The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower

Stephen H. Norwood

This is the first systematic exploration of the nature and extent of sympathy for Nazi Germany at American universities during the 1930s.

Orientalism and Islam

Michael Curtis

Through an historical analysis of the theme of Oriental despotism, Michael Curtis reveals the complex positive and negative interaction between Europe and the Orient.

John Brown's War against Slavery

Robert E. McGlone

Drawing on both new and neglected evidence, this book reconstructs Old John Brown's aborted "war" to free the 3.8 million slaves in the American South before the Civil War.

Causality

Judea Pearl

Pearl presents a unified account of the probabilistic, manipulative, counterfactual and structural approaches to causation, and devises simple mathematical tools for analyzing the relationships between causal connections, statistical associations, actions and observations.

The Fall of the House of Credit

Alistair Milne

How was it possible for problems in one relatively small sector in the global financial system - the American sub-prime mortgage market - to lead to the most serious economic crisis in living memory? Alistair Milne untangles the complex world of modern banking and examines solutions to the crisis.

The Permissive Society

Alan Petigny

In contrast to those who see the 1950s as essentially a conservative period, and who view the 1960s as a time of rapid moral change, The Permissive Society points to the emergence of a liberalizing impulse during the Truman and Eisenhower years.

Dinosaurs

David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel

An introduction to the study of dinosaurs for non-specialists, designed to excite readers about science by using dinosaurs to illustrate and discuss geology, natural history and evolution.

The Fundamentals of Political Science Research

Paul M. Kellstedt, Guy D. Whitten

This book provides an introduction to the scientific study of politics, supplying students with the basic tools needed to be both critical consumers and producers of scholarly research in political science.

Journal of Policy History

An interdisciplinary journal concerned with the application of historical perspectives to public policy studies.

Canadian Journal on Aging

Promotes excellence in research and disseminates the latest work of researchers in the social sciences, humanities, health and biological sciences

The Handbook of National Legislatures

M. Steven Fish, Matthew Kroenig

Assesses the strength of the national legislature of every country in the world with a population of at least a half-million inhabitants.

The Prescriber's Guide

Stephen Stahl

The completely revised and updated edition of Stephen M. Stahl's much-acclaimed Prescriber's Guide.