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This book studies the nature and function of conscience in contemporary Roman Catholic moral theology. It does so by examining, comparing and evaluating the ways in which conscience is understood by two representative contemporary moral theologians: Germain Grisez who represen...

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'The basic theme of the work is an important one for operational research, namely the influence of constraints rather than objectives in policy formulation.'JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY

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This book examines the various factors that have influenced the growth and development process of contemporary Africa. This volume comes up with comprehensive and detailed suggestions and recommendations to address this painful paradox of Africas reduced growth and development in the midst of abundant resources.

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A major task for social theory in the 1990s is to explain the relationship between individuals and social structures. This text makes two simple suggestions for forging micro/macro social processes, arguing that while they are related, their relationship is contingent and unpredictable.

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This book provides examples of culturally-relevant clinical adaptations as they apply to the largest Indian groups in the U.S.-the Navajo, Cherokee and Sioux. It also addresses the most severe mental disorders afflicting American Indians today-those of substance abuse and feta...

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This text provides a contemporary approach to counselling and psychotherapy theories. Each chapter has an overview and summary with experimental exercises, key terms are in bold type and some chapters have examination questions. It also covers DSM-IV and the new ethical principles of ACA and APA.

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This text deals with Chinese art during the Tang Dynasty, from 618 to 907. It presents the artistic findings from the last ten years of archaeological excavations in China - never before published in the West. Ceramics, wall paintings and utensils of all materials are covered.

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This timely book provides a Deweyan approach to the acquisition of dispositions against the NCATE requirement for the development of a conceptual framework that is lived and continuously evaluated. The work is, therefore, vital to colleges of education that are pursuing educat...

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Maxine Borowski Junge explores the creative processes of fourteen visual artists and writers through interviews and examination of their work. She accomplished this through a four part alternative realities perspective which also includes a documentation of her own work as an ...

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As the center stage of the world in the twenty-first century, Asia and the Pacific provide a vast testing ground where Eastern civilizations meet with Western development, socialism with capitalism, and authoritarianism with democracy for possible confrontation, fusion, or bot...

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This book is a systematic examination of the nature of America's crime and criminal justice system as defined by its policy-makers at different times and in disparate contexts of social and political realities. By examining legislative documents and court cases and analyzing f...

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This dictionary contains criminal justice terms, criminological concepts, and over 100 cases decided by courts in the federal system, including the United States Supreme Court. These cases address aspects of criminal procedures, as well as individual rights in the U.S. Constit...

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In Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media, Charles Ess collects contemporary scholarship to address the question, what does critical thinking about the Bible mean as the Bible is 'transmediated' from print to electronic formats

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A series of questions concerning the future of the human race. The text offers a structured and reason-bound exploration of the complexities of modern life with which the reader can provide their own answers to these eternal questions.

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This edited volume is a compilation of original scholarly papers on the theme of cultural diversity in Islamic thought and practice under conditions of early and late modernity, with a specific contemporary focus on the crisis of religious tolerance in the Muslim world. Partic...

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This collection of new studies in ethnomethodology addresses sociology's classical questions by developing that strand of ethnomethodological inquiry dealing with membership categorization. This book provides detailed studies of members' use of membership categories across var...

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In 1963, with a revitalization of traditional cultural, political, and religious values, bolstered by security threats, Greek Cypriots sought to marginalize and terrorize Turkish Cypriots. The result was a breakdown of the inter-communal dialogue necessary for the creation of ...

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This work focuses on the Black family and the patterns of socialization within it. It validates the role of "responsible" fathers and provides empirical evidence that responsible fathers will make a positive difference in the lives of Black youth.

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The Vicos Project was a major effort to apply anthropology to community development in a rural community of Andean Peru in the 1950s. Deconstructing Development Discourse in Peru is a retrospective examination of the Vicos research and development project through a poststructu...

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This book, translated into English from Japanese and revised, argues that cultural diversity is a treasure for humanity, and we must realize that it is a necessary condition for a fully human existence. By realizing the deep connectedness of all human beings, we send a positive message to humanity.