Examines the political and religious context in which the Constitution and The Bill of Rights were adopted. This book reasons that those who wrote and adopted the Constitution and First Amendment intended a strict separation of church and state, a government that would neither aid nor impede religion.
How and why does ethnicity affect children? How do children come to understand their own and others' ethnicity? This valuable volume, published in cooperation with the Society for Research in Child Development, focuses on these important questions. It provides a synthesis of research and theory regarding children's ethnic socialization, considers the impact of ethnicity within a developmental framework and discusses the implications of findings for education, mental health and community services.
Beginning with the history of mental health care in the 1840s -- before the advent of organized psychiatry -- this book traces the development of the profession and the subsequent care of its patients. The book covers the impact on psychiatry of historical events such as the Civil War, communist expansion, and the civil rights movement.
Traces the author's odyssey as he discovers his vocation, from his own college days to his tenure in a Turkish university as a visiting Fulbright scholar. This book is a collection of essays about higher education and American culture that dramatises and humanises the abstractly treated subject of education.
Takes on psychics, astrologers, myth-makers and other assorted purveyors of the paranormal, and shines the light of common sense into the murky darkness that is the world of paranormal claims. This book collects commentaries on 'The Paranormal', 'Prophecy', 'Spirits', 'Superstition', 'Pseudoscience', 'Higher Life', and 'Truth'.
The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Expanded and updated for this English-language translation, this book offers the first history of women in ancient Greece and Rome to be written from a legal perspective. Cantarella demonstrates how literary, anecdotal. and judicial sources can and cannot be used to discover that Greek and Roman men thought about women.
Designed to provide information about Alzheimer's disease and to help families who are dealing with a mentally impaired older person. This book dispels myths about "senility", explores the early symptoms and later behaviour patterns of Alzheimer's disease, and describes treatable conditions that are sometimes mistaken for Alzheimer's.
Written in part as a theoretical reply to the stodgy conservatism of Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the French Revolution" (1790), this title sets forth a manifesto of popular democratic rule in the established tradition of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
