Books in the Main Trends of the Modern World series

This multi-disciplinary anthology explores the topic of violence from a wide variety of perspectives. It looks at state violence, dealing with nationalism, warmaking and the Nazi genocide; anti-state violence with essays on the IRA; and criminal violence such as armed robbery.

The essays in this book address the inter-relationship of power, politics, and violence, examining why the political process of managing power within states sometimes becomes physically violent.

The resurgence of racial, ethnic and nationalist loyalties in the contemporary world are examined in this volume.

Science and the Quest for Reality is an interdisciplinary anthology that situates contemporary science within its complex philosophical, historical, and sociological contexts.

Science and the Quest for Reality is an interdisciplinary anthology that situates contemporary science within its complex philosophical, historical, and sociological contexts.

This volume is designed first to provide a theoretical orientation and historical perspective on the rise of the middle classes in modern civilization, and second, to portray the social and political roles these classes have played and continue to play in the United States over the past century.

The aim of this book is to bring together classical, recent and contemporary analyses of the social movement phenomenon. Analysis is represented in several variants of its discursive form: the expository essay, the critique, the general theory, the specific case study and the futuristic meditation.