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Xunzi A Translation and Study of the Complete Works Volume II Books 7-16
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This was originally published in 1990.
Writing at the end of the great flowering of philosophical inquiry in Warring States, China, when the foundations for traditional Chinese thought were laid, Xunzi occupies in the East a place analogous to that of Aristotle in the West. The collection of works bearing his name contains not only the most systematic philosophical exposition by any early Confusian thinker but also accounts for virtually every aspect of the intellectual, cultural, and political life of his time.
This is the second of three volumes that will constitute the first complete translation of Xunzi into English and published in 1990. The first volume, covering Books 1-6 and dealing with self-cultivation, learning, and education, was published in 1988. The present volume consists of Books 7-16 and deals with political theory, ethics, and ideal man, and the lessons to be drawn from history.
In the third volume, published in 1994, books 17-24, discusses problems of knowledge and logic; the fundamental nature of the world; the significance of music and ritual; and the nature of man. Books 25-32 contain Xunzi’s poetry, a miscellany of short passages collected together in one book, and several collections of sayings, comments, and exemplary anecdotes about events, personages, and ideas important to early Confusians.
The translation is accompanied by substantial explanatory material identifying technical terms, persons, and events; detailed introductions to each book; and extensive annotation, with characters when desirable, indicating the basis of the translations.
At the time of publication, John Knoblock was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.
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Title Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works Volume II, Books 7-16
Authors Xunzi, John Knoblock
Editor John Knoblock
Translated by John Knoblock
Compiled by John Knoblock
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1990
ISBN 0804717710, 9780804717717
Length 400 pages
Economic Anthropology
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ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Edited, with an Introduction, by Stuart Plattner
Originally published in 1989, this volume was the first comprehensive text in economic anthropology since the 1970’s. Written by twelve leading scholars, the book covers the traditional topics of economic behavior and institutions in foraging bands, horticultural tribes, pre-capitalist states, agrarian or peasant societies and industrialized states, as well as issues such as sex roles, common property resources, the informal sector, and mass marketing in developing urban areas. It included more in-depth coverage of some subjects than does any other text in the field, subjects like the central place theory of markets and marketplaces and the fundamentals of economic behavior in markets.
The approach is empirical and, though not ignoring controversy, aims to tell the reader what we know about the world rather than recording how we came to know it or disputing alternative views of the finer points of what we know.
The work presented here is more analytic than descriptive. The historical context of the observed social reality is given due consideration, and important parameters (such as the development of social infrastructure or the degree of risk in a transaction) are distinguished from enduring institutional constraints, such as kinship obligations.
Individuals are seen as full “rational,” in that their solutions to their economic problems make sense once one understands the many constraints (social, cultural, cognitive, and political, as well as economic) that they must take into account. This does not mean that their actions are optimal – merely that the analysis will make the behavior, or for that matter the institutions, understandable as a reasoned human response to a complex situation.
The contributors are James M. Acheson, Peggy F. Barlett, Frances Berdan, Laurel Bossen, Frank Cancian, Elizabeth Cashdan, Norbert Dannhaeuser, Christina H. Gladwin, Allen Johnson, Stuart Plattner, William Roseberry, and M. Estellie Smith.
At the time of publication, Stuart Plattner was Program Director for Cultural Anthropology at the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., and the editor of, Markets and Marketing, and Formal Methods in Economic Anthropology.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1989 publication by Stanford University Press (ISBN 0804716455). Please review the preview file to see some of the imperfections that will appear in the print edition.
Table of Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction 1
Stuart Plattner
2. Hunters and Gatherers: Economic Behavior in Bands 21
Elizabeth Cashdan
3. Horticulturalists: Economic Behavior in Tribes 49
Allen Johnson
4. Trade and Markets in Precapitalist States 78
Frances F. Berdan
5. Peasants and the World 108
William Roseberry
6. Economic Behavior in Peasant Communities 127
Frank Cancian
7. Markets and Marketplaces 171
Stuart Plattner
8. Economic Behavior in Markets 209
Stuart Plattner
9. Marketing in Developing Urban Areas 222
Norbert Dannhaeuser
10. Industrial Agriculture 253
Peggy F. Barlett
11. The Informal Economy 292
M. Estellie Smith
12. Women and Economic Institutions 318
Laurel Bossen
13. Management of Common-Property Resources 351
James M. Acheson
14. Marxism 379
Stuart Plattner
15. On the Division of Labor Between Economics
And Economic Anthropology 397
Christina H. Gladwin
References Cited 429
Index 483
Lincoln in Text and Context : Collected Essays
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Lincoln in Text and Context
Collected Essays
DON E. FEHRENBACHER
A well-known Lincoln scholar presents a collection of nineteen essays on Lincoln and the Civil War era that constitutes one of the most significant contributions to Lincoln literature in recent years.
Part I, "Years of Crisis," contains essays on such subjects as the Mexican War, Lincoln's Galena speech, the political uses of the post office, Lincoln's relations with the mayor of Chicago, his nomination and election as president, and how treatment of the causes of the Civil War has been affected by the quantitative methods of the "new political history."
