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A collection of more than 100 interviews with Abraham Lincoln during his time as President-elect and President. The conversations (from between 1860 and 1865) range from brief remarks to extended discussions. Charles M. Segal introduces each interview and the personalities involved.

An exploration of some of the not-so-happy problems confronting people in an age of mass destruction and mass inertia. Herbert Gold tackles issues that are very much of significance to the individual, dealing with topics as diverse as teaching, writing, love, marriage, divorce and death.

This title puts the power of television into perspective. Through carefully compiled case studies, they reveal surprising truths about television's effect on American political life, and explode some popular myths.

Bales developed the systematic multiple level observation of groups and with a consulting group created a data bank to search for general laws of human interaction. In this search for universal features Bales redefines the fundamental boundaries of the field and establishes criteria for the behaviour and values of leaders and followers.

This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place", and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. It draws on a wide range of disciplines, including literature, planning and sociology.

A joint biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt and one of his principal advisors, Louis Howe. It covers their separate early lives, their political strategies, their division of labour in a daily partnership, and their feelings for each other, despite frequent differences about tactics.

This volume includes essays on sociology and socialism, the collapse of class politics, political leadership, the perpetuation of inequality across generations, political extremism, religion as a source of polarization, working-class authoritarianism, and an examination of civil life in the United States across the century.

The last decade has witnessed a conspicuous alteration in policies protecting unemployed people in modern welfare states. Social policies are increasingly designed to encourage economic independence. Policy makers have introduced a wide range of reforms linking disability, unemployment, and welfare programs cash benefits to work-oriented measures. Welfare policies are being framed by a new emphasis on recipients' obligations, emphasizing that the receipt of benefits creates a responsibility to take action towards becoming self-reliant. The objective is to minimize the duration of dependence or improve the well-being of family or community.Activating the Unemployed addresses this growing interest in work-oriented measures. This represents a shift in the dominant discourse on social welfare from focus on the citizen's rights to social benefits to emphasis on their responsibilities to work and lead an active life. In this volume, a distinguished array of international contributors provide cross-cultural perspectives to analyze recent diverse policy initiatives to activate the unemployed in nine countries -- Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each provides a systematic account of the background, design, implementation, and results of employment-oriented measures. Collectively they permit comparison of organized responses to common problems in the areas of public assistance (welfare), unemployment, and disability, among others. Further chapters seek to broaden perspectives on policy options, the issues raised, and lessons learned in the course of activating the unemployed.This thorough and insightful accountaddresses significant contemporary issues and concerns about welfare, social security, and unemployment. It will aid policy makers, professionals, and scholars in assessing current trends in welfare in various countries throughout the world.

A critical edition of Mill's essay, in which he asserts "the principal which regulates the existing social relations between the sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is wrong in itself...". It is accompanied by extensive reviews and critiques.

Robert Rich reports the results of the Continuous National Survey (CNS), an administrative experiment with a two-year lifespan, designed to facilitate the use of research data by public officials in federal agencies.

Examining all areas of health policy, this book covers such topics as worldwide innovations in health insurance reform, approaches to extending healthcare coverage, confronting resource scarcity, and institutional and administrative frameworks.

This work constitutes an analysis of the "woman problem", a document in general of the wars between the sexes and a history of the classic sociological tradition.

Drawing on social and legal history, this study explains how the move away from women's rights toward equal rights has lowered life quality for US working women, especially working mothers. It argues that the solution is to draw up a new women's rights agenda, designed to benefit all working women.

The essays in this volume seek to illuminate the future prospects of journalism. They are an effort to create the best possible future for journalism.

A social and cultural analysis of community life in metropolitan areas of the USA, Sweden and England. The author focuses on how environment and culture interact to shape human behaviour. Despite their similarities, the three societies vary widely, offering opportunities to compare and contrast.

In this volume, pivotal 20th century contributors to the theory of political economy - Thorstein, Veblen, John Dewey, Clarence Ayres, and R. Fagg Foster - are presented in detail with specific reference to their analytical and philosophical perspective on social change.

The author refutes the conclusions of "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews", the controversial work supported by the Nation of Islam that states that Jews were a major force behind the American slave trade.

This reissued work is placed in historical perspective by Professor Kammen in his introduction. He sees the author as offering a "creative synthesis" of views of American democracy. Becker argues that the framers of the original American constitution would not approve of the current government.

This is intended as a critical, rather than encyclopaedic, history of literature on both sides of the Atlantic between the end of World War I and the political and social crises that arose in the 1930s. Although emphasizing American writers, European influences are also considered.

A collection of essays by Wesley Clair Mitchell, designed to help economists and social scientists become acquainted with his many contributions to the study of the American economy. Rather than examining the skill of making money, the essays explore the practice of spending it.

An expose of the American university. It considers all the working parts of the system and assesses their suitability to the professed purpose. The report on the actualities, myths and consequences of routines thus amounts to an anatomy of the institution that is not pretty.

The post-World War II period has witnessed numerous armed conflicts characterized by violations of relevant obligatory international norms. This work comprehensively examines the creation, mandate and challenges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

A collection of 15 essays that appeared between 1966 and 1969 in publications such as "The New York Times" and "Esquire". The author discusses many different topics - music, violence in Mississippi, student revolts - but one theme unifies the material: people ought to use their imaginations more.

This ethnography, based on fieldwork and interviews carried out at the California Institute of the Arts in the 1980s, analyses the day-to-day life of an organization devoted to work in the arts. It offers insights into the worlds of art and education, and how they interact in particular settings.

A collection of essays on prostitution, pornography, and other forms of commercialization of sexuality. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: sexual consent and responsibility; sexual harassment; censorship and pornography; and the impact of film/literature on sexual relationships.

During the 1990s, co-dependency has become part of the landscape of popular culture. This book examines the phenomenon from a sociological perspective, viewing co-dependency as a belief system that affects the self and social relationships.

This text offers a history of Russian political and intellectual life from 1855 to 1884 and describes the conspiracies that shook the edifice of tsarist autocracy. It provides an insight into the lines between terrorism and crime, fanaticism and madness, utopian longings and real history.

Until cloning becomes the order of the day, the author contends that each human is unique. Every person faces the danger of losing this humanness to mechanized surroundings. Is the human species becoming dehumanized by the condition of his environment? This book attempts to address this concern.

This volume of essays utilizes Karl R. Popper's critical vision in the study of philosophy proper, logic, mathematics, science as method and theory, and finally to the study of society and history. The core position of the volume is that the progress of knowledge is a fragmented process.

This collection of political essays looks at subjects such as the 75 deadly "isms" plaguing America, the problem in hate crime laws, and the "official language" of journalists.