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The series have been designed "to help all in both understanding the biblical standard of right conduct, or behaviour of action, as well as in living by this standard in our practical everyday lives". The author tackles a number of moral issues such as drug use, gambling, entertainment, attitudes to riches and work. (DÜI-Hff)

1. International Migration: Sociological or Social Psychological Phenomenon? -- 2. American Emigration: Past and Present -- 3. Motives: Why They Move -- 4. More on Motives -- 5. Adjustments: How They Adapt -- 6. Toward a Model of the Migration Cycle -- 7. Retention or Reemigration: Why They Remain or Return -- 8. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Author Index.

This book deals with the clinical features and the prevention of AIDS, especially in African countries. The author uses a number of case histories in which he was personally involved in his research travels in sub-Saharan Africa. They led him to his sure belief that AIDS was already well established elsewhere before it arrived on the African continent

The author analyses the colonial political system of Hong Kong before taking a closer look to the future political system in the time of transition and the time after 1997, when Hong Kong will be returned to the People's Republic of China. He discusses the difficulties and contradictions of this future development. (DÜI-Pff)

This dissertation is to find the underlying factors of the rapid population growth being experienced in Techiman, and to take stock of both the negative and positive consequences of the demographic trend. Finally, the author attempts to offer tentative population policy for the town and all such other towns in the country. (DÜI-Hff)

During his lifetime, British author and thinker G.K. Chesterton gained a reputation as a top-rate intellectual and social critic. In this volume, Chesterton turns his attention to a series of major problems facing the world at the turn of the twentieth century, offering his one-of-a-kind take on each topic

From Judge Linda Parker's opinion Thursday in U.S. v. Markovitz (E.D. Mich.); the defendant is the author of Topless Prophet: The True Story of America's Most Successful Gentleman's Club Entrepreneur, though the criminal case appears unrelated to the book: Charles Blackwell initiated this miscellaneous action to unseal the sentencing memoranda in the criminal proceedings against…

The author defines such concepts as "the Altai vector of Eurasian integration" and "Altai civilization". Altai today, as the cradle of many Eurasian peoples, acquires a special unifying meaning. The cultural and humanitarian aspect of cooperation can be put on a par with the economic and political activities of states in terms of importance.

I read with interest Mauricio Karchmer's Why I Quit My Dream Job at MIT, published Tuesday in The Free Press; but its perspective struck me as rather alien to the very nature of a modern secular American university. The author begins by pointing to what he sees as MIT's inadequate condemnation of the Hamas attack;…

The article attempts to identify the economic prerequisites for the emergence of printing in the Czech Republic. The author analyzes the economic development of Czech cities in the post-Hussite period, analyzes the main privileges that cities were given or confirmed by their owners, as well as the development of crafts and trade in them.

The author of this article shows us how the work on the comments contributes to an in-depth understanding of the artistic features of Ostrovski´s plays; problems of the genre as an essential factor in the understanding of a dramatic work; specific attitude to history, confrontation of characters, mastery of psychological analysis, setting ethical problems.

AbstractIn this editorial, the author argues that social and political values in a democratic United States of America have significant global impacts on the development of justice, human rights, and democracy. Abandoning these values in favor of national interests may result in the development of new undemocratic nations and facilitate the emergence of narcissistic sociopathic leaders.

Perceptual etymology is a new term which is introduced here to refer to an anthropological rather than a purely linguistic interpretation of the origins of words. This author tries to show in what way different aspects of our understanding of etymology can be combined to create a coherent and possibly full image of a word.

From an Finance and Development (June) article, by Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth), author of Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2017), Free Trade under Fire (Princeton), and currently President of the Economic History Association. The debate over industrial policy has long been locked in a stalemate. Some see it […]

Professor Raina MacIntyre proposes that we are entirely too complacent about the risks of pandemics. According to the author, pandemics are more likely than we think, they are more likely to have unnatural causes than we suspect, our responses are sluggish and inefficient, and we accord our social guardians far too much trust.