Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

By exploring the relationship between domestic and international human rights discourses, this study offers new insights not only into the Chinese but the Western human rights debate as well. Students and scholars should find this work an important tool for understanding the issues of human rights.

Focusing on the topic of circumventing custom, this book places special emphasis on the ingenious ways Orthodox (and other) Jews have devised to avoid breaking the extensive list of activities forbidden on the sabbath.

Drawing on detailed case studies of Latvia, Ukraine and Belarus, Andrei Tsygankov explores how culture shapes foreign economic policy in post-Soviet states, bringing a national identity perspective to bear on international political economy theory.

First ancient seat of the royal house, then centre of the French colonial empire in Indochina, and finally the birthplace of Vietnamese independence, Hanoi is today a thriving urban centre. This is a vivid portrait of a city that is now awakening to the modern era.

Since the 1967 publication of "Studies in Ethnomethodology", Harold Garfinkel has indelibly influenced the social sciences and humanities worldwide. This book, the sequel to "Studies", comprises Garfinkel's work over three decades to further elaborate the study of ethnomethodology.

Against the conservative onslaught, Raskin asserts and demonstrates how the liberal purpose is tied to human liberation and inclusivity for all people. For liberalism to succeed in the 21st century, it must reckon with its past mistakes - especially its reluctance to be bold.

This book provides a structural analysis of race, and a methodology for connecting global to national and local racial processes.

This work asserts the distinctive place that whites can take in the fight for racial justice, bringing together interviews with white antiracist activists from across North America. These whites show the multitude of ways whites can be proactive in combating modern racism.

Spurred by the dramatic landscape transformation associated with European colonization of the Americas, this work creates a prototype theory to explain relationships between colonialism and landscape.

Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism highlights Wilsons sharp departure from the traditional principles of American government, most notably the Constitution. Ronald J.

This work defends the metaphysics of "internal realism", a view authored by Hilary Putnam, and seeks to build on its basis an immanent realistic position to resolve two conflicts: the conflict between realism and some forms of anti-realism; and between transcendent and immanent realism.

The essays in this collection share a consistent theme running through much of Narveson's moral and political philosophy: namely that politics and morals stem from the interests of individual people and that the authority for these concepts comes from the exigencies of co-operation.

Erin McKenna argues that Utopian vision informed by pragmatism results in a process model of Utopia that can help form the future based on critical intelligence. Using John Dewey's works with feminist theory and literature, McKenna develops this pragmatist feminist model of Utopia.

Bina Gupta strives to obtain a harmonious balance between the traditions of Eastern and Western philosophy. Using ancient and modern sources from these traditions, Gupta introduces the sources' insights on questions such as: Who am I? What is the meaning of life? How ought I to act?

Mills argues for a new critical theory that develops the insights of the black radical political tradition. While challenging conventional interpretations of key Marxist concepts and claims, the author contends that Marxism has been 'white' insofar as it has failed to recognize the centrality of race and white supremacy to the making of the modern world.

This work argues that there are forces developing that might constitute a "counterproject" to the project of globalizing capitalism. It articulates, as a successor-system to capitalism, a model of "economic democracy", a system that extends democracy to the workplace and investment finance.

This text uses the nature writing of Annie Dillard and the philosophical categories of Emmanual Levinas to critique the models of God that drive contemporary political theologies. These theologies ignore the amoral aspects of existence in the natural world, though they align God with the cosmos.

This is an interpretation and critique of Habermas's philosophy of law in his "Between Facts and Norms", which James Marsh feels is flawed by a fundamental contradiction: the notion of a democracy ruled by law and capitalism.

This text argues for pluralistic ethics, philosophical anthropology and epistemology in a cross-cultural context. It provides an account of what it means to be a genuine social and spiritual being - a person in the diverse worlds of which we are a part, and to which we contribute.

Through the use of three case studies - Poland, Croatia, and the Slovak Republic - this work argues that the Catholic Church remains deeply involved in the central politics of this region over both governmental structure and public policy.

This work analyzes Paz's political thought, arguing that it is rooted in two separate and often antagonistic traditions, Liberalism and Romanticism. This work also provides a discussion of the political culture and democratization of Mexico.

Once supressed by the Soviet regime, the "Detektiv", Russia's version of the murder mystery has become one of the most popular genres of writing in Russian culture. This study of the genre shows that Russians understand law-breaking and crime, policemen and criminals very differently from the West.

Through case studies, this study examines Mexico's reform exprerience in privatization, and explains how institutional dynamics and the capacity to solve the problem of policy "costs" strongly affected reformers' prospects of success.

Three experts on research, science, and the media provide an antidote to the statistical overload that has had our heads spinning for years. This revealing book sets the record straight, separating fact from fiction, on such topics as cell phones, missing children, breast implants, AIDS, cancer, radiation, violent crime rates, illegitimate birthrates, and day care crises.

In his newest book, leading social theorist Jonathan H. Turner offers a creative, richly grounded reinterpretation of social evolution.

At once a travelogue, a book of war reportage and a biography of the imagination under siege, this personal narrative takes the reader along on the author's journeys to all the provinces and republics of the former Yugoslavia.

An examination of the United States' responses to global warming negotiations through an ethical lens. The text concludes that many of the United States' positions in global climate change negotiations are ethically bankrupt no matter what ethical theory is used in the analysis.

Ranging from discussions of the natural world, livelihoods, and religious and intellectual encounters to language play, crime and punishment, and gender, this book replays the themes of enduring hybridity and "creolization" of cultures dating from the first great encounter between Europe and Asia.

Graduate schools have faced attrition rates of approximately 50 per cent since 1960. This study examines what is wrong with the structure and process of graduate education in its aim to locate the root cause of attrition in the social structure and cultural organization.