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This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, poets, playwrights and literary theorists, of 1900 to 1999 -- the era most frequently studied in high schools. Each volume presents overviews of four to eight authors with chronologically arranged criticism representing the entire range of response to each author. A typical excerpt is prefac...

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Kellough reviews the context and motivation of establishing goals and timetables in the equal opportunity program for federal agencies, then assesses the impact both overall and in individual agencies.

This volume examines the social policies that arose from the civil rights movement and proposes new steps to economic independence for black families that would place the responsibility within all sectors of society. Jewell argues that social policies and their absence have affected the status of black family structures, and she refutes the myth of significant black progress since the civil rights era. Attention is focused on the extent to whi...

Avey challenges the theory that the characteristics of of nonvoters--low levels of education and political apathy--are the root causes of poor voter turnout among persons of low socioeconomic status, arguing instead that nonvoting results from the behavior of politicians, political elites, and the political system.

Biomedical technologies offer new hope for controlling life and create unparalleled ethical and political dilemmas. This volume is designed to provide a framework for studying as a comprehensive whole the public policy implications of biomedical technologies.

The American Decca recording company became the most influential publisher of hillbilly music during the 1930s and 1940s. Hillbilly music was the forerunner of today's country and western, and this discography provides a systematic listing of all released recordings.

Using U.S. Current Population Survey data from 1947 to 1985, Maxwell presents the results of a comprehensive study of the causes and consequences of the upturn in income inequality that took place during this period. By examining the impact of changing industrial and occupational employment, population age structure, household structure, female labor force participation, and government spending on social insurance, she systematically estimates...

Given a series of wind speeds and directions from the port of Fremantle the aim of this monograph is to detect general weather patterns and seasonal characteristics. To separate the daily land and sea breeze cycle and other short-term disturbances from the general wind, the series is divided into a daily and a longer term, synoptic component. The latter is related to the atmospheric pressure field, while the former is studied in order i) to is...

Because of the sheer size and scope of the plastics industry, the title Developments in Plastics Technology now covers an incredibly wide range of subjects or topics. No single volume can survey the whole field in any depth and what follows is, therefore, a series of chapters on selected topics. The topics were selected by us, the editors, because of their immediate relevance to the plastics industry. When one considers the advancements of the...

Einführend werden die Sonderstellung der Psychiatrie im Rahmen der Medizin und die grundlegenden Unterschiede zwischen allgemeiner und forensischer Psychiatrie geschildert. Anhand einer einfachen psychiatriegeschichtlichen Übersicht werden Fehlentwicklungen und Problemlösungen in der forensischen Psychiatrie so dargestellt, daß jeder Interessierte, - sei er Jurist, Nervenarzt, Psychologe oder Kriminologe -, sich mit der Bedeutung der unterschi...

Through an investigation and description of the campaign conducted by the Rockefeller-funded English Language Exploratory Committee (ELEC) to revolutionize English-language-teaching practices in Japan, Henrichsen addresses the issue of how internationally oriented reformers of educational systems and practices can go about creating change and dealing with resistance to it. Henrichsen contends that innovation alone is rarely sufficient to bring...

Swortzell has constructed a seminal reference work that chronicles the history, current state of artistic achievement, and foremost future needs of children's theater in 44 different countries. . . . an excellent first resource for diverse forms of research, and quite accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students. ChoiceAfter a visit to the Children's Educational Theatre in New York City, the first American theatre intended specifical...

Rose focuses on a new and ongoing movement in American banking--the rapid spread of banks and bank holding companies across state lines. He explores in detail interstate banking's potential benefits and costs and assessing the movement's future in an increasingly global society and volatile international economy.

Examines current and historical, theoretical and practical notions of welfare economics. It analyzes its development and failure and a new theory of welfare economics based on the concept of dynamic disequilibrium, designed to respond to present-day realities.

This volume documents the dramatic decline in confidence in U.S. political institutions since the 1960s, showing that such decline has had a class basis. The War on Poverty and the progressive movements of the '60s pointed out the irreconcilable demands on government and produced dual tendencies.