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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...

The Girl from Andros was the first play of the brilliant but short-lived Roman comic playwright Terence and shows him as already a master dramatist. It is based on two plays (both now lost) by the...

"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...

On September 9, 1985, one thousand mainly Mexican women workers in Watsonville, California, the "frozen food capital of the world," were forced out on strike in response to an attempt by Watsonville...

This visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction dives into a world where ants, cicadas, bees, and butterflies visit a library exhibition that displays their stories and humanity's connection to...

Text: English, German (translation)

Revolution remains a key concept in the social sciences. After the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, a debate still rages over its causes and meaning. At the same time as, in Eastern...

Text: German