BOOKS

The New African Poetry: An Anthology
Tanure Ojaide and Tijan M. Sallah, editors

This anthology presents the voices of a new generation of African poets, drawn from across the continent and representing a wide range of themes, styles, and ideologies. These contemporary    More >

The Golden Phoenix: Seven Contemporary Korean Short Stories
Suh Ji-moon, translator and editor

These seven stories, dramatic and thought-provoking, provide a compelling picture of Korean life in the 1940s–1990s. Family and community ties, respect for tradition, survival in the    More >

The Evolution of Public Policy: Cars and the Environment
Toni Marzotto, Vicky Moshier Burnor, and Gordon Scott Bonham

How is U.S. public policy made? This comprehensive survey, designed to help students and scholars understand the complexity of policymaking, traces the Employee Commute Option (ECO) step by    More >

G-24: The Developing Countries in the International Financial System
edited by Eduardo Mayobre, Central Bank of Venezuela

Appearing some twenty-five years after the inaugural meeting of the Group of 24, this book relates the efforts made by developing countries in the arena of international monetary issues. A    More >

Japan's Navy: Politics and Paradox
Peter J. Woolley

Japan’s navy, after that of the United States, is now the most potent in the Pacific Ocean. This book examines the development and potential of the Japanese navy in the context of the    More >

Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant
Christopher Wise, editor

From the appearance of Bound to Violence in the late 1960s, Yambo Ouologuem has been one of Africa's most controversial writers. For some critics, the young Malian signaled an entire new    More >

Biological Warfare: Modern Offense and Defense
Raymond A. Zilinskas, editor

Recent revelations about Iraqi and Soviet/Russian biological weapons programs and highly publicized events such as the deployment of anthrax and botulinum by the Aum Shinrikyo sect in Japan    More >

Restructuring Political Power in China: Alliances and Opposition, 1978-1998
An Chen

This systematic study of China's structural transformation during the past two decades emphasizes the balance-of-power game so ably played by Deng Xiaoping and others among the post-Mao    More >

Reforming the State: Managerial Public Administration in Latin America
Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira and Peter Spink, editors

Neoconservative proposals for a minimal state notwithstanding, it has become increasingly clear in Latin America (and elsewhere) that the state must in fact be strengthened and the civil    More >

Political Learning and Redemocratization in Latin America: Do Politicians Learn from Political Crises?
Jennifer L. McCoy, editor

Intrigued with the question of how societies adopt norms, institutions, and rules associated with liberal democracy, the contributors to this volume examine how political actors in Latin    More >

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