8324 results for '"George W. Downs'

In the wake of the Cold War, as the international community struggles to accommodate change, the author of this study directs our attention to the classic theorists, Thucydides, Rousseau, Locke and...

Tony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the “structural” film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures and Normal...

A "beginning," especially as embodied in much modern thought, is its own method, Edward Said argues in this classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism. Distinguishing...

Events are making clear to ever-widening circles of readers the need for something more than a superficial knowledge of non-European cultures. In particular, the blossoming into independence of...

The author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth "takes us on a lifetime voyage full of imagery, insight and appreciation." --Cleveland Plain DealerIn his most ambitious journey ever, William Least...

A study of the English parliamentarian and statesman who vigorously supported constitutional limitations of Stuart absolutism. Using unprinted diaries of the 1620s, the author shows the evolutionary...

Si l'oeuvre de Gaius a suscite beaucoup d'hypotheses, celles-ci furent rarement fecondes: tout au plus est-il avere que les Institutes ont ete redigees sous les Antonins, probablement sous Hadrien ou...

An exploration of the limits of identity by Edward Said, a distinguished Palestinian scholar and essential voice in decolonization theoryBanned by the Freud institute in Vienna, this controversial...

In 1941, after decades of struggling to hold on to the remainder of their aboriginal home, the Hualapai Indians finally took their case to the Supreme Court--and won. The Hualapai case was the...

Noting that the ways of interpreting the Bible now practiced in the West are patriarchal and oppressive of those in other parts of the world, Dube offers an alternative interpretation that attends to...

Challenging the stereotypes and myths that typically characterize students' understanding of antiquity, Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations: From Prehistory to 640 CE focuses on continuity and...

The essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular and pervasive.In README, historian Patrick McCray argues that in order for computers to become...

Tuchman turns to America with a fresh new view of the events that led from the first foreign salute to the American Nationhood in 1776 to the last campaign of the Revolution five years later--the...

The Smith conjecture

Longstreth explores the early development of two kinds of retail space that have become ubiquitous in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century.Richard Longstreth is one of the...