Author: Narasingha P. Sil
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Keywords: reassessment, vivekananda, swami
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1997-03
List price: $41.50
ISBN-10: 0945636970
ISBN-13: 9780945636977

Author: Mr. Benjamin Wittes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: reassessment, starr
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0300092520
ISBN-13: 9780300092523

How is Kenneth Starr’s extraordinary term as independent counsel to be understood? Was he a partisan warrior out to get the Clintons, or a savior of the Republic? An unstoppable menace, an unethical lawyer, or a sex-obsessed Puritan striving to enforce a right-wing social morality? This book is the first serious, impartial effort to evaluate and critique Starr’s tenure as independent counsel. Relying on lengthy, revealing interviews with Starr and many other players in Clinton-era Washington, Washington Post journalist Benjamin Wittes arrives at a new understanding of Starr and the

Author: Robert Conquest
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: reassessment, terror
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 1991-11-21
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0195071328
ISBN-13: 9780195071320

The definitive work on Stalin’s purges, Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. Edmund Wilson hailed it as "the only scrupulous, non-partisan, and adequate book on the subject." George F. Kennan, writing in The New York Times Book Review, noted that "one comes away filled with a sense of the relevance and immediacy of old questions." And Harrison Salisbury called it "brilliant...not only an odyssey of madness, tragedy, and sadism, but a work of scholarship and literary craftsmanship." And in recent years it has received equally

Author: Kate Distin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: reassessment, critical, meme, selfish
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-12-20
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0521606276
ISBN-13: 9780521606271

Culture is a unique and fascinating aspect of the human species. How did it emerge and how does it develop? Richard Dawkins has suggested that culture evolves and that memes are the cultural replicators, subject to variation and selection in just the same way as genes are in the biological world. In this sense human culture is the product of a mindless evolutionary algorithm. Does this imply, as some have argued, that we are mere meme machines and that the conscious self is an illusion? Kate Distin’s highly readable and accessible book extends and strengthens Dawkins’s theory an

Author: Sian Morgan
Publisher: Karnac Books
Keywords: vol, psychoanalysis, encyclopaedia, reassessment, phobia
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-05
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 1855752875
ISBN-13: 9781855752870

This is the sixth volume in the seminal Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis Series, and is a daring reassessment of the psychoanalytic theory of phobia from numerous schools of thought.

Author: Asa Briggs
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: themes, persons, reassessment, people, victorian
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1975-04-15
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0226074889
ISBN-13: 9780226074887

This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War", and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark", Asa Briggs provides an assessment of Victorian achievements; and in doing so conjures up an enviable picture of the progress and independence of the last century. "For expounding this theme, this interaction of event and personality, Mr. Briggs is abundantly and happily endowed. He is always rea

Author: Richard Lynn
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: behavior, intelligence, evolution, human, reassessment, eugenics
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2001-06-30
List price: $151.95
ISBN-10: 0275958221
ISBN-13: 9780275958220

Lynn argues that the condemnation of eugenics in the second half of the 20th century went too far and that eugenics needs reassessment. The eugenic objectives of eliminating genetic diseases, increasing intelligence, and reducing personality disorders remain desirable and are achievable by human biotechnology. In the 21st century, he maintains, human biotechnology is likely to progress spontaneously in democratic societies and to be used by authoritarian states to increase their economic, scientific, and military power.