In this book, originally published in 1972 by the Smithsonian Institution Press, the author presents a valuable study of the cultural context illustrated by the drawings and paintings that were disco
Mississippi represented the Old South and all that it stood for perhaps more than any other state. Tracing its long process of economic, social, and cultural evolution, Christopher Morris takes a clos
A college-level introduction to ethics which covers several topics unusual to such texts, such as projectivism and quasirealism, feminist ethics, and communitarianism, in addition to the standard ethi
Martin Ritt has been hailed as the United States’s greatest maker of social films. From No Down Payment early in his career to Stanley and Iris, his last production, he delineated the nuances of Ameri
Jedidiah Morse - clergyman, geographer, and father of the painter and inventor Samuel Morse - was a significant figure in post-Revolutionary New England. Through his popular geography texts, he descri
This remarkable study presents the first detailed and scholarly analysis of the creation of sexual knowledge in Britain. Surveying the period between the mid-seventeenth and the mid-twentieth centurie
A biography of Frank, an early revisionist Marxist who broke with the revolutionary movement, converted from Judaism to Russian Orthodoxy, was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1922, and spent the rest
Among the many studies of aging and the aged, there is comparatively little material in which the aged speak for themselves. In this compelling study, Sharon Kaufman encourages just such expression,
In a groundbreaking book, Kathryn Grover reconstructs from their own writings the lives of African Americans in Geneva, New York, virtually from its beginning in the 1790s, to the time of the communit
Adventures in Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer's school for boys--a place of light, warmth, comfort, and delights, where self-knowledge and self-control are acquired along with book learning
In order to analyse the evolution of social science, Habermas applied the distinction between natural scientific and cultural scientific thinking. The author of this book focuses on the implications o
God and Greater Britain is an examination of crucial aspects of the relationship between religion and national consciousness in Britain and Ireland at a pivotal period in the history of both countries
Major General J. E. B. Stuart (18331864) was one of the Confederacy's greatest horsemen, soldiers, and heroes. As early as First Manassas (Bull Run) he was contributing significantly to the
Wittgenstein has most often been treated as a thinker whose ideas can be discussed independently of any intellectual tradition. The thrust of this work, by a leading exponent of Wittgenstein's thought
This book bridges a gap between two traditional disciplines. Since the 1970s, there has been a remarkable outpouring of work on women in antiquity, but women in late antiquity (3rd-6th centuries A.D.)
When President Bill Clinton nominated Pamela Harriman to become U.S. ambassador to France in 1993, he was rewarding an extraordinary supporter with a crown jewel from the American political spoils sys
Remembered today primarily as a poet, calligrapher, and critic, the protean Su Shi was an outspoken player in the contentious politics and intellectual debates of the Northern Song dynasty. In this co
Kenyon Cox was among the best-known cultural figures in the United States during the first two decades of this century, thanks to his reputation as a mural painter and especially as a critic. In this
Engagingly written by one of the foremost experts on issues involving death and dying, this book offers insight into the controversial and often difficult topics of withdrawing and withholding care, e
The grand palaces and princely villas of the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty--Nymphenburg, Schleissheim, the vast Residenzschloss in Munich, and others--impress visitors with their great halls and intim
As the great-great-granddaughter of Sam Houston and Margaret Lea, Madge Thornall Roberts played in her great-grandparents’ home in Independence, Texas, which had Santa Anna’s saddle in the upstairs ha
"In my dream I was reaching right through the glass of the window of a hock shop. It was the hock shop on North Clark Street, the west side of the street, half a block north of Grand Avenue. I was rea
A reprint of the Knopf edition of 1992 (reviewed by Kirkus , 3/1/92; PW 3/16/92; Booklist 6/15/92; LJ 5/15/92). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
In this breakthrough book, Stephen Arroyo discusses the two subjects that people most often want to understand through astrology: Relationship Compatibility and the Cycles that Shape Our Lives. The sp
An edition of Hayward's 1630 history of events a mere century after they happened, when the dynasties involved were still around, and a bit touchy about certain subjects. The type is modern, but the s
Best known for his direction of the Hampton Institute Choir (1913-31), Dett (1882-1943) was also a pianist, composer, and arranger of Negro folk songs and spirituals. This account of Dett as a success
