<p>There is a rebirth of interest in the emotions. Surprisingly, however, one of the most powerful and delightful expressions of emotion - laughter - has largely gone unnoticed. Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Nietzsche, and Bergson puzzled over what makes us laugh. Darwin was fascinated by laughter and Freud wrote a book on wit. But laughter has received insufficient scholarly attention since Bergson's Le rire a century ago. In The Morality of Laughter, F.H. Bradley poses the questions of how laughter changes the way we live and think and how philosophy is different when the philosopher has a sense of humor.</p>

The Morality of Laughter

Politics & Social Sciences

F.H., Buckley

Philosophy

Transaction Publishers,U.S.

The Embezzler (Transaction Large Print Books)

Literature & Fiction

Louis Auchincloss

Contemporary

Beyond Words: The Story of Sensitivity Training and the Encounter Movement (Social Science Classics Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kurt W. Back

Psychology & Counseling

Analyzing one of the most dramatic of the new medical technologies—Organ Transplantation—Gift of Life covers those aspects that have general implications for public policy and sociological theory, and describes the social-psycho­logical impact of kidney transplantation itself. Gift of Life beginswith an examination of the overall, unresolved ethical issues related to kidney transplan­tation—the problem of selecting patients for a scarce therapy.., the problem of withholding treatment from patients of greater physical and psychological risk ... the issue of utilizing living related kidney donors vs. cadaver donors. The book concentrates on organ donors and their families, and studies the effect of this type of extreme altruism. It also examines the stress for the family as the members try to decide who, if anyone, will give a kidney. The work shows how individuals and families make major decisions under stress. Discussed in detail are family communication processes and emotional relationships between donor and recipient, as well as the impact of donation upon the family of the cadaver-donor. The final analysis deals with the health care delivery issues and the questions of funding created by the rapid rise of this new technology. Gift of Life, with its exposition of decision making communication, and reaction to stress, is of relevance to social science theory and policy.

Gift of Life: The Effect of Organ Transplantation on Individual, Family, and Societal Dynamics

Medical Books

Roberta G. Simmons

Medicine

Political Corruption: A Handbook

Michael Johnston

Victor T. Le Vine

Arnold J. Heidenheimer

<p>The "nature versus nurture" controversy dates back to at least the nineteenth century. How much of a role does genetics or environment play in accounting for reasoning skill and other intellectual aptitudes At a time when the public school system in the United States is under attack, this debate has taken center stage in arguments about what accounts for differences in academic achievement. Maximizing Intelligence convincingly argues that, while both genetics and environment play a role in a child's intelligence, environmental factors, especially at an early age, are of primary importance. Working from this premise, Armor suggests how intelligence may be heightened.Armor presents four propositions about intelligence. His first is that intelligence exerts a major influence on educational and occupational success, following a chronological sequence, from a child's cognitive skills learned before school, to academic success during the school years, to eligibility for college. His second proposition is that intelligence can be changed, at least within limits. There is ample evidence that a child's intelligence is not fully given at birth, but continues to evolve and change at least through the early elementary school years, although at a declining rate.Proposition three is that intelligence is influenced by a series of "risk factors," and most of the influence occurs before a child reaches school age. Risk factors include parent intelligence and education, family income, family structure and size, nutrition, and specific parenting behaviors. The fourth proposition flows from the second and third--that the most promising avenues for maximizing intelligence come from a child's parents. Armor persuasively argues for a "whole family" approach whereby government programs are modified or created to inform parents of risk factors and to reward behaviors that optimize positive outcomes</p>

Maximizing Intelligence

Short excerpt: With what surprise, with what emotion, with what anxiety did I therein discover the following mention, which I cannot even now copy without feeling my hand tremble:

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (Transaction Large Print Books)

Anatole, France

Literary

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