Social Science - General

John Dornberg explores the drama of the disintegration of Communist Eastern Europe and the painful emergence of new regimes. The author, a professional journalist who has served as bureau chief for Newsweek in Bonn, Vienna, and Moscow, brings an exciting dimension and an insider's...

Discussion regarding health care in the United States usually centers around the doctors and insurance companies. This book deals with one group that is largely overlooked: nurses. As an example of white collar workforce, nurses are segmented by class. Amongst this group is a...

Anyone who has heard of chiasmus is likely to think of it as no more than a piece of rhetorical playfulness, at times challenging, though useful for supplying a memorable sententious note or for performing a pirouette of syntax and thought. Going beyond traditional...

This volume offers the views of 19 fiscal policy analysts well qualified to evaluate any attempt to raise national saving and domestically financed investment.Author: Marvin H. KostersISBN-10: 0844770132ISBN-13: 9780844770130Publisher: AEI PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/1992Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d

Author: Algernon David BlackISBN-10: 0837186994ISBN-13: 9780837186993Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/28/1976Pages: 258Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d

An insider's account of gay high society in pre-Stonewall New York City--now back in print! Young, intelligent, and handsome, Alan Helms left a brutal midwestern childhood for New York City in 1955. Denied a Rhodes scholarship because of his sexual orientation, he soon became...

Preface; E. Ejerhed, S. Lindström. 1: Action. On Action and Agency; R. Hilpinen. Delta Logic and Brown's Logic of Ability; K. Segerberg. Action and Deontology; J. Czelakowski. Prima Facie Oughtness vs. Oughtness All Things Considered in Deontic Logic: A Chisholmian Approach; L. Åqvist. Wise...

Introduction; J.A. Michon, A. Akyürek, Groningen Soar Research Group. Allen Newell: A Portrait; J.A. Michon. Unified Theories of Cognition and the Role of Soar; A. Newell. On a Computational Model of Human Planning; A. Akyürek. Means-Ends Planning: An Example Soar System; A. Akyürek. Multitasking...

One: Nuts and Bolts.- 1. Mental Representation.- Symbolism: The Classical Paradigm.- Cracks in the Symbolic Paradigm.- Connectionism: The Other Paradigm.- Methods of Models.- Assessing Theories of Mental Representation.- 2. Partitioned Representations.- General Overview.- The Contents of Spaces.- Parochial Reasoning.- Primary Contexts.- Partitioned Semantics.- Coherence.-...

By showing how environmental concerns can be made central to economic policy, this book aims to fill a critical gap in the literature and create a new economic paradigm. The authors suggest that current contradictions in capitalism are a hopeful sign that change is...

Performance on Behalf of the Environment is a collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars representing the fields of art, communication studies, dance, environmental studies, performance studies, rhetoric, and theater. They explore critically the strengths, limitations, and processes of what can be...

The Arab Spring has swept away decades old authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, and has captured the imagination of international community. The European Union and the Arab Spring: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East, edited by Joel Peters, addresses how...

Mexico's Unrule of Law: Human Rights and Police Reform Under Democratization looks at recent Mexican criminal justice reforms. Using Mexico City as a case study of the social and institutional realities, Niels Uildriks focuses on the evolving police and justice system within the county's...

"What is truly important is that one be able to exercise autonomy in the basic issues of life, in one's most important commitments. Now, it is very dubious whether the developed capacity for this kind of autonomy can arise simply within the family. (...)...

[F]irst published in 1965, [it] represents a milestone in the application of the human sciences to the problems of avoiding catastrophic war and working toward a stable peace. Drawing on the work of some of the post-World War II titans of psychology, sociology, psychiatry...

Author: Theodore L. JohnsonISBN-10: 0595241883ISBN-13: 9780595241880Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2002Pages: 604Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.34dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 03/17/2014

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

""Citizenship and the Duties of a Citizen"" is a non-fiction book written by Walter L. Sheldon. The book is a comprehensive guide on the concept of citizenship and the responsibilities that come with being a citizen. It explores the various aspects of citizenship, including...

This first interdisciplinary review on how climate affects human behavior provides an introductory framework for research in the field, surveys climatic data around the world, and covers over 3,000 sources. The bibliography is organized topically into chapters dealing with physiological, psychological, sociological, and economic...

This book explores the construction and maintenance of alternative worlds of common sense. Employing a comparative approach, Dr. Pepinsky monitors events in Norway and the United States over several decades, treating these countries as prototypes of societies that are classifiable as modern Western democracies,...

This comparative study of terrorism and counter-measures and their effect upon democratic practices and traditions is published under the auspices of the University of New Brunswick Centre for Conflict Studies in Canada. David A. Charters, Editor, has brought together a team of well-known experts...

This comparative study is the first to center on the key issues of homeownership and control today in a number of industrialized countries. Experts from Canada, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States draw a cross-national and interdisciplinary, informed picture of basic issues and...

This work represents a broad-based perspective of the conflict resolution process. While related books have tended to specialize on specific settings, this volume gives in-depth treatment of four various settings--environmental risk resolution, rule-making in the public sector, consumer disputes, and contracts and the courts....

