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This work examines the role money and debt play in our economy. It shows why we went from the gold standard to fiat money, why that led to increasing inflation up to 1980, and why inflation has receded since 1980. In addition, it explains how today's economic problems arose, why governments cannot solve those problems, and where those problems will lead us. Challenging conventional wisdom, the author suggests that high real interest rates in t...

His life informed us, his dreams sustain us yet."*On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, "I have a dream . . ." It was a speech that changed the course of history.This fortieth-anniversary edition honors Martin Luther King Jr.'s courageous dream and his immeasurable contribut...

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Nearing fifty and married with two children, she and her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day. During the course of the journey, Maggie's eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested...

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This is one of the few book-length analyses of judicial review and public policy in very different parts of the world today. Donald W. Jackson and C. Neal Tate have gathered together respected scholars and set forth a framework for comparative analysis into the origins of judicial review, its use as a policy tool, and its exercise and impact in the policy-making process. Political scientists, public policy analysts, and public administrators w...

Examines the relationship between the United States and Nicaragua during the Somoza regime. Clark argues that the United States fought for democracy in Nicaragua, but was defeated by Somoza's political skills and, later, by Cold War obsessions which overtook Latin-American policymakers.

Overviews the most significant books and articles on the ethical issues related to health care for older Americans. Chapters cover such topics as financial considerations, treatment for the terminally ill and decision-making by and for the impaired elderly.

Along with philosophers and psychologists from Plato through Maslow, the author believes that humans progress through hierarchical stages of biological and moral development, and that the ethical goal of humanity is to create a world order that meets human and environmental needs at all levels.

Die Beihefte zu editio erscheinen als Ergänzung zu editio, der internationalen editionswissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift, die in Verbindung mit den entsprechenden Arbeitsgemeinschaften der Germanisten, Philosophen und Musikwissenschaftler herausgegeben wird. Während editio grundsätzliche und übergreifende editionswissenschaftliche Beiträge zu möglichst unterschiedlichen Schwerpunkten bevorzugt, werden in den Beiheften speziellere Fragestellungen ...

A biography of James Kirke Paulding, one of the first American writers to devote his career to describing America and Americans, and to social commentary and social criticism. Paulding's cause was the defence of the republic as a way of life, an economic and social system and an ethical code.

Community Psychology Theory and Practice Jim Orford, University of Exeter, UK Community psychology is a comparatively new area within psychology. Its perspective is that people and their problems can only be understood by considering the social settings and systems of which they are part and with which they interact continuously over time. These include not only micro-systems of family, work and leisure groups, but also higher-order systems fr...

Professor Wrigley assesses the main features of Lloyd George's career from his early days as a fiery Welsh radical through the pre-First World War Liberal social reforms to his premiership (1916-1922) and after. He concludes with an assessment of the place of Lloyd George in British political history and a survey of the biographical material available.

The riddle of femininity', like Freud's reference to women's sexuality as a dark continent', has been treated as a romantic aside or a sexist evasion, rather than a problem to be solved. In this first comprehensive study, Teresa Brennan suggests that by placing these theories in the context of Freud's work overall, we will begin to understand why femininity was such a riddle for Freud.

Studies 300 delinquent boys in a medium security institution and after their release. The field experiment shows how peers affect the rehabilitation of different group members, how staff use those influences to lead to prosocial change after release, and how behaviour improved.

A study evaluating state-initiated policies in post-1965 Zaire and their impact on the people. The author claims the basic objectives of agricultural and rural policy have been political, not socio-economic. He calls for mastery of the state in order to halt current underdevelopment.

This work argues that stress names a kind of grief unique to the modern period, a grief perpetually unresolved, evoked by the rapid changes characteristic of modernity. Because our grief is always unresolved, the passion of mourning is perpetually productive.

Komplementärer Text zu vielen Statistik-Lehrbüchern unter dem Aspekt rascher Rezeption des Stoffes.

A new edition of Vonnegut's novel about a millionaire who devotes himself to a life of drink.

Anne McCaffrey was one of the world's leading science-fiction writers, and won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards' Lifetime Literary Achievement Award. She was deeply honoured to have been made a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2005, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006. Born and raised in the US and of Irish extraction, she moved to Ireland in 1970 where she lived in the ¿Garden of ...