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After a history of funding environmentally costly megaprojects, the World Bank now claims that it is trying to become a leading force for sustainable development. For more than a decade, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and grassroots movements have formed transnational coalitions to reform the World Bank and the governments that it funds. The Struggle for Accountability assesses the efforts of these groups to make the World Bank more publ...

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In today's "trial by media" election campaigns, do you have to be crazy to run for higher office? Looking back over the past 25 years, Stanley Renshon provides the first comprehensive account of how the issue of character has come to dominate presidential campaigns. He traces two related but distinctive approaches to a candidate's psychology: mental health and character. Drawing on his clinical and political science training, Renshon has devis...

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Analyzes the effectiveness of family-centered services for children with disabilities or chronic illnesses and offers proof that parent involvement in children's treatment enhances therapy. The six contributions offer suggestions and methods to improve programs, such as performing therapy in natural settings to make changes in the children's social

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This text examines the writing of 17th-century English women who took up the pen to challenge and subvert the repressive patriarchal ideology of Jacobean England, when women were expected to be chaste, obedient, subordinate and silent.

Michael Hollas's classic text Modern Spectroscopy has long been a bible for undergraduates studying spectroscopy. Now, Wiley is delighted to announce its big brother, the second edition of High Resolution Spectroscopy. High Resolution Spectroscopy is aimed in particular at graduates continuing their studies in spectroscopy. It follows and broadens the topics of Modern Spectroscopy, taking the subject to the frontiers of research. The second ed...

The relationship between China and Japan remains among the most significant of all the world's bilateral affairs - yet it is also the most tortured and the least understood. Akira Iriye adds brilliant clarity to the past century of Chinese-Japanese interactions in this masterful interpretive survey. Placing the relationship within its global context, he outlines three distinct periods in the history of these Asian giants. From the 1880s to Wor...

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Written by the author of the bestselling "Jesus, CEO", this "BusinessWeek" bestseller presents the first book on creating a mission statement to guide oneself (or one's business) through work and life.

Kant sought throughout his life to provide a philosophy adequate to the sciences of his time-especially Euclidean geometry and Newtonian physics. Friedman argues that Kant's efforts to find a metaphysics that could provide a foundation for the sciences is of utmost importance in understanding the development of his philosophical thought.

Ranging with authority from the Talmud to Maimonides, from Marx to Nietzsche and on to G.E. Moore, this account of a subject central to our culture also has much to say about metaphor, myth, and the application of philosophical analysis to religious concepts and sensibilities.

250 color photographs, 12 factory bulletins, and numerous catalog references document Anchor Hocking's Royal Ruby red glassware from the late 1930s to the 1980s. Some items shown here were experimental/test pieces never mass produced, while the more uncommon patterns include High Point, Whirly Twirly, Fairfield, Classic, Berwick, Beverly, Shell, Fortune, and Rainflower.

The struggle for civil rights among black Americans has moved into the voting booth. How such a shift came about--and what it means--is revealed in this timely reflection on black presidential politics. It will benefit those who wish to understand better the subtle interplay of race and politics, at the voting booth and beyond.

In their expanding roles as advisers, scientists have emerged as a formidable fifth branch of government. But even though the growing dependence of regulatory agencies on scientific and technical information has granted scientists a greater influence on public policy, opinions differ as to how those contributions should be balanced against other policy concerns. Merging legal and institutional analysis with social studies of science, Jasanoff ...

Questions about how children fare in divided families have become as perplexing and urgent as they are common. In this landmark work on custody arrangements, the developmental psychologist Eleanor Maccoby and the legal scholar Robert Mnookin examine the social and legal realities of how divorcing parents make arrangements for their children.