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Yoga has come to be an icon of Indian culture and civilization, and it is widely regarded as being timeless and unchanging. This book challenges this popular view by examining the history of yoga, focusing on its emergence in modern India and its dramatically changing form and significance in the twentieth century.

A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, this title traces the development of government intervention in agriculture from its nineteenth-century origins to contemporary struggles over farm subsidies.

Is the United States a nation of materialistic loners whose politics are dictated by ethnic, racial, religious, or sexual identities? This book explores the institutional structures of American society, emphasizing its ability to accommodate difference and reduce conflict.

A history of American federalism that argues that nation-building cannot be understood apart from the process of industrialization and the making of the working class in the late-eighteenth-century United States.

Lets American anarchists speak for themselves. This title contains fifty-three interviews conducted by the author over a period of thirty years, interviews that portray the human dimensions of a movement much maligned by the authorities and contemporary journalists.

Using class analysis to understand the dynamics of political conflict in mid-nineteenth-century France, this title explores political activity among workers in three industrialized French cities - Toulouse, Saint-Etienne, and Rouen. It analyses the failed municipal revolutions of 1871 and the triumph of liberal-democratic institutions in France.

Americans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly profess support for government policies to promote employment. Why, then, have employment policies gained only a tenuous foothold in the United States? This title highlights two related elements: the power of ideas in policymaking and the politics of interest formation.

From President Nixon's historic visit to China in 1972 to the aftermath of the Tiananmen tragedy, this book examines the changing perceptions of the United States articulated by China's 'America Watchers', whose occupation is to interpret the 'beautiful imperialist' for China's elite and public.

Before the intifada began, the author had already looked at local organizations in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and seen there the main elements that would eventually be used to mobilize the Palestinian masses. This title studies these organizations.

Drawing on work with Indian and Japanese patients, this title explores inner worlds that are markedly different from the Western psyche. It features case studies that illustrate this argument: the 'familial self', rooted in the subtle emotional hierarchical relationships of the family and group, predominates in Indian and Japanese psyches.

Intended for those interested in the differences in function between the left and right brain hemispheres.

'An important new book-length analysis of Soviet policy toward developing countries is Alvin Z. Rubinstein's Moscow's Third World Strategy.' Roger E. Kanet, Soviet Studies

Presents a discussion focused on economic topics.

Offers the study of changes in Soviet cinema that have been taking place since 1985. This title examines a variety of films from "BOMZH" (initials standing for homeless drifter) through Taxi Blues and the glasnost blockbuster "Little Vera" to the Latvian documentary "Is It Easy to Be Young?" and the "new wave" productions of "Wild Kazakh boys."

Explores the interaction of political ideology and academic social science in democratic and totalitarian regimes, the transformation of German conservatism by the experience of National Socialism, and the ways in which tension between former collaborators and former opponents of National Socialism continued to mold West German intellectual life.

Did bilateral and regional bargaining choke off international commerce and finance in the 1930s and prolong the Great Depression? This title shows how economic discrimination can foster international economic openness by facilitating political exchange.

'Writing as he does with energy and grace, Kernan is a thoughtful guide to the world Johnson lived in and helped to make...What is best about Kernan's book is that it is up to date but not voguish; he has assimilated new scholarship but not been overpowered by it.' - W.B. Carnochan, The Times Literary Supplement

Offers a look at Italy from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries focusing on a literary tradition. This book moves from a reframing of literature from the first half of the nineteenth century - including readings of works by Byron, de Stael, Barrett Browning, and others - to an examination of Henry James's engagement with Europe.

Despite his celebrity and his fame, a series of literary feuds and the huge volume of sources have precluded a satisfying biography of Allen Tate. This work explores his attempt, first through politics and then through art, to reconcile his fierce talent and ambition with the painful history of his family and of the South.

Since the desegregation battles of the 1960s and 1970s, the legal pursuit of educational opportunity in the United States has been framed around race. This book examines the consequences of efforts to use state constitutional provisions to reduce the 'resource segregation' of American schools and the politics of the opposition to these decisions.

How do the places we live in and visit shape our lives and memories? What does it mean to reside in different locations across the span of a life? Presenting the portraits of places seen from within, the author contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense of place locates the stories of our own lives.

Analyzes the reconstitution of the Russian polity. This book looks at Russia's democratic transition at the local level. It explains why some of the political institutions in the Russian provinces weathered the monumental changes of the early 1990s better than others.

Philosophical debates over the fundamental principles that should guide life-and-death medical decisions usually occur at a considerable remove from the tough, real-world choices made in hospital rooms, courthouses, and legislatures. This title seeks to change that.

Shows how, beginning with Lenin, the Communists established a state monopoly of the media that absorbed literature, art, and science into a stylized and ritualistic public culture. This work explores the close relationship between language and the implementation of the Stalinist-Leninist program.

Argues for participatory democracy without dependence on abstract metaphysical foundations, and stresses the relationship among democracy and civil society, civic education and culture. This book is divided into sections including 'American Theory: Democracy, Liberalism, and Rights' and 'American Practice: Leadership, Citizenship, and Censorship'.

Argues that boundaries of political liberal theorizing must be redrawn. This work proposes a theory of liberal nonpublic life. It offers a fresh look at liberal theory and what it means for a liberal society to function well.

In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the debt-driven of the Reagan era. This book asks why a city with a large minority population and a long tradition of liberalism elected a conservative mayor who promoted real-estate development and belittled minority activists.

An ethnography of contemporary Java. It analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. It exposes the ways a culture reconstitutes itself. It leads to insights into the 'accidents' that precede the formulations of culture as such.

Princeton University's Elias Stein was the first mathematician to see the profound interconnections that tie classical Fourier analysis to several complex variables and representation theory. This volume gathers papers from internationally renowned mathematicians, many of whom have been Stein's students.