Most Popular Books by E. Davis

Discusses recent research and provides tutorial chapters on enhancing selectivity in catalysis through stereoselectivity, reaction pathway control, shape selectivity, and alloys and clusters. Presents an interdisciplinary approach to increasing selectivity in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis research. Includes an overview chapter that discusses the current state of the field and offers a perspective on future directions.

This book presents a model for examining problems of institutional change and applies it to American economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The authors develop their model of institutional change. They argue that if external economic factors make an increase in income possible but not attainable within the existing institutional structure, new organizations must be developed to achieve the potential in income. Their model is designed to explain the type and timing of these necessary changes in institutional organization. Individual, voluntary cooperative, and governmental arrangements are included in the discussion, although the latter differs considerably from the first two.

"Cultural Humility offers a practical approach for meaningfully engaging cultural identities in therapy with clients from a variety of backgrounds"--

Based on the popular two-volume Humanities in Western Culture: A Search for Human Values, this brief edition contains all of the chapters from Volumes I and II with abridged literary selections. The lavishly produced artwork that is a hallmark of the larger books is faithfully reproduced in the pages of the brief edition. For use in one-semester Western humanities courses.