Product Description: This volume provides a perceptive background to modern Japanese culture. Ishida attempts a balanced evaluation of modern Japan, seeking to explain why the basic characteristics of Japanese society permit two almost opposite assessments...read more

Product Description: A masterly introduction to the United States Constitution, this slim book leads the reader through a concise overview of the document's individual articles and amendments. With clear and accessible language, Currie then examines each of the three branches of the federal government and explains the relation between the federal and state governments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Recounts the life of the Ukranian cardinal who maintained the Ukranian Catholic Church amongst the Eastern Orthodox and Western Catholic conflict

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Product Description: Based on his project of international law from an Asian perspective, the author describes India as a "Land of Desire" for Europeans. However, the subcontinent was not willing to accept the demands and legal ideas without contradiction.

The author of The Perfect Heresy traces the parallel evolution of two powerful religions--Christianity and Islam--in the medieval Mediterranean world, describing their changing relationship--disastrous clashes and periods of peaceful co-existence and mutual enrichment--in light of the conflict of today. Reprint.

A professor of psychology examines the divergent ways in which eastern and western cultures view the world, offering suggestions about how today's interdependent global cultures may be bridged.

After 9/11 the US response to Al-Qaeda - the Global War on Terror - was heavily influenced by the ‘clash of civilizations’ theory. First introduced by Bernard Lewis in 1993 in an article entitled ‘The Roots of Muslim Rage’, this theory was taken up by Samuel Huntington in his famous book The Clash of Civilizations: Remaking of World Order in 1996. After the end of the Cold War global conflict will not be economic or ideological but cultural and religious. ‘The clash of civilizations’, Huntington wrote, ‘will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.’ This theory of global conflict proved enormously influential with neoconservatives in the US and heavily influenced contemporary US and UK policy. Richard Bonney’s controversial new book takes as its subject Huntington’s ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis and looks at the history of this so-called struggle of civilizations before it came to prominence in the twenty-first century. It identifies the twenty-first-century proponents of the thesis, such as Bernard Lewis and Daniel Pipes, their links to the Bush government, and their roles in exploiting this tradition of hostility between the West and Islam.

Ranging from the ancient Greeks to the present day, a sweeping history chronicles the long struggle between East and West, looking at the competing worldviews, psychologies, religions, social institutions, culture, and more, covering such topics as the crusades, the Ottoman Empire, and the modern-day struggles in Iraq. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Excerpted from the preface:In this great river of life that flows endlessly, there were moments of deep feeling when I realized that my life is a gift. Each such moment resembles an eternal spring gushing forth with the joy of "being helped to live and helping others to live...read more

Product Description: Do we confuse globalization for Americanization? What are the distinctive elements in the interplay of the local and the global?This much needed book is the first full length text to examine globalization from the perspective of both the West and the East...read more

Product Description: In 1798, Napoleon I launched his Egyptian Campaign and opened what has become recognized as the canonic period of French Orientalism, which extends from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. As defined by Edward W...read more

Product Description: This book seeks to dispel the myth that we have ever been embroiled in some "clash of civilisations." Adib-Moghaddam traverses various intellectual disciplines in order to find a pathway through the conceptual maze that has habituated us to think in "tribal" categories...read more

Product Description: Across history some of the most creative and fruitful, as well as the most violent, encounters have occurred when civilizations and cultures first have contact with each other. In addition to the short term impact, the biased perception and portrayal of one culture by another create longer-term effects which can have a lasting impact on relations between them...read more