“…During the last decade and a half there have been dramatic changes in psychoanalytic theory, as well as in cultural, social and political theory. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 01 ATTITUDES AND PERSONALITY TRAITS -- FROM ACTS TO DISPOSITIONS -- Inferring personality traits from behavior -- Inferring attitudes from behavior -- Attitudes versus traits -- Explicit measures of attitudes and personality traits -- Overcoming self-presentation biases -- Implicit measures of attitudes and personality traits -- FROM DISPOSITIONS TO ACTIONS -- Dimensions of personality -- A hierarchical model of attitude -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- Chapter 02 CONSISTENCY IN HUMAN AFFAIRS -- PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CONSISTENCY -- Preference for consistency -- Functional consistency -- Inherent consistency -- EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- Behavioral consistency -- Predictive validity -- Implications -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- Chapter 03 FROM DISPOSITIONS TO ACTIONS -- THE MODERATING VARIABLES APPROACH -- Situational factors as moderators -- Individual differences as moderators -- Secondary characteristics of the disposition -- THE MODE MODEL: AN INTEGRATIVE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- Strength of behavioral dispositions -- MODERATING VARIABLES AND THE QUESTION OF CONSISTENCY -- Limitations of a moderating variables approach -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- Chapter 04 THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPATIBILITY -- THE LOGIC OF AGGREGATION -- Consistency of behavioral aggregates -- Predictive validity for behavioral aggregates -- Aggregation and the question of consistency -- PREDICTION OF SPECIFIC BEHAVIORAL TENDENCIES -- The principle of compatibility -- PERSONALITY TRAITS AND SPECIFIC RESPONSE TENDENCIES -- Routines and habits -- Perceived behavioral control -- ATTITUDES AND SPECIFIC RESPONSE TENDENCIES -- Attitude toward a behavior…”

“…The policies of these countries affect almost half of the world's population. The book takes the legal framework of the policies as a starting point, but the main interest lies behind the letter of the law: What were the objectives and goals of social policy over the course of the last 100 years? …”

“…The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of acronyms -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Critical dialogues of urban governance, development and activism in London and Toronto: -- Why Toronto and London? …”

“…Uses a unique series of social surveys to study education and social change in ScotlandPresents Scotland's internationally unique series of surveys of school students, from the late 1940s to the new century, with no parallel internationally in its longevity, range of topic, and depthUses Scotland as a case study as it experienced all the major educational changes of the developed world in the second half of the 20th centuryDraws comparison to domestic education reform in England and WalesDraws comparison internationally with the rest of Europe and north America, and especially with France, the Netherlands and IrelandThe social basis of these changes is systematically investigated: who benefited, who did not, did these divides narrow or widen, and what are the consequences for opportunity and civic values?…”

“…In the 1950s, psychiatric "miracle drugs" revolutionized the treatment of depression, improving the quality of life of countless patients. Over half a century and millions of prescriptions later, advances in brain structure, neurochemistry, and genetics are providing clues to the mechanisms of depression and pointing to new therapeutic possibilities. …”

“…Chrissidis demonstrates that Greek academic and cultural influences on Russia in the second half of the seventeenth century were Western in character, though Orthodox in doctrinal terms. …”

“…The novel sold more than 30 million copies in hardcover and paperback, and it was adapted into a hit Hollywood film in 1957 and a popular television series that aired from 1964 to 1969. More than half a century later, the term "Peyton Place" is still in circulation as a code for a community harboring sordid secrets.In Unbuttoning America, Ardis Cameron mines extensive interviews, fan letters, and archival materials including contemporary cartoons and cover images from film posters and foreign editions to tell how the story of a patricide in a small New England village circulated over time and became a cultural phenomenon. …”

“…African Environmental Crisis provides a synthesis of more than one-and-a-half century's research on peasant agriculture and pastoral rangeland development in terms of soil erosion control, animal husbandry, grazing schemes, large-scale agricultural schemes, social and administrative science research, and vector-disease and pest controls. …”

“…The Orlac boat (Charente-Maritime), dated to the first-half of the XIth century and excavated in 1987 and 1988, comprises the major part of this publication. 15,50 metres in length and 2,10 in width, this vessel, with its own particular caracteristics, is representative of assembled monoxyle boat architecture. …”

“…Darwin's elucidation of natural selection as a creative natural force was a monumental achievement in the history of science, but a century and a half later some religious believers still contend that biotic complexity registers conscious supernatural design. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Violence, Destruction and Resistance: Serbia's and Montenegro's Experiences of the Great War Dmitar Tasic6. 'We're Half-way to Asia Here': The Conduct of the German Army Units on the Eastern Front in 1914 and 1939 Jan SzkudlinskiPart II Soldiers and Veterans: Experience, Understandingand Memory7. …”

“…Throughout, the authors, who belong to half a dozen disciplines, trace how the social sciences are thoroughly entangled in the social facts they analyze, and are key to helping us understand the conditions of our world. …”

“…Mientras tanto, aprovecha para entrevistar al cirujano neoyorquino que, a estas alturas, trata de batir el récord mundial de Donkey Kong, al heroico viajero que lleva tres años intentando alcanzar los confines de Minecraft y al hacker alemán que casi acabó en la cárcel por hacerse con el código de Half-Life 2. Fiel al espíritu de los videojuegos, he aquí la crónica de una ola de muertes ocurridas en diversos cibercafés asiáticos, y no solo allí. …”

“…A compelling story of the early Cold War, Lost Souls is also a rare chronicle of a refugee crisis that was solved"-- "A history of the roughly half a million Soviet "displaced persons" post-WWII that looks at how ordinary people caught up in the deepening Cold War sought resettlement"--…”

“…Evans, author of the acclaimed Third Reich Trilogy and over a dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi Germany. Having spent half a century searching for the truths behind one of the most horrifying episodes in human history, in Hitler's People he brings us back to the original site of the Nazi movement-namely, the lives of its important and representative figures. …”

“…This is the first new edition in English for more than half a century of one of the most influential works in the entire history of aesthetics, the treatise On the Sublime, whose author is unknown but usually called Longinus. …”

“…In 1989, an exhibition in Paris united the work of over a hundred artists and, since only half would be described as Western, it radically challenged the Western art system from within. …”