Part 11, "The War Years," includes essays on Lincoln and the question of race, his attitude toward the Constitution, how he fits into the history of freedom, his reconstruction strategy and purpose as exemplified in Arkansas, how he coped emotionally with his great responsibilities, and the broad historical meaning of his death.
Part 111, "Images of Lincoln," considers his changing image in American historiography, the anti-Lincoln strain in American thought, how he is treated by practitioners of psychohistory and historical fiction, the most famous of all Lincoln forgeries, and the difficulties of determining what Lincoln actually said and what he meant by what he said.
Don E. Fehrenbacher is Coe Professor of History and American Studies Emeritus at Stanford University, and the author of several books on American history, including the Pulitzer Prize winning, The Dred Scott
Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1987 original publication from Stanford University Press (ISBN 0804713294).
The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories
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THE VOICE OF THE DOLPHINS
And Other Stores – Expanded Edition
LEO SZILARD
First published in 1961, this is a collection of stories by the eminent physicist Leo Szilard (1898-1964). The 1989 edition includes a previously uncollected story that was the origin of the idea for the Moscow-Washington hot line and a new Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein.
From the Introduction by Barton Bernstein:
ADMIRING Leo Szilard's provocative plot, his earnest plea for peace, and his spirited playfulness in "The Voice of the Dolphins," the main science fiction fable in this 1961 volume, a longtime admirer and sometime protector told him, this story is "your political testament, . . . it is the pure milk, or cream, of the Szilardian word." Penning that praise, Robert Hutchins, former president of the University of Chicago, where Szilard had been a professor of physics and was still a professor of biophysics, went on to say, "I laughed and cried at the same time. I laughed because it [the story] was funny, and I cried because it was true.”
This "political testament," as Szilard himself called it, was written toward the end of his long career as a scientist, critic of the arms race, crusader for peace, and occasional science fiction writer and satirist. The "Dolphins" tale, crafted four years before Szilard's death, was one of his many efforts to guide the world through an uneasy period of nuclear stalemate, to propose rules for learning to live with the bomb, and to sketch a way out of a perilous situation and toward peace. So concerned was Szilard that his message reach important people that he sent copies to American officials, presented the analysis underlying the story at international meetings, and even arranged, shortly before publication, to have a lengthy extract of "Dolphins" translated into Russian and given to Premier Nikita Khruschev, with whom he had privately discussed its ideas a few months before.
To this fable of future history, Szilard attached four shorter tales, all written in the late 1940s, to put together his small volume, The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories. The five tales raised fundamental questions about the uses of science, the meaning of scientific progress, the menace of nuclear war, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The book, though technically classified as science fiction and often mixing in heavy doses of satire, was devised to promote Szilard's criticisms of the international system, his general hopes for rational analysis, and his ways toward arms control and ultimately disarmament. The stories are ironic, imaginative, clever, and rich with both warning and hope.
The book was published in 1961. In the next few years, it sold over 35,000 copies within the United States. It was translated into six other languages, and published in seven foreign countries, often with an additional story or two by Szilard. Winning attention for its bold thinking about nuclear issues and its clever mixture of science fiction and satire, the book became a minor classic of the nuclear age.
Comments about the 1989 Edition:
“This book is fiction, but it is a fiction of a Swiftian nature, addressed to major issues, including those of geopolitics, the arms race, disarmament, population control, the morality of war, and the mismatch between modern man’s enormous technical capabilities and his limited moral capacities. There is a continuing vitality in much of the material, which is instructive about apprehensions manifest not only in Szilard’s day but in our own concerning the social role of science and technology. I know of no other modern book like it.”
- Daniel J. Kevles, California Institute of Technology
Original reviews of the 1961 Publication:
“These stories could more appropriately be labeled ‘parables for the nuclear age.’…This makes the book sound dour, which it most certainly is not. No, it is imaginative and witty – thoroughgoing entertainment spiced with thought-provoking overtones.” – The Christian Science Monitor
“An extraordinarily well-written book…extremely satisfying as a work of art. In each story, Szilard conveys a feeling, an atmosphere that goes far beyond its overt ‘meaning.’…What he says about the eternal political situation cannot fail to move us.” – Saturday Review
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INTRODUCTION by Barton J Bernstein 3
THE VOICE OF THE DOLPHINS 47
MY TRIAL AS A WAR CRIMINAL 103
THE MARK GABLE FOUNDATION 117
CALLING ALL STARS 133
THE MINED CITIES 153
AFTERWORD by Helen Weiss 175
Copyright
American Social Problems
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This is a fantastic reproduction edition of the 1934 classic on American Social Problems. It's worth a read to compare with present day issues, student views, and teachings about social problems today...
PREFACE TO AMERICAN SOCIAL PROBLEMS (originally published in 1934)
This book is intended to be a first survey of social problems characteristic of American life today (1934). It is planned to stimulate the interest of young students in their own social world, to lead them to observe and to discuss the facts and conditions which they meet, and to search for satisfactory explanations.
While there is no attempt at completeness of description, the essential facts of each problem studied are presented, together with suggested lines of interpretation. Moreover, the particular problems discussed are considered, not in isolation, but in relation both to each other and to the background of American life. In spite of apparent diversity of problems, there is an underlying unity in social life. It is the hope of the authors that this book may help students not only to remember isolated facts about particular problems, but to become clearly conscious of this unity and of its significance in understanding the separate facts described.
