Social science

Inaccuracies in Children's Testimony: Memory, Suggestibility, or Obedience to Authority?

by Letitia C Pallone & Jon'A F Meyer

Inaccuracies in Children's Testimony combines the literature on obedience to authority with that on suggestibility to create a third literature. This book examines children's testimony from several perspectives...

Combating Transnational Crime: Concepts, Activities and Responses

by Dimitri Vlassis & Phil Williams

This work examines the challenges posed by transnational crime and the steps being taken by the international community to meet these challenges. It offers comprehensive analysis of different forms of transnational...

Delegation and Accountability in European Integration: The Nordic Parliamentary Democracies and the European Union

by Torbjorn Bergman & Erik Damgaard

Analyzing the effects of the European Union on national decision-making and the chain of delegation and accountability, the authors look at Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Norway. The analyses are based...

Napoleon and the World War of 1813: Lessons in Coalition Warfighting

by J.P. Riley

This analysis of the world war between Napoleon and the 6th coalition in 1813 covers operations in Europe, Spain and North America. It examines the differences between alliances and coalitions, comparing the...

In the Path of Allah: 'Umar, An Essay into the Nature of Charisma in Islam'

by John Ralph Willis

A West African Sufi and religious reformer (c.1794-1864), struggled to reconcile the temporal achievements of his jihad with his mystical calling. The fame of Shaykh Omar rested on his reputation as a worker...

Holy' Johnson Pioneer of African Nationalism 1836-1917

by E.A. Ayandele

A biography of one of the great 19th-century Africans and an insightful analysis of one of the earlier phases of African nationalism.

The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa

by Lord Frederick J.D. Lugard

A survey of the historical and international aspects of colonial rule in Africa.

The Tribes Of The Marsh Arabs of Iraq: The World of Haji Rikkan

by Fulanain

The Arab tribes of Iraq differ widely in custom but remain in all essentials of thought and conduct a distinctive and unique group. Their land embraces wide deserts, fertile fields and boundless swamps; its...

Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia: Comparative and Historical Colonialism

by Jan van Bremen & Akitoshi Shimizu

For a time it was almost a cliche to say that anthropology was a handmaiden of colonialism - by which was usually meant 'Western' colonialism. And this insinuation was assumed to somehow weaken the theoretical...

Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz

by Reynold A. Nicholson

Selection of the lyrical poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi.

Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction

by Suzanne Ferriss & Mallory Young

From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the City that captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female...

Human Rights and Private Wrongs: Constructing Global Civil Society

by Alison Brysk

Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they are too "private" to consider as policy issues:...

Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home

by Laura Levitt

By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are...

Mediating Nature

by Nils Lindahl Elliot

Mediating Nature provides a history of the present nature of mass mediation. It examines the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies and institutions have historically shaped the current ways of imagining...

War Plans and Alliances in the Cold War: Threat Perceptions in the East and West

by Vojtech Mastny, Sven S. Holtsmark & Andreas Wenger

This essential new volume reviews the threat perceptions, military doctrines, and war plans of both the NATO alliance and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, as well as the position of the neutrals, from the...

The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey

by Elizabeth Crawford

In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Crawford provides the first survey of women's suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing on local campaigns and activists.

Divided into thirteen...

Forensic Psychology

by Joanna R. Adler

This book brings together a team of experts in the field of forensic psychology to demonstrate the scope of the discipline and the techniques employed in key areas of research, policy and practice. Its aim is...

Queer Economics: A Reader

by Joyce Jacobsen & Adam Zeller

An important new book, bringing together into one volume many of the salient early articles in the field as well as important recent contributions, this reader is an examination of and response to the effects...

International Relations: The Key Concepts

by Steven C. Roach, Martin Griffiths & Terry O'Callaghan

Featuring over twenty new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its second edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it...

Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies

by Henry A. Giroux

Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack...