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Author: Harvey A. Averch

In The Rhetoric of War, Harvey Averch explores the relationship between the a priori policy models that decision makers use in war (or peace) and policy analysis, and provides cost-effective alternatives for decision mak ...

Author: Roger C. Rule

Author: Jan Venolia

An attractive, well-written letter can grab the reader's attention and hold it long after someone else's email has been discarded. It can make a strong, lasting impression on a hiring manager, potential client, or farawa ...

Author: Robert J. Spitzer

In "The Right to Bear Arms: Rights and Liberties under the Law," the first volume in ABC-CLIO's "America's FreedomS" series, political scientist Robert J. Spitzer combats hysteria and rhetoric with simple facts.

He ...

Author: Richard A. Glenn

"The Right to Privacy: Rights and Liberties under the Law" measures the impact of what Louis Brandeis called, "The most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized man." As the book shows, an individual's ...

Author: Normand Desmarais

Author: Alan S. Milward

This text analyzes British official thinking behind the UK's standing aloof from the moves after 1945 towards European economic collaboration, leading to the establishment of ECSC and the EEC in the 1950s. It deals with ...

Author: Hillel Cohen

This book examines Palestinian politics in Jerusalem since 1967, and in particular since the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000, focusing on the city,s decline as an Arab city and the identity crisis among ...

Author: John J Gross

In this new edition of his landmark book, John Gross traces the shifting fortunes of the men who shaped literary opinion in England during the Victorian, Edwardian, and contemporary eras. He brings together famous or for ...

Author: Alexander Saxton

An analysis of how popular and literary culture spread the gospel of white racial superiority.

Author: Gilbert Holland Montague

Author: Gilbert Holland Montague

The Rise and Progress of the Standard Oil Company (originally published in 1903), from its inception in 1865 till its control, in 1878, of ninety-five per cent of the oil business of the United States, has presented itse ...

Author: Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote, Jr., Sean M. Lynn-Jones & others

China's relentless economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s heralded its emergence as a great power in world politics. As its economy expanded, China seemed poised to become the second-largest economy in the world. At the ...

Author: Andrea Goldstein

African countries are not simply spectators to the economic rise of China and India, they are party to it. This book demonstrates how the growing economic power of China and India is already influencing the growth patter ...

Author: Duo Qin

In the memorable words of Ragnar Frisch, econometrics is 'a unification of the theoretical-quantitative and the empirical-quantitative approach to economic problems'. Beginning to take shape in the 1930s and 1940s, econo ...

Author: Dennis Smith

In the aftermath of its near-demise by fascism and Stalinism, the resurgence of historical sociology has been one of the most important developments in contemporary sociology and history. Dennis Smith traces the spectacu ...

Author: A. Rossi

First published in English in 1938, this book gives an account of Italian history in the years immediately following the first world war, culminating in the triumph of Mussolini. Arguing that Mussolini succeeded because ...

Author: A. Rossi

The rise of Italian fascism is often seen as a pre-condition, as well as a precursor of, later developments in Europe most notably in Germany. As such they were also much discussed in the English speaking world throughou ...

Author: J.L. Hammond & Barbara Hammond

Author: J.L. Hammond & Barbara Hammond