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This paper was first presented during a seminar at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. The author reviews the paper "Has socialism failed ?" written by the chairman of the South African Communist Party, Joe Slovo. An edited version of the paper is included as an appendix

Based on interview-schedules and free interviews with households in the settlement of Olaleye-Iponri, the author analyses the health conditions and needs in the settlement. He examines the perceptions of the urban poor of their needs and juxtaposes these with the official perceptions, priorities and policy directions. (DÜI-Hff)

I Introduction -- 1. Technology and Human Needs -- II The Psychology of Power -- 2. Tactics of Influence in Everyday Life -- 3. The Metamorphic Effects of Power -- III Technology and Control -- 4. Behavior Control Technology -- 5. Medical Technology -- 6. The Routinization of Work -- 7. The Technology of Coercion -- 8. Solutions -- Author Index.

The publication of William Leiss' book The Domination of Nature brought him wide recognition as a perceptive and judicious author. In this brilliant new collection of essays on the philosophy of nature, Leiss argues effectively for an attitude of caring and respect for the environment rather than one of domination.

In this paper, the author discusses various concepts and views of decentralization, and then applies the arguments to Zimbabwe, where the main emphasis is on the communal areas. The intention is to show the range of political, economic and organizational factors and constraints involved, and the main groups and views

In Section I, the author maps the different ideological positions concerning education and schooling in South Africa (Christian national education, liberalism, liberation socialism). Section II presents reports of interviews conducted with significant and influential educationists whose viewpoints were generally aligned with one or other of the three ideological positions described

In this book, the author examines the extent to which the urban housing crisis in South Africa has forced employers, builders, developers and financial institutions to confront the challenge of meeting urban black housing needs. He scrutinises the possible role which business could play in facilitating negotiations around housing and related conflicts

The author tells the story of her childhood in Sophiatown, her work in the textile trade, where she found herself as a trade union official. She describes the years of struggle and the series of great strikes among the shopworkers in the early 1980s and the time when she was arrested and detained

In this book, the author presents an interpretation of four thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. In an attempt to place these thinkers within the wider context of the crisis-oriented modernism and postmodernism that have been the source of much of what is most original and creative in twentieth-century art and thought.

While the author was detained without trial from 30 August, 1985 to 4 April, 1986, he kept a diary of daily events of interest. He attempted to describe the process he went through and the harsh conditions which exist in prisons twenty-two years after national independence from British colonial rule

The author combines firsthand experiences of the countries with extensive knowledge of international politics. His book offers a unique assessment of the interlocking factors which result in the modern plagues and argues there are solutions if governments, international institutions and individuals can learn from the mistakes of the past

Section 1: Introduction and Summary -- Section 2: General Topics (the Opening Session) -- Section 3: Sociocultural Aspects of Biogas Technology -- Section 4: Economic Aspects -- Section 5: Institutional and Financial Infrastructure -- Section 6: Regional Programs, Networks, and Aid Agencies -- Section 7: Technical Aspects -- Section 8: Country Programs and Projects -- Author Index.

1 Introduction -- 2 Social Antecedents and Consequences of Self-Referent Cognition -- 3 Social Antecedents and Consequences of Self-Evaluation -- 4 Social Antecedents and Consequences of Self-Feelings -- 5 Nature and Antecedents of Self-Protective-Self-Enhancing Responses -- 6 Toward A General Theory of Self-Referent Behavior -- References -- Author Index.

This book examines India's export performance and export policies in the 1960s. The author analyses the causal factors underlying the trends in exports and evaluates the government policies which affected them. This authoritative work will be of interest to all those concerned with Indian economic problems, international trade and development economics

The Value of Studying Subjective Evaluations of Probability -- The True Subjective Probability Problem -- Subjective Probability: A Judgment of Representativeness -- The Psychological Concept of Subjective Probability: A Measurement-Theoretic View -- Are Subjective Probabilities Probabilities? -- On the Generalizability of Experimental Results -- Statistical Analysis: Theory Versus Practice -- A Selected Bibliography -- Author Index.