Based upon freshmen class surveys and interviews, this book seeks to understand the 104th GOP freshmen's high class identity and group power as well as the nature and scope of the class's legislativ... more » more »

Product Info Presents key research findings about incidence, prevalence and characteristics of young sexual abusers. more »

Product Info Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship is the first collection of theoretically informed autobiographical writing in the field of classical studies. more »

This wide-ranging and assured book, written by one of the leading Weber scholars in the English-speaking world, shows us the many sides of Max Weber. The book provides an authoritative guide to the current burning issues in social theory, religion, rationalization, the body, modernization and capitalism ... more »

In 1944 Skultans left Latvia as a refugee. In 1990 she returned for the first time. This book is both a personal account of a homecoming, and an anthropology of a nation trying to come to terms with its past and facing an uncertain future. more »

Democracy in the Digital Age is a fascinating philosophical exploration of how the emerging information and communication technologies are impacting political participation in the United States. Rather than being the antidote to democratic ills, the political conversations occurring online are neither ... more »

... with, and misunderstanding of, castrated males. Gary Taylor takes in the sweep of Western thought on 'the operation', focusing on three key periods: * the Early Church, one of whose Fathers, Origen, supposedly castrated himself * the Early Modern, when castration was actually depicted on stage by Thomas ... more »

Domitian, Emperor of Rome AD 81-96, has traditionally been portrayed as a tyrant, and his later years on the throne as a `reign of terror'. Brian Jones' biography of the emperor, the first ever in English, offers a more balanced view of the life of Domitian, arguing that his foreign policy was realistic ... more »

A challenging and provocative book that contests the liberal assumption that the rule of law will go hand in hand with a transition to market-based economies and even democracy in East Asia. more » more »

Fixes the important developments of the period not only in the political framework of the time, but also in their social and cultural context. These essays throw new light on the European situation between 1890 and the Second World War. more »

By examining contexts as diverse as nuclear, extended and refugee family households and gay community networks, this book offers insight into the factors which lead to positive responses to AIDS, and those which trigger negative ones. more »

Causation is central to all our lives. What we see and hear causes us to have the beliefs in the world we need to tell us how to act - to cause us to survive and get what we want. We cannot understand the world and our place in it without understanding causation. Philosophers also need to understand ... more »