This final collection of Skinner’s papers was intended for the professional, although other readers will find much of interest. The first five chapters are devoted to what Skinner called ‘‘theoretical issues’’ and include clear presentations of his positions on ‘‘feelings’’ and on the ‘‘self’’ as an apparent agent of volition. Skinner skillfully discusses thinking, the origins of cognitive-medi...

A functional analysis course is taught in almost all mathematics departments with a Ph.D. program. Functional analysis is primarily the study of the algebraic, analytic and geometric structures of infinite-dimensional vector spaces and operators on them. The prototypical example is spaces of functions, regarded as vector spaces, where the operators are differential and integral operators. The s...

BASIC IDEAS IN NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. By Tristan D. M. Roberts. (Pp. 108 and XI; illustrated. 25s). London: Butterworth & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. THESE two books can be conveniently considered together since the second volume is composed of the first four or five chapters of the first. The author is a senior lecturer in the Department of Physiology in Glasgow and has brought to his task many years of e...

CONCLUSION: DEMOCRACY AND VIOLENCE, EARLY WARNING AND CONFLICT PREVENTION – IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE Marc Chernick The six chapters presented here each provide a different optic from which to view the functioning of democratic governance, violent conflict, and the relationships among the various components of each. Four of the chapters address political processes (García Villeg...