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- catalog abstract ""This is a study of the gathering and presentation of news in late 19th-century England, a time when the vote was given to a large section of the working class, when public interest in the British Empire was on the rise, and when technology enabled newspapers to be produced more cheaply, distributed more quickly, and read more widely than ever before. Using manuscript collections and newspaper archives, the author describes the production and readership of newspapers, and the journalists within the industry--how they were recruited, the organization of their work, the ways in which they acquired their information, and their access to people in positions of power. The book moves on to review changes in news presentation in the last decades of Victorian England until the appearance of such papers as the Daily Mail in the 1890s."--Publisher description".
- catalog abstract "Canonical text of Mahayana Buddhism.".
- catalog abstract ""The 312 painters, sculptors, and graphic artists in this biographical dictionary were selected from the outstanding artistic fitures in the United States, Europe, and Latin America ... The biographical information includes family, working background, and aesthetic beliefs. There are many quotations from the artist and from critics. Also included is a list of significant collections and a bibliography."".
- catalog abstract ""Kramer, former New York Times art critic, has assembled a collection of his reviews along with a smattering of essays. In his hymn to New York's renovated Museum of Modern Art, he notes that its "formalist outlook tends ... to lead to a false sense of orthodoxy." Yet these reviews, which rigorously apply his own formalist standards of what constitutes modern art, miss out on much of what is vital and meaningful in today's highly variegated art scene. Kramer is appalled by political art, most of which, he argues, lacks artistic merit; he doubts whether any great art can be political. In surveying the '80s' rebirth of realism, he reassures us that many new realists are not antimodernist or antiabstractionist. One piece agonizes over whether Saul Steinberg should be considered an artist. A somewhat condescending essay on Max Ernst sets him above the "muddled narcissism" said to mar many other surrealists. Other subjects range from Rodin to Walker Evans; selections were culled from the New York Times, New Criterion (which Kramer edits), Commentary and elsewhere."--Publishers Weekly via amazon.com.".
- catalog abstract "Contains biographies of 508 men and women who were the principal architects of reform in America from the seventeenth century to modern times.".
- catalog abstract "Publisher description: Gale E. Christianson has turned his full attention to one man alone, Isaac Newton, who emerges full-blown in these pages not merely as a preeminent astronomer but as the figure history has long known him to be : the greatest scientific thinker of modern times.".
- catalog abstract "A selection of articles and essays on William Faulkner's Sartoris family.".
- catalog abstract "Alphabetical listing of nonproprietary names of drugs, pesticides, and other substances of pharmacological or chemical interest. Many cross references from alternative nonproprietary names, trade names, and research code numbers. International scope. American spelling. Although comprehensive, compilation has no official status.".
- catalog abstract ""Quarterly news bulletin/Kwartaallikse nuusbulletin."".
- catalog abstract "Chapters include: Legitimation and autonomy in James Bay Cree responses to hydro-electric development by Harvey A. Feit. - The Indian lobby and the Canadian constitution, 1978-82 by Douglas E. Sanders. - Ethnodrama and the 'Fourth World': the Saami action group in Norway, 1979-1981 by Robert Paine.".
- catalog abstract "This collection is principally concerned with American and British conflicts with occasional forays into foreign armies - notably the Greeks, the Romans, and Napoleon's soldiers. Hastings has sought stories which illustrate the military condition through the ages, both on the battlefield and in the barracks: comic, eccentric, heroic, tragic.".
- catalog abstract "Traces the struggle of Paula McGill Fairley, Emma Harte's granddaughter and heir, to hold on the the empire.".
