Product Description: Is there a linkage between "smart power" and Hillary Clinton's leadership style? Can she advance American leadership and women's development worldwide? The Global Hillary addresses these questions and many others. Bringing together two key aspects of Clinton’s ongoing career―her advocacy for international women’s rights and the mission to foster democratic development around the world―The Global Hillary critically analyzes Clinton’s role as a transformative leader of global influence...read more

Product Description: The Global Obama examines the president’s image in five continents and more than twenty countries. It is the first book to look at Barack Obama’s presidency and analyze how Obama and America are viewed by publics, governments, and political commentators around world...read more

Product Description: The chapters in this volume demonstrate that the recent wave of innovation and adaptation to information technologies, giving rise to a new form of "human technogenesis," is fundamentally transforming our everyday interactions and potentially reconstructing the nature and process of human development...read more

Contributed articles on child development, psychoanalysis, and culture in Indian society based on the works of Sudhir Kakar; also includes a short interview with the Indian psychoanalyst. (view table of contents)

Product Description: There is a growing consensus among social scientists that childhood is socially and historically constructed, partly putting to rest the concerns of sociologists and anthropologists about the fallacies of psychological reductionism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)