4729 results for '"Casey J. Humbyrd'

Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From...

McGann (English, U. of Virginia) writes on Blake, Byron, D.G. Rossetti, and Pound, using their work to illustrate how truth and knowledge are pursued through poetry. This volume is the final work in...

Hailed on its initial publication as a work with immediate implications for countless lives, Dreze & Sen's The Political Economy of Hunger is the classic analysis of an extraordinary paradox: in a...

Why is it so difficult to design and implement fundamental educational reform in large city schools in spite of broad popular support for change? How does the politics of race complicate the...

This timely book describes and explains the American people's alleged hatred of their own branch of government, the U.S. Congress. Focus group sessions held across the country and a specially...

This book explores a larger family of saints—those celebrated not just by Christianity but by other religious traditions of the world: Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Confucian, African, and...

"Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm." So says short-story writer Jeanne Schinto in her witty introduction to The Literary Dog, a...

This book compares workfare policies in the United States and 'active labor policies' in Western Europe that are aimed primarily at the long-term unemployed, unemployed youth, lone parents,...

There is a vigorous debate about the merits of globalisation for developing countries. Based on numerous focus-group discussions and over 10,000 interviews, this book studies economic and cultural...

Nearly a millennium before the Inca forged a pan-Andean empire in the South American Andes, Tiwanaku emerged as a major center of political, economic, and religious life on the southern shores of...

An original and comprehensive approach to reduplication, with extensive examples and case studies in many languages.A convincing account of reduplicative phenomena has been a longstanding problem for...