Claude Lévi-Strauss

the formative years

Lévi-Strauss is one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. His theory of structuralism has been influential not only in anthropology, but across the entire field of the humanities and social sciences. This book looks at the formative period of his career, from ...

Psychology and law

A critical introduction.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date discussion of contemporary debates at the interface between psychology and criminal law. The topics surveyed include critiques of eyewitness testimony; the jury; sentencing as a human process; the psychologist as expert witness; persuasion in the courtroom; detecting deception; and ...

International perspectives on consumers'access to justice

Advances in economics and econometrics

Antitrust law

economic theory and common law evolution

This book is an effort to consolidate several different perspectives on antitrust law. First, Professor Hylton presents a detailed description of the law as it has developed through numerous judicial opinions. Second, the author presents detailed economic critiques of the judicial opinions, drawing heavily on ...

International financial governance under stress

global structures versus national imperatives

Globalization and the poor

Macroeconomics in emerging markets

Towards a new paradigm in monetary economics

Towards a New Paradigm for Monetary Economics presents a pioneer treatment of critical topics in monetary economics. Unlike the prevailing monetary theory, this book focuses not on the role of money in facilitating transactions, but on the role of credit in facilitating economic activities more ...

European integration, 1950-2003

superstate or new market economy?

This title explains integration, the most significant European historical development in the past 50 years, eclipsing in importance even the collapse of the USSR. This movement toward economic and political union has not only helped revive, transform, and rejuvenate a battered civilization, it is opening ...

Sobre la naturaleza y el lenguaje

Noam Chomsky desarrolla sus ideas sobre la relación entre lenguaje, mente y cerebro, e integra la actual investigación lingüística en el floreciente campo de la neurociencia. El volumen comienza con una lúcida introducción de los editores, Adriana Belleti y Luigi Rizzi, para a continuación incluir ...

Violent crime

assessing race and ethnic differences

Construyamos un futuro sostenible

diálogos de supervivencia

Understanding early civilizations

a comparative study

An artist against the Third Reich

Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938

The conflict between Ernst Barlach, the most important German sculptor of the time, and the Third Reich is a remarkable episode in Hitler´s war against modern art. Rather than accept repression passively, Barlach denounced the confiscation and destruction of this work as ideologically inspired ...

Nation, State and the Economy in History

A history of Japan, 1582-1941

internal and external worlds

This book offers a distinctive overwiew of the internal and external forces responsible for the making of modern Japan. L. M. Cullen argues both that western writing has viewed the expansion of the west in an unduly positive light, and that Japanese policies and fears ...

Barbarism and religion

Volume 3: The first decline and fall

'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. This is ...

Restitutionary rights to share in damages

carers' claims

A new economic history of Argentina

Not since the publication of Carlos Díaz Alejandro's Essays on the Economic History of the Argentine Republic in 1970 has there been a new standard reference for those seeking a more quantitative understanding of Argentina's development. Research in the "new economic history" in ...