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- catalog abstract ""This book is about Charles Dickens: about the things he teaches us in his novels, particulary in David Copperfield. The first five chapters of this book are devoted to David Copperfield...The last four chapters are on Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood..." preface.".
- catalog abstract "While exploring a cave, two boys divert the course of a stream and set off a strange chain of events.".
- catalog abstract "Papers.".
- catalog abstract "On the life and works of Śaṅkarācārya, religious reformer and originator of Advaita Vedanta.".
- catalog abstract "On the British occupation of Lushai Hills, present-day Mizoram, India; includes observations on Lushi people.".
- catalog abstract "Proceedings of the conference on Indian national movement, organized by the then Barisal Swades Bandhab Samiti, a socio-political organization in Bengali.".
- catalog abstract "The most recent advances in biblical, archaeological, and topographical scholarship have been incorporated into this long-respected work, bringing it completely up to date and making it essential for all students of biblical history. Annotation. The most recent advances in biblical, archaeological, and topographical scholarship have been incorporated into this long-respected work, bringing it completely up to date and making it essential for all students of biblical history.".
- catalog abstract "Study of college students in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.".
- catalog abstract "This book provides a detailed account of the Third Republic in France between the outbreak and conduct of the First World War and the fall of Leon Blum's 'Front Populaire' soon after Hitler's invasion and annexation of Austria in 1938. Following the trauma of war, France slipped into the 'era of illusions' which, despite the comparative prosperity of the 1920s, led to the slump and the severe social and economic unrest of the 1930S. The short-lived experiment of Blum's 'Front Populaire' gave way to more conservatively based ministries, but by 1938 a new common enemy began to draw together the political opinion of the country.".
- catalog abstract "The revision does stress Wells' influence on the emancipation of women and his influence on futurists. Also, it attempts to summarize early and contemporary criticism and to place old and new directions in perspective.".
- catalog abstract "19th and 20th century American art in the Oakland Museum. Includes articles about the artworks and the artists represented.".
- catalog abstract "Discusses the American response during the first six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.".
- catalog abstract "Comprises law, rules, and court judgements.".
- catalog abstract ""The present translation of the canonical and civil trials of Gilles de Rais is based for the most part on Marie Alphonse René de Maulde La Clavière's edition in Latin and Middle French published in Bossard's Gilles de Rais."--P. 23.".
- catalog abstract "Describes the internal conflicts, hardships, and violence that afflicted the Confederacy during the Civil War.".
- catalog abstract "The author recounts his life and career as a lawyer, Arizona GOP chairman, and U.S. attorney general, and describes the ethical choices he faced during the Watergate affair.".
- catalog abstract "Provides explanation of evolution answering common questions: how life might have come through chemistry; how man and apes share a common ancestor; how the fossil record reveals an evolutionary progression; why Noah's flood couldn't be true.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of thirty-two one-act plays and short dramatic pieces that the author considers some of the best writing he has ever done.".
- catalog abstract ""Short stories, excerpts from novels, and journalistic accounts."".
- catalog abstract "This book traces Ginny Foat's life from her girlhood through an ill-fated conventional marriage to her meeting with Jack Sidote, who she thought was the "man of her dreams". But by the time Ginny discovered his true nature, she was too beaten down to free herself. The story of her life is as dramatic as any novel. Her metamorphosis as a woman is a personal and a feminist triumph. This inspiring story of a human being coming to terms with the past has resonances that speak to us all.".
- catalog abstract "This book is a testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's movements throughout American history. Drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents, the author portrays how black women have transcended racist and sexist attitudes - often confronting white feminists and black male leaders alike - to initiate social and political reform. From the open disregard for the rights of slave women to examples of today's more covert racism and sexism in civil rights and women'sorganizations, the author illuminates the black woman's crusade for equality. In the process, she paints portraits of black female leaders, such as anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells, educator and FDR adviser Mary McLeod Bethune, and the heroic civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, among others, who fought both overt and institutionalized oppression.".
- catalog abstract "In his own words-how Howard Hughes tried to buy America.".
- catalog abstract "Though ranked with Erasmus as one of the leading scholars of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples has not received the scholarly attention due to a man of his intellectual stature and spiritual influence. Author has drawn on the original works and letters of Lefevre and his contemporaries in the ecclesiastical renewal movements in France and his influence on the thought of the Reformers. Hughes traces the transition from Lefevre's early career in philosophical and speculative studies to his single-minded concentration on scriptural exegesis and translation of the Bible into French. He presents in great detail the progression of Lefevre's thought, which blazed the trail that led from the Renaissance to the Reformation"--Back cover.".