- catalog abstract "Informative and entertaining, this volume is an indispensable reference work for home, library, and office. It establishes a foundation for the burgeoning field of ethnic studies; it will satisfy and stimulate the popular interest in ancestry and heritage. It is a guide to the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of the more than 100 ethnic groups who live in the United States. This is a comprehensive guide to more than 100 American groups with ethnic, religious, cultural, or regional identities. In addition there are almost 30 essays on related issues. For each signed group entry, the entire range of experience is discussed from the group's origins, migration, arrival and settlement, to its economic, social, cultural, religious life, and its experiences with education and politics. Maps and tables are included. This is a standard source, though now somewhat limited, especially for Asian peoples. Recommended for high school collections. This is a comprehensive guide to more than 100 American groups with ethnic, religious, cultural, or regional identities. In addition there are almost 30 essays on related issues. For each signed group entry, the entire range of experience is discussed from the group's origins, migration, arrival and settlement, to its economic, social, cultural, religious life, and its experiences with education and politics. Maps and tables are included. This is a standard source, though now somewhat limited, especially for Asian peoples. Recommended for high school collections.".
- catalog abstract ""Characteristics of American Law and Legal Resources; Court Reports; Shepard's Citations; Online Updating Tools; West Key-Number Digests; ALR Annotations; Federal Statutory Research; State Statutory Research; Local Law Sources; Constitutional Law; Legislative History; Administrative Regulations and Decisions; Court Rules; Practice Materials; Looseleaf Services; Legal Periodicals; Periodical Indexes; Legal Encyclopedias; Restatements; Texts; Legal Dictionaries; Directories; Formbooks; Nonlegal Research Sources; Treaties; International Law; International Organizations; English Legal Research; Canadian Legal Research; Foreign and Comparative Law; Research Strategies."-- Book description".
- catalog abstract "Procura contrastar o conteudo ideologico do moderno conceito de estado com o conceito classico e cristão do mesmo.".
- catalog abstract ""Spisanie za planirane, finansi, kredit, statistika."".
- catalog abstract "Included: Huanag Ganying, Qian Zhengying, Zheng Minzhi, Sun Jinfang, HuNa, LiABing, Dr. Wei Yu, Wu Xi-Jun, Wang Li-Jean, Yen Junling, Jennifer Yang, Dr, Xie Xide, Wang Lan, LiLin Tsing, Yeh Ling and Liu Fang, Minnie Gan, Liu Zhong Ying, Huang Qing-Yun, Wei Junyi, Tien Fan, Zhao You Ping, Xia Juhua, Zhang Rui Fang, Dr, . Young Ai-lain, Drs. WuKam Ging and Lou Xio Hong, Nurse Wang Min Li and Dr, Ning Shou-pao, Ni Hui-lan, Chang Yu Xheng, Yee Zhenying, Liu Qiqi, Dai Sui Sheng, A=Zhal You-uo, Pan Huiping, Sai Wei, Ellen Liu, Talitha Gerlach, Joan Hinton, Elsie Fairfax Cholmeley and Israel Epstein, Beverly Polkoff.".
- catalog abstract ""Demographic data and estimates for the countries and regions of the world."".
- catalog abstract "1870-1880: Most issues include a "partie officiel," consisting of official governmental announcements (chiefly administrative), and a "partie non officiel," with departments typical of a newspaper, sometimes including coverage of legislative debates; some issues lack a "partie officiel." 1881-1941: "Acts officiels, communications ministérielles, Résumés des séances du Parlement, comptes rendus des Académies et Corps savants, Avis de l'adjudication des Administrations publiques, cours authentiques de la Bourse, etc."".
- catalog abstract ""The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, by Judith C. Brown was an event of major historical importance. Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and fall of a powerful woman in a church community and a record of the life of a religious visionary, it is also the earliest documentation of lesbianism in modern Western history. Born of well-to-do parents, Benedetta Carlini entered the convent at the age of nine. At twenty-three, she began to have visions of both a religious and erotic nature. Benedetta was elected abbess due largely to these visions, but later aroused suspicions by claiming to have had supernatural contacts with Christ. During the course of an investigation, church authorities not only found that she had faked her visions and stigmata, but uncovered evidence of a lesbian affair with another nun, Bartolomeo. The story of the relationship between the two nuns and of Benedetta's fall from an abbess to an outcast is revealed in surprisingly candid archival documents and retold here with a fine sense of drama."--amazon.ca.".
- catalog abstract "English translation of : Rechtssoziologie.".
- catalog abstract "A re-creation of the conquest of the Americas and Latin America, divided into three parts. In the first are the myths of pre-Columbian America; in the second the history of America unfolds from the 15th to 19th century, and in the third 1900 to 1986. This trilogy differs from most in that it presents the making of the New World from the viewpoint of Latin America.".
- catalog abstract "On t.p.: The complete text of the film. Presents an oral history of the Holocaust.".
- catalog abstract "One day in Calcutta a rickshaw puller took internationally bestselling author Dominique Lapierre to one of the poorest and most over-populated areas of this haunting city, where five million people live out their lives on the streets. The district was called Anand Nagar -- the City of Joy -- and being there would change the writer's life forever. At the heart of this extremely poor community, Lapierre found more heroism, more love, more sharing, and ultimately, more happiness than in many a city of the affluent West. Above all, he was overwhelmed to discover that this seemingly inhuman place had the magical power to produce heroes and heroines of all ages and from all walks of life. For Calcutta is the home not only of such saints as Mother Teresa, but also of countless other inspiring people, who are ordinary and completely unknown.".
- catalog abstract "Reminiscences of an Indian professorʾs stay in United States, 1960-1964.".
- catalog abstract "Contains tales representing all facets of Ireland.".
- catalog abstract "Défis posés à l'industrie française de télécommunications.".
- catalog abstract ""This book is an encyclopedic reference to all the U.S. Army ground force units from battalion through division, 1939-1946"--Introd.".
- catalog abstract "A battlefield history of ground forces in the Vietnam War.".
- catalog abstract "This volume illustrates the growth of two attitudes towards government in China during the first century B.C., the one progressive, realist and forward looking, the other conservative, idealist and harking back to the past. It demonstrates the close relationship that existed between political decisions, intellectual policy and the choice of religious observances of state, whilst showing how personal ambitions and the intrigues of the palace were intimately involved with the interplay of these two basis attitudes. -- Book jacket.".
- catalog abstract "Full-color plates depicting the environmental geology, biologic assemblages, physical materials, active processes and current land use of the Guadalupe-Lavaca-San Antonio-Nueces River Basins.".
- catalog abstract "Kafr El Teen is a beautiful, sleepy village on the banks of the Nile. Yet at its heart it is tyrannical and corrupt. The Mayor, Sheikh Hamzawi of the mosque, and the Chief of the Village Guard are obsessed by wealth and use and abuse the women of the village, taking them as slaves, marrying them and beating them. Resistance, it seems, is futile. Zakeya, an ordinary villager, works in the fields by the Nile and watches the world, squatting in the dusty entrance to her house, quietly accepting her fate. It is only when her nieces fall prey to the Mayor that Zakeya becomes enraged by the injustice of her society and possessed by demons. Where is the loving and peaceful God in whom Zakeya believes?".
- catalog abstract "History of British and Indian armies in Sumatra, Java, Sarawak, Malaya and Singapore from 1685-1935. Includes names of officers and men buried in these areas. Also includes name lists of persons in some military units which served in these areas.".
- catalog abstract "Examines the biological, political, social, and moral consequences of nuclear warfare and asks how such a holocaust might be prevented.".
- catalog abstract "This play depicts the morally bankrupt world of four men who inhabit a Los Angeles filled with drugs, post-Vietnam despair, and Hollywood hype.".
- catalog abstract "Wilfred Sheed tells the story of his parents, Maisie Ward and Frank Sheed, who started Sheed and Ward Publishing, whose books change the course of the modern Catholic church.".
- catalog abstract "10 papers using new conceptual frameworks to interpret late Quaternary cultural and environmental remains. Chapters are composed largely of the proceedings of a symposium held at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in 1982.".
- catalog abstract "Proceedings of three seminars on Jaina logic and philosophy, 1975, Jaina logic, culture, and literature, 1977, and Jaina philosophy and modern scientific thought, 1979, organized by the Dept. of Philosophy, University of Poona.".
- catalog abstract "Thumb index. Contains over 460,000 entries defining the English language as it is written and spoken today.".
- catalog abstract "The story of a recovery from a crippling disease and the physician patient partnership that beat the odds by using the patient's own capabilities.".