Efforts to commercialize agriculture in peasant societies through investments in technology and various pricing strategies have failed to create the food surpluses needed to forestall famine and support industrialization in East Africa. Seavoy explores this problem, basing his study on the case of Tanzania,...

In this controversial study, Seavoy offers a new approach to the problem of periodic peacetime famine based on the actual behavior of peasants. He maintains that it is possible to increase per capita food production without massive and inappropriate technological inputs. Seavoy shifts the...

Author: Steven WisotskyISBN-10: 0313242666ISBN-13: 9780313242663Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/1986Pages: 306Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Globalization is both a virtue and a vice. On balance it is beneficial to individuals, communities, nations, and the world economy. It facilitates the movement of goods and services, people, financial capital, and ideas. Overall, it creates wealth. Globalization does have vices, however, cultural...

Hong Kong society is often regarded as politically apathetic. Yet throughout its history, Hong Kong experienced periodic waves of social movement activity. In part, the perception of an apathetic populace stems from the colonial government's laissez-faire policies, the society's concentration on economic development, the...

This elaboration of the writings and statements of Milton Friedman is intended to create an economic system that moves the subject along theory-, fact-, and policy-oriented lines. Items directly attributable to Friedman are used in combination with an awareness of the unique breadth of...

This work examines the conflict between movements and regimes using dynamic mathematical modeling methods. Most of the deaths from political violence in the world in this century have not been caused by war, but by conflict between governments and dissenters. It is hoped that...

Death camps are the most enduring image of the Holocaust, but they were only the final expression of a destruction process that began in 1933. In that year the Nazi regime mobilized members of an entire society to destroy their neighbors. Lawmakers, judges, attorneys,...

How has the role of the United Nations and its Secretary-General changed with the end of the Cold War? With the beginning of a New World Order? These questions are increasingly significant as the threat of nuclear-bloc confrontation is replaced by ethnic tensions and...

This volume takes a historical approach in analyzing all of the major United States Supreme Court cases relevant to the conflict between a free press and fair trial. Campbell's thorough analysis, which relates 30 primary cases to each other and to nearly 70 associated...

Hoskin explores the sources and direction of public opinion toward new immigrants in four Western democracies.Author: Marilyn B. HoskinISBN-10: 0275940047ISBN-13: 9780275940041Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/1991Pages: 184Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

This important volume tackles the potential problems of international military disarmament. Distinguished scholars across several disciplines discuss possible negative economic and social consequences, including unemployment, conversion costs, and the related hampered growth of research and development, associated with the conversion from a military industrial...

The crisis in Central America has afforded numerous transnational, regional, and extracontinental actors the opportunity to become involved in an area traditionally considered a reserve and special zone of influence for the United States. One notable example of this phenomenon has been the engagement...

Linda Forcey writes in her introduction to this important new book that more than forty years have passed since Albert Einstein prophesied unparalleled catastrophe were we not to change our modes of thinking. Learning how we should go about this is peace studies. This...

The UK has pioneered the introduction of competition into previously monopolistic utility industries. Competition has been introduced progressively, starting with British Telecom, and continuing with the gas and electricity industries, where it is to be completed during 1998. In water, competition has so far...

Author: Jacqueline Von EdelbergISBN-13: 9798999050946Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/19/2025Pages: 146Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.56d

The Promise of the Dawn: 50 years of Community LivingStories from the Abode of the Message]]In the promise of the dawn, in the breaking of the morn, in the smiles of the rose, Beloved, I see Thy joy at my homecoming.Hazrat Inayat KhanWe wholeheartedly...

Author: Stanley GoldfarbISBN-13: 9798895652343Publisher: Post Hill PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2025Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbs

Author: Kakurah NinsiimaISBN-10: 1068874600ISBN-13: 9781068874604Publisher: Nove Terra PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/2025Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

Through Human Eyes was a project created to connect people across generations, foster social inclusion, spark visibility, and gather community. At the heart of it, we wanted to introduce elementary school children to the amazing individuals living in a nearby retirement home-people we had...

Are you one in a position of leadership and influence who desires to become well acquainted with the largest generation in the history of the world? Would you like to know the part you play in drawing this unique crowd to your influence?ANSWER THE...

Are you one in a position of leadership and influence who desires to become well acquainted with the largest generation in the history of the world? Would you like to know the part you play in drawing this unique crowd to your influence?ANSWER THE...

Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is a critical work written in 1920 during the early years of the Soviet state. This pamphlet addresses challenges within the international communist movement, particularly the tendencies of left-wing radicals who rejected pragmatic strategies and...

Acts of Seeing, Ways of Knowing refracts the nineteenth and twentieth centuries history of India through reception of the first two 'mass' forms of visual culture, photography and posters (those with the capacity to produce multiple copies). India's responses to a changing public world...

The Political Progress of Britain - An Impartial History of Abuses in the Government of the British Empire, in Europe, Asia and America is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1795. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas...

Leading and Select Cases on Trusts - with extended abstracts of important cases, explanatory and critical notes, and numerous citations of authorities bearing on every branch of the law of trusts, also a full report of the great case of the Covington is an...

The Eighteen Nineties have become legendary: the period of Wilde, Beardsley and the Yellow Book; a decadent twilight at the close of the Victorian century, when young poets weary of life sat about drinking absinthe and talking of strange sins. The provenance of this...