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- catalog abstract "Poem in praise of Chaitanya, 1486-1534, Vaishnavite leader from Bengal.".
- catalog abstract "On the role of the press in India, 1780-1835.".
- catalog abstract "Hymns to Sri Venkatesvara, Hindu deity.".
- catalog abstract "Cartwright Township became part of Scugog Township, Ontario County, in 1974.".
- catalog abstract "In this book the author uses his personal experience and outside study to discuss the Hare Krishna religious movement's current relevance and history in America.".
- catalog abstract "This is intended to provide a comprehensive and dispassionate evaluation of the policies and operations of the multilateral development banks (MDBs) and, by applying the Administration's basic policy preferences and priorities to the findings, to establish a policy and budgetary framework for U.S. participation in these institutions in the 1980s. The study focuses on four institutions -- the World Bank Group, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the African Development Bank (AFDB). The first part of the assessment discusses the role of the MDBs in the international economic system, criticisims which have been raised regarding the MDBs, the extent to which MDB operations contribute to U.S. interest, and the ability of the United States to exercise effective leadership within the institutions. Attention is then directed to the development rationale which underlies our approach to improving MDB effectiveness. The second part of the assessment provides policy recommendations for future U.S. participation in the MDBs, and illustrates the relationship between the budgetary implications of this policy direction and the lending operation of the institutions.".
- catalog abstract "Represents the most comprehensive attempt to date to examine the image of Buddha Sakyamuni as interpreted in the various cultura and historical contexts where Buddhism has flourished.".
- catalog abstract "Library Journal: This book provides historical perspective on two of today's important public issues: farm income and hunger. It analyzes the origins of a national food assistance policy during the Thirties, when an attempt to solve the seeming paradox of simultaneous hunger and food surplus drove much of the public debate. Poppendieck demonstrates that food programs came to be seen by an organized farm lobby as a way of alleviating huge farm commodity surpluses. Unraveling the interrelated and complex agricultural and assistance policies, particularly for those unfamiliar with the terminology and bureaucracy, requires a good deal of skill. Poppendieck largely succeeds. The story she tells of good intentions gone bad, however, does not offer much hope for policy solutions to current farm and hunger problems.".
- catalog abstract "Whether you write letters, term papers, or novels, this famous manual can help you communicate more effectively.".
- catalog abstract "History of the Inuit of Quaqtaq in northern Quebec during the last 40 years.".
- catalog abstract "On May 17, 1980, one of the ugliest incidents of racial violence in U.S. history rocked the city of Miami, and sent shock waves across the nation. On that date, an all-white jury acquitted five white police officers of charges of manslaughter in the death of black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie. The verdict precipitated a riot by black residents of Liberty City and other Miami neighborhoods. Before order was restored three days later, eighteen people were dead. Eight of the victims were whites who had the misfortune to be driving through the riot area when the verdict was announced, and who were savagely beaten, stoned, stabbed, or burned to death by black rioters- while hundreds more looked passively on. In this vivid, shocking account, the authors trace the long, sordid history of race relations in Miami that preceded and in many ways foreordained the riot. From interviews, public reports, and census data, the authors dissect the riot in compelling, minute-by-minute detail, and examine the aftermath, when the devastated community began to pick up the pieces. -- Publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Explains how to start out as a journalist and lists the requirements of a successful news story.".
- catalog abstract "This elegant and provocative book is perhaps more important now than when it was first published. The three essays that comprised the first edition developed a remarkable discourse between ancient Greek and modern conceptions of democracy, in the belief that each society could help us understand the other. To the original three essays, Sir M.I. Finley has added two that clarify and elaborate the thinking of the first edition. The two new essays, "Athenian Dialogues" and "Censorship in Classical Antiquity" combine with "Leaders and Followers," "Democracy, Consensus, and the National Interest," "Socrates and After" to make this book an unusual inquiry. Few contemporary writers are able to bring to the subject the depth of learning and the persuasive power of language that Sir M.I. Finley brings.".
- catalog abstract "Toward the uplift of the socially and economically underprivileged people in Maharashtra, 1895-1922.".
- catalog abstract "Verse enumeration of one thousand names of Rāmānuja, 1017-1137, Vaishnavite leader.".
- catalog abstract "Hymns to Tārā, Hindu deity.".
- catalog abstract "Six lectures discuss the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, the workings of the brain, the mental aspect of human action, prediction of human behavior, and free will.".
