Analyzes the institutions, successes, and failures of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, the pro-Soviet regime that sought to dominate the country during the years of the Soviet military presence. This title explores the military, political, and social strategies of the predominantly urban and Marxist regime as it struggled.
Twenty Five Years of Supreme Court Decisions on Race and Remedies
This text provides a comprehensive chronicle of the evolution of the Supreme Court's involvement with the racial affirmative action issue. Each Supreme Court affirmative action decision is examined, showing how the controversy has persisted from the 1970s.
A study of the social integration of Holocaust survivors into post-war Israeli society. Drawing on a wide range of sources and personal interviews, the book examines, from all sides, the charged encounters between Holocaust survivors and the established Jewish population in Israel.
The third and final volume of McDiarmid's previously uncollected prose covers the decades from 1937 to 1978. This text includes assessments of the contemporary political and literary scene, articles on Lewis Grassic Gibbon, a tribute to James Joyce, and a criticism of Billy Graham.
50 Years of Madness, Drugs, and Death on the Streets of America
Part memoir and part sociology, this is a study of American street gangs during the second half of the 20th century. Included in the text are autobiographical excerpts from the author's extensive files on his experience of working with gangs.
The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940
Since 1945, the United States has manufactured and deployed more than 70,000 nuclear weapons to deter and if necessary fight a nuclear war. Some observers believe the absence of a third world war confirms that these weapons were a prudent and cost-effective response to the uncertainty and fear surrounding the Soviet Union's military and political ......
50 Years of Madness, Drugs, and Death on the Streets of America
Using information gathered from working with gang members and from personal interviews, the author explores the pathology of the gangsters' apparent addiction to incarceration and death. Four sections cover a brief history of gangs, the characteristics of gangs, and successful approaches for treati
These essays discuss members of the other New York Jewish Intellectuals, men and women who lived in New York during the 1930s and 40s, and who wrote and worked in a different intellectual circle from the one inhabited by those known as the New York Jewish Intellectuals.