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- catalog abstract "Everyone loves a cowboy - the dashing hero of the West who rides the range, ropes wild steers, sleeps under the stars, and sports high-topped boots and a ten-gallon hat. But the world seems to view him from one of two angles. Either he vanished with the last trail drive, or he is alive, young and virile, riding broncs and flashing silver spurs.".
- catalog abstract "Kuznetsov and his old and new friends travel in Siberia through the boundary which separates Europe from Asia, along what Kuznetsov symbolically calls "the long road."".
- catalog abstract "This book is intended as an introduction to basic aspects of community-based research. Bibliographies of advanced sources are presented at the end of each chapter.".
- catalog abstract "A self-portrait of the executive who rescued the Chrysler Corporation from bankruptcy.".
- catalog abstract "Drawn from ABC-Clio Information Services 1973-1982 history data base. This volume contains 1,167 abstracts and citations of journal articles.".
- catalog abstract "V.I. Provides extensive information about 150 full-length operas, 109 short operas, and supplementary information about 260 other operas and concentrates on the more familiar operas. v. II. Contains information about more than 350 operas for directors, producers, singers, students, and others in the world of opera and concentrates on lesser-known works, both old and new.--From publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Written entirely in the second person, McInerney's first novel is a vivid account of cocaine addiction.".
- catalog abstract "A survey of Fielding's life and plays and novels--Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, Jonathan Wild, etc.".
- catalog abstract "Alphabetically-arranged articles about actors, theaters, and theater terms.".
- catalog abstract "Rembrandt is among the few outstanding artists of universal appera. Yet he remains an elusive figure, too often the subject of romantic interpretation. The author firmly bases this study on the known facts, and builds a sensitive, accurate portrait of his life and work. He describes the happiness of Rembrandt's marriage, cut short by his wife's death, and discusses the catastrophe of his bankruptcy. The author suggests the psychological factors that may have awakened his sudden interest in landscapes and delineates the last decade, in which he retreated into the private world of his imagination.".
- catalog abstract "Examines the dynamics of Earth's shifting crust and the effects such movements have on Earth's geological structures and on man.".
- catalog abstract "Dentro de su brevedad - determinada por el rigor y la concentración expresiva - Pedro Páramo sintetiza la mayor parte de los temas que han interesado - y afligido - siempre a los mexicanos: ese misterio nacional que el talento de Juan Rulfo ha sabido condensar por medio rural del sur de Jalisco - de Comala en particular, región inscrita ya en la mitología literia universal -; sus personajes muertos que "evasivos, reticentes, convierten en secreto el aire mismo, y se vuelven elocuentes como consucuencia de callarse."".
- catalog abstract "This volume is the third of a four-volume collection that presents the diaries of English sociologist, economist, socialist and social reformer Beatrice Webb (1858-1943). In her diary Beatrice expressed her desire to write fully and creatively about her life and she kept her diary from 1873 until her death in 1943. In the diary Beatrice records the activities of her daily life, interactions with friends and family, and her most private thoughts and fears. In this third volume of her diary, Beatrice Webb gives us an insider's account of the heady days of British socialism. Appointed to the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, she steps out of Sidney's shadow and into active public life for the first time. Her energetic campaign to not merely alleviate but truly eliminate destitution rallies the reformist middle classes, but the wearing "plunge into propaganda" has a hardening, as well as exhausting, effect. She plans a fresh start after a trip around the world in 1911 with Sidney, and returns further radicalized to a country also in a more radical frame of mind. With her "working partner," she launches the weekly New Statesman, which quickly becomes a monument to justice in public affairs.".
- catalog abstract "Drawing on an extensive range of sources including the minutes of the British prosecution team and the minutes of the tribunal's closed deliberations, this study tracesthe trail's legal, political, and logistical problems andvividly recreates the courtroom drama.".
- catalog abstract "Just after midnight Charles Husky, the clerk at the Quik-Pik in Marshboro, NC, is found lying face-down near the Slurpee machine, suffocated with Saran Wrap. The town must sort through the facts to find out about the murder.".
- catalog abstract "Richard Hugo, who died suddenly in 1982, was, in James Wright's words, 'a great poet, true to our difficult life, ' Making Certain It Goes On brings together, as Hugo wished, the poems published in book form during his lifetime, together with the moving and courageous new poems he wrote in his last years. This, then, is the definitive collection of a major American poet's enduring works.".
- catalog abstract "Five years after the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy, Iran remains convulsed by political upheaval and embroiled in international conflict. Shock waves from the Iranian events have stirred unrest in the Middle East from Lebanon to Saudi Arabia, fed Islamic revivalism elsewhere in the Islamic world, and undermined the American position in this strategic region. Meanwhile, amid all this bewildering upheaval, the revolution has given birth to the modern world's first quasi-theocratic state run by orthodox clerics according to Islamic law. This book is a riveting analysis of the Iranian revolution, its economic, religious, and social turmoil, and its international consequences.".
- catalog abstract "Because Dickey is chiefly a poet, these criticisms mainly concern his poetry. However, his one novel Deliverance is also critiqued.".
- catalog abstract "A suspenseful account of the experiences of a single man during the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894.".
- catalog abstract "How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In his newest book, an eminent historian of ancient Rome examines this question from a secular rather than an ecclesiastical viewpoint. MacMullen's provocative conclusion is that mass conversions to Christianity were based more on the appeal of miracle or the opportunity for worldly advantages than simply on a "rising tide of Christian piety." - Back cover.".
- catalog abstract "Examines the lives behind the legends of a musical phenomenon that shaped America in the sixties.".
- catalog abstract "Comprehensive terminology that refers to drug abuse. Also includes entries to foreign countries and how they handle the problem. Intended for laypersons and professionals. Designed as a companion volume to Encyclopedia of alcoholism, edited by Robert O'Brien and Morris Chafetz, 1982. Entries are explanatory and vary in length. Miscellaneous appendixes that identify street language, slang synonyms, fifty-five tables, and selected sources of information (including foreign countries). Lengthy bibliography. Index.".
- catalog abstract ""The letters that passed between a young unknown provincial journalist and a famous Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet over a period of two years give a fascinating sidelight on 188O's literary life. They illuminate the last years of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the start of a career that was to make Hall Caine the most popular and best-selling romantic novelist of his time. The value and interest of this book lie in the fact that both sides of a correspondence are printed here together for the first time. It should appeal both to specialists and the general reader."--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "A trilogy of plays dramatizes the murder of Agamemnon by his wife, Clytaemnestra, the revenge of her son, Orestes, and his judgement by the court of Athena.".
- catalog abstract "In this book, the authors develop a theoretical framework based on a Gestalt approach, viewing rhythmic experience in terms of pattern perception or groupings. Musical examples of increasing complexity are used to provide training in the analysis, performance, and writing of rhythm.".
- catalog abstract "The author examines his brother's life in comparison to his own and asks himself why they are so different, one a college professor, one sentenced to life imprisonment. A haunting portrait of lives arriving at different destinies, this is the author's seminal memoir about two brothers, one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive wanted for robbery and murder. He recalls the capture of his younger brother Robby, details the subsequent trials that resulted in a sentence of life in prison, and provides vivid views of the American prison system. A gripping, unsettling account, it weighs the bonds of blood, tenderness, and guilt that connect the author to his brother and measures the distance that lies between them.".
- catalog abstract "An autobiographical account of the famous anthropologist's life from his childhood in Kenya to his position as director of Kenya's National Museum.".
- catalog abstract "This book describes the structure of Irish society before the Norman invasion and goes on to deal with the political and military history of the Norse wars, the struggles of the kings with opposition, the Irish institutions from 850 to 1150 and ecclesiastical reform in the period. This is the second volume in the comprehensive 11 volume "Gill History of Ireland," which covers Irish history from the fifth century to the 1960s.".
- catalog abstract "CRITICAL THEORY SINCE PLATO is a chronologically-arranged anthology that presents a broad survey of the history and development of literary criticism and theory in Western culture. Written by two well-known scholars in the field of literary study, this well-respected text puts an emphasis on the individual contributors to the development of literary criticism, from Plato and Aristotle to the present.".
- catalog abstract "Women's free choice to bear children is vital for a truly moral society, maintains noted ethicist and theologian Beverly Wildung Harrison. Bringing together ethical, historical, religious, and feminist viewpoints, Harrison shows that each woman's right of self-determination and procreative choice, including access to abortion, are social goods to which women of all economic levels and backgrounds are entitled.".
- catalog abstract "Bedient captures the forces that energize Warren's major poetry: his craving for experience, action, beauty, magnificence, his love of the natural world, his quest for self-knowledge, his hunger for truth and glory. Singling out the poems that rank as masterpieces, he explores their psychological and metaphysical nuances and probes the sources of their power.".
- catalog abstract "Him with his foot in his mouth--What kind of day did you have?--Zetland: by a character witness--A silver dish-Cousins.".
- catalog abstract ""Critically acclaimed classic lets Puritans speak for themselves in crucial documents covering history, theory of state and society, religion, customs, behavior, biographies and letters, poetry, literary theory, education, science, and more. Regarded by historian Samuel Eliot Morison as 'the best selection ever made of Puritan literature, point of view and culture'" -- Amazon.com.".
- catalog abstract "A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl.".
- catalog abstract "A black sergeant cries out in the night, "They still hate you," then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Louisiana, Charles Fuller's forceful drama--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 and has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version--tracks the investigation of this murder.".
- catalog abstract "Among the many authors covered are Moses Maimonides, Baruch Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Sholem Aleichem, Samuel Joseph Agnon, and Martin Buber.".
- catalog abstract "Essays on American writers, appraising the work of Thoreau, Twain, Whitman, Wolfe, Faulkner, and others.".
- catalog abstract "A historical story which captures the memories of the Battle of Gettysburg.".
- catalog abstract "This collection of Poe's writings includes his thoughts on poetry; reviews he wrote on many other authors, British, American, and Continental; his views of the literary world he moved in; essays, etc. A valuable tool for anyone studying Poe and his work.".
- catalog abstract "Radio broadcasts, speeches, and articles originally directed to a German audience point out the dangers of the arms race going on in the world, expressed with a Christian viewpoint.".
- catalog abstract "Covers the historical impact of bubonic plague (including the Black Death), cholera, malaria, smallpox, and other diseases.".
- catalog abstract "Hans Rogger's study of Russia under the last two Tsars takes as its starting point what the Russians themselves saw as the central issue confronting their nation: the relationship between state and society, and its effects on politics, economics and class in these critical years.".
- catalog abstract ""The first novel about a Native American woman by a Native American woman in fifty years, this mesmerizing work tells the story of Ephanie, a half-breed who seeks herself through her roots. "An absorbing ... fascinating world is created ... not only is it an exploration of racism, it is a powerful and moving testament ..."--New York Times Book Review."--amazon.com desc.".
- catalog abstract "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was really won.".
- catalog abstract "In this book, the eminent Harvard historian Frederick Merk focuses on the intricate maneuverings of President Tyler and his colleagues to reverse the policies of three previous Administrations and, without reference to public opinion, move toward the annexation of Texas.".
- catalog abstract ""This book provides a detailed account of French history from the origins of the Third Republic, born out of the collapse of Napoleon III's Second Empire, to the coming of the Great WAr in 1914. Part 1 begins with the fall of the "notables" and the victory of the republicans. Then follows a picture of the economy and society of late nineteenth-century France, and an examination of spiritual and cultural development under the increasing threat from nationalist and socialist forces. The moderates' brief ascendancy at the end of the century followed by the extreme sentiments unleashed at the time of the Dreyfus affair, brings the story in Part 2 to a more passionately political period, when the republic finally became established as a bulwark of bourgeois prosperity, witnessing the rise of the banks and big business, and the dangerous revival of colonial expansion."--Back cover.".
- catalog abstract "The authors follow the history of cosmological ideas from ancient to modern times at a level suitable for non-specialist college courses and general reading.".
- catalog abstract "Offers a non-technical introduction to particle physics, the subnuclear structure of the atom, and the research that led to the discovery of quarks - the basic components of matter.".
- catalog abstract "The Cuban threat has been a major concern of U.S. policy makers and Presidents. The Reagan administration charged Havana with arming and training revolutionaries in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Are those allegations any more accurate than those which prompted the Bay of Pigs debacle? Or do they overestimate the Cuban threat and commit us to a policy of overreaction? This examination of Cuban foreign policy makes possible a realistic evaluation of the Cuban threat.".
- catalog abstract "Documentation of performance held New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music 3 - 10 Feb. 1983.".
- catalog abstract "Their story of discovering the principals of manned flight and the first practical flying machines as told in their own words and pictures.".
- catalog abstract "Introduces the Torah and other symbols, customs, and objects important to the Jewish people.".
- catalog abstract "Tzvi Deer is lazy and always arrives at school late, but he learns a lesson from some ants and changes his ways.".
- catalog abstract "History of the 1831 peasant movements in Barasat and Faridpur, Bengal, in the form of religious revivalist agitations; a Marxist analysis.".
- catalog abstract "Verse treatise, with Sanskrit commentary and Telugu paraphrase, by Kānḍūru Nr̥siṃhadāsa, on Acalapūrṇa yoga, a combination of Yoga philosophy and Advaita Vedanta.".
- catalog abstract "Autobiography of a retired Indian district and sessions judge from Chandigarh.".
- catalog abstract "Papers on Mallinātha, 14th century Sanskrit commentator.".
- catalog abstract "Classical verse work, with 13th century commentary, on Hindu law.".
- catalog abstract "Digest of Hindu codes for the śrāddha rite.".
- catalog abstract "Hindu canonical text.".
- catalog abstract "In praise of Navagraha, nine Hindu planet deities.".
- catalog abstract "Verse treatise on Haṭha yoga.".
- catalog abstract "Epitome of twelve principal Upanishads, Hindu philosophical classic.".
- catalog abstract "Hymns to Rudra, Hindu deity.".
- catalog abstract "Hymn to Śiva, Hindu deity, with commentary reflecting the Vīraśaiva point of view in Hindu philosophy.".
- catalog abstract "Autobiographical novel showing how World War II puts an end to an era, and to a way of life.".
- catalog abstract ""Useful publication for scholars interested in the operations of the Consejo de Indias. Includes extensive, valuable index"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas".
- catalog abstract "Contains photographs, text, and five essays on the forest environment.".
- catalog abstract "The author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull records a unique love affair.".
- catalog abstract "The Civil Rights movement's organization, personalities, triumphs, and tragedies.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of source materials highlighting Russia's development from the 1870's to the present day.".
- catalog abstract "Centennial history of the Cleveland Institute of Art.".
- catalog abstract "For review see: Corrien Dam, in U-blad, jg. 15, no. 37 ; p. 13.".
- catalog abstract "Account of hunting in Scoresbysund region, east Greenland, based on experiences during author's stay there in 1966-75.".
- catalog abstract ""The aim of this ...annotated introductory bibliography...[is] to present a list of titles of reasonable length with which the student who is beginning theology or the study of Scripture in a serious way might do well to familiarize himself/herself. It is hoped, not that such a student would read through all these books, but that he/she would acquire some acquaintance with them. In the various disciplines which make up the complex of Scripture studies there are many books to which the beginner might turn. But often he/she is at a loss in trying to decide where to begin or to discover which are the standard, reputable authors in the discipline in which interest is being stirred. It is the [author's] hope that this revised bibliography...will guide such beginners to basic titles and enable them to judge others accordingly, and to become acquainted with the most important secondary works" -- Preface.".
- catalog abstract "Over-reliance upon military action as the predominant instrument of US foreign policy in Southwest Asia is the danger against which this essay; warns. Colonel Robert G. Lawrence, is less troubled by questions of US military strength than by policymakers' insensitivity to the historical, religious, and regional dynamics of Southwest Asia in general and the Persian Gulf states in particular. Security assistance, although important, has been mistakenly considered the essential element of US policy when it should complement, not constitute US diplomacy. Too long, we have failed to understand the Arab view of the world in which they live. Our policymakers have slighted the complexity and the diversity of Arab religions, politics, and history-forces which inform and direct Arab actions. Colonel Lawrence directly addresses the tough questions, such as US support of Israel, widely inconsistent policies for foreign military sales, US failure in Iran, and US inaction during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Interviewing over fifty prominent Arab government officials, military leaders, diplomats, scholars, and businessmen, Colonel Lawrence brings immediacy and insight to this frank, somewhat controversial study of Southwest Asia.".
