essays and treatises on several subjects

Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hume David, PUBLISHER: BiblioLife LLC, NA

Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harrison, Lawrence E. / Kagan, Jerome / Harrison, Harrison E., PUBLISHER: Routledge, "Developing Cultures: ong>Essaysong> on Cultural Change "is a collection of 21 expert ong>essaysong> on the institutions that transmit cultural values from generation to generation. The ong>essaysong> are an outgrowth of a research project begun by Samuel Huntington ong>andong> Larry Harrison in their widely discussed book Culture Matters the goal of which is guidelines for cultural change that can accelerate development in the Third World. The ong>essaysong> in this volume cover child rearing, several aspects of education, the world's major religions, the media, political leadership, ong>andong> development projects. The book is companion volume to "Developing Cultures: Case Studies."().

Critical Survey of Poetry V06

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jason, Philip K., PUBLISHER: Salem Press, This series contains in-depth analytical reference guides to major writers of world literature. The series has an accessible style ong>andong> format that allow readers to zero in on precise characteristics of a poet's work. The Critical Survey of Poetry presents 698 poets in 697 ong>essaysong>. Each essay includes full birth ong>andong> death data ong>andong> is broken down into principal poetry, other literary forms, achievements, biography, ong>andong> analysis. ong>Essaysong> also include several sections on discrete poems or poetry collections, other major works, ong>andong> bibliography.

Collected Papers: Critical Essys and Collected Essays

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ryle, Gilbert, PUBLISHER: Thoemmes Press, Volume one consists of articles on figures as diverse as Plato ong>andong> Heidegger, Wittgenstein ong>andong> Jane Austen. Volume two contains articles on several issues in philosophical logic ong>andong> the philosophy of mind. Of particular interest are a number of papers on occurrent thoughts, a topic inadequately treated -- as Ryle was the first to admit -- in his book The Concept of Mind.

Selected Essays of Wilson Harris: The Unfinished Genesis of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harris, Wilson / Bundy, ong>Andong>rew / Bundy, A. F. M., PUBLISHER: Routledge, Wilson Harris is one of the outstong>andong>ing literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown. This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from to the present day. Selected ong>Essaysong> of Wilson Harris brings together twenty-one lectures, addresses ong>andong> ong>essaysong> to make available Harris's full range of writings on subjects including: * the literate imagination * traditions of myth ong>andong> fable in Central ong>andong> South America * the North American literary imagination, from Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville ong>andong> Ralph Ellison, to William Faulkner ong>andong> Jean Rhys * inheritances ong>andong> legacies of writers of the postcolonial diaspora This comprehensive collection also comes complete with: * an extensive editorial introduction, providing valuable historical ong>andong> theoretical context for the ong>essaysong> * a map of Guyana * bibliographies of Harris's fiction ong>andong> non-fiction * appendices on the legends of El Dorado ong>andong> the Holy Grail.

Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business Community,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wright, Conrad Edick / Viens, Katheryn P., PUBLISHER: Massachusetts Historical Society, This volume broadens the scope of Boston business history by including ong>essaysong> on subjects such as 18th-century women shopkeepers ong>andong> African American businessmen in the antebellum period along with writings focused on more traditional topics such as the China trade ong>andong> the New Englong>andong> textile industry.

English Drama: Forms and Development: Essays in Honour of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bradbrook, M. C. / Axton, M. / Axton, Marie, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, These ten original ong>essaysong> on English drama from Tudor times onwards were first published in . Each is written by a former member of the Cambridge English Faculty. Each author has an individual approach ong>andong> makes a fresh contribution to the study of dramatic form seen in a changing historical setting. There are ong>essaysong> on genres, on individual playwrights ong>andong> on social conditions affecting the development of the drama. Together, the ong>essaysong> make a valuable contribution to the study of drama.

Essays Politic and Moral, and Essays Moral and Theological

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tuvill, Daniel, PUBLISHER: University of Virginia Press, These two sets of ong>essaysong> by the seventeenth-century clegyman Tuvil illustrate literary tastes ong>andong> fashions of the time ong>andong> offer examples of such popular genres as the sermon, the resolve, ong>andong> the meditation.

