This is a paperbound reprint of a 1998 book (McFarland), with a new introduction by the author. Morris a historian, author, and high school teacher presents a history of newspapers printed behind bars
Challenging, insightful, and provocative, Peter Drucker's The New Realities anticipates the central issues of a rapidly changing world. When it was initially published in 1989, some reviewers mistaken
The concept and measurement of intelligence present a curious paradox. On the one hand, scientists, fluent in the complex statistics of intelligence-testing theories, devote their lives to exploration
Civil rights is a category of human rights that include individual personal freedom, privacy, personal security, a right to life, dignity, freedom from torture, freedom of movement and residence, and
This well-referenced exploration of the interwar conflict over Palestine by Nicosia (history, St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT) remains timely, although Germany no longer is a Middle East power p
In his account of Vico's (1688-1744) thought, Italian philosopher Croce (1866-1952) is particularly taken with his compatriot philosopher's critique of Cartesian mental experiments and the modern way
Among development assistance agencies, the World Bank has led the way in policies to mitigate the impact of large-scale engineering projects on local populations, particularly in the building of dams.
Sempa (political science, Wilkes U.) defines geopolitics as the interaction among states and empires in a particular geographical setting and suggests that, fundamentally, international politics is ab
As recent events have reminded us, the world of the twenty-first century is still composed of nation-states and non-state actors that vigorously and sometimes brutally pursue their goals and self-inte
John Maynard Keynes, then a rising young economist, participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
The first edition (1972) was titled Approaches to Human Communication (1972); this is a reprint of the second edition published in 1979 by Hayden Book Co. Communication professors at Regent U. and R
First printed in 1983, this study reveals the buyer-seller dynamics involved in the allocation of work among Hollywood film composers and traces the network of connections that binds composers to thei
From the French Revolution to Vatican II, the institutional Catholic Church has opposed much that modernity has offered men and women constructing their societies. This book focuses on the experiences
"Cuban Communism remains, like its previous ten editions, an important contribution to the field of Cuban Studies. It includes many useful chronological facts, as well as a selection of Fidel Castro's
At a time when boundaries between the nonprofit, business, and public sectors have grown increasingly confused and contested, this volume by leading experts on nonprofit organizations offers new ideas
Mobile Multimedia in Action displays a revealing picture of how people communicate using camera phones and other mobile multimedia devices. With such devices spreading faster than practically any othe
Giordano Sivini has been an international aid consultant for over twenty-five years. Here he channels a 1960s and 1970s idealistic political commitment into fieldwork and the sphere of development fro
Exporting Press Freedom examines the history and practice of media assistance, and argues that the dilemma of media independence and sustainability is best understood as an economic problem rather th
World War I was a watershed, a defining moment, in Armenian history. Its effects were unprecedented in that it resulted in what no other war, invasion, or occupation had achieved in three thousand yea
The term "ideology" can cover almost any set of ideas, but its power to bewitch political activists results from its strange logic: part philosophy, part science, part spiritual revelation, all tied t