Because of the definite purpose of the authors to make the book really suited to the needs of students, many teachers have been consulted, their suggestions in regard to methods of presentation have been weighed, and their criticism of varied plans of arrangement and treatment of subject-matter have been carefully considered. To these many teachers we owe a debt of gratitude which we hereby gratefully acknowledge.
In 1934, at the time of original publication, Walter Greenwood Beach was Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. Edward Everett Walker previously worked at Southwest Missouri State Teachers College and Stanford University.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original Stanford University Press publication (ISBN 080470158X). Cover image courtesy the Library of Congress Photo Collection, Migrant Mother, by Dorothea Lange 1936.
CONTENTS
THE AUTHORS TO THE STUDENTS 1
GROUP LIFE
Chapter One. The Geographical Setting of Group Life 9
Chapter Two. Human Nature and Group Life 25
Chapter Three. Cultural Factors in Group Life 41
Chapter Four. The Rise of American Culture 56
PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL CHANGE AND ADJUSTMENT
Chapter Five. Challenges of Population Growth 75
Chapter Six. Rural and Urban Groups and Problems 93
Chapter Seven. Social Adjustments Involving the Immigrant 122
Chapter Eight. The Negro in American Society 152
Chapter Nine. Problems of Health and Physical Well-Being 176
Chapter Ten. The Welfare of the Wage-Earner 202
Chapter Eleven. The Family 224
Chapter Twelve. The Welfare of Children 246
Chapter Thirteen. Poverty and the Welfare of Dependents 279
Chapter Fourteen. Crime and Its Treatment 301
LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE
Chapter Fifteen. Planning the Society of the Future 331
Chapter Sixteen. The Role of Education 344
Chapter Seventeen. The Role of Science 361
THE AUTHORS TO THE TEACHERS 378
INDEX 385
The Papaloapan Project : Agricultural Development in the Mexican Tropics
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Originally published in 1964 by Stanford University Press and the Food Research Institute.
The Papaloapan Project
Agricultural Development in the Mexican Tropics
Thomas T. Poleman
Many of Latin America's most pressing economic problems stem from the juxtaposition of rapid population growth and limited agricultural capabilities. In Mexico, Central America, and the Andean countries, these problems are compounded by the fact that most of the potential cropland is situated not in the highlands, where the population is concentrated, but in underdeveloped, low-lying tropical areas.
The Papaloapan Project is the first major governmental attempt to stimulate development in Mexico's humid tropical regions, which constitute about 20 percent of the country's land area and its greatest reserves of potentially arable land. Because of isolation, disease, and unpleasant climate, these regions have historically supported only a small population and a very limited agriculture. The purpose of this book is to describe and evaluate the sixteen-year experience of this regional development scheme, and to point up lessons of interest to the many countries now planning similar projects.
The first part of the study outlines the importance of the Papaloapan Project against a backdrop of Mexico's relatively meager agricultural resources and rapidly increasing population. In the second part, the physical and human resources of the Papaloapan River basin are described, its economy at the outset of the project is discussed, and events leading up to the creation of “Mexico’s TVA,” are reviewed. The final and major part of the study deals in detail with the project itself: the problems and difficulties encountered in getting it under way, and the results, both favorable and disappointing, thus far achieved. Particularly emphasized are the agricultural schemes carried out under the project, and the reasons for their lack of success. From this analysis are drawn general conclusions regarding the problems of agricultural development in pioneer tropical areas and government’s role in helping to overcome them.
In 1964, Mr. Poleman was Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics at Cornell University.
A publication of the FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STUDIES IN TROPICAL DEVELOPMENT. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original Stanford University Press edition (ISBN 0804702071) published in 1964.
Byron A Critical Study
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BYRON
A Critical Study
Andrew Rutherford
Byron's poetry has only recently begun to receive the critical attention that is its due. His adventurous life and complex personality have nearly always tended to distract attention from his literary works, and most of the books so far written about him have been largely or wholly biographical in intention. The object of this study, on the other hand, is "to offer an account of Byron's career and achievement as a poet" and it presents no biographical material that is not strictly relevant to a critical assessment.
Mr. Rutherford, however, combines the methods of traditional scholarship with those of modern criticism to show how the strengths and weaknesses of Byron the man are mirrored in his works, and how our understanding of his poetry is increased if we see it in the context of his other interests and ambitions. The book gives an authoritative survey of Byron's poetic development, a searching critique of the romantic works that made him famous in his own day, and a sustained analysis of the great verse satires of hi's maturity- Beppo, Don luan, and The Vision of Judgment. In the course of this discussion Mr. Rutherford examines Byron's claims to greatness as a romantic and as a satiric poet, and fully substantiates his view that many of the characteristics of Byron's best poetry are due largely to the nature of his social experience – to the fact that he was primarily "no mere man of letters and romantic poet, but a sophisticated man of the world, a Regency aristocrat."
Mr. Rutherford is Lecturer in English at Edinburgh University.
