Ethnic and Racial Studies

EDITORS

Routledge

Soviet Society Under Perestroika

Unknown, Author

This unique and fascinating book concentrates on the varying roles and functions that material culture may play in almost all aspects of the social fabric of a given culture. The contributors, from Africa, Australia and Papua New Guinea, India, South America, the USA, and both Eastern and Western Europe, provide a rich variety of views and experience in a worldwide perspective. Several of the authors focus on essential points of principle and methodology that must be carefully considered before any particular approach to material culture is adopted. One of the many fundamental questions posed in the book is whether or not all material culture is equivalent to documents which can be 'read' and interpreted by the outside observer. If it is, what is the nature of the 'messages' or meanings conveyed in this way? The book also questions the extent to which acceptance, and subsequent diffusion, of a religious belief or symbol may be qualified by the status of the individuals concerned in transmitting the innovation, as well as by the stratification of the society involved. Several authors deal with 'works of art' and the most effective means of reaching an understanding of their past significance. In some chapters semiotics is seen as the most appropriate technique to apply to the decoding of the assumed rules and grammars of material culture expression.

The Meanings of Things (One World Archaeology)

History

Ancient Civilizations

First published in 1970, A Modern Introduction to International Law rapidly established itself as the most widely used and successful textbook in its field. This sixth  edition has now been completely revised and updated to take  account of many new developments. A Modern Introduction to International Law covers a variety of topics, from diplomatic immunity to human rights, and from recognition of government to war crimes. The book is original in several respects. The author is particularly concerned with the relationship between international law and international politics, and he devotes special attention to such controversial topics as self- determination and the expropriation of foreign-owned property where the conflicting interests and attitudes of different states are most apparent.

Modern Introduction to International Law

Michael Barton Akehurst

Foreign & International Law

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Business & Money

Max, Weber

Economics

The fact that Rethinking Germanywill force historians to reconsider their views, if not to discard them altogether, makes it a valuable addition to the literature."--The Historian"...for its many highlights and for Evans's brilliant style it should be required reading in any advanced German history course."--German Studies Review

Rethinking German History: Nineteenth Century Germany and the Origins of the Third Reich

Evans, Richard J.

Europe

The Realities Behind Diplomacy: Background Influences on British External Policy 1865-1980

Politics & Social Sciences

Kennedy, Paul M.

Politics & Government

the breakthrough novel from one of the most talented and celebrated young novelists in America -- a stirring, sweeping romance about a Good Woman and her Good Man, falling into bed, into marriage, into parenthood, into responsibility, and out again...The King Is Dead is that simple-but-beautiful, forever-compelling thing: the story of a heart-stirring romance that breeds a family and a history, then fades to black -- out of which something else is born. We're in the American South -- it's the New South born of the New Deal. The old ways of the Confederacy have been eliminated by all that Yankee efficiency and progress, except of course they haven't. We have a Good Man, Walter, moving into the heart of the machinery of American life, as the indispensable eyes and ears of the wily Governor of Tennessee. He meets his Good Woman, Nicole, in a ballpark carpark, a perfect crucible for an emblematic American romance; they banter and spar in best Bogart-Bacall fashion, then fall to billing and cooing, and, after proper delay, into bed, into marriage, into parenthood, into responsibility. And we follow that long, lovely fall. And then where are they? What can surprise them? What can rend their sweet, earned ease asunder? Well, you'll see...Along the way, the defining moments of a life, of a family history, are given in surprising, gorgeous prose, which has an incantatory luxury to it. You recline into this prose, comfortable as can be, and don't ever want to rise out of it. It's quite a departure for Jim Lewis. This third novel has been a long time coming, and it's very much a case of Great Third LP Syndrome, following Startlingly Inventive Ethereal First Album (Sister) and Difficult, Elusive Second Album (Why the Tree Loves the Axe). This is what we've been waiting for. This is why we wait.

The King Is Dead Jim Lewis

Jim Lewis

The Pasha's Bedouin: Tribes and State in the Egypt of Mehemet Ali, 1805 - 1848

Aharoni, Reuven

Introduction to Logic is a proven textbook that has been honed through the collaborative efforts of many scholars over the last five decades.  Its scrupulous attention to detail and precision in exposition and explanation is matched by the greatest accuracy in all associated detail.  In addition, it continues to capture student interest through its personalized human setting and current examples. The 14th Edition of Introduction to Logic, written by Copi, Cohen &amp; McMahon, is dedicated to the many thousands of students and their teachers - at hundreds of universities in the United States and around the world - who have used its fundamental methods and techniques of correct reasoning in their everyday lives.

Introduction to Logic

COPI, IRVING

Philosophy

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