Revises the Neotropical ant genus Linepithema at the species level. This work provides taxonomic keys, diagnoses, illustrations, and discussions of the biology, distribution, natural history, and taxonomy. It recognizes nineteen species following extensive synonymy, including six new species.

The coenosus group is the most speciose clade of Histerini in the Americas. The author provides a comprehensive revision of these species, including keys for identification, complete distributional data, illustrations of diagnostic characters and a detailed phylogenetic analysis.

Drawing on three detailed case studies the sewing machine, a glass bottle blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining, this book explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico.

Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion's power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way? What, if anything, can be done about it? This book answers these questions and more. It analyzes in detail terrorism related to almost all the world's major religious traditions.

Offers an account of Occupy Wall Street's first year in New York City. This title chronicles the origins and explosive development of the Occupy movement through the eyes of the organizers who tried to give shape to an uprising always just beyond their control.