Traditional public policy and welfare economics have held that market failures are common, requiring the intervention of government in order to serve and protect the public good. In Beyond Politics, William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons carefully scrutinize this traditional view through the modern theory of public choice. The authors ...
This book offers the first complete study of the origins of American intelligence testing. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author of the famous American eugenics tract, The Kallikak Family. The book traces the controversies surrounding Goddard's efforts to bring Alfred Binet's tests ...
During the 1930s, psychologists Gordon Allport, Gardner Murphy, and Lois Barclay Murphy emerged from the fields of social and personality psychology to challenge the neo-behavioralist status quo in American social science. Willing to experiment with the idea of 'science' itself, these 'rebels within the ranks' contested ascendent conventions that ...
Psychologists on the March argues that the Second World War had a profound impact on the modern psychological profession in America. Before the war, psychology was viewed largely as an academic discipline, drawing its ideology and personnel from the laboratory. Following the war, it was increasingly seen as a source of theory and practice to deal ...
Produced in a large format and illustrated in full colour, this architectural history offers an overview of Atlanta's classic homes - homes that, regardless of age and style, incorporate cosmopolitan yet distinctly southern elements. The book acquaints readers with the city's historic neighbourhoods and then takes them inside more than 35 of ...
Bill Mitchell introduces the reader to the English Georgian city of Savanna, Georgia, with an essay using a chronological succession of bird's-eye renderings and photographs to examine how the inner-city plan originated and developed, and how it remains the classic core of a living city.The succeeding sections contain an extensive series of ...
The U.S. war in Iraq was not only an intelligence failure - it was a failure in democratic discourse. "Hitting First" offers a critical analysis of the political dialogue leading up to the American embrace of preventive war as national policy and as the rationale for the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Taking as its point of departure the ...
The Codewriting Workbook introduces students and practitioners to basic programming concepts for computer-aided design (CAD). Through a series of guided exercises and examples readers learn how to develop and write procedures for creating two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional models using a variety of algorithmic functions. Each exercise ...
The author, a historian and preservationist, presents the history of New Orleans and its architecture. A detailed time line, gazetteer, and 50 landmark homes are included. The accompanying photographs show efforts to blend contemporary demands with the character of an earlier way of life.
For Neel Reid and this book we must think back seventy years and more, to another time -- of porte cocheres and sleeping porches, French doors and parterre gardens, trellises and pergolas, porticoes and fanlights, summerhouses and servants' quarters -- a time of classic but not antebellum columns, before the Great Depression and World War II. We ...
Wall Street does not want you to know, but the 'beat the market' strategy that brokers push so hard does not work. It means big commissions and fees for them and, nearly always, below average investment returns for you. Here is advice from financial economists without the ulterior motive of big commissions: 'Stop throwing away money on unnecessary ...
Over 350 full-color photographs vividly portray the rich and varied tradition of Georgia gardening. Commissioned by The Garden Club of Georgia to commemorate its sixtieth anniversary and to celebrate the heritage and beauty of Georgia gardens.
This new resource provides a concise review of common as well as infrequently encountered diseases, syndromes, and disturbances of homeostasis in adult ICU patients. With more than 230 chapters and contributions from over 75 internationally recognized experts, readers will have step-by-step diagnostic and management strategies for each disorder at ...
This is a full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology - an attempt to advance holistic thought within natural science. Holistic thought is often portrayed as a woolly-minded revolt against reason and modern science, but this is not so. On the basis of rigorous experimental research and scientific argument as well as on philosophical grounds ...
The history of the social sciences has been marked by frequent and fierce debates on the rules of scientific methodology. Even the most general criteria agreed upon in the natural sciences are emphatically disputed in the social sciences. Presenting the history of psychology in the Netherlands as a case representative of Western social science, ...
Constructing Scientific Psychology is the first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley. It sets Lashley's research at the heart of two controversies that polarized the American life and human sciences in the first half of the twentieth century. These concerned the relationship between ...
This is a full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology - an attempt to advance holistic thought within natural science. Holistic thought is often portrayed as a woolly-minded revolt against reason and modern science, but this is not so. On the basis of rigorous experimental research and scientific argument as well as on philosophical grounds ...
James Collier Means (1904-79), known simply as Jimmy, was a Georgia architect of the "old school"; he was a steadfast classicist when the suburban ranch house, with a streamlined Ford in the carport, had become an ideal for a postwar futuristic world. He once casually observed that a modern church building with an oddly angled metallic steeple was ...
This guide to reading "The Taming of the Shrew" with a critical and appreciative mind includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.
In this collection of essays, Professor Basil Mitchell provides a commentary on issues crucial to all Christians, whether lay, academic or clergy. They deal with topics of fundamental significance to those interested in the relation between Christianity and the life of the mind, as Basil Mitchell examines the contemporary challenges to Christian ...
In this biography, Edward Vason Jones is portrayed as a man who fulfilled the promise of Georgia's neoclassical tradition to achieve a national reputation as an architect, connoisseur, collector and critic.
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