West of Everything

Jane Tompkins

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• A leading figure in the debate over the literary canon, Jane Tompkins was one of the first to point to the ongoing relevance of popular women's fictio... Lees meer

A Pity Youth Does Not Last

Micheal O'Guiheen, Tim Enright

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• Michéal O'Guiheen was the son of Peig Sayers, "the Queen of the Gaelic storytellers." The last of the Blasket's celebrated poets and storytellers, he ... Lees meer

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Michael Baxandall

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• Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a... Lees meer

Black Liberation

George M Fredrickson

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• When George M. Fredrickson published White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History , he met universal acclaim. David Brio... Lees meer

Idols of Perversity

Bram Dijkstra

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• At the turn of the century, an unprecedented attack on women erupted in virtually every aspect of culture: literary, artistic, scientific, and philoso... Lees meer

Artistic Theory in Italy

Anthony Blunt

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• This book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, but o... Lees meer

From Selma to Appomattox

Lawrence R Laboda

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• The history of the Jeff Davis Artillery is the story of a company of Alabamians who fought with valor and distinction for the Confederacy during more ... Lees meer

How to Do Things with Words The William James Lectures delivered in Harvard University in 1955 2/e

J L Austin

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• The late J.L.Austin's influence on contemporary philosophy, which ranks with that of Wittgenstein, was substantial during his lifetime and continues t... Lees meer

Writing Under Pressure

Sanford Kaye

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• Most writing is done under pressure. An executive has to produce a three-page position paper by tomorrow at nine. A department head suddenly has to wr... Lees meer

Antigones

George Steiner

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• This book examines the far-reaching legacy of one of the great myths of classical antiquity. According to Greek legend, Antigone, daughter of Oedipus,... Lees meer

Her Share of the Blessings

Ross Shepard Kraemer

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• In this pathbreaking volume, Ross Shepard Kraemer provides the first comprehensive look at women's religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. She vividly rec... Lees meer

The Intelligible Constitution

Joseph Goldstein

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• In Webster v. Reproductive Health Services , a critical abortion rights case, a bitterly divided Supreme Court produced no less than six different opi... Lees meer

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

William Blake

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• These two collections of Blake's finest and best-loved poems--printed on vellum--offer the text of each poem in letterpress on the page facing a beaut... Lees meer

No Magic Bullet

Allan M Brandt

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• From Victorian anxieties about syphilis to the current hysteria over herpes and AIDS, the history of venereal disease in America forces us to examine ... Lees meer

The Mechanic Muse

Hugh Kenner

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• With his customary wit and erudition, one of America's most celebrated and distinguished critics examines the response of literary Modernism to enviro... Lees meer

The Later Christian Fathers

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• The century and a quarter following the Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325) has been called the 'Golden Age of Patristic literature.' It is this period that ... Lees meer

The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

John D Barrow

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• Ever since Copernicus, scientists have continually adjusted their view of human nature, moving it further and further from its ancient position at the... Lees meer

Dirty Politics

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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• Americans in recent years have become thoroughly disenchanted with our political campaigns, especially with campaign advertising and speeches. Each ye... Lees meer

Twenty Years A-Growing

Maurice O'Sullivan, Moya Llewellyn Davies, George Thompson

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• In tellng the story of his youth, Maurice O'Sullivan uses a style derived from the folk tales he learned from his grandfather, and sharpened by his ow... Lees meer

Our Common Future

World Commission on Employment, World Commission on Environment and Deve

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• In 1983, the U.N. General Assembly created the World Commission on Environment and Development, an independent committee of twenty-two members, headed... Lees meer

Discovering Eve

Carol Meyers

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• This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reco... Lees meer

What Is Mathematics?

Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins

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• For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cult... Lees meer

Nature's Robots

Jacqueline Reynolds, Charles Tanford

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• Proteins are amazing molecules. They spark the chemical reactions that form the basis for life, transmit signals in the body, identify and kill foreig... Lees meer

R.U.R. and the Insect Play

Capek

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• Josef and Karel Capek were the best known literary figures of liberated Czechoslovakia after 1918. Josef won a considerable reputation as a painter of... Lees meer