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This volume describes how military security policies and practices have adapted to post-Cold War period uncertainties and challenges. The contributors differ in their assessments about the current prospects for peace and stability worldwide.

In the late 1960s, American society entered a period of rapidly accelerating social change

Although political scientists and their students tended, prior to the seventies, to approach political theory as the history of political ideas, a rapid growth of interest in political theory as the analysis of political concepts led to the publication of this book

Marijuana seeks to bring to the reader the whole configuration of this problem, which, like the Sexual Revolution and the New Politics, was at the heart of the alienation felt by many young people during the second half of the 1960s and the fears of social breakdown voiced by many of their elders

It is a startling and somewhat disturbing fact that social work researchers-as well as research psychiatrists and psychologists-have rarely explored the treatment situation from the standpoint of the client

In Social Systems and Social Regulations, Elaine Cumming describes attitudes of patients and clients toward health and welfare organizations

This volume is based on a detailed analysis of change in the law and in the administration of justice affecting juvenile off enders in California in the fifties and sixties

The French writer Arnold van Gennep first called attention to the phenomena of status passages in his Rites of Passage one hundred years ago

Principles of Scientific Sociology represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought

In the Roman Empire, relations between East and West meant connections between the eastern and western parts of a unified structure of empire

Writing in a lively straightforward tone and offering numerous examples, Polansky demonstrates that verbal communication plays a major role in mental health and is essential to preventing and curing emotional disorders

The emergence of America as a metropolitan-urban society has had profound consequences for every phase of national life, but nowhere has its effects been greater than in the domain of government

The experimental and highly regarded Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University was endowed in the late nineteenth century

This book represents an inquiry into an area of human behavior at once fascinating and exasperating

LSD belongs to the class of drugs that, taken orally, can produce dramatic psychological experiences

Focusing on the forces underlying headlines, this volume examines the processes and outcomes of political socialization-the ways in which an individual acquires the attitudes, beliefs, and values of the political culture from the surrounding environment, and takes on a role as citizen within that political framework

This book is an exploration and mapping of the frontiers of research in psychotherapy

Written by a scholar who is a therapist and a psychodiagnostician, this book documents the direct relationship between patient response patterns to a battery of psychological tests, and their subsequent behavior in psychotherapy

Focuses on parents of a sample of newborns in twelve areas of England and Wales during the 1970s. This title discusses the need for a proliferation of different sorts of services: more clinics, an increase in the help and advice given at hospitals, the development of a supportive and integrated home service.

The purpose of this volume is to bring together a number of elements that would be useful in the construction of a coherent and comprehensive theory of biology

Research in the field of clinical neuropsychology has greatly advanced understanding of the complex relationships between brain functions and human behavior

The national committees of the major political parties in the United States are symbols of party government

Genetic differences in humans, like those between individuals of any animal or plant species and those between species, are all products of the evolutionary development of the living world. This book summarizes the development of evolutionary thinking, and describes how what we know about genetic diversity links up with research on human behavior.

In this unique psychological study, John Kotre provides some startling answers to the questions Catholics are now asking about those who abandon the church, those who remain in it, and those who attempt to create a new church within the church

How can Jewish relatives who range in residence and occupation from a Scarsdale doctor to a Brooklyn butcher, and who diverge in religiosity from an Orthodox cantor to a ham-eating atheist, maintain close family ties? This book describes how these intimate, spirited, and often contentious family clubs are organized and how they function.

Christianity has always been a "creedal" religion in that it has always been theological

This book is the first attempt to validate behavior modification techniques in a carefully controlled experimental treatment environment for emotionally disturbed children

The technological revolution in the social sciences made available a set of research tools and data manipulation techniques that permit the study of complex social processes previously inaccessible or not amenable to our observational powers

Social Encounters is an approach to social psychology that is not what one might expect to find in textbooks on this subject

A collection of essays, which demonstrate effective means of achieving interdisciplinary coordination in studying human behavior and delineating promising areas for cooperative research.