- catalog abstract "Doctoral thesis. Discusses shamanism and initiation of the Inuit groups of Asia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland from the perspective of shaman's, rather than from the laity's point of view.".
- catalog abstract "Irish cousins both fall in love with same man. Francie is young and attractive; Charlotte, middle-aged and plain.".
- catalog abstract "Facsimiles of oldest accounts of the city of Mechelen.".
- catalog abstract "Includes the transactions of the American Surgical Association, New York Surgical Society, Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, Southern Surgical Association, Central Surgical Association, and at various times, of other similar organizations.".
- catalog abstract "The second report from "A Study of High Schools," based on interviews with teachers, students and parents.".
- catalog abstract "Paul David Nelson has written an exciting biography of an exciting figure -- the military hero of the American Revolution and the Indian Wars in the Northwest Territory -- "Mad" Anthony Wayne. Some of his contemporaries called him rash and impetuous, a braggart and a dandy. "More active and enterprising than judicious and cautious" was George Washington's verdict. True, Wayne had a flair for the dramatic and consciously acted the role of swashbuckler, but he proved himself one of the best and most successful military leaders of the early American republic. Despite his reputation for madness, Wayne, as Nelson points out, was a prudent and careful officer whose military record belies the myth. When he ran out of wars to fight, Wayne turned to the political arena. Nelson shows that the qualities which made Wayne a great military leader served him well in politics. He proved himself articulate and shrewd in statecraft in a critical time for the young republic, the years just after ratification of the Constitution. - Publisher.".
- catalog abstract "Study of Warangal District, Andhra Pradesh.".
- catalog abstract "Festschrift to E.R. Sreekrishna Sarma, b. 1922, Sanskritist; comprises articles Indological topics.".
- catalog abstract "Poem on the life and activities of Swami Kr̥ṣṇānandadāsa, 1883-1942, Vaishnava religious leader.".
- catalog abstract "Tribute to Bangalore Venkat Raman, b. 1913, astrologer from Karnataka; comprises articles on his life and work.".
- catalog abstract "In his study of the Allied blockade of 1915-1919, Vincent examines the rationale and impact of this first large-scale use of food as a weapon in the twentieth century. Vincent demonstrates that the collapse of the German war effort was induced as much by prolonged hunger as by military reversal. Under blockade since 1915, the starving Germans were, by 1918, in a state of growing anarchy. Remarkably, however, the armistice ending hostilities specifically required the continuation of the blockade until such time as German signatures had been affixed to a peace treaty.".
- catalog abstract "Photographic interpretation of the seashore environment from Baja California to Southeast Alaska.".
- catalog abstract "Examines the history and inherent flaws of the tests science has used to measure intelligence.".
- catalog abstract ""What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism ... not only a poetics of reading ... but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading ... Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in our reading as against the indifference of (mere) knowledge."--Richard Howard.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of documents issued May 1978/May 1980- relating to the activities of Federal agencies.".
- catalog abstract ""An idiosyncratic review of the most exciting modern music--new wave to no wave, hardcore to hip-hop."--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "In this thoughtful study, historian and opera lover Robinson relates music to the history of ideas by analyzing several major operas: The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville, Les Troyens, Don Carlo, Die Meistersinger, and Der Rosenkavalier. He also considers two Schubert song cycles. Robinson's thesis is that composers' attitudes toward society, philosophy, and politics have influenced the musical/dramatic structure of many operas.".
- catalog abstract "The Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" music critic provides anecdotal accounts of the lives and times of thirty-nine musical superstars--from the castrate to Pavarotti and Horowitz.".
- catalog abstract "Traces the life of the controversial American socialist and social reformer and assesses his role in American history.".
- catalog abstract "Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw.".
