From Virtue to Character: American Childhood, 1775-1850 explores the experience of childhood in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Beginning with the child-rearing concepts of John Locke an
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In her foreword, editor Hudock (U. of South Carolina) explains how she came to value a feminist approach to literature and literary studies, an approach she feels is constantly evolving. In this six-v
Beginning with an introduction that examines the works and influence of the classical masters of science fiction and its development as an accepted literary genre, author Suzanne Reid in her new volum
A critical introduction to the life and work of the Canadian-born writer who has been an expatriate in Paris for over 40 years. Schaub (English, U. of Haifa in Israel) discusses Gallant's disconcertin
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Now in full color, this update of the 2002 A-Z encyclopedia explains mathematical concepts and provides a fascinating historical overview of the field. It explores the uses and effects of math in dail
The Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender series serves undergraduate college students who have had little or no exposure to Gender Studies, as well as the curious lay reader. Following the Pr
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Each volume of Drama for Students features coverage of 14 to 15 plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Each detailed entry includes an introduction that provides an overview of the play;
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This three-volume reference provides a critical introduction to 300 political, artistic, literary, philosophical, technological, and cultural manifestoes from around the world, from the Magna Carta to
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Written in plain language accessible to more prepared high school juniors and seniors and up, this reference profiles 100 job titles in 12 green sectors in the US. Each entry contains fact boxes with
Provides advice to librarians on recommending nonfiction to today's adult readers, and summarizes books in such fields as the arts, biography, health, history, and science, with lists of reviews, the
Each volume of Drama for Students features coverage of 14 to 15 plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Each detailed entry includes an introduction that provides an overview of the play;
Scholars based mostly in the US, but also Europe, Australia, and even Egypt in one case, profile 37 writers in Arabic who were active during the century before Muhammad the Prophet and the first four
Offers an introduction to the Harlem Renaissance and presents thirty-five entries on major authors and their works, including literary criticism and a complete bibliography for each author.
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Offers a critical introduction to the life and work of the American young adult author Mildred D. Taylor, author of the 1977 Newbery Award-winning "Roll of thunder, hear my cry."
Synthesizing literary critical approaches such as psychoanalytic, science studies, cultural studies, feminist, and queer theory, the author explores Stoker's Dracula both as a response to its own hi
Between 1932 and 1939, Liang Sicheng and his wife, Lin Huiyin, together with a few members of the Institute for Research in Chinese Architecture, traveled to Northern and Southwestern China on over a
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The bulk of this encyclopedia--the second edition of a work first published in 1988 as World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Penal System--consist of 198 country studies on institutions of law enfor
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Beginning with an account of noted literary critic F.R. Leavis's life and career, this study examines his influence on the world of English literature. From his ability in 1932 to shift critical empha
Due to the popularity of Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les MisTrables (1862), Hugo (1802-1885) is the most widely read French novelist in the English-speaking world. With a critique of his verse a
Designed to serve as a companion volume to Notable Black American Women published in 1992, with a second book in 1996, this work aims to fill the need for an up-to-date biographical listing of Afric
