Pierces to the heart of momentous issues: human rights, racial equality, cultural freedom, and the separation of ethical behaviour from religious belief.
Rejects the pabulum of more laws, more money, more enforcement personnel, and more jails as the road to victory in the 'war on drugs'. This work documents the failure of the drug war and the erroneous premise central to its destructive and doomed strategy: the idea that drug taking controls human behaviour; that drugs 'cause' physical dependency.
Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature (POD)
From a 'comic strip' papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, 'nonsense' texts reveal a set of possibilities as rich and complex as the more conventional system of 'making sense' from which they are derived. Examining palindromes, children's rhymes, puns, anagrams, code languages, and other texts, Susan ......
In this now-classic work in legal and constitutional theory, Stanley Kutler examines one of the Supreme Court's most celebrated decisions: the right of the state of Massachusetts to erect a free bridge over the Charles River in 1837--even though the state had previously chartered a privately owned toll bridge at the same location. (Legal ......
Ancient Forests of the Pacific Northwest provides a global context for what is happening in the Pacific Northwest, analyzing the remaining ancient forest and the threats to it from atmospheric changes and logging. It shows how human tampering affects an ecosystem, and how the Pacific Northwest could become a model for sustainable forestry ......
In his foreword to Controversies in Psychoanalytic Method, Daniel Stern writes: "Andre Haynal gives us a perspective on the history of psychoanalysis, and much more, in this mult-faceted and remarkable book. Several stories and lines of enquiry are woven together. There is the story of the Budapest school of psychoanalysis and its impact. Within ......
Assesses the reasons behind the deterioration of earnings and job opportunities among less skilled men. The authors consider the impact of changes in industrial structure, declines in unionization, and trends in the level and quality of schooling for men who have limited skills and education.
Examines executive-legislative relations in five major policy areas: war powers, intelligence, arms control, diplomacy, and trade. The authors offer a fresh analysis of the sources and consequences of conflict between the President and Congress as well as constructive suggestions for strengthening each branch's comparative advantages.
