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Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philo-sophical essayists of the postwar era. A fearless at-tacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies, Stove left powerful critiques of scie...

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This text is an institutional effort by Freedom House to monitor the progress and decline of political rights and civil liberties in 191 nations and 50 related territories. The survey derives its information from a wide range of sources.

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Tax-exempt foundations grew substantially in the twentieth century, both in their financial importance and in the scope of their activities. This challenging book examines the economic, cultural, and intellectual implications of tax-exempt organiz...

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Unionization of teachers has lead to major changes in education management, and in relations between teachers and school districts. This text looks at how teacher union contracts affect the workplace and educational reform, and how they might be r...

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Animal experimentation has made a crucial contribution to many of the most important advances in modern medicine. The development of vaccines for deadly viruses like rabies and yellow fever depended upon animal research, and much of our basic know...

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Acta Aethiopica collects, translates, annotates and publishes 19th-century letters, and other brief documents which throw light on the emergence and development of modern Ethiopia. For the Horn of Africa, as for the rest of the continent, the 19th...

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Health care provision in the United States remains a critical policy issue. Despite large-scale organizational transformations in hospitals, changes in the ways that health care is delivered, and changes in the relations between patients and the s...

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"The Freedom House Survey is the most systematic, most comprehensive and most reliable survey of the individual's status in the world's political systems. Freedom in the World provides an invaluable baseline in assessing the significance of t...

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Ayn Rand's philosophical novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged made her the most controversial author of her age. Her works have drawn millions of readers and continue to sell at a breathtaking pace. Their impact on American culture runs from...

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Hadley Cantril looked beyond the surface of social movements to examine the psychology behind them. What motivates people to follow an untried leader? What does the social environment do to make people suggestible? What are people thinking about, ...

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"Freedom House's survey [of freedom] is the most systematic, most comprehensive, and most reliable survey of the individual's status in the world's political systems. Freedom in the World provides an invaluable baseline in assessing the signi...

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Disparities between the economic development of nations have widened throughout the twentieth century, and they show no sign of closing. In the nineteenth century, the economic potential of developed countries was three times that of the rest of t...

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Writers, observers, and practitioners of international politics frequently invoke the term "geopolitics" to describe, explain, or analyze specific foreign policy issues and problems. Such generalized usage ignores the fact that geopoliti...

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Half a century of experience with development aid has created crucial questions about what works and what does not in different contexts.Development evaluation is evolving rapidly, both to provide accountability for results and to supply lessons o...

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Today's political climate overflows with admonitions to "get involved," as if entering the political fray is the great cure-all for almost any conceivable social problem. This advice may be a recipe for disaster. Staying out of politics ...

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The poor health of today's roads--a subject close to the hearts of motorists, taxpayers, and government treasurers around the world--has resulted from faulty incentives that misdirect government decision-makers, according to the contributors to St...

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The phenomenon of globalization applies to political violence as well as to more benign aspects of life. Most people in the West, as well as the Third World, politicians and media included, are still missing this point. As a result, they are faili...

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Private-property anarchism, also known as anarchist libertarianism, individualist anarchism, and anarcho-capitalism, is a political philosophy and set of economic and legal arguments that maintains that, just as the markets and private institution...

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Serious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the sociology of leisure. Defining and differentiating the way people use their free time, Stebbins divides such activity into categories of serious, casual, and proj...

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Current Topics in Management presents basic research on the theory and practice of management and administration. Volume 11 includes invited contributions and revised versions of papers presented at the 2005 International Conference on Advances in...

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Using previously unpublished official German and Zionist records and contemporary diaries, memoirs and o ther private sources, Isaiah Friedman aims to prove that the German government was the foremost protector of the Zionist cause during WW1.

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Prepared by leading regional specialists and Freedom House experts, Nations in Transit 1997 offers an as sessment of the progress of the ex-communist nations of Cent ral and Eastern Europe. '

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Bunge (U. of Montreal, Canada) describes each facet of the scientific method and demonstrates the continued relevance of this approach for advancing human knowledge. The first volume outlines the scientific approach, then details the first steps o...

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Two global trends are occurring concurrently: urbanization and population ageing. Today, almost half of the world's population lives in cities, and by the year 2025, city dwellers are projected to account for more than two-thirds of the world's po...

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The author in his dedication declares his hopes for the 21st century: "May it be kinder than the last one." If that happy thought becomes reality it will be because of scholars like Kurt Jonassohn. Here he provides a conceptual perspecti...

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On Higher Education is about the consequences of the student revolt of the 1960's and the decline of faculty influence. This shift from emphasis on academic merit to student consumerism is one of two great reversals of direction in the history of ...

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The juvenile justice system in the United States has become a detrimental rather than a remedial experience, one that often reinforces youths' defiance of authority. Trying juveniles as adults, overcrowding juvenile detention facilities, and other...

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