When The Leavenworth Case, Anna Katharine Green’s first novel, was published in 1878, it quickly became a bestseller as well as a seminal work of detective fiction. Critics were to perceive Green’s wo
Some fourteen years after its initial publication, this important and influential book, with a new, substantial, and candid introduction by the author, is available in a reasonably priced paperback ed
At the outbreak of World War I, Hoover was a wealthy mining engineer and businessman living in London. In a short time, he became the founder and brilliant director of an unprecedented international r
Not since the 1920s has American architecture undergone such fundamental changes asthose which are revitalizing the profession today. But in this period of great artistic fertilityand unrest, there ha
How to develop policies that will bring forth the resources and contributions that the elderly can make and also deal with the problems they impose. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Liberty under Law is a concise and readable history of the U.S. Supreme Court, from its antecedents in colonial and British legal tradition to the present.
Written but never published during his lifetime, this memoir of the founding father of computing is an indispensable primary source of information about Babbage's personal character and work. It bring
Reproductions of Banality was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the or
Called the King of the Pulps, Frederick Schiller Faust, aka Max Brand, wrote nearly 400 Westerns from The Untamed to Destry Rides Again—a total of more than 220 books in this genre. Yet Max Brand also
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In the West we are accustomed to think of religion as centered in the personal quest for salvation or the longing for unchanging Being. Perhaps this is why we have found it so difficult to understand
Conquistador Without Sword tells the story of St. Roque González, SJ. González, one of the first American martyrs to be beatified who worked to help native peoples in the Americas gain self-sufficienc
Starting in a hollowed log of wood--some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself "Why?" and the only echo is "damned fool! . . . the Devil drives!"So Rich
Theologian William May offers an engaging study of sex, in particular the relationship between the natural and the spiritual dimension of human love and reproduction. For those who question the common
"Ethics Without Philosophy is the first full-scale attempt to relate Wittgenstein’s ethical and religious concerns to his philosophical work. The attempt is splendidly carried out. I have found it mor
The Bion Experiments, published in a limited German edition in 1938 and now available in English for the first time, represents a cornerstone in Reich's scientific development. The work documents a se
"The study of the Greeks can never be a closed account. The wide variety of critical and descriptive works written about them . . . . bears witness to man's continuing preoccupation with himself. Othe
The Radical Lord Radnor was first published in 1977. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the orig
A sociological study of the regular patrons of a family-type tavern offers insight into the lifestyles, social interaction and status, ideals, and aspirations of the beer-drinking, pool-shooting blue-
Thoreau's classic account of his experiment in simple living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, is accompanied by "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," a protest against governmental interfere
In this study, originally published in Norway as Fra Principat Til Dominat, Professor L'Orange sets down the essence of his thought on the crucial period of transition from decentralization to standar
Past studies of medieval Portugal have focused on such specific themes as political or administrative history and voyages of discovery. Oliveira Marques, however, has captured the vast
This mid-level text covers calculus with an emphasis on cross-discipline principles and practices. It develops a functional understanding of mathematical concepts in preparation for their application
