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The volume of relevant research and literature on this topic is growing but originates mainly from economists, sociologists, and political scientists; geographers have been slow to make contributions

When first released much praise was given to this book: "An outstanding book on urban geography

How are foreign policy decisions made? This volume shows the various approaches to answer this question

Since the early 1950s, the "decline of ideology" hypothesis has commanded a great deal of attention in the intellectual community at large

This volume discusses some of the factors determining the political impact of the city planner on community decision-making

Examines the place of the Supreme Court in our political system. This book aims to improve the public understanding of what the Supreme Court does, how its acts have been received, and how its way of influencing public policy is related to other methods of making public policy.

The flow and counter flow of revolution and counterrevolution have become the norm of twentieth century. This book illuminates the revolutionary process as it has developed from antiquity onwards, from the vantage points of political science, history, and sociology.

The field of counseling and psychotherapy has for years presented the puzzling spectacle of unabating enthusiasm for forms of treatment whose effectiveness cannot be objectively demonstrated

Education, rightly conceived, is the process by which a growing person, according to his individual capacity, is prepared to understand himself, his place in society, and to act upon this understanding. This book evaluates the educational system of United States from schools for the young up to universities and various forms of adult education.

A companion volume to the "Causal Models in the Social Sciences", this work includes articles, the majority of which concern panel designs involving repeated measurements while a smaller cluster involves discussions of how experimental designs may be improved by more explicit attention to causal models.

"Community" is a basic concept, perhaps the basic concept, in social science and in social philosophy

Provides data that is useful for both archeological and geological dating of human fossil remains. This book uses the results obtained from the dating techniques, both relative and absolute. It features charts which give the radiocarbon datings of Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites and cultures in Europe, the Near East and Africa.

Production is a complex system of interdependent activities, necessary to the system as a whole, which itself depends on the continuance of each individual activity that composes it

Few would doubt that social science is in serious need of a new conceptual framework for the study of human organizations

Why do people adopt attitudes of political alienation--attitudes of estrangement from, or lack of identification with, the political system? Schwartz challenges accepted theories of social status and economic difficulties and developing a completely new, three variable psychological theories to explain alienation

The names given to the variety of man-like fossils known to scientists should reflect no more than scientific views of the nature of human evolution

This book is about micro-politics: that kind of manoevre to control or avoid being controlled, to claim friendship or proclaim enmity, which takes place between people who know one another, and who must temper and adjust their actions towards one another because they share other activities

For most of our history, American religious life has been dominated by a view of church history in which we appear as mere deposits of European religious culture

A tour de force of theoretical reasoning, this book presents the most advanced analytical model of the bargaining process so far conceived

The Italian peasantry has often been described as tragic, backward, hopeless, downtrodden, static, and passive

An individual's understanding of himself must begin with an appreciation of his origin

This book is about the family lives of some 10,000 children and adults who live in an all-Negro public housing project in St Louis

This is the first examination in depth of the reasons and ways that people seek psychiatric help

Offers an account of the process of aging that provides answers and dispels once and for many of the myths surrounding the close to 20 million Americans who are over sixty-five. This is a volume of social inquiry and interpretation, which marks a major scientific advance in its field, and opens up new horizons for fruitful research.

Deals with the two major aspects of decision-making: uncertainty and utility (values), and how-using statistical theory, utility theory, game theory, and the other components that go into decision theory. This book places emphasis on the problems of knowledge, and on the general place of information theory in decision-making.

In intellectual and academic circles, Ernest van den Haag is respected for his brilliant mind, his outspoken and often highly controversial assertions, and a very unacademic, sharp, biting style

In his presidential address to the American Sociological Society more than a quarter of a century ago, Edwin H

This book focuses on the present-day system of pegged-but-adjustable exchange rates and the problems that policy authorities must face if they are to attain full employment, price stability, balance-of-payments equilibrium, and a satisfactory rate of economic growth

Reflecting the contributions of M. Brewster Smith to social psychology and personality study, this selection includes not only his best known essays but also previously unpublished material

In this new work a distinguished psychologist evolves a theory of personality and society designed to help guide the work of institutions responsible for individual growth and development