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The Challenge of Famine: Recent Experience, Lessons LearnedJohn Osgood Field, editor Could the many famine and drought crises of recent decades in Africa (and elsewhere) have been avoided? The contributors to this book answer with a firm yes, calling for a response to famine that recognizes the phenomenon not as an event, but as a process, and urging the integration of famine policy with development policy.
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Metropolitan Crime PatternsRobert M. Figlio, Simon Hakim, and George F. Rengert, editors This is one the first books to examine crime trends from a metropolitan-wide perspective. Topics include: the “hardening” of the inner city; crime in suburbia; mobility patterns of offenders; the effect of neighborhood characteristics on crime; variations in police expenditures, and others.
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Against Mediocrity: The Humanities in America's High SchoolsChester E. Finn Jr., Diane Ravitch, and Robert T. Fancher Against Mediocrity starts from, and argues vigorously for, the belief that the education of every American child must be founded on the humanistic disciplines. In sixteen essays, leading scholars, educators, and school policymakers eloquently assess the current condition of the humanities in the secondary schools, analyze how this state of affairs developed and what the humanities ought to be More > | ![]() |
Challenges to the HumanitiesChester E. Finn Jr. Diane Ravitch, and P. Holley Roberts This provocative volume explores themes that were highlighted in Chester Finn's and Diane Ravitch's earlier work (with coauthor Robert Fancher) Against Mediocrity. It elucidates and responds to concerns that underlie current challenges to the humanities, including public apathy, vocationalism, inadequate teacher training, the trendiness of computer study, and the readily determinable More > | ![]() |
Practical Approaches to Peacebuilding: Putting Theory to WorkPamina Firchow and Harry Anastasiou, editors What is sustainable peacebuilding? And what is the relationship between empirical realities and theoretical approaches to the subject? The authors of Practical Approaches to Peacebuilding present a series of case studies from around the world to explore how various peacebuilding theories engage and interact with lived experiences, and also to elaborate useful new theoretical perspectives. More > | ![]() |
The Politics of Taxing and SpendingPatrick Fisher How are budget decisions made by the US government? Is it fair to blame skyrocketing deficits on an inability to curtail spending? How—and why—are taxing and spending decidedly separate political processes?
Emphasizing budgetary politics rather than economic theories, Patrick Fisher offers a clear, thorough overview of how money flows through our government coffers. A welcome More > | ![]() |
Nongovernments: NGOs and the Political Development of the Third WorldJulie Fisher This definitive work on nongovernmental organizations provides a complete overview of the composition and the types of NGOs that have emerged in recent years. Julie Fisher describes in detail the influence these organizations have had on political systems throughout the world and the hope their existence holds for the realization of sustainable development. More > | ![]() |
For the Love of God: NGOs and Religious Identity in a Violent WorldShawn Teresa Flanigan Shawn Teresa Flanigan looks at the role of faith-based nonprofit organizations (FBOs) in the context of international development to explore the ways that history and religious identity have influenced their work. More > | ![]() |
The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and IslamSean Foley If petroleum buys political legitimacy in the Arab Gulf states, how can we explain the rise of dissent and calls for political reform despite sustained oil revenues? The answer, according to Sean Foley, lies in political, social, and economic dynamics that have been brewing beneath the surface for more than a decade—and that are slowly shifting the balance of political power.
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Changing Saudi Arabia: Art, Culture, and Society in the KingdomSean Foley T. E. Lawrence once observed that Saudi Arabia had "so little art" that it could "be said to have no art at all." Whether that was once the case is arguable. But that it is not the case now is clear in Sean Foley's Changing Saudi Arabia.
Exploring the contemporary arts movement in Saudi Arabia in the context of the kingdom's changing political realities, Foley finds More > | ![]() |