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Nevill Mott
CRC Press 1998; US$ 59.95A tribute to the life and work of Nobel Laureate, Sir Nevill Mott. Over 80 friends and associates have contributed their memoirs to this book, full of anecdotes and appreciations for a colossus of modern physics. more...
Discipline and Development
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 36.00South Korea's and Taiwan's economic successes and Argentina's and Mexico's relative 'failures' are compared through examination of their rural middle classes and disciplinary capacities. Can disciplining continue in a context where globalization squeezes middle classes and frees capitalists from state and social contracts? more...
Stretched Thin
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95Describes the effects of deployments on the Army's ability to provide forces for other contingencies, to ensure that soldiers are trained, and to continue to recruit and retain soldiers. The authors found that Army plans for transformation and employing reserves fall short. Unless requirements recede, the nation faces an Army stretched thin. more...
Political Power and Social Theory, Volume 18
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 99.95Broken up into three parts, this book examines political power, state formation, and economic development with examples from Africa, Russia, and Chile. It also looks at the status of opposition politics in America. It is suitable for graduate students and researchers in the field of political science and social theory. more...
Political Power and Social Theory
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 94.95Showcases scholarship by historical, political, and economic sociologists grouped around three broad subjects with historical relevance. The subjects in this volume are: the relationship between race, class, and urban politics, and how racial identities interact with each other; and more. more...
Can't Stop the Shine
Harlequin Enterprises 2007; US$ 9.00When an American Idol -like competition comes to Atlanta, Kalia and Mariama Jefferson (sisters who couldn't be more different) stop arguing long enough to agree on one thing: Kalia has to try out. A senior at a prestigious performing arts high school, Kalia has a shot at making her dream come true. And with sixteen-year-old Mariama cheering her... more...
Black and Single
Agate Publishing 2005; US$ 9.99Now completely revised and updated, "Black and Single" is the premier relationship guide for African Americans, providing encouragement and direction to anyone determined to improve his or her romantic life. (Relationships) more...
Erik Satie
Reaktion Books 2007; US$ 20.95A cogent and informative portrait, Erik Satie upends the accepted history of modernist music and restores the composer to his rightful pioneering status. more...
Political Power and Social Theory, 19
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 99.95Deals with the comparative and historical social science. This title focuses on a variety of questions relating to states, citizenship, and power, common themes examined with divergent analytical entry points and through deep knowledge of country cases as more...
Henry Grady's New South
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 29.95The popular image of Henry W. Grady is that of a champion of the postbellum South, a region that would forgive the North for defeating it and would mobilize its own many resources for hones business and agricultural competition. Biographies and collections of Grady’s essays and speeches that appeared shortly... more...









