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- catalog abstract ""A study of the East Asian Institute and of the Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University"--Prelim. p. 1.".
- catalog abstract "Presents writing techniques useful for getting words on paper, for revising, for dealing with an audience, and for getting feedback.".
- catalog abstract ""Anti-Klan organizer Mab Segrest gives us a down-home insider's look at the South she lives in, struggles with, and loves"--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract ""Major General of Aviation Vasil'yev ... traces in detail the history of Soviet long-range aviation from its inception up to 1972. He discusses the development of the force from the early days of the Il'ya Muromets bomber to the modern-day super-sonic jet bombers. He describes the evolution of the organizational structure of the bomber arm of the Soviet Air Force from the Civil War period to modern times. A great deal of attention is of course devoted to bomber operations during the Great Patriotic War ... Unfortunately, what could be called the 'modern era' of Soviet long-range aviation (the post-1967 period) is not covered in depth in this book"--Page vii.".
- catalog abstract "First published in 1988, this book describes government attempts to control educational changes since 1945 and the resulting implications for contemporary explanations of schooling and the state in Britain. Figures in policy making talk about their attempts to control education and each other.".
- catalog abstract "Atholl is a district in North Perthshire.".
- catalog abstract "Around the turn of the century, the Salvation Army founded three intentional communities in Colorado, Ohio, and California in an effort to relieve urban poverty that followed in the wake of rapid industrialization. Conceived by founder William Booth, the project was organized by his son-in-law Frederick Booth-Tucker, commander of the Salvation Army in the United States. Clark Spence's account of this back-to-the-land experiment is at once agricultural, social, religious, and even political history enacted on both sides of the Atlantic: in the irrigated beet and alfalfa fields where small farmers fought hoppers, drought, or saline soil in an effort to wrest a living from their twenty acres; at the fund-raising meetings where the Booth-Tuckers garnered both applause and dollars from business leaders; and in the halls of Congress and Parliament where Army supporters argued in vain for government subsidies. - Jacket flap.".
- catalog abstract ""Thomas Canby [was] born in 1688. He emigrated to America in 1683 and is our ancestor".--P. 8. At about the age of 15, Thomas left Thorne in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England for America eventually settling in Abington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Jarvis and had nine children. When Sarah died he married Mary Oliver and had eight more children. Upon Sarah's death, Thomas married Jane Preston. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.".
- catalog abstract "Overview: This expanded edition of Thomas Nelson's trenchant study of a master of film includes new chapters on Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut. In the wake of the director's death, Nelson reconsiders his body of work as a whole. By placing Kubrick in a historical and theoretical context, this study is a reliable guide into--and out of--Stanley Kubrick's cinematic maze.".
- catalog abstract ""This volume brings together Dr. Winnicott's published and unpublished papers on psycho-analysis and child development during the period 1957-1963. The basic concepts of Freud are indexed in relation to Dr. Winnicott's discussions or elaborations of them. Quite often Dr. Winnicott's has taken a Freudian concept as his given frame of reference but has not discussed it as such, and it is intended that the index should in part remedy this by pointing out the links between Dr. Winnicott's ideas and those of Freud." M. Masud Khan from Editorial Note.".
- catalog abstract "Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction and beyond. From amassed information on every household in this large rural community, he tests the many generalizations about southern black and white families of this period and finds that they were strikingly similar. Wealth, rather than race or class, was the main factor that influenced family structure, and the matriarchal family was but a myth. This detailed treatment of the economics, patterns, and rhythms of rural life, including analyses of religion and religious themes in the agrarian community, will advance our understanding of rural history and race relations in the South.".
- catalog abstract "The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the Papal Revolution, when the Western church established its political and legal unity and its independence from emperors, kings, and feudal lords. Out of this upheaval came the Western idea of integrated legal systems consciously developed over generations and centuries. Harold J. Berman describes the main features of these systems of law, including the canon law of the church, the royal law of the major kingdoms, the urban law of the newly emerging cities, feudal law, manorial law, and mercantile law. In the coexistence and competition of these systems he finds an important source of the Western belief in the supremacy of law.".
- catalog abstract "Includes sections on Sigmund Freud and his letters to Fleiss; and Gandhi and nonviolence.".
