Wu is director of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History (U. of San Francisco) updates and expands his 1989 reference mostly to records of missions in China but also other material i
In this volume, scholars from the United States, Israel and Eastern Europe examine the history of the Holocaust on Soviet territory and its treatment in Soviet politics and literature from 1945 to 199
Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking about the earth and our proper relationship to it. This book bring
At a time of doubt and concern about government and its capacity to serve the public, this book highlights the critical skills and practices that characterize good leadership and good management.Auth
Drawing on newly accessible archives as well as memoirs and other sources, this biographical dictionary documents the lives of some two thousand notable figures in twentieth-century Central and Easter
With the upsurge of nationalist sentiment in post-communist societies, the problem of political rights for ethnic minorities became a dangerous flashpoint. The introduction of electoral competition, t
This is a two-volume English-language edition of a reference that, together with its electronic counterparts, aims to increase prompt information access to Russian archives. Priority has been given to
Eberhardt (Polish Academy of Sciences) examines the changing demography of central-eastern Europe over the course of the 20th century, to facilitate an understanding of events that have occurred in re
In the context of sociopolitical change in China over the past 20 years and the 50-year history of the People's Republic, Australian-based scholar of Asian languages He has compiled 1,600 entries on p
"Engaging, highly personal introduction to contemporary Brazilian society by a leading US historian adopts a bottom-up perspective, emphasizing frustrations of popular aspirations to dignity and justi
This new edition provides an enlightening and comprehensive A-to-Z ready reference, now with more than 120 supporting primary documents, on major topics of contemporary importance for students, teache
A study of retroscapes, commercial environments that evoke past times and places, a ubiquitous manifestation of modern marketing. It covers an array of retailing milieux, in a number of different coun
Economics, like most other social sciences, is not a pure discipline. Indeed, it has been enhanced by the fact that there is so much overlap between it and the related fields of business, industrial r
This volume covers the theoretical method, macroeconomics, microeconomics, international trade and finance, development, and policy of economic theory. It incorporates various alternative approaches a
Primarily covering activities occurring between July 2000 and June 2001, this volume seeks to be a comprehensive descriptive chronicle of North Korean society. Chapters cover geography, politics, the
This book examines the movement for living wages at the local level and what it tells us about urban politics. Oren M. Levin-Waldman studies the role that living wage campaigns may have had in recent
Newlin makes good on his bold claim about the inclusiveness of these volumes with accounts of everything Eliot wrote--fiction and nonfiction, prose and poetry--along with full or excerpted texts and N
Widely interdisciplinary in appeal, this book reports on the successes of innovative training opportunities for non-college women who end up in low-paying, low-mobility, pink-collar jobs. The author e
Initiated in 2001 by the Ford Foundation, the Global Service Institute, together with the Center for Social Development (CSD) at Washington U. in St. Louis, aims to expand the research knowledge base