- catalog abstract ""Ronald Reagan owes much of his astounding political success to his unusual rhetorical powers. Using modern day folktales and sweeping sagas of grand adventure, Reagan reduces the unarguably complex issues of our times to simple allegories of good and evil ... [Author] exposes the technique used by Reagan and his staff to manipulate their audience. We see how Regan skillfully alters facts, makes history into allegory, creates 'stock' characters who personify good and evil and uses metaphors, myths and anecdotes to convince the public this way is the only just and moral way. He reduces questions about economic planning, constitutional interpretation, and national defense to the most basic emotional level ... critique of the effects of speechifying it is also a fascinating analysis of the persona of the American public. WE see how Reagan carefully listens to what America wants to hear--easy answers, a simple way out, a guarantee America is number one--and creates the character which personifies these qualities. Reagan has thus become America's projected hero--and to vote against his is to vote against America--and this book tells how he skillfully used his rhetorical genius to capture the American electorate."--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract ""In order to be truly free, must you act arbitrarily? If an event did not happen, could it have happened? Since there is evil, and God could have made the world without evil, did God fail to pick the best course? Grappling with such simple£yet still intriguing£puzzles, Leibniz was able to present attractively his new theories of the real and the phenomenal, freewill and determinism, and the relation between minds and bodies. Theodicy was Leibniz's only book-length work to be published in his lifetime, and for many years the work by which he was known to the world. Fully at home with the latest scientific advances, Leibniz ultimately rejected the new atomistic philosophies of Descartes, Gassendi, and Hobbes, and drew upon the old cosmology of Aristotelian scholasticism. There could be no conflict, he argued, between faith and reason, freedom and necessity, natural and divine law. Ingeniously defending his postulate of pre-established harmony, Leibniz made important advances in the precise analysis of concepts"--Publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "The book is divided into sections with seminal papers from each decade. The preface of each section, written by the editor, places each paper in it's historical context and making for a fascinating story of an aspect of the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatry in America.".
- catalog abstract "Gathers the classic articles on the subject of depression. It includes pieces by such core figures as Karl Abraham, Sigmund Freud, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Martin E. P. Seligman, Aaron T. Beck, and George Winokur. The volume is broken into four parts: Psychodynamic Approaches; Behavioral and Cognitive Approaches; Interpersonal and Social Approaches; and Biomedical Approaches.".
- catalog abstract "The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America. This is a book about two remarkable men-Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney woods country of northern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. From modest origins, they rose together in the early years of the Great Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era.".
- catalog abstract "This study examines the development and interrelatedness of Bonhoeffer's hermeneutic, Christology, and understanding of the world.".
- catalog abstract "Since the 6th century, this has been one of the most influential documents of Western thought and civilization. Full of plain wisdom, the words of St. Benedict are a guide for work, prayer, study, and community life.".
- catalog abstract "A history of the buildings created during the Age of elegance, telling who the builders were and why they built what they did - Chapters are arranged by neighbourhood - Grand Central Station - Smithsonian Institute - Fifth Avenue - Beaux-Arts design.".
- catalog abstract ""From areas as large as the Hudson Valley and Yosemite National Park to those as small as the Fens in Boston and Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Valley, Walter Creese analyzes the historical essence of eight distinguished American sites and their architecture."--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "Explores color theory for making planting decisions. Examples are shown in 80 color photographs, grouped by month. Also helps with soil preparation, division of plants, and the use of evergreens, rocks, and other structural elements.".
- catalog abstract "Sunbreaker shelter, sun and shade trellis, trellis room, rose arbor, lath house pavilion, bamboo sliding screen, garden house, tree house, gazebos, decks, porches, timber steps, bench, foldaway table on balustrade or wall, folding loveseat and bench, cupboard with letdown table, privacy fence with letdown table, breakfront for plants, demountable bench, adjustable lazy lounge, patio tables, captain's bench, garden benches, roll-away service cart, country-style cupboard-table, portable plant shelves, storage garden bench, potting bench, push-around potting bench, pegboard workbench, pattern-stamped patio, garden steps, pebble mosaic paving, driveways, decorative brick planters, swimming pool, patio pool, garden walls.".
- catalog abstract "Traces the history of the hotel, a French style of town house, and examines its influence on the development of modern architecture.".
- catalog abstract "Hindu philosophical classic, with 15th century Viśiṣṭādvaita commentary.".
- catalog abstract "For over two decades Richard Schechner has written about the theater in a manner which ignores the dreary convention of drama as literature and which instead draws attention to the physical fact of live performance. In his recent book, Between Theater and Anthropology, Schechner considers live events or aspects of live events which fall outside common Euro-American definitions of dramatic performance and theater. He broadens the idea of 'performance' to include a wide range of social, ritual, and media activities: East Indian ritual dancing, trance-inducing spiritual song, stories on the Six O'clock News, S/M parlors and sideshows, and numerous other paratheatrical events - scripted and un-scripted, ritual and aesthetic, domestic and exotic. The seven essays included in Between Theater and Anthropology do not build upon each other in a progressive fashion: instead they individually explore unorthodox performance modes proposed in the introductory chapter. This first chapter illuminates 'Points of Contact' between the studies of theater and anthropology. Theater people can help anthropologists identify what to look for in a training or performance situation; and anthropologists can help theater people see performances within the context of specific social systems.".
