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Offers a collection of teachings and traditions that contains within it the intellectual output of hundreds of Jewish sages who considered all aspects of an entire people's life from the Hellenistic period in Palestine (c 315 BCE) until the end of the Sassanian era in Babylonia (615 CE).
A collection of teachings and traditions that contains within it the intellectual output of hundreds of Jewish sages who considered all aspects of an entire people's life from the Hellenistic period in Palestine (c. 315 BCE) until the end of the Sassanian era in Babylonia (615 CE).
Exposing how law both supports and restricts American science and technology, Goldberg considers the role and futures of artificial intelligence, nuclear fusion and genetic engineering to argue for a scientific vision that infuses research with social goals beyond the pure search for truth.
Social movements inspired by powerful ideologies continue to define global and national politics, but existing social movement theories either ignore or discredit this influence. By focusing on the temperance movement and the politics of abortion, Soper compares and contrasts the political/evangelical structures of the the U.S. and Great Britian.
An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives, and Outcomes
The second edition of this pathbreaking, highly innovative comparative study in state-building by a major political scientist is a fully updated examination of the problems of making democratic government work. Sartori begins by assessing electoral systems. He attacks the conventional wisdom that their influence cannot be predicted and also ......
Is there more to the social construction of gender than the social sciences have described? This collection of essays explore the art of constructing gender in symbolic media images; in poetry, photography and montage; in dramatic identity politics; and in contemporary feminism.
The Commonplace Books of William Byrd and Thomas Jefferson and the Gendering of Power in the Eighteenth Century
An examination of the misogynist writings in the commonplace books of William Byrd II and Thomas Jefferson. This work explores the structures, contexts and significance of these writings in the wider historical contexts of gender and power.
Few contributions to the understanding of modern capitalism and its mode of operation and evolution have been more important than those made by Paul Sweezy. The essays in this volume continue and deepen his work of interpretation found in The Theory of Capitalist Development, Monopoly Capital, and The Present as History.
The origins of the U.S. Constitution are the source of endless debate. What did the founders intend when they drafted this monumental work? How should we interpret their formulations in the contemporary world? Is the Constitution a living, breathing document, as is so frequently said, or is it more staid in its intentions? Comparing the writings ......
