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This is a fully informed progressive response to the recent debates surrounding the multifold issues of culture and education. Trend provides a compelling argument for integrating education and the arts more fully into our lives--both in theory and in practice. His theoretical overview of the ideological battles over texts and their discursive contexts leads into a critical analysis of how both conservative and alternative cultural education h...

Trend provides a compelling argument for integrating education and the arts more fully into our lives--both in theory and in practice. His theoretical overview of the ideological battles over texts and their discursive contexts leads into a critical analysis of how both conservative and alternative cultural education have evolved.

This work offers a theoretical perspective on two new variables that shape presidential voting behavior through an exploration of the impact that native son presidential candidate Jimmy Carter had upon his home state electorate in Georgia.

A textbook for either a semester or year course for graduate students of mathematics who have had at least one course in topology. Introduces continuum theory through a combination of classical and modern techniques. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Offers a social psychological account of social life in three high schools, combining theoretical analysis with reflective methodology. The emphasis of the book is on how social relations have varying effects on the feeling of "self" in young people from different socioeconomic environments.

The international symposium on transposition of the great arteries was held in Munich on May 3-5, 1991. It was organized by the German Heart Center Muni eh with two aims: firstly, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Dr. Rashkind's publication: "Creation of an atrial septal defect without thoracotomy" (which appeared in 1966 in the Journal of the American Medical Association), and to honor this great pediatric cardiologist, who was one the p...

This annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning and facilitate the dissemination of cutting-edge scholarship across the spectrum of Jewish Studies.

This is the first systematic study of the industry and of the people who cultivate marijuana for profit. It challenges popular images of the drug industry by shifting focus from drug production in other countries and the plight of inner cities to the rural drug scene in marijuana.

The first anthology of its kind, bringing together a diverse selection of new and well-known modern American poets writing on the theme of mother-son relationships, with works by eighty poets, including Sylvia Plath, e. e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, and Langston Hughes.

Can China now be considered urbanized? Unlike earlier studies that viewed China as a peasant or rural society, this book focuses on the question of whether China is already urbanized. Each of the contributors considers the degree to which the town-country dichotomy has been obliterated in the China of the 1980s and 1990s. The focus is unique, for previous studies have failed to raise this fundamental question.The contributors to the volume, wh...

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Analysts, political scientists, scholars and consultants - this book describes the individuals that the media approach for "inside information", background or predictions concerning the outcome of news. This book is based on three major networks' broadcasts between 1987 and 1988.

Designed to advance understanding of the unique needs of high-functioning individuals with autism, this volume details the latest diagnostic and treatment approaches and analyzes the current conceptions of the neurological processes involved in autism.

Conceiving of pedagogy as a form of cultural politics and teachers as cultural workers, Simon seeks to offer a new vision of the notion of pedagogy. Taking an ethical and political stance devoted to the advancement of human dignity, he considers the basis on which teachers form their practices.

This landmark study of American religion, recipient of the National Religious Book Award in 1976, is being brought back into print with an updated bibliography. The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism traces the history of American Protestant thought from the early part of the nineteenth century to the present. William R. Hutchison deals especially with the "modernist" movement that flourished in the years around 1900, and with the col...

In this Spanish language edition of his national bestseller, "The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision", James Redfield continues the story of the quest to spread the message of the discovery of the nine insights first revealed in "The Celestine Prophecy".

This is by far the best thing I've ever read about negotiation. It is equally relevant for the individual who would like to keep his friends, property, and income and the statesman who would like to keep the peace. --John Kenneth Galbraith

Most animal and plant species inhabit tropical forests. Hence the interest in the effects of tropical forest clearance on biological diversity. The book provides a conservationist's perception of how fast tropical forests are being lost and what the consequences are for biological diversity.

Cragg combines the findings of contemporary studies, reports and papers focusing on crime, punishment and penal practice with philosophical argument and thereby constructs a radical theory of restorative justice.

An analysis of the declining trend in international competitiveness of US industry, indentifying three groups of countries that account for most of the trade deficit: Germany and Japan, the East Asian NICs and the Latin American debtors. For each case, underlying structural problems are explored.