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This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth...

Includes more than 60 contemporary homes, illustrating the very best in innovative, stylish and sophisticated modern livingThis latest addition to IMAGES' 21st Century series presents a diverse...

From immigration rights to climate change, California has been ground zero for the most crucial questions of our time. In a bravura essay, Rabih Alamdeddine remembers bartending during the worst...

The Spanish Civil War--the most momentous political and cultural flashpoint of the 1930s--struck deep into the conscience and conciousness of the West. This anthology offers a vivid, moving, and...

Bringing together a wealth of historical documents, memoirs, essays, and literature from Eastern Europe, this highly successful book vividly illustrates how the most original and challenging minds of...

These 480 letters that passed between the successive heads of a major London trading house and its often prestigious European clientele and suppliers paint an intriguing picture of the changing...

Robert Somerville. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. [x]-xiii.

When the fourth edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Theatre appeared, The Philadelphia Inquirer recommended it as their 1983 book for theater-lovers, calling it "the scorecard you...

Review"fine work on the three fascinating groups (all Old World) of desert and steppe birds ... A book for bird watcher, taxonomist, and behavioral scientist alike - and for bird book collectors...

Essays in British Business History

Chapbooks formed the staple reading matter of ordinary people during the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth centuries; they were also read by children of the gentry. They included fiction,...

This authoritative survey traces the development of Lukcs' thought from his conversion to Marxism to his renunciation of "History and Class Consciousness," from his remarkably fertile 'essay period'...

Before the publication of the second-century AD papyrus containing eight and a fragmentary ninth of the Mimiambs of Herodas in 1891, Herodas was known only through approximately twenty lines which...

Contents: Prolegomena to a future edition of Beethoven's letters / Alan Tyson -- New Beethoven letters and documents -- An unfinished concertante of 1802 / Richard Kramer -- Structural relations...

"The next decade promises to be a challenging one for colleges and universities. This book explains why... The essays provide an informative historical guide of the past decade while also looking...

The therepeutic task, with these patients, necessitates a special form of attunement and a particular treatment stance that take into account the often hidden sensitivities and painful feelings that...

Essays by leading anthropologists illuminate the role of witchcraft, black magic, and related magical beliefs in primitive societies

Uses excerpts from private diaries to depict seventeenth century life in England, and covers infancy, adolescence, courtship, marriage, old age, and death

Dispatches from a land of extremes, by writers and movie stars, natives and visitors, activists and pioneers, and more. California has always been, literally, a place to write home about. Renowned...

Since the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920, Mexico's rebellious peasant has become a subject not only of history but of literature, film, and paintings. With his sombrero, his machete, and his rifle,...