- catalog abstract "This superbly organized guide to the 1,600-mile shoreline of Lake Michigan describes 182 historical sites and points of interest. Generously illustrated, it includes historical sketches, keys to recreation, and a large fold-out planner map.".
- catalog abstract "Everyday life in Greenland today illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. Text in Greenlandic, Danish and English.".
- catalog abstract "At once daring and authoritative, this book offers a profusely illustrated history of sexual politics in ancient Athens. The phallus was pictured everywhere in ancient Athens: painted on vases, sculpted in marble, held aloft in gigantic form in public processions, and shown in stage comedies. This obsession with the phallus dominated almost every aspect of public life, influencing law, myth, and customs, affecting family life, the status of women, even foreign policy. This is the first book to draw together all the elements that made up the "reign of the phallus"--men's blatant claim to general dominance, the myths of rape and conquest of women, and the reduction of sex to a game of dominance and submission, both of women by men and of men by men. In her elegant and lucid text Eva Keuls not only examines the ideology and practices that underlay the reign of the phallus, but also uncovers an intense counter-movement--the earliest expressions of feminism and antimilitarism. -- Publisher description (1993 ed.).".
- catalog abstract "Attorney Matthew Hope takes on the case of beautiful heiress Sarah Whitaker, who is fighting court-ordered and family-supported commitment as a paranoid schizophrenic, and enters a world of delusion and murder.".
- catalog abstract "Catherine Collins was the belle of her upper-middle-class Catholic clique on Chicago's North Shore, whose struggles to find herself led her to a stormy career as a nun, a disastrous marriage, a stint as a Catholic revolutionary, and possibly death in Central America.".
- catalog abstract "Kwajo's father makes traditional small figures. One day, he makes him a little brass drummer who comes alive and transforms Kwajo into a land of proverbs and riddles. It is a land where the figures represent money, and the people are citizens in a powerful kingdom. Kwajo is tempted by riches but must first solve a series of riddles and symbols. He fails at the last test, but learns an important lesson.".
- catalog abstract "Someone is trying to kill Travis McGee, someone linked to southern Florida's drug traffickers--either Miami's old-time underworld or the new generation of Latino drug barons--and in order to save his own life, McGee must detonate a drug war.".
- catalog abstract "A sourcebook presenting information on 225 religious bodies, their beliefs, and work.".
- catalog abstract "Badlands, glacier, Grand Teton, Rocky Nountain, Theodore Roosevelt, Wind cave, Yellowstone.".
- catalog abstract "A study of the need for the feminine qualities in church and society.".
- catalog abstract "Contributed articles on the interaction of Christianity and Buddhism.".
- catalog abstract "Describes Grey's experiences in Arizona, looks at his use of Arizona settings in his westerns, and discusses his film work and the background of his stories.".
- catalog abstract "A study not of the institution of the Church but of Christianity itself, this book explores the Christian people, their beliefs, and their way of life, providing a new understanding of Western Christianity at the time of the Reformation. Bossy begins with a systematic exposition of traditional or pre-Reformation Christianity, exploring the forces that tended to undermine it, the characteristics of the Protestant and Catholic regimes that superseded it, and the fall-out that resulted from its disintegration. - Publisher.".
- catalog abstract "A history of the Boy Scouts written for their 75th anniversary.".
- catalog abstract "Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries presents the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry and the reformulation of the foundations of Euclidean geometry.".
- catalog abstract "Spine title: Volume 1, A-D.A portrait of British authors.".
- catalog abstract "Focusing on the Vaiden family of northern Alabama, The Forge depicts "the changes forced on life in the South by the war and its aftermath."--Intro., p.x.".
- catalog abstract "This book brings together a variety of experiences and adventures from the travels of the best-selling author to such places as Corsica, Burma, Cape Cod, East Africa, Afghanistan, a leper colony, and the New York subways.".
- catalog abstract "Things are starting to look up for struggling San Francisco private eye Amos McGuffin when he is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of Ben Volper, a maverick Hollywood movie producer. Is it really suicide, or could it be a publicity stunt? Or is it murder? The prospect of meeting Volper's voluptuous wife, screen goddess Jenny Lang, is just one of the perks in a case that takes Amos through the high and low places of Tinseltown.".
- catalog abstract "An evaluation of the effectiveness of the State Employees' Insurance Scheme.".
