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The fourth volume in a pioneering series on the Chinese military, Imagined Enemies illuminates the People's Liberation Army's central decisionmaking system, operational plans and systems, and strategies for war against Taiwan and the United States.

This book examines the history and weaknesses of the electoral college and proposes reforms that could be made to our electoral process without a constitutional amendment.

The legacy of Owens Valley raises concerns about reallocation. Although it occurred more than 70 years ago, the water transfer from Owens Valley to Los Angeles still plays an important role in public perceptions of water markets. This work considers alternative approaches to the Owens Valley transfer that might have yielded better results.

Detailed study of transformations in the teaching and research priorities of universities worldwide, examining how these changes correspond to globally institutionalized understandings of reality.

This book studies the decisions of the United States circuit courts and their grounding in law and judicial ideology.

Talks about jurisprudence - or legal philosophy. This book attempts not only a jurisprudential reading of popular culture, but a popular rereading of jurisprudence, removing it from the legal experts in order to restore it to the public at large: a lex populi by and for the people.

Brokers of Culture analyzes how Italian Jesuit missionary emigres attempted to integrate a heterogeneous western population (Native Americans, Hispanics, European immigrants, and native-born Americans) into a global religious community while simultaneously facilitating those groups' entry into American society.

This book explores the use of guilty pleas in criminal prosecutions for international crimes.

Stuart Kirsch is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has consulted widely on environmental issues and land rights in the Pacific, and was actively involved in the political campaign and legal case against the environmental impact of the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea.

Popular Injustice focuses on the spread of highly punitive forms of social control (known locally as mano dura) in contemporary Latin America, with a particular focus on lynchings in postwar Guatemala.

This book synthesizes Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida on interpretation and difference in order to provide a new theory of how interpretation functions in psychoanalysis.

Comparing law to the American practice of common courtesy, this book explains how our courts not only survive under conditions of suspected hypocrisy, but actually depend on these conditions to function.

An examination of the role that race plays in the lives of students at a multiracial U.S. high school.

A Poverty of Rights examines the history of poor people's citizenship in Rio from the 1920s through the 1960s, the 20th-century period that most critically shaped urban development, social inequality, and the meaning of law and rights in modern Brazil.

This book is an intimate look at how diasporic Chinese in Panama construct notions of home and create a sense of belonging as they inhabit the interstices of several cultural-national formations-Panama, China/Taiwan, and the United States.

This book examines a recent movement for political reform in Malaysia, contrasting the experience both with past initiatives in Malaysia and with a contemporaneous reform movement in Indonesia, to help us understand how and when coalitions unite reformers from civil and political societies, and how these coalitions engage with the state and society.

Hewlett-Packard is the eighth largest industrial company in America. This book will examine the Hewlett-Packard company from its origins until the founders changed the CEO for the last time, fifty-three years later.

Structures of Memory turns to the landscape of contemporary Berlin, particularly places marked by the presence of the Nazi regime, in order to understand how some places of great cruelty or great heroism are forgotten by all but eyewitnesses, while others become the site of public ceremonies, museums, or commemorative monuments.

Perversity and Ethics argues that a psychoanalytic reading of the phenomenon of perversity is crucial to understanding contemporary philosophical ethics.

This book recounts the life and achievements of Clarence King, widely recognized as one of America's most gifted intellectuals of the nineteenth century, and a legendary figure in the American West. King led landmark precursory surveys that positioned him to become the founding director of the U.S. Geological Survey, the most important government science agency in the nation.

This book analyzes a rise in China's grand strategy for the early twenty-first century and considers its consequences for international peace and security as well as the challenges it poses for policymakers.

This book analyzes the political, legal, and economic dynamics shaping environmental outcomes across two districts in Aceh, one of the richest and most expansive areas of tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia. Its central theme is that the present cycle of ecological decline can best be understood in terms of the way political, economic and social forces operate at the district level.

In 1999, the United Nations embarked on a massive intervention in Kosovo. This book compares the fate of two adjacent municipalities two years into that intervention. Though similar in all key respects, by 2001 the municipalities were headed down markedly different paths-one making progress toward institution-building, democratization, and reconstruction, the other stagnating.

Aesthetic Democracy argues that the possibility of social and political democracy depends primarily upon art and aesthetics, and that it is art which determines the possibilities of human freedom.

In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood.

A study of the religious aspects of Chinese alchemy and its relation to the Taoist traditions of the early medieval period.

The story of how Nathan Mayer Rothschild financed Wellington's victory over Napoleon at Waterloo.

This book presents the first comprehensive model of policymaking by strategically-rational justices who pursue their own policy preferences in the Supreme Court's multi-stage decision-making process.

This is a study of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and its unsung roles in this semi-desert region's improbable growth, in resolving water conflicts, and in devising pioneering formulas to meet 21st-century water challenges.