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For those whose familiarity with black women playwrights is limited to the works of Lorraine Hansberry and Ntozake Shange, this collection of 15 plays written between 1925 and 1985 by eight authors will be a revelation. They express a passionate longing for social justice and for a stable, nurturing relationship between black men and women. Introductions for each author provide biographical information and critical analyses. A useful bibliogra...

Venezuela's most important political figure of the twentieth century, and probably its most important since Simon Bolivar, is the subject of this volume of interviews and letters. Romulo Betancourt helped to form Venezuela's historic Accion Democratica group, twice served as his country's president, and in his many years in exile worked to inform the world about the political crises and dictatorships that plagued Venezuela. The material in thi...

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Parkins depicts mind/brain as a regulator of equilibratory processes and describes mind/brain in terms of information representation and processing requirements for learning based control. He considers a number of psychological processes in terms of his model and interprets a number of disorders.

An interdisciplinary approach to six examples of West Indian fiction, combining symbolic anthropology with traditional literary criticism. The author focuses on colonization as a key metaphor for exploitation of gender, class, race and environment.

Explores a problem of military uncertainty - first strike stability. It seeks to clarify the kind of bargains superpowers and their allies have made in regard to nuclear weapons and command systems, and to enhance understanding of the concept and practice of nuclear deterrence.

Based upon a survey of more than 300 US businesses, this book explores and describes the various types of employee benefits policies designed to ease the burdens of employees caught between the conflicting demands of work and the need to provide care for dependent children and/or parents.

Measurement Issues in Criminology examines the techniques and procedures crucial to successful research. Topics appropriate for specific research designs, data sources, and analytic techniques are identified, as well as topics for which such measurement methods are inappropriate. Subjects explored include ethical obligations and social research, the offender's perspective, longitudinal research design, advantages of time series studies over ot...

Das Buch behandelt die biologischen, technischen und experimentellen Grundlagen der Hirnpotentialforschung, zeigt eine Reihe von Analysemethoden (Frequenzanalysen, evozierte Potentiale) auf und gibt eine Übersicht über bekannte Kennwerte (z. B. Alphaaktivitäten, P300, Bereitschaftspotential, DC shifts). Es zeigt exemplarische Anwendungen der Neuropsychophysiologie in der Persönlichkeits- und Streßforschung, Zusammenhänge mit Intelligenz und Ko...

Defining biotechnology as any technique that uses living organisms or processes to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop micro-organisms, this collection of essays focuses on the social, ethical, economic, legal and political aspects of biotechnological applications.

Always the Young Strangers, the author's recollections of his childhood and youth in Galesburg, Illinois, is presented in a shortened version for younger readers.

A collection of papers describing and interpreting the Ethiopian revolution and exploring its successes and failures. The book shows a variety of viewpoints, but demonstrates that Ethiopia's history, climate and demographics have been contributing factors to the current crisis.

Meier shows how the structure of Greek communal life gave individuals a civic role and discusses a crucial reform that institutionalized the idea of equality before the law.

For those whose familiarity with black women playwrights is limited to the works of Lorraine Hansberry and Ntozake Shange, this collection of 15 plays written between 1925 and 1985 by eight authors will be a revelation. They express a passionate longing for social justice and for a stable, nurturing relationship between black men and women. Introductions for each author provide biographical information and critical analyses. A useful bibliogra...

Covering the development of the U.S. labor market from 1880-1940, The Fictitious Commodity stresses relations of authority (versus power) in employment. Deemphasizing concepts of market and contract, Korver focuses on the differential statuses of employer/employee and demonstrates the inadequacy of conventional economic discourse on labor market analysis. U.S. companies, while undergoing rapid industrialization, tackled both organizational and...

During the 1980s economic reforms occurred in China to the extent that foreign capital was permitted to invest and form partnerships with Chinese firms. This work examines the legal, business, social and practical issues involved in undertaking and maintaining such joint ventures.

This volume fills a gap in the literature by analyzing basic issues in development economics as they affect a particular type of Third World nation - small island economies. Using practical examples from the Caribbean Basin and the South Pacific, the authors examine in depth structural and employment issues, demographic and socioeconomic issues, and environmental and natural resource issues. Their aim throughout is to identify and assess the p...

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. If God is loving and almighty, why do people experience so much pain, misery, and guilt? In the face of human suffering, the cry "why?" echoes through the ages. In this book A. van de Beek grapples honestly with the mystery of suffering and evil. His writing reveals a pastoral heart keenly aware of the profound evil and suffering in our world today, and he considers these perplex...

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