At a time when boundaries between the nonprofit, business, and public sectors have grown increasingly confused and contested, this volume by leading experts on nonprofit organizations offers new ideas
Giordano Sivini has been an international aid consultant for over twenty-five years. Here he channels a 1960s and 1970s idealistic political commitment into fieldwork and the sphere of development fro
The term "ideology" can cover almost any set of ideas, but its power to bewitch political activists results from its strange logic: part philosophy, part science, part spiritual revelation, all tied t
"This illumination of the character of Barnes, whose collection of Impressionist paintings is currently the focus of a lengthy legal struggle, helps us understand the significance of that outcome for
Social surveillance and regulation of knowledge will be one of the most important issues in the near future, one that will give rise to unending controversy. In The Governance of Knowledge, Nico Stehr
In Causes of Delinquency, Hirschi attempts to state and test a theory of delinquency, seeing in the delinquent a person relatively free of the intimate attachments, the aspirations, and the moral beli
The Man on Horseback continues to be an important contribution to the study of the military's role in the realm of politics, and will be of interest to students of political science, government, and
"A remarkably thorough examination of how Orwell's reputation has grown over the four decades since his death.This is a book that all future Orwell scholars will need to consult and take into account.
Academic research on state crime has focused on the illegal actions of individuals and organizations (i.e., syndicates and corporations). Interchangeably labeled governmental crime, delinquency, illeg
Written during the height of the ecology movement, The Ecological Transition is a stunning interdisciplinary work. It combines anthropology, ecology, and sociology to formulate an understanding of c
The government of the United States is a living system. As such, it is subject to subtle change and modification over time, but still maintains a constancy via its central nervous system-a congression
The state of Israel is this book's topic. The author's claim is that European traditions of Christian anti-Semitism united with Muslim traditions of anti-Semitism to create all opposition to Israeli n
Originally published in 1963, this volume's eight chapters explore topics that the authors found to be taboo in the realm of scientific and scholarly inquiry, collectively urging the stigmas surroundi
This collection of previously-published essays (although some have been substantially reworked) by the well-known historian Laqueur is loosely tied together by the eponymous theme, which also addresse
Over the centuries all of the great philosophers made psychology central to understanding social life. Indeed, the ancient Greeks thought it impossible to conceive of political life without insight in
This reprint of Maria Montessori's pedagogic method publication includes new introductions from Hunt and Valsiner reviewing the history of her research and method and its influence. The main text open
Catholic priest, novelist, and sociologist Greeley (1928-2013) fleshed out his doctoral dissertation in sociology at the University of Chicago into this book, which reflected the optimism among Americ
This work, revised and updated for its second edition, collates quotes about cities and urban life from a broad range of literary, historical, political, social, and academic figures (often including
After a brief discussion of traditional family in an agrarian setting, Carlson describes the transitions brought on by modern society, and the effects of modern feminism's denial of gender differences
This major study of the father of modern sociology explores the intimate relationship between the events of Max Weber's personal history and the development of his thought. When it was first published