- catalog abstract "Widely regarded as a standard in the field, G. Edward White's Tort Law in America is a concise and accessible history of the way legal scholars and judges have conceptualized the subject of torts, the reasons that changes in certain rules and doctrines have ocurred, and the people who brought about these changes. White approaches his subject from four perspectives: intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge, the phenomenon of professionalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America, and the recurrent concerns of tort law since its emergence as a discrete field. He puts the intellectual history of this unique branch of law into the general picture of philosophy, sociology, and literature in what is not only a major work of legal scholarship but also a tour de force for anyone interested in American intellectual history.".
- catalog abstract "This is the first book-length treatment of mathematical models of muscle functions. Although physiologists, biophysicists, and bioengineers often mention these models, particularly the important Huxley models, Thomas A. McMahon is the first completely to explain them. He addresses the questions "What makes the force in muscle?" and "How is this force controlled?" with precision and clarity, explaining his assumptions and retaining the steps in derivations so that the reader clearly understands the capabilities and limitations of the models. Using this procedure, he discusses, among other topics, the workings of the muscle spindle organ, the enhancement of running speed by "tuned track", and the evolutionary implications of scale. This book provides a framework for the many basic studies related to locomotion, which range from basic muscle mechanics and thermodynamics to coordinated motion. The author develops his comprehensive description of terrestrail animal locomoation by intergrating evidence from biochemical, physiological, morphological, and mechanical studies, without ignoring the complex ways in which these factors interact in the face of constraints imposed by size.".
- catalog abstract "Digest of Hindu ritualistic codes.".
- catalog abstract "The Soviets' new ballistic-missile submarine is attempting to defect to the United States, but the Soviet Atlantic fleet has been ordered to find and destroy her at all costs. Can Red October reach the U.S. safely?".
- catalog abstract "This is an authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America, from the first contacts between native American peoples and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day.".
- catalog abstract "Contributions from ten specialists to a symposium at the 1959 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the American Folklore Society.".
- catalog abstract "Essays discuss musicology, music theory and criticism, the historical performance movement, and a variety of current musical research.".
- catalog abstract "La dernière guerre, Marguerite Duras lʹa vécue tout à la fois comme femme dont le mari avait été déporté, comme résistante, mais aussi, comme écrivain. Lucide, étonnée, désespérée parfois, elle a, pendant ces années, tenu un journal, écrit des textes que lui inspirait tout ce quʹelle voyait, ce quʹelle vivait, les gens quʹelle rencontrait ou affrontait.".
- catalog abstract "In Pro Femina, she writes: "From Sappho to myself, consider the fate of women. / How unworthy to discuss it! Like a noose ... / Juvenal set us apart in denouncing / our vices / Which had grown, in part, from / having been set apart: / Women abused their spouses, / cuckolded them, even plotted / To poison them ..."".
- catalog abstract "Verse work on the cult of Dattātreya, mystic exponent of the Mahanubhavas, Hindu sect.".
- catalog abstract "A series of questions for the reader to answer about himself: "I have [teeth] up top. I have [teeth] downstairs."".
- catalog abstract "Classical digest for Vaishnava rituals, based on Pādmasaṃhitā, canonical text.".
- catalog abstract "A study of role conflict in an engineering workshop at Visakhapatnam Port.".
- catalog abstract ""The fact that it does not take a great mind to be a great teacher ought to be a comfort to many presently teaching. Moses Waddel, one of the most successful of American teachers, the south's greatest educator, illustrates this. His mind was conventional and his thinking largely unoriginal"--p. 1.".
- catalog abstract "On Hindu astrology and rituals.".
- catalog abstract "Medieval decorative and ornamental arts of the Hindu tradition.".
- catalog abstract ""These poems and stories provide a voice for the authentic Alaska with its three distinct countries: the Southeast coastal towns that survive on timber and fishing industries, the Northern cities with their pipeline money and growing pains, and the Interior Alaska that few white Americans can ever really know ... Through these stories and poems, we may glimpse the meaning of a Tlingit burial, life in the canneries, the death of a smoke-jumper, or the life of the imagination in the far north."".
- catalog abstract "Catalog of books on British India, 1672-1947; British Council organized exhibition collection at the custody of the India International Centre Library.".
- catalog abstract ""In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley's landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh, Sara Parton, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Virginia Terhune, Susan Warner, and Augusta Evans Wilson. These women shared more than commercial success. Collectively they created fictions that Kelley terms "literary domesticity," books that both embraced and called into question the complicated expectations shaping the lives of so many nineteenth-century women. Matured in a culture of domesticity and dismissed by a male writing establishment, they struggled to reconcile public recognition with the traditional roles of wife and mother. Drawing on the 200 volumes of published prose and on the letters, diaries, and journals of these writers, Kelley explores the tensions that accompanied their unprecedented literary success."--Google Books (re: new edition).".