- catalog abstract ""From their arrival in England in 1128 to the end of the twelfth century, the Cistercians established fifty monasteries, including some of the largest and most famous abbeys in the country. The author traces the evolution of Cistercian architecture in England during the this period and explains it as a manifestation both of the order's spiritual aims and of the manifestation of Gothic architecture in France. He shows how the founding houses in France influenced Cistercian architecture in England and how the order's spiritual commitments to poverty and solitude isolated its building from English architectural tradition."--Publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Essays originally presented at a symposium in Washington, D.C., Mar. 18-19, 1982 under the sponsorship of the United States Capitol Historical Society and the Institute of Early American History and Culture.".
- catalog abstract "Presents "ideas that combine style, comfort, function and economy."--Cover.".
- catalog abstract "This book discusses the history of genealogy in the United States, and tries to not only bring genealogy into the main stream of historical sources, but also demonstrate the serviceability of genealogy to historians.".
- catalog abstract "Hindu mythological text.".
- catalog abstract "Study of the reforms in the Malabar Church introduced by Mgr. Bernardine Baccinelli, Vicar Apostolic of Verapoly, in the mid-nineteenth century.".
- catalog abstract "This book explores the Constitution and how it provides for individual American rights.".
- catalog abstract "The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.".
- catalog abstract "Brought up to date with an expanded range of selections, extended historical coverage, and a dedicated pluralistic commitment, the third edition of this highly popular text on film aesthetics features major additions of contemporary topics in film theory--including psychoanalytic, feminist, and Marxist approaches--and new essays on television, horror films, and experimental movie making. Of the 53 selections, 13 are new. The section "Kinds of Film" has been retitled "Film Genres" and concentrates exclusively on the distinctions within a single type of film: classical Hollywood narrative cinema. The final section, now called "Film: Psychology, Society, and Ideology" is substantially revised to take into account film's relationship to its consumers: how films shape or reflect cultural attitudes, reinforce or reject dominant modes of cultural thinking, and stimulate or frustrate people's needs and drives. Throughout the book chapter introductions have been rewritten to reflect today's concerns. Current and comprehensive, the book that The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism called "the best collection available on the disparate comments in the fields of film theory and criticism" is now even better.".
- catalog abstract "Les auteurs ont replacé le Berbère, cet inconnu du monde d'aujourd'hui, sur ses fondations historiques, afin qu'il y retrouve ses véritables ancêtres, ces grands méconnus de la plupart de nos contemporains.".
- catalog abstract "Orson Pratt (1811-1881) was born in Hartford, New York to Jared Pratt and Charity Dickinson. He, along with several other members of his family, were early members of the LDS Church. In 1835 Orson and his brother, Parley P. Pratt, were called to be apostles in the LDS Church. Orson practiced plural marriage and was the father of a number of children. He was the first to publicly announce the Momron doctrine of the plurality of wives. He died in Salt Lake City in 1881.".
- catalog abstract "The Proceedings of the Eight International Symposium on Drugs Affecting Lipid Metabolism (8th D.A.L.M.) is the subject of this volume. Since the first symposium in 1960, each successive meeting has broken new ground in the field of pharmacological control of lipid levels - offering new and stimulating insights and exposing the audience to the state of the art. The field has progressed sufficiently to permit discussion of the cellular biology of atherosclerosis. The opening session was devoted to pathology, macrophages, lipoproteins and their receptors and cholesterol ester metabolism. Because of the recent emergence of new apolipoprotein technology, a workshop devoted solely to apolipoprotein methodology was introduced followed by a plenary session devoted to their metabolism and structure.Another rapidly developing area of atherosclerosis research is non-invasive assessment of this condition. Accordingly, a session was devoted to new techniques for this research modality. The final plenary sessions were devoted to the roles of drugs and diet in atherosclerosis - cause, treatment and mechanisms of action. The meeting was summarized by Dr. O.J. Pollak, one of the "founding fathers" of this field. There were nine sessions of proffered. papers whose abstracts appear in this volume. In addition, special workshops (to be reported elsewhere) were devoted to several drugs including Oryzanol, Probucol and Etofibrate.".
- catalog abstract "A biography of Zachary Taylor, twelfth president of the United States, providing a reassessment of his life and administration, and arguing that Taylor was neither so simple, nor so nonpolitical as some historians have claimed.".
