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This public policy study offers a general framework for assessing health insurance from many vantage points, in terms of health policy impacts, the care of the needy, health insurance implementation, and prevention and risk.

Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was a maverick marine, the emblem of "the old corps, " and one of the most controversial figures in Marine history. He was a high school dropout who became a major general, a Quaker and a devout family man who was one of the toughest of the Marines, an aristocrat who championed the common man, a leader who thought of himself as striving to help the oppressed of the countries he occupied as the commander ...

Comprehending tragedy has been a major philosophical and critical preoccupation in Western thought. Whether concerned with the generic problem of definition or with tragedy in the context of specific writers or periods, books with multiple and often conflicting perspectives abound. In an effort to bring order to the explanations over two millennia, Tragedy and Tragic Theory lucidly analyzes the principal ideas about tragedy from Plato to the p...

This collection of essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls provides a long overdue reassessment of this Spanish Civil War novel and demonstrates its centrality in the author's life and canon, reestablishing the book's status as an American masterpiece. Following Sanderson's introduction, the book begins with a reconsideration of Hemingway's career by Kurt Vonnegut. Ten literary essays by both well-known scholars and new voices follow. ...

Mixed category constructions like the English verbal gerund involve words that seem to be central members of more than one part of speech and so pose a problem for the standard view of syntactic categories. This book presents a novel analysis of this and similar mixed category constructions in languages including Quechua, Tibetan, Arabic, Fijian, Dagaare, and Jacaltec. Under this analysis, verbal gerunds share the selectional properties of ver...

Examines policies and programs of compensation for family caregivers of the disabled elderly from a broad analytical perspective, weighing current policies of home care services against principles of access, equity, quality, and funding of long-term care.

Focuses on the problems of development under conditions of structural adjustment and their relation to democratic change in Africa. Contributors employ a comparative method which uses a political economy approach to the study of democracy, gender, industrialization, agriculture and the state.

Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand während meiner Tätigkeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Steuerungs­ technik der Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungseinrichtungen (ISW) der Universität Stuttgart. Bei Herrn Prof. Dr. -Ing. G. Pritschow, dem Direktor des - stituts, möchte ich mich für die Unterstützung und Förderung beim Entstehen dieser Arbeit sowie für die Übernahme des Hauptberichtes bedanken. Herrn Prof. Dr. -Ing. A. Storr dan...

Shenkman stresses the need for a vital response to markets and urges decision makers to meet their objectives through a basic but essential commitment to quality. He aims to provide a logical and effective management strategy based on the imperative of integral, productive relationships.

Presents an attempt at a unified accounting system for measuring and reporting the performance of human service organizations as well as firms in the profit sector. The model developed recognizes the centrality of the consumer and the significance of optimizing consumer preferences in both sectors.

This volume contains the proceedings of the first NATO Science Forum "Highlights of the Eighties and Future Prospects in Condensed Matter Physics" (sponsored by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division), which took place in September, 1990, in the pleasant surroundings provided by the Hotel du Palais at Biarritz, France. One hundred distinguished physicists from seventeen countries, including six Nobellaureates, were invited to participate in the ...

To celebrate Little Bear's thirty-fifth anniversary, three paperback editions in the series-Little Bear, Father Bear Comes Home, and Little Bear's Visit-have been slipcased in a boxed gift set for a whole new generation of children.

[In] a joyous twist on the counting-book concept, a girl decides how many elephants are needed to pull a train out of a tunnel, paint the ceiling, go to the beach. . . .Bond's well-executed illustrations [project] a contagious sense of movement. A puckish sense of humor prevails among elephants who skateboard, don sunglasses, act tough, and even wink at the audience." —SLJ.

This book not only provides background and directions for selected restaurants and resorts but also features the chefs choice recipes for home cooking.

This study explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events.

Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events. Stephen Prince discusses Hollywood film productions of the 1980s in terms of salient political issues of the period, including anxie...

This inquiry into Third World health problems linked to industrialization offers positive directions for national and international strategies. The importance of occupational health and safety issues is seen through studies on China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, and Malaysia amongst others.

This multiauthored textbook is directed to the psychiatric resident and other professionals who are interested in the issues, strategies, and methods of psychiatric research. Although the field of psychiatry has not attained the scientific rigor and clinical sophistication of some of its sister disciplines in the medical arena, considerable progress has been made in the last decade or two, and a full understanding of the types of articles that...

In 1984, a conference called Wildlife 2000: Modeling habitat relationships of terrestrial vertebrates, was held at Stanford Sierra Camp at Fallen Leaf Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. The conference was well-received, and the published volume (Verner, J. , M. L. Morrison, and C. J. Ralph, editors. 1986. Wildlife 2000: modeling habitat relationships of terrestrial vertebrates, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin,...

This is the first study of the reform oratory of the "silver-tongued" temperance leader, Frances Willard. It provides a critical analysis of the speaking style of this influential late 19th century suffragette, prohibitionist, and Christian leader of women.