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New and Old DimensionsIn International Relations Since the End of the Cold War many of the world's leading scholars examine the Cold War legacy. The authors examine several key issues including: the relationship between democracy and peace, the Cold War and the Third World, superpowers, the role of post-Cold War nuclear weapons....

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The Politics of Imprisonment examines how the democratic process and social trust shape penal sanctioning in the United States. Drawing on a range of archival sources, Barker shows that higher levels of civic engagement tend to support milder punishments whereas lower levels tend to support more coercive criminal justice policies....

Through much of the 20th century, federal policy toward Indians sought to        extinguish all remnants of native life and culture. That policy was dramatically        confronted in the late 1960s when a loose coalition of hippies, civil rights        advocates, Black Panthers, unions, Mexican-Americans, Quakers and other...

In   Ways of Listening, musicologist Eric Clarke explores musical meaning, music's critical function in human lives, and the relationship between listening and musical material. Clarke outlines an "e;ecological approach"e; to understanding the perception of music, arguing that the way we hear and understand music is not simply a function of...

Interpersonal Behavior, Psychopathology, and CultureOver the last decade, the study of shame has become a major interest of clinicians and researchers in the area of emotion. But the focus has been primarily centered on the self, and shame as a self-conscious emotion. Shame, part of the   Affective Science Series, is a cross-disciplinary volume,...