Lilienfeld provides the framework students need to go from inquiry to understanding. By encouraging students to question, and teaching students how to test their assumptions, Lilienfeld motivates students to use scientific thinking skills to better understand the complex world of psychology.
Steven Lynn's ground--breaking Literature: Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies energizes literary study by demonstrating, step by step, how to use critical approaches to engage literary texts and evolve critical arguments. Plentiful examples demonstrate the process of thinking and writing about literature--progressing from a blank page to ...
What causes war? How can wars be prevented? Scholars and policymakers have sought the answers to these questions for centuries. Although wars continue to occur, recent scholarship has made progress toward developing more sophisticated and perhaps more useful theories on the causes and prevention of war. This volume includes essays by scholars on ...
More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but the United States has yet to reach a consensus on a coherent approach to the international use of American power. The essays in this volume present contending perspectives on the future of US grand strategy. US policy options include primacy, cooperative security, selective ...
Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory provides an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theories-from new criticism to cultural studies-as part of the practice of writing about literature. An ideal supplement to any literature anthology, this text works in composition courses that introduce literature to ...
This two-volume reader contains a treasury of readings selected from the civilizations of the world. The 30 primary source selections in each volume (15 from the East, 15 from the West) include such discourse types as fiction, drama, poetry, philosophical, religions, political, speeches, and social commentary. Each volume is arranged ...
Current debates about the nature of international politics have centered on the clash between supporters and critics of realism. This work brings together a number of recent essays written in the realist tradition. It includes realist interpretations of the collapse of the Cold War order and of the emerging order that has replaced it, the sources ...
Deeply rooted in the views, responses, and history of contemporary critical theories, Texts and Contexts, Fourth Edition provides students with the knowledge and tools to write about literature effectively. This popular, accessible guide presents a user-friendly introduction to contemporary critical theories-from new criticism to cultural studies ...
The essays collected for this work provide both conceptual analysis and empirical assessment of the environment, migration and nationalism as sources of conflict. The East-West confrontation that dominated the international security agenda during the Cold War has largely receded from view. Revealed in its wake is a different set of dangers, not ...
This book addresses these and other compelling questions reflecting deep divisions in scientific opinion, professional practice, and legal decision making.
At a time when events are overtaking many publications, these articles selected from "International Security" attempt to provide up-to-date and comprehensive analyses of American national security strategy in the post-Cold War world. Addressing future US relations with its Cold War allies as well as with its former foes, contributions take up such ...
This work presents a collection of arguments selected from the journal "International Security" on the causes of the Cold War and the effect of its aftermath on the peaceful coexistence of European states. This new edition includes all the first edition's material, plus four new articles: "The Unipolar Illusion: Why New Great Powers Will Rise", ...
Two respected scholars and clinicians with over 50 years of experience between them cast a bright light on "the monster in the cave," offering a menu of techniques for confronting and calming fears, panic attacks, and phobias.
In the early 1960s, whenever the "Today Show" discussed integration, WLBT-TV, the NBC affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi, cut away to local news after announcing that the "Today Show" content was 'network news...representing the views of the northern press'. This was only one part of a larger effort by WLBT and other local stations to keep African ...
China's relentless economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s heralded its emergence as a great power in world politics. As its economy expanded, China seemed poised to become the second-largest economy in the world. At the same time, it modernized its military and adopted a more assertive diplomatic posture. Many observers have begun to debate the ...
An authoritative reference, this unusually comprehensive volume covers the major aspects of dissociation-from the predominant models, diagnostic, and treatment approaches, to significant research, clinical, and conceptual issues.
Two respected scholars and clinicians with over 50 years of experience between them cast a bright light on "the monster in the cave," offering a menu of techniques for confronting and calming fears, panic attacks, and phobias.
The future of East Asian security has become a critically important topic in the post-Cold War world. Virtually all of the Asia-Pacific countries are enjoying rapid economic growth, but many remain wary of their neighbours. Unlike every other region of the world, East Asia's military spending continues to accelerate. "East Asian Security" ...
Are democracies less likely to go to war than other kinds of states? This volume addresses this question, one of relevance in academic and policy-making circles and one that has been debated by political scientists for many years.
Seaside, Florida is a town designed as an "ideal" community in the Southern vernacular style, where houses have front porches and verandahs, picket fences and sleeping porches, and pitched tin roofs with ample overhangs. Seaside, along with other new planned towns and communities, sets an important precedent for all new small towns and will long ...
Formal theories and rational choice methods have become increasingly prominent in most social sciences in the past few decades. Proponents of formal theoretical approaches argue that these methods are more scientific and sophisticated than other approaches, and that formal methods have already generated significant theoretical progress. As more ...
Written by one of the foremost scholars in college composition today, this brief guide features concise guidelines and advice for completing the stages of the writing process and for working with style and editing matters. Filled with an abundance of useful tips and shortcuts, the book is designed to provide strategies that readers can immediately ...
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