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The Music Criticism of Hugo WolfHenry Pleasants, editor and translator Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), the renowned composer of German lieder, left another legacy to musical world. His musical criticism, which first appeared in the Wiener Salonblatt from 1884 to 1887, is now available to the English-speaking world, complete with annotations by music critic and author Henry Pleasants.
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Guns, Violence, and Criminal Behavior: The Offender’s PerspectiveMark Pogrebin, Paul B. Stretesky, and N. Prabha Unnithan How are guns used and viewed by criminals? Where do criminals obtain guns? And how do laws make firearms more or less accessible? Confronting these contentious questions, Guns, Violence, and Criminal Behavior offers a comprehensive exploration of the social processes surrounding illegal firearm use and criminal behavior.
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Inventing North America: Canada, Mexico, and the United StatesGuy Poitras In the face of potent domestic and global forces, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico—the NA-3—have devised an enterprise that promises to draw them closer together in the twenty-first century. Inventing North America is an attempt to understand the NA-3's unique brand of regionalism within an increasingly globalized world.
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Human Rights: New Perspectives, New RealitiesAdamantia Pollis and Peter Schwab, editors This original collection reflects nearly two decades of developments in human rights scholarship, revisiting the debate between universalists and cultural relativists and also engaging new notions of "third generation" rights.
The book begins with an analytical framework that encompasses changing perspectives on human rights and informs the chapters that follow. The case studies then More > | ![]() |
Connecting Peace, Justice, and ReconciliationElisabeth Porter Can postconflict states achieve both peace and justice as they deal with a traumatic past? What role does reconciliation play in healing wounds, building trust, and rectifying injustices? This provocative book, incorporating the frameworks of both peace/conflict studies and transitional justice, explores the core challenges that war-torn states confront once the violence has ended.
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Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Regimes and ResistanceMarsha Pripstein Posusney and Michele Penner Angrist, editors Why do authoritarian regimes prevail in the Middle East, while successful democratic transitions are occurring elsewhere in the developing world? Authoritarianism in the Middle East addresses this question, focusing on the role of political institutions and the strategic choices made by both rulers and opposition challengers. The authors eschew cultural explanations, highlighting instead the More > | ![]() |
Deeper Than Debt: Economic Globalisation and the PoorGeorge Ann Potter In this era of economic globalization, the debt owed by the poorest countries allows the richest to have enormous influence over most Southern economies. George Ann Potter brings together a wide range of arguments and views to examine the effects of economic globalization on the lives of the poor majority in debtor countries, showing how the issue of debt can illuminate the process of the More > | ![]() |
Foreign Aid Competition in Northeast AsiaHyo-sook Kim and David M. Potter, editors In recent years, China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan have been transformed from aid recipients to aid donors, raising a number of questions. What motivated these four countries to embark on aid programs? Do their policies represent new approaches to poverty alleviation? Do they reinforce or disrupt the emerging consensus within the international community on aid policy harmonization and More > | ![]() |
Project Planning and Analysis for DevelopmentDavid Potts In this comprehensive, practical guide to project planning and appraisal in developing countries, David Potts focuses on economic and financial analysis, but also gives serious weight to such key factors as sustainability and social impact.
Part 1 of the book considers a range of approaches to project identification and design and introduces basic techniques for determining costs and benefits. More > | ![]() |
Peace Operations Seen From Below: UN Missions and Local PeopleBéatrice Pouligny Béatrice Pouligny argues that much of what is being rebuilt in societies emerging from war —or in some cases what is continuing to be destroyed—often lies in the ordinary daily lives of both local populations and the staff of UN peacekeeping missions.
Pouligny's close analysis of UN interventions—in Cambodia, Somalia, Mozambique, El Salvador, Bosnia, Haiti, Sierra More > | ![]() |