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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.

The Soviet Union, an atheist state, endowed itself with the attributes of God. This text shows through individual stories what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea, how people were forced to act out this fictitious reality, and its tragic human cost.

An account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American governance since World War I - how it was born, how world events shaped it, how it has adversely affected momentous political decisions and events, and how it has eluded efforts to curtail or end it.

This text presents an analysis of "Statesman", perhaps one of Plato's most challenging works. It contends that the main theme of this dialogue is defining the art of politics and the degree to which political experience is subject to the rule of sound judgement and to technical construction.

Why did millions of rational Germans join the Nazi Party between 1925 and 1933? In this book, the author argues that Nazi supporters were no different from citizens anywhere who select a political party or candidate they believe will promote their economic interests.

This is the fourth volume of Cassirer's "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms". In these writings, Cassirer grounds his conception of symbolic forms on a particular notion of human nature and discusses Basis Phenomena.

Over four million years ago, back at the origins of humanity, is where this book begins its account of the African continent, using regions, spaces and places for viewing its people and showing how they have responded to time. It ends at the onset of the colonial era in the late-19th century.

Explores the history and theory of literary translation as an art form. Arguing that literary translation goes beyond the transfer of linguistic information, the book emphasizes that imaginative originality resides as much in the translation as in the source text.