Multiculturalism—the belief that no culture is better or worse than any other; it is merely different—has come to dominate Western intellectual thought and to serve as a guide to domestic and foreign policy and development aid. But what if multiculturalism itself is flawed? What if some cultures are more prone to progress than others and more successful at creating the cultural capital that encourages democratic governance, social justice for all, and the elimination of poverty? In Jews, C...

Which cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes best promote democracy, social justice, and prosperity? How can we use the forces that shape cultural change, such as religion, child-rearing practices, education, and political leadership, to promote these values in the Third World--and for underachieving minorities in the First World? In this book, Lawrence E. Harrison offers intriguing answers to these questions, in a valuable follow-up to his acclaimed Culture Matters. Drawing on a...

Which cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes best promote democracy, social justice, and prosperity? How can we use the forces that shape cultural change, such as religion, child-rearing practices, education, and political leadership, to promote these values in the Third World--and for underachieving minorities in the First World? In this book, Lawrence E. Harrison offers intriguing answers to these questions, in a valuable follow-up to his acclaimed Culture Matters. Drawing on a...

Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change is a collection of 21 expert essays on the institutions that transmit cultural values from generation to generation. The essays are an outgrowth of a research project begun by Samuel Huntington and Larry Harrison in their widely discussed book Culture Matters the goal of which is guidelines for cultural change that can accelerate development in the Third World. The essays in this volume cover child rearing, several aspects of educatio...

The initiative of Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton to forge a Western Hemisphere community has been staggered by Mexico's economic and political crisis. Is this latest grand design for the hemisphere destined to follow John Kennedy's Alliance for Progress and Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy into the cemetery of frustrated Pan-American dreams? The United States and Canada are prosperous first-world countries with centuries-old democratic institutions; Latin America's countr...

Developing Cultures: Case Studies is a collection of 27 essays by a group of leading internationals scholars on the role of culture and cultural change in the evolution of countries and regions around the world.

This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can happen through the reframing of...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 91 thru 95 brings together five inventive stories from Philip K. Dick, Harry Harrison, Jack McKenty, Murray Leinster and Lawrence F. Willard, where reality refuses to stay put, a missing battleship threatens disaster, and trusting a computer can lead to some very strange conclusions.Exhibit Piece by Philip K. Dick — George Miller curates a painstaking recreation of twentieth-century life and feels more at home there than in his ow...

Starships of Tomorrow 2The Greatest Journeys in Classic Science FictionThe countdown is over. The next great voyage begins now.Starships of Tomorrow 2 returns with fifteen classic science fiction adventures that launch beyond the limits of imagination. From daring rescue missions and deep-space patrols to mysterious planets and impossible encounters, every story captures the excitement of exploring a universe filled...

Strange worlds, altered realities, alien landscapes, and futures where nothing is quite what it seems await in Lost Sci-Fi Books 81 thru 100, a collection of twenty vintage science fiction short stories from some of the genre’s most imaginative authors.Philip K. Dick leads the collection with six unforgettable stories. In Human Is, a woman begins to wonder what really happened to the husband who returned home a changed man. Adjustment Team pulls b...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 2: More Than 29 Hours of Classic Science Fiction is another extraordinary collection of timeless adventures from the Golden Age of science fiction. Featuring fifty unforgettable stories by many of the genre’s greatest authors, this epic audiobook delivers more than 29 hours of exploration, suspense, imagination, and unforgettable ideas.Inside you’ll discover classic tales by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Murray...

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time." And in The Washington Post, G...