- catalog abstract "Verse work on the uses of mercury, sulphur, and metals in ayurvedic system of Indic medicine.".
- catalog abstract "Life and works of Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja, 17th century Sanskrit poet and rhetorician.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly constitutional history.".
- catalog abstract "Apresenta panorama atual da pena de morte na grã-bretanha, estados unidos, espanha, frança, vaticano, argentina, chile, mexico, nos paises socialistas, na asia, africa e australia, no conselho da europa, nas nações unidas e orgãos internacionais.".
- catalog abstract "Issues before 1978: published as a subseries of World Health Organization, Official records.".
- catalog abstract "The authors present an elementary and exceptionally lucid introduction to issues in measurement theory. They define and discuss validity and reliability; proceed to a discussion of three basic types of validity, including criterion, content, and construct validity; present an introductory discussion of classical test theory, with an emphasis on parallel measures; and present a clear discussion of four methods of reliability estimation, including the test-retest, alternative form, split-half, and internal consistency methods of reliability assessment. The text is concluded with a discussion of the use of reliability assessment for purposes of correcting bivariate correlations for attenuation due to random measurement error.".
- catalog abstract "This new edition has been thoroughly revised, expanded and updated. In particular, it contains an entirely new section on the Selection of Cost-Benefit Criteria which illuminates the basic rationale of the economic calculus. In addition, the second half of the section on Investment Criteria has been radically altered to produce a more crisp and lucid treatment of the essentials. It contains a general critique of the DPV method with regard to the more recent contributions to this controversial literature. Finally this new section tackles the inter-generation problem involved in long-term projects, a problem that has so far been evaded in the literature on investment criteria.".
- catalog abstract "Alexander Breckinridge, "the Ancestor", immigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1728. John Breckinridge (1760-1806) was the grandson of the clan's founder. Descendants and relatives lived in Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. This family history is presented in a significantly meaningful involvement of the clan in the range of American history and society, as well as the production of notable leaders.".
- catalog abstract "Robert Polk came to America from Donegal, Ireland and settled on the eastern shores of Maryland. From here, his descendants scattered over the new colonies from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania to Mecklenberg County, North Carolina. Here Taylor Polk was born in 1780. He was the fourth generation of Polks born in America. The Polks moved to Tennessee and eventually to what would become Arkansas.".
- catalog abstract "God's covenant with Israel has been a central theme in the study of the Old Testament since ancient times and has been a particularly prominent issue in biblical study during the last hundred years. This book shows that the debate over the covenant held during the last century has made it possible for us to see far more clearly than before how crucial the covenant idea was in the development of the faith of Israel. Far from being merely one among a wide range of terms and ideas that emerged and flourished, "covenant" is a central theme that provided a unique way of looking at the relationship between God and his chosen people. --From publisher's description.".
- catalog abstract "Donated.".
- catalog abstract "A novel about black Americans in Florida that centers on the life of Janie and her 3 marriages.".
- catalog abstract "Although the lines of the palm of the hand are barely visible in the early light, the monks of the Tofukuji monastery have been about their familiar rounds of daily tasks for several hours. Their routine is simple but faithfully practiced. Within its repetition lies the key to the self and the Buddha who resides within. The daily life of the monastery is portrayed here in ninety-seven watercolor sketches. Drawn during his last years by the Zen monk Giei Sato, these sketches recollect his days as an unsui, an apprentice monk. With humor and steadfast warmth Sato depicts the day of leaving home and the day of returning; the rainy season and the snowy season; the chores, the rainy season and the snowy season; the chores, the celebrations, the days of cleaning, and the days of begging. Each of the charming drawings is enhanced by a brief description of the event portrayed, a touch of Zen teaching, or a note on monastic life.".
- catalog abstract "Country reports, with reference to selected countries from all the continents.".
- catalog abstract "Treatise on Vaishnava rituals of the Chaitanya sect; part deals with daily rites.".
- catalog abstract "Commentary, with text, on the Yogasūtra by Patañjali, basic aphoristic text of Yoga; with Hindi exposition based on the commentary ascribed to Śaṅkarācārya.".
