Society and Social Sciences

Concentrating on the American historical experience, the contributors to this volume apply quantitative techniques to the study of popular voting behavior.

The true story of the life and mysterious murder of the most talked-about and glamorous member of Kenya' s notorious Happy Valley set.

Dieses Buch widmet sich einem der beharrlichsten Rätsel menschlichen Verhaltens: Warum kehren unerwünschte Gewohnheiten immer wieder zurück – selbst dann, wenn der Wunsch zur Veränderung aufrichtig und tief ist?

Imagine going from neurologist to dermatologist, orthopaedic surgeon to obstetrician, assassin to saviour - all in one day.

Profound changes have occurred in the demography and sociology of Italian fertility since Napoleonic times.

If you want to be a successful leader in today's business world, you need to think like an activist.

Food is so much more than fuel, and veganism is so much more than a diet.

Kenya has been the object of much controversy among students of African politics.

A hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be.

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing.

The Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization.

Democracies often go to war but almost never against each other.

Over the past century, opinion polls have come to pervade American politics.

Bureaucracy is a much-maligned feature of contemporary government.

Why we need to heed the lessons of high inflationToday's global economy, with most developed nations experiencing very low inflation, seems a world apart from the "e;Great Inflation"e; that spanned the late 1960s to early 1980s.

An alternative look at Japanese life, history and cultureYour Rough Guide or Lonely Planet book can tell who where to stay or what to see, but how do you really get under the skin of Japan?

Volume Nine of the project documenting Thomas Jefferson's last years presents 523 documents from 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816.

This volume opens on 13 November 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 3 March 1803, the final day of his second year as president.

An interdisciplinary look at the behavioral roots of public policy from the field's leading expertsIn recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral finance, labor contracts, philanthropy, and the analysis of savings and poverty, to eyewitness identification and sentencing decisions, racism, sexism, health behaviors, and voting.

Political science and sociology increasingly rely on mathematical modeling and sophisticated data analysis, and many graduate programs in these fields now require students to take a "e;math camp"e; or a semester-long or yearlong course to acquire the necessary skills.

In 1502, a decade of increasing tension between Muslims and Christians in Spain culminated in a royal decree that Muslims in Castile wanting to remain had to convert to Christianity.

The kinds of punishment used in a society have long been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern.

How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent?

Since the early 1980s, a vast number of jobs have been created in the affluent economies of the industrialized world.

Suburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil rights movement did during the second half of the twentieth century.

The Great Migration was the most significant event in black life since emancipation and Reconstruction.

Press "e;ONE"e; for English examines how Americans form opinions on language policy issues such as declaring English the official language, printing documents in multiple languages, and bilingual education.

The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago.

In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike.

The City at Stake tells the dramatic story of how the nation's second-largest city completed a major reform of its government in the face of a deeply threatening movement for secession by the San Fernando Valley.

Is America bitterly divided?

Many scholars and citizens alike have counted on civic groups to create broad ties that bind society.

War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might.

To date, the world can lay claim to little more than 190 sovereign independent entities recognized as nation-states, while by some estimates there may be up to eight hundred more nation-state projects underway and seven to eight thousand potential projects.

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Most analysts of corporations and industries adopt the focal perspective of a single prototypical organization.

Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of the world's disadvantaged people slow--or accelerate--environmental degradation?

During the Cold War, most international relations theorists and strategic studies analysts paid little attention to ethnic and other forms of communal conflict.

Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia).

How our understanding of calculus has evolved over more than three centuries, how this has shaped the way it is taught in the classroom, and why calculus pedagogy needs to changeCalculus Reordered takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into the subject we know today.

The 618 documents in this volume span 1 September 1819 to 31 May 1820.

Walker Connor, perhaps the leading student of the origins and dynamics of ethnonationalism, has consistently stressed the importance of its political implications.

The ultimate story of escape to riches, revenge and redemption by 'the Napoleon of storytellers'.

Prostitution was a serious problem for nineteenth-century Europe: a threat to public health and public order and, at the same time, a prop to morality, allowing society to protect the purity of most women by sacrificing that of only a few.

Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive understanding of how Shakespeare used the conventions, structures, and assumptions of comedy in his tragic writing.

In the last fifteen years, the number, size, and scope of peacekeeping missions deployed in the aftermath of civil wars have increased exponentially.

Comparison with stationary and very fast rates of population growth shows modern population grwoth to have long-run positive effects on the standards of living.

By combining historical and political analysis with a sophisticated sociological approach, Jane Gross offers a new itnerpretations of the German occupation of Poland during World War II.

Rio de Janeiro in the first half of the nineteenth century had the largest population of urban slaves in the Americas-primary contributors to the atmosphere and vitality of the city.

We cannot, the author argues, adequately understand the religious imagination without knowing the historical, social, and cultural matrices from which it arises.