The volume editors conclude with an assessment of the current state of realism and suggest ways for the debate to progress.

) Other topics include love and other aspects of the institution of marriage, the role of the children in the family, how families adjusted to new members, and how they dealt with aging and death.

The French New Wave directors of the 1950s rejected the idea that film was a mere extension of literature and exploded traditional methods of film narrative, embracing fragmentation and alienation. The author argues that this rebellious stance is far more complex than critics have acknowledged.

This book will be of interest to mental health care professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers, who treat patients with sexual disorders.

Today's moral critics, in their attempts to convince Americans of the social and spiritual consequences of unregulated sexual behavior, often harken back to a more innocent age; as this groundbreaking work makes clear, America's sexual culture has always been rich, vibrant, and contentious.

The third edition features a new chapter on recognition, prevention, and remediation of burnout in pediatric oncology staff members, while throughout the book, chapters have been revised and updated to reflect the impact of new antibiotic agents, new antiemetics, and new approaches to pain management.

The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with meaning resides in "the content of the form,in the way our narrative capacities transform the present into a fulfillment of a past from which we would wish to have descended.

White's commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism.