Books published by Taylor & Francis Inc

This work describes the drive for empire as part of a larger ideological whole, one both expressing and aggravating a crisis of democracy. This ideology is about far more than America's role in the world - it encompasses an elaborate view of human nature and society.

Looks into how, why, and when people pursue those things in life that they desire, the things they do to make their existence attractive, worth living. This book synthesizes three main forms of leisure (serious, casual, and project-based) showing their distinctive features, similarities, and interrelationships.

These articles that cover international law and the nature of global order. They debate the role that international law should play in the formulation of policy, and whether "international law" really exists. Such questions as the enforceable norms of global behaviour are also explored.

The rapid loss of tropical forests has been a global concern since the 1980s and has prompted a variety of international initiatives. This work offers insights into the global/national interactions relating to forest conservation and development, along with lessons for future strategies.

Designed to help educators to define, select, and defend realistic educational practices that include and serve well their English language learning student populations. This volume is intended for educational administrators, all educators who have a keen interest in school reform at the classroom, school, or district level.

Throughout history political, religious and other single-issue lobbying groups have attempted to curtail social research projects. In this text, Morton Hunt examines their influence and ability to stifle research from a non-partis an standpoint.

Traces the careers of thirteen women and men who have presided over a total of twenty universities at a time of change and uncertainty, when opportunities for achievement and potential for failure made their role uncommonly challenging, and success called for considerable determination, integrity, foresight, skill, and courage.

Divided into four parts, the book deals with the context of the moralization of the markets; the major social institutions; and present case studies that examine European and American attitudes and behavior towards tobacco and GMO. This volume will interest sociologists, economists, social scientists, and the general consumer.

Originally published in 2004, this book is a modern account of the full range of Watts's different artistic interests and practices. Offering fresh approaches to his allegorical and mythological paintings, it also traces examines the institutional and biographical factors behind his public profile.

This text explains the procedural give-and-take of policy-making for the Medicare and Medicaid programmes and the process in relation to larger political issues. It aims to provide enough information to enable the reader to navigate this policy domain.

Deals with the Reading Research.

Organized around five themes: Multiple Global Issues for Immigrant Children and the Schools They Attend; They Are Here: Newcomers in the Schools; Views and Voices of Immigrant Children; Far from Home With Fluctuating Hopes; and Searching for New Ways to Belong. This work is intended for researchers, students, professionals and policymakers.

Applies evolutionary and cultural theory to the interpretation of prehistoric cultural development in the western hemisphere. This book reviews cultural development in Mesoamerica and the central Andes, and examines adaptation in North and South American regions with similar environments.

How are families the same or different around the world? This book puts the similarities and differences into perspective, presenting an analysis of family life in 17 countries around the world. It describes the types of family patterns within each country's social organization and culture. It is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students.

The disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s ended the Yugoslavian Federation, which for nearly fifty years had succeeded in preserving a delicate coexistence among the ethnic, religious, and national components contained within it. This book describes and analyzes the growth of radical Islam in the Balkans.

A study of the nomadic peoples of the Mongol Empire from the fifth century BC to the 15th century AD. It covers the early nomadic populations of Eurasia, military fronts of the Altaic Nomads, the nomad conquerors who brought about the Ottoman Empire, and Russia and China after the Mongols.

Presents many topics in the elastin and elastases fields. This work explains elastin, its biosynthesis, physicochemical properties, and alteration in a variety of pathologies and with aging. It also describes elastases, their physiological and pathological roles and their control by natural and synthetic inhibitors.

This is an introduction to the world of plant ecology, aimed primarily at undergrad and graduate students. It includes ideas about plant populations, nutrition and plant community ecology, and has an emphasis on the interactions of plants with animals, fungi and microorganisms. It focuses on the human impact on the world¿s plant species.

In this book Anna Doro-on provides multifaceted components and full practical perspectives of systems engineering and risk management in security and defense operations with a focus on infrastructure and manpower control systems, missile design, space technology, satellites, intercontinental ballistic missile and space security.

As machining processes become more advanced, so does the science behind them. This book emphasizes these scientific developments in addition to the more widely covered technological aspects, providing a full understanding of how machining has adapted to material constraints and moved beyond conventional methods in recent years.