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Wellesley College was unique in its commitment to an exclusively female faculty, and has educated women such as Katharine Lee Bates and Hillary Clinton. This book is a narrative history of the first generation of Wellesley professors.
An investigation of how average citizens in the US and Japan think about and judge various kinds of wrong-doing, how they determine who is responsible when things go wrong and how they prefer to punish offenders. The authors compare both individual and cultural reactions of the two countries.
This volume was the winner of the 1994 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
An exploration of the dynamics and consequences of campaign finance in the US. This account comments on issues such as the regulating of such funding under the post-Watergate legislation of 1974, and argues that the US system of financing has become institutionalized since then.
Provides practical guidelines for workers who must make decisions about how best to help an abused or neglected child. There are 35 cases of abuse or neglect, which have come to the attention of the courts and caseworkers, discussed in the book. They are typical of the USA as a whole.
Global warming could cause profound disruption of natural ecosystems. This book discusses the consequences of global warming for ecosystems. The authors describe the responses of animals and plants to previous climate changes and the interactions between various environmental components.
University education has been the subject of vigorous debate since its advent. In this book the author reflects on the character and aims of the university, assessing its guiding principles, its practical functions and its role in society.
A group of practitioners, researchers and policy makers provide an overview of the family support programmes that emerged in the 1980s in response to the changing needs of families. The authors chronicle past problems and accomplishments and offer specific recommendations for the future.
This study describes the causes of acid rain, ozone depletion and global warming and the evidence for the recent acceleration of each of these phenomena. The study also provides practical and long-range suggestions for controlling these and other forms of atmospheric deterioration.
Presents a fundamental reconsideration of modern American administrative law, which, says Edley, is largely a failure. He discusses why and how this is so and argues that courts should abandon their guiding principle of applying legal doctrines to control the discretion of unelected bureaucrats.
An intellectual and cultural history of America's evolving status as a world power in the 20th century. It addresses questions such as why the United States assumed a pre-eminent world role after World War II, and why its role has declined since the Vietnam War.
Chronicles recent Indian history, from the unsettled conditions that preceded the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to the Hindu revival that followed the assassination of her son Rajiv. The text explores the political and economic changes in India between 1982 and 1994.
This collection of writings highlights some of the work being done in the USA and abroad to make communicative competence an attainable goal. The contributors examine what has come to be known as communicative language teaching, or CLT, from the perspectives of teachers and teacher educators.
Presents empirical evidence that the equilibrium theory of policy dynamics fits the facts of environmental policy change and explains how stable policies can unravel in discontinuous change. This book is useful for professionals, activists, and students concerned with promoting or resisting change in environmental and natural resources policies.
This text examines a new birth of freedom.
Why do citizens in pluralist democracies disagree collectively about the very values they agree on individually? This text highlights the inescapable conflicts of rights and values at the heart of democratic politics.
A refutation of recent criticisms of More which have questioned his motivation and accused him of persecution of heretics and sexual repression, this work argues, through a close study of his 5 major works, that the style of his polemics was normal for his time.
Discusses the current US health care crisis and alternative proposals, including the Clinton administration's. Drawing on wide medical and business experience, the study suggests implementing a new federal policy at state and local levels, which best understand their area's needs.
Liberal education has been attacked by the far-right since it began. Government and journalism have pressed for a curriculum that focuses on Western culture. The left wants to adopt a more multicultural education. This book argues against both, and asks for a return to free thinking.
This work places the economy and study of economics in a broad social and historical perspective. It explores the history of the discipline, the history of the modern economy, different perspectives on the market economy, and the relations between economic matters and questions of human nature.
Asking if the popular tendancy to define the self in psychological language derived from (Freudian) "truths", or whether American culture invents and promotes psychological identities, this text shows the ways Americans imagine "innerness" and how emotions have been shaped by the mass-media.
Examining the interactions between patients and doctors, this book aims to show how physicians' focus on physical complaints often fails to address patients' underlying concerns and also reinforces the societal problems that cause or aggravate these maladies.
An historically-based discussion on the merits or otherwise of English as the official language of the United States, which lays out the background of the case for the protection of minority languages and that for "one language, one nation" in the light of the English Language Amendment.
In this volume, a group of scholars discuss a variety of approaches to urban school reform.
When does the law permit you to change your mind and reverse a decision you have made? This study considers the general principles and legal rules that bear on this question. Farnsworth discusses deficiences in the law, and suggests ways to eliminate anomalies and correct shortcomings.
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