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New to this revised and updated edition of "China and the World" are discussions concerning Chinese foreign policies and international relations theories, the relationship between China and the Third ...

New York Times Bestseller - Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction - A New York Times Notable Book - Bloomberg Best Book of 2018 "Their distinctive contribution to the ...

This book provides an inside view of the social construction of bilingualism in one of the largest and most disadvantaged Spanish-speaking groups in the United States.

This provocative book presents compelling evidence that the fundamental problem behind environmental destruction—and climate change in particular—is the operation of liberal democracy.

Drawing on the authors’ varied experiences working and teaching in the field, Analysis of Multivariate Social Science Data, Second Editionenables a basic understanding of how to use key multivariate m...

The first look at the philosophical issues behind Charlaine Harris´s New York Times bestsellers The Southern Vampire Mysteries and the True Blood television series Teeming with complex, mythical chara...

This book is a guide for Logistician´s (civilian or military) in the execution of support to Disaster Relief efforts. Provides a foundation to plan and coordinate at the federal, state, and local gove...

From the recent proliferation of men´s lifestyle magazines to the rise of gender studies in academia, more and more men (and women) are asking, ´What does it mean to be a man today?´ This extraordinar...

Nesta coleção de anúncios de álcool e tabaco do século 20, vemos como o marketing desses produtos vai do elegante ao excêntrico. Os anúncios de cada época são capturados com imagens que já foram ícone...

Educational and inspirational, this gift-worthy New York Times bestseller from the authors of Rad American Women A-Z, is a bold, illustrated collection of 40 biographical profiles showcasing extraordi...

O fato de que todas as crianças tenham acesso à escola garantiria maior igualdade social? O acesso universal à educação seria suficiente para afastar o ciclo de reprodução social, propiciando as condi...

This is an introductory textbook on probability and induction written by one of the world´s foremost philosophers of science. The book has been designed to offer maximal accessibility to the widest ra...

What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we und...

This book, first published in 2000, adopts a balanced perspective on the subject to offer a serious examination of both Darwinism and Christianity. He covers a wide range of topics, from the Scopes Mo...

This book, which is now made public - when CBPF celebrates the 50th anniversary of the granting of the university mandate by the University of Brazil, which, in turn, completes 100 years of life - is ...

Democratization and Research Methods is a coherent survey and critique of both democratization research and the methodology of comparative politics. The two themes enhance each other: the democratizat...

We have to stop Obama´s radical agenda. Now. We must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda. Because after Obama has won his war on prosperity and canceled the...

RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints is the only textbook that provides specific guidance on how to conduct evaluations when working under resource and/or ...

In Spies for Hire, investigative reporter Tim Shorrock lifts the veil off a major story the government doesn´t want us to know about - the massive outsourcing of top secret intelligence activities to ...

The Aims of Argument focuses on the aims or purposes of argument: to inquire, to convince, to persuade, and to mediate. In contrast to other books´ pedagogy, Aims emphasizes rhetorical contexts, helpi...

The Institutions of the European Union is the key text for anyone wishing to understand the functions, powers, and composition of the EU´s institutions. From the Council of Ministers to the European C...

This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax. It surveys a wide variety of functionalist and formalist theoretical approaches, from depe...

This detailed economic history of Mexico presents a theory about how rent seeking permits economic growth and explains why political instability is not necessarily correlated with economic stagnation....

This book compares the three most prominent representatives of evolutionary algorithms - genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, and evolutionary programming - computational methods at the border be...

An internationally renowned economist joins the bitter debate over globalization as he refutes critics to describe the potential social benefits of a properly governed form of globalization, including...

Over the last three decades American policing has gone through a period of significant change and innovation. In what is a relatively short historical time frame the police began to reconsider their f...

Since Peter H. Rossi, Mark W. Lipsey, and Howard E. Freeman first published Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, more than 90,000 readers have considered it the premier text on how to design, implement,...

The Human Genome Diversity Project was an important controversial research program arising from the debates surrounding the mapping of the human genome. This book, based on a detailed ethnographic stu...