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This text explores the principal issues and developments, both in international human rights and in rights in the United States, and then compares the concepts and conditions of rights in various parts of the world. It pays particular attention to the role of US foreign policy.

A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This treatise relates Schoenberg's concept of the musical idea. It defines his thought on gestalt, motive, grundgestalt, phrase, rhythm and accent, the construction function of harmony, homophonic and contrapuntal forms, and compositional coherence.

Primary sources in the history, philosophy, and religions of South Asia: Volume II focuses on the subcontinent's history from 1498 to 1984, with such topics as the opening of India to the West; Hindu and Muslin social and religious movements; and Pakistan's formation as an Islamic state.

This 16th-century book of reading notes and reflections on philosophy and history was written by Lo Ch'in-shun, a philosopher of Ming China. This translation includes an introduction providing a brief biography of Lo and placing his work in a historical context.

At the book's outset, the author sets down principles taken from the views of leading theoreticians of the interpersonal school, and then describes some of the methods of treatment that are consistent with this type of approach. He emphasizes the use of metaphor. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc

Discusses the development of dance from 1949 to 1984 and examines the work of dancers and choreographers.

Explores the natural riches of the coldest continent and examines the plant and animal life, particularly penguins, birds, seals, and fish.

Advances ego psychology beyond its position as a psychoanalytic developmental psychology, and presents a developmental object relations theory. This volume revives Freud's thoughts about object relations, and adds developmental theory to provide an integrated object relations theory. It also extends the concept of transference.