswell, the principal creator o……続きを見る

Jamaica stands at a crossroads. With a young population, a shifting global economy, and a national vision rooted in human development, the country faces a defining question: How do we prepare our pe……続きを見る

本書對選出香港最具權力的政治領袖之制度作深入研究。兩位作者仔細調查800人選舉委員會以及自1996年以來所有特首選舉、任命的歷史。作者亦討論了選舉委員會對香港和中國的深層意義。書中其中一個重點為按照憲法及……続きを見る

Agricultural finance has come a long way in the past 15 years. After the concerted efforts of GOI, supported by RBI and NABARD, towards doubling of agricultural credit flow in 2004-2005, the growth ……続きを見る

Initially created as afterthoughts to competitive electricity markets, capacity markets were intended to enhance system reliability. They have evolved into massive, highly controversial, and poorly ……続きを見る

Sophie's Place is a quiet home tucked in the hills of Gordon Town, but inside its walls lives a world of courage, tenderness, and extraordinary resilience. This book invites readers into that world ……続きを見る

This book is dedicated to the innocent victims of the nuclear warーto those who are dead, are dying, and will die because we have not aggressively exercised our nuclear option. It is also dedicated ……続きを見る

Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African–descended communities have expressed their values,……続きを見る

The essays in this collection illuminate both the processes of change and the negative reactions that they frequently elicited Yucatan has been called “a world apart”ーcut off from the rest of Mexic……続きを見る

The Fence and the Bridge is about the development of the Canada-US border-security relationship as an outgrowth of the much lengthier Canada-US relationship. It suggests that this relationship has b……続きを見る

The advent of gaming on Indian reservations has created a new kind of tribal politics over the past three decades. Now armed with often substantial financial resources, Indigenous peoples have adjus……続きを見る

This manual will help Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) conduct ethics review that balances the major moral considerations in research with human subjects. Current challenges in the IRB environment……続きを見る

From the “gay gene” to the “female brain” and African American students’ insufficient “hereditary background” for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reeme……続きを見る

In this groundbreaking and provocative new book, philosopher of science David N. Stamos challenges the current conceptions of human rights, and argues that the existence of universal human rights is……続きを見る