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Unsanctifying Human Life offers a collection of Singer's best and most challenging articles from 1971 to the present. The book includes early critiques of various approaches to philosophy and the...

A concise, engaging overview of American slavery from the beginning of the colonial era to emancipation and its aftermath. Kolchin takes a broad geographical perspective, putting American slavery in...

The description for this book, Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times, will be forthcoming.-- "The New Republic"

This volume addresses the social and practical considerations involved in the design and implementation of effective rural development projects. Contributors stress the need to take account of the...

Cicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models...

An English midshipman on The Sentinel, commissioned by Britian's Royal Navy to track down and free Africans imprisoned on slave ships, finds his fate and survival inextricably linked to that of an...

"Shakespeare wrote ten plays on medieval English eight on the later Plantagenets, one on the early Plantagenets, and one on the Tudors. Theater goers and students of Shakespeare who appreaciate the...

Richard Wilbur; William Stafford; James Wright; Louis Simpson; Robert Penn Warren.

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Timothy Dunphy finds it difficult to relate to his harsh, working-class father or his upper-class schoolmates at a Connecticut prep school

In diesem Band geht es um die besondere Bedeutung, die den Bilderhandschriften in der volkssprachigen Literatur des Mittelalters fur die Herausbildung der Konzepte von Autor und Autorschaft zukommt...