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The First Russian Revolution, 1825 : The Decembrist Movement
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THE FIRST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1825
The Decembrist Movement
ANATOLE G. MAZOUR
A reissue. "The Russian Revolution is a process which started probably with Peter the Great and which has not yet been concluded. It is the effort of the transformation of a backward and oppressive form of society into a more progressive one which would assure more justice and more liberty to the peoples of Russia. In this long process there are two outstanding events which mark turning points. The second and much better known is the Revolution of 1917 and its rapid transition from February to October. The first, much less known, is the so-called Decembrist Movement which led to the first revolutionary explosion in Russia in December
1825, ninety-two years before Lenin inaugurated a new stage of the Russian Revolution. The revolution of December 14, 1825, was a very short-lived affair, quickly suppressed, without any outward significance. But inwardly, this first attempt on the part of Russian intellectuals, members of the aristocracy, to liberalize and humanize the Russian regime was of utmost significance. It was the start of all the later revolutionary movements of the Russian intelligentsia. It was the source of inspiration to the succeeding generations.
"Notwithstanding the importance of the Decembrist Movement, there did not exist until now a detailed treatise on its origins, development, and significance. The present book by Dr. Mazour tries to fill the gap, and it does it so well that, at least for some time to come, it can be regarded not only as the first but also the definitive book on its subject…The author not only presents us with the history of the Decembrist Movement, but traces its background back to about 1800 and practically covers the ground of a history of the liberal and revolutionary movements in Russia from 1800 to 1825. He gives us a detailed story of the rise and development of both branches of the revolutionary movement then, the Northern Society and the Southern Society, their program discussions, their preparations for the revolt, their defeat and their trial, and ends with a description of their life in exile in “Siberia."-The Annals.
"One of the most important books ever printed about Russia."-Los Angeles Times.
"Dr. Mazour's book unquestionably will prove to be of value. . . . In addition to its scientific value, this account of a dramatic page of Russian history is also interesting as general reading."-The New York Times Book Review.
"The historian no less than the general reader must be grateful for so careful and illuminating a study of a little-known subject."- The Spectator (London).
"It is a first rate history . . . The mass of materials . . . is handled with that assurance which attests both mastery of detail and breadth of vision."-Sun Francisco Chronicle.
Mr. Mazour is Professor of History at Stanford University.
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Beyond the Pass : Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864
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“This is a strikingly original, thoroughly researched study of the conquest and administration of the vast region of Xinjiang under the Qing empire. It is an outstanding work that deserves wide attention from all readers interested in modern Chinese history. Millward opens a field almost completely unexplored in Western scholarship and presents new conclusions that reshape our vision of modern China.”
Peter C. Perdue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Beyond the Pass examines the fiscal and ethnic policies that underlay Qing imperial control over Xinjiang, a Central Asian region that now comprises the westernmost sixth of the People’s Republic of China. By focusing on a region of the Qing empire beyond the borders of China proper, and by treating the empire not as a Chinese dynasty but in its broader context as an Inner Asian political entity, this innovative study fills a gap in Western-language historiography of late imperial China.
As analysis of the revenue available to Qing garrisons in Xinjiang reveals, imperial control over the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries depended upon sizeable yearly subsidies from China. In an effort to satisfy criticism of their expansion into Xinjiang and make the territory pay for itself, the Qing court permitted local authorities great latitude in fiscal matters and encouraged the presence of Han and Chinese Muslim merchants. At the same time, the court recognized the potential for unrest posed by Chinese mercantile penetration of this Muslim, Turkic-speaking area. They consequently attempted, through administrative and legal means, to defend the native Uyghur population against economic depredation. This ethnic policy reflected a conception of the realm that was not Sinocentric, but rather placed the Uyghur on a par with Han Chinese.
Both this ethnic policy and Xinjiang’s place in the realm shifted following a series of invasions from western Turkestan starting in the 1820s. Because of the economic importance of Chinese merchants and the efficacy of merchant militia in Xinjiang, the Qing court revised its policies in their favor, for the first time allowing permanent Han settlement in the area. At the same time, the court began to advocate provincehood and the Sinicization of Xinjiang as a resolution to the perennial security problem. These shifts, the author argues, marked the beginning of a reconception of China to include Inner Asian lands and peoples – a notion that would, by the twentieth century, become a deeply held tenet of Chinese nationalism.
James A. Millward is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University.
Cover illustration is from a bilingual edition of the Qianlong Atlas, c. 1175, based on the map drawn by Father Benoist. This detail of the region around Jiayu Guan is used courtesy of the British Library (India Office records Map collection x/3265/1-10, roll 10).
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Contents
LANDMARKS 20
The Lay of the Land 21 The Historical Terrain 25 High Qing 36
FINANCING NEW DOMINION 44
Planting the Frontier 50 Local Sources of Revenue 52 Merchant 72
Xinjiang Military Deployment 77 Tea and the Beginnings 91
Proper 91 The Southern Commissaries 92 The Qing and the Silk 101
Sancheng Goes Too Far 105 Nayancengs TeaTax Plan 106 109
CHINESE MERCANTILE PENETRATION 113
The OpenGuan Policy 114 135
The Southern March 138 Manchu Cities or Chinese Cities? 149
QING ETHNIC POLICY AND CHINESE MERCHANTS 194
TOWARD THE DOMESTICATION OF EMPIRE 232
CHARACTER LIST 255
NOTES 261
BIBLIOGRAPHY 315
INDEX 343
The Yili military complex c 1809 78 6
Church and Parliament
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This is the first modern, objective study of the Church of England's struggle against disestablishment in the nineteenth century, a struggle that resulted in a Church-State relationship that has remained substantially the same up to the present day. For over three decades some of the most lively minds in England were engaged in the controversy.
The repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828, Roman Catholic emancipation in 1829, and the Reform Bill of 1832 signified a change in the historical link of Church and State. It is shown that the response of the Church to these events was a thoroughgoing administrative reform and a program of social adaptation. The work of the Ecclesiastical Commission is examined in great detail and is viewed as a part of the general Benthamite emphasis of the age on administrative efficiency.
Emphasis is placed upon the political context in which this reshaping of the Establishment took place, and on the roles of Sir Robert Peel and Bishop Blomfield as creators and shapers of the policy. The prolonged struggle over education provides an instance of the essential ambiguity of a national church in a society whose center was no longer the Christian Church.
The changed relationship between Church and State in the post-Reform years symbolized a change in men's thinking all along the line about the Church's place an its relation to society. The Church as an Establishment, as also the Monarchy before it, went through a metamorphosis instead of dying out. In explaining how and why tis metamorphosis took place, the author analyzes not only the particular administrative changes made, but their intimate relation to the patterns of thought prevailing in the government, the Church, and society at large.
Dr. Brose is a member of the History Department of Brooklyn College.
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Church And Parliament
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0804705720, 9780804705721
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American Life in Autobiography : A Descriptive Guide
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The Psychobiological Program of the War Shipping Administration
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In the midst of the problems and stress of wartime shipping, it has been a source of satisfaction to observe the experiments and progress in psychobiology growing from the intensive medical program of the War Shipping Administration.
Psychologists and psychiatrists, working together, have gained such a comprehensive understanding of the mental and emotional problems of the seagoing man that the program has had a potent influence throughout the entire Merchant Marine.
From the day a man applies at an enrolling office for training in the Maritime Service, he is affected by the psychobiological program. He is given preliminary personality screenings at an enrolling office, more elaborate study at the training station, and individual examination before each voyage throughout his wartime shipping career.
The mental health and the high morale of men who survive this careful selective process are maintained through a carefully planned program of orientation, of leadership training, and of group and individual therapy. Too much cannot be said for the part that psychobiology has played in bringing about a healthy, vigorous, and capable wartime Merchant Marine.
It is hoped that this book, compiled by men who have developed and carried on the program, will not only present new scientific approaches in the study of human behavior, but will also give us all a deeper understanding and insight into the character of the men of the Merchant Marine.
EDWARD MACAULEY, Captain, USN ret.
Acting Chairman, United States Maritime Commission
WASHINGTON DC,
March 1946
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ORIGIN OF THE PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PROGRAM OF 13
THE PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PROGRAM OF THE WAR SHIP 32
THE PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PROGRAM AT THE UNITED 61
THE PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PROGRAM AT THE UNITED 67
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MARITIME SERVICE 89
A STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MARITIME 101
A STUDY OF THE HARROWERERICKSON MULTIPLE 115
DISENROLLMENTS AND SURVIVAL PREDICTABILITY 135
LEADERSHIP TRAINING By Judd Marmor 235
A METHOD OF LEADERSHIP SELECTION 249
PSYCHOBIOLOGY FOR THE PURSERPHARMACISTS 255
THE TRAININGSTATION RECORDS AND POSTGRAD 263
STATISTICAL AND RELATED ADMINISTRATIVE PRO 283
THE PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PROGRAM IN RETROSPECT 309
A MARITIME SERVICE INVENTORY 321
B A COURSE IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND LEADERSHIP 338
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A STUDY OF 500 CONSECUTIVE TRAINEES IN 151
PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE TRAINING OF 16
CHARACTERISTICS OF 500 ACTIVE WARTIME 173
LITERACY OF AMERICAN MERCHANT SEAMEN 197
CHARACTERISTICS OF 200 ACTIVE MERCHANT 203
CHARACTERISTICS OF 200 UNLICENSED AMERICAN 211
GROUP EDUCATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH 221
A SERVICE NEWSPAPER AS A MENTALHYGIENE 229
The New Day : Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover 1928
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The New Day : Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover 1928 Second Edition
INTRODUCTION
THE FACTS of Science have compelled new conceptions of government for a civilization which has virtually been made over in the last fifty years. Instead of the simple farm, village, and small seaport social structure of our forefathers we have the intricate, delicately balanced, interdependent economic organization of the present, with its intimate relationships to all peoples in all parts of the world. Human needs, aspirations, passions, and desires have not changed since the Declaration of Independence and the creation of our Constitution. The importance of keeping intact the rights of individuals and of developing their duties and responsibilities to society is now paramount.
The Presidential campaign of 1928 was as significant as that of 1860. Not since the Lincoln-Douglas debates has the country followed the issues of a campaign with more intensity. The speeches of Mr. Hoover were measured statements of a new liberalism facing new conditions with courage and with confidence in the individual human being to act wisely for himself and for his neighbors. They clarified the citizen's relationship to the great economic mechanism resulting from the practical applications of invention, discovery, and widespread education. These speeches visualized those methods of entering upon the corning constructive period which will lead to equal opportunities for the youth of the United States of America in accordance with their abilities and industry.
