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"Processes of Aging: Social and Psychological Perspectives" is based on a monumental series of studies on the psychological and social aspects of aging in relation to mental health. This effort gives
The goal of this book is to investigate why there are two distinct notions of liability in the legal and ethical systems of different societies; the relationship between two sets of criteria of liabil
This illustrated work is intended to acquaint readers with the early maps produced in both Europe and the rest of the world, and to tell us something of their development, their makers and printers, t
The Supreme Court decision that property owners may be entitled to compensation for government regulations that deprive them of reasonable use of their property has thrown the land-use field into a st
Unique in the literature of planners, architects, and urban officials, "Rebuilding Cities" is a compendium and analysis of the achievements of city planning from the ""Ideal City"" of Palmanova in 159
The Israeli Institute for Intelligence and Special Services, the Mossad, is pobably the best known of the world's intelligence services, one of the most sespected and, certainly, one of the most intri
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"The history, development, and future directions of evaluation in various European and Asian countries are described and examined. Chapter topics include international organizations or associations th
The Social Roots of Discrimination explains the phenomenon of anti-Semitism. In this classic volume, Peretz F. Bernstein looks for objective reasons why anti-Semitism flourished in European countries.
In this important work, Beatriz Huertas Castillo offers an objective yet human vision of the current situation of the indigenous groups in isolation in Peru. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, and interv
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Horses were key to the colonial economies of southern Africa, buttressing the socio-political order and inspiring contemporary imaginations. Just as they had done in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Nor
This book aims to provide an overview of the history of South Africa's 'Cradle of Humankind', and of the important human and animal fossils that have been discovered there, for a non-specialist audien
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