American Health Care Proposals and International Experience
With health care reform at the top of the domestic agenda, this volume assesses the Clinton administration's proposals and several alternative plans by discussing how six other countries have organised health care finance and delivery to achieve universal access to comparable quality care at much lower costs.
Keats stands as a prophetic precursor behind much in today's radical attempts at cultural and self-transformation. But this side of him has been forgotten, or at least was never taken very seriously. He is remembered, if at all, mostly as a Romantic poet whose value and standing was magnified by his early death. Eclipsed by the lushly sensuous ......
Metaphors of Projection in the Works of Wyndham Lewis, Charles Williams,
Andrea Freud Loewenstein examines the persistent anti-semitic tendencies in modernist British intellectual culture. Pursuing her subject with literary, historical and psychological analyses, she argues that this anti-semitism must be understood in terms of its metaphorical link with mysogyny.
Metaphors of Projection in the Works of Wyndham Lewis, Charles Williams,
How typical of his generation was T.S. Eliot when he complained that Hitler made an intelligent anti-semitism impossible for a generation? In her new book, Loathsome Jews and Engulfing Women, novelist and critic, Andrea Freud Loewenstein examines the persistent anti-semitic tendencies in modernist, British intellectual culture. Pursuing her ......
Presents the findings of two important research projects in which men who admitted to a sexual interest in children were interviewed. The attitudes of these volunteer subjects differed from apprehensive paedophile offenders, challenging some of the generalisations advanced by professionals.
Takes readers inside the testing procedures of Sir William Crookes - a chemist and physicist who was roundly ridiculed by many of his fellow scientists for his five-year investigation of a number of important spiritualists and mediums, including Daniel Dunglas Home, Florence Cook, and Anna Eva Fay - to explore just what his investigation entailed.
In this firsthand look at school reform in Great Britain, John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe show how the landmark Education Reform Act of 1988 imposed a radically new framework on British education - a framework built on the same types of reforms that American activists have been proposing for years: school-based management, choice, and ......
This is an illuminating interpretation of the life and work of twenty-two major literary figures during three hundred years of English literature. It reveals how they were rooted in the political and social movements of their own time, with representative selections from their writings.