The Stanford University Press asked for the privilege of publishing these addresses of Mr. Hoover so that a permanent and authoritative record would be available. Just as his life and deeds have been an inspiration to generations of Stanford men and women, we think that these speeches will stimulate, guide, and hearten the people of our great democracy in the critical and formative years now before us.
RAY LYMAN WILBUR
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
CALIFORNIA
November 16, 1928
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Hormones, Cells and Organisms : The Role of Hormones in Mammals
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Hormones, Cells and Organisms
The Role of Hormones in Mammals
P. Catherine Clegg & Arthur Clegg
A concise summary and synthesis of current knowledge in the rapidly expanding field of mammalian endocrinology, this volume also has the distinction of being organized around physiological problems and processes as opposed to individual hormones and glands.
This novel approach is analogous to the new way biology as a whole is being taught - treating all aspects of each level of organization instead of breaking things up into such separate disciplines as genetics. The arrangement of topics, the repeated emphasis upon interpreting hormone action in molecular terms, and the consideration of most of our bodily regulatory phenomena in terms of hormone-nerve interaction combine to make this the most up-to-date and modern analysis of hormone action in the biological literature.
Among the topics covered are: brief history of the science of mammalian endocrinology; research techniques; production, chemical nature, and mode of action of hormones; regulation of hormone balance; hormonal adaptation to environment; and functions of hormones in growth, digestion, reproduction, and thermoregulation. The text is supplemented by excellent line drawings and charts.
P. Catherine Clegg was formerly Principal Lecturer in Biology at the City College of Education, Sheffield, and Arthur G. Clegg wsa formerly Lecturer in Physiology at the University of Sheffield.
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Title Hormones, Cells and Organisms
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ISBN 0804705704, 9780804705707
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Distant Pleasures : Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile
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At the very time he was becoming Russia’s first and only national poet, Alexander Pushkin spent nearly six years in exile (1820-26). This book explores the meanings of exile for Pushkin’s changing sense of himself and for his poetic practices. Sent out of Petersburg but confined within Russia’s borders, Pushkin saw both the southern expansion of the empire and the isolation of country life in the North. Exile thus shaped his politics, and because he was separated from his readers and fellow writers, it defined the rhetorical patterns within which he wrote.
The author reads a small but varied group of texts from the years of exile: lyric poems, long narrative poems, the verse novel, Eugene Oregin, and the drama, Boris Godunov. By exploring Pushkin’s representations of distance from his audience, she demonstrates how he created that audience. Rather than narrating Pushkin’s “growth” into greatness, the author develops a theory of reading Pushkin’s shifting conceptions of himself, his work, and his country during the years of exile. His rhetoric of apostrophe, quotation, and figuration is considered carefully in each text. Quoted texts are given in Russian and in English translation.
The analyses range across several methodological and theoretical perspectives: biographical and historical information is frequently brought in, formalist and Bakhtinian frameworks are used for several texts, and the lessons of deconstruction and feminist inquiry are particularly important as Pushkin’s rhetoric of distance and politics of pleasure are read.
Stephanie Sandler was Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian and in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College.
Cover illustration courtesy of the Pasternak Trust.
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Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism
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Focusing on the formative period of Quakerism in seventeenth-century England and the role of one vigorous and authoritative woman, this study offers new insights into the religious, social, and family life of Margaret Fell. The book probes Fell's pivotal role, in close relation to George Fox, in the architecture of the early Quaker church order. It investigates Fell's role in the development of the Quaker women's meetings, a unique seventeenth-century Quaker institution. It also offers a fresh historical perspective of this socially prominent sectarian woman in terms of her family relationships, the household economic unit, the neighborhood network, and the wider sectarian religious community that extended far beyond her home, Swarthmoor Hall in rural north-west Lancashire. The author marshals evidence to argue that is was in keeping with Margaret Fell’s social status, permanence of place, personality, and skills learned in the domestic sphere, that she was a co-leader, along with George Fox, in the first fifty years of Quakerism.
At the time of original publication, Bonnelyn Young Kunze was Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, New York. Fellowships from the University of Rochester and the Shakespeare Library, and travel grants from Clemson University, enabled her to complete the research and writing of this book.
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Contents
Margaret Fells 13
The Swarthmoor Farm 65
Margaret Fells Charitable 83
Feuding Friends 101
We Have Been a Suffering People under Every Power 131
Margaret Fell and Womens 143
A SeventeenthCentury 169
Fells Worldview 187
Fells Spiritualist 197
Fells Work to Convert the Jews 211
Conclusion 229
Notes 235
Appendix 290
Index 318
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Hutterian Bretheren : The Agricultural Economy and Social Organization of a Communal People
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Hutterian Brethren
The Agricultural Economy and Social Organization of a Communal People
John W. Bennett
The Hutterian Brethren, an Anabaptist sect that practices strict communal living based on religious principles, is here studies through a detailed examination of six colonies in southwestern Saskatchewan. Unlike the Amish (also an Anabaptist group although only partly communal), the Hutterians do not reject modern technology. Organized in colonies of 130 to 150 people on communal farms, they have flourished economically in the forbidding natural environment of the Great Plains area.
