This collection of previously unpublished essays addresses a wide range of topics relevant to the on-going debates regarding dying and death and the subtleties, nuances, and complexities accompanying
Based on a PhD thesis presented to Newcastle University in 1992, this book assesses through a specific survey area the efficiency of Raymond Selkirk's Piercebridge formula for Roman river transportati
Young Josiah Paddock, on the run from his past in St. Louis, didn't have much hope of survival.??Winter was coming to the Rockies, and if the cold cutting through his city clothes didn't kill him, gri
As we enter the 1990s and head toward the turn of a new century, the need to recognize and encourage effective teaching is increasingly pronounced. The 43 articles in this collection cover a panoply o
Cesar Vallejo was born in Santiago de Chuco, Peru, in 1892. He studied law and literature in Trujillo and in 1917 moved to Lima. In 1921 he spent three months in prison where he wrote some of the poem
This book is a practical and biblical guide for all who engage in counseling African-Americans. Its purpose is to set forth the issues, principles, and interventions of counseling, especially in terms
Abner Cook has long been acknowledged as the most important architect in antebellum Texas, but this extensively illustrated volume is the first to document fully his life and works. This well-told his
Southern-style politics was one of those peculiar institutions that differentiated the South from other American regions. This system -- long referred to as the Solid South -- embodied a distinctive r
Possibly in an effort to win by any means, someone is wreaking havoc at the winter carnival competition at Snow Haven, where the Aldens are competing in skiing, skating, and building snow sculptures d
The award-winning author of The Mediterranean Herb Cookbook presents a new edition of the classic guide to French country cookery that features sixty ingenious recipes made from the finest of fruits,
While its actors made their entrace down the Flower Way over three hundred years ago, little of kabuki's repertory has been available to English readers. Not only are adequate translations difficult t
This study seeks to resolve the "free trade vs. managed trade" debate. It provides innovative recommendations for US policy based on detailed and rigorous case studies of high-technology trade conflic
This non-technical guide introduces the Southern California desert enthusiast to one of the most active geologic regions in North America. Eight field trips journey through deep time in the desert.
"At what historical point did American English become different from British English? Burchfield tackles these and other questions in scholarly essays sure to intrigue anyone who loves words and langu
Book V of Julius Caesar's memoirs of the Gallic War covers his second assault on Britain in 54 BC and defeat of the British commander Cassivellaunus, his return to Gaul and his campaigns against the B
Focusing on the region of the Arab world--comprising some two hundred million people and twenty-one sovereign states extending from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf--this book develops a theory of soc
This introduction to the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system (STNS) describes some of the best-understood neural networks in the animal kingdom at cellular, network, behavioral, comparative, and
An introduction to the intricacies of the world trading system, including the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade). The text identifies the features and precedents of the GATT, analyzes the i
Jerrold J. Katz offers a radical reappraisal of the "linguistic turn" in twentieth-century philosophy. He shows that the naturalism that emerged to become the dominant philosophical position was never
Paper edition of a collection of essays originally published by Garland in 1991. Contains 22 contributions to the subfield of Chicano film criticism that is emerging within both Chicano and film studi
The papers in this volume were presented to the tenth annual meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology. The meeting was conceived as a decennial review of some of the central issues explored in
The Annals of Fulda are the principal narrative source written from a perspective east of the Rhine for the period in which the Carolingian Empire gave way to a number of successor kingdoms, including
A biography of Reinhold Niebuhr, 20th-century theologian and political philosopher, written by Niebuhr's last graduate assistant. Chronicles Niebuhr's passion for creating an "intellectually equipped,
A man of towering intellectual accomplishment and extraordinary tenacity, Emmanuel Ringelblum devoted his life to recording the fate of his people at the hands of the Germans. Convinced that he must r
Focussing on the geometry of hyperbolic manifolds, the aim here is to provide an exposition of some fundamental results, while being as self-contained, complete, detailed and unified as possible. Foll
`An interesting collection of the state of the art of social constructionism and therapy, and a major contribution to reflection on therapeutic theory and practice' -Changes`The chapters are interesti
Volume Three covers roughly a quarter of a century, a period which saw grand opera on the Parisian model established throughout Italy, the reform of the Conservatories, and the spread of cosmopolitan
"When history proves useless and consensus chimerical," Donald Revell has written, "the poet's necessity is invention, and this does a lot to explain our century's preference for revision over mimesis
While working to raise money for the Greenfield Hospital, the Alden children and their new friend, Beth, are suddenly confronted by unexpected sabotage and Beth's mysterious disappearance. Simultaneou
