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Hypnosis, confabulation, source amnesia, flashbulb memories, repression-these and other topics are explored in this collection of essays by eminent scholars in cognitive psychology, psychopathology, psychiatry, neurobiology, sociology, history, and religious studies.

Traces the history of family life during the Middle Ages and examines medieval marriages, childhood, motherhood, and fatherhood.

There have been few credible studies of the risks and benefits of widely used medical treatments. Howard Frazier and Frederick Mosteller, leading figures in the field of medical technology assessment, attempt to distill the methods and knowledge base of their highly specialized discipline, with particular reference to medical innovations.

Authors of the Harvard Medical Practice Study, commissioned in 1986, came to the project from varied perspectives on the current malpractice system. They now agree that, by law, health-care organizations should be responsible for the financial losses of all patients injured in their care.

This is the first scholarly study of the prewar phase of the French army's development into a disruptive force in national life. A chapter from the portentous 20th-century story of the soldier in politics, it has relevance to contemporary situations in other western societies. The book includes an encyclopedic bibliography.

Brudney traces post-Hegelian thought from Feuerbach through Bauer to Marx's work of 1844 and his Theses on Feuerbach, and ends with an examination of The German Ideology. He shows how Marx attempted to reveal humanity's nature and a notion of the good life, while polemicizing against any concern with metaphysics and epistemology.

Examines the rise, development and ultimate failure of the German Social Democrats, the largest of the European socialist parties, from 1887 to 1912. Prominent figures are discussed but the book focuses primarily on the younger generation - Paul Kampffmeyer, Max Schippel, Conrad Schmidt and others.

Revised and enlarged, this edition has updated graphs and tables and also presents new findings on cohabitation and single life. It has a new chapter on the meaning of marriage in our society and the chapter on black-white differences is now an essay on relations among race, poverty and marriage.

Under free-market shock therapy, many economies of former socialist countries of Eastern Europe have declined. Why has there been so much stagnation, inflation, and de-industrialization, and what can be done to produce a turnaround? This book addresses these questions in revealing detail.

Not confessional or autobiographical, not openly political or gender-conscious: all that Marianne Moore's poetry is not has masked what it actually is. Cristanne Miller's aim is to lift this mask and reveal the radically oppositional, aesthetic, and political nature of the poet's work.

The sixteen stories collected in this book give firsthand accounts of daily life in contemporary China. From 250 interviews conducted in Hong Kong between 1972 and 1976, Frolic has created charming vignettes that show how individuals from all parts of China led their lives in the midst of rapid social change and political unrest.

This final volume of The Works of William James provides a full record of James's teaching career at Harvard from 1872-1907. It includes working notes for lectures in more than 20 courses. Because his teaching was closely involved with the development of his thought, this material adds a new dimension to our understanding of his philosophy.

George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature was the first book to attack the American myth of the superabundance and the inexhaustibility of the earth. It was, as Lewis Mumford said, "the fountainhead of the conservation movement," and few books since have had such an influence on the way men view and use land.

Becker argues that past experiences and social influences form two basic capital stocks, personal and social, and applies these concepts to assessing the effects of advertising, the power of peer pressure, the nature of addiction, and the function of habits.

The sociology of science is dominated today by relativists who boldly argue that the content of science is not primarily determined by evidence from the empirical world but is instead socially constructed in the laboratory. Making Science is the first serious critique by a sociologist of the social constructivist position.

The first full-scale economic analysis of homelessness, Making Room provides answers quite unlike those offered so far. Focused on six cities in America and Europe, Brendan O'Flaherty discusses the new homelessness as a response to changes in the housing market which is linked to a widening gap in the incomes of the rich and the poor.

In this book, Eric Leifer traces the growth and development of major leagues in baseball, football, basketball, and hockey, and predicts fundamental changes as the majors pursue international expansion. He shows how every past expansion of sports publics has been accompanied by significant changes in the way sporting competition is organized.

Americans accepted British rule because they had effective methods for influencing it to their own benefit. This book reveals a source of that influence in the networks of interest groups which emerged between 1640 and 1790 and which worked co-operatively in England and America.

These essays are "a series of exercises en route to a new psychology of adolescence and of women...[and] part of a process that they also describe: of changing a tradition by including girls' voices, of listening to girls and asking again about the meaning of self, relationship, and morality-concepts central to any psychology of human development."

The noted historian and philosopher of science John Forrester raises a provocative point: no matter how you feel about Freud, you can't escape the influence of his theories. Through questions central to our century's ways of thinking, Forrester explores dreams, history, ethics, political theory, and psychoanalysis as a scientific movement.

Thomas relates Whitman's work to American painting of the period; examines the poet's evocation of nature; documents the revisions and additions Whitman made to Leaves of Grass in order to demonstrate that "my Book and the War are One"; and pays sympathetic attention to the postwar poetry, usually slighted.

Graham proposes an explicit if minimalist approach by the federal government that would pull together and reform our de facto industrial policies in order to equip the U.S. with the institutional capacity to formulate industrial interventions guided by continuous learning, strategic vision, and bipartisan participation by both labor and management.