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Viewing the tumultuous events of the post-Mao era and the period of "perestroika" in light of broader historical patterns, Mark Lupher focuses on power restructuring--the ebb and flow of state power, the centralization and decentralization of political and economic power, and the three-way struggles between central rulers, various elites, and non-privileged groups that drive these processes. By comparing and bringing new light to bear on a ser...

Addressing issues of the global integration of surveillance, social control, new information technologies, privacy violation and protection, and workplace surveillance, this work examines the ramifications of these concerns for society today.

Our lives are increasingly dominated by new forms of image, sound, data, and language media. Marshall McLuhan called this new order of things the Global Village, and he strove to be true to it as the media-popular 'McLuhan.' Having little use for traditional critical forms or values, and courting instead the discourses of popular culture and big business, McLuhan displayed the authentic, ambivalent place of critical self-reflection in our medi...

Sparshott expounds Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as a single continuous argument, a chain of reasoned exposition on the problems of human life.

These are the facts: U.S. environmental regulations, alone, now stand at more than 80, 000 pages, and the costs of compliance continue to escalate, as do the expectations of regulators and the public. Companies can only get ahead of the curve by moving from reactive to proactive management, taking a quality-based approach that factors in the needs of customers, the public, and the natural resource base. A well-conceived and executed total qual...

Schizophrenia, at one time considered by many clinicians to be a psychological response to an oppressive upbringing, is now generally accepted as a physical illness. While Keith Doubt does not quarrel with this current view, he does challenge the positivist assumptions that tend to accompany it. Throughout this fascinating survey of the literature on schizophrenia, Doubt presents a critique of society's neglect of the mentally ill and promotes...

More than mere curiosities, all of the architecture follies described in this illustrated guide are masterpieces in their own right. Each is the incarnation of its creator's singular passion, vanity, or idee fixe, from the home of the future to the storybook castle, the palace of love to the monument of spite, the house of devotion to the pleasure garden. Architecture Follies in America offers readers an unparalleled opportunity to become acqu...

The so-called Cancionero de la Sablonara is a highly selective manuscript collection of seventy-five Spanish polyphonic art-songs, composed primarily at the Spanish Court during the first quarter of the seventeenth century.Named after its scribe and compiler, Claudio de Sablonara (the chief copyist of the Spanish Royal Chapel), it constitutes one of the relatively few extant relics of the court's prodigious musical repertoire. The majority of ...

This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW '96, held in Nottingham, UK, in May 1996. The 23 revised full papers included address the most relevant theoretical and applicational aspects of knowledge acquisition with a certain emphasis on the acquisition of knowledge for the modelling or automation of complex problem-solving behaviour. The volume is organized in sections on theoretical an...

Der Zusammenhang zwischen Schlaf und Stimmung sowie Antrieb ist bereits seit langem bekannt und seit etwa 30 Jahren auch Gegenstand von wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen. Es zeigte sich, daß der therapeutische Schlafentzug, der von einigen Autoren auch als Wachtherapie bezeichnet wird, mit günstigen antidepressiven Effekten einhergeht, insbesondere wenn er wiederholte Anwendung findet. Obwohl der therapeutische Schlafentzug bereits breite klin...

This book is the study of governors and the governed, from 1801 until the end of the Soviet state. In charting the rocky course of that relationship, it devotes considerable attention to the two occasions when rebellion did succeed, placing them firmly in the context of 200 years of Russian history.