The author’s objectives are to show how one group of typical colonies found their land, established their agricultural economy, and worked out relations with the local inhabitants, and to discover why they Hutterites have been so successful. Among the topics discussed are family and kinship, instrumental organization, agricultural management and decision-making, methods of production, and patterns of change in Hutterian society and technology.
Of special interest is the comparison of the Hutterian colony and the Israeli Kibbutz as examples of enduring communal societies.
John W. Bennett is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Washington University, St. Louis.
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Stanford Short Stories 1962
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Stanford Short Stories 1962
Edited by Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft
With the assistance of Nancy Packer
Preface by Blair Fuller
"A first-class collection, worth to rank even with the annual 'best' volumes for the prevalent freshness and vitality of its writing" said the Boston Herald in a review of the most recent volume of short stories from the Stanford Creative Writing Center. The unusual literary and commercial success of many of the writers to come from the Center makes the publication of a new collection of stories an event, and readers who enjoy the feeling of personal discovery will find in this volume the best new stories of the last two years.
Eugene Burdick, Tillie Olsen, Robin White, Dan Jacobson, Dennis Murphy, and Evan S. Connell, Jr., to name only a few, are graduates of the Center whose names are now well known, and from this volume others may join that list.
Since 1946, the Center has brought to Stanford not only those who are perfecting their craft but, as guest lecturers, those who have mastered it: Katherine Anne Porter, Malcome Cowley, Frank O'Connor, Hortense Calisher, and others. The influence of suck renowned writers as these has supplemented the direction and encouragement of Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft, Directors of the Center, in helping to shape the stories in this volume.
Mr. Stegner and Mr. Scowcroft are Professors of English at Stanford University.
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Stanford University Press
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0804745544, 9780804745543
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Neotropical lizards in the collection of the Natural history museum of Stanford University
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Boardsmanship: a guide for the school board member
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Boardsmanship
A Guide for the School Board Member
By California School Boards Association
1961 Edition
One of the few nonpartisan, elected bodies in our society, and one of the few bodies to maintain a strong emphasis on local control, is the school board. This guide points out the responsibilities and obligations of the school board members, who in large part determine what the citizens of the next generation will be.
After a brief discussion of the role of the school board member, the guide tells how a board organizes itself to work efficiently - electing officers, preparing agendas for meetings, keeping minutes.
The major decision-making responsibilities, especially in the areas of curriculum, finance, and housing, are discussed. Practical suggestions are made; for example, the board is urged to delegate such business affairs as purchasing, accounting, auditing, and insurance to a competent professional staff, so that the board can be freed from time-consuming detail work.
Because of the importance of the complex relationships that develop among members of any educational organization, a section is devoted to the problem of staff relationship between the board and the superintendent. The procedure for choosing a superintendent is outlined, and criteria for appraising his competence and effectiveness are suggested.
The powers and responsibilities of the board as defined by California law are pointed out, including choosing books, hiring teachers, issuing bonds, and conducting school district elections.
Appendixes include samples of a school board meeting agenda and minutes of a meeting.
Prepared under the direction of the California School Boards Association "Boardsmanship" Revision Committee, Helen S. Kerwin, Chairman. Edited by H. Thomas James, School of Education, Stanford University.
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Title Boardsmanship: a guide for the school board member
Authors California School Boards Association. Administration Committee, California School Boards Association. Boardsmanship Revision Committee
Publisher California School Boards Assoc, 1961
Length 102 pages
Unexpected Revolution Social Forces in the Hungarian
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Why did Hungary's Communist regime, backed by seemingly impregnable power, succumb almost immediately to an uprising of popular forces in October 1956? Does this successful revolt (successful in the sense that it could be overthrown only by Soviet military intervention) have any implications for the future of other Communist satellites? Specifically, are there factors of political instability that can be said to be inherent in all Communist regimes - indeed in totalitarian governments in general? A number of clear and convincing answers to these questions are offered in this study of how Hungary upset the longstanding myth that successful mass revolution was impossible in a totalitarian police state.
The record of dictatorial rule not only in the Soviet Union but in Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany generally seemed to indicate the impossibility of even the mildest manifestations of anti-regime feelings, let alone of large-scale revolt. The political history of the smaller Central European states that had been turned into satellites of the Soviet Union seemed to furnish additional proof of this thesis, since in each of these countries the Communists represented only a small and unpopular minority. Yet massive police power eventually gave them uncontested dominance.
An analysis of the impact of totalitarianism upon the various social groups in Hungary - Communist intellectuals, non-Party intelligentsia, workers, peasants, and students - yields many of the reasons why the Hungarian revolt ellite countries failed. A savage intra-Party purge, carried out between 1949 and 1951, seemingly established the unchallenged supremacy of the Stalinist leader, Mâtyâs Râkosi. After Stalin's death, however, disruptive tendencies began to manifest themselves, with the new leadership in Moscow playing off one Hungarian Communist faction against another.
In the concluding chapters the events in Hungary are compared with the milder uprisings that occurred in several other European satellite countries between 1953 and 1956, and some general observations are made concerning the conditions under which revolution may break out in states where political power is highly centralized.