- catalog abstract "819 entries to journal articles and books that provide an overview to significant literature. References are arranged under topics, i.e., human-animal bond and society, therapeutic values of animals, history of the bond, companion animals, and the bond and the veterinarian. Each entry gives bibliographical information and an annotation. Appendix consists of centers and organizations dealing with human-animal interactions. Author, title indexes.".
- catalog abstract "Discusses what led us into Vietnam, how it has changed our culture today and how it may change our culture in the future. This is the only book to examine the myths of the American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire in the first place. It exposes our national myths: the conviction of our moral supremacy, our assumptions that Americans are more idealistic than other people, and our faith in a technology that supposedly makes us invincible. It also discusses how Vietnam has changed American culture today, and in the future. -- Publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Would the KGB ever plot terrorist attacks against high-ranking American officials -- on American soil? Could a United States senator turn out to be a "mole" working for the Soviet Union?".
- catalog abstract "This beautifully illustrated reference work is the only source of information on American women sculptors as a group. Virginia Watson-Jones presents the accomplishments of more than 350 contemporary American women sculptors through photographs of their major works and detailed information about their lives and careers. For each artist information is provided on her birthplace and birth year, education, preferred media, major exhibitions, location of work in public collections, awards, selected private collectors, professional interests other than sculpture, teaching position (if applicable), and mailing address. Each entry also includes a statement by the sculptor and her signature.".
- catalog abstract "Jake Kilmer is a cop for the Feds. His specialty is a branch of the Mafia known as the Cincinnati Triad. He's pursued them for years, and now they've set up shop in Dunetown, Georgia. This time, they will not escape the Hooligans, a tough squad of ex-cops that Jake has organized. This time, he'll settle the score once and for all ...".
- catalog abstract "The laws are arranged under 91 numbered titles which are sometimes issued several to a vol. or in several vols.".
- catalog abstract "On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America--and into another realm.".
- catalog abstract "Thirty-two of the world's best-known men and women intimately and honestly address the questions "What do I believe?" and "How have I put my beliefs into practice in daily life?" Interviewees include Steve Allen, Joan Baez, Rita Mae Brown, Mario Cuomo, the Dalai Lama, Jane Goodall, Billy Graham, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Fazlur Rahman, Benjamin Spock, and Lech Walesa.".
- catalog abstract "The history of Catholicism in America focuses on the people belonging to America's largest religious denomination, from colonial times, through the immigration movements, to the contemporary Church.".
- catalog abstract "Brownmiller addresses the set of societal strictures, esthetic ideals, and assigned "characteristics" which governs the lives of half of America, and which goes by the name of Femininity. Biological femaleness, writes Brownmiller, is the smallest part of the elusive quality we know as femininity, which "always demands more. It must constantly reassure its audience by a willing demonstration of difference, even when one does not exist in nature." Body and gesture, skin and hair, conversation and clothing; the way a woman speaks, the way she sits, the way she smells: all are ruled by a code that requires enhancement, containment, exaggeration, or even denial of woman's nature. Whether an individual woman finds in femininity the luxuriant pursuit of a positive identity or an implacable standard she can never hope to meet, femininity remains, at bottom, "a powerful esthetic based upon a recognition of powerlessness."--Publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Le peintre Edouard Manet est le véritable sujet de ce roman qui s'interroge sur le rôle de l'artiste et tient compte de la réponse (en forme de pirouette) de son héros: "Le rôle de l'artiste est de vendre la mèche...". "L'action" se passe à Paris (quartier Saint-Georges) entre 1869 et 1874.".
- catalog abstract "Washington Square, The portrait of a lady, The Bostonians.".
- catalog abstract "The story of Father Hugh, a middle-aged priest who grew up with the Carmody children in Boston but fell prey to alcoholism. Eventually, he does come back to Old St. Paul's, but he cuts himself off from any awareness of life going on. However, when the Carmodys come back into his life, things begin to happen.".
