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Foreword -- The Year in Review -- The East-West Military Balance -- The International Economy with a National Security Perspective -- The Soviet Economy: In Search of Reform -- Southern Africa: Descent into Chaos? -- NATO's Southern Flank: A Troubled Region -- Latin America: Political Progress, Economic Stagnation -- South Asia in 1986 -- Other Titles Published in Cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies

How will the international environment change, and what will be the shape of U.S. security policies twenty years from today? Barry Blechman answers these questions by analyzing the many variables that will influence the international arena. Some factors--such as demographic trends--change slowly and can be forecast with confidence. Others depend mor

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Sexuality & Culture -- EDITORIAL -- The Politics of Sexuality -- SPECIAL SECTION: THE CLINTON-LEWINSKY AFFAIR -- The Heritage of Clinton-Lewinsky: Lasting Effects of a Transient Aberration -- Clintonian Feminist Identity Politics and Conceptual Differentiation: Some Non-private Aspects of Monica-gate -- Perjuries -- REGULAR ARTICLES -- Naked but Unseen: Sex and Labor Conflict in San Francisco's Adult Entertainment Theaters -- A Test of the Biopolitics Hypothesis -- Sex in the Interstices: The Meltdown of Idealized Selves and Partners -- Scientific and Fictive Sociology: The Viability of Research -- Sex Entertainment for Women on the Web -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism, by Daphne Patai -- Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations, by Katherine H. Moon -- American Homo, by Jeffrey Escoffier -- Faculty-Student Sexual Involvement, by Virginia Lee Stamler and Gerald L. Stone -- FILM REVIEW -- Lolita, directed by Adrian Lyne

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. "The Soul of the Age" -- 2. The Transcendentalist Crisis of Faith -- 3. Transcendentalist Spirituality -- 4. The Art of Life -- 5. Three Prerequisites of the Spiritual Life -- 6. Solitude, Contemplation, Sauntering, and Simple Living -- 7. Reading, Conversation, and Journal Writing -- 8. Religious Cosmopolitanism -- 9. Self-Culture and Social Change -- 10. Abolition and Women's Rights -- 11. Education, Environmentalism, and Sustainability -- 12. Church Reform and the Free Religious Association -- 13. The Legacy of Transcendentalism -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index

1. Leeds and Sheffield : economic, social and political change -- 2. Hospital provision : voluntary and municipal -- 3. Patients and access -- 4. Specialization and the challenges of modern medicine -- 5. Finance -- 6. The politics of hospital provision -- 7. Co-operation, competition and the development of hospital systems.

Over the past fifty years, a silent revolution has allowed the radical left to seize power to an extent unthinkable only a decade ago. Stranger still, no one has noticed. Throughout the twentieth century, leftists worked tirelessly toward their goal of a proletarian revolution. But they continually fell short. American workers rejected socialism in the 1920s and declined to join the international communist movement in the 1930s. The New Left flowered briefly in the 1960s but petered out with the end of the Vietnam War. When the Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991, radical Marxism seemed to have been defeated and discredited for good. Not so fast, says the political scientist Barry Rubin in this sharply pointed history of the modern American left. Far from disappearing, the radical left has undergone an ideological revolution and has rebranded itself as liberalism. Rubin traces the roots of this new ideology to the ideas of domestic radicals like Saul Alinsky, cultural Marxists like Antonio Gramsci, and Third World revolutionary thinkers like Frantz Fanon. This new brand of leftism constitutes a Third Left that now dominates the liberal movement in the United States. The Third Left's main ideological innovation is the abandonment of the working class as a revolutionary vehicle. Instead it targets the education system, and it has now trained several generations of Americans to think in leftist terms of fairness and social justice

"Preface: The 9 Rules for Success Our goal for this book is to help you understand engagement-tested methods for success at every step in delivering a professional service. Large professional service firms have the resources to develop practice guides for their staff members; however, sole proprietors and small to medium sized firms typically do not. We hope this book guides you - starting with the 9 Rules - through the maze of delivering your professional service. For those of you who are unable to exhibit internal discipline and control (see Rule 2, below), we provide the 9 Rules for Success up front, where you can find them easily. We also indicate in which chapter(s) each of the 9 Rules is discussed, should you wish to explore further. Following are the 9 Rules: 1. Clearly define your market niche (industry or industries, geographical coverage, client size, and list of services) to create a unique and powerful offering to potential clients. [Chapter 2] 2. Develop and implement a system and culture of internal discipline and control, to ensure consistency of service, efficiency of operation, and quality and reliability of deliverables. Then train, mentor, and monitor personnel regarding engagement management policies and procedures. [Chapter 3] 3. Establish and enforce engagement documentation standards, including those for proposals, progress reports, and deliverables. [Chapters 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8] 4. Practice what you preach regarding internal culture, policies, procedures, and standards. [Chapter 3] 5. Prepare complete and definitive service proposals, contracts, and engagement work plans that evaluate and accommodate engagement risks for both the provider and the client, so the client knows what can be expected in terms of scope, work plan,"--

"The book traces the history of the Richardson Light Guard from its origins in 1851, through war and peace, until its end in 1975. Though the rise of the National Guard was generally positive, bringing uniformity, professionalism and better equipment, for some militia companies, inclusion into the National Guard weakened vital bonds with their communities. "--Provided by publisher

Based on five years of classroom experimentation, The Open Hand presents a highly practical yet transformational philosophy of teaching argumentative writing. In his course Arguing as an Art of Peace, Barry Kroll uses the open hand to represent an alternative approach to argument, asking students to argue in a way that promotes harmony rather than divisiveness and avoiding conventional conflict-based approaches. Kroll cultivates a bodily investigation of noncombative argument, offering direct pedagogical strategies anchored in three modalities of learning-conceptual-procedural, k

Nationwide, and indeed worldwide, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of access to information. Accordingly, information technology (IT), broadly defined and its role beyond the internal workings of businesses has leapt into the social consciousness. Diving into the Bitstream distinguishes itself by weaving together the concepts and conditions of IT. What distinguishes these trends is their focus on the impacts of IT on societies, and the responsibilities of IT's creators and users. The author pulls together important, often complex issues in the relationships among informatio