Mr. Kecskemeti is a Senior Research Associate of The RAND Corporation, and the author of Strategic Surrender (Stanford, 1958)
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Title The unexpected revolution: social forces in the Hungarian uprising
Rand Research, The Rand Corporation
Author Paul Kecskemeti
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1961
Length 178 pages
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How to Study Physics
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How to Study Physics
By
Seville Chapman
A university is not a place where education is forced into you, but rather a place where the faculty have tried to make your learning process as efficient as possible. It is our obligation to provide you with a good return for the effort you put in, but you yourself must make that effort and keep your mind open and alert.
Now you may say, "Yes, I agree with your ideas on how to study," and then you may proceed to forget all about them. In that case neither of us is better off than if you had never read this handbook. A good plan is for you to put the volume where you may review it occasionally. You will be interested to see how your own ideas change as you get further along. Ten years from now you will wish you had done things differently while you were in college. Probably most of the thoughts in here on what you should do in college would have come to you sooner or later anyway, but it is my hope that from studying this manual you will get these thoughts soon enough for them to be helpful to you.
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How to study physics
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Seville Chapman
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Addison-Wesley, 1955
Length
34 pages
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Public School Camping
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Public School Camping
California's Pilot Project in Outdoor Education
By
James Mitchell Clarke
Prepared for the San Diego City-County Camp Commission under the direction of the School-Camp Steering Committee.
The school camping movement, one of the most significant of recent developments in American education, is arousing more and more interest because it has demonstrated the real value as an extension of education into rich and hihgly stimulating environments. In response to this growing interest, a number of American communities have organized camping programs to serve the interest of public education. Among these programs, one carried out in recent years by the City and County of San Diego, California, is recognized as outstanding.
A mountain camp
Camp Cuyamaca was established in 1946 among mountains clothed with oak and pine fifty miles inland from San Diego. Under a rotating plan of attendance, sixth-grade children of the San Diego City and County public schools spend one week of their school year at the camp. Here they learn the practical essentials of democracy by making and enforcing their own rules for community living. Their week of shared experiences in natural surroundings helps them develop new and wholesome attitudes toward themselves and physical environments. Above all, they have a rousing good time as they take part in a rich program of activities which supplement and vitalize the lessons of the classroom.
A pioneer experience
In Public School Camping, James Mitchell Clarke describes the development of Camp Cuyamaca from its beginning to the present time and uses this pioneer experience as the basis for a discussion of the theory and practice of school camping. This discussion includes practical details concerning development and administration of a public school camping program, as well as a valuable analysis of the educational and psychological principles underlying school camping.
For every school
Public school officials all over the country are now thinking about the advantages children may gain from supervised camping. All may profit from the discussion of methods and objectives in this timely book. Indoor and outdoor activities of the campers, the maintenance of physical and emotional health, exploitation of the camp's natural environment, problems of administration and of co-ordination between the schools and the community -- these are only a few of the topics which Mr. Clarke's book covers. The photographs of Camp Cuyamaca and its enthusiastic population of sixth-graders confirm the message of the text -- that public school camping can be greatly worth while.
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Clarke
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Public School Camping
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Stanford University Press
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0804705658, 9780804705653
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Sunset All-Western Cook Book
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How to select, prepare, cook and serve all typically Western food products. Recipes included for favorite regional and foreign dishes peculiar to the West.
Toward an Ethic of Higher Education
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This carefully reasoned book presents an alternative to those current views of higher education that regard it principally either as a leisure activity unconnected with the rest of life or as a special means for the advancement of the economy. Instead, the author asserts, higher education constitutes a primary social means for the forming of selves capable of participating widely and effectively in the affairs of a modern, complex world. What basic policy choices, then, should higher education make? The aim of this book is to locate the grounds on which American institutions of higher education might best decide among some of the major policy alternatives pressed on them by their commitments and the cirucmstances of their civilization, and then to appraise and judge those alternatives.
The author reacts against two primary tendencies in the history of higher education in the United States. The first he terms as "intellectualistic" education that turns colleges and universities into instruments for restricted class of potential connoisseurs of certain rare and marvelous objects; higher education's problem here is to determine the objects best deserving appreciation. The university need not concern itself with providing its students with experiences available in a democratic society, because they will have them in any event.
The second tendency is probably more prevalent today. Production tends to concern us more than refined consumption, and higher education cooperates by devoting itself to forming people who may be useful in a market economy. Education becomes investment, and bits and pieces of an intellectualistic education are more or less acceptable on the periphery - provided there is money for them.
The author recommends the furthering of self-interest of those who do the job of education - the students and faculty - as a principle of choice, and he suggests that taking the self-interest of students and faculty seriously and centrally may throw light on the relation of higher education to the ethical conduct of life.
He further suggests an "opening of the university" beyond its traditional limits toward the exchange of labor, toward the provision of exercises outside the system of exchange, toward the performance of the arts, toward the absorption or integration of politics within university practice and tradition, and, most important, toward an integration of ethics into policy and performance. The author sees persons disposed to ethical values as more valuable to society than either cultured minds or technological and business whizzes.
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Title Toward an ethic of higher education
Author Mortimer Raymond Kadish
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1991
ISBN 0804718830, 9780804718837
Length 205 pages
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