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A discussion of the text or interpretation of passages from six plays by Euripides edited by the author for Oxford Classical Texts: Supplices, Electra, Heracles, Troades, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion.

Review "...will force students and scholars alike to reflect on the paradoxical relationship of racism to law."―Focus on Law Studies About the Author Donald G. Nieman is at Clemson...

One of the ground-breaking books of second-wave feminism. Author Susanne Pharr poses the idea that homophobia is a construct used by the dominant system in our society.

First published in 1964, A History of Urdu Literature soon established itself as an authorative work on the subject. For the general reader it is the best available history of Urdu writing.

Author, abolitionist, political activist, and philosopher, Frederick Douglass was a pivotal figure in the decades of struggle leading up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. This inexpensive...

From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This...

In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four...

In 1767, James Otis, Jr.--on behalf of Boston merchants--led a challenge on writs of assistance authorizing customs officials to invade private property in search of smuggled merchandise.

Descriptions of people met during the author's journey by car of over ten thousand miles throughout the Soviet Union are augmented by accounts of the historical background of their nation and region

With a new introduction from New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones, The Street was Ann Petry's first novel, originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork. The Street...

A fourth edition of Nash's classic study is now available with a new Preface and Epilogue in which the author explores the future of wilderness and reflects on its ethical and biocentric relevance.

In essays as revealing of their author as they are of their subject, Rilke examines Rodin's life and work, and explains the often elusive connection between the creative forces that drive great...

(Music Sales America). This book provides an ample background of textual and historical information about Handel's Messiah . Though it arises from the author's work involved in his own edition in...

Photography, introduced to Russia in 1839, was nothing short of a sensation. Its rapid proliferation challenged the other arts, including painting and literature, as well as the very integrity of the...

Drawing on twenty years of friendship and numerous interviews with the playwright, this profile of the author of Waiting for Godot recounts his l and offers fresh interpretations of many of his works.

Josef Weidenholzer ; Mit Einem Vorwort Von Karl R. Stadler. Revision Of The Author's Thesis (doctoral)--1977. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 282-293.

At the turn of the last century, as routinized industrial labor made a mockery of the gospel of work, Americans increasingly sought fulfillment not on the job but in their leisure activities. This...

Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Review). Girl with Curious Hair is replete with...

The new edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, drawn from the third edition of the best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, is a collection of 5800 well-known quotations by 1100...

NOW IN SPANISH! It is said the mighty feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl, helped create the earth. He is the hero who stole back the bones of humanity from the evil god of the Underworld. In his...