- catalog abstract "This book is derived from contributions to the Second International Workshop on Mechanisms in Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity, held in Annopolis, Maryland, June 10-13, 1984. This workshop was organized by an international committee of immunologists interested in lymphocyte cytotoxic mechanisms (G. Berke, W.R. Clark, P. Golstein, M. Hanna, P. Henkart, R. Herberman, H.R. MacDonald, E. Martz, and C. Nathan), who strove to invite participants who have made major contributions to this field. The Workshop was a follow-up to the highly successful 1981 Workshop, whose proceedings Workshop were published by Plenum as Mechanisms in Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity, edited by W.R. Clark and P. Golstein. 'That volume has been much appreciated by researchers and students since it contains accounts of most of the current approaches to understanding cytotoxic lymphocyte mechanisms all in one volume. The present book may be viewed as a follow-up to the first one, and in our opinion fairly summarizes the varying current viewpoints on lymphocyte cytotoxic mechanism. It should be noted that the discussions have been transcribed directly by us, and the participants have not had an opportunity to edit their remarks. We have tried to maintain some of the style of the actual discussion in these transcripts. In some cases technical problems prevented usable transcriptions from being made, and hence not all of the actual discussion at the workshop is reproduced here.".
- catalog abstract "No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.".
- catalog abstract "Spine title: Shakespeare histories. Contains critical essays written by scholars about Shakespeare's histories and poetry.".
- catalog abstract "Collects Southern legends and folk tales about haunted houses, supernatural events, and the appearances of ghosts.".
- catalog abstract ""Bringing together for the first time the best of twenty-five years of unique critical work, Warren Susman takes Us on a startling tour through the conflicts and events which have transformed the social, political, and cultural face of America in this century. Probing a rich panoply of images from the mass media and advertising, testing prevalent intellectual and economic theories, linking the revolutions in communications and technology to the rise of a new pantheon of popular heroes, Susman documents and analyzes the process through which the older, Puritan-republican, producer-capitalist culture has given way to the leisure-oriented, consumer society we now inhabit the culture of abundance."--Publishers description.".
- catalog abstract "Describes and gives instructions for lecture demonstrations covering acids and bases and liquids, solutions, and colloids.".
- catalog abstract "Was school reform in the decades following the Civil War an upper-middle-class effort to maintain control of the schools? Was public education simply a vehicle used by Protestant elites to impose their cultural ideas upon recalcitrant immigrants? In The Politics of School Reform, 1870-1940, Paul E. Peterson challenges such standard, revisionist interpretations of American educational history. Urban public schools, he argues, were part of a politically pluralistic society. Their growth--both in political power and in sheer numbers--had as much to do with the demands and influence of trade unions, immigrant groups, and the public more generally as it did with the actions of social and economic elites. Drawing upon rarely examined archival data, Peterson demonstrates that widespread public backing for the common school existed in Atlanta, Chicago, and San Francisco. He finds little evidence of systematic discrimination against white immigrants, at least with respect to classroom crowding and teaching assignments. Instead, his research uncovers solid trade union and other working-class support for compulsory education, adequate school financing, and curricular modernization. Urban reformers campaigned assiduously for fiscally sound, politically strong public schools. Often they had at least as much support from trade unionists as from business elites. In fact it was the business-backed machine politicians--from San Francisco's William Buckley to Chicago's Edward Kelly--who deprived the schools of funds. At a time when public schools are being subjected to searching criticism and when new educational ideas are gaining political support, The Politics of School Reform, 1870-1940 is a timely reminder of the strength and breadth of those groups that have always supported "free" public schools.".
