Product Description: With capitalism vulnerable and out-of-step in the wake of financial crises this book investigates the alternatives that are on offer--including socialism, anarchism, and deep ecology. It picks its way through the pockets of resistant thinking and emerges with paths to changing the world that rest less on rigid ideology imposed from above than on practical transformation from below...read more

Product Description: Any attempt to restore responsible environmental policies, revive and expand our social programs, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, and boost our flagging economy will be inadequate unless we also address the need to increase governments’ fiscal capacity...read more

Product Description: Street gangs have exploded in popularity worldwide. Tattoos, baggy pants, tagging, gangsta style clothes — this unspoken threat is always just around the corner in most of the world's major cities. In search of a sense of identity and belonging that their world has denied them, young people are pushed into gangs by a witch’s brew of violence, guns, drugs, racism, poverty, families under pressure, and ever-widening slums...read more

The democratic malaise is upon us, Swift argues, in this introduction to the bittersweet triumph of democracy after the Cold War. Chapters include: strong and weak democracy, democracy in the South, democratizing the economy, eco-democracy, direct democracy, and a conclusion on the "constant horizon" of potential futures.

Part of a series which presents a single object that has had far-reaching effects on the modern world, this title explores the mosquito through its impact on society and often surprising cultural connections.

Product Description: This book is invaluable as a research tool for anyone writing about Prokofiev's operas. It is also unique in the sense that it is the only complete listing of all of the performances of any composer's operas. The chapters are arranged so that the information is available by "opera" with dates and number of performances; country and city listings; performances given by "season" (with number and type of performances given and a chronological listing of Premiers of New Productions by opera...read more