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Widely acclaimed as the best book yet on Japanese management by two experts, this important book offers a tough-minded analysis of Japanese business methods and competitive strategies.

This is the first book to address head-on the issue of the appalling mismatch between what our economy needs and what our educational institutions actually provide.

The Next Deal offers a highly readable blueprint for politics in the twenty-first century. The old-style one-size-fits-all government, Cherny argues, cannot accommodate the significant changes-including the moral revolution of the '60s and the technological revolution of the last fifteen years-that American society has undergone. Cherny proposes a "e;Next Deal"e; that will expand democracy by taking decision-making power out of the hands of experts and back into the hands of ordinary people.

A study of the causes of family conflict draws on the Experience Sampling Method to argue that family life breaks down when members fail to experience the same events in the same way.

What caused physicians in the USA to confront committees, forms, and active patients? Tracing the revolution that transformed the doctor-patient relationship, this book takes the reader into the labouratory and the examining room, tracing the development of new technologies and social attitudes.

The experience of separation and the ensuing susceptibility to anxiety, anger, and fear constitute the flip side of the attachment phenomenon. In an authoritative new foreword to Bowlby's classic study, Stephen Mitchell (who gives resonant voice to the relational perspective in psychoanalysis) bridges the distance between attachment theory and the psychoanalytic tradition.

A bold new vision of the global economy, in which greater participation of developing countries means greater opportunities for most--but not all.

The classic intellectual autobiography of a great theoretical physicist

This impassioned and informed book is the first to describe how government and industry have failed working families and what we can do to get beyond this critical impasse

In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an active participant. Combining objectivity with incisive questioning, Aron's reading of movements and people reminds us of what was really at stake. Whether charting the rise of Fascism and Marxism and their respective descents into totalitarianism, or the United States's role as the world's last remaining superpower, Aron was a nondogmatic thinker who emphasized realism over any devotion to theory. The result is history that is less concerned about where it falls on the political spectrum than about getting it right.

A sweeping cultural history of American Modernism in the 1920s, viewed through the prismatic lens of jazz

"What lies behind America's economic and social decline? Can racism explain the ghetto tragedy if two-thirds of America's blacks have made it into the middle class? Why have Chinese, Japanese, and Kore"

The USA has often failed to capitalise on its technological breakthroughs. This analysis of the weaknesses and strengths of US high technology warns that until the US learns to reconnect research and development with production, foreign companies will continue to prevail in the world marketplace.

From a coauthor of Women's Ways of Knowing comes a fascinating book that shows how nurturing community groups and caring community intervention can help impoverished, uneducated women to "find their voice" and become articulate and empowered thinkers.

By a noted cognitive psychologist, the first guide to the latest knowledge about human memory specifically geared to the needs of psychotherapists and counselors.

The distinguished contributors dismantle the alleged scientific foundations and criticize the alarming public policy conclusions of the book that has inflamed public debate.

American cities and states pay to subsidize new stadiums and arenas, but are regularly shut out from sharing the profits. The threat of a team leaving town results in offers of land, investment opportunities, luxury suites, prime office space, and practice facilities financed by the tax payers.

This inspiring book shows that the great unfinished business of American liberalism is not to equalize money but to limit the spheres in which money matters,to put money in its place.

A compelling investigation of the Jewish community's reaction -- or nonreaction -- to domestic violence

A ground-breaking work by one of the leading scholars on the interplay between psychology and politics. James M. Glass attributes the Holocaust to the idea of racial hygiene popular in Germany prior to World War II.

This portrait of a disorder that afflicts more than 13per cent of Americans, shows how to distinguish social phobia from other problems such as depression or panic disorder as well as treatment options, including behaviour and drug therapy.

An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know it

The extraordinary story of a young Indian boy who was kidnapped from coastal Virginia and assimilated into to European culture-before returning to America and waging a lifelong struggle to drive out the invading colonists?

For readers of Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes and Henry Crumpton's The Art of Intelligence, the first ever biography of Andrew Marshall, the legendary (and reclusive) Pentagon strategist who has served under every president from Nixon to Obama.

Despite the billions of dollars we've poured into foreign wars, homeland security, and disaster response, we are fundamentally no better prepared for the next terrorist attack or unprecedented flood than we were in 2001. Our response to catastrophe remains unchanged: add another step to airport security, another meter to the levee wall. This approach has proved totally ineffective: reacting to past threats and trying to predict future risks will only waste resources in our increasingly unpredictable world.In Learning from the Octopus, ecologist and security expert Rafe Sagarin rethinks the seemingly intractable problem of security by drawing inspiration from a surprising source: nature. Biological organisms have been livingand thrivingon a risk-filled planet for billions of years. Remarkably, they have done it without planning, predicting, or trying to perfect their responses to complex threats. Rather, they simply adapt to solve the challenges they continually face.Military leaders, public health officials, and business professionals would all like to be more adaptable, but few have figured out how. Sagarinargues that we can learn from observing how nature is organized, how organisms learn, how they create partnerships, and how life continually diversifies on this unpredictable planet.As soon as we dip our toes into a cold Pacific tidepool and watch what we thought was a rock turn into an octopus, jetting away in a cloud of ink, we can begin to see the how human adaptability can mimic natural adaptation. The same mechanisms that enabled the octopus's escape also allow our immune system to ward off new infectious diseases, helped soldiers in Iraq to recognize the threat of IEDs, and aided Google in developing faster ways to detect flu outbreaks. While we will never be able to predict the next earthquake, terrorist attack, or market fluctuation, nature can guide us in developing security systems that are not purely reactive but proactive, holistic, and adaptable. From the tidepools of Monterey to the mountains of Kazakhstan, Sagarin takes us on an eye-opening tour of the security challenges we face, and shows us how we might learn to respond more effectively to the unknown threats lurking in our future.

Americas status as a world power remains at a historic turning point. The strategies employed to win the wars of the twentieth century are no longer working, and the US must contend with the changing nature of power in a globalized world.In America and the World, two of the most respected figures in American foreign policy, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, dissect the challenges facing the US today: the Middle East, Russia, and China, among others. In spontaneous conversations the two authors explore their agreements and disagreements. Defining the center of responsible opinion on American foreign policy, America and the World is an essential primer on a host of urgent issues at a time when our leaders decisions could determine how long our nation remains a superpower.

In this brilliantly conceived and clearly argued discussion of the relationship between high and popular culture, Herbert Gans, outspoken advocate of cultural pluralism, questions the universality of high culture standards.

One of our most original thinkers addresses the scientific world's premier question: What is the nature of consciousness?

From the bestselling author of First Ladies, Inside the White House, and America's First Ladies comes the first look at the women of one of the most influential families in American history: The Roosevelts.

"One of the few unquestioned greats of twentieth-century science, Linus Pauling was the only person to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes--one in chemistry, for deciphering the quantum physics of large m"