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• Author(s): Paul V. Dutton • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Health PolicyAlthough the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance cover...

• Author(s): Julie Cupples | Tom Slater • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: World - Caribbean & Latin AmericanThis book explores these urban dynamics in Mexico Cit...

• Author(s): Samuel L. Baily • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralMost studies of immigration to the New World have focused on the United States. Samuel L. Baily's eagerly...

• Author(s): Jennifer Jihye Chun • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsThe realities of globalization have produced a surprising reversal in the focus and strategies of labor movements arou...

• Author(s): Sonia A. Hirt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentWhy are American cities, suburbs, and towns so distinct? Compared to Euro...

• Author(s): Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay | Chris Vander Kaay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Science Fiction & Fantasy Much of 20th century science fiction foretold...

• Author(s): Daniel P. Franklin | Michael J. Baun • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ReferenceThis work is a cross-national examination of the relationship between political culture and constitutionalism. The countries...

• Author(s): Colleen Ballerino Cohen | Richard Wilk | Beverly Stoeltje • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryModern beauty contests were invented by P.T. Barnum in the United States, but in t...

• Author(s): Paul F. Steinberg • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsCombining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore respo...

• Author(s): Jon Oplinger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology - General Not your typical sociology primer, this straightforward yet challenging text begins with a discussion of foun...

• Author(s): Stephen K. Boss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Violence in Society At a time when mass shootings in schools and other public spaces have become commonplace, it might seem su...

• Author(s): Diana Raffman • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Instruction & Study - AppreciationThe first cognitivist theory of the nature of ineffable, or verbally inexpressible, musical knowledge.Taking a...

• Author(s): Jaap Jacobs • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Du...

• Author(s): Raymond A. Bauer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe focus of this volume is nothing less than the entire set of social indicators--statistics, statistical series, and all other forms...

• Author(s): Graley Herren • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Bringing together some of the best work from the 2015 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this book cov...

• Author(s): Milton E. Osborne • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe strategic hamlet program in South Vietnam deserves careful consideration in...

• Author(s): Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues | Danny Singh | Alex J. Bellamy • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: PoliticalThis edited volume addresses the morality of war from...

• Author(s): Andrei Shleifer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeA noted economist argues that the ubiquity of regulation can be explained by its greater efficiency when compa...

• Author(s): Graley Herren • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Text & Presentation gathers some of the best work presented at the 2014 Comparative Drama Conference in Ba...

• Author(s): Richard L. Carson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Economics - TheoryComparative Economic Systems is published in three editions, one for each major part. This is Part II and covers Socialist Alternative...

• Author(s): Guglielmo Cinque • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxA new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence.In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic...

• Author(s): Edward E. Leamer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International - GeneralThis is the first book to present a clear empirical picture of the international exchange of goods and of the resources that accou...

• Author(s): Wynn Wilcox • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis sound interpretation of Vietnamese cultural attitudes contends th...

• Author(s): Graley Herren • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Bringing together some of the best work from the 2016 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this collecti...

• Author(s): Anita Chan • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsAs the "world's factory" China exerts an enormous pressure on workers around the world. Many nations have had to adjust to a ne...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In 1907, the editor of The New York Times wrote, "Employers, naturally, look to the young. A man or woman of advanced ye...

• Author(s): Amy Muse • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism This volume is the sixteenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields ...

• Author(s): Stratos E. Constantinidis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Martin Perry • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Management - GeneralRecent development experience points to the way business can be the key to a dynamic small business sector, especially where t...