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Fashion is all around us: we see it, we buy it, we read about it, but most people know little about fashion as a business. This volume considers the broader significance of fashion in society, the creative process of fashion design, and how fashion unfolds in an organizational context where design is conceived and executed.

This is an intellectual biography of Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) whose ideas are recognized as of central importance to fields as varied as social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, problem solving, art, and visual neuroscience.

International media assistance is a small but important form of international democracy-promotion aid. This work examines the history and practice of media assistance, and argues that the dilemma of media independence and sustainability is best understood as an economic problem rather than one of poor editorial standards or lack of will.

Seeks to capture the real purposes of marriage and the unchanging nature of this most vital and fundamental human institution. Confronting contemporary issues and drawing on the natural and social sciences, this book also reaches into the past to find truths grounded in human experience.

This volume argues that while the media in Africa may be relatively weak they have come to play a much more important role than ever before since independence. They have succeeded in creating new communicative spaces for people who have previously been silent.

At times, it seems as though virtually everything is denounced by some "public health expert" as being bad for people. Why then the almost daily announcements of new public health threats and proclamations of impending crisis? This work addresses such questions.

Shows that the late 1950s were not an era of complacency and smugness, but were some of the most anxious years in American history. In this engaging history, Alan J. Levine delves deeply into this often misrepresented period of history, and provides new insight into one of the most formative decades in American history.

This new volume in the Presidential Briefings series shows how the US president's appointment power has expanded beyond its bare constitutional outlines. Nancy Maveety examines the dynamics of screening and choosing judicial nominees and analyses the institutional calculus in securing their confirmation in the face of senatorial obstruction.

One of the most significant and obvious examples of how mobile communication influences our understanding of time and space is how we coordinate with one another. Mobile communication enables us to call specific individuals, not general places. This book deals with modern ways of thinking about communication and human interaction.

Provides a detailed study of how changes in social life dating from the sexual revolution of the 1960s have affected the family. Cherry shows that attempts to redefine the family away from the marital union of husband and wife come with real costs: social, emotional, psychological, and financial.

Advances in evolutionary theory and evolutionary psychology have increased humans' capacity as a species to address the question of how to live a life characterized by more positive than negative feelings. Feeling Good reveals anyone can learn how to trigger mechanisms that generate positive feelings and increase positive fitness levels.

Divided into two volumes, this concentrates on the institutional aspects of Black politics, and addresses various dimensions of social capital that constitute the fundamental building blocks of Black politics. Each contains peer-reviewed articles, a symposium section, and book reviews, as well as other featured sections.