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The Third Republic of France was characterized by weak and short-term governments. This book presents a study of three writers, Charles Maurras, Maurice Barres, and Georges Sorel, their writings in the years between 1885 and 1914, and their reactions to the deficiencies they saw in the Third Republic and in the system of French democracy.

This new edition of this classic title, now in its seventh edition, presents a balanced and comprehensive introduction to the theory, implementation, and practice of time series analysis.

Recognizing developments in biopolymer systems research, this book discusses the biopolymer-based multilayer structures and their application in biosensors, the progress made in the understanding of protein behavior at the air-water interface, and experimental findings in ellipsometry and reflectometry.

Punishment occupies a central place in our lives and attitudes. We suffer a profound ambivalence about its moral consequences. Persons who have been punished or are liable to be punished have long objected to the legitimacy of punishment. We are all objects of punishment, yet we are also its users. This book describes the uses of punishment.

This edition of Political Terrorism was originally published in the 1980s. This monumental collection of definitions, conceptual frameworks, paradigmatic formulations, and bibliographic sources is being reissued in paperback now as a resource for the expanding community of researchers on the subject of terrorism.

Makes available for the first time the complete and unedited text of all the surviving letters written by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg during their three years in the Sing Sing death house over 500 letters written to one another, their two young sons, and their attorney. The letters have been collect

This special issue focuses on mathematics for students with disabilities, particularly on the topic of division. The articles discuss a number of curricula and instructional practices that have direct and meaningful implications for the classroom. They also serve as a foundation for the development of research into effective intervention practices. As a whole this issue provides an opportunity to extract selected features of instruction from the articles found herein and to contrast the effectiveness of two distinct instructional approaches--constructivism and direct/explicit instruction.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Addresses military in developing countries.

Describes the sources of change and continuity in Navajo infant development. Considering the nature of adaptation, and the evolution of human developmental patterns, and through analyses of the determinants of change and continuity in Navajo infant development, this work outlines how the process of development itself may bridge nature and culture.

Fractures of the Pelvis and Acetabulum

This brief text for students in the social and behavioral sciences provides a formal introduction to the way theories are constructed, stated, tested, and connected together to form a scientific body of knowledge.

Presents a theory of general equilibrium and the construction of the two-sector model, its applications to the theory of distribution and public finance for income redistribution, and its conversion into a growth model. This book discusses the determination of full general equilibrium and the possibility of multiple equilibrium.

Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this text forms a sociological analysis of organizations, focusing on the impacts that organizations have upon individuals and society.

This work opens with Stove's attacks on irrationalism in the philosophy of science, exposing the roots of this fashionable attitude. The second section contains topical essays on subjects such as feminism, race or the Enlightenment. The text concludes with blistering attacks on Darwinism.

This special issue commemorates and reassesses the educational effects of the "Brown" decision. The articles are grounded in theories and methods of several disciplines, including law, philosophy, economics, political science, sociology, and public policy. The researchers examine the way the Court frames racial inequality and whether the proposed remedy is consistent with the institutional and legal context at the time of the ruling. In addressing these questions, the authors pay particular attention to the nature of the constitutional argument, use of social evidence in shaping judicial decisions, the political economy of policy development and implementation in addressing racial desegregation, and the ongoing challenge of ensuring equality of schooling opportunity for the increasingly diverse student population.

Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science

Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science

The great expanse of Arctic and Sub-Arctic lands that stretch across the northern edge of the American continent is as difficult and demanding to human beings as any in the world. This title illuminates this obscure area of the world and brings it, and the cultures it supported, into the context of modern anthropological research.

Surveys the achievements and methods of the scientific study of human evolution and culture. This book includes chapters on how man gradually became different from other primates - on the origin and nature of language and its contribution to our peculiarities as human beings. It discusses human equality and inequality.

Many people consider Martin Heidegger the most important German philosopher of the twentieth century

Infants and children spend one- to two-thirds of their life asleep. Despite this, very little attention has been paid to understanding both normal sleep and sleep-related abnormalities during child development. This volume is devoted to breathing during sleep, its changes with development (from the fetus onwards), and the pathophysiology of sleep-related breathing disorders.

The theory of democratic pluralism has long provided the dominant ideal and description of politics in industrial societies with competing party systems. The authors examine the work of such pluralists as Robert Dahl, David Truman, Adolf Berle, and Walter Lippmann, as well as of such critics of pluralist theory as C Wright Mills, and Henry Kariel.

Describes Bedouins, a tribal pastoral people in eastern Saudi Arabia. This title documents changes in their way of life, beginning in the 1930s and continuing to the 1960s. It also describes 'The Empty Quarter' that is a place inhabited by a people so thoroughly devoted to their pastoral pursuits that they are referred to as nomads of the nomads.

Captures various developments in the field of chromatography. This title covers such topics as: the retention mechanism in reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC); thermodynamic modeling of chromatographic separation; ultra-performance liquid chromatography (ULPC); and, biointeraction affinity chromatography.

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Presents the anarchist's alternatives to government - viable principles of organization for an ethical society. This title shows how anarchist movements, aimed at the abolition of government and the initiation of a reign of freedom and voluntary cooperation, have seriously threatened institutions of government and violence in the world.

Relates traditional taxonomic studies to the developments in biochemical and other fields. This work provides guidelines for the integration of modern and traditional methods, and explains the underlying principles and philosophy of systematics. It also deals with the problems of zoological, botanical, and paleontological classification.

The papers in this book were delivered at two conferences held in conjunction with the exhibition, "The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance".