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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Linda Patterson's What We Do for Love: Cats in the Family explores the lessons she and we can learn from life with animals. Her cats amuse, annoy, confound, comfort, and delight. But her book is much more than a collection of cat stories. It...

In conventional histories, Lord Lao (Laozi) was a sixth-century BCE official of the Zhou dynasty and the author of the Daode jing (The Book of the Dao and Its Virtue). Thereafter, he gained mythic status as an immortal, a messiah, and a high god...

Paul Kane's evocative paintings of mid-19th-century Canada have become a treasured part of Canada's heritage. The Royal Ontario Museum holds the world's largest collection of Kane's art-- 100 oil paintings and 373 sketches in graphite and watercolour. In the mid-1800s, Kane journeyed across Canada...

A founder of contemporary social science, Max Weber was born in Germany in 1864. At his death 56 years later, he was nationally known for his scholarly and political writings, but it was the international reception of his oeuvre over the last forty years...

Though Walt Whitman created no Irish characters in his early works of fiction, he did include the Irish as part of the democratic portrait of America that he drew in Leaves of Grass. He could hardly have done otherwise. In 1855, when the first...

John D. Lee is most often remembered as the only man executed for his role in the infamous 1857 massacre by Mormons of a California-bound emigrant train at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah. This classic biography examines the circumstances and events which brought Lee...

This is the first complete study of Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, one of the most distinguished diplomats and statesmen of eighteenth-century France. Vergennes represented France as a diplomat in Germany, Constantinople, and Stockholm, and was Louis XVI's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs....

West to Far Michigan is a study of the lower peninsula's occupation by agriculturalists, whose presence forever transformed the land and helped to create the modern state of Michigan. This is not simply a history of Michigan, but rather a work that focuses on...

Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies is an invaluable reference manual for everyone interested in regional transportation history, the history of railroading, and Michigan history in general. It contains complete, cross-referenced listings for every company formed to operate a railroad in the state of Michigan....

Yehuda Amon and Haim Nahmias were middle-class Jerusalem Jews who were conscripted into the Ottoman army and transported to Western Anatolia with the labor battalions during World War I. They kept detailed notes of their dreadful experiences which they later extended into complete narratives....

Author: Lee KennettISBN-10: 0837190509ISBN-13: 9780837190501Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/1977Pages: 319Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: Jerry WarwinISBN-10: 0837176719ISBN-13: 9780837176710Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/1974Pages: 374Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d

Author: Felix Lizaso,UnknownISBN-10: 0837173299ISBN-13: 9780837173290Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/1974Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: Edwin R. Bingham,Bingham,UnknownISBN-10: 0837171490ISBN-13: 9780837171494Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/26/1973Pages: 238Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Author: Marta L. DosaISBN-10: 0837164435ISBN-13: 9780837164434Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/1974Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

When itinerant singers from China's countryside become iconic artists, worlds collide. The lives and performances of these representative singers become sites for conversations between the rural and urban, local and national, folk and elite, and traditional and modern. In Song King: Connecting People, Places,...

Why and how do women engage with Buddhism and philosophy? The present volume aims to answer these questions by examining the life and philosophy of a Korean Zen Buddhist nun, Kim Iryŏp (1896-1971). The daughter of a pastor, Iryŏp began questioning Christian doctrine as...

"A few short days has changed my status in this country, although I myself have not changed at all." On December 8, 1941, artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953) awoke to find himself branded an "enemy alien" by the U.S. government in the aftermath of Japan's...

This heartfelt and often personal work continues the story of the Big Island's Parker Ranch, one of the largest and most beautiful cattle ranches in the United States. It begins with the dynastic transition in ranch management from the formidable A. W. Carter to...

America's fast food culture reflects not only what we eat--foods that are processed and packaged for convenience--but also how we eat--munching as we multitask and not really tasting the super-sized meals we ingest. But in recent years, a more thoughtful philosophy about food has...

Audiences as well as other artists have responded to Franz Schubert's music with passion, both during his time and in the past two centuries. Many musicians, painters, writers, and filmmakers have felt a strong bond with him, integrating his music into their own works...

Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature is devoted to one of the most intriguing bodies of modern literature, that produced in the German language, whether from Germany, Austria, Switzerland or writers using German in other countries. The linguistic consanguinity of these locales notwithstanding, there...

Asian American literature is one of the most recent forms of ethnic literature and is already becoming one of the most prominent, given the large number of writers, the growing ethnic population from the region, the general receptivity of this body of work, and...

The Historical Dictionary of French Theater relates the history of the French theater through a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, trends, genres, concepts, and literary and historical developments that played a central role in the evolution of French...

Wood recounts the decisive influence Fletcher had on early Methodism, and shows that his writings were able to 'control the opinions of the largest and most effective body of evangelical clergymen of the earth.'Author: Laurence W. WoodISBN-10: 0810845253ISBN-13: 9780810845251Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2002Pages: 424Format:...

In his best-selling book Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, Eric G. Wilson challenged our culture's blindly insistent pursuit of happiness at all costs. In his harrowing yet ultimately hopeful memoir, The Mercy of Eternity, the author turns an unsparing eye on his own...

No other source gives such an intimate portrait of this brilliant and strong minded individual, one of the four great doctors of the West and generally regarded as the most learned of the Latin fathers. +Author: Charles Christopher MierowISBN-10: 0809100878ISBN-13: 9780809100873Publisher: Newman PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Through her close reading, Diane Wolfe Levy reveals the complex irony in France's last volume of short stories Les sept femme de la Barbe-Bleue. The author shows how France imbues his narration with paradoxical elements, contrasts full of irony, and complex oppositions. She also...

This book is about a barber, Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr, who shaved and coiffed, and probably circumcised and healed, in Damascus in the 18th century. The barber may have been a "nobody," but he wrote a history book, a record of the events...

From Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (1893-1941), an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer. His dramatic life...

Aaron T Beck is one of the founding fathers′ of the cognitive revolution in psychotherapy. His Cognitive Therapy was innovative in its emphasis on the role of cognition in emotional distress and behavioural dysfunction. Beck first established his reputation in the field of depression....

Grace and Freedom represents Lonergan's entry into subject matter that would occupy him throughout his lifetime. At the same time it is a manifestation of the thinking that has made him one of the world's foremost Thomist scholars.The volume is in two parts. Part...

Eradicating once and for all the unfounded notion that Frye was not a political writer, this eleventh volume in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye gathers together all of Northrop Frye's writings on politics, culture, the arts, history, literature, mass media, and music.Written between...

This volume contains more than 300 letters by John Stuart Mill that have been discovered since the publication of Earlier Letters in 1962 and Later Letters in 1972. The collection covers a vast rangle of topics, and includes three groups of letters of special...

Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Desider Furst, his wife, and his daughter suddenly found themselves hunted outlaws, holders of a German passport branded with a red "J" for Jewish. They escaped from Vienna and eventually settled in England, where...

This book provides a fresh critique of John Dewey and the progressive tradition and warns against the superficial renaissance of Deweyan philosophy present in many of today's modern liberal educational reform movements. Challenging the four pillars of Dewey's pragmatism - science, nature, democracy, experience...

This series looks at leaders who guided armies to victory and ruled over vast domains. As one empire fell, another would rise, led by charismatic and powerful commanders.Author: Naomi LucksISBN-10: 0791095797ISBN-13: 9780791095799Publisher: Chelsea House PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2008Pages: 112Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.70w x...

Chronicles the life of a former slave who became a famous nineteenth-century abolitionist.Author: Heather Lehr Wagner,Sharman Apt RussellISBN-10: 0791081575ISBN-13: 9780791081570Publisher: Chelsea House PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2004Pages: 98Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.52h x 6.60w x 0.48dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.7Point Value: 3Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name: 8305 /...

This is the story of three men and a woman whose lives intersected in September of 1780 in such a way as at first to threaten and then to rescue the fledgling American Republic. Two of the men, Benedict Arnold and John Andres, are...

The capitalism vs. communism feud between industrialist E.P. Taylor and his Communist artist brother FredAuthor: John VirtueISBN-10: 0773533591ISBN-13: 9780773533592Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2008Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.03h x 6.40w x 1.00d