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- catalog abstract "Articles on Hindu law.".
- catalog abstract "Memoirs of an Indian civil servant.".
- catalog abstract "Hagiography of Jagannātha Dāsa, 1487-1547, Vaishnavite Oriya poet.".
- catalog abstract "With reference to the impact of Marxism on Indian freedom movement.".
- catalog abstract "Hymns, chiefly to Tripurasundarī, Hindu deity.".
- catalog abstract "Division of words in the Sāmaveda, Hindu canonical text.".
- catalog abstract "Part of a 18th century treatise of the neo-Nyaya school in Indic philosophy, deals with verbal testimony (śabda).".
- catalog abstract "Philosophical treatise on Vishnu, Hindu deity, presentation of the Viśiṣṭādvaita viewpoint.".
- catalog abstract "Philosophical interpretation of selected hymns from the Rgveda.".
- catalog abstract "Philosophical interpretation of selected hymns from the R̥gveda.".
- catalog abstract "Comparative study of Kālidāsaʼs Śakuntalā and Bhavabhūtiʼs Uttararāmacarita, Sanskrit plays.".
- catalog abstract "Portion of a classical verse work on the ayurvedic system in Indic medicine.".
- catalog abstract "Hymn, with autocommentary, to Durgā, Hindu deity.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly on the legal aspects of the Indian constitution.".
- catalog abstract "Contributed articles relating to marriage, succession, divorce, etc.".
- catalog abstract ""The first edition of this book was in three volumes ... This second edition replaces Volumes I and II. A second edition of Volume III is not yet foreseen"--Preface.".
- catalog abstract "The shaping of Fulbright's views -- Public service, 1942-1959 -- Public service, 1959-1963 -- Myths old and new -- Fulbright's dissent, 1965-1966 -- The limitationist critique and the end of the Johnson consensus -- Fulbright in the Nixon years -- Autumnal perspectives.".
- catalog abstract "The author examines customs and attitudes toward fertility, chastity, promiscuity, abortion, contraception, and infanticide.".
- catalog abstract "Vol. 1 is a revision of the author's History of the origin, formation, and adoption of the Constitution of the United States, first published 1854-58.".
- catalog abstract "An anthology of poems by American poets born since 1940.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.".
- catalog abstract "A world famous saxophonist tells the story of his successful career as a jazz musician, his problems with drug addiction, and the time he spent in hospitals, prisons, and drug rehabilitation centers.".
- catalog abstract "A selection of 26 of Goldovsky's intermission scripts in which he comments on perennial favorites, including Magic flute, Aida, Lucia di Lammermoor, Tosca, as well as on operas not so well known, such as La Gioconda, Jenufa, La forza del destino, among others. He uses the opera of the week as the basis for some intriguing idea.--cf. dust jacket.".
- catalog abstract "This book discusses the use of scores in horror, science fiction and fantasy films, covering the 1930's to the 1980's, with chapters on Herrmann, Goldsmith, Rózsa, Japanese monster movies, Hammer horror movies, John Williams, electronic music and how classical music has been integrated into these film genres.".
- catalog abstract ""The Embattled Northeast breaks with established wisdom concerning the dynamics of Indian-white relations. It shows that Euramericans' technological superiority did not undermine the Abenaki's self-confidence, but that trade pushed the tribes toward reaching an alliance among themselves as the first step in dealing with colonials. The study also tells how the Abenaki adapted to the post-contact world in order to secure their lives in religious terms, combining their own religious beliefs with compatible French Jesuit teachings"--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "Account of author's experiences as member of the Falkland Island Dependencies Survey 1946-48. First published in 1955 by Lutherworth Press.".
- catalog abstract "Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.".
- catalog abstract "Sanskrit prepositions.".
- catalog abstract "Commentary on Jayantīkalpa, 13th century verse manual, by Madhva, for the worship of Krishna, Hindu deity, during Kr̥ṣṇajanmāṣṭamī festival.".
- catalog abstract "History of a Chalukya dynasty of rulers of Vātāpi, Karnataka, now known as Bādāmi.".
