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This volume offers a guide to books published between 1980 and 1985 that preschool children enjoy and that at the same time address the needs and problems they encounter in their daily lives.

Based on a recent conference held in Washington, D.C., Israel Faces the Future explores some of the significant foreign and domestic issues facing Israel's government today and assesses Israel's future prospects. For the political scientist or lay person interested in the Middle East, this up-to-date book examines such issues as the country's heated debates over religion in national life, her inflation problem, her precarious place among hosti...

?This book attempts to discern the similarities of policy of the US and the Soviet Union when they intervene politically or indirectly during potentially revolutionary situations in other countries. The major case studies for the US are China (1945 to 1949), Vietnam (1961 to 1965), Guatemala (1954), and Chile (1970 to 1973), for the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia (1945), Hungary (1965), Poland (1956 and 1980 to 1981), and Afghanistan (1979). Althoug...

?The 27 papers in this volume are revised from their 1984 conference form to include concerns raised by questioners. If New York State's electrical power problems are taken as fair microcosms of the national picture, many instructive patterns emerge. After a bland 40 years where real costs declined as demand grew, the scene today is a battleground of rising fuel and capital costs, nuclear fears, endless regulatory disputes, uncertain future de...

?Published in cooperation with the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies, this collection is not another theoretical contribution to small power motivation and strategic capacity, such as Sheila Harden's Small Is Dangerous or Marshall Singer's Weak States in a World of Powers. Although it offers a wealth of forecasts for potential conflicts, leadership motivations, and military capabilities in several emerging regional powe...

Few subjects in contemporary philosophical and political debate are more cloaked in ambiguity than the issue of coercion -- whether on an individual or global scale or in areas as diverse as family relations, employment, and international finance. In this first full-length treatment of the topic, Professor Rosenbaum carefully reviews previous thinking on this question and develops a persuasive original theory focusing on the conceptual relatio...

The Regulation of Political Conflict" introduces a new unit of analysis for the study of political conflict: the conflict episode. The author then elaborates on regulation models appropriate for initiation through public policy. He discusses hypothetical causes of conflict, as presented in previous literature. Included is a description of the data base and data analysis strategies. A substantial portion of the book is devoted to identifying an...

The essays in this volume were presented at the Third Annual Conference on Advertising and Consumer Psychology. Contributed by scholars and researchers, the papers present the latest research findings in the areas of: physiological measures of consumer response to advertising, how consumers' evaluations of advertisements affects their attitudes toward the product, what the role of self is in consumers' responses to advertising, and the meaning...

?This edited volume of articles explores one of the major ethical concerns raised by biomedical technology and its use with neonates and adults who are critically ill and dying. The nine authors of the seven articles are known for ethics writings, and they explore in varying detail the values of physicians and nurses that influence decisions concerning the use of life-sustaining medical treatment with ill adults and neonates. Although heavily ...

Investigates in depth the nature and meaning of "democracy" in China today, beginning with a vivid history of the short-lived Democracy Movement of 1978-1981, when groups of young people in a number of Chinese cities started issuing outspoken publications and putting up posters detailing their complaints and opinions.

Post-Capitalist Industrialization presents an economic strategy and planning methodology that tackles the complex problem of industrialization. The book offers an analysis of Tanzania's struggle to establish an independent, democratic economy, and describes how that nation's failure to do so is connected to its refusal to adopt a comprehensive plan for democratic industrial development.

A thorough study of the background of the Apostle Paul, his ministry, and his writings. Perfect as a textbook.