A collection of articles, reviews and speeches by Monthly Review founder, Paul Sweezy, about the development of societies, mainly within the former USSR, after Marxist revolution.
Presents a picture of the ideas of the early Greek philosophers men and attempts to find a balance between the scholarly paraphernalia of etymology and philology, and a stripped-down version of the ideas. This book includes testimonials by other thinkers. It also contains a guide to these testimonial sources and a bibliography for this period.
Explains how social scientists can evaluate the reliability and validity of empirical measurements, discussing the three basic types of validity: criterion related, content, and construct. In addition, the paper shows how reliability is assessed by the retest method, alternative-forms procedure, split-halves approach, and internal consistency method.
Ageing has become a high priority issue on the agenda of legislators, public forums, and human service agencies. This book helps understand the processes of ageing and their impact on society as a whole. It probes the images held about them and compares these views with their actual life styles, developmental transitions and crises.
Suggests both continuity and change. This title features two sections that continue the idiom of "Turns" (1975) and include many poems on English themes. It contains the two concluding sequences that chart voyages across the Atlantic.
Containing articles by sexologists, sociologists, and psychologists, this work deals with discoveries in human sexuality. It includes the topics: sexual identity and sexual roles, homosexuality, adolescent sexuality, sex and the law, prostitution, transsexual surgery, and eroticism.
Energy needs...oil supplies...inflation rates...the demand for new homes...in concerns like these, forecasting plays a crucial role. Forecasts not only determine how billions of dollars will be spent but also commit national policies far into the future; yet, no one really knows how to judge the reliability of forecasts. In this innovative study, ......
This book is designed to introduce the reader to a single coherent story, Mark's story of Jesus' life and death. From a literary perspective the reader is therefore advised to approach the Markan story as he or she would any other story: to read the whole story from beginning to end, to observe the characters and the interplay among them, to watch ......
John Hollander's 'Blue Wine and Other Poems,' his first collection of verse since the appearance of his new and selected poems, 'Spectral Emanations,' shows one of our best poetic craftsmen in America moving into a new phase in his distinguished career.Poems on painting and sculpture, in which Hollander examines the static/dynamic interaction of ......
