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Addresses the critical need for information on the impact of divorce on individuals in all age groups, and pays special attention to age as a factor in the effects of divorce on both men and women. This book provides the invaluable results gained from their life span study of divorced adults.
A selection of appreciative yet critical essays giving an historical context for the life and works of Mordecai Kaplan. Kaplan's metaphysics, his interpretation of the Bible, his views on education, economic justice and the role of women are given full consideration.
In the United States, there exists increasing uneasiness about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American society. This title examines what is meant by virtue, analyzing various historical and analytical meanings of virtue, and notions of liberal virtue.
Residential Community Associations in American Governance
Examines the role of residential community associations (RCAs) in the American intergovernmental system of governance. Examining this impact of RCAs on local politics, this title extrapolates to determine the implications of their proliferation for American governance and democratic values.
This text explores a range of topics, including underground literature, religious revival, and the rise of a national Jewish consciousness. It examines the ambivalent role traditionally played by the Soviet Union in both allowing cultural expression and suppressing individual religious practice.
Not only a highly significant contribution to the debate about masculinity, this outstanding volume breaks new ground in psychological theorizing generally. Tatham's passionate and disciplined text will set the agenda for the 1990's. -Andrew Samuels, author of The Father Tatham combines innovative psychological insight with the imaginative ......
The Map Guide to Independent Video by and About African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino, and Native American People
Independently-produced video, produced outside of mainstream commercial channels, provides a pool of shared imagery about the American past and the American people which is unique. This title introduces historians to multicultural media as a resource in teaching, and provides and introduction to this work on three levels.
Over the centuries, European debate about the nature and status of images of God and sacred figures has often upset the established order and shaken societies to their core. This book concentrates on these historical arguments, from the period of Late Antiquity up to the great and classic defenses of images by St John of Damascus and more.
The essays in this volume concern the topic of legal rights, how they are related to morality, the place of rights on moral theory, and the legal recognition of rights.