- catalog abstract ""A novel of the Chicano heritage myth and a man's search for his roots."--Cover.".
- catalog abstract "Examines four Asian religions --Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Islam-- as they are manifest in the United States and Canada.".
- catalog abstract "This scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream.".
- catalog abstract ""A soldier's personal story of life in the Confederate Army from the Mississippi to the Carolinas."".
- catalog abstract "A history from "the first appearance of man and moves on to the eary civilizations of the Middle East, through the Indus Valley, to the Mediterranean, the Far East, Greece and Rome, the time of Christ, the Dark Ages, and on to the highest flowering of the Renaissance"".
- catalog abstract "A twelve-year-old Swedish girl living in the Ivory Coast conceals a secret garden from everyone but Zigga, an African pygmy.".
- catalog abstract "With reference to Bangladesh.".
- catalog abstract "Treatises on Karnatic music; with illustrative Vaishnava songs from Manipur.".
- catalog abstract "Essays on responses to war taxes by Willard M. Swartley, Donald D. Kaufman, Vernard Eller and John Stoner, translated from the English by Wolfgang Krauss.".
- catalog abstract "El entendimiento humano, en las operaciones propias del conocer, despoja a la realidad de una parte de sus datos; no sólo en función de un proceso de generalización, que trasciende lo sensible concreto, sino también en función de un proceso selectivo intencional ... (de la nota preliminar).".
- catalog abstract "Author's account of assasination attempt against him in the Paraiban Assembléia Legislativa by fellow legislative deputy Afrânio Bezerra in November 1983.".
- catalog abstract "Discusses prostitution in Virginia City, Nevada, in the late nineteenth century and profiles the lives of several prostitutes and madams.".
- catalog abstract "Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors including Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet, director John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. Barton begins by explicating Shakespeare's verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare's most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice.".
- catalog abstract ""In this instructive and engaging book a noted psychologist explores the vital links between children's art and their emotional, social, and cognitive development."--[book cover].".
- catalog abstract "Study of a 19th century Muslim intellectual.".
- catalog abstract "Glossary of Vedic terms.".
- catalog abstract "Life of Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948.".
- catalog abstract ""In this book the authors try to bridge the gap between the treatments of matrix theory and linear algebra to be found in current textbooks and the mastery of these topics required to use and apply our subject matter in several important areas of application, as well as in mathematics itself. At the same time we present a treatment that is as self-contained as is reasonable possible, beginning with the most fundamental ideas and definitions. In order to accomplish this double purpose, the first few chapters include a complete treatment of material to be found in standard courses on matrices and linear algebra. This part includes development of a computational algebraic development (in the spirit of the first edition) and also development of the abstract methods of finite-dimensional linear spaces. Indeed, a balance is maintained through the book between the two powerful techniques of matrix algebra and the theory of linear spaces and transformations."--1st paragraph of preface.".
- catalog abstract "This book introduces readers to the basic principles of a new generation of computer programs known as knowledge or expert systems, and their associated technologies. It explains what they do, how they work, and how they will be used to increase efficiency and productivity.".
- catalog abstract "Blinded by their desires to the dangerous differences between them, a Jewess and a young Nazi officer struggle to build a future in the last tragic days of Berlin.".
- catalog abstract "A retelling of the Bible story of Noah and his ark.".
- catalog abstract "A child king introduces reforms to give children the same rights as adults.".
- catalog abstract "A 17 year old survivor yearns for normality, to experience love and life. the scars of experience prevent her from letting down her Guard. age Ya-17+.".
- catalog abstract "Wild flights of imagination tangle with the real life of a Jewish boy growing up in Dundalk, Md.".