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Making the case for feeling good about oneself, about humanity in general, and about the global situation, this title addresses such seemingly disparate subjects as selfishness versus altruism, mind and free will, human nature, and issues relating to economics, technology, and the environment.

Portrays how the basic agencies of socialization transform the newborn human organism into a social person capable of interacting with others. Socialization differs from one society to another and within any society from one segment to another. It samples some of that variation, giving a glimpse of socialization in unfamiliar contexts.

What if you were an adopted child and someone tried to remove you from the family you had grown to love? This work examines the psychological and forensic aspects of adoption with an emphasis on how negative events can affect children and the families that choose to adopt them - and how you can prevent those events from happening.

First published in 1979, this text is a study of the population of the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert of Botswana. Using methods that are simple and fully illustrated, the author presents empirical descriptions of the fertility, mortality, and marriage patterns of the famous !Kung hunter-gatherers.

Explains how proteins are purified and describes methods for elucidating their sequences of amino acids and defining their posttranslational modifications. This book bridges the gap between introductory biophysical chemistry courses and research literature. It serves as a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

Arguing that private property is a fundamental liberty whose protection deserves the highest priority, the author challenges one of the dominant trends of the past half century: the erosion of property rights via zoning and land use restrictions, carried on by government exercising its 'police power' or promoting 'the public interest'.

Addresses an often irresponsible media using the First Amendment as a shield behind which to hide socially corrosive speech. This book seeks to modernize the First Amendment. It proposes a government-facilitated private right to censor.

Argues that the major cause of the impasse has been the misleading manner in which the program has been depicted to the public, and the beliefs about Social Security that prevail as a result. The author demonstrates that the false picture was deliberately cultivated by Social Security officials to ensure the program's constitutionality.

Science increasingly influences the political agenda in modern societies. Consequently, a new political field has emerged: knowledge politics. These fourteen essays by social scientists, philosophers, and historians cover fundamental issues, theoretical perspectives, knowledge and power, and empirical studies.

Considers demographic, economic, sociological, and social policy antecedents of homelessness. This book emphasizes large-scale social and economic forces that have priced an increasingly large segment of the urban poor completely out of the housing market.

Presents research syntheses on the significance of play in the literacy development of young children and pushes the study of play and literacy into different areas. This book aims to challenge play-literacy researchers to use their imaginations to overcome persistent methodological problems, and to strive for multi-disciplinary perspectives.

A comprehensive and accessible exploration of competitive sports, and their connection to ethical theory and to the concrete moral dilemmas in athletic competition.