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IF WE WISH TO UNDERSTAND THE PHENOMENA GENERALLY SUBSUMED UNDER THIS HEADING, WE NEED TO IDENTIFY AND CONSIDER SEPARATELY A NUMBER OF QUITE DISTINCT POLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS. DIFFERENT PATTERNS OF SUCH RELATIONSHIPS ARE FOUND IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. EXAMPLES OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND WEST GERMANY ARE DISCUSSED.

GREAT BRITAIN IS WIDLEY THOUGHT TO BE AN ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT COUNTRY TO GOVERN. ONE REASON FOR THIS IS THE SHARP INCREASE IN THE GOVERNMENT'S RANGE OF RESPONSIBILITIES; ANOTHER REASON IS THAT AT THE SAME TIME THERE HAS BEEN A DECREASE IN GOVERNMENTS' ABILITY TO FULFILL THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES. THE LATTER IS CAUSED BY AN INCREASED NUMBER OF DEPENDENCY RELATIONSHIPS INVOLVING THE GOVERNMENTS.

Front matter; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I Locating sickness and medical welfare; The ecology of poor relief; Defining and measuring; Negotiating medical welfare; Part II The scale and character of medical welfare; Treating the sick poor: a quantitative overview; Medical people; Wider medical welfare; Dying, being buried and leaving people behind; Part III Parochial medical welfare in context; Institutions and the sick poor; The medical economy of makeshifts; Making sense of diversity; Appendix; Bibliography; Index

The hazard posed to northern quolls, Dasyurus hallucatus, during aerial baiting programs for the
control of dingoes was studied in a pastoral area of Western Australia. The incidence of mortality and
the movements of the animals were studied by means of radiotelemetry. Minimum activity areas ranged
from 5 to 1109 ha, and the longest movement recorded was 3.5 km over 7 days. All animals could
have encountered baits. Mating occurred shortly before baits were laid. The animals subsequently lost
condition and body weights were low at the time of baiting.
No quolls died in the 2 weeks following the baiting. This suggests that northern quolls and other,
theoretically less susceptible, non-target species of mammals in the pastoral areas of Western Australia
are not at risk from 1080 aerial baiting programs.

In the last few decades, Western ground troops have been involved in intense close-quarters fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan on a scale not seen since the Vietnam and Korean wars. As a consequence, a unique, if disturbing, archive of data has emerged concerning the behaviour of soldiers on operations, in combat, or preparing for combat. This volume draws together historians, social, and political scientists in order to analyse how professional Western forces have sought to generate unit cohesion and how they have performed on operations and in combat

Education and Social Change provides a basic introduction to educational studies, with a viewpoint for decision. This book discusses the increasing number of educational influences at work outside the schools and colleges. Organized into three parts encompassing 10 chapters, this book starts with an overview of the influences affecting the schools as well as affecting the entire life in which the schools have to take on a different meaning. This text then examines the educational institutions and describes how their purposes, structures, and populations are undergoing unprecedented change. Oth

In this collection, contributors discuss a central theme which is both theoretical and practical - the role of the state in achieving social justice in modern market systems from a socialist perspective. They reject the cult of choice and of rational egoism

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. An Assortment of Puzzles -- 2. Who- and What- Were "the People"? -- 3. The People in the House of Power -- 4. The Exaltation of the People -- 5. The People Move Upstairs -- 6. Two Tectonic Plates, Two Nostalgias -- 7. An Assortment of Solutions -- 8. Democracy in America -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.