New parties in British politics are unusual and successful new parties even more so. This book explains how the Liberal Democrats have established themselves and provides a comprehensive account of their role in British politics today. In particular it discusses the Liberal Democrats' political tradition and philosophy and how this has influenced their approach to contemporary politics. It gives a full description of the organisation and membership based on the most recent research. It examines the track record of the party, including its political strategy, electoral fortunes and experience in local government. Up-to-date assessments of the future prospects of the party are included. At a point when the future course and structure of British party politics remain uncertain and there is again talk of a hung parliament and coalitions, the appearance of this book is timely. It will be of considerable interest to political practitioners and commentators as well as the general reader, and useful to students of politics at all levels, including post-graduates.

Liberal Democrats, The

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Politics & Government

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

Focusing for the first time on the current needs and teaching methods for both students and lecturers, this represents acomplete package for teaching statistics to psychology undergraduates. As well as a core textbook introducing topics in an accessible, jargon-free way, a separate book, A Guide to Computing Statistics with SPSS for Windows, shows how to apply the concepts in practice. An additional Instructor's Manual provides the lecturer with multiple choice and other assessment material. Concepts that are often difficult to grasp, such as multivariate analyses, are explained step-by-step using many examples from published research. The package covers everything necessary for an undergraduate psychology student and is therefore useful at various levels within a course. Instructor's Manual is available.

An Introduction to Statistics in Psychology: A Complete Guide for Students

Science & Math

Howitt, Dennis

Cramer, Duncan

Mathematics

Everyone sleeps and everyone dreams. Yet we are almost entirely unconscious of what is happening to us when we sleep and we forget almost all of our dreams.This third edition of a classic introduction to the subject provides a fascinating insight into this most universal of subjects, critically analysing recent research by psychologists and neuroscientists (much of which has been published in the last ten years) and reviewing historical and cultural beliefs about dreams. Sleep and Dreaming thus acts as both a comprehensive and a rigorous text for students and a rewarding and engaging introduction to the field for the interested lay reader. This new edition contains much new material, particularly on the physiology of sleep, and also a new chapter by Professor Michael Wang on the psychological treatment of insomnia.

Sleep and Dreaming

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Empson, Jacob

Psychology & Counseling

This work brings together internationally prominent researchers in the field of intergroup relations and group processes to highlight the role of motivational constructs in their recent empirical, theoretical and critical work. They address issues ranging from universal underlying motives for joining a group or constructing a social identity, through motives influencing choice of specific group membership, to motives associated with particular forms of inter- and intragroup behaviour. Such issues are discussed in diverse research contexts including interaction in small groups, large-scale intergroup relations, social categorization processes, social identity, cultural norms and stereotypes, intergroup contact, ethnolinguistic groups and group formation.

Group Motivation: Social Psychological Perspectives

Hogg, Michael A.

Dreaming as cognition

This book considers dreaming, one of the most pervasive yet poorly understood aspects of human experience, within the framework of concepts and findings that have evolved from the study of waking cognition. It demonstrates the empirical relationship between dreaming and waking cognition, and the possibility of understanding dreaming as a mental process without recourse to either psychoanalytic concepts or neurobiological reductionism.

Dreaming As Cognition

Cavallero, Corrado

Drawing together in one volume the alternative explanations for famine, this book combines theory with political economy, and crystallizes many issues central to the understanding and management of famine. Devereux discusses the nature, theories and factors which contribute to famine, summarising and critically examining the many explanations which have been suggested for the causes of famine.

Theories of Famine

Business & Money

Devereux, Stephen

Industries

Until very recently, the dominant - indeed, almost exclusive - paradigm in cognitive psychology has been the representational computational view of mind. In this brilliant and wide-ranging book, Benny Shanon presents an original critique of this portrayal of cognition, an analysis of the conceptual foundations of cognitive science, and a proposal for a new picture of mind. Through a survey of language, memory and knowledge of the world, perception and motor activity, motivation and effect, thought processes and creativity, he argues that the representational account is seriously lacking: far from serving as the basis of cognitive activity, representations are the products of such activity. Shanon's alternative, and elegantly constructed, model of the mind is illustrated by a consideration of the dynamic interplay between the 'representational' and the 'presentational'. His book offers a fresh new outlook on the phenomenon of consciousness and presents a new and exciting conceptualizatlon of psychological theory.

The Representational and the Presentational: An Essay on Cognition and the Study of Mind

Shanon, Benny

Authoritative and up-to-date, this comprehensive introduction to the history, organization, and key policies of the European Community is accompanied by details of the continuing debate on European integration. This edition includes expanded coverage of economic and monetary union, co-operation over foreign and security policy, the debate over national sovereignty versus the Community, and the Edinburgh European Council meeting of December 1992 and its aftermath up to summer 1993. Includes table, figures, diagrams, and boxed exhibits. For anyone dealing with and trying to understand the European Community.

Understanding the New European Community (2nd Edition)

History

Nicoll, William

Salmon, Trevor C.

Europe

An introduction to the issues surrounding the problem of United Kingdom's economic decline and the reasons put forward to explain this phenomenon.

The Question of Uk Decline: State, Society and Economy

Coates, David

European Community Economics

Revised to account for recent developments in the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty and the prospects for European Union. Paper.

Hitiris, Theodore

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