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Case studies, utilizing the specific criteria formulated by Tracy to measure the applicability of one country's social welfare program to another country's needs, illustrate how the analytical model helps to outline a unique and potentially beneficial program for each region.

This volume presents a comprehensive history of the U.S. public debt from 1775 to the present. The authors document how the public debt has accumulated and review the methods the government has employed to manage and administer it.

Placing psychoanalysis in its historical context, this work argues that the science of personality has receded and faded and should be regarded as an organic link in the history of Freudian thought. Based on this view, the future of psychoanalysis is examined.

Mrs. Brice has 25 mice, and all but one do everything together. While the others are exercising with Mrs. Brice, one little mouse sleeps. While the rest dance around Mrs. Brice as she plays the piano, this one dances on her hand. And when all the mice come across a ferocious cat, it's this small individualist who saves the day. Full-color illustrations.

With every passing year, the mutual mistrust between doctor and patient widens, as doctors retreat into resentment and patients become increasingly disillusioned with the quality of care. Rich in anecdote as well as science Doctors and Their Patients describes how both have arrived at this sad shape.

The Intermarriage Handbook is a comprehensive, immensely practical self-help book for interfaith couples. Judy Petsonk and Jim Remsen interviewed hundreds of experts: psychologists, family therapist, sociologists, religious leaders--and especially the couples themselves. They discovered that the cultural differences between Christians and Jews are as significiant as their religious upbringings. Even if husband and wife are not practicing a fai...

In this study the author scrutinizes the fundamental assumptions and presuppositions of the post-modern philosophical world-view that he claims dominates contemporary society. He synthesizes key developments in contemporary post-modernism from an historical perspective.

Read, read, read. Read everything-trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window." -William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkner's epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion...

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

A collection of essays by experts in intergroup relations, this volume offers conceptual overviews by which to compare and evaluate acculturation. It also focuses on rethinking the nature of minorities long present in the US and includes suggestions for policy changes and social programmes.

The use of social structure as a defining concept has produced a large body of creative speculations, insights, and intuitions about social life. In its broad-ranging examination of the kind of data that form the basis for the systematic study of social structure, this book marks a significant methodological advance.

Clara's dream of enriching her rough life on the family farm is fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits with the country's first traveling library.

In an award-winning collaboration, Eloise Greenfield has created 20 exuberant, often touching poems inspired by Amos Ferguson's bright and vibrant paintings celebrating life in his native Bahamas. Whether contemplating life, friendship, fun or natural beauty, this collection presents an affectionate portrait of the Caribbean. An ALA Notable Chidlren's Book. Full-color illustrations.

The zoo is a very busy place! From early in the morning until evening comes, a lot goes on to keep the animals safe and comfortable. There are kitchens where people prepare the special diets the animals need. And there are nurseries where zoo keepers raise baby animals until they are big enough to go to their exhibit areas. Here is a lively, behind-the-scenes look at just what it takes to keep a zoo running!

The profound political changes in the USSR and Eastern Europe during 1989 have forced the United States and its Western European allies to reevaluate both their long held military strategy of nuclear deterrence and the traditional role of NATO in European affairs. In this volume, Stephen Cimbala considers the ways in which American military priorities will have to change now that the tangible threat to Europe has been removed, exploring the op...

A bio-bibliography of the British composer, John McCabe, which includes a complete list of his works and performances as well as articles and features by and about him containing annotations, often in the form of quotations from the material.

The essays in this volume are an invitation to rethink some of the most basic assumptions of higher education. Education can be a transformative activity that creates conditions for empowerment through a central concern for social justice and democracy.

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Examining the basic themes of current US employment law, this study identifies what is changing and what is not. It focuses on individual contract of employment, the elements that have remained constant and the statutory elements that foster the most change.