SINCE MAN IS BOTH A COMMUNITY ANIMAL AND AT LEAST POTENTIALLY A RATIONAL ANIMAL, EDUCATORS SHOULD USE A HUMAN RELATIONS APPROACH WHICH TREATS THE PROBLEMS OF COMMUNITY LIFE AND OF RATIONALITY AND IRRATIONALITY TOGETHER. THEY MUST ATTEMPT TO REALIZE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION ACROSS BARRIERS OF NATIONALITY, CLASS, AND SPECIALIZATION AND TO CONNECT…

First presented at a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) conference on renewable resources, this material includes information and discussion on critical issues, policies, and future alternatives for natural resources in the United States. (CO)

Six papers are presented. The topics are: (1) the limits of cost-benefit analysis as a guide to priority-setting in rehabilitation; (2) public policy towards disability; (3) benefit and costs of the federal-state vocational rehabilitation program; (4) social issues in rehabilitation; (5) public expectations; (6) consumer perspectives; and (7)…

The American ideal of liberal education affirms faith in the individual and in the human struggle against intellectual dishonesty and conformity and speaks to the intellectual integrity of education, of graduate faculty, and of the choices open to graduate students. However, humanists disagree on such issues as what the products of graduate…

The minutes of the hearings of the Subcommittee on Federal, State and Community Services focused on the aging in the world of tomorrow. Testimony covered the economic, educational and social impact of an enormous increase in the proportion of old people who will compose the United States' population. Some contacts were pointed out between the u.S.…

Designed by 20 gifted and talented adolescents, the book focuses on ways the gifted student can assume responsibility for his own education. Discussed in Chapter I on being gifted are problems of peer rejection, teacher influences, social values, and age disparities, as well as ways of dealing successfully with these difficulties. Chapter II…

This publication contains many news items such as meeting and conference descriptions and dates, proposed and current legislative action, publication descriptions, and topical articles. The items all pertain to the impact on humanity of science and technology. In this issue, news items include NSF, NEH, and AAAS meeting and seminar notices,…

Books for children that deal with the real problems of children in grades 3 to 12 are listed in this bibliography. The books are concerned with many social problems such as racial inequality, poverty, adult hypocrisy, desertion, broken homes, drugs, alcohol, sex, mental illness, and death. The entries are listed alphabetically by author. Each…

Fifty years after the death of Black Hawk, the greatest warrior of the Sac and Fox tribe, his great-great-grandson was born: Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes of all time. This biography opens with Black Hawk and a brief history of the Sac and Fox Indians. Then Jim's story begins, in a simple log cabin in Oklahoma, in 1888. Even in his…

This volume was prepared for the National Institute on Drug Abuse as part of a Research Issues Series, and summarizes the major research findings in the area of drugs and attitude change which have been published in the last 15 years. The booklet is organized to provide the reader with the purpose, methodology, findings, and conclusions of…

This brief report suggests that it is evident that many uncertainties still remain with regard to neonatal narcotic dependence. Discussion centers on the precise causes and symptoms of neonatal narcotic dependence, the most efficacious treatment procedures, the relative severity of heroin dependence as compared with methadone dependence in the…

This listing of books, periodicals, organizations, and other resources in the field of drug abuse was compiled in response to requests by information centers for a guide into a large and expanding field. The resources should be helpful to both a new information center and an established one planning expansion. Not all materials are considered…

To date there has been little study of the responsiveness of narcotics use to changes in the labor market, either in the aggregate or in the motivations of individual users. It is the authors' hypothesis that narcotics use is one of several interrelated social responses to labor market failure. What exactly has constituted this "failure" has…

A group of students in the course dealt with the fundamental question of the public library's role in satisfying societal needs. Each of the students set out to explore the family, social, occupational and political world of an important social group. Members of two of the groups - the urban Negro and the blue collar worker - appeared to be either…

The report is presented in two parts. The first examines the social and technical implications of information systems vis a vis the individual's ability to control the dissemination of information about himself. It is argued that information systems must incorporate certain properties in their initial design in order to safeguard man's…