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The only comprehensive history of the formative years of higher education in Ontario, this volume examines the shifting nature of moral, intellectual, and social authority as reflected in the development of Ontario's colleges and universities.

This guide provides an analytic and historical overview of the American conduct book as a genre, and of its cultural effect upon America. It includes over 500 titles designed for children, men and women. In addition the work carries a short, selected bibliography of secondary sources.

Public librarianship is a constantly changing field, and the direction of its development depends on theoretical and applied research. This book examines many of the research needs in public librarianship and discusses appropriate strategies to meet those needs.

Provides a definitive analysis of past and present South African trade policy. Since 1925, the country's mineral revenues have been diverted from efficient investments. This work argues that a recent export incentive scheme is little more than a continuation of the social engineering of the past.

Having spent six years in Beijing (1986-1992), Kretschmer offers a lively account of how American "foreign experts" gradually adjust to Chinese culture. He addresses issues related to the function and purpose of education, economics, democracy, and a free press in China and in the USA.

This work provides a consistent and empirically meaningful definition of surplus and suggests an analytical framework for studying economic growth and stagnation using that concept. The book also presents a case study of the role of surplus in economic growth. In the first part of the work, a method is developed emphasizing the links to classical economic theory and the logical flaws of the earlier works. The second part examines the role of s...

This bibliography contains some 350 entries for books and articles on academic advising and closely related topics. Entries are grouped in topical chapters. Most of the works cited were published in the 1980s and 1990s, but a few classic works from the past have also been included.

This book is a basic treatment of faculty performance appraisal in higher education. It is written for those scholars faced with the need to understand the issues and solutions to the often thorny problems posed by having to judge the performance of their colleagues in teaching, service, research and citizenship. Neophyte administrators, committee members, and those facing evaluation are often perplexed by the range and depth of the questions ...

This collection explores the various dimensions of social scientists' participation in policy-making, with special emphasis on their roles within policy communities and their relationship to the state.

Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions and political systems. While utopian literature portrays ideal worlds, dystopian literature depicts the flaws and failures of imaginative societies. Often these societies are related to utopias, and the dystopian writers have chosen to reveal shortcomings of those social systems previously considered ideal. This reference overviews dystopian theory and summariz...

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Provides a comprehensive historical record of the evolution of the American school curriculum from the colonial period to the present day.

A bibliography which brings together salient works on the process of economic development and economic revitalization in non-metropolitan areas. Its focus lies upon the world's industrialized countries, covering the period 1975-1993, and includes books, reports, journals and government documents.

This is a study of a relatively unexplored part of American musical and cultural history. The author sheds light on opera in America, its variety, popularity, and appeal to changing audiences throughout the 19th century. She also discusses works, companies and individual singers.

This timely book surveys political change in postcommunist Europe. It begins with a brief overview of the history and the communist legacy of each country, then examines the new constitutional framework, the principal political parties and their orientations, the direction and scope of economic reform, and the foreign and security policies.

This study examines the origins of doctrines as a prevalent form of US foreign policy. It looks at the Reagan Doctrine, which pledges aid to anti-communist guerillas in the Third World. Based on research, the analysis concludes with "realist" and "elite beliefs" theories to explain the doctrine.

As America returned to prosperity after World War II, there also rose a significant youth culture. Montgomery Clift held special appeal for the film audiences of this generation, and this volume provides detailes of his work in plays, films, radio and television.

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Though starring in only some twenty films and two engagements on Broadway, Audrey Hepburn earned her reputation through the quality of her work rather than the quantity of her performances. She was never driven by her career, and took years off between movies to spend with her family. As a child growing up in Arnhem when the Nazis invaded Holland, Hepburn witnessed the tragedy of war first-hand, and the impact of her experiences led her to a s...

This is a book which I highly recommend for reading by all Freemasons...-Tom Jackson, Grand Secretary, Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania