The Effects of Television Advertising on Children: Review and Recommendations

Children's Books

Richard P. Adler

Education & Reference

Lexington

Systems theory in international relations: A study in metaphoric hypertrophy

Weltman, John J.

Prominent historian and former President of the Swiss Confederation Georges-André Chevallaz begins his study of Swiss neutrality during World War II with two essential questions: Why, in the face of German imperialism—with its authoritarian, totalitarian, and racist ideology—did Switzerland declare neutrality? Why did it not join the "camp of democracies," or the other European nations who resolved to hold firm against the Germans? Chevallaz's provocative and insightful book, presented here for the first time in English, attempts to answer these questions. Chevallaz further offers an even-handed reevaluation of the role of the principal actors in Swiss politics of the time, notably Marcel Pilet-Golaz, head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and General Henri Guisan.

The Challenge of Neutrality: Diplomacy and the Defense of Switzerland

History

Georges-Andre Chevallaz

Military

Making Cairo Medieval (Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place)

During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed once of its most dramatic periods of transformation. Well on its way to becoming a modern and cosmopolitan city, by the end of the century, a 'medieval' Cairo had somehow come into being. While many Europeans in the nineteenth century viewed Cairo as a fundamentally dual city--physically and psychically split between East/West and modern/medieval--the contributors to the provocative collection demonstrate that, in fact, this process of inscription was the result of restoration practices, museology, and tourism initiated by colonial occupiers. The first edited volume to address nineteenth-century Cairo both in terms of its history and the perception of its achievements, this book will be an essential text for courses in architectural and art history dealing with the Islamic world.

Africa

Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959–1973: A New History (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series)

Review\nDanhui Li and Yafeng Xia effectively use numerous materials in several languages, including from provincial archives in China, to place the Sino-Soviet relationship at the center of key moments in PRC history, including the turn toward the United States. This is like reading MacFarquhar with archives. -- Austin Jersild, Old Dominion University\nAn essential resource for all scholars of the Cold War and of the demise of the Sino-Soviet Friendship, this new book seeks to upend the prevailing scholarly explanations of the famous Sino-Soviet Split. Armed with new Russian and Chinese data, Danhui Li and Yafeng Xia offer a more nuanced explanation of important Sino-Soviet events and, in so doing, argue that China’s relationship with the Soviet Union was crucially important to the development of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. -- Deborah Kaple, Princeton University\nAuthored by two leading historians of China's foreign relations, this meticulously researched work of scholarship brings new depth to our understanding of the underlying causes of the Sino-Soviet split. Danhui Li and Yafeng Xia tell a gripping story, peppered with fascinating details from new archival revelations. This study is a must-read for scholars and students of Cold War history. -- Sergey Radchenko, Cardiff University\nNo bilateral relationship was more consequential in Cold War history than the conflict-ridden Sino-Soviet alliance. This carefully researched and insightfully argued book by two of the world’s most accomplished experts on the subject is a must read for anyone interested in diplomatic history, international security, or the international relations of East Asia. -- Thomas Christensen, Columbia University\nThe collapse of the Sino-Soviet alliance was a salient event in Cold War history, as it not only changed the orientation or even essence of the global Cold War but also buried international communism as a 20th-century phenomenon. This book by Li and Xia, with the support of extensive and highly original research, offers the hitherto best study on why and how Beijing and Moscow turned from brothers-in-arms into deadly enemies. It is extraordinarily revealing and strongly recommended. -- Jian Chen, New York University/NYU-Shanghai\nIn the twenty-first century, students of Cold War history are fortunate to have the fruits of several major works on the Sino-Soviet split by European and American scholars. What is lacking in English literature, however, is a book based on international documentation, especially Chinese archival documents that tell the story from the Chinese perspective.\nBased on archival materials from several countries—particularly China—and more than twenty years of research on the subject, two prominent Chinese historians, Danhui Li and Yafeng Xia, offer a comprehensive look at the Sino–Soviet split from 1959, when visible cracks appeared in the Sino-Soviet alliance, to 1973, when China’s foreign policy changed from an “alliance with the Soviet Union to oppose the United States” to “aligning with the United States to oppose the Soviet Union.” Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959–1973: A New History is a reevaluation of the history of the Sino-Soviet split and offers the first comprehensive account of it from a Chinese perspective.\nThis book, together with its prequel Mao and the Sino–Soviet Partnership, 1945–1959: A New History, is important because any changes in Sino-Soviet relations at the time affected, and to a great extent determined, the fate of the socialist bloc. More importantly, it directly impacted and transformed the international political situation during the Cold War. These two books promise to be a reevaluation of the history of the Sino-Soviet alliance from its birth to its demise. These fascinating books will be a crucial resource for all those interested in the topic and will stand as the definitive work on the Sino-Soviet alliance for years to come.

