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Brevity in conversation is a window to the workings of the mind. This book brings it into prominence as both a multifaceted topic of deep philosophical importance and a phenomenon that serves as a...

Best known for his powerful sculptures and installations, Scottish artist Martin Boyce reconfigures everyday elements into alternate realities. Garbage cans are lopsided, trees consist of straight...

Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 16, summarizes the proceedings of the IAU XXVIII General Assembly held in Beijing, 20–31 August 2012, which brought together more than 2700 astronomers from 75 member...

This volume brings together philosophical essays on emotions by eleven leading thinkers in the field. The essays cover a variety of topics that relate emotions to humor, opera, theater, justice, war,...

Nine contributors analyze state-society relations in India. A new epilogue covers the Rajiv Gandhi period, leading up to the important elections of December 1989.Originally published in 1988.The...

How the digital revolution has shaped our languageIn the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic...

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"Social work," writes Alice Lieberman, "is the only profession for whom social justice is a core value." The fifteen extraordinary women profiled in this book have lived this core value to the...

Ever since Roger Fenton inaugurated the genre by photographing the Crimean War in 1855, the world's great photojournalists have used a variety of approaches to bear witness to their times. At one end...

Schiff, Hilda Ed., Contemporary Approaches To English Studies

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an authority on all aspects of music. It is widely used by academics and the professional community. First published in 1980, it is a successor to...

Likely to become a major reference work, this book investigates what has happened to the welfare state in Britain since 1974. It examines particularly the differences and similarities in trends...

Contributions to this volume range from studies of particular sessions and individual members of parliament to the general problems of Court and Country, foreign affairs, and royal finance. They...

"Translation/History/Culture" is a collection of the most important statements on the translation of literature from Roman times to the 1920s. Arranged thematically around the main topics which recur...

This study illuminates various methods of, and influences on, the main sources of private giving--both individual and institutional--to educational, cultural, and charitable causes. Magat here...

This collection of commentaries by contributors such as Pelling, C.J. Gill, P.E. Easterling, F.S. Halliwell, D.A.F.M. Russell, S. Godhill, L. Coventry, M.S. Silk, O.P. Taplin, and J. Griffin examines...

This book presents the first full account and critical edition of The Pilgrimage of the Life of Manhode based on the anonymous Middle English prose translation, of the First Recension of the long...

This is the first study devoted to the story of Troilus and Cressida as it has developed through the ages and in various literatures. An international team of scholars examine the way in which the...

When it comes to race and racial issues these are strange times for all Americans. More than forty years after Brown v. Board of Education put an end to segregation of the races by law, current...