- catalog abstract "Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden" is at once a personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, manual of self-reliance, and masterpiece of style. "The Maine Woods" and "Cape Cod" portray landscapes changing irreversibly even as he wrote. The first combines close observation of the unexplored Maine wilderness with a far-sighted plea for conservation; the second is a brilliant and unsentimental account of survival on a barren peninsula in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay.".
- catalog abstract "Tells the stories of a mourning family remembering its past, a vicious gangster, a young pregnant woman searching for her child's father, and barnstorming pilots at an air show.".
- catalog abstract "This story tells how the vixen is captured but escapes, marries, and raises a litter. She is shot by a poacher, but her spirit survives in her cubs.".
- catalog abstract "Case histories of children who have killed their parents, emphasizing the ways in which the medical establishment and legal system have failed to meet the needs of these young people.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of 26 essays by American writers of the postwar years.".
- catalog abstract ""Provides an overview of 93 separate national organizations whose primary purpose relates to alcohol, its use and/or abuse." Sources were usually agencies themselves. Alphabetical arrangement by agencies. Entries give address, telephone number, contact person, date of founding, membership, staff, and narrative description. Index by categories of agencies.".
- catalog abstract "Entries to 1672 books, journal articles, Ph. D. dissertations, and films. Includes some foreign-language references. Introduction gives discussion of assertiveness as part of social and professional mainstream. Entries give bibliographical information, annotation, and descriptors. Index to journal literature cited.".
- catalog abstract "Twice confiscated by Cuban authorities and rewritten from memory, this litany of despair--the story of life in totalitarian Cuba--is told through the voice of a wife (who remains nameless), then through that of her husband, Hector, a disenchanted revolutionary and poet. Hector, his wife and baby vacation for six days at a small seaside cabin. There, in feverish lyrical outbursts, they each lament the loss of the freedom they had barely begun to know in early Castro years, and with its passing the loss of everything else--enthusiasm, rebelliousness and hope. Nothing except terror remains, and as it grows, Hector and his wife's relationship becomes intolerable. Under the domestic idle chatter lie their complete solitudes, a vestige of wilted love, her disgust at the messier aspects of child care, his silent fury and homosexual desire.--From publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Du cartonnage en série à la reliure industrielle, les premiers éditeurs français qui se sont lancés dans ce type de présentation ; les procédés de fabrication et le livre-objet. Nombreuses illustrations. Beaucoup d'ouvrages ont été consacrés à la reliure d'art, celui-ci est un des premiers à s'intéresser à la reliure d'éditeur.".
- catalog abstract "Although scripture demands rebirth for all of God's chosen people, the actual experience of religious conversion is largely determined by the complex interaction between individuals and clergy. This book focuses on the Puritan experience of conversion, which culminated in the celebration of strength liberated for divine purposes, to examine how ministers elaborated the psychological imperatives of faith and their listeners modified and internalized them. Looking at firsthand accounts of personal conversion as well as at sermons and tracts, Cohen discusses how clergy and laity together defined the norms of religious experience, how the Bible influenced Puritan self-perception, and how theology molded the behavior of Saints in a covenanted community. Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians, this study advances Max Weber's discussion of the Saint's psychology of work and illuminated the function of rebirth in Puritan culture as both a religious and a psychological phenomenon.".
- catalog abstract "This autobiography covers the life of Mark Kac, the Polish mathematician known best for his interest in probability theory. His question, "Can you hear the shape of a drum?"set the stage for research into spectral theory.".
- catalog abstract "Three lovers and comrades seek happiness in a dilapidated chateau near history-enveloped Avignon, but must contend with madness, eerie obsessions, and darker demonic forces.".
- catalog abstract "William Acton (1840-1880) immigrated from Ireland to Gympie, Queensland in 1863, and married Eliza Jane McMonagle (a fellow Irish immigrant). Emmanuel Sullivan (1840-1909), a fellow passenger, married Sarah Ann Perrott in 1869 (Sarah Ann has immigrated via New York). Descendants and relatives lived in Queensland and elsewhere in Australia. Includes ancestry of the four in Ireland.".
- catalog abstract "A biography of the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and senator from Idaho.".
