In the 20th century geneticists began to unravel some of the simpler aspects of the etiology
of inherited diseases in humans. The theory of linkage analysis was developed and applied …

This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the
European colonial project”(Observer).“... sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western …

During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the
victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath …

While the major conflicts in American history have become all too familiar, America's “small
wars” have played an essential but little-appreciated role in the country's growth as a world …

This book reveals how South Korea was transformed from one of the poorest and most
agrarian countries in the world in the 1950's to one of the richest and most industrialized …

This book constitutes the first time in the field of developmental psychology that cross-
cultural roots of minority child development have been studied in their ancestral societies in …

The Japanese cultural tradition of education and socialization, which places more weight on
osmosis than is the case in the United States, has influenced not only mother-child …

Korean Americans are one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States.
Although they share many similar cultural characteristics with other Asian Americans, the …

Extraordinary political and economic changes have rocked the Republic of Korea over the
past fifty years. John Oh, a Korean-born political scientist, has written a clear and insightful …

How has the history of the twentieth century affected the extent of female disadvantage in
child survival in China, South Korea and India, and how has this in turn shaped spousal …