How can external actors--governments, regional organizations, the United Nations, financial institutions, nongovernmental organizations--affect the process of democratic transition and consolidation? In Beyond Sovereignty, leading scholars and policy experts examine the experiences of a variety of Latin American nations and the relevant ......
The Extraordinary Career of a Champion Bicycle Racer
World champion at 19 . . . One of the first black athletes to become world champion in any sport . . . 1-mile record holder . . . American sprint champion in 1898, 1899, 1900 . . . triumphant tours of Europe and Australia . . . Victories against all European champions . . . Until now a forgotten, shadowy figure, Marshall Walter ''Major'' Taylor is ......
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the questions of ethics and aging. Advances in medical technology have created dilemmas for physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals over such questions as the allocation of resources and a patient's ''right to die.'' At the same time, the aging of the American population raises concerns ......
Enormous skyscrapers will house residents and workers who happily go ''for weeks'' without setting foot on the ground. Streamlined, ''hurricane-proof'' houses will pivot on their foundations like weather vanes. The family car will turn into an airplane so easily that ''a woman can do it in five minutes.'' Our wars will be fought by robots. And our ......
This book will be an invaluable guide for anyone whose work involves changing conversation into written records. Basing her ideas on research material obtained within multidisciplinary child guidance clinics, the author: makes clear the complexity, but also the importance, of case recording; challenges the notion of record keeping as a mundane ......
Based on a combination of research and practice, this book provides a current picture of the success, fairness and significance of child protection services for children, parents and professionals. It is divided into two parts. The first half approaches the problem of child abuse through the different perspectives of those affected. First hand ......
After first analyzing the dysfunctional state of America's churches - with their capitulation to modern culture -Schmiechen argues convincingly that the church can be renewed only through the recovery of Christ's gospel of reconciliation. "Schmiechen, a United Church of Christ minister, analyzes the internal divisions and the capitulation to ......
Communication and Group Decision-Making take s stock of recent group communication research - with an exp licit focus on communication processes. This book is recomme nded for academics, professionals and researchers in communi cation and organization. '