- catalog abstract "Listing of 3600 entries to publications from 1976-1982. Includes books, articles, court cases, dissertations, pamphlets, and documents, all in English or translated into English. Does not include literary works. Arranged according to format. Each entry contains bibliographical information. Miscellaneous appendixes. Subject, author indexes.".
- catalog abstract "Book is gift donation from Iran.".
- catalog abstract "Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, under pressure from his father to go into the family business, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfill his own dreams.".
- catalog abstract "A selection of the best works by a famous American writer includes The adventures of Tom Sawyer, The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The prince and the pauper, A Connecticut Yankee ..., The mysterious stranger, and stories and pamphlets.".
- catalog abstract "Includes music.".
- catalog abstract ""A collection of Public affairs report."--T.p.".
- catalog abstract "Discusses the historical roots of poetry in the Caribbean and provides an overview of its influence and importance in the day-to-day life of the region with emphasis on the works of leading writers and performers.".
- catalog abstract ""A study sponsored by the Lawyers Conference and the National Conference of Federal Trial Judges of the Judicial Administration Division of the American Bar Association."".
- catalog abstract ""Economist, philosopher, civil servant, and politician, John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) made his mark as a liberal in Victorian society. His major works--System of Logic and Principles--as well as his famous essays--"On Liberty" and "Women"--Reveal his extraordinary skill at clarifying difficult political and philosophical problems. Based on a detailed assessment of the influences on Mill's life, William Thomas traces the main ethical, economic, and psychological doctrines explored in his work and offers an unusual interpretation of the origins and development of Mill's philosophy."-- Provided by publisher.".
- catalog abstract "Complete collection of major nonfiction writings by author James Baldwin, composed between 1948 and 1985, providing his perceptions of the twentieth century black American experience.".
- catalog abstract "Argentinian writer Luisa Valenzuela reads from her work and is interviewed by Sharon Magnarelli.".
- catalog abstract "Chilean author Isabel Allende reads from her works and is interviewed by Magdalena García Pinto.".
- catalog abstract "Cuban writer Severo Sardy is interviewed in his home outside Paris by Roberto González Echevarría.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of proceedings of various symposia held at the annual meetings of the American Ceramic Society.".
- catalog abstract "Sermons preached between 1936 and 1959 in the Doopsgezinde Kerk in Zijldijk.".
- catalog abstract "As well as being an outstanding contribution to Indian economic and social history, this book draws important conclusions about peasant politics in general and about the effects of international economic fluctuations on primary producing countries. Dr Bose develops a general typology of systems of agrarian production in Bengal to show how these responded to different types of pressure from the world economy, and treats in detail the effects of the world Depression on Bengal. Separate chapters are devoted to the themes of agrarian conflict and religious strife in east Bengal, the agrarian dimension of mass nationalism in west Bengal and sharecroppers agitations in the frontier regions. The conclusion attempts a synthesis of the typology of agrarian social structure and the periodisation of peasant politics, placing this in the wider context of agrarian societies and protest in other parts of India and in South-east Asia.".
- catalog abstract "A biography of the German monk who led the Protestant Reformation in Europe from its beginning in 1517 until his death in 1546.".
- catalog abstract "Grade level: 5, 6, 7, e, i.".
- catalog abstract "Biography of the wife of King Henry II of England and mother of Richard I, the Lionheart, and John.".
- catalog abstract "The purpose of this report is to examine the transit center concept to determine if and how it might be applied in American cities to provide more efficient and effective transit service on an areawide basis. Transit centers are interchange facilities that will be typically located in suburban areas at or near major activity centers and will serve as focal points for high levels of local, radial, and circumferential transit service. Bus/bus, bus/rail, and auto/rail transfers will occur there.".
- catalog abstract ""Sexual inequality is a prominent feature of both Western and Islamic societies, but underlying concepts of female sexuality in Christian and Muslim traditions are very different, and the pattern of heterosexual relation in Muslim countries is probably unique. In Beyond the Veil, Fatima Mernissi argues that the Islamic view of women as active sexual beings resulted in stricter regulation and control of women's sexuality, which Muslim theorists classically regarded as a threat to civilized society. The requisites of modernization, however, are incompatible with traditional Muslim structures, and the ensuing contradictions now pervade nearly all Muslim countries. Drawing on popular source materials, Mernissi explores the disorienting effects of modern life on male-female relations, looks at the male-female unit as a basic element of the structure of the Muslim system, and shows us the sexual dynamics of the Muslim world. Regarded as a classic book in the United States, Beyond the Veil has never been available in Britain. This revised and updated version finally fills that gap."--Publisher's description.".
- catalog abstract ""Published here for the first time are two hitherto classified studies of German military intelligence in World War II. One was done by American intelligence and the other by an Allied team. Both were completed shortly after the war in Europe ended. The first is "The German G-2 Service in the Russian Campaign (Ic-Dienst Ost)," otherwise identified as the First Special Intelligence Interrogations Report; it was produced in July 1945 by G-2 of the United States Forces, European Theater (USFET). The second is "German Operational Intelligence"; it was produced in April 1946 at the German Military Documents Section of the American G-2 by a combined British, Canadian, and American staff. Now declassified, these documents constitute a consise, contemporary, and objective analysis of an enemy's military intelligence service a the operational level. The second section of this book, "German Operational Intelligence," contains many charts."--Editor's note.".
- catalog abstract "Chronicles the making of the United States Constitution and examines the men who created the document.".
- catalog abstract "Public Law 93-66, 93rd Congress, H.R. 7445 ... and others.".
- catalog abstract ""Published by the University of Toronto Press in cooperation with the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada."".
- catalog abstract "Regulatory aspects of airport ground tranasportation--Insurance--Automted information display systems--Airport planning--Satellite airport-terminals.".
- catalog abstract ""The question why certain kinds of legal institutions are found in certain kinds of societies has been little explored by anthropologists. In this book Katherine Newman examines a sample of some sixty different preindustrial societies, distributed across the world, in an attempt to explain why their legal systems vary. The key to understanding this variation, Professor Newman argues, is to be found in economic organization. Adopting a Marxian, or materialist, approach, she draws on original ethnographic sources for each culture in order to investigate how legal processes and institutions regulate basic aspects of economic life in societies with differing types of economic organization. She also examines the commonalities of law within various preindustrial 'modes of production' and shows that the patterning of legal institutions arises from underlying tensions in production systems. In offering an explanation of the distribution of legal institutions across preindustrial societies, as well as for the sources of conflict in such societies, the book makes an important contribution to the comparative study of legal systems. It will interest anthropologists and other readers concerned with the operation and development of legal institutions"--Publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of a directory of physicians certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.".
- catalog abstract "Ouvrage d'initiation à l'économie politique destiné au grand public.".
- catalog abstract "From 1609 until well after the founding of the Republic, half of all the colonists who came to America did so under some form of involuntary labor. Author John van der Zee draws on original memoirs, newspapers, and pamphlets to re-create the life stories of a number of the remarkable men and women whose enshacklement and destitution paved the way for American freedom. From the narratives of convicts, redemptioners (who accepted servitude in exchange for transportation to America), and those who were "spirited away" (snatched against their will), van der Zee weaves a colorful "people's history" of colonial and Revolutionary times. In their own words and through their own eyes, we meet such men and women as the first labor organizer in America; the young nobleman whose memoirs inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped; and a real-life Moll Flanders. The book also offers a surprising new interpretation of the Revolution as growing out of this widespread practice of servitude.--From publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "This book presents the official history of Colt firearms from 1836 to the present.".
- catalog abstract "A study of American Indian women's autobiographies demonstrates their distinct status as literature, analyzing important works in the genre and examining their cultural and political significance. Includes a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of American Indian women's autobiographies and biographies, and of works by and about American Indian women.".
- catalog abstract "Drawing on a wide range of contemporary accounts and modern scholarship, Schwartz captures the very texture of the vanished world of eighteenth-century London--from fops to cock-fights, from the pleasures and the domestic life of squires, tradesmen, and artists to the violence and filth of the brothels, the hospitals, and the prisons.".