Oxford University Press

This is a thorough update and revision of a book published in 1998 by Pergamon Press. Kazdin is an eminent researcher in this area. He changed the focus and title of the book to reflect current thinking on psychotherapeutic interventions with children. As a result, the book retains a balance between practical conerns and research, reflecting many...

Richard Gaskin analyses what is distinctive about sentences and the propositions they express--what marks them off from mere aggregates of words and meanings respectively. Since he identifies the world with all the true and false propositions, his account has significant implications for our understanding of the nature of reality....

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This book provides a comparison of the different chemical structures, normal state properties, and simplest superconducting properties of all known classes of layered superconductors. It introduces the three phenomenological models used to describe such systems, and will guide young researchers hoping to produce a room-temperature superconductor....

This book explains how citizens, working together in communities of similar interests, can use the widely respected process of scenario planning to map out ways of improving our society....

1500 to 1990This book examines why certain countries have achieved, at some period in their history, economic superiority over all other countries. The author is particularly interested not only in the factors that lead to this primacy, but also the factors that cause the primacy to end. The study begins in 1350 with Italian city-states, and...