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This book provides the first full-blown, up-to-date, English-language based narrative on the history, politics, and policy of Japan's strategic space development.

Radical Atheism challenges the religious appropriation of Derrida's work and offers a compelling new account of his thinking on time and space, life and death, good and evil, self and other.

More than Money provides innovators and entrepreneurs with strategies for eradicating poverty in developed and developing countries. Author Paul Godfrey shows how five types of interrelated capital-institutional, human, social, organizational, and physical-can be harnessed to create not just economic value, but also social wellbeing.

This book introduces readers to the economics of politics-particularly political change-showing how incentives matter as much in politics as they do in the rest of our lives, and illustrating how ideas ultimately determine our motivations and the outcomes that they produce.

This work of social and cultural history paints a comprehensive picture of indigenous society from the point of view of households throughout a large region of central Mexico, from the middle of the seventeenth century up through the end of the eighteenth century.

Writing Against Time explores the twentieth-century literary effort to create an image that will never get old.

This book addresses the factors that determine the direct and indirect outcomes of collective resistance in contemporary China as well as the government's strategies to maintain social stability amid the numerous social conflicts.

The book presents a powerful reminder of adults' responsibility for the development of long-term attention (and thus of maturity) in children, particularly in the face of the techniques of attention-destruction practiced by the programming industries.

This book explores how regional and national senses of belonging are produced and transmitted in elementary schools in western India.

This pioneering work analyzes the impact of telegraphy and the internet on political participation in modern China.

Based on fieldwork in ten Asian countries, this book examines cross-national patterns and the impact of globalization, state policies, individual autonomy, and social factors on various women's international migration.

This text charts the history of how psychoanalysis became an essential element of Argentine culture in the media, in politics and in daily private lives. The book reveals the unique conditions and complex historical process that made possible the field's diffusion, acceptance and popularization.

Andrew Selee's Planning for Impact in Policy Research is the first strategy book intended exclusively for think tanks. Adapting lessons from business and non-profit management to the world of research organizations, Selee lays out a comprehensive plan for how these kinds of organizations can truly make a difference in policy decisions.

The book analyzes the impact of the rapid rise of China and India on existing power relationships worldwide. It examines current frictions that could escalate into trade, cold, and conventional wars. Uniquely, this text also considered the risks that these countries pose to global environmental sustainability because of their growing CO2 emissions.

Taking two narrative genres that are generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife-the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film-this book reveals the varied ways in which censorship, for all its blustery self-righteousness, can actually be good for sex, politics, feminism, and art.

This comprehensive biography of Dolores del Rio considers how her enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally, illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender through the lenses of beauty and celebrity.

This book completely transforms our understanding of the actual roles that each of the principal EXCOMM members played in the decision making process that led to a peaceful resolution of the Cuban missile crisis.

This book examines the contributions of queer writers and artists of color to contemporary social theory.

Develops an empirical analysis of the use of originalism in Supreme Court decisions to show how claimed adherence to originalism ultimately does not constrain ideological decisions.

This book surveys all the channels through which political ideas and knowledge were conveyed to the English public, from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the Revolution of 1688, with the goal of understanding the web of communication in creating political life.

Examines how countries can compete with each other to make citizens, and how citizens in turn have found ways to use this competition to their own benefit.

This book suggests a political economic model of intervention and explains intervention decisions in civil wars and interstate conflicts with the economic interests of interveners.

Diversionary War investigates whether leaders use military adventure to distract the public from domestic problems and, if so, whether such gambles pay off.

This book is the first comprehensive and critical assessment of NATO's war in Afghanistan and its implications for the future of the Atlantic Alliance.

Watching War explores what it means to be a spectator to battles in an era in which the boundaries between witnessing, representing, and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurred.

This book shows how voter anger, due to problems of corruption and poor representation, brings about party-system collapse and the rise of important outsider political leaders in South America.

Taking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners, Tell This in My Memory offers a new window into the study of slavery in modern Middle Eastern.