In this engaging, succinct study of the accomplishments and difficulties of the young American republic, key historical questions are discussed with references to important scholarship. Among the topi
This study of the policy-making process in China during the Sino-French controversy of 1880-1885 adds a new dimension to our understanding of China's response to the West in the nineteenth century. Th
In this thorough and lively study, Allen Matusow, tracing the history of government policy on food and agriculture during the Truman administration, relates the process by which the United States gove
The Practice of Psychotherapy brings together Jung's essays on general questions of analytic therapy and dream analysis. It also contains his profoundly interesting parallel between the transference p
Speak Cantonese, Book Three, is one of a series of books that teaches the modern spoken language of Cantonese, one of the major dialects of Chinese. As appropriate for a text of its kind, it is entir
From the reviews:J. Neveu, 1962 in Zentralblatt fur Mathematik, 92.Band Heft 2, p. 343: "Ce livre ecrit par l'un des plus eminents specialistes en la matiere, est un expose tres detaille de l
In the 1950s Pakistan was generally considered to be a country that would remain among the poorest in the world, but economic development to date has exceeded all expectations. Gustav Papanek, in the
This second edition of Basic Data of Plasma Physics is, in essence, a new book, for several reasons. First, so voluminous have been the research results in this area since the first edition of 1959 th
Sweeping narrative of the technological advances, events, and personalities that have made radio and television a dominant force in contemporary society
A definitive study of the life and music of the great German composer, including a systematic analysis of his artistic development within each major type of composition
The episcopal biographies, saints' lives, charters, and poems knowncollectively as the "Le Mans forgeries" are an intricate puzzle that has occupied critics of medieval sources ever since the seventee
A series of lectures on the role of nonlinear processes in physics, mathematics,electrical engineering, physiology, and communication theory.From the preface:"For some time I havebeen interested in a
Rarely is it possible to hear the voice of the people in a revolution except as it filters through the writings of articulate individuals who may not really be representative. But on several occasions
Selections by Frost, Eliot, Stevens, Yeats, Shakespeare, and other major poets from the sixteenth to the twentieth century are arranged in chronological order
Volume VI in this series contains quotation books and miscellaneous notebooks that Emerson kept between 1824 and 1838, and to which he added occasionally as late as the 1860's. With some attempt at a
Law and the Social Sciences was first published in 1966. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
"It is a measure of Professor Samuelson's preeminence that the sheer scale of his work should be so much taken for granted," observes a reviewer in the Economist who goes on to note that "a cynic migh
Papers from the first International Conference on Universals in Language, uniting perspectives from linguistics, cultural anthropology, and psychology. In 1961, the first International Conference on
First published in 1676, The Virtuoso set a standard for theatrical satire. It was the most extensive dramatic treatment of modern science since Jonson's The Alchemist and took as its target no less
This continuation of the elementary course in Cebuano fills detail into the broad outline of the grammatical structure presented in Part 1, providing exercises and conversations which illustrate these
Every struggle brings great men into prominence, because the slumber- ing powers inert in them are aroused to action. The truth of this statement is proved in the Arian struggle and among the many gre
Includes all essential documents of official nature and selected sources, such as debates and letters, which reflect the central issues of the Revolution and the formation of a federal government
Burgers's purpose is to outline a system of thought in which notions or values can find a place along with the ideas of causal relationships that are applied in the physical sciencesThis important phi
J.B.S. Haldane will be long remembered for his many contributions to man's knowledgeof his world and of himself. Some of the most valuable of these contributions are contained in thisclassic work on t
This new edition, with a preface by W. J. Bate, incorporates More Letters and Poems of the Keats Circle (HUP, 1955), includes all of Hyder Rollins' corrections, and retains the original pagination of
The idea of writing about St. Severin, so Eugippius tells us, came to him as he witnessed the success of a Life, in letter-form, of the monk, Bassus, who had died--recently, it seems--in the south of
The journals of 1835-1838, perhaps the richest Emerson had yet written, cover the pivotal years when he brought to Concord his second wife, Lydia Jackson of Plymouth, published Nature (1836), and wro
A scholarly edition of works by William Wordsworth. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
The essays in this collection are not confined to any one period or any one subject. Nearly every one, in the author's words, is "an attempt to understand some short passage from the work of some phil
Sussex turns away from nearby London, towards the sea and the massive ridge of the South Downs. This work shows that castles and fortified town walls along the coast attest to Sussex's military past;
The resourceful hero of The Country Wife is Horner, the scourge of stupid husbands and the hope of unhappy wives. Through a single simple ruse Horner helps one woman after another settle accounts with
The faith in science as an ally of political and economic progress, which Franklin and Jefferson made so firm a part of the American tradition, has been undermined by the very success of the scientifi
One of Jonson’s greatest plays, Sejanus, has seldom been edited, and is here published, with full notes and introduction, for the first time since 1911. Mr. Barish shows that Jonsonian tragedy can be
The late Preis, a long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party and staff writer for the SWP's newsweekly The Militant, narrates the history of the first twenty years of the Congress of Industrial O
A history of technology from Graeco-Roman times to the twentieth century told through historical writings. This history of technology from Graeco-Roman times through the early twentieth century is t
Long out of print, and difficult to come by on the used book market, The Dawn of Astronomy, first published in 1894, is now made available once again. In this book, Sir Norman Lockyer, one of the grea
