This 200-page paperback is brief and inexpensive enough to serve as a core textbook or supplement for upper-level courses in Comparative Politics that focus on theory. The early years of the 21st Century have shown the world to be in a state of tremendous flux. Struggles have not been between nation-states pursuing their national interests as much as they have been driven by non-state actors attempting to impose a theologically-defined lifestyle on their own states and on others. The legitimate interests of nation-states and the essence of warfare itself are being redefined. At the same time, the patterns of social and political behavior of the nation-states are being transformed as they adapt to this new world. Socio-economic cleavages, deep seated cultural attributes, and the party systems that have represented the Western world for decades are changing in essential ways. Conventional wisdom is being challenged, and the world is searching for alternatives to our old understandings. Into this breach steps Lawrence Mayer with his new Comparative Politics: A Theoretical Approach. In it, the author attempts to make sense of our new world but at the same time reveals that there is a considerable lack of consensus on the essential principles of such an explanatory enterprise

Comparative Politics: The Quest for Theory and Explanation

Politics & Social Sciences

Lawrence C. Mayer

Politics & Government

Sloan Educational Publishing

Well-grounded in current research, Women and Gender describes how psychology is continuously transformed by a gender-sensitive and women-centered approach. The third edition has been thoroughly updated and redesigned with 14 chapters. A new first chapter sets the tone for the entire book by linking gender differences to deeper issues of privilege, oppression, and power. A new Chapter 10 looks at women's bodies and appearance. As with the two previous editions, Women and Gender encourages readers to draw on research, theory, and personal experience to enhance their understanding of how biology, socialization, personality, and social contexts combine to influence the identities of women and men. Emphasizing the true diversity of women, Women and Gender also includes coverage of personal identity, race and ethnicity, (dis)ability, sexual orientation, age, and socioeconomic class.

Women and Gender: Making a Difference (3rd Edition)

Janice D. Yoder

Social Sciences

Multidisciplinary in approach, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear States and Terrorism is appropriate for any course that focuses on war and peace, conflict resolution, arms control, or peace studies. The new edition brings the nuclear discussion into the post 9/11 world. In addition to providing the students with a solid grounding in the nuclear developments of the cold war, the text gives detailed consideration to such contemporary topics as nuclear terrorism, the actual or potential proliferation of nuclear weapons to nations such as Iran and North Korea, and the Bush administration's war on Iraq based (partly) on the premise that the United States could not tolerate a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein.

Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear States, and Terrorism

Peter R. Beckman

Paul W. Crumlish

Michael N. Dobkowski

Steven P. Lee

Gender and Culture in America traces the evolution of gender identity and gender interaction from colonial times to the present. In addition to general chapters on American gender issues through time, the book features specific chapters devoted to minority ethnic groups and college/university students, as well as new chapters on persons of alternate sexual orientation and on extranuptial families. It also includes a new section on new reproductive technologies and their implications. Each of the nine chapters is accompanied by a series of questions, which may be used either for written response or as stimuli to group discussion. Along the way, the authors explore the paradox of contemporary students who simultaneously enjoy the fruits of the feminist movement but distrust feminists; describe the evolution of the Victorian notion of True Womanhood and the influence it holds over our culture to this day; and explain how the Cult of True Romance derails many college women from pursuing their dreams by subtly encouraging them to choose majors and careers that limit their potential. Maintaining an historical perspective within a general anthropological orientation, Gender and Culture in America is appropriate as a core text or supplement for courses throughout the social sciences, including departments of sociology, anthropology, and women's studies.

Gender and Culture in America

Nancy McKee

Linda Stone

Applying Behavior Analysis Across the Autism Spectrum is appropriate for use in training programs designed to prepare personnel for working with children with autism, and which conform to the BACB's Guidelines in terms of course coverage and the required hours of field experience for graduate and undergraduate certification. This practical text provides a set of well-structured materials to guide and support students during their initial introduction to practice in the field. Such material ensures that first-time practitioners gain the experience of effectively applying their previously acquired conceptual material, thereby increasing their competence.

