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Private Management and Public Policy is a landmark work in the field of business and society. When it was first published in 1975, it introduced an alternative way of thinking about the management of social issues, emphasizing the critical role of business in the public policy process.

Epinets fleshes out a new language for talking about the knowledge and beliefs that underpin communication in social networks. This book better enables readers to explain, predict, and intervene in the epistemic fabric of social interactions.

To Save the Children of Korea examines how and why the practice of international adoption began in Korea in the 1950s, and how it grew and spread to other sending and receiving countries around the world in the decades since.

While many critiques of money and the market focus on its rationalizing and utilitarian logic, this book argues that the operation of capitalist economy centrally involves the production of new sources of faith and enchantment.

This book charts the practice of creative re-purposing or "rugged consumerism" in American culture from its emergence as a Utopian alternative to consumer culture in the 1960s to its ideological containment in post-Reagan libertarianism.

This book examines the institutions, associations, and networks through which contending visions of history were produced and circulated in Iran during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The River People in Flood Time explores how a poor and deeply fragmented province managed to overcome one foreign intervention after another.

"Original title: Herkunft und Textkultur: euber jeudische Erfahrungswelten in romanischen Literaturen 1499-1627."

The book takes a new approach to the history and movement of short narratives in a global context by exploring the diverse textual economies in the Americas before 1800 through a combination of scholarly commentary and original sources.

Through the emblematic work of acclaimed French novelist Gustave Flaubert, this book contributes to the controversial discussion of modernity's relationship to religion.

A comprehensive presentation of, and engagement with, the philosophy of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), against the backdrop of the political, cultural, and intellectual currents of his times.

Community at Risk examines civic response to the federal government's plans to build biodefense labs at three universities following the Anthrax attacks in 2001. Thomas D. Beamish's account affirms the importance of local political dynamics in shaping public perceptions of risk and its management.

In this book, William Egginton argues for the centrality of a psychoanalytic notion of interpretation for philosophy and literary theory.