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Offers an interpretation of the origins of Russian Marxism, placing it within the fold of the Western European socialist movement. Donald argues that the German, Karl Kautsky, was a primary influence on Lenin and the Russian Social Democratic Party.

Many children live in communities where violence, fear and despair are commonplace. This work describes how one city developed a collaborative effort between law-enforcement and mental health professionals in order to help these children and their families.

Describes how federal judges sentence white-collar criminals, exploring such topics as the information available to judges and how they work with it, the principles of harm, blameworthiness and consequence that affect judges' decisions and the problems of providing a system of consistent sentences.

This account of the origins of modern molecular biology, the lives of pioneering scientists in the field of nucleic acid research, and the discovery of DNA, is aimed not only at scientists, but also at students and general readers with an interest in science.

Drawing on sources such as diaries, advice manuals and autobiographies, this work shows how travelling salesmen from the early-18th century to the 1920s shaped the customs of life on the road and helped to develop the modern consumer culture in the United States.

Written by a psychiatrist-psychoanalyst who is also a Jesuit, this book looks behind the events, accounts and documents of Ignatius of Loyola's life and religious experience in order to enter and understand his inner world.

This text examines what it was about late-Victorian society that allowed the trial and subsequent jailing of Oscar Wilde to take place. It examines what the trials say about the taste and morals of Victorian England and argues that the prosecution was linked to wider social and political issues.

This text discusses the passion for ideology among 19th- and 20th-century Russian intellectuals and the development of sophisticated critiques of ideology by a continuing minority of Russian thinkers who were inspired by liberalism.

Examines the sexual attitudes of 17th- and 18th-century England. This work discusses how they have affected beliefs on a variety of issues. Drawing upon the insights of psychoanalysis, it shows that the Puritans called for a lifelong integration of sensuality, purity and constancy within marriage.

An examination of the political thinkers Hannah Arendt and Albert Camus. Isaac shows that both writers advanced the idea of a democratic civil society made up of self-limiting groups. While they criticized typical institutions of democratic politics, they favoured alternative forms of organization.

Thomas de Quincey, best known for "Confessions of an Opium Eater", was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression and of racial paranoia. This account of De Quincey's fears of all things oriental is also an analysis of the psychopathology of mid-Victorian imperialist culture.

A reflection on the circumstances of child abuse, and on the consequences of this abuse. There are examples from literature and from clinical material.

This volume, which is based on the Terry Lectures delivered at Yale University in 1935, deals with the problem of the unity of natural knowledge. It considers the cleavage between the inorganic and biological sciences, and between the theology of intelligibility and that of inexplicability. Under the heading "The Nature of Biological Order" it considers some of the opinions which biologists, physicists, and philosophers hold regarding the form of organization which living things exhibit. The discussion is continued under the headings "The Deployment of Biological Order" and "The Hierarchical Continuity of Biological Order," and the conclusion is reached that "the profounder our insight into the nature of organic form, the clearer does the unity of science become." "It is an erudite volume, intended for the serious student of the philosophical aspects of biological science. To such it brings the product of a mature and discerning mind, well-versed in all the devious ramifications of a profoundly significant vein of thought." -Scientific Book Club Review

Nothofagus - southern beeches - is a genus which grows in southern temperate zone regions separated by large oceans. This work focuses on the distribution, history and ecology of Nothofagus, seeking thereby to provide a clearer understanding of modern vegetation patterns in the southern hemisphere.