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  • 641. Publications & Writing

    The Post-Secular in Question: Religion in Contemporary Society

    Are we living in a post-secular world? While many have assumed that we would simply grow more secular as society modernized, there is reason to believe that there has been a religious resurgence of global dimensions in recent decades. The Post-Secular in Question considers whethe…

    Contributors Philip S. Gorski (Editor), David Kyuman Kim (Editor), John Torpey (Editor), Jonathan VanAntwerpen (Editor) Publisher NYU Press/SSRC, 2012

  • 642. Publications & Writing

    The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village: Politics and Property Rights in the Black Earth

    Through her accounts as a first-hand observer in the Black Earth region, 1998 IDRF Fellow Allina-Pisano addresses some of the most fundamental assumptions underlining both theories and assessments of the political economy of post-communist transitions. As the Soviet Empire lay in…

    Author Allina-Pisano, Jessica T. Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2007

  • 643. Publications & Writing

    The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere

    The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does—or should—religion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerni…

    Contributors Eduardo Mendieta (Editor), Jonathan VanAntwerpen (Editor) Publisher Columbia University Press, 2011

  • 644. Publications & Writing

    The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957

    The Red Rockets' Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Based on many years of archival research, the book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social and cultural upheavals…

    Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2010

  • 645. Publications & Writing

    The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957

    The Red Rockets' Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Based on many years of archival research, the book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social and cultural upheavals…

    Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2010

  • 646. Publications & Writing

    The Responsibility of the Security Council in the Maintenance of International Peace and Security: HIV/AIDS and International Peacekeeping Operations

    Commissioned Report.

    Publisher Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 2011 Read online Download PDF

  • 647. Publications & Writing

    "The Rise of the Dedicated Natural Science Think Tank"

    While most of work on think tanks takes if for granted that their mandate would encompass the social sciences as part of their political orientation, it has been much less common to focus on the growth of think tanks dedicated to the natural sciences. This has been unfortunate, b…

    Author Mirowski, Philip Publisher Social Science Research Council, 2008 Read online Download PDF

  • 648. Publications & Writing

    The Risks of Prescription Drugs

    Few people realize that prescription drugs have become a leading cause of death, disease, and disability. Adverse reactions to widely used drugs, such as psychotropics and birth control pills, as well as biologicals, result in FDA warnings against adverse reactions. The Risks of…

    Publisher SSRC/Columbia University Press, 2010

  • 649. Publications & Writing

    The Role of UN Economic and Social Ideas

    Contributors Weiss, Thomas G., Carayannis, Tatiana Publisher United Nations University Press, 2002

  • 650. Publications & Writing

    The Roles of Destination, Gender and Household Composition in Explaining Remittances: An Analysis for the Dominican Sierra

    This paper uses a small, non-representative household survey from the Dominican Republic to test between two motivations to remit: insurance, whereby migrants remit on the basis of an insurance contract with their parents; and investment, whereby migrants remit on the basis of p…

    Contributors de la Briere, Benedicte, Sadoulet, Elisabeth, Janvry, Alain de, Lambert, Sylvie Read online Download PDF