What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them. The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only to make good law, good policy, or both. In these theories, judges are influenced by ot...(展开全部)

雷金纳德•戈列奇（Reginald Golledge）其研究兴趣包括空间认知(Spatial Cognition)、认知地图(Cognitive Mapping)、空间知识的获取(Spatial K nowledge Acquisition)、空间能力(Spatial Abilities)、特殊的决策和选择行为(Special decision-making and choice behavior),主要研究领域涉及地理学、区域科学和认知心理学。

雷金纳德•戈列奇（Reginald Golledge）其研究兴趣包括空间认知(Spatial Cognition)、认知地图(Cognitive Mapping)、空间知识的获取(Spatial K nowledge Acquisition)、空间能力(Spatial Abilities)、特殊的决策和选择行为(Special decision-making and choice behavior),主要研究领域涉及地理学、区域科学和认知心理学。

Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The system permits judges to be quite secretive (and most of them are), so indirect methods are required to make sense of their behavior. Here, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge work together to construct a unified theory o...(展开全部)

In this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer takes on the question of language variety. He considers why some language types are impossible and why some grammatical features are more common than others. The task of trying to explain typological variation among languages has been mainly undertaken by functionally-oriented linguists. Generative grammarians entering th...(展开全部)

In this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear, uniform, measured and determined, but is one of emergence and growth, made possible by interaction, transaction, disequilibrium and consequent equilibrium. Transformation, not a set course, the book argues, should be the rule,...(展开全部)

In this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear, uniform, measured and determined, but is one of emergence and growth, made possible by interaction, transaction, disequilibrium and consequent equilibrium. Transformation, not a set course, the book argues, should be the rule,...(展开全部)

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Sociological and psychiatric studies on suicide based on Western ideas about human nature see suicide as social or individual disorder. Suicide in China, however, should be understood differently. By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of suicide in terms of family politics and local psychology and finds that suicide is committed when a power balance is broken in th...(展开全部)

This book provides a presentation of the concept of “atmosphere” in the realm of aesthetics. An “atmosphere” is meant to be an emotional space. Such idea of “atmosphere” has been more and more subsumed by human and social sciences in the last twenty years, thereby becoming a technical notion. In many fields of the Humanities, affective life has been reassessed as a proper tool ...(展开全部)