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As society becomes more global, many see the world's great cities as becoming increasingly similar. But while contemporary cultures do depend on and resemble each other in previously unimagined ways, homogenization is sometimes overestimated. In his compelling new book, James W. White considers how two of the world's great cities, Paris and Tokyo, may appear to be growing more alike--both are vast, modern, dominating, capitalist cities--but in fact remain profoundly different places. Tokyo's growth appears particularly organic, with a pronounced austerity and boundaries far less clear than those of Paris, which has been planned and manipulated constantly. Paris has a thriving center and a noticeably more contentious relationship with its nation, and its own suburbs, than Tokyo does. White explores how the roles of cities and urbanism in each society, and the balance between nature and artifice, account for some of these differences. He also examines the role of authority in each location and considers the way catastrophes, such as war, alter a city--as well as the role fear plays in a city's construction. While the author acknowledges that Tokyo is more physically fluid and superficially chaotic than Paris, he also demonstrates that it has an invisible order of its own (including a center that, contrary to most assumptions, is not empty at all). White depicts a Tokyo that relies less on the monumental, and is less influenced by government, than most cities in the West. Where the culture of Paris emphasizes clarity, exclusion, and marginality, the public spaces of Tokyo express ambiguity, inclusiveness, and impermanence. In the end, White makes us reconsider which city better deserves the name \"City of Light.\" Nonetheless, he warns, several factors may combine to discourage Tokyo's international ascendance and even to threaten the future of provincial Japan. Thus it may be Paris, paradoxically, that is better poised to improve both its own position and its country's in the years ahead.

In this first full-length biography, James D. White traces Alexander Bogdanov's intellectual development, examining his role in the evolution of Marxist thought in Russia, and his place in the Russian revolutionary movement.

This book is about the processes of globalization, demonstrated through a comparative study of three television case histories in Asia. Also illustrated are different approaches to providing television services in the world: public service (NHK in Japan), state (CCTV in China) and commercial (STAR TV, based in Hong Kong). Through its focus, Global Media addresses a considerable lacuna in the media studies literature, which tends to have a heavy Western bias. It provides an original addition to the literature on globalization, which is often abstract and anecdotal, in addition to making a major contribution to comparative research in Asia. Finally, it offers a thoughtful causal layered analysis, with a concluding argument in favor of public service television. Introduction 1. The Globalization Context 2. Information, Television and News 3. Case History 1 - Japan and NHK 4. Case History 2 - China and CCTV 5. Case History 3 - Hong Kong and STAR TV 6. Conclusions - Meanwhile, Back in the Future. Appendix: The GNN Planning Documents James D. White is Visiting Professor in the School of Public Policy and Associate Director, International Programs in the Center for Advanced Communications Policy at Georgia Tech.

The Tanzania Private Health Sector Assessment provides information on the size, location and characteristics of non-state health service providers in Tanzania. It also identifies challenges and opportunities for the Government of Tanzania and International Community to leverage the potential of these providers to achieve.

Advancing Family Theories explores two contemporary theories of the family - rational choice theory and transition theory. These diametrically different approaches illuminate what differing theories reveal about families. The book also discusses how meta-theories can assist in building and refining theory and offers insight on the \"understanding versus explanation\" debate. Advancing Family Theories gives students a precise notion of what a theory is and how theories work in research. The book not only looks at philosophical realms but also examines particular substantive theory to explain and predict family behaviors. Advancing Family Theories is an excellent supplement to Family Theories, Second Edition (SAGE, 2002), or is effective on its own. The book helps students with the task of taking abstract and very general theories and reducing them to a level of specific research models and hypotheses.

AS the sub-title indicates, the theme of the book is on \"creating authority in literature, law and politics\". Persons of background similar to this reviewer's (of living many years under authoritarian regimes) could perhaps be forgiven if they hastily presume that the book deals with the \"political\" question of authority albeit it also encompasses the \"allied\" fields of literature and law. But - to quote from a speech given in a different context by an Asian authoritarian leader, who shall remain nameless - that presumption or classification would \"though not absolutely wrong be only partially correct\". Undoubtedly the question of political authority, especially unjust political authority, is expressly discussed in at least two chapters of Acts of Hope (those that deal with the speech given by Nelson Mandela at his 1964 trial, and the perceptive, novel and sympathetic way in which the author dissects and analyses Plato's Crito: The Authority of Law and Philosophy). Author James Boyd White's panoramic discussion of apparently disparate literary texts covers Shakespeare's Richard II [Hooker], Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, and Emily Dickinson's poetry. They are read and explained with the purpose of detecting and judging \"claims of authority made by authors upon us\", determining the issues as \"to which institutions and practices we (should and do) grant authority\", and creating \"authorities of our own through our thoughts and arguments\".

IT was back about four years ago that I decided the time had come to introduce my two sons, then aged 8 and 6, to my favorite sport of mountain climbing. The peak I selected was no Matterhorn or McKinley, to be sure, but only modest little Dunderberg in the Hudson River Highlands.

ATENDER night it was. The great sun at setting had looked with steadfast eye at the convent, standing lonely in the wide landscape, and had then thrown a final glance across the world towards the east; and the moon had quickly risen...

WHEN Sister Dolorosa had reached the summit of a low hill on her way to the convent, she turned and stood for a while looking backward. The landscape stretched away in a rude, unlovely expanse of gray fields, shaded in places by brown stubble...

SISTER DOLOROSA was returning from her visit to old Martha on the following afternoon. When she awoke that morning she resolutely put away all thought of what had happened the evening before. She prayed oftener than usual that day. She went about all duties with unwonted fervor. When she set out in the afternoon...