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The goal of cultural psychology is to explain the ways in which human cultural constructions -- for example, rituals, stereotypes, and meanings -- organize and direct human acting, feeling, and thinking in different social contexts. A rapidly growing, international field of scholarship, cultural psychology is ready for an interdisciplinary, primary...

Past, Present, and ProspectPsychiatry: Past, Present, and Prospect provides a set of perspectives written in essay form from eminent contributors, covering the major developments in psychiatry over the last 40 years....

Drafting and InterpretationThe common law world (the Commonwealth and United States) operates through statutes applied under a uniform system, the essence of which is uniquely described in this book. In this book, Francis Bennion distills forty years of his prolific writings on statute law and statutory interpretation to provide a valuable...

Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of WomenOver the last decade, there has been increasing debate as to whether feminism and evolutionary psychology can co-exist. Such debates often conclude with a resounding "e;no,"e; often on the grounds that the former is a political movement while the latter is a field of scientific inquiry. In the...

This Handbook is a current, comprehensive single-volume history of Iranian civilization. The authors, all leaders in their fields, emphasize the large-scale continuities of Iranian history while also describing the important patterns of transformation that have characterized Iran's past. Each of the chapters focuses on a specific epoch of...

This completely revised edition in the renowned Clarendon Law Series provides a structural overview of company law and is aimed at those coming to the subject for the first time and those seeking to put what they have already learned into an organised framework....