- catalog abstract "One of the great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt and revenge. Prompted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches and goaded by his ambitious wife, the Scottish thane Macbeth murders Duncan, King of Scotland, in order to succeed him on the throne. This foul deed soon entangles the conscience-stricken nobleman in a web of treachery, deceit and more murders that ultimately spells his doom.".
- catalog abstract "A comprehensive picture of the role of Antarctica in world affairs to-day. Focuses on its colourful, conflict-ridden history, the unique political arrangements that have deterred conflict there for 25 years, its resource potential as seen by experts and interested countries, and the ecological consequences there of developing natural resources, both mineral and biological.".
- catalog abstract "Presents industry reviews including a section of "trends and forecasts," complete with tables and graphs for industry analysis.".
- catalog abstract "The New Grove Dictionary of American Music is the most comprehensive and enlightening history of America's musical heritage ever published. American Grove is focused solely on the unique styles and traditions of American music. It covers popular musical forms such as country, rock, pop, soul, folk, blues, jazz, bluegrass, and big band. It explores America's vibrant classical heritage--from colonial times to John Cage--and also provides substantial articles on the traditional music of diverse cultures such as Native Americans, Jewish Americans, and Islamic Americans. The Dictionary investigates the social, cultural, and historical forces that shaped our distinctive musical identity--from the Civil War to the impact of pop culture ... the rise of technology to the plurality of religions ... from the supremacy of film to the evolution of the civil rights movement. The New Grove Dictionary of American Music includes: 3,500 biographies of significant composers, performers, singer-songwriters, impresarios, conductors, writers, producers, publishers and patrons--including foreign-born musicians who settled in America, Entries on American cities as diverse as Miami, New Orleans, Nashville, Los Angeles, and Anchorage, Wide-ranging survey articles on specialized forms of music including patriotic music, film music, vaudeville, and early music revival, Ground-breaking articles on general topics such as copyright, broadcasting, music therapy, and education, Comprehensive listings of music libraries, societies, institutions, periodicals, discographies, festivals, and awards.--Publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Poor Ethyl Mae Coco is the "victim of a vendetta by the neighboring beauty college, whose head operator, Gyrene LaSteele, is just convinced that Ethyl Mae is responsible for the criminal carryings-on that are disrupting the neighborhood" of North Gladiola, Tula Springs, Louisiana.--Cover.".
- catalog abstract "Observed by a ghost of the Vietnam War for one million years, the descendants of survivors of a cruise to the Galapagos Archipielago prove Darwin's Theory of Evolution. The ghost of a shipbuilder tells the story of an ill-fated cruise to the Galapagos Islands.".
- catalog abstract "This biographical interpretation examines the interplay of Freud's inner life, his fantasies and dreams, with the world around him. The author traces Freud's intellection evolution from childhood to the period at the turn of the century when he laid down the theoretical foundations of psychoanalysis in The interpretation of dreams.".
- catalog abstract "Contains exact reproductions of the decisions reported in the "current volume" of the Life, health and accident unit of the Insurance law reporters.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of the proceedings of the 9th- meeting.".
- catalog abstract "Seventeenth century supercommentary on Anumānakhaṇḍa part dealing with inference (anumāna), from Tattvacintāmaṇidīdhiti, 16th century commentary, by Raghunātha Śiromaṇi on Tattvacintamaṇi, 13th century basic work of the neo-Nyaya school in Indic philosophy.".
- catalog abstract ""A Contribution to Project '87."".
- catalog abstract "Includes introduction to the works of the author by Evelyn Underhill.".
- catalog abstract "A comedy built around the Jerome family during the Depression and focusing on fifteen-year-old, Eugene, preoccupied with sex and the Yankees.".
- catalog abstract "This book is characterized by narrative vitality and emotional range. & In Wetherell's stories a suburban retiree's assumptions about the ethos of Long Island life are challenged and dismissed by a younger generation, a young English woman achieves miracles by dancing with wounded soldiers during World War II, a tennis-mad bachelor plays an interior game as real to him as an actual match, and a black drifter converts an Asian couple to his bleak vision of American life and finds strange kinship with them.".
- catalog abstract "Significance of Saptapakī, Hindu marriage rite.".
- catalog abstract "Christian saints - Women - Italy - Catherine of SienaJo_".
- catalog abstract "Hymn to Tripurasundarī, Hindu deity.".
- catalog abstract "Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the great visual artists of the cinema. The central and distinguishing strength of Antonioni's mature films, Seymour Chatman argues, is narration by a kind of visual minimalism, by an intense concentration on the sheer appearance of things and a rejection of explanatory dialogue. Though traditional audiences have balked at the "opacity" of Antonioni's films, it is precisely their rendered surface that is so eloquent once one learns to read it. Not despite, but through, their silences the films show a deep concern with the motives, perceptions and vicissitudes of the emotional life. This study covers films not dealt with in any other book on the great director, including Il mistero di Obertwald (1980) and Identificazione di una donna (1982), which have not yet been seen in the U.S. Its coverage of the early documentaries and features, when Antonioni was forging his new and original stylistic "language," is especially full. In a free-ranging analysis of the evolution of Antonioni's style that quotes liberally from Antonioni's own highly articulate writings and interviews, Chatman shows how difficult it was for the filmmaker to liberate his art from the conventional means of rendering narrative, especially dialogue, conventional sound effects, and commentative music. From his first efforts to his triumphant achievements in the tetralogy of L'avventura, L'eclisse, and Il deserto rosso, Antonioni's acute sensibility struggled to achieve the mastery that has won him a secure place in film history. Chatman's study is the only complete account of Antonioni's work available in English. Its novel visual approach to the films while attract not only film scholars but also readers interested in painting and architecture--both important elements of Antonioni's work.".
- catalog abstract "Attempts to portray the complex personality of Saint Francis, looks at his early life and influences, and discusses the rules he developed for the Franciscan order of monks.".
- catalog abstract "Volume 1 includes material "on nearly 3,300 American musicals. Volume 2 consists of complete indexes to more than 42,000 songs and more than 16,000 personnel, as well as a chronological listing of titles by year of production."".
- catalog abstract "Translation of Kumarasambhava.".
- catalog abstract "Treatise on Sanskrit poetics, with commentaries.".
- catalog abstract ""Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles."--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "A rebuttal to a letter by Mahes Raj Pant in Pūrṇimā, v. 58, April 1984.".
- catalog abstract "Returning to Los Angeles from his Eastern college for a Christmas vacation in the early 1980s, Clay "reenters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine ... A raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation."--Back cover, Vintage Contemporaries ed. (1998).".
- catalog abstract "Biographical studies of fifteen twentieth-century black leaders.".
- catalog abstract "When wealthy, young Palm Springs resident Jack Watson is shot and then incinerated in his Rolls Royce, his father seeks revenge by calling on LAPD homicide detective Sidney Blackpool to sort things out.".
- catalog abstract "Examines the history of the Yukon Basin. Uses Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis of successive frontiers as a means of understanding and interpreting the history of a region which includes parts of B.C., Yukon and Alaska.".
- catalog abstract "Presents a comprehensive account of the closely linked natural and human history of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity.".
- catalog abstract ""It's often assumed that Native Americans live in two distinct worlds: one Indian and the other white. In this collection of biographical studies of eight American Indians, though, we see that in fact they live in just one world of great complexity that has challenged, sustained, and sometimes destroyed them. Each of the leaders profiled here struck different balances between their Indian identity and their work within the dominant white cultures. Yet each attained a cultural and ethnic identity, and in describing that process these essays combine history and biography to reveal people struggling to preserve their heritage while making their own mark in life."--Back cover.".
- catalog abstract "Includes subject area sections that describe all pertinent census data products available, i.e. "Business--trade and services", "Geography", "Transportation," etc.".
- catalog abstract "The intention of this work is to compile a work which contains bibliographical references to all county histories of any consequence up to 1984. The author has attempted to give full bibliographical information as accurate as possible on each title.".
- catalog abstract ""Chiao Hung (1540?-1620) was an important late Ming intellectual associated with trends that were both a radical culmination of Ming Neo-Confucianism and a seedbed of new perspectives leading to the later rejection of Ming thought. This provocative book extends beyond Chiao Hung as an individual and explores the attempt in early modern Chinese history to restructure Neo-Confucianism as an intellectual event. Edward T. Ch'ien articulates the development of central problems in Ming thought, relates them convincingly to the earlier tradition, asserts their originality in Chiao Hung's formulations, and places them in a logical context with later developments. Ch'ien's study focuses on three issues in Chinese intellectual history: Neo-Confucian syncretism, the controversy between Ch'eng-Chu and Lu-Wang schools of Neo-Confucianism, and the emergence of 'evidential research' both as a type of scholarship and as a mode of though. It also clarifies some of the major issues in Chinese intellectual history." -- from book jacket.".