Li, Danhui

Xia, Yafeng

Asia

Religion and Media in America

Covering topics ranging from the Moral Monday movement to Christian films and performers, Religion and Media in America is a qualitative study of the ways in which religion has been woven into American popular and civic culture. This book explores how Christianity both adapts to and is affected by new media forms. Its six chapters address religious activism; government imposition of religiosity into secular culture; religious entertainment; Bible translations marketed as consumer goods; and how religious satire comes from both religious and secular sources. Recommended for scholars and students interested in media studies, film studies, religion, communication, American history, American studies, political science, and popular culture.

Hatcher Elon University, Anthony

Humor & Entertainment

Environment and Pedagogy in Higher Education (Ecocritical Theory and Practice)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Beer Culture in Theory and Practice (Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Tyma, Adam

Beverages & Wine

Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call

Biographies & Memoirs

Brooks, Sheila

Community & Culture

Rethinking the Theory of Money, Credit, and Macroeconomics: A New Statement for the Twenty-First Century

Review\nThis book constitutes a valuable contribution to the literature. Smithin’s AMM clarifies some unanswered questions of monetary macroeconomics. . . . As an overarching analysis of the monetary 
system, this book has much to commend it; I recommend it wholeheartedly. ― Review of Political Economy\nIn spite of his modest claim to the contrary, this book is the culmination of a lifelong research program conducted by Professor John Smithin on the relation between economic theory and the social reality that theory supposedly helps us to understand.\nWith this book, Professor Smithin, drawing from many different intellectual influences, offers an alternative model for us to make sense of monetary phenomena, one that would serve as an important guide for policymaking if taken seriously.\nIt is refreshing to read Smithin and be surprised by the policy prescriptions that may be derived from his descriptive project. It is impossible to pigeonhole all those prescriptions in a single place along the political spectrum, although it is safe to say that Smithin in his open-mindedness and epistemological skepticism may be considered a truly classical liberal.\nIn this definitive statement about the ontological, epistemological and ethical foundations of money and finances, Smithin allows himself to focus on the core constituents of the entrepreneurial method of production, such as profits, money, and private property and to draw lessons from his breathtaking interdisciplinary effort.\nProfessor Smithin’s ecumenism in his sources and broad knowledge of the history of ideas, not only on political economy but also on philosophy broadly speaking, allow him to generously acknowledge the contributions of Keynes and even Marx to a proper understanding of the role of money in the economic activity of a market society.\nOnce concluding that macroeconomic has failed to give tools that would allow us to prevent economic downturns, in order to do better, for Smithin, macroeconomics must be practiced with a truly macroeconomic method. That is, a rejection of a “radical” methodological individualism in favor of a mild form of realism, one in which social realities such as “money” are also taken into account in interpreting economic processes. Such research project is not without its risks, but Smithin’s contribution cannot be overstated, even by researchers who are not convinced of some elements of his methodology or about some of its applications.\nCentral to Smithin’s alternative monetary model is that a market society necessitates a supply of money endogenous in nature and from there, using sophisticated but ultimately elegant mathematical formulations, he proposes the targeting of real interest rates as the most adequate instrument of monetary policy if macro-economic stability is the policy goal.\n-- Leonidas Zelmanovitz, Liberty Fund Senior Fellow\nJohn Smithin, Rethinking the Theory of Money What macroeconomics needs, as we stumble on from the financial crisis, is not just another model, but a thorough rethink of the nature of a monetary economy, how to theorize about it and the types of policy best suited to promoting stable and equitable growth. This book by John Smithin does exactly that. It is a tour de force, building up of a theory of the (domestic and international) monetary macroeconomy and of macroeconomic policy for the modern age. The analysis is grounded in the history of economic thought, methodology, philosophy and economic history, and is full of novel insights. 
-- Sheila Dow, University of Stirling\nFor many decades John Smithin has been illuminating in deep ways our understanding of the roles of money and finance in the systemic processes at work in modern capitalism. All of these contributions have come together in Re-thinking the Theory of Money, Credit and Macroeconomics. His original and authoritative analysis stands on the sound foundations of the contributions of past greats, especially Keynes, and, yes, even Marx – alth

Business & Money

Smithin, John

Economics

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