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This book offers a new approach to dealing with Murakami's radical narrative project by demonstrating how his first and later trilogies utilize the structure of the simulacrum, a second-order representation, to develop a complex critique of contemporary Japanese culture.

Local Politics: A Resource for Democracy in Western Europe? examines the relationship between local institutional design and citizens' attitudes toward democracy. Vetter highlights the conditions under which locally socialized political orientations may serve as a resource for democracy at higher system levels.

Redrawing the Map to Promote Peace, by Jaroslav Tir, focuses on the management of territorial disputes and how they are altered by territorial change. Territorial shiftscan sometimes lead to war, which is why Tir explores the contributing factors that lead to these disputes.

A study of the work of the popular historian and journalist, Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985). This work provides an understanding of the man and the writer. It shows us that Bryant prefigured and sustained a form of romantic nationalism that remained nascent within the British population deep into the twentieth century.

Marianne and the Puritan provides a sociological, political, and aesthetic analysis of French and American cultures as seen through their respective cinemas. Author David I. Grossvogel focuses on highly popular and available French and American films which, taken together and through the 20th century, treat permutations of the couple.

Why do groups become genocidal and try to incapacitate all members of an alien group, even sometimes killing fetuses? Prematurely alluding to evil or to the Devil blocks the possibility for further inquiry. Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em! is the first systematic attempt to explain what, up until now, has seemed to be inexplicable phenomena.

While Alexis de Tocqueville described America as the absolute democracy, Karl Marx saw the nation as adefiled republic so long as it permitted the enslavement of blacks. This is an investigation into the approaches of Marx and Tocqueville's debates about race and democracy in America.

Illuminates the mystery that is Ralph Ellison, the author of one complex, important novel who failed to complete his second; a black intellectual who remained notably reticent on political issues during the desegregation of his native South. This study guides the reader to an understanding of Ralph Ellison, his oeuvre, and the American novel.

A striking number of hysterical or insane female characters populate Francophone women's writing. To discover why, Orlando reads novels from a variety of cultures, teasing out key elements of Francophone identity struggles.

Deep Republicanism: Prelude to Professionalism reveals a subversive republicanism in Machiavelli's political theories that is at odds with the demoliberalism often perceived as his primary political agenda. It also establishes the importance of this republican agenda in understanding the major revolutions of the modern world.

Miller synthesizes Karen Horney's model of submission, aggression and withdrawal, Jean Baker Miller's concept of relational being, Julia Kristeva's idea of psychic space, and Kelly Oliver's notions on social support to advance a penetrating analysis of the fiction of Paule Constant.

Pornography is a volatile issue in the United States_depending on the source of opinion, it can be viewed as either demeaning or empowering. explores whether the issue is similarly contentious around the world.

This work provides a rigorous, comparative examination of the European Union and the federal democracies of Switzerland and the United States.

Kook makes the provocative argument that membership in democracies is inherently exclusionary, and that national exclusion is a tacit requirement for successfully democratic regimes.

A guide to the works of Flannery O'Connor, the southern Catholic author so preoccupied with the threat of nihilism. It investigates O'Connor's deepest motivations through more than just her fiction and illuminates the philosophical and theological influences on her life and work.

A collection of nine phenomenological essays by Margaret Chatterjee, studying the historical and cultural evolution of the idea of amity and the concomitant concepts of fraternity, friendship and tolerance. The essays range across cultures and time periods.

An exploration of the problematic formation of national culture within modern English society. It documents the relationship of concepts such as "frontier", "English" and "colonial" through an analysis of literary-cultural figures such as Kipling and T.S. Eliot in their historical contexts.

Encompassing the years 1854 to 1974, this historical study documents the rise and fall of Vermont republicanism, exploring the personalities and the religious, political and social institutions that constituted the Vermont Republican Party.

This text seeks to bring a sociological focus to the work of women realtors. It offers insights into why women choose to sell real estate and why they have come to dominate the profession. The work is based on in-depth interviews with women realtors, carried out through the 1990s.

Studies the years 1649 to 1653, from regicide to the establishment of the Cromwellian Commonwealth, during which time English writers took stock of a disordered England stripped of the traditional ideas of political, moral, and social order and considered the possibilities for a politically and religiously reordered state.

The philosophers Habermas and Levinas are important to an array of debates in contemporary moral theory but rarely assessed in relation to each other. This study is based on the conviction that beneath the surface there is a degree of convergence in their work that is usually overlooked.

This depiction of the problems and potential of modernity focuses on the modern self's desire to individuate whilst facing the ethical responsibility to integrate with the world: Nietzsche's drive for extraordinary individualism; Rousseau's call for the dependable citizen.

Presents a study of five writers from lands formerly or currently ruled by France (Algeria, Cambodia, Guiana, Madagascar, and Mali) and an interrogation of the relevance of postcolonial theory, criticism and studies to these writers. This work places the writers against the background of postcolonial studies.

Examines one of the most radical and precipitous instances in the shift in interpretation and evolution of literary works and their authors. Specifically, this book focuses on the rehabilitation of Euripides in the late nineteenth-century, including the crucial role played by the classicist and English scholar. AW Verrall.

Focusing on cannabis, cocaine, and heroin, this volume presents a brief history and analysis of the laws and policies regarding illicit drugs - considered to be a growing international health threat - in 25 different countries. It also provides data and analysis for both scholars and students of this social, legal, and political problem.

The Boundaries of Technique offers an account of economics as a purposive - that is, human - enterprise. It draws on a thorough account of human action in the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle. Both authors give an account of reason in human action, and the place of technique in moral life.

This work is an analysis of the role of the vice president in foreign policy. Based on the experiences of the five vice presidents who were the most active in global affairs - Nixon, Mondale, Bush, Quayle and Gore - this work analyzes how he should, or should not, be used in US foreign policy.

Was it possible to achieve peace between Jews and Arabs in Palestine in the 1930s? This study discusses the Fifth Avenue muti-millionaires who believed they could bring peace to the Middle East through secret diplomacy and a generous dose of "Baksheesh" (the Arabic word for bribery).