《劳动论》以人类劳动的社会性为基础，运用辩证唯物史观，以人类劳动的态势差别为核心，对人类社会经济的历史与现实作了相对系统全面的考察和研究。科学地认识劳动及其内部矛盾，是当代政治经济学研究创新的起点。由这一起点阐发的理论可明确地解决人类对自身认识的困惑，科学地认识资本主义社会存在、发展、死亡的必然性，以及未来全球实现社会主义的实质，即通过提升人类劳动智力，消除一切变态动力以完成人类劳动的完善。

People decide about political parties by taking into accountthe preferences, values, expectations, and perceptions of theirfamily, friends, colleagues, and neighbours. As most people livewith others, members of their households influence each other'spolitical decisions. How and what they think about politics andwhat they do are the outcomes of social processes. Applying variedstatistical models to data from extensive German and Britishhousehold surveys, this book shows that wives and husbandsinfluence each other; young adults influence their parents,especially their mothers. Wives and mothers sit at the centre ofhouseholds: their partisanship influences the partisanship ofeveryone else, and the others affect them. Politics in householdsinteracts with competition among the political parties to sustainbounded partisanship. People ignore one of the major parties andvary their preference of its major rival over time. Electioncampaigns reinforce these choices.

This highly interdisciplinary book highlights many of the waysin which chemistry plays a crucial role in making life anevolutionary possibility in the universe. Cosmologists and particlephysicists have often explored how the observed laws and constantsof nature lie within a narrow range that allows complexity and lifeto evolve and adapt. Here, these anthropic considerations arediversified in a host of new ways to identify the most sensitivefeatures of biochemistry and astrobiology. Celebrating the classic1913 work of Lawrence J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environmentfor Life, this book looks at the delicate balance between chemistryand the ambient conditions in the universe that permit complexchemical networks and structures to exist. It will appeal to abroad range of scientists, academics, and others interested in theorigin and existence of life in our universe.

In contrast to those who see the 1950s as essentially aconservative period, and who view the 1960s as a time of rapidmoral change, The Permissive Society points to the emergence of aliberalizing impulse during the Truman and Eisenhower years. Thebook shows how, during the 1950s, a traditionalist moral frameworkwas beginning to give way to a less authoritarian approach to moralissues as demonstrated by a more relaxed style of child-rearing,the rising status of women both inside and outside the home, theincreasing reluctance of Americans to regard alcoholism as a sin,loosening sexual attitudes, the increasing influence of modernpsychology, and, correspondingly, the declining influence ofreligion in the personal lives of most Americans.

"The Heart of Listening, a welcome book to those of usteaching in this field that is so difficult to put into words,embodies the uniqueness of its author, who offers a rarecombination of being a highly skilled healing practitioner andbiomedical." -Don Hanlon Johnson, Ph.D., Director of Somatics Program,California Institute of Integral Studies "A wonder of a book. So many wisdoms and books within books. Abook for all people." -Betty Balcombe, Visionary Healer and Author of As I See It andThe Energy Connection "The Heart of Listening is an impeccable work that demonstratesthe healing and teaching power found in the human physicalstructure. Milne provides profound psycho-spiritual insights andmakes a significant contribution to physicians, healthprofessionals, and individuals who seek ways to understand theunlimited resource of healing found within the human body." -Angeles Arrien, Ph.D., Cultural Anthropologist and Author of TheFour-Fold Way and Signs of Life

This is a history of the early European middle ages throughthe eyes of women, combining the rich literature of women's historywith original research in the context of mainstream history andtraditional chronology. The book begins at the end of the Romanempire and ends with the start of the long eleventh century, whenwomen and men set out to test the old frontiers of Europe. The bookrecreates the lives of ordinary women but also tells personalstories of individuals. Each chapter also questions an assumptionof medieval historiography, and uses the few documents produced bywomen themselves, along with archaeological evidence, art, and thewritten records of medieval men, to tell of women, theirexperiences and ideas, and their relations with men. It covers thecontinent and its exotic edges, such as Iceland, Ireland, andIberia; looking at women Christian and non-Christian alike.

The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers aphilosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement thathas been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguishedteam of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, AdamSmith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and otherScottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, naturaltheology, economics, anthropology, natural science and law. Inaddition, the contributors relate the Scottish Enlightenment to itshistorical context and assess its impact and legacy in Europe,America and beyond. The result is a comprehensive and accessiblevolume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety andthe underlying unity of this important movement. It will be ofinterest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology,literature and the history of ideas.

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is commonly seen as thespiritual approach to craniosacral therapy (CST); in fact, BCST astaught by Franklyn Sills, the pioneer in the field, is quitedifferent from conventional CST. Biodynamic work is based on thedevelopment of perceptual skills where the practitioner learns tobecome sensitive to subtle respiratory motions called primaryrespiration and also to the power of spontaneous healing. Throughthe Breath of Life, which, Sills asserts, echoes the Holy Spirit inthe Judeo-Christian tradition, bodhicitta in Buddhism, andthe Tai Chi in Taoism, students of BCST learn to enter a state ofpresence oriented to the client’s inherent ability to heal. In Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics , Sills offersstudents and practitioners an in-depth, step-by-step guide to thedevelopment of perceptual and clinical skills with specificclinical exercises and explorations to help students andpractitioners learn the essentials of a biodynamic approach.Individual chapters cover s

Herbert Sussman's book explores ideas of manhood andmasculinity as they emerged in the early Victorian period, andtraces these through diverse formations in the literature and artof the time. Concentrating on representative major figures - ThomasCarlyle, Robert Browning, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and WalterPater - Sussman focuses on areas of conflict and contradictionwithin their formulation of the masculine. He identifies thedevelopment of a 'masculine poetics' as a project which was for theVictorians, and continues to be, crucial to an industrial andcommercial age. The book reveals manhood as an unstableequilibrium, and is responsive to the complex ways in which theearly Victorians' masculine poetics simultaneously subverts andmaintains patriarchal power.

The literature of World War II has emerged as an accomplished,moving, and challenging body of work, produced by writers asdifferent as Norman Mailer and Virginia Woolf, Primo Levi andErnest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and W. H. Auden. This Companionprovides a comprehensive overview of the international literaturesof the war: both those works that recorded or reflected experiencesof the war as it happened, and those that tried to make sense of itafterwards. It surveys the writing produced in the major combatantnations (Britain and the Commonwealth, the USA, Japan, Germany,France, Italy, and the USSR), and explores its common themes. Withits chronology and guide to further reading, it will be aninvaluable source of information and inspiration for students andscholars of modern literature and war studies.

The four gospels are a central part of the Christian canon of*ure. In the faith of Christians, this canon constitutes alife-giving witness to who God is and what it means to be trulyhuman. This volume treats the gospels not just as historicalsources, but also as crucial testimony to the life of God madeknown in Jesus Christ. This approach helps to overcome thesometimes damaging split between critical gospel study andquestions of theology, ethics and the life of faith. The essays areby acknowledged experts in a range of theological disciplines. Thefirst section considers what are appropriate ways of reading thegospels given the kinds of texts they are. The second, centralsection covers the contents of the gospels. The third section looksat the impact of the gospels in church and society across historyand up to the present day.