- catalog abstract ""By tracing the experience of yeoman farmers in the Georgia Upcountry, the author offers a new and challenging perspective on the rise of agrarian radicalism in the late nineteenth-century South."--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "Indexes.".
- catalog abstract "On the first of September 1939 forty-five German divisions supported by 15,000 aircraft attacked Poland and two weeks later, under the terms of the Nazi - Soviet agreement, the Russians occupied eastern Poland. Thus this strife-torn country was divided for the fourth time. Witold Sagajllo, an officer in the Polish navy, decided, after the crushing defeat of Polish resistance to invasion on two fronts, that the only honourable thing to do was to escape to Britain where he would be able to continue the fight with the Polish forces in exile. This however proved to be an impossible dream and he soon found himself playing a vital part in the Polish underground resistance, fighting on two fronts against the Germans and the Russians: indeed a man in the middle. This is a dramatic account of how groups of Resistance fighters attempted to keep their country alive. Had he been caught, no doubt he would have ended up, as thousands did, in the Katyn forests or at very best in the labour camps. That he was not caught, that he fought a brilliant and private war against both his enemies, and that he was eventually able to bring his family out of Poland across a devastated Europe, through Italy and eventually to Great Britain, is a measure exceptionally brave man. Now living quietly in the English countryside, enjoying his hard-won freedom, he must still contemplate, with dismay, the eternal struggle against monstrous tyranny of his beloved countrymen. -- from dust jacket.".
- catalog abstract "From the Pilgrims to the present, 2,300 of the best quotations about American life.".
- catalog abstract "A lifelong resident of southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa, Paul Gruchow celebrated the few scattered patches of prairie land that remain in a region once dominated by grasslands. Gruchow recorded his thoughts, observations, and experiences in each season on the prairie, eventually compiling them into this moving chronicle of a sometimes harsh but always stunning landscape. Be it the bitter winds of winter, the return of the geese in spring, or the first pasque flower, the cycles of growth on the prairie have the power to move and inspire lovers of nature.".
- catalog abstract "Following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, the cult of the saints was the dominant form of religion in Christian Europe. In this elegantly written work, Peter Brown explores the role of tombs, shrines, relics, and pilgrimages connected with the sacred bodies of the saints. He shows how men and women living in harsh and sometimes barbaric times relied upon the merciful intercession of the holy dead to obtain justice, forgiveness, and to find new ways to accept their fellows. Challenging the common treatment of the cult as an outbreak of superstition among the lower classes, Brown demonstrates how this form of religiousity engaged the finest minds of the Church and elicited from members of the educated upper classes some of their most splendid achievements in poetry, literature, and the patronage of the arts. "Brown has an international reputation for his fine style, a style he here turns on to illuminate the cult of the saints. Christianity was born without such a cult; it took rise and that rise needs chronicling. Brown has a gift for the memorable phrase and sees what the passersby have often overlooked. An eye-opener on an important but neglected phase of Western development."{u2014}The Christian Century. "Brilliantly original and highly sophisticated. . . . [The Cult of the Saints] is based on great learning in several disciplines, and the story is told with an exceptional appreciation for the broad social context. Students of many aspects of medieval culture, especially popular religion, will want to consult this work."{u2014}Bennett D. Hill, Library Journal.".
- catalog abstract "A bilingual dictionary containing 200,000 entries.".
- catalog abstract "The forty-eight American and Asian witnesses who recount their stories in this book are survivors of a great cataclysm, the Vietnam War. The veterans, refugees, and officials who speak here come from widely divergent backgrounds yet combine to narrate a synchronous chronicle, a human-scale history of the war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Reading their narratives, we hear them reliving crucial moments in the preparation, execution, and aftermath of war. We hear POW Dan Pitzer learning of the American buildup from his bamboo cage; Viet Cong operative Nguyen Tuong Lai describing a terrorist run into Saigon; Cambodian teacher Kassie Neou charming his executioners with fairy tales learned from the BBC. Their experiences in extreme circumstances of war, revolution, and imprisonment provide an epic drama of heroism in the midst of tragedy. This book gives not only riveting eyewitness accounts of the war, but reclaims from this tragic continuum larger patterns of courage and dedication. -- from Book Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "The first essay examines the aftermath of slavery in Haiti and the British Caribbean, and also looks briefly at early twentieth-century racial and economic relations in southern and eastern Africa; The second essay turns to how the issues and patterns prevalent in the Caribbean and Africa were duplicated in the postemancipation United States; The third essay examines a specific set of events during American Reconstruction, the strikes of rice workers along the Combahee River in South Carolina, to illustrate how many issues were resolved at the local level. The purpose of this book, then, was to examine crucial aspects of the forging of a new social order in the aftermath of slavery.--Excerpted from the Introduction pp. 1-3.".