- catalog abstract ""Concise and clearly written, this practical guide examines the nuts and bolts of interview and questionnaire design. It takes the reader through the process of deciding informational needs and hypotheses, choosing a questionnaire or interview format, designing a data collection method, choosing a sample, analyzing the findings, and reporting results."--LOC publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "This is the proceedings of the International Conference on AIDS Associated Syndromes held at Irvine on December 7-8, 1984. The purpose of this conference was to bring together investigators who are actively engaged in AIDS research to present their most recent data with regard to etiological agent(s) of AIDS, immunological characteristics of some of the patients in early stages of AIDS and various therapeutical modalities that are available for the treatment of AIDS, early AIDS (persistent generalized lymphadnopathy) or for those who demonstrate asymptomatic acquired immunodeficiency. In the area of etiological agents, the discussions are presented dealing with the questions of whether HTLV III/LAV alone or with other co-factor(s) like EBV or CMV are responsible for AIDS. What is the relationship of these viruses to Kaposi's sarcoma, since Kaposi's sarcoma in AIDS cannot be simply explained on the basis of the underlying immune deficiency? Data are presented for HTLV III/LAV interactions with the T4 molecule on the surface of helper T cells. A paper is presented with epidemiological evidence for AIDS being an African disease which perhaps was brought to the United States and then to Haiti. In the area of persistent generalized lymphadenopathy syndrome, longitudinal immunological studies are presented to determine whether this clinical spectrum is a precursor of full-blown AIDS as defined by surveillance criteria, or a distinct clinical entity. If so, what are the clinical, cellular, and/or serological markers that determine the outcome of this disorder? The third and last area focuses on various modes of treatments of AIDS, persistent generalized lymphadenopathy syndrome and asymptomatic subjects who show in vitro immune deficiency. Some of these agents are cytotoxic and work directly on Kaposi's sarcoma, while others are immunomodulators. A new syndrome of oral viral leukoplakia associated with AIDS is introduced.".
- catalog abstract "Concerns cases before the United States Indian Claims Commission.".
- catalog abstract "This book argues that presidential power is a mixture of constitutional, cultural and political, and individual elements that manifest themselves in recurring historical cycles of politics and policy.".
- catalog abstract "Montreal has had a longstanding interest in somatostatin. Two years ago when the final planning began for the International Congress of Endocrinology in Quebec City in July 1984, we seized the opportunity for having a separate Satellite Symposium on somatostatin here in Montreal. We felt that after a decade of uniformly vigorous growth in somatostatin research, the opportune moment had arrived for a review of the most significant past developments and for setting the directions for the future. Knowing the futility of trying to cover every aspect of the burgeoning somatostatin field in a two day scientific program, we opted for a detailed analysis of selected areas which were reasonably mature and of areas of greatest new activity. To attain these objectives, 27 leading international experts actively involved in their fields were invited to present an indepth review of their work in one of five major categories of somatostatin research. Thirty minutes at the end of each session were assigned for a three way, comprehensive discussion of some of the core concepts between the session moderators, the panellists and the audience. The feedback that we have received from the participants leaves little doubt that the meeting was a scientific and social success.This book fulfills our final commitment towards the Meeting which was to record the proceedings in a timely publication. Chapters were received from all but one of the invited speakers and have been carefully edited to ensure uniformity of presentation and nomenclature. Transcripts of the panel discussions required extensive editing to transform the frequently unstructured spoken word into lucid prose. The resultant product, we believe, qualifies as a state of the art monograph on somatostatin research which should excite all scholars in the field and be of value to anyone interested in the biology of neuropeptide systems.".
- catalog abstract "Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) of Boston left his studies at Harvard in 1834 in the hope that a sea voyage would aid his failing eyesight. He shipped out of Boston as a common seaman on board the brig Pilgrim bound for the Pacific, and returned to Massachusetts two years later. Completing his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels. Two years before the mast (1911) is based on the diary Dana kept while at sea. First published in 1841, it is one of America's most famous accounts of life at sea. It contains a rare and detailed account of life on the California coast a decade before the Gold Rush revolutionized the region's culture and society. Dana chronicles stops at the ports of Monterey, San Pedro, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Clara. He describes the lives of sailors in the ports and their work of hide-curing on the beaches, and he gives close attention to the daily life of the peoples of California: Hispanic, Native American, and European. The edition of the book reproduced here includes the chapter "Twenty-four Years After" prepared by Dana to accompany the "author's" edition published in 1869 as well as his son's "Seventy-six Years After," an appendix prepared in 1911.".
- catalog abstract "Totally reckless and irrepressible Elizabeth Bonnet Burdette, "the daughter of a multimillionaire banker from Charleston ... has married into a clan which has owned a coffee and tobacco plantation in Georgia for over two hundred years."--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "Describes the race relations in America leading up to the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education, the process by which Brown worked its way up to the Court, and how a decision was reached by the Court.".
- catalog abstract "Contains primary source material.".
