The tenth edition of <em>Human Societies</em> is more substantially revised and updated than any single new edition of this classic text in the last twenty years. Readers will find the basic theoretical framework of <em>Human Societies</em> unchanged, but the application of this framework has been expended to analyze many of today's current issues and developments.<br /><br />NEW TO THE 10th EDITION:<br />o New or expanded material on globalization, outsourcing, prospects for a Chinese century, and the end of cheap oil.<br />o New and expanded materials on Islamic fundamentalism.<br />o New unit on the growing generation gap in industrial societies.<br />o New unit on women in agrarian societies with special sidebar on the recent discovery of 'Women's Secret Language in [pre-modern] China.'<br />o New and expanded materials on the role of money and moneyed interests in industrial democracies and on the dark side of the Industrial Revolution.<br />o Statistical data on contemporary societies updated with latest available figures and several valuable new tables.<br />o Several new sidebars: 'Paris in the Horticultural Era'; 'The Myth of Primitive Environmentalism' (the case of Easter Island per Jared Diamond); 'Changing Catholic Belief and Practice in France and the United States'; and 'Women's Secret Language in China'.<br /><br />For related exercises go to: http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/HSB2000/<br /><br />For Instructor's Manual, email patriciag@paradigmpublishers.com