3224 results for '"Charles F. Westoff'

Why do some civil wars end in successfully implemented peace settlements while others are fought to the finish? Numerous competing theories address this question. Yet not until now has a study...

Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted...

In this major scholarly study of the life of Joseph A. Schumpeter, one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century, the distinguished economist Wolfgang Stolper delves into the mind of...

The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy--and how the West crushed it When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab...

Essays discuss the twenties, the Free Speech Movement, and American ideas, religion, and literature

An account of the author's experience living with slum dwellers who are the beneficiaries of World Bank projects in La Paz, Bolivia, and Guayaquil, Ecuador, this book discusses the extension of this...