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This volume investigates the relationship between racial perceptions and policy choices in America. The contributors clarify and explore images of African-Americans that white Americans hold and the complex ways that racial stereotypes shape modern political debates.

With the invention of compressed air in the 1840s, divers could reach previously inaccessible deep water, but the advances also brought with them the hazards of decompression sickness. This is a history of the wonders compressed air brought about and the suffering the bends inflicted.

This text contends that both Anglo-American analytic philosophy and continental philosophy have lost their vitality, and it offers an alternative in their place. It advocates a renewal of contemporary philosophy through a return to its origins in Socratic humanism.

Drawing on studies of the contact hypothesis - the assumption that increased contact between different ethnic groups reduces friction - this text provides a review of the theory and considers the scientific research that maintains contact between such groups can give rise to more intense conflict.

This work argues that religion - blamed for contributing to the ecological crisis - provides an ethical context that will help solve the problem. The approach suggests that the environmentally positive aspects in various Western creation stories demonstrate religion's conservation potential.

Such events as the Holocaust and civil war in Bosnia pose special problems for those who must help children make sense of acts that endanger them physically and psychically. In this text, two mental health professionals share their experiences of working with children exposed to war and violence.

This volume brings to general readers Sinaiko's thoughts on, and invitations to read or reread, a selection of major literary and philosophical works, from ancient Greek to Chinese to modern. The book deals with the perennial questions that thinking people have always raised.

This volume offers discussions of single works as well as re-evaluations of artistic and literary conventions and analyses of the economic, social and technological forces that gave them shape and were influenced by them in turn. A wide range of figures are reassessed.

Governments around the world are turning over more of their services to private or charitable organizations, but can non-profits provide more and higher-quality services than governments of for-profit businesses? This book examines the non-profit sector through a variety of theoretical lenses.

Claiming for Herodotus, the "father of history", a position in the canon of political thought, this work finds modern validity in his fundamental perceptions about the importance of stories to the coherence of political communities.

Using comparative history and organization theory, this text analyzes the politics of conscription in military and single-party regimes. It discusses the origins of administered mass organizations, civilian bodies created by authoritarian regimes, in countries such as Japan and Fascist Italy.

Offers a behind-the-scenes view of the ways in which special-interest groups influence the content of textbooks used in public and private schools throughout America. This book describes six cases resulting from attempts to suppress information on evolution, gun control and pacifism.

The nature of memory, dreams, and how the brain works is explored in this text. The author takes a multidiscipliniary approach, using data from neuroscience, psychology, biology and artificial intelligence to produce a contemporary psychobiological model of the dream process.

This text examines how the American Democratic and Republican parties have responded to presidential election defeats between 1956 to 1993. Drawing on party documents, interviews with party officials and contemporary accounts, it provides case studies of opposition party politics.

The author of this book argues that drunk driving is more than just a criminal issue. He offers a practical approach to the problem of drunk driving, one that combines criminal deterence with other efforts to reduce the number of deaths caused by drivers under the influence of alcohol.

This volume illuminates the politics of issue resolution within the European Community by evaluating and comparing competing models of decision making, one emphasizing the co-operative nature of political processes, the other focusing on politics as a conflictual activity.

Describes the problems that become apparent when translating Freud's subtle thought and supple wording and examines the way in which these dilemmas are affected by the language - French, Spanish and English - into which the work is translated.

Explores the world of the continuation high school in America, the most common form of alternative high school. Kelly analyzes the factors that limit its success and focuses on gender issues in these schools: how girls and boys slip in and out of the system, the different reasons, and consequences.

An examination of the political debates over defence policy in this era from the perspective of the Conservative party, who were in office from 1899 to 1905, and in opposition from 1905 to 1914. It focuses on the ideas and actions of Arthur James Balfour, leader of the party from 1902 to 1911.

The use of hypnosis to deal with a wide range of disorders has become an increasingly popular technique. The author here draws on developments in cognitive psychology, anthropology, ethnology and neuroscience to offer a new explanation for how hypnosis works and how it can be applied.

This recreation of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem is achieved by retelling it in modern verse form; by providing pictorial images of the world of Germanic antiquity, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon art, artifacts and scenery; by supplying an historical and geographical commentary on the times.

This text presents eyewitness accounts of a turbulent period in Chinese history - the fall of the Ming dynasty and the conquest of China by the Manchus in the mid-17th century.