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Newly revised and updated, this text contains the contributions of major theorists on ego psychology, including new findings from current child observationalists. It demonstrates how the diagnosing therapist can distinguish among borderline, narcissistic and neurotic structures.

This study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture built on dreams of a better future. The author argues that the birth of the popular magazine at the turn of the 20th century laid the foundations of the modern consumer culture.

An introduction to the concept of assisted living, an alternative to the institutional nursing home that uses innovative methods of design and management to provide independent housing for senior citizens. The text offers advice on financial arrangements and managing the needs of frail residents.

An exploration of gender, the body and the dynamics of repression in key literary works of the French Renaissance. The author describes how sexuality functions as a rhetorical figure through which desire is represented.

Sets socialism within its historical context from pre-revolutionary France to the present. The authors contend that socialism came into being at the end of the 18th century as a response to the Industrial Revolution and as an attempt to change the consciousness and organization of society.

Sets socialism within its historical context from pre-revolutionary France to the present. The authors contend that socialism came into being at the end of the 18th century as a response to the Industrial Revolution and as an attempt to change the consciousness and organization of society.

Challenges the leading radical literary critics of the 1930s, reconsidering issues including the relative autonomy of literature from society and economics; the role of tradition in literary creation; the relation of literature to propaganda; and the nature of aesthetic value.

The renaissance in stratigraphy has promoted a more thorough examination of the geologic record of particular fossil bearing strata. The subject of paleontological events whether sedimentographic or biological in nature, is now emerging as an important topic in earth history, particularly with regard to the temperature and nature of sedimentologic and biologic change.

This collection of case studies seeks to re-examine the understanding of the speciation patterns that appear in the fossil record through analysis of the patterns and their presumed processes.

This analysis of the current economic situation in Africa describes the international and domestic political and social developments that have contributed to the present state of affairs. The contributors call for significant changes in the manner in which Western aid is provided and utilized.

Reconstructing the often volatile US-Israeli relationship, this study examines the extent to which various coercive measures made by the USA between 1953 and 1991 proved effective in influencing Israeli policy.

In this beautifully illustrated book, Cahill reveals the intricacies of the traditional Chinese painter's life and work, covering such aspects as payment and patronage, in an approach that is largely absent from Asian art history.

Comprehensively examines American diplomacy during the 1960s and argues that all aspects of American foreign policy of the period must be viewed through the prism of the fight against communism.

A translation of "The Lotus Sutra" which has been regarded as one of the illustrious scriptures in the Mahayana Buddhist canon.

Between 1820 and 1860, tens of thousands of single women left rural New England to work in the factory towns of the region. In this text Dublin presents letters from six of these women in order to provide a perspective on early industrial capitalism and its effect on women.

This volume contains a selection of essays which focus on issues involving the inviolability of the human body and the decision to end life. Biologists, ethicists, theologians and political scientists discuss whether or not limits should be placed on medical intervention.

This monograph argues that, contrary to stated claims, Japanese foreign aid is inextricably linked to Japanese business interests. It demonstrates how Japanese aid to the developing world is often tied to purchases from Japan, with potentially devastating consequences to Third World nations.

A thematic presentation of the various types of Socialism, such as Communitarian, Christian, Marxist, and Anarcho-Communist, that have existed in the United States from the time of the Revolutionary War to 1919.

Analyzes the international ozone treaty-making process as a lens through which to comprehend the use of scientific knowledge as a political tool.

Uncovers the connections between the Chicago school of sociology - exemplified by William Thomas, Robert Park and Robert Redfield - and the great Chicago novelists of the 1930s, Nelson Algren, Richard Wright and James T. Farrell, all of whom integrated sociological theories into their own work.

A discussion of the life and wok of Theodosius Dobzhansky and an assessment of the current research that has the origins in his findings and contributions.

The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics examines how the difficult issues of social, political, and economic relations will complicate the efforts initiated at the June 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The contributors argue that national governments must begin to acknowledge the role of new actors in their environmental policies.

This is an English translation of one of China's greatest works of political literature. Written in the 17th century, it is a major critique of Chinese dynastic institutions. Although firmly grounded in Confucian teachings, it also incorporates elements from alternative schools of thought.

Using sources from the Polish underground press of the late 1970s, this is a detailed account of the movement for democracy in Poland prior to the birth of the Solidarity trade union. The text stresses the work of the important activist groups that began the democratic process.

Describes the Eocene-Oligocene extinctions, an important turning-point in Earth history approximately 40 million years ago, when the first signs of Antarctic glaciation appeared. The text relates how, during a period of global cooling, the planet's climate and vegetation changed dramatically.

Leading chemists, geologists, palaeontologists and biologists contribute to this study of the most basic origins of life on Earth. They explore the origin of life during the Archean Eon, the maturation of life during the Proterozoic and the diversification of life that marks the Phanerozoic.

A revised and updated edition of a general knowledge quiz book, which offers readers 1000 questions with which to test themselves or their friends. The text is divided into a number of topical subsections, testing the reader on subjects as diverse as science, history and films.

This study examines the relationship between society and literature, demonstrating how the proletarian novel, a literary phenomenon of the 1930s, was a reflection of interest in revolutionary Marxism. The book was awarded the Robert F. Ferguson Memorial Award by the Friends of Literature.