Marxism in Dark Times: Select Essays for the New Century

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Datta Gupta, Sobhanlal, PUBLISHER: Anthem Press, This volume is a collection of ong>essaysong> on an alternative understong>andong>ing of Marxism, anchored in the ideas of humanism, democracy ong>andong> pluralism. The ong>essaysong> question the stereotyped, positivist notion of Marxism as practised by the exponents of official Marxism. They highlight the legacy of the suppressed voices in the Marxist tradition, ong>andong> provide new insights in the reading of Marxism in the twenty-first century. The ong>essaysong> provide a new reading of Antonio Gramsci, Rosa Luxemburg, Nikolai Bukharin, David Ryazanov ong>andong> the Frankfurt School; review the phenomenon of Perestroika; explore the new historiography on Comintern; ong>andong> examine the relation between Marxism ong>andong> postmodernism. Acquista Ora

African Islands and Enclaves

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cohen, Robin, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), As history has shown, remote islong>andong>s or small states can be flashpoints for international crises. This collection of commissioned ong>essaysong> examines African countries that, because of their seeming insignificance, have been passed over in recent scholarship. The ong>essaysong> focus on current political ong>andong> economic issues. Why do such states find it difficult to sustain stable economic ong>andong> political orders? The role of such countries in international trade; the effects of their small size, remoteness, or paucity of resources; ong>andong> their use as military bases for other powers are among the subjects discussed.

Churchill and Hitler

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jablonsky, David / Jablonsky, D. / Jablonsky David, PUBLISHER: Routledge, This collection of ong>essaysong> examines the development of Churchill ong>andong> Hitler as strategic leaders ong>andong> analyzes in particular the impact of their formative years on their leadership styles, "operational codes," views on civil-military relations, ong>andong> approaches to the conduct of war at strategic, operational ong>andong> tactical levels. Ultimately, victory depended on the calculated use of all the means of national power - military, political, psychological ong>andong> economic - to achieve the national end. These ong>essaysong> demonstrate that it was Churchill who best understood that calculation.

Rose Lore: Essays in Cultural History and Semiotics

ISBN: , SKU: , PUBLISHER: UnCUT/VOICES Press, Throughout history ong>andong> across cultures, important figures such as Nostradamas in France, Daniel ong>Andong>reeve in Russia, Dr. Edward Bach in Englong>andong>, ong>andong> Dr. Tomin Harada in Japan have brought to light the symbolic ong>andong> medicinal qualities of the rose. Written by scholars ong>andong> researchers from diverse backgrounds, the ong>essaysong> in Rose Lore are a rendering of global cultural history, literature, ong>andong> metaphysics, woven together in a collection that will be valuable to several disciplines. The ong>essaysong> present numerous qualities of the rose as a symbol with broad cultural, social, ong>andong> historical meanings: from astrology, to the history of Catholicism, to the new anti-Female Genital Mutilation global movement.

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Berry, Wendell / Wirzba, Norman, PUBLISHER: Shoemaker & Hoard, Essential ong>essaysong> from Wendell Berry's writings on agrarianism, agriculture, ong>andong> community.

Papers on the Archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona, Volume II

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Plog, Stephen / Powell, Shirley, PUBLISHER: Southern Illinois University Press, These ong>essaysong> deal with methodological ong>andong> theoretical issues addressed by the Black Mesa Archaeological Project, . Introductory ong>andong> concluding chapters by Stephen Plog ong>andong> Shirley Powell dis-cuss the history of archaeological re-search on Black Mesa. The rest of the book centers on four general topics. Papers by Alan T. Synenki ong>andong> by Powell ong>andong> Anthony L. Klesert consider the measurement of relationships be-tween surface ong>andong> subsurface deposits. ong>Essaysong> by Kathy Bagley Baumgartner, Shereen Lerner, ong>andong> Powell discuss func-tional interpretations of material re-mains. Analyses of the environment of the study area ong>andong> the procurement of food are presented by Richard I. Ford, Michele Seme, ong>andong> David Eckles. Trade relationships between groups on north-ern Black Mesa ong>andong> groups in surround-ing regions are explored by Margerie Green ong>andong> Katharine W. Fernstrom.

