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Armed and Considered Dangerous is a book about "bad guys" and their guns

This important work examines in detail and depth how, as a consequence of changing technologies, diet, patterns of reproduction, and work, relations between children and parents have altered

Archeology shares with other anthropological sciences the goal of explaining differences and similarities among cultural systems

Conditioning is one of the core methods of psychiatry. It is a behavioral method, with a stimulus-response constellation. This work deals with the conditioning method, covering its behavioral, neurophysiological, and psychiatric aspects. It summarizes knowledge on the neurophysiology of conditioning.

According to their critics, social scientists rarely ask the right questions and cannot provide satisfactory answers even to the questions they ask themselves

Based on an intensive fourteen-year study of a Hungarian peasant village, Proper Peasants greatly expands our knowledge of Eastern European social organizations with its accurate portrayal of a rapidly vanishing peasant way of life.

Contains discussions on such subjects as the ways in which people choose their mates, how the family social system can entrap its members in neurotic "games," and the complex nature of marital love. This book points out the numerous complexities of the interpersonal process. It also demonstrates the use of more sensitive research devices.

A wide-ranging survey of the theoretical and practical problems of economic development, The Challenge of Development demonstrates how effective development theory, planning and programming derive from and are tested in firsthand field experience

Resale Price Maintenance deals with selected countries: Canada, the United States of America, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom

Examines the ethical and economic questions within the legal profession or ethical theory in general. This book describes the historical, professional and economic context within which contingent fees developed. It is suitable for those concerned with reforms of the fee system - lawyers, judges, professors, plaintiffs and defendants.

A study about addiction to opiate-type drugs and their synthetic equivalents. It proposes and elaborates a general theoretical account of the nature of the experiences which generate an addict's characteristic craving for drugs.

Living things are constantly engaged in a struggle for existence, and ingenious devices for the purpose of self-preservation can be seen in all types of animal and plant life. This book states that, however, nature also displays phenomena that are not related to survival or that seem clearly to violate the principle of self-preservation.

Field studies of a variety of mammalian species revealed a surprisingly high frequency of infanticide - the killing of unweaned or otherwise maternally dependent offspring. The authors draw together work on animal and human infanticide and place these studies in a broad evolutionary and comparative perspective.

Epidemiological studies show that cancer incidence is far more dependent on the conditions of life than previously supposed

Early Child Care is about the very young child--infant, toddler, and early preschool--in today's world

Most early approaches to encouraging social development focused on economic and technical issues

The essays included in Social Organization and Peasant Societies were written in honor of the man who taught their authors

The diverse composition of American families and changing ways of raising our children have become subjects of intense scrutiny by researchers and policymakers in recent years

Offers positive proof that behaviorism has come of age in social work. This title details a systematic format for both problem intervention and evaluation which produces a more empirically based practice. It provides a different perspective and stimulus for social work practice.

Presents a social innovative experiment aimed at providing participating social positions in American society for mental patients. This book explores the events that occurred when a courageous group of former chronic mental patients abruptly left a hospital and established their own autonomous sub-society in a large, metropolitan area.

The black ghetto is a byproduct of American social policy. It came into being within policies that were adopted - deliberately or inadvertently - and will persist, in the absence of drastic changes in policy. This book searches out the policy-making processes that have created the ghetto and that maintain it.

Jessie Bernard, in this serious book, pulls into an analytic framework the research, theory, and polemics about the status and problems of women as they relate to public policy

States that there is a need for students to communicate the procedures and strategies of field research they have found consequential in their own studies to the less instructed or less experienced. This book describes pathways to data that wind in a common direction, toward a concern with research happenings in various situations.

The nature of social power, the ability of individuals to affect the behavior and belief of others, is central to any understanding of the dynamics of change in our society

With a few notable exceptions, sociological studies of poor, native-born, non-ethnic whites in rural areas are rare

"Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history," thus ended Darwin's Origin of Species

These two volumes elucidate the manner in which there emerged, on the North China plain, hierarchically structured, functionally specialized social institutions organized on a political and territorial basis during the second millennium b

Population control requires that the birth rate equal to the death rate. If it is too low population will decline; if it is too high, population will increase. If either condition persists long enough the population will diminish towards zero or increase towards infinity. This book is devoted to the main themes of mortality and fertility.

Features a collection of essays that analyze modern trends in world population. This book includes comprehensive discussions of population theory, analyses of population trends, and prospects in the United States and surveys of population trends in other major areas of the world.

This path-breaking text deals with the effects of federal civil rights legislation on the behavior and attitudes of the inhabitants of a single county in Mississippi--Panola County