- catalog abstract "Verse work on the Hindu cosmological and metaphysical concepts, chiefly found in the Upanishads.".
- catalog abstract "Speeches and writings by a former Indian parliamentarian.".
- catalog abstract ""In mid-February 1915, half of the Fifth Light Infantry of the British Indian Army stationed in Singapore suddenly rose up in an unexpected ... mutiny ... The event took place at the height of the First World War and because colonial defence forces had been withdrawn for more urgent service in Europe, the Fifth had become the only regular unit left in Singapore Island for its defence from possible German attack. The book describes in detail the events which took place and how a desperate administration had to rely on the assistance of the marines on board Russian, Japanese, and French warships mutineers. The book also reveals the findings of a court of inquiry into the mutiny whose findings lay secret for fifty years"--Page 4 of cover.".
- catalog abstract "Classical hymn to Tripurasundarī, Hindu deity.".
- catalog abstract "Verse enumeration of 1000 names of Bala Tripurasundari, Hindu deity; includes a note on Śrīcakra, tantric diagram.".
- catalog abstract "Verse enumeration of 1000 names of Durga, form of Śakti, Hindu deity.".
- catalog abstract "Commentary on the Bhagavadgītā; Advaita approach.".
- catalog abstract "On the theories of aesthetic experience (rasa) in Sanskrit poetics.".
- catalog abstract "On Śaṅkaradeva, 1449-1569, founder of a Vaishnavite sect in Assam.".
- catalog abstract "Kenzaburō Ōe was ten when American soldiers entered his mountain village during World War II, and his writing "reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of the values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other...[His] heroes have been expelled from the certainty of childhood, into a world that bears no relation to their past"--Back cover.".
- catalog abstract "This book explains the structure, aims, tactics and role in world politics of the PLO and describes in harrowing detail its bloody and terrible history. --from inside jacket.".
- catalog abstract "Ethnological study of Mahar people in Maharashtra.".
- catalog abstract "Troisième roman d'un auteur belge qui est aussi poète et ancien animateur de revue littéraire. Peut-on écrire les mémoires de qui n'a pas "vécu", même en s'y mettant à plusieurs? Une talentueuse exploration du vide qui ronge la vie des humains ("il n'y a ni tragédie ni chagrin réel, juste le vide" disait déjà Chandler).".
- catalog abstract "The author recounts his experiences and some of the prisoners he had known when he was a professor in a Cuban prison.".
- catalog abstract ""Scattered across the Irish countryside are an astonishing number and variety of ancient structures of earth and stone ... tangible legacies of the different cultural groups ... from prehistoric times."--Back cover.".
- catalog abstract "A travers la relecture de huit contes ou récits, l'auteur, par le moyen de la "textanalyse", cherche à mettre en lumière leur "force fantasmante". SDM.".
- catalog abstract ""When this book was first published in 1984, it was the first extensive study of the Druzes to appear for many years. A small community native only in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, the Druzes have exercised an influence around them greater than their numerical strength. Living for the most part in mountainous territories they have maintained an independent existence for a thousand years. -- This book places the beliefs of the Druzes in the context of the history of Shī'ism in its Ismā'īlī form, from which their faith developed. It also describes the role of the Druze community in the history of Lebanon and Syria. In the preparation of this book, the author, a Druze herself, has made use not only of the readily available Arabic and European sources but also of documents and manuscripts that are less easily accessible." http://books.google.com/books?id=BprjrZzee5EC.".
- catalog abstract "In the Indian context.".
- catalog abstract "Verse commentary on Viṣṇusahasranāma, hymn to Vishnu, Hindu deity, from Mahābhārata, presenting the Advaita school in Hindu philosophy.".
- catalog abstract "Extended narrative poem in praise of Dvārakādhīśa, form of Krishna, Hindu deity, enshrined in the Dvārakādhīśa Temple, center of the Vallabhachars in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, and on the history of the temple.".
- catalog abstract "From the founding of the state in 1846 to the present.".
- catalog abstract "Contributed papers on the contemporary Hindu religious beliefs and practices; in the context of preaching of Christianity.".
- catalog abstract "The author takes note of the serious side of elections even as he documents the frenzy and frolic.".
- catalog abstract "A study from newly available letters and interviews of the life of Ida Tarbell, whose book on the Standard Oil Company was a contributing factor in the decision by the Supreme Court to disband that monopoly.".
- catalog abstract "A humorous biography of the twenty-sixth president, emphasizing his love of animals and wildlife and his activities as a conservationist.".
- catalog abstract "The premier secessionist of antebellum Mississippi, John A. Quitman was one of the half-dozen or so most prominent radicals in the entire South. In this full-length biography, Robert E. May takes issue with the recent tendency to portray secessionists as rabble-rousing, maladjusted outsiders bent on the glories of separate nationhood. May reveals Quitman to have been an ambitious but relatively stable insider who reluctantly advocated secession because of a despondency over slavery's long-range future in the union and the related conviction that Northerners no longer respected Southern claims to equality as American citizens. A fervent disciple of South Carolina "radical" John C. Calhoun's nullification theories, Quitman also gained notoriety as his region's most strident slavery imperialist. He articulated the case for new slave territory, participated in the Texas Revolution, won national acclaim as a volunteer general in the Mexican war, and organized a private military -- or "filibustering" -- expedition with the intent of liberating Cuba from Spanish rule and making the island a new slave state. In 1850, while governor of Mississippi during the California crisis, Quitman wielded his influence in a vain attempt to induce Mississippi secession. Later, in Congress, he marked out an extreme southern position on Kansas. Mississippi's most vehement "fire-eater," Quitman played a significant role in the North-South estrangement that led to the American Civil War. The first critical biography of this important figure, May's study sheds light on such current historical controversies as whether antebellum Southerners were peculiarly militaristic or "anti-bourgeois" and helps illuminate the slave-master relations, mobility, intraregional class and geographic friction, partisan politics, and family customs of the old South. - Back cover.".
- catalog abstract "Charts the 12 year program of Spacelab's development to its launch on the Space Shuttle in 1983.".
- catalog abstract "A look at the type of materials located in the National Archives along with photographs of some of the items, such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Emancipation Proclamation, and the Homestead Act.".
- catalog abstract "Family history of Anthony Hordern (1788-1869), a native of Stafford- shire, England, who in 1817 married Ann Woodhead (1794-1871), the daughter of John Woodhead. Couple immigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1825. They are the parents of seven children born between 1819 and 1838.".
- catalog abstract "Frank Stiffel was a young Jewish student with dreams of a literary career when the Nazis invaded Poland and carried off his family to Treblinka. Stiffel escaped and wandered the land, constantly threatened with capture by the Nazis and their sympathizers. He eventually was discovered and sent to Auschwitz where, because of his simple rule--keep your dignity or die--he survived constant brutality until liberation in 1945. This is a moving document of suffering and quiet strength that has all the immediacy of having been written as it happened--the book was started as a diary in captivity and completed soon after the war.".
- catalog abstract ""This volume is the first product of the SIPRI/NEP programme on 'Military activities and the human environment'. The programme uses an environmental, rather than a geopolitical approach to the study of warfare and of military activity in general. Professor Arthur H. Westing, an ecologist known for his work on these issues, was joint organizer of a symposium held in Viet Nam which studied the effects of herbicides used in that country. He has edited the papers, written by world authorities on the issues raised by the use of herbicides, and summarizes their conclusions in his introductory chapter. This book is undoubtedly the definitive work on the effects of the use of herbicides in war"--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "Contains twenty-six short stories by the 1982 Nobel Laureate appearing in the order in which they were originally published in Spanish.".
- catalog abstract "Describes and compares the space programs of the U.S. and U.S.S.R.".
- catalog abstract "Notes d'un cours universitaire. Découpage de la matière en trois sections axées sur la logique des problèmes plutôt que sur leur déroulement dans le temps: Les bases -- Les faits -- Les sens.".
