International Social Science Review articles from September 2004

International Social Science Review archives from September 2004

Talking the talk: Bill Clinton and school desegregation.
September 22, 2004... Americans can be good at talking about race. The most-quoted words of the Declaration of Independence are not the declaration itself, but "all men are created equal." Abraham Lincoln's most famous legacy is not the war he commanded...

American civil service reform: using France as a model to develop administrative statesmen in the Senior Executive Service.
September 22, 2004... Introduction The American federal civil service has a long history of reform. (1) From the passage of the Pendleton Act of 1883 to the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) of 1978, the American federal personnel system has steadily evolved...

Infants' emotional expressions in response to social and non-social stimuli.
September 22, 2004... Introduction and Theoretical Basis for Research Emotional expressions are a way of communicating one's feelings to others. Facial expressions are one way of communicating internal feelings. Whereas an individual's smile indicates a feeling...

The Baha'i faith and its relationship to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism: a brief history.
September 22, 2004... The origin of the Baha'i faith can be traced to the city of Shiraz in southwest Iran, where, in 1844, Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi confided to a select group of Shaykhi Shi'a Muslims that he was the Bab, the gate to the Hidden Imam of the Shi'a....

Policy point-counterpoint: profiling at airports.
September 22, 2004... Moderator: Barry D. Friedman The United States is confronted with a dilemma: Should federal authorities utilize profiling at the security check-in point at airports? If so, they might mistreat members of certain minority groups,...

Point: the case for profiling.
September 22, 2004... On September 11, 2001 ("9/11"), over 3,000 lives were lost in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Somerset County, Pennsylvania, due, in part, to ineffective airport security. Since that horrific day, air travel has become increasingly...

Counterpoint: the case against profiling.
September 22, 2004... Racial profiling can be defined as stopping and searching people passing through public areas solely because of their color, race, or ethnicity. Upon close examination of history, current events, the U.S. Constitution, case law, and both the...

Bahgat, Gawdat. American Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Bahgat, Gawdat. American Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003. xvi + 213 pp. Cloth, $39.95. The United States imports and consumes more oil than any other country in the...

Biegel, Stuart. Beyond Our Control? Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Biegel, Stuart. Beyond Our Control? Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. 452 pp. Cloth, $38.00; paper, $19.95. In Beyond Our Control, Stuart Biegel addresses an important issue...

de Nevers, Renee. Comrades No More: the Seeds of Change in Eastern Europe.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... de Nevers, Renee. Comrades No More: The Seeds of Change in Eastern Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. x + 305 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00. I recall watching a television broadcast in the late 1980s of a high-ranking Soviet...

Fasulo, Linda. An Insider's Guide to the U.N.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Fasulo, Linda. An Insider's Guide to the U.N. New Haven, CT: Yale University 2004. 245 pp. Cloth, $27.00. Readers will be most familiar with Linda Fasulo from her work as UN correspondent for National Public Radio: this work derives from...

Feng, Yi. Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Feng, Yi. Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. xvii + 383 pp. Cloth, $40.00. In Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance, Yi Feng investigates the relationship between...

Figueira-McDonough, Josefina, and Rosemary C. Sarri, eds. Women at the Margins: Neglect, Punishment, and Resistance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Figueira-McDonough, Josefina, and Rosemary C. Sarri, eds. Women at the Margins: Neglect, Punishment, and Resistance. New York: Haworth Press, 2002. xxiii + 432 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper $34.95. Women at the Margins: Neglect, Punishment, and...

Glassner, Barry, and Rosanna Hertz, eds. Our Studies, Ourselves: Sociologists' Lives and Work.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Glassner, Barry, and Rosanna Hertz, eds. Our Studies, Ourselves: Sociologists' Lives and Work. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 278 pp. Cloth, $25.00. Glassner and Hertz, editors of Our Studies, Ourselves, asked the twenty-two...

Kaplan, David H., and Jouni Haikli, eds. Boundaries and Place: European Borderlands in Geographical Context.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Kaplan, David H., and Jouni Haikli, eds. Boundaries and Place: European Borderlands in Geographical Context. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 272 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $34.95. This edited book examines selected examples of...

Langerbein, Helmut. Hitler's Death Squads: the Logic of Mass Murder.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Langerbein, Helmut. Hitler's Death Squads: The Logic of Mass Murder. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. xi + 232 pp. Cloth, $27.00. Helmut Langerbein is the most recent (and most assuredly not the last) to investigate...

Merton, Robert K., and Elinor Barber. The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: a Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Merton, Robert K., and Elinor Barber. The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. xxv + 313 pp. Cloth, $29.98. In The Way of an...

Ollman, Bertell. Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Ollman, Bertell. Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003. 232 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $18.95. In Dance of the Dialectic, Bertell Ollman seeks to provide a manual for use of Marx's...

Scarborough, William Kauffman. Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Scarborough, William Kauffman. Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xviii + 521 pp. Cloth, $39.95. When a conservative Mississippian wins...

Shahar, Shulamith. The Fourth Estate: a History of Women in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Shahar, Shulamith. The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages. Rev. ed. Translated by Chaya Galai. New York: Routledge, [1983], 2003. 351 pp. Paper, $31.95. Shahar examines the lives of women in the European Middle Ages,...

Smallwood, James M., Barry A. Crouch, and Larry Peacock. Murder and Mayhem: the War of Reconstruction in Texas.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Smallwood, James M., Barry A. Crouch, and Larry Peacock. Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. 182 pp. Cloth, $24.95. When I agreed to review this book, I knew only its...

Stoltzfus, Emilie. Citizen, Mother, Worker: Debating Public Responsibility for Child Care after the Second World War.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Stoltzfus, Emilie. Citizen, Mother, Worker: Debating Public Responsibility for Child Care after the Second World War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xiv + 328 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. In Citizen,...

Stuart, David E. The Guaymas Chronicles: La Mandadera.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Stuart, David E. The Guaymas Chronicles: La Mandadera. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. 392 pp. Cloth, $24.95. Who hasn't wished to get away to a simpler life in Paradise where one needs only enough money for the next...