Overview :In this text, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists and historians examine over a dozen international cases to understand what c... Read More
Overview :This book, the only brief and affordable macro-sociology text available for undergraduates, describes how societies have changed over the pa... Read More
Overview :Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and ... Read More
Overview :The legacy of the Second World War has been, like the war itself, an international phenomenon. In both Europe and Asia, common questions of ... Read More
Overview :Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed and failure-and what lessons they hold for today's world of growing extremism Why have s... Read More
Overview :Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, like Jews in Central Europe until the Holocaust, have been remarkably successful as an entrepreneurial and... Read More
Overview :Genocide, mass murder, massacres. The words themselves are chilling, evoking images of the slaughter of countless innocents. What dark impul... Read More
Overview :Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions ar... Read More