- catalog abstract ""Drawing on the philosophy of speech acts as well as interpretive theory, Rosen shows how, for the people of this Muslim community, reality consists of the network of obligations formed by individuals out of a repertoire of relational possibilities whose defining terms are comprised by a set of essentially negotiable concepts. He thus demonstrates that the bonds of family, tribe, and political alliance take shape only as the bargains struck in and through the malleable terms that describe them take shape that statements about relationship are no more true than a price mentioned in the marketplace until properly validated that the relations between men and women, Arabs and Berbers, Muslims and Jews test the limits of interpersonal negotiation and that the concepts of time, character, and narrative style are consonant with a view of reality as bargained-for network of obligations"--From the publisher's description.".
- catalog abstract "The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"--Metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.".
- catalog abstract "Tennyson's version of the Arthurian legend takes the form of twelve poems telling of King Arthur and the Round Table, from Arthur's initial meeting with his future queen, Guinevere, to the last battle with his son, Modred. This edition also includes extensive selections from Tennyson's other works.".
- catalog abstract "The Harvard Condordance to Shakespeare is the first complete and reliable one-volume concordance to all the plays and poems of Shakespeare. In order to broaden the scope and sharpen the focus of this work, special features not usually found in concordances are included: Prose-verse distinctions -- Statistics -- Departures from the basic copy-texts -- Homographs -- Cross references -- Appendices -- The context -- Conventions, types and symbols.".
- catalog abstract "Evelyn Waugh, at the start of Thomas Merton's monastic career, advised him to "write serious letters", and also urged him to make an art of it. This advice flowered in the sixties, especially after his monastic superiors ordered him to cease publishing anything on war and peace. "Monk concerned with peace. Bad image", Merton seethed in a letter, and launched his series of privately circulated mimeographed "Cold War Letters", one-third of which are published for the first time in this book. The Hidden Ground of Love is a rich collection of Merton's letters in a period of his greatest concern about religion's seeming powerlessness against global violence and nuclear war. Though the book concentrates primarily on the last decade of his 27 years as a Trappist, it opens with a few early letters to Catherine Doherty before he became a monk. His extraordinary growth as a mystic and religious thinker, deeply concerned about the materialistic world's drift toward the abyss, is revealed in these pages.".
- catalog abstract "Edited with an Introduction and Notes by William E. Buckler.".
- catalog abstract "Most studies of law enforcement deal with police work, and many are concerned with underenforcement of selective enforcement as problems. This book shifts the focus to social and economic regulation and the issue of compliance.".
- catalog abstract "An intimate portrait of the uncommon family, early years and private world of the man who became FDR.".
- catalog abstract "A profound, learned and detailed analysis of Negro slavery. It covers an incredible range of topics and offers fresh insights on nearly every page ... the author's great gift is his ability to penetrate the minds of bothslaves and masters, revealing not only how they viewed themselves and each other, but also how they contradictory perceptions interacted.".
- catalog abstract ""'The American character," Charles Mabee writes, "is grounded in the metaphor of universal scientific and technological experiment," an experiment in which some may see God at work and others may not. Americans are a "religious" people, but they are also "scientific." Both theologicans and scientists must confront the antagonism between the "particularistic" world view inherited from the Judeo-Christian tradition and the "fundamentally universal orientation" of science. Modern study of the Bible, grounded in "scientific method," has liberated the text from the imperatives of ecclesiastical dogma; it's practitioners "have constructed elaborate safeguards against subjective interpretation." Yet the subjective component of biblical study remains - " only now the name of this component is science itself . . ." -- Book jacket.".
- catalog abstract "In his latest and most challenging case, Rabbi Small needs every ounce of his persistence, perspicacity, and chutzpah as he finds himself up against corruption in politics and a hit-and-run death that was no accident.".
- catalog abstract "Their names alone evoke glamour: Oona O'Neill Chaplin, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill and child bride of Charlie Chaplin; Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress to one of America's great fortunes and fashion empress in her own right; Carol Marcus Saroyan Matthau, wife first of one of America's most beloved writers, later of one of Americas most successful actors. What few people know about these very public women is the very private friendship that has tied them together since childhood in a charmed--and charming--circle. Here Aram Saroyan, the son of one of the three--with lifetime access to the others--has captured this glittering trio in a narrative that is at once intimate, funny, bittersweet, and as deeply moving as the friendship it describes. In their own cadences, Saroyan evokes the voices of the individual women, and even as we come to know them individually, we see the strong bond that made them--from their early days as debutantes in prewar Manhattan--a trio: a study in eerie similarity and in unquestioning loyalty. In each of their lives the silver spoon was tarnished by early tragedy--the experience of having been, in one sense or another, orphaned--and all three grew up to enter early into deep, sometimes destructive relationships with powerful, creative men. Through it all, from the forties through the eighties, surrounded by a cast of friends (and suitors--and husbands), the three women remained firm friends.--From publisher description.".
