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1	The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself more books like this by Lawrence E Harrison Which cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes best promote democracy, social justice, and prosperity? How can we use the forces that shape cultural change, such as religion, child-rearing practices, education, and political leadership, to promote these values in the Third World--and for underachieving minorities in the First World? In this book, ... see all copies from $5.57! new only from $7.25! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress more books like this by Lawrence E Harrison (Editor), Samuel P Huntington (Editor) An important look at why some countries and ethnic groups are better off than others, and the role that cultural values play in the shaping of nations' and peoples' political, economic and social performance. Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ... see all copies from $2.89! new only from $11.76! \| SVS
3	Culture Matters How Values Shape Human Progress more books like this by Samuel P Huntington (Editor), Lawrence E Harrison (Editor) The world at the beginning of the twenty-first century is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in freedom and those under oppression. Even in prosperous democracies, troubling gaps in well-being persist. As the credibility of traditional explanations--colonialism, dependency, racism--declines, many now believe ... see all copies from $4.31! new only from $18.41! \| first editions
4	Underdevelopment is a State of Mind: The Latin American Case more books like this by Lawrence E Harrison Originally published in 1985, Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind was one of the first studies to examine Latin America's rocky development as cultural, rather than colonial, byproduct. see all copies from $14.25! new only from $32.23! \| SVS
5	The Pan-American Dream: Do Latin America's Cultural Values Discourage True Partnership with the United States and Canada? more books like this by Lawrence E Harrison Central to the contrasts between Latin America and the United States and Canada are the fundamental differences between the Ibero-Catholic and Anglo-Protestant cultures, reflected in contrasting views of work, education, merit, community, ethics, and authority, among others.As Lawrence Harrison argues in this book, a Pan-American community ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.38! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Who Prospers?: How Cultural Values Shape Economic and Political Success more books like this by Lawrence E. Harrison What lies behind Americas economic and social decline? Can racism explain the ghetto tragedy if two-thirds of Americas blacks have made it into the middle class? Why have Chinese, Japanese, and Korean immigrants done so much better than Mexicans? According to Lawrence E. Harrison, the key to answering these and other questions is culturethe values ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.90! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Underdevelopment State of Mind more books like this by Lawrence E Harrison In this study the author offers a new way of looking at development and underdevelopment, one that explains why some countries and some ethnic groups do better than others. After 20 years of working on Latin America's development problems, the author is convinced that it is the way Latin Americans see the world that principally explains why Latin ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $97.02! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Developing Cultures: Case Studies more books like this by Lawrence E Harrison (Editor), Dr. Peter Berger (Editor) "Developing Cultures: Case Studies "is a collection of 27 essays by a group of leading internationals scholars on the role of culture and cultural change in the evolution of countries and regions around the world. The essays aim to further the exploration of the thesis put forth by Larry Harrison and Samuel Huntington in their widely discussed ... see all copies from $25.61! new only from $32.36! \| SVS
9	Underdevelopment State of more books like this by Lawrence E Harrison see all copies from $2.80! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change more books like this by Lawrence E Harrison (Editor), Jerome Kagan (Editor), Harrison E Harrison "Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change "is a collection of 21 expert essays on the institutions that transmit cultural values from generation to generation. The essays are an outgrowth of a research project begun by Samuel Huntington and Larry Harrison in their widely discussed book Culture Matters the goal of which is guidelines for ... see all copies from $41.92! new only from $41.92! \| SVS
11	The elementary teacher in action more books like this by Raymond H. Harrison, Lawrence E. Gowin see all copies from $2.00! first editions
12	Streit Um Werte by Lawrence E.; Huntington Harrison, Samuel P.; Fliessbach, Holger see all copies from $31.28! new only from $31.28!
13	Kultura Ma Znaczenie by Lawrence E. Harrison, Huntington Samuel P. see all copies from $15.00! new only from $15.00!

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