In this fast-paced, fact-filled short book, Anthony Downs takes a close look at a national problem of increasing importance—opening...
In this classic collection, once again available in a paperbound edition, leading modern scholars examine and interpret 3,000...
While it may be difficult to achieve and maintain stable democratic governments in countries with deep religious, ideological,...
Daughter of a Hausa farmer and Koranic teacher, Baba became Mary Smith’s friend in 1949, when M. G. and Mary Smith were...
In spite of recent advances in the study of evolution, scholars have shied away from the most intriguing problem of all—how...
Studies of human evolution and prehistory that use the concept “man the hunter” assign a crucial role to hunting in...
"With superb insight and erudition Rosenberg discerns the connections between social science and feminism which replaced the ideal...
This classic account of the traditional upper class in America traces its origins, lifestyles, and political and social attitudes...
“For liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.”—Louisa May Alcott This sensitive account focuses...
This prize-winning reference work provides data on crime in 110 nations and 44 major cities, making it possible for the first...
This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization...
The first book to investigate the rich and complex lives of rural women during the late colonial and early national periods. ...
The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every...
The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret female regulatory society that both guards and transmits the...
Ethnicity is a central theme of the American experience. In this book, Richard D. Alba examines the changing role of ethnicity...
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