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This book analyzes the behavior of social movement leaders after they move into positions of power in the state, and the resulting relations between these actors and their long-time friends and colleagues who continue to remain active in the social movement organizations.

This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art thinking in corporate responsibility and sustainability management. It is theoretically reflective, yet practically oriented.

This book examines the emergence of modern Chinese geopolitics by showing how, in its relations with British India, the Qing empire came to understand its place in the world through competition with European imperialism.

Examining the ways in which "rights talk" is used and adapted locally by groups in Argentina, this book explores the relationship between ideas of human rights, rights of citizenship, and the concrete and envisioned social relationships that form the basis for social activism in the wake of neoliberal restructuring.

In History's Grip is a study of three novels by Philip Roth-American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain-showing that they are built upon the notion of history as disruptive for individuals, cities, and nations and exploring their place in Roth's career.

Back Stories looks at the production of U.S. news during the second Intifada, highlighting the unrecognized and unexamined work of Palestinian journalists and its effects on Palestinian society and politics.

This book explores the act of reading as the experiencing of specific moods and atmospheres.

This study presents a radically fresh understanding of the intellectual formation and early literary career of the Irish-English statesman Edmund Burke by innovatively connecting the two key sites of Burke's pre-political career, Dublin and London, through Patriot debates over how the powers of a burgeoning press might be used to criticize and expose existing authority without jeopardizing order.

This book presents a large-scale, multi-site case example of how empowerment evaluation was used to facilitate the $15 Million Hewlett-Packard Digital Village Initiative, designed to bridge the digital divide in communities of color.

A pioneering biography of Nathan Birnbaum, one of the central but largely forgotten founders of Zionism, leader in Jewish nationalism, and theoretician of Orthodox political activism.

Uses Barack Obama's election and administration to illustrate the ways race combines with seemingly non-racial ideas to generate social meaning.

The author, an experienced psychiatrist and professor, examines the feeling of guilt in different times, places, cultures, religions, and contexts.

Examines how and why the Mubarak regime managed to maintain control of Egypt for 30 years despite an ongoing fiscal crisis, and considers the relationship between public finance, politics, and the possibility for social and political change.

A comparative study of a white supremacist organization and a white antiracist organization to understand the underlying similarities of how groups make-meaning of race and whiteness.

The book is a historical study of the changes that took place in North American business schools in the 25 years after the Second World, their roots in earlier history, and their impact on the rhetoric of debate over key issues in management education.

This book examines how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in China.

This book explores how theories of experience reflect the tension between our understanding of ourselves as language-users who produce culture and our understanding of ourselves as information-processing animals who respond to stimuli.

The book situates the philosophical significance of Bataille's anthropological reflections within the fourfold made up by the names of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud.

Examines the relationship between the Israeli government and the occupation of the Palestinian territories, and theorizes that the occupation is intrinsic to the existence of the Israeli state.

The book analyzes U.S. national security and defense policy utilizing a new approach to civil-military relations, and includes both the uniformed military and the private security contractors.

Rejecting the current conflation of distraction with diversion, this book presents the first genealogy of the concept from Aristotle to Kafka, Heidegger, and Benjamin's early twentieth-century use of distraction to revolutionize the humanities.

This book examines faculty and students at four universities around the world to understand the diverse ways individuals experience and define citizenship in the age of globalization.

This book explains the origins, processes, and outcomes of South Korea's militant unionism and Taiwan's partisan unionism by investigating the interaction between labor unions and democratic institutions, especially political parties.

In this book, the authors offer a map for diagnosing foreign policy mistakes and a compass for steering clear of them.