All I Know (Sort Of): Essays on Everything

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rosenberg, David, PUBLISHER: iUniverse, These ong>essaysong> ong>andong> articles, written in the 70s ong>andong> early 80s, contain thousong>andong>s of little tidbits that can contribute to a total understong>andong>ing of both U.S. ong>andong> world history ong>andong> culture. The author draws on his unique experience to think about the serious problems we face, ong>andong>, in very direct ong>andong> clear language, shares his view of the world. Whether you are just beginning to understong>andong> politics ong>andong> history, or a veteran who's seen it all, "All I Know" can be a great basis for helping to shape your world view.

Critical Essays on Daniel Defoe: Daniel Defoe

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lund, Roger D. / Bartels Emily, C., PUBLISHER: Twayne Publishers, The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical ong>Essaysong> Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical ong>essaysong> that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends ong>andong> methodologies relating to each author's work. ong>Essaysong> include writings from the author's native country ong>andong> abroad, with interpretations from the time they were writing, through the present day. Each volume includes: -- An introduction providing the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings -- illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches ong>andong> sorting out the schools of thought -- The most influential reviews ong>andong> the best reprinted scholarly ong>essaysong> -- A section devoted exclusively to reviews ong>andong> reactions by the subject's contemporaries -- Original ong>essaysong>, new translations ong>andong> revisions commissioned especially for the series -- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters ong>andong> manuscript fragments -- A bibliography of the subject's writings ong>andong> interviews -- A name ong>andong> subject index

Stories, Theories and Things

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brooke-Rose, Christine / Brooke-Rose, Christine / Christine, Brooke-Rose, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The novelist ong>andong> critic Christine Brooke-Rose reflects on her own fictional craft ong>andong> turns her well-developed analytic abilities on other writers fictional ong>andong> critical, from Hawthorne ong>andong> Pound to Bloom ong>andong> Derrida, in an attempt to investigate those difficult border zones between the "invented" ong>andong> the "real." The result is an extended meditation, in a highly personal idiom, on the creative act ong>andong> its relation to modern theoretical writing ong>andong> thinking. Like her fiction, Professor Brooke-Rose's criticism is self-consciously experimental, trying out ong>andong> discarding ideas, adopting others. Her linguistic prowess, her uncommon role as a recognized writer of fiction ong>andong> theory, ong>andong> the relevance of her work to the feminist ong>andong> other modern movements, all contribute to the interest of this unusual sequence of ong>essaysong>. Christine Brooke-Rose, formerly a professor at the Universite de Paris, ong>andong> now retired, lives in France. She is the author of several works of literary criticism ong>andong> a number of novels, including Amalgamemnon ong>andong> Xorong>andong>er.

The Cambridge Companion to Brecht

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thomson, Peter / Sacks, Glendyr, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This Companion offers students crucial guidance on Brecht's theatrical career from beginning to end, bringing together the contrasting views of major critics ong>andong> active practitioners to offer a provocative overview. The nineteen newly-commissioned ong>essaysong> place Brecht's creative work in its historical ong>andong> biographical context, with separate ong>essaysong> on seven major plays, on the poetry, the theatrical theories, the use of music, the innovations in stage design, the ways of working with actors ong>andong> his hugely influential career with the Berliner Ensemble.

Outline Clin Diagnosis/Horse-97-2

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pinsent, J. N. / Pinsent, P. J. / Fuller, Chris, PUBLISHER: Wiley-Blackwell, Veterinary students ong>andong> nonequine veterinarians will benefit from this concise textbook on differential diagnosis in the horse. Fully updated ong>andong> partially rewritten, the second edition contains: -- New information on ultrasonic techniques ong>andong> echocardiography. -- A new section on methods of pregnancy diagnosis. -- An introduction to several new conditions, including pemphigus, Cushing's syndrome, ong>andong> thyroid dysfunction. -- An expong>andong>ed section on skin diseases.

de L'Espirit or Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Helvetius, Claude Adrien / Helvetius, C. A., PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing, . Translated from the French. To which is now prefixed a life of the author. Swiss-French tax collector, philanthropist ong>andong> Enlightenment philosopher, Claude-Adrien Helvetius is widely regarded as the father of utilitarianism. Helvetius's principle work, De l'esprit, was condemned by the Sorbonne, the Pope ong>andong> the Parliament of Paris ong>andong> burnt by the public executioner, ensuring that it was read more than any other book of the time.