Applying Behavior Analysis Across the Autism Spectrum

Beth Sulzer-Azaroff

Focusing on demographic data from the United States, nine industrial democracies, China, and India, The Sociology of Aging: An International Perspective explores and compares existing and emerging policies that impact the elderly around the world. Throughout the analysis, core sociological issues are examined, including family relationships, living arrangements, health, politics, and economic well-being. The text's international perspective locates the aging process and its consequences within the globalization of everyday life and its economic and political realities. As a result, comparisons between countries offer readers insight into how well different economic, political, and health systems address demographic changes. A wealth of pedagogical features are presented, including chapter-ending glossaries, national and international websites, and a series of review questions that allows readers to test their knowledge. The final chapter offers a country-specific analysis of the future of aging.

The Sociology of Aging

Duane A. Matcha

Conceptual Foundations of Radical Behaviorism is intended for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students in courses within behavior analytic curricula dealing with conceptual foundations and radical behaviorism as a philosophy. Each chapter of the text presents what radical behaviorism says about an important topic in a science of behavior, and then contrasts the radical behaviorist perspective with that of other forms of behaviorism, as well as other forms of psychology.

Conceptual Foundations of Radical Behaviorism

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jay Moore

Psychology & Counseling

Black Politics in Conservative America provides an historical overview of blacks' socioeconomic position in American society and in the postindustrial class structure, and promotes an agenda for change. The text begins with an examination of specific political arenas and reveals their inherently conservative functions, despite the efforts made within them for change. This introduction is followed by several chapters on alternatives that argue for the creation of a tightly organized political coalition of disinherited groups, employing a diversified and multi-front strategy from within and outside the existing system, with goals that include altering both the political and economic structures that have long helped to perpetuate blacks' inferior position. For African Americans, this is particularly vital if the vestiges of slavery are finally to be eradicated and justice attained. Maintaining an historical perspective within a political-economic orientation, Black Politics in Conservative America is appropriate for use as a core textbook or supplementary text in courses throughout the social sciences, including departments of political science, sociology, urban studies and African-American studies.

Black Politics in Conservative America

Marcus D. Pohlmann

The People's Voice: A Populist Cultural History of Modern America chronicles the outpouring of cultural expression since the 1890s addressing the everyday experiences, aspirations, and problems of ordinary people. Starting with the legacy of nineteenth century giants like Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and Stephen Foster and advancing to contemporary film, TV, hip-hop, and country music, the book blends samples of creative writing, visual production, performing arts, and the media into a general treatment of the populist theme in the creative works of American national culture. Designed as a jargon-free cultural inventory and reference tool, the book is suitable for general readers as well as for course assignments in social-cultural history, American Studies, popular culture, cultural theory, sociology, working-class history, and Populist Studies.

The People's Voice: A Populist Cultural History of Modern America

David A. Horowitz

Riots, revolution, terrorism, genocide, and other forms of collective violence have shaped the historical landscape and remain an important feature of modern life. Now in its second edition, Collective Violence examines the sources, dynamics, and consequences of this violence in the world today and in centuries past. Its overriding view is that collective violence is a largely rational attempt to advance or resist social and political change. Although this type of violence easily arouses strong opinions and is difficult to discuss objectively, Collective Violence provides a balanced perspective grounded in the fields of history, political science, psychology, and sociology. 
 This second edition has been completely updated with new material covering the post-9/11 world and the latest research on the many forms of collective violence. It now includes three chapters on cults; hate groups, ethnic conflict, and genocide; and gangs, survivalists, and militias to replace the one chapter that covered all these topics in the first edition. These new chapters provide a more comprehensive picture of groups and behaviors that remain poorly understood by the general public. 
 Written to and for students in clear and engaging language, Collective Violence is appropriate as a core text or supplement for courses on collective violence, social movements, and social conflict commonly found in departments of criminology and criminal justice, history, justice studies, political science, and sociology.

Collective Violence

Barkan, Steven E.

Snowden, Lynne L.

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