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Political Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Political Science

In this volume, the study of legislatures has traditionally been a central preoccupation of political scientists. Legislatures provide good laboratories for testing theories and methodologies of significance in the discipline and, more broadly, for contributing to an understanding of how representative government works.

Improving Police Response to Persons with Mental Illness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Improving Police Response to Persons with Mental Illness

The Ghostbusters refrain "Who you gonna call?" typically connotes a lighthearted response to an unusual problem, but in the context of a human being suffering a mental health crisis, the refrain is anything but lighthearted. In an ideal world, "who you gonna call" would be a trained mental health professional. In the real world, the cry for help is usually received by the police. Police respond because there is no one else to assist. Police officers rank mental health crisis situations as far more stressful than crimes in progress. A person, suffering from mental illness is, by definition, not fully rational. Although they are likewise not fully irrational, behavior is unpredictable, and unp...

Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: SIU Press

Reports the results of four surveys conducted in the New Madrid Seismic Zone before and after Iben Browning's false prediction of a major earthquake in December of 1990. Farley (sociology, Southern Illinois U. at Edwardsville) explores public reaction to Browning's pseudoscientific prediction and considers the long- term effects of the Browning prediction on earthquake awareness and preparedness in the region. The text includes many tables that summarize results from the four surveys. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

ARED Newsletter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 502
Regents' Proceedings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1158

Regents' Proceedings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Rural Economic Development in the 1980's
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

Rural Economic Development in the 1980's

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1988
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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National Union Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1028

National Union Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1980
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Proceedings of the Board of Regents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1196

Proceedings of the Board of Regents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Superior Technology Center, Superior Township
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 462

Superior Technology Center, Superior Township

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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