- catalog abstract "Traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of the infamous outbreak of plague that spread across Europe from 1347 to 1351.".
- catalog abstract "In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations-primarily religious and political-that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac vividly recreates and painstakingly dissects a society in the turmoil of profound inner change.".
- catalog abstract "A guide to taped interviews given by 73 prominent persons who reside in Singapore. Short phases are used to indicated the contents of different reels of audio tape made as part of the Oral History Programme of the Archives and Oral History Department. Interviewees included had arrived in Singapore before the Second World War.".
- catalog abstract "The author reminds us that our Christian stories are at the heart of the faith. Without these stories, formulated doctrines and theological systems would be bereft of meaning and substance. With the breadth of bright Vision, he explains what story theology is al about; and he tells us why it is gripping the minds and hearts of so many.".
- catalog abstract "Lists basic concepts, provides brief explanations of standard topics, presents definitions of 2,500 terms and includes 500 diagrams.".
- catalog abstract "Reexamines the 1921 murder case that resulted in the execution of the two anarchists, argues that they were innocent, and suggests a possible solution to the crime.".
- catalog abstract ""Eine Untersuchung der Anwendbarkeit der Genfer und Haager Konventionen anhand der Konflikte in Afghanistan, Angola, Kampuchea, im Libanon und im Tschad."".
- catalog abstract "An inventory of seed catalogs -- listing all non-hybrid vegetable and garden seeds still available in the United States and Canada.".
- catalog abstract "Traces the history of sculpture from 1776 to 1905 and examines the impact of social changes on the art of sculpture.".
- catalog abstract "Discusses eight basic practices characteristic of successfully managed companies.".
- catalog abstract "Sponsored by American Association of School Administrators.".
- catalog abstract "Model of Ontario's mining industry, which traces the impact of changes in taxation and in environmental legislation on mineral resource activities.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence of kings, bishops, Popes, knights, noblemen, royal servants, Exchequer, Privy Seal Office, and Lord Chancellors covering the reigns of King John to King Henry VIII. Relates to such topics as diplomatic relations between Britain and France, political struggles between king and barons, ecclesiastical elections, the seiging of castles, etc.".
- catalog abstract "Ashe offers convincing proof that Arthur not only existed, but was more like the Arthur of legend than historians ever suspected.".
- catalog abstract "Discusses the origin and nature of comets, the latest theories surrounding them, and answers questions for the general reader.".
- catalog abstract "Some issues accompanied by supplements called Anexo único.".
- catalog abstract "Details recent advances in neuroscience that have yielded a more accurate understanding of the brain's functions and malfunctions and, in turn, have moved psychiatry away from psychotherapy and into the mainstream biological traditions of medicine.".
- catalog abstract "Mss., including chronicles, geneologies, letters, and various documents chiefly related to land, law, politics, and religion.".
- catalog abstract ""...The view of Kangra society...present[ed] is one seen through the eyes of the higher castes.".".
- catalog abstract ""Proceedings of the 11th IVR World Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy ... held on August 14-20, 1983 in Helsinki"--Introd.".
- catalog abstract ""This book gives a comprehensive account of the principles of temperature measurement from 0.5 K to 3,000 K. New knowledge gained over the past twenty-five years is collated, and developments and methods in one area are compared and contrasted with those in others to show the overall unity of the subject. An outline is given of the physics underlying the principal methods described."--Back cover.".
- catalog abstract "Describes the problems with acid rain and discusses possible solutions.".
- catalog abstract "In thid book the author shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times.".
- catalog abstract "Essays on literature -- American writers -- English writers.".
- catalog abstract "The story of an affair between a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old French girl and her Chinese lover.".
- catalog abstract "Tells the ongoing story of the progressive discovery by man of the nature of the observable world and universe.".
- catalog abstract "The seemingly innocuous purchase of a new pair of glasses changes Mr. Newman's appearance enough to alter the reactions of his once accepting friends and neighbors in 1945 New York City.".
- catalog abstract "Report of a study conducted under the auspices of the Center for the Book.".
- catalog abstract "Archaeological findings at the Mahabalipuram Village in Chingleput District, Tamil Nadu.".