New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sundquist, Eric J. / Elliott, Emory, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Increased interest in the role of women ong>andong> minorities in establishing the canon of American literature has led to renewed interest in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The ong>essaysong> in this volume set out to provide contemporary readers with a critical ong>andong> historical interpretation of the novel that reflects the best of recent scholarship. In his introduction Eric J. Sundquist attempts to show that Uncle Tom's Cabin boldly takes issue with both proslavery arguments ong>andong> prevailing prejudices among abolitionists, employing the forms of popular melodrama ong>andong> heated rhetoric to carry its complex argument. The individual ong>essaysong> examine the influence of Stowe's novel on the characterization of women in the American novel ong>andong> on later women writers, the role of women in the antislavery movement, the literary exchanges between Stowe ong>andong> her contemporaries; Uncle Tom's Cabin ong>andong> the tradition of the Gothic novel, ong>andong> the characterizations of blacks in this novel ong>andong> in later works.

Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fletcher, Anthony / Roberts, Peter, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, In this volume seventeen distinguished historians of early modern Britain pay tribute to an outstong>andong>ing scholar ong>andong> teacher. Several present reviews of major areas of debate: of the significance of the regulations which determined the social ong>andong> legal status of professional actors in Elizabethan Englong>andong>, of Protestant ideas about marriage, of the political significance of the Anglo-Scottish Union, of relations between the Churches of Englong>andong>, Scotlong>andong> ong>andong> Irelong>andong> under the early Stuarts, ong>andong> of the riddle of the inner dynamic of the experience of emigration of New Englong>andong>. Case-studies in the social ong>andong> religious history of the period include the relationship between ideas of cleanliness ong>andong> godliness, the flowering of the notion of unitive Protestantism in two declarations on behalf of the National Church ong>andong> provincial preaching at a moment of political crisis in the north of Englong>andong>. Three ong>essaysong> draw on literary evidence to explore attitudes to men of war, the use of the murder pamphlet as a Puritan conversion narrative ong>andong> the service provided by scholarly readers for politically influential public figures. Two ong>essaysong> make impressive use of fieldwork to reveal how the churches of James I ong>andong> VI's two kingdoms were furnished ong>andong> how the gardens of Sir Nicholas ong>andong> Sir Francis Bacon illuminate their minds ong>andong> attitudes. The European dimension is represented by an essay on Nicolas Pithou's history of the Reformation in the city of Troyes. This very wide-ranging ong>andong> fascinating collection of ong>essaysong> will appeal both to specialists in the period ong>andong> to those interested in the social ong>andong> cultural history of early modern Britain.

Varieties of Southern History: New Essays on a Region and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Salmond, John A. / Clayton, Bruce / Salmond, John, PUBLISHER: Praeger, This is a unique collection of ong>essaysong> by some of the world's leading historians of the South, together with work by younger scholars. All contributors, however, are working at the cutting edge of their particular methodological approaches. The book, for example, includes both an essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Rhys Isaac, ong>andong> one by Rutgers University graduate student Beth Hale. Yet, both have a common concern to explore the reaches of the Southern past through the dimension of ethnography. The ong>essaysong> in the book are grouped according to theme. The largest section, the social sciences ong>andong> Southern history, includes ong>essaysong> drawing heavily on the insights of anthropology of ethnography ong>andong> of statistical analysis. Each essay in the second section is designed to illustrate how life history can be used to illuminate much larger histoical themes ong>andong> processes. The ong>essaysong> in the last section on labor in the "new" South all illustrate, among other things, the importance of drawing on the insights of historians of women in order to redress the masculinist presuppositons of labor historians. All the ong>essaysong> in the book, in fact, reflect current concerns with gender ong>andong> race in the re-interpretation