Arguing that freedom's primary prerequisite is a self possessed of something that wants to be acted out, Bergmann demonstrates how freedom can be realized in self-growth, parenting, education, and soc
In print for over twenty years, this classic work takes a wide-ranging overview of the major psychoanalytic theorists and organizational researchers and ends with the writer's own idea about how the t
Explains the biological effects of alcoholism and presents a new psychological approach to therapy that relies on the need of people to find meaning in their lives
From the Introduction:Sudden and unexpected loss of communication is a terrifying, dehumanizing experience that tears away at the essence of life itself. For decades, speech and language pathologists
A valuable collection of essays on Aristotle's metaphysics, by J.L. Akrill, Jacob Bernays, Jonathan Barnes, Norman Gulley, W.W. Fortenbaugh, Charles H. Kahn, Malcolm Schofield and Richard Sorabji. The
Book XI contains some of Ovid's best descriptive passages, offering an admirable introduction to the Metamorphoses.The introduction seeks to define Ovid's literary originality and analyses his consid
The Will to Believe addresses several of the most important and perplexing problems of philosophy. In ten lucid essays James deals with such subjects as causality and free will, the definition of the
Haina ia mai ana ka puana. This familiar refrain, sometimes translated "Let the echo of our song be heard," appears among the closing lines in many nineteenth-century chants and poems. From earliest t
Recounts Berenson's development into the most famous critic and arbiter of taste in the Anglo-American art world and illuminates his relationships with many of the great philosophers, writers, and art
According to conventional periodization, a profound break in the continuity of Western political theory occurred around 1500 and marked the beginning of "modern" political thought. InMachiav
Beyond Orpheus is a study of the elements of musical structure and the ways they provide unity, coherence and uniqueness in classic-romantic music. The book rests in part upon Arnold Schoenberg's conc
John Hollander's "Blue Wine and Other Poems," his first collection of verse since the appearance of his new and selected poems, "Spectral Emanations," shows one of our best poetic craftsmen in America
Franklin D. Roosevelt's tempestuous, adversary relationship with the American press is celebrated in the literature of his administrations. Historians have documented the skill and virtuosity that he
Christina Rossetti is known as the greatest female poet of the Victorian age. By the time of her death in 1898 she had written eleven hundred poems and had published over nine hundred of them. Scholar
In order to describe how the elites in two political systems grappled with the potentially explosive influx of foreign labor, Gary Freeman analyzes and compares the ways in which the British and the F
Alabamians have always been a singing people. The settlers who moved into the various sections of the state brought with them songs which reflected their national origins and geographical backgrounds,
This is a new and thorough revision of a recognized classic whose first edition was hailed as the most authoritative account in English of the governing of the Soviet Union. Now, with historical mater
Twain's best-loved works are supplemented by a discussion of the book's source material and composition and Twain's involvement with his publishers, the author's extensive study notes, and all 192 ill
An examination of the rituals of death and attitudes toward death in Puritan New England and of their links with community purpose and self-perception provides a new perspective on death in modern Ame
Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now
This is the second volume in a series that traces, century by century, the role of Asia in the making of Europe.The rise to world dominance of the Western nations in modern times and the rapid industr
"At its peak in the late sixteenth century," this history begins, "Spain controlled the first empire upon which the sun never set and exercised a tremendous influence in European affair
Book Seven compiles rabbinic law on such topics as the planting of seeds and the propagation of domestic animals, specific tithes owed to priests and Levites, portions of crops to be consumed by the g
With literature, music constituted the most important activity of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca's life. The two arts were closely related to each other throughout his career. As a child, L
The first volume of this catalogue deals with the issues of the Greek cities in Spain, Gaul, Italy, Sicily, Macedon and Thrace, Illyria and Central Greece, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands and Cret
This collection of essays, edited by Pound's friend and fellow poet T.S. Eliot, contains essays from five earlier volumes: Pavannes and Divisions (1918), Instigations(1920), How to Read(1931), Make it
Mark Antony: A Biography was first published in 1978.In a chronological/topical approach, Professor Huzar recounts the details of Mark Antony’s life and his role in the history of Rome and the Roman E
As the need for more substantial mathematical training has increased among social science students, the lack of any adequate textbook between the very elementary and the very advanced levels has becom
Analyzing the religious, social and political lifestyle and mentality of the various Stonehenge builders, presents three stages of construction and suggests that in later phases Stonehenge was a prehi
There are many technical and popular accounts, both in Russian and in other languages, of the non-Euclidean geometry of Lobachevsky and Bolyai, a few of which are listed in the Bibliography. This geom
Cappadocia, a province in central Turkey, offers the traveler a startling rockscapewhose cones, pleats, and folds conceal hundreds of monasteries and churches carved from the soft,porous "tuff" and us
This well-documented study discusses the social and economic changes in Shandong province before the influence of the West was felt at the end of the nineteenth century. The authors show that by the s
Many Disney characters are featured in various Christmas stories and in color photographs from the Disney productions of A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas
A chronological arrangement of poems, taking into account variants and manuscript alterations, that presents the works in the version Keats intended and preferred
Russian Orthodoxy under the Old Regime was first published in 1978. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltere
