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BOOK REVIEWS Some Systemic Roots of The Democratic Peace

Whatever happened to systemic analysis in the study of international relations? According to Karen Rasler and William Thompson in Puzzles of the Democratic Peace: Theory, Geopolitics and the Transformation of World Politics, at least part of the answer lies in the deluge of dyadic analyses associated with the rise of democratic peace research in the 1990s. However, the ‘‘abandonment of a system...

Book Review Race, Marriage, Markets, Choice, and Some Reflections on Is Marriage for White People?

Is Marriage for White People? How the African-American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone1 by Stanford Law School Professor Ralph Richard Banks tackles the controversial subject of the decline, in recent decades, of marriage rates among African-Americans. The book provides a detailed, comprehensive analysis of the reasons fewer African-Americans have been getting married in recent years. The boo...

Book Reviews Alan Law

Since its inaugural issue in the spring of 1977, each issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has contained a puzzle from Martin Gardner, dressed up as a brief science ction tale. This book collects the rst thirty-six. Most of them are mathematical, covering a variety of topics | numbers, geometry, games of strategy, combinatorics, simple logic | but a few involve word play and trivia ...

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