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Mobutu or Chaos? is the latest product of the Foreign Policy Research Institute's study on 'friendly tyrants.' Like its predecessors, it tackles the thorny question of how to deal with the pro-U.S. authoritarian regimes that have bedeviled U.S. foreign policy for the better part of forty years.

Music examples and charts illustrate the analyses, and each essay is fully annotated by the editor. in some cases, the results of the original research by the editor or by others working in the field are published here for the first time. Much of the material has never before appeared in English. A score embodying the best available musical text. Historical background-what is known of the circumstances surrounding the origin of the work, inc...

Rabbit loves to dance. He dances so much that his friends hide when they see him coming. But he's no dancing fool--when the hungry Fox decides to eat his friends for dinner, Rabbit's got a plan to dance them right out of the trap. Full-color illustrations.

A hen and her chicks--with the help of a duck and her ducklings--find a way to put their bad dreams behind them! A gentle bedtime story that chases away bad dreams. "A good addition to the picture-book shelf for the very youngest readers".--School Library Journal. An ALA Notable Book. Full-color illustrations.

A guide to making knowledgeable decisions when choosing health care, covering insurance, doctors and hospitals. Providing information on ambulant and long-term care and mental health services, it discusses such topics as the changing role of physicians and assuring quality care.

These essays provoke new responses to the work of the eminent Frenchphilosopher Emmanuel Levinas through an analysis of how the problematics of reading, deconstruction, feminism, and psychotherapy complicate and deepen Levinas's accountof responsibility. The re-reading presented here continues and expands on thelong-standing debate between Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Published in English forthe first time are two key texts in this debate: "Wh...

In this volume, Don Ihde argues that scientific instrumentation is the link between philosophy of science and philosophy of technology and shows that the interconnections between the two involve scientific instrumentation as an "interface.

This volume of finely crafted case studies is also the vehicle foran important general theory of divination.... this is a book overflowing with ideasthat will powerfully stimulate further research." -- Journal of RitualStudies"The essays in this collection provide a very usefuloverview of both the diversity of African divination systems and of recentapproaches to their study." -- ChoiceThis unique collectionof essays by an exceptional internat...

It enhances our understanding of intracultural and cross-cultural relationships and raises significant questions about the complexities of the colonial phenomenon in the modern era." -Journal of World History

The first survey of the major professions in the USSR

Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) is regarded as one of the most imitated and influential American fiction writers since the early 1960s. In Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition, Jerome Klinkowitz presents both an appreciation and a comprehensive examination of the life work of this pathbreaking contemporary writer. A blend of close reading, biography, and theory, this retrospective—informed by Klinkowitz’s expert command of postmodern American fiction—...

Theory Now and Then contains the more overtly theoretical essays by J. Hillis Miller published between 1966 and 1989. These essays trace the trajectory of theory over the last thirty years in the United States: from the “Continental Shift” announced in the Yale Colloquium of 1965, through Miller’s assimilation of the work of the Geneva Critics, to the shift to that “deconstruction in America” in which Miller played a conspicuous role.Included ...

He compares Saint Lambert's concepts of realization with those of contemporaneous sources and traces the influence of this treatise on later authors.

From fancifully garbed theatrical characters to richly appareled princes and the modest garb of peasants.

Criminology has traditionally been a military science, a science of war."The criminal element" is the enemy. Repression and restraint are the primary toolsof criminal justice, and criminologists study how to make those tools effective inthe "war on crime." We are beginning to realize that this is a war against ourselvesand one that we are losing. Our inability to make peace with crime and criminals isreflected in the paucity of our daily perso...

Get any training session off the ground fast or jump start one whenever it lags with the more than 400 proven activities in the bestselling Games Trainers Play series. Their names may range from "Tombstone Planning" to "The 'Nobel' Prize Winner, " but these brilliantly offbeat, unexpected, disarming, fully reproducible games have one serious mission: to coax even the most reluctant groups to talk, laugh, think, and work together.Page after pag...