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A group of psychologists presents research on competence and incompetence - real and perceived - from childhood through adulthood. This book brings the insights of social and personality psychology to bear on questions of intelligence.

Martin considers Catullus' life, habits of composition and the circumstances in which he worked. He places him among the modernists of his age and shows the affinity between Catullus and the modernists of our own age. Martin also offers original interpretations of Catullus' poems.

Drawing on sources only recently made available, the author sketches a portrait of Gandhi within the context of his time in which the Indian leader emerges as neither a plaster saint nor a wily politician, but as a complex man whose actions followed honourably from his convictions.

The author takes domestication as the starting point for his inquiry into human evolution. Wilson argues that settling down into a built environment was the most radical innovation in human development and that it had a crucial effect on human psychology and social relations.

This attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science and imperialism argues that expansion led to increasing knowledge. Science was fed by information culled from around the globe, aiding imperialism by guiding the exploitation of exotic climes and making conquest seem beneficial.

An examination of the interactions between Chubby Maata, a three-year-old Inuit girl, and the adults in her world. In these dramas, Inuit adults enact with their children the plots that drive Inuit social life; they act out problems and create children who think and feel like Inuit.

British colonial expansion led to the display of many valuable African artifacts in Britain. This analysis covers the ways in which African peoples and their material culture were represented, the justifications for imperial expansion; and the effects this had on racial stereotyping.

Patterns of avoidance, denial and segregation on the part of various organizations in the face of the AIDS crisis and its victims are detailed in this book. The authors contend that an all-out war on AIDS which also attacks sexual discrimination and poverty is necessary.

A guide to government benefits and programs includes advice about insurance coverage, taxes, and survivor benefits.

How to improve living standards and promote economic growth throughout the world while still maintaining our natural resources and environmental quality.

Overview of the state of the world's threatened resources and realistic and politically practical corrective measures. 18 sections include population, ethics, economy, third world cities, agriculture, water, forestry, biological diversity, energy, atmosphere, and non-fuel minerals.

Study of classical Greek poet and the ode form in Western tradition. Assumes no knowledge of specialist literature and includes translations.

Moral and legal questions produced by modern developments in medical science. Addresses euthanasia, abortion, in vitro fertilization, health care and distributive justice, truth-telling and informed consent, determination of death, and genetic engineering.

Practical advice and support for parents of chronically ill children and those involved with their care. It focuses on ways to meet the physical and emotional challenges and to make the ill child's quality of life as meaningful as possible.

Renaissance comedy, first produced in 1610. Includes modernized English text, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale Ben Jonson edition.

Renaissance comedy. Complete text, modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale Ben Jonson edition.

Combines a biography of M. Sanger with a social history of the birth control movement.

Essays by 12 historians, including Martin Bernal, Michael Gasster, P'eng-yuan Chang, John Fincher, Marie-Claire Bergere, Chuzo Ichiko, Mary Backus Rankin, Yoshihiro Hatano, Vidya Prakash Dutt, Ernest P. Young, and Harold Z. Schiffrin.

Renaissance comedy, first performed in 1605. Includes complete text in modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale Ben Jonson edition.

A study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity over the last six centuries. It examines the connections between the movement of epidemics and the manifestations of imperial power in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe, showing how perceptions of whom a disease targeted changed over time.

In this frank study Ronald Hayman explores the intersection of biography and art in the work of one of the most exuberantly autobiographical dramatists of the American Theatre. He examines Williams's troubled childhood, his drug abuse and alcoholism, and his death in 1983.

This translation of "Cliges", the second of five surviving 12th century Arthurian poems, is in a metric form invented specifically to reflect the poet's narrative speed and tone.

This is an examination of the policy-making over the Middle East in the first quarter of the 20th century.

Discusses how Palestine became a Holy Land to Christians and how Christian ideas and feelings towards the land of the Bible evolved as they lived there and made it their own. Wilken draws on primary texts and archaeological evidence and covers the period up to the 7th century.

A collection of essays studying the nature, origins and consequences of sexual difference by scholars in history, philosophy, law, literary theory, biology, sociology, psychology, political science and anthropology.