Social science

Minor League Baseball: Community Building Through Hometown Sports

by Frank Hoffmann, Rebecca S Kraus & Martin J Manning

Examine the big-league benefits of minor league baseball!The Minor League Baseball: Community Building Through Hometown Sports examines the role played by minor league baseball in hundreds of cities and towns...

Aging and Spirituality: Spiritual Dimensions of Aging Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

by David O. Moberg

Explore the spiritual dimensions of aging through science, theory, and practice!During the later years of life, many people devote energy to a process of spiritual awakening and self-discovery. Yet their family,...

The Pastor's Family: The Challenges of Family Life and Pastoral Responsibilities

by Harold G Koenig & Daniel L Langford

Describing the difficulties of balancing a career and family life, The Pastor's Family: The Challenges of Family Life and Pastoral Responsibilities is a personal narrative that discusses the all-too-familiar...

Civic Engagement and the Baby Boomer Generation: Research, Policy, and Practice Perspectives

by Laura Wilson

Discover a vital source of volunteers for your organization

By the year 2020, there will be 65 million people aged 65 and over living in the United States—a new generation of active older adults expecting to...

Postmodernism Religion and the Future of Social Work

by Jean A Pardeck, John W Murphy & Roland Meinert

Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work discusses the benefits and disadvantages of the postmodern philosophy as a foundation for social work and human service practice. Social work students and...

The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States

by Annette Mahoney

The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States is a timely addition to the knowledge base concerning the integration of this population into the fabric of American society. On the eve...

Alfred Von Schlieffen's Military Writings

by Robert Foley

A collection of some of the writings of Generalfeldmarschall Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, one of the more intriguing of Imperial Germany's military figures. Schlieffens 15 years as Chief of the General staff...

The Munich Crisis 1938

by Erik Goldstein & Igor Lukes

Most of the works on the crises of the 1930s and especially the Munich Agreement in 1938 were written when it was virtually impossible to gain access to the relevant archive collections on both sides of the...

The Russian-Chechen Conflict 1800-2000: A Deadly Embrace

by Robert Seely

In 1994, the mountain territory of Chechnya was witness to the largest military campaign staged on Russian soil since World War II. The Russo-Chechen war is examined within the context of the bitter history...

South Africa and the International Media 1972-1979

by James Sanders

This book studies the Anglo-American media's representation of South Africa in the 1970s - the international media is shown to have been under continuous pressure from both the South African Dept of Information...

Naval Strategy in Northeast Asia: Geo-strategic Goals, Policies and Prospects

by Duk-Ki Kim

Over the past decade, Northeast Asia has been dominated by quite significant strategic change, which is ongoing and brings with it many uncertainties. naval capabilities in Northwest Asia are instrumental in...

French Military Rule in Morocco: Colonialism and its Consequences

by Moshe Gershovich

This analysis of French colonial ideology and interest in Morocco delineates the manner in which the agents of the protectorate regime sought to conquer the country and control its indigenous inhabitants. Numerous...

Turkey Before and After Ataturk: Internal and External Affairs

by Sylvia Kedourie

Turkey's modern history has been unstable and contradictory. National identity continues to be an issue as Turks are faced with joining the West and preserving their own culture. The emergence of Islamicism...

The Dynamics of the Armed Struggle

by J. Bowyer Bell

This is an analysis of one of the most prevalent forms of political violence at the end of the millennium. The author has been shot at, kidnapped, expelled and questioned in wars from Central America to Northern...

The Politics of Christian Zionism 1891-1948

by Paul C. Merkley

For this book Professor Merkley has researched presidential archives, Jewish historical libraries and official Zionist records in the US and in Israel for evidence of the dealings between official Zionists and...

Human Resource Management in the Asia-Pacific Region: Convergence Revisited

by Chris Rowley

HRM (human resource management) suffers from a selective tendancy and ad hoc approach, which misses the historical, paradoxical often incoherent, incompatible and inconsistent nature of the subject. This text...

Sir Frederick Sykes and the Air Revolution 1912-1918

by Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Ash

This is a long-overdue study of Sir Frederick H. Sykes, Chief of the Air Staff of Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) during the First World War. Historians, for the most part, have either overlooked Sykes or misinterpreted...

Arms Control: New Approaches to Theory and Policy

by Nancy W. Gallagher

Contents: Bridging the Gaps on Arms Control Nancy W. Gallagher. Arms Control in the Information Age Emily O. Goldman. A New Role for Transparency Ann M. Florini. Beyond Deterrence, Defence, and Arms Control...

Understanding Research: Coping with the Quantitative - Qualitative Divide

by M.I. Franklin

Planning, undertaking and completing a research project - from dissertations to presentations - can be a daunting undertaking for any student, involving a number of easily taken mis-steps for those without adequate...

The Crisis of Representation in Europe

by Jack Hayward

The 1994 European Elections focused public attention on the perception that representatives put integration above public interest. The contributors here critically assess the diagnosis of the ailment and the...