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"In 1789, the federal government described in the recently ratified U.S. Constitution came into being. Drawing on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of the new nation, veteran journalist Thomas B. Allen tells the long-hidden history of how George Washington and the other Founders set this new federal government into motion"--

chapter 1 An invitation to a social journey -- part Part I Laying the foundation -- chapter 2 Philosophy of science -- chapter 3 A rubric for evaluating social theory -- chapter 4 Scientific method and theory -- chapter 5 Other building blocks -- chapter 6 Situating the theory -- part Part II Developing a theory of social ontology -- chapter 7 Complex adaptive systems -- chapter 8 Emergence theory -- chapter 9 Applicable social theory -- chapter 10 Dewey and Bentley's transactional approach -- chapter 11 Negotiation, negotiated order theory and game theory -- chapter 12 Meaning, meaning-making, language and symbols -- chapter 13 Environmental considerations -- chapter 14 A theory of social ontology -- chapter 15 Applying the theory in the practical world -- chapter 16 Conclusions and further research.

Explores the application of constructivist theory to international relations. The text examines the relevance of constructivism for empirical research, focusing on some of the key issues of contemporary international politics: ethnic and national identity; gender; and political economy

This is the first time in paperback for this standard biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, who was the controversial architect of the American victory in the Pacific. Once asked if it was he who said, 'When they get in trouble they send for the sonsabitches,' King replied that he was not, but that he would have said it if he had thought of it. Never accused of having a warm personality, Ernest J. King commanded the respect of everyone familiar with his work. His is one of the great American naval careers, his place in history forever secured by a remarkable contribution to the Allie

This searching examination of the life and philosophy of the twentieth-century Indian intellectual Jarava Lal Mehta details, among other things, his engagement with the oeuvres of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jacques Derrida. It shows how Mehta's sense of cross-cultural philosophy and religious thought were affected by these engagements, and maps the two key contributions Mehta made to the sum of human ideas. First, Mehta outlined what the author dubs a 'postcolonial hermeneutics' that uses the 'ethnotrope' of the pilgrim to challenge the philosophical hermeneutic emphasis on supp

Preventing violence : the role of risk assessment and management / Stephen D. Hart -- Development of the Spousal Assault Risk Sssessment guide (SARA) and the Brief Spousal Assault Form for the Evaluation of Risk (B-SAFER) / P. Randall Kropp -- Police-based structured spousal violence risk assessment : the process of developing a police version of the SARA / Henrik Belfrage -- Understanding risk factors for intimate partner femicide : the role of domestic violence fatality review teams / Kelly Watt -- Identifying domestic violence victims at risk of hyper-accessible traumatic memories and/or re-victimization through validated screening : the predictive performance of the scanner and the B-SAFER / Frans Willem Winkel -- Intimate partner violence in Italy and risk assessment : the implementation of the SARA, screening version / Anna Costanza Baldry -- Spousal assault risk assessment : the case of Greece / Sevasti Chatzifotiou -- Caveat assessor : potential pitfalls of generic assessment for intimate partner violence / Donald G. Dutton -- Blended behavior therapy for intimate violence / Donald G. Dutton -- The response factor : a practitioner's tale / Jane Katz