- catalog abstract ""Portrays the Vietnam experience of an officer and a gentlemen. It is the story of a man with a sense of honor and responsibility that extended beyond his immediate command and encompassed the people of the rural Vietnamese village he was sent to defend. It is a portrait of a compassionate man, a humane soldier and a soldierly humanist, and the precarious mental and physical balance he maintained through the horrors of war. In April 1969, David Donovan arrived in the Mekong Delta. A raw and idealistic first lieutenant fresh from the Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Donovan joined an isolated four-man American team operating alone in a remote rural area of the Delta, sent off by the army to cooperate with village chiefs and local militia- and to win the war. As chief commanding officer of his unit, Donovan led patrol and combat missions, and this book vividly recreates the suspense of night ambushes and the high-pitched emotions of surprise attacks and man-to-man warfare in the swamps and jungles of the Delta. But Donovan also became involved with the lives of the civilians of Tram Chim in a role beyond that of military adviser. He was caught up in the Vietnamese culture, its local and national politics, in friendships and families torn apart by the tragic war. Eventually he was inducted into a Vietnamese brotherhood- a sect of honorary "warrior kings." On his return to the United States, Donovan found that Vietnam had become a part of him, separating him from his wife and children, his family and friends. Donovan's chilling account of "coming home, " of his enormous internal battle, is as dramatic as his tales of combat in the Delta. Powerfully written, taut, and compelling, this is an extraordinary book about the Vietnam experience that will burn itself into the minds and hearts of readers."--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract ""A daughter's candid portrait of her famous mother"--Jacket subtitle.".
- catalog abstract "Digitised document - Electronic release on 24/11/2011".
- catalog abstract ""Rio Branco es uno de los profesionales brasileños de la cámara que mejor manejan el color y cuya creatividad e intencionalidad va más allá del mero objeto curioso. Esta selección de fotografías en color capta escenas de la vida cotidiana de Bahía, principalmente la vida oculta al visitante."--Amazon.".
- catalog abstract "The Muslim world extends from North Africa to Southeast Asia. In addition to some forty-three Muslim (majority) countries, Muslims constitute a significant minority in another twenty countries. The more than 800 million Muslims comprise almost a fifth of the world's population. The size and geographic expanse of the Muslim world and its emergence as a world economic power whose political stability is of increasing importance to the Western world have made an understanding of events in the Muslim world a critical concern. The purpose of this volume is to provide some insight into a phenomenon that has swept the Muslim world. It has been described by various titles: Islamic Resurgence, Islamic Revival, Militant Islam, Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism. This volume will explore the origins, development, prospects, and implications of the Islamic resurgence through both analytical studies (on the history and major influences of the resurgence) as well as the statements of Muslim scholar/ activists engaged in the political, social, and economic aspects of the Islamic resurgence today. -- from Introduction (p. 3).".
- catalog abstract "Rice plantations were found in coastal Georgia which included Chatham, Bryan, Liberty, McIntosh, Glynn and Camden counties.".
- catalog abstract "Set in Porter's native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, these are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise.".
- catalog abstract "People who enjoy reading the time-honored Revised Standard Version will appreciate the background materials accompanying its text in this highly regarded edition; Single-column annotations, located at page bottoms, are keyed to chapter and verse; 40-page, indexed section of 28 full color Oxford Bible Maps; Eight supplementary articles and charts address topics of literary, economic, and geographical interest; Introductions to each book of Scripture; Annotations (classic); Subject headings.".
- catalog abstract "The 107 tales demonstrate the ways an uprooted people have drawn from the traditions of their past to fashion a life in the New World.".
