This book shows how to make decisions when alternatives depend on criteria, but also the criteria depend on the alternatives.

Instead, risk is assumed to be implicit in economic or social models, rather than being explicitly theorised or analysed. This book represents the first major review of these key relationships.

An overview of the scope and limitations of professional secrecy in the European Union, the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

According to statistics there are close to 2 million cases of child abuse reported annually in the U.S. Deals with child abuse and prevention issues.

A study on the elements-- philosophical, scientific, religious, intellectual-- that make up the components of mental and emotional well being in humans.

"In The Unemployed Man and His Family noted sociologist and feminist Mirra Komarovsky poses the question: what happens to the authority of the male head of the family when he fails as a provider?

Uses key principles from the business world to help teens get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses.

How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in this volume. War in the twentieth century is a vivid and traumatic phenomenon which left behind it survivors who engage time and time again in acts of remembrance.