Inside account of the negotiations between the football Bills, New York State, and Erie County to sign a long-term stadium lease and thereby keep the team in Buffalo.

Explores the unprecedented and rapid climate changes occurring in the Arctic environment.

Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism’s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.

Examines the many issues raised by TIF, the most widely used tool of local economic and community development.

Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.

Examines how NATO has adapted and endured after the end of the Cold War, transforming itself to deal with a host of new security challenges.

How a small family company in the Finger Lakes became one of the most important wine producers in the United States, only to be taken down by corporate greed and mismanagement.

An analysis of theological and philosophical understandings of debt and its role in contemporary capitalism.

Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.

Responds to the demanding political and ethical challenges faced by the international disaster management community.

An overview and analysis of austerity policies and labor movement resistance in several countries.

Traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in nineteenth-century Martinique.

Explores the hundred-year history of Piel Bros. , one of the prominent German American brands that once made New York City the brewing capital of America.

Explores the social disruption resulting from industrialization in a Chinese coalmining community at the turn of the twentieth century.

First comparative historical analysis of the organizational growth of black colleges.

Documents the rise and fall of a market economy in China from 1000-1500.

A critical examination of the impact of BRAC, the world's largest NGO, on the status of women in Southern Bangladeshi cultural life.

Demonstrates how the success of universities depends on the working conditions of the younger academic generation.

Illuminates how local board systems operate and the motivations and experiences of their members.

Explores how individuals and groups adapt to the challenges of globalization.

Addresses the power of oligopolistic corporations in contemporary society.

Examines how public officials in the US, China, Japan, and Indonesia have interacted with communities affected by natural disasters.

Some of the world’s foremost thought leaders consider the role of leadership, love, and power in the midst of political and social upheaval.

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