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The Commonwealth

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1978
  • Andrew Walker
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 5 6 9 8 - 9
The Commonwealth: A New Look outlines the vast amount of cooperative endeavors carried out under the Commonwealth umbrella. This book begins by introducing misconceptions held about the Commonwealth and a brief account of its evolution from the British Empire. The conferences of Commonwealth leaders from the 19th century until 1975 are also described. This compilation discusses the Commonwealth cooperation programs in education, youth, law, health services, and science. A background of the work of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association is likewise deliberated. The last chapter of this text is devoted to future possibilities whether the Commonwealth is worth keeping alive. This publication is a good reference for students and individuals interested in the Commonwealth, as well as Third World studies and international relations.

The Illusory Freedom

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 1978
  • Graham Heath
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 8 2 9 4 - 0
The Illusory Freedom: The Intellectual Origins and Social Consequences of the Sexual "Revolution" describes the profound changes in sexual attitudes and sexual behavior in Britain and other Western countries. The book examines the reliability of the basis for the sexual revolution and whether its benefits outweigh the damages it has brought on society. The author reviews the influence of Dr. Alfred Kinsey's reports on over 12,000 humans subjects where Kinsey claims there is no "normality" or "abnormality" as regards sexual behavior. The author notes that some sexual studies involved some bias, the need to protect the family as an institution if society is to survive, and faithfulness has its long term rewards. His other findings show that no evidence points to sexual experimentation or promiscuity as causing long-term happier relationships, that media tends to present sexual anarchy as the norm, and that guidelines for adolescent and ideals for adults should be established. He notes, quite interestingly, that as the forces of sexual freedom are released by new regimes of generations, it become more apparent that sexual freedom is an illusory freedom. This book can prove interesting reading for feminists, psychiatrists, psychologists, parents, professionals and administrators of educational institutions, as well as heads of public commutations and media.

Citizen Participation in Planning

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 19
  • June 27, 1977
  • M. Fagence
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 9 4 5 4 - 4
The author's aim has been to draw together the threads of political and social science and of sub-specialisms within those broad areas of study and to interpret them in the context of urban and regional planning. Consideration is given to various interpretations of decision making in a democracy, to 'representation' and the public interest, to the opportunities for citizen participation in the planning process, to the range of potential participants, their motivation and competence, to the means which may be employed to secure different levels of citizen involvement; and to the impediments to meaningful participation. Therefore this book will contribute to the closing of the existing gap between theory and practice by drawing together a diversity of themes from political science, philosophy and psychology, community theory and regional science, rendering them comprehensible in the context of planning

Statistical Methods for Social Scientists

  • 1st Edition
  • January 28, 1977
  • Eric A. Hanushek + 1 more
  • Peter H. Rossi
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 1 8 5 7 - 0
The aspects of this text which we believe are novel, at least in degree, include: an effort to motivate different sections with practical examples and an empirical orientation; an effort to intersperse several easily motivated examples throughout the book and to maintain some continuity in these examples; and the extensive use of Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate particular aspects of the problems and estimators being considered. In terms of material being presented, the unique aspects include the first chapter which attempts to address the use of empirical methods in the social sciences, the seventh chapter which considers models with discrete dependent variables and unobserved variables. Clearly these last two topics in particular are quite advanced--more advanced than material that is currently available on the subject. These last two topics are also currently experiencing rapid development and are not adequately described in most other texts.

Communicating with Normal and Retarded Children

  • 1st Edition
  • December 31, 1976
  • W. I. Fraser + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 8 3 4 6 - 6
Communicating with Normal and Retarded Children explores the way in which normal children acquire language and the mistakes they make. It aims to trace the common growth between professions in understanding of normal language development and the retarded person's language and to encourage research, particularly of an interdisciplinary kind. This book is organized into five main sections. The contributors provide different professional perspectives of how and why the mentally retarded get their communication wrong and what remedies can be applied. They also present their own research findings, often in little-explored areas or from a novel angle, and offer their opinion on the types and topics of research that should be carried out. This book will be of interest to academic and clinical psychologists, educators, linguists, advisors and tutors in nursing and social studies, child health doctors, psychiatrists, and a range of therapists.

Progress in Behavior Modification

  • 1st Edition
  • November 26, 1976
  • Michel Hersen + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 7 1 2 - 7
Progress in Behavior Modification, Volume 3, is a multidisciplinary serial publication that encompasses the contributions of psychology, psychiatry, social work, speech therapy, education, and rehabilitation. This serial aims to meet the need for a review publication that undertakes to present yearly in-depth evaluations that include a scholarly examination of theoretical underpinnings, a careful survey of research findings, and a comparative analysis of existing techniques and methodologies. The discussions center on a wide spectrum of child and adult disorders. The present volume opens with a chapter on behavior modification and hypnosis. This is followed by separate chapters on applications of behavior modification procedures in classroom settings; smoking behavior modification; and psychotherapy outcome research. Subsequent chapters deal with the behavioral approach to teaching learning disabled children; evaluation of animal analogues of behavioral treatment; therapy for sexual dysfunction; and research in the area of transfer of training of operant treatment effects with children.

FREUDIANISM:A MARXIST CRITIQUE

  • 1st Edition
  • August 28, 1976
  • COLE
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 9 6 7 9 - 1
Freudianism: A Marxist Critique investigates Freud's theory and method, that Freud's use of "the unconscious" in psychoanalysis is questionable. The book discusses that the unconscious is an aspect of "the conscious" something like an "unofficial conscious" different from the normal, everyday "official conscious." The conscious is assumed as an "inner speech" with the properties of language, and because the unconscious is an aspect of the conscious, hence the unconscious is also linguistic in nature. Humans, according to Freud's theory, are inherently false, individualistic, asocial, existing in an ahistorical setting. The strength of the book comes from its concept of discourse that binds humans together in their social contexts of action and history through language. The book notes that the "cosmism" of Steiner's anthroposophy, Bergson's biologism, and Frued's psychobiologism and sexualism have endowed with their own features the physiognomy of the modern "Kulturmensch." In this culture, the Steinerians, the Bergsonians, and the Freudians have raised the three altars of Frued's belief—magic, instinct, and sex. Psychiatrists, psycho-analysts, psychologists, philosophers, as well as students of psychology and its related branches will find this book very challenging.

The Enzymes

  • 3rd Edition
  • Volume 13
  • July 29, 1976
  • Paul D. Boyer
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 8 6 5 9 0 - 4

Basic Spanish for Elementary Teachers

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 1976
  • M. R. Seymann
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 9 3 0 8 - 0
A manual to provide elementary teachers of Spanish-speaking students with a knowledge of the Spanish language so that they may be able to function better in the classroom

The Enzymes

  • 3rd Edition
  • Volume 12
  • February 19, 1976
  • Paul D. Boyer
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 8 6 5 8 9 - 8

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