2222 results for '"Myers, Isabel B.'

Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than seven-fold to over two million people, including vastly disproportionate numbers of minorities and...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books...

In When Nationalism Began to Hate, Brian Porter offers a challenging new explanation for the emergence of xenophobic, authoritarian nationalism in Europe. He begins by examining the common assumption...

This collection features three of Jonson's masterpieces: Volpone, Epicoene, and The Alchemist.

Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting...

Un petit peuple issu d'Europe s'est établi "au Nord du monde" , dans une solitude glacée où il s'acharne à survivre. Mais, au fil des siècles, les communications s'espacent, puis s'interrompent...

" A toutes celles qui vivent dans l'illusion que l'égalité est acquise et que l'Histoire ne revient pas en arrière, je voudrais dire que rien n'est plus précaire que les droits des femmes. A celles...

L’ardeur qui coule dans les veines de Barbey d’Aurevilly enflamme ses personnages et embrase la nature omniprésente comme nous le traduisent si bien les auteurs.

From the ridgetops of the north to the Pinelands of the south, New Jersey's natural areas display an astonishing variety of plant life. This book--a completely revised edition of the classic...

In this lively book, Benedict R. O'G Anderson explores the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen from two critical facts in Indonesian history―that while the Indonesian nation is...

In Talking Heads, Benjamin Lee situates himself at the convergence of multiple disciplines: philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, and literary theory. He offers a nuanced exploration of the central...

In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In these...

Exploring the exhilarating but paradoxical intertwining of enchantment with enlightenment in the early modern period. What has happened to the magic of learning? Playful illusions, spellbinding...

In Europe it was called the Age of Discovery. To the rest of the world, it often meant slavery, epidemic disease, cultural genocide, and wholesale social and economic changes. What happened in the...

The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and...

The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such...

In a social and cultural study of nineteenth-century bourgeois women in northern France, Bonnie Smith shows how the advent of industrialization removed women from the productive activity of the...