- catalog abstract "Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the image of a divided society, and in the last ten years historians of the poor and unprivileged have suggested that beneath the surface lurked substantial popular discontent. Professor Cannon uses his 1982 Wiles Lecture to offer a different interpretation - that the widespread acceptance of aristocratic values and aristocratic leadership gave a remarkable intellectual, political and social coherence to the century. He traces the recovery made by the aristocracy from its decade in 1649 when the House of Lords was abolished as useless and dangerous. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the peerage re-established its hold on government and society. Professor Cannon is forced to challenge some of the most cherished beliefs of English historiography - that Hanoverian society, at its top level, was an open elite, continually replenished by vigorous recruits from other groups and classes. He suggests that, on the contrary, in some respects the English peerage was more exclusive than many of its continental counterparts and that the openness was a myth which itself served a potent political purpose. Of the prospering burgeoisie, he argues that the remarkable thing was not their assertiveness but their long acquiescence in patrician rule, and he poses the paradox of a country increasingly dominated by a landed aristocracy giving birth to the first industrial revolution. His final chapter discusses the ideological under-pinning which made aristocratic supremacy acceptable for so long, and the emergence of those forces and ideals which were ultimately to replace it.".
- catalog abstract "Cover title: Records of the Council of the Northwest Territories - 1921-1951. First in series of guides to sources for NWT history available in archives at Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre. Lists records, minutes, and ordinances of Territorial Council, the predecessor of Legislative Assembly.".
- catalog abstract "Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--London University.".
- catalog abstract "Conventional scientific medicine is increasingly coming under attack for its high cost, perceived dehumanization, technological dependence, and its inability to cure many forms of ill health. At the same time, there is a resurgence of interest in a wide range of new and age-old approaches to health and healing. This book offers answers to two essential questions: how do alternative medicines challenge the tenets of conventional scientific medicine; and could a synthesis of these alternative medicines and scientific medicine lead to a reformulation of conceptions of healing? This is a crucial book for anyone concerned with the future direction of health policy. -- Publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Analisa o caso coroa-brastel.".
- catalog abstract "After hearing how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a little girl helps break the spell and changes him into a handsome prince.".
- catalog abstract ""Women in 17th-century England--heiresses and dairymaids, holy women and prostitutes, criminals and educators, widows and witches, midwives and mothers, heroines, courtesans, prophetesses, businesswomen, ladies of the court, and that new breed, the actress."".
- catalog abstract "Contains 1363 entries to sources intended to improve contacts among European countries and to provide a contact point within each country for each subject area. Geographical arrangement under 25 sections which are mostly subjects, e.g., health and safety, medical sciences, and veterinary sciences. Also includes international organizations. Each entry gives such information as address, telephone number, foundation date, library facilities, information services, and publications. Titles of establishments, subject indexes.".
- catalog abstract "Brief essays discuss incidents in American history, offer profiles of prominent individuals, and look at the labor and civil rights movements.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of twenty-one short stories in English and Spanish that demonstrate the changes and developments that have occured in the Chicano literary tradition over the last twenty years.".
- catalog abstract "Traces the changes in the Chicano perception of the Southwest, focusing on the 135 years since the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and discussing the desire to recover their lost homeland.".
- catalog abstract "A Mormon pioneer, a gold prospector, an Apache scout, a cowboy, a Black civil rights activist, and Barry Goldwater are among the Arizonans who examine their state's history and development through personal narratives.".
- catalog abstract "Dans la lignée des deux précédents romans de l'auteur, le récit d'une chasse au caribou au dessus du cercle arctique. Participants: un vieil Inuit, son petit-fils jeune et "évolué", et André Vacher, amoureux du Grand Nord et producteur à la télévision française. Une aventure qualifiée par l'auteur, de "récente et véridique."".
- catalog abstract "Berton uses newspaper accounts, government documents and personal anecdotes to describe the development of the Canadian West in the years following Confederation.".
- catalog abstract "On the role of the American unitarian missionary Charles Appleton Dall, 1816-1886, in the intellectual and social life of the 19th century Bengal.".
- catalog abstract "Study covers the period, ca. 1200-1707.".
- catalog abstract "Verse treatise on Yoga according to the Nātha sect in Hinduism.".
- catalog abstract "Treatise, with commentaries, on epistemology; Dvaita approach.".
- catalog abstract "Hindu mythological text on the life and exploits of Krishna, Hindu deity.".
- catalog abstract "Rejoiner to Uktiniṣṭhābharaṇa of Iñjimeḍu Raṅganāthācārya, treatise on the Sri Vaishnava sect in Hinduism.".
- catalog abstract "Life and works of Kishincandu Bavasi, 1885-1947.".
- catalog abstract "Verse work on Yoga.".
- catalog abstract "By an Indian industrialist.".
- catalog abstract "Verse work, with autocommentary, on Hindu tantric incantations and associated rituals.".
- catalog abstract "A biography describing the life, work, and times of the Lord Chancellor and champion of the Catholic Church.".
- catalog abstract "The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's persistent and hopeless quest for immortality. It tells of the heroic exploits of an ancient ruler of the walled city of Uruk named Gilgamesh. Included in its story is an account of the Flood that predates the Biblical version by centuries. Gilgamesh and his companion, a wild man of the woods named Enkidu, fight monsters and demonic powers in search of honor and lasting fame. When Enkidu is put to death by the vengeful goddess Ishtar, Gilgamesh travels to the underworld to find an answer to his grief and confront the question of mortality.".
- catalog abstract "A record of Christian missionary attitudes and judgements towards the encounter of European or Southern Christianity with native traditions in the Canadian western arctic. Mission locations (listed p.181) include Aklavik, Old Crow, Coppermine, Hay River etc.".
- catalog abstract "Anne's job prevents her from accompanying her husband on his sabbatical and necessitates engaging live-in help for the children. Anne's discovery of the sitter's unstable condition results in learning a lesson about love.".
- catalog abstract "The daughter of a non-believing Jewish mother and a non-believing gentle father - dedicated Communists both - Davita Chandel, growing up as the world suffers through the Spanish Civil War and World War II, turns to Judaism for consolation and spiritual sustenance.".
- catalog abstract "Collection of feminist texts, poems and essays by 17th century British women.".
- catalog abstract "The soul survivor of the Big Four, and founder of CORE, James Farmer writes to set the record straight regarding the evolution of the civil rights movement and to document the conditions under which Black people lived prior to the movement.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of American poems written for children or traditionally enjoyed by children, by such authors as Longfellow, Poe, Eugene Field, Langston Hughes, Dr. Seuss, and Jack Prelutsky.".
- catalog abstract "An historical study of the roles of Black women examines the weight of racial prejudice and sexual discrimination on the dual responsibilities of Black women as bread winners and guardians of family and community stability.".
- catalog abstract ""Our country has entered on a new epoch of its history," wrote a Whig Party journal in 1849, just after America's triumph in the Mexican War. Indeed, for that romantic generation of Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, the Mexican War was a grand exercise in self-identity: it legitimized the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world. It was easily one of the most popular wars the United States has ever fought. This rich cultural history examines the war's place in the popular imagination of the era. As Robert Johannsen notes, the Mexican War was the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press, as well as the first to be waged against an alien foe in a distant, strange, and exotic land. For mid-century Americans, Johannsen shows, the war provided a window onto the outside world, promoting an awareness--if not an understanding--of a people and a land unlike any they had known before. The war helped to dispel some of the mystery of Mexico, as it generated a huge flood of popular literature, poetry, songs, art, and stage plays. Would-be historians began chronicling the war almost as soon as the first shots were fired, and the war provoked myriad questions about the true nature and purposes of the republic. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride. The book's unique perspective not only adds a new dimension to our understanding of the Mexican War; it offers new insights into American itself.--Publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Includes commentaries on the use and misuse of contemporary words and phrases.".
- catalog abstract "The Imperial Navy of Japan is the only world-class navy in history which had a definite beginning and an equally definite end, covering a span of nearly fifty-one years. Despite its brief life, the Imperial Navy rapidly achieved the status of the world's third greatest navy, and in its last years almost won an even higher position - but instead, in the final contest, lost everything -- [Pref.].".