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This collection of new studies in ethnomethodology addresses sociology's classical questions by developing that strand of ethnomethodological inquiry dealing with membership categorization. This book provides detailed studies of members' use of membership categories across various settings from the O.J. Simpson trial, via TV commercials and news headlines, to school staff and referral meetings.

The Limits of Influence is a detailed examination and defense of the evidence for largescale-psychokinesis (PK). It examines the reasons why experimental evidence has not, and perhaps cannot, convince most skeptics that PK is genuine, and it considers why traditional experimental procedures are important to reveal interesting facts about the phenomena.

This book helps teachers of English to provide speakers of other languages the basic information and tools they need to help their students master the phonological system of English. The elements emphasized are those that contribute to more effective classroom practices.

Dealing with the impact of revolution, nationalism, and secret services in modern European history from the Enlightenment to World War I, this book devotes special attention to the French Revolution, nationalism and unification in Italy, Germany and Serbia, and the role of certain secret societies.

This work examines the patterns, strategies and systems of organisation that determine the shape of a Shakespeare play and are the expression of the deliberate nature of Shakespeare's art. Considering his plays as human documents, the book makes clear how and why Shakespeare composed as he did.

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Focusing on the business press - one of the most articulate elements of the American media - this work examines how the US and the Japanese worked out the parameters of their post-war relationship.

In this work, the author advocates the positive effects of military research on science and explains how the defence acquisition process could be more efficient. He also examines American defence industries and their reliance upon defence-related products and technologies.

Assesses the role of codes and ethics in marriage and family therapy, examining it from the perspective of a moral paradigm in order to demonstrate that therapists have responsibilities not only to their clients, but also to their society.

Engagement is the label increasingly embraced by higher education to describe activities associated with serving the public interest. This book describes how members of a faculty learning community have come to understand engagement as both intellectual endeavor and scholarly practice at the interface between academy and citizenry.

Grounded in research done by examining the clinical practices of five exemplary psychotherapists, On Holy Ground explores the relationship between psychotherapy and spirituality. This book addresses the religious and spiritual issues that mental health practitioners are not normally effectively trained to handle.

This work explores the growth and development of London, as a world city, capital of Britain and large metropolitan area, through its major functions, institutions, people and internal spatial structures.

A major task for social theory in the 1990s is to explain the relationship between individuals and social structures. This text makes two simple suggestions for forging micro/macro social processes, arguing that while they are related, their relationship is contingent and unpredictable.

The pro-hunting/anti-hunting debate is an issue that reaches from California to New York to Florida. Hunters defend their activity while anti-hunters violently condemn it. This study presents arguments from both groups and aims to help broaden the perspective of each side.

This book asks Christian educators-particularly those involved in the student affairs profession-to become more engaged with the idea that the programs offered, classes taught, disciplinary actions dispensed, policies framed, and the like, are the arenas in which Christianity must take shape.

This is a biography of Morgan Edwards, offering a detailed portrait of the most influential and perplexing man in American baptist history.

This text cites the failure to raise the issue of white violence in the race relations debate as the cause of the gap in the search for a solution to the race problem. It suggests that allowing history to teach us how to avoid mistakes of the past will make bridging the abyss more probable.

This book shows that the connections between philosophy and religion, especially Christianity, are illegitimate ones. The history of religious thinking has been created by philosophical reasoning. Breaking the grip of this thinking on religious life has an impact on thinking about God as well.

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Seeks to capture the familiar figures and symbols of Philadelphia's 18th-century past and American history's greatest scenes, from the meetings of the Second Continental Congress to the drafting of the United States Constitution, to Philadelphia's final days as the nation's capital.

This text constitutes a new approach to philosophy, the philosophy of mind and the problems of artificial intelligence. Bryant analyzes such hitherto unidentified phenomena as positive pleasure, the trademark paradox and the paradox of value.

Co-published with the Institute for Christian Studies, this volume provides a general categorical framework underlying a Christian worldview. The main components which make up this framework are world origin, world order, and ordered world.

This study recovers the Open Forum lecture movement and explores its relevance. Understanding this initiative broadens our awareness of personal and community courage and democratic planning. This study recovers the movement and shows what can be applied to our time.

In 1938, Virginia and Ray Garner began making films in the Belgian Congo and French Cameroons. This book features Virginia Garner's diaries, which highlight the challenges of making films in Africa in the 1930s and include rich descriptions of cross-cultural interactions and micro-negotiations with chiefs, headmen, and villagers.

This new and expanded third edition forcefully argues that influential historians have offered an incomplete account of antebellum-era American slavery because they are preoccupied with humanizing slaveholders. Skillfully weaving together firsthand accounts of ex-slaves, Neal permits the reader to see slavery in the United States from their point of view.