This is the first book to put Aesthetic Theory into context and outline the main ideas and relevant debates, offering readers a valuable guide through this huge, difficult, but revelatory work. Theo
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The Birds of Washtenaw County, Michigan provides a comprehensive account of the birdlife in Washtenaw County. Situated to the west of Detroit in southeast Michigan, the county has an exceptionally ric
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Hedda, a writer of angry feminist novels, has fled New York City to write in solitude in an old house on the coast of Maine. Her only interruptions come in unwelcome phone calls from her self-absorbed
This volume, a reprint from 1978, compiles essays by the late Reed, an author of many works on the origins of the oppression of women and the fight for their emancipation. Ranging in date from 1957 to
Outlines a style of management that reflects the personality, beliefs, visions, ethics, standards, and judgements of the manager and discusses three basic philosophies of management
Virtually all these papers were presented at the 1988 and ^89 conferences on the core and the curriculum held at UNT. They deal with: history of the liberal arts; virtues of the core notion, and of th
Hollywood, 1947. It’s a town of glittering stars and lavish excess, where actors are legends, studio heads are gods, and even crimes are larger than life. It’s the perfect setting
This work explores the history of the university in Burma, both as an institution founded by the colonizing British, and as a medium for change that was used by Burmese students in their struggles for
The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages provides the basic mathematicaltechniques necessary for those who are beginning a study of the semantics and logics of programminglanguages. These techniq
Peter Fortymore can't believe his brother is dead. So he conceives a desperate plan. He'll run away from school, 'borrow' a plane and fly off to France to find him. In the chaos of the first world war
Since its completion in 1932, the Nebraska State Capitol has been widely recognized as an architectural masterpiece, one that justifiably inspires pride in the citizens of the state and admiration in
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret No one ever told Margaret Simon that eleven-going-on- twelve would be such a hard age. When her family moves to New Jersey, she has to adjust to life in the suburb
This book provides an up-to-date and practical approach to the concepts and applications of behaviour modification and features an innovative framework for integrating those concepts within the social
These travel journals and letters of the brothers Krause, a translation of an unpublished, revised edition of the German publication, represent the human side of the expedition made by the two trained
This is the true, complicated story of the decades-long battle to bring a baseball team to Florida's West Coast.Back in print for the first time in two decades, Bob Andelman's detailed investigation h
In the notoriously controversial field of paleoanthropology Misia Landau has found a hidden level of agreement among theories of human evolution. According to Landau, these theories are versions of th
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Socialism as a political system may be on the wane, yet no one can doubt that its cultural legacies will make themselves felt for years to come, and on a worldwide scale. The contributors to this volu
In a major revision of feminist-psychoanalytic theories of film pleasure and sexual difference, Studlar's close textual analysis of the six Paramount films directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring
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In this book an internationally renowned scientist presents a radically new theory of the origin of life on Earth 4 billion years ago.Harold J. Morowitz postulates that the first step toward the origi
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Illustrated with a diverse collection of historic and contemporary artwork, travel posters, and photographs, this irresistible volume traces the evolution of spas from the sacred springs of prehistori
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(Music Sales America). This is the first work composed by Dave Heath. It was written in 1978 after fellow flautist Richard Blake asked him to compose a jazz piece. Out of the Cool is based on the chor
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Great Britain, France, Germany, and Japan. Surveying the development of the steel, automobile, and semiconductor industries in each of these countries, Jeffrey A. Hart illuminates the role of national