- catalog abstract "An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one-exit-is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the other-voice-is for members or customers to agitate and exert influence for change "from within."--Publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Over 400 striking fashion designs from rare issues of Godey's Lady's Book (1837-1869) -- the most influential women's magazine of the period. Introduction and captions. 435 designs, 42 in full color.-- Publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Relates man's search from the sixteenth century to the present for a physics to describe the dynamics of a universe in motion.".
- catalog abstract "Beginning her first teaching job, at a New England women's college, Lucy Winter is embroiled in a scandal that tests the personal and academic lives of teachers and students alike.".
- catalog abstract ""The whole world is watching!" chanted the demonstrators in the Chicago streets in 1968, as the TV cameras beamed images of police cracking heads into homes everywhere. Acclaimed media critic Todd Gitlin first scrutinizes major news coverage in the early days of the antiwar movement. Drawing on his own experiences (he was president of the Students for a Democratic Society in 1963-64) and on interviews with key activists and news reporters, he shows in detail how the media first ignore new political developments, then select and emphasize aspects of the story that treat movements as oddities. He then demonstrates how the media glare made leaders into celebrities and estranged them from their movement base how it inflated the importance of revolutionary rhetoric, destabilizing the movement, then promoted "moderate" alternatives--all the while spreading the antiwar message. Finally, Gitlin draws together a theory of news coverage as a form of anti-democratic social management--which he sees at work also in media treatment of the anti-nuclear and other later movements [Publisher description]".
- catalog abstract "Relates the inner dialogs, reflections, and musings of Mr. Palomar.".
- catalog abstract "Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. This study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating and communicating new national values was less consistent than is usually supposed. By immersing the reader in the talk and thought of the late Meiji period, Gluck recreates the diversity of ideological discourse experienced by Japanese of the time. The result is a new interpretation of the views of politics and the nation in imperial Japan.".
- catalog abstract "Biography. Includes accounts of Rae's work as a surgeon at Moose Factory, 1834-44 and accounts of various arctic expeditions.".
- catalog abstract "Offers an appraisal of the situation from the perspective of the poor and unrepresented citizens of Central Amer.".
- catalog abstract "A classic in the history of Western thought and educational theory for the development of autonomous, responsible human beings.".
- catalog abstract "This volume presents a study of the intellectual and ethical development of college students, based on accounts of students in the "Silent Generation"--undergraduates during the fifties and early sixties.".
- catalog abstract "A biography of Theodore Roosevelt, who at the age of forty-two was the youngest man to become President of the United States.".
- catalog abstract "This anthology consists of 208 letters, poems, clippings, and diary entries written by American servicemen in Vietnam. Contains letters and poems written to families and friends by soldiers expressing their homesickness and the horrors of war.".
- catalog abstract "An account of agrarian politics in Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu.".
- catalog abstract "This feminist classic explores the ways in which women can read the Christian Bible with full understanding of both its oppressive and its liberating functions. In the substantial new Afterword to this edition, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza situates Bread Not Stone in relation to mainstream Biblical scholarship, Catholic and Protestant theologies, liberation theologies, and nineteenth-century feminist writings on the Bible. -- Publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Astley's Amphitheatre occupies a unique position in the history of popular entertainment. For over a hundred years it was a familiar feature of London life: no student of the theatre, literature or of social history can have failed to come across it. Astley's began as a riding school, and developed into that vigorous hybrid of theatre and circus which captivated generations of Londoners and was immortalized by Dickens. It formed a vital link between the legitimate and popular theatre, and influenced the development of the circus in Europe and America. - Introduction.".
- catalog abstract "The Théâtre des Variétés, built in 1807 on the boulevard Montmartre, is the oldest theatre building still to be used in Paris. By tracing the vicissitudes of the Variétés in its early years we hope to fill in some of the colorful picture of its historical context, showing, through this representative example, how the alternative theatre was shaped and developed in its formative years until finally it settled along the northern boulevards and drew from this location the title -- discredited today -- of théâtre de boulevard. The material is divided between the continuous narrative of the introduction and the more detailed or technical commentary accompanying the illustrations. - Foreword.".
- catalog abstract "Irving was without doubt the most famous and influential actor-manager of the Victorian period. Irving never allowed photographers inside the Lyceum, and very few of the surviving illustrations give a clear picture of the mechanics of his stage. Therefore I have concentrated less upon Irving's technical stage-craft within the architectural limitations of his theatre, than upon the aesthetic principles of that stage-craft, the self-contained picture which creates an atmospheric environment beyond the footlights, and upon his own hypnotic power as an extraordinary and controversial actor. - Introduction.".
- catalog abstract "The impact of a travelling theatre show on an unsophisticated audience in the days before television is difficult for a 20th century student to recreate. The average modern child has already experienced a wider range of drama -- plays, puppet shows, animated cartoons and documentary films -- through the medium of television than his great-grandparents saw in their whole lives. To recapture the attitudes and reactions of any 19th century theatre audience requires, then, an effort of the imagination; even more so in the case of popular entertainments, for which there is far less written evidence. It is the aim of this publication to explore, through contemporary pictures and writings, the theatrical experience of that large majority who never went inside a real theatre, and to provide an outline of the development of portable theatres in the 18th and 19th centuries. By the term "portable theatre" I originally intended to indicate only live drama, performed by human actors, in temporary theatres such as tents, booths and "gaffs"; I have, in fact, for reasons which I hope the notes make clear, included material on puppets, peepshows, and even early films. The travelling fairground theatres survived in a limited way into the 20th century before the cinema and then television killed them off. - Introduction.".
- catalog abstract "Includes revised editions.".
- catalog abstract "A people's history of the Progressive Era and World War I.".
- catalog abstract "Set in India, HEAT AND DUST is the story of Olivia, a beautiful, spoiled, bored English colonial wife in the 1920s who is drawn inexorably into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in plots and intrigues. Olivia outrages the tiny, suffocating town where her husband is a civil servant by eloping with the captivating Nawab. It is also the story of Olivia's step-granddaughter who, fifty years later, is drawn to India by her fascination with the letters left behind by the now dead older woman, and by her obsession with solving the enigma of Olivia's scandal. A penetrating and compassionate love story, this brilliant novel immerses the reader in the heat, dust, and squalor of India, while providing a compelling mixture of the spiritual and the sensual.".
- catalog abstract "Richard of Gloucester became King of England as Richard III in June 1483. His reign lasted a mere twenty-six months, and he was only thirty-three years of age when he was killed at the Battle of Bosworth. Despite this short career he is one of the best known of English monarchs, and one of the most vilified. He has been accused of a number of atrocious crimes, including the murder of his brother and his wife as well as political rivals, culminating in the murder of his nephews, the "Princes in the Tower". This book tells the story of his life in a way that has never been told before -- from the personal and official documents written during his lifetime. - Jacket flap.".
- catalog abstract "The dean of oral history evokes the innocent idealism, as well as the terror and horror, of ordinary Americans at home and abroad during World War II.".
- catalog abstract "For contents, see Author Catalog.".
- catalog abstract "The history and meaning of Stonehenge with photographs of the ancient monument as it is today.".
- catalog abstract "A biographical sketch of the gunman who attacked Ronald Reagan and three other men in Washington, D.C. Examines his developing mental illness--one of the most common and least understood of all diseases that led him to commit such an act. Special sections highlight the early warning signs, where to turn for help, and the do's and don't's for families.".
- catalog abstract "A symbolic fantasy which finds a busload of condemned ghosts faced with the choice of giving up their cherished sins to enter the gates of Paradise.".
- catalog abstract "In this text, philosopher Robert C. Solomon provides readers with a detailed introduction to modern existentialism. He reveals how this philosophy not only connects with, but also derives from, the thought of traditional philosophers through the works of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. --From publisher's description.".
- catalog abstract "A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.".
- catalog abstract "Describes in verse the boyhood of the legendary Iroquois Indian, Hiawatha.".
- catalog abstract "Some vols. have appendices consisting of reports of various State offices. Includes special and extra sessions.".
- catalog abstract "Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion, and a trillion.".
- catalog abstract "Catalog of the exhibition premiered Sept. 8, 1984, at the Everson Museum, Syracuse.".
- catalog abstract "Details Commodore Matthew Perry's role in opening Japan's closed society to world trade in the 1850s, one of history's most significant diplomatic achievements.".
- catalog abstract "Miles and the Swamp Band have the time of their lives playing at the Alligator Ball, until they discover the menu includes Swamp Band soup.".
- catalog abstract "Describes the causes and leading events of the early nineteenth-century conflict between Great Britain and the United States.".