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Argues that the security of the United States cannot be protected by reducing its involvement in international affairs. The book contends that the most vital security interest of the nation is in the effective functioning of the state system as a system of peace.

In this work the author studies the role of toy characters in works ranging from older classics such as "Pinocchio" and "Winnie the Pooh" to modern texts such as "The Mouse and his Child" and the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" science fiction with robots and cyborgs.

When peasants live in complex agrarian societies with distinct hierarchies of power, how much are they able to shape their world? In this socio-economic, political and anthropological history, Siu explores this question by examining a rural community from the late 19th century.

A collection of poems by Craig Arnold. Arnold plays on the idea of the shell as both the dazzling surface of the self and a hard case that protects the self against the assaults of the world. His poems narrate amatory and culinary misadventures.

This selection of letters written by Hindemith spans his entire career, from World War I until shortly before his death in 1963. They reveal that he was an observant, engaging and opinionated correspondent who took a keen interest in contemporary culture and politics.

Kathleen F. Parthe offers an analysis of the power of Russian literature to shape national identity despite sustained efforts to silence authors deemed subversive.

Through a series of biographical sketches of female performers and managers, Dudden provides a discussion of the conflicted messages conveyed by the early theatre about what it meant to be a woman. It both showed women as sex objects and provided opportunities for careers.

Explores how living in Paris shaped the literary works of five expatriate Americans: Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Djuna Barnes. The book treats these figures and their works as instances of the effect of place on writing and the formation of the self.

Marie Borroff is a literary critic, poet and philologist as well as mediaevalist. In this collection of essays she explores problems of central importance in the poetry of Chaucer and his nameless contemporary, the "Gawain" - or "Pearl" - poet.

This text examines ideas about the nature of constitutional government, the legitimacy of judicial lawmaking, and the proper role of the federal courts. It focuses on the Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and his opinion on the 1938 landmark case Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins.

This text argues that rhetorical theory did not originate with the Sophists in the 5th century BC, but came into being a century later. It examines the terminology of the Sophists and of their reporters and opponents, and contends that rhetorical theory had not yet formed.

Joseph Leidy, a leading American scientist of the mid-19th century, was an important anatomist, the first productive microscopist, and the author of groundbreaking papers. This biography provides an account of Leidy's life and accomplishments, setting them in their social and historical contexts.

An analysis of child support payments during the 1980s which assesses what went right and what went wrong with them. The authors investigate the socioeconomic and legal factors that determined child support awards and receipts and offer policy recommendations for the future.

Looking at the aesthetic, literary and intellectual aspects of science, this work sets out to convey what is involved in being a scientist today. Science is described as a great adventure, a search for why things are as they are.

Examining and deciphering Freud's original manuscripts, this work analyzes Freud's method of working. The text points out what the writings reveal of Freud's psychological states, the events in his life and the development of his thinking over time.

In this text, a constitutional law scholar argues that most of the social issues agenda for law violates the constitutional principle of equal citizenship. The conservative "social issues agenda" is targeted at voters who have felt left out by other civil rights movements.

The school choice reform movement believes parents should have a choice of where they send their children to school. In this book the author, an educational sociologist, discusses the practice and politics of school choice objectively and comprehensively.

This work comprises the memoirs of Richard M. Bissell Jr, whose leadership of America's intelligence services brought about such developments as the U-2 spy plane and the Corona spy satellite, and who was also the architect of the Bay of Pigs operation that faied to overthrow Castro in 1961.

Drawing on data from interviews with key Soviet architects of "new thinking" and of Gorbachev-era policy reforms, this text offers an historical narrative of political change in the late Soviet period, along with theoretical insights into the effect of ideas on state behaviour.

During World War I, the Catholic church blocked the distribution of government-sponsored VD prevention films, a trend which continued for the next 20 or so years. This work provides an account of these efforts, what effect they had on the movie industry, and why they were eventually abandoned.

Since the 19th century the Japanese have looked to the West for ideas, institutions and technology that would help them achieve the goal of "national wealth and strength". In this book, an historian of Japan discusses Japan's "cultural borrowing" from America and Europe.

This study aims to provide a systematic treatment of arguments-from-ignorance across a wide range of modern discourse - from constitutional law, scientific inquiry and moral philosophy to organizational behaviour, computer operation and personal interaction.

This text details the follow up study of alcohol use amongst three groups of Native Americans first interviewed in 1966. The authors found that there is a considerable diversity in patterns of alcohol use among both women and men.

An historical survey of government involvement in US human services. The work traces the development and integration of service agencies and suggests that future social service reform must unify goals and eliminate the overlap among a number of organizations.

What is behind the greening of European politics, and what is the future of the Green movement? This book examines environmental interest groups at the vanguard of the Green movement in Western Europe - from Greenpeace to national bird societies - in order to answer these questions.

Based on archives worldwide, this work explores the political involvements of this British industrialist. The study reveals Chamberlain's aggressive approach to Britain's problems between 1867 and 1914 including his involvement in Irish Home Rule and the House of Lords.

The author evaluates the properties of low-frequency electromagnetic fields and their interactions with the human body, exploring the possible link to cancer, and concludes that the health risks from these interactions have been vastly overstated.

Describes how four 20th-century women writers have inherited and adapted a tradition of American romance. Analyzing fiction by Faulkner and others, this work goes on to explain how women have updated the genre to include alternatives to matriarchal (as well as patriarchal) constructions.