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Nation-States and the Global Environment
Hardly a day passes without journalists, policymakers, academics, or scientists calling attention to the worldwide scale of the environmental crisis confronting humankind. While …
Poorly Understood
What if the idealized image of American society?a land of opportunity that will reward hard work with economic success?is completely wrong? Few topics have as many myths, …
Beyond the Cold War
In writing about international affairs in the 1960s, historians have naturally focused on the Cold War. The decade featured perilous confrontations between the United States and …
Political Power of Bad Ideas
In The Political Power of Bad Ideas, Mark Schrad uses one of the greatest oddities of modern history--the broad diffusion throughout the Western world of alcohol-control …
Smashing the Liquor Machine
This is the history of temperance and prohibition as you've never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movement that affected virtually every …
Food Fortification
Food Fortification: The evidence, ethics, and politics of adding nutrients to food critically analyses mandatory food fortification as a technology for protecting and promoting …
Poorly Understood
What if the idealized image of American society?a land of opportunity that will reward hard work with economic success?is completely wrong? Few topics have as many myths, …
Vodka Politics
Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian …
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking parallels between that conflict and more recent fighting in the Middle East. In The Vietnam …
Mathematicians and their Gods
To open a newspaper or turn on the television it would appear that science and religion are polar opposites - mutually exclusive bedfellows competing for hearts and minds. There is …