2151 results for '"Gelb, Leslie H.'

This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and...

The first critical edition of Auden's only explicitly religious long poemFor the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had...

The New Historicism Reader documents the New Historicists' multiplex achievement, spanning Renaissance and Reagan studies, American realism, English romanticism, gender studies, feminism, and...

Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thick descriptions" seize upon an event or...

One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning...

This collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to, and as part of, the upheaval in the religious,...

Synthesizing studies of parental care in a wide variety of animals, this book is the first attempt to provide general answers to the following important questions: Why does the extent of parental...

Lucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey stands beside the poems of Virgil and Ovid in the first rank of Latin epic; powerful in its condemnation of the civil war. This new...

This unique sourcebook describes the methods used to study human brain function and brain-behavior relationships. These range from relatively simple approaches, such as dichotic listening and...

Professor Havens analyzes the efforts of Japanese antiwar organizations to portray the war as much more than a fire across the sea" and to create new forms of activism in a country where individuals...

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Issues in Acoustic Signal/Image Processing and Recognition was held August 5-9, 1982 at the Cappuccini complex in San Miniato Italy. The Workshop was primarily...

source of illustrations, acknowledgments, preface, 1. An Abbey and Ancestors; 2. Minority, Cambridge and the 1820s; 3. The Creative Decade; 4. Photogenic Drawing; 5. The Calotype; 6. Photography: Of...

Text: English, Latin (translation)

Volumes 5 and 6 contain some 25 pieces, including both original manuscripts as well as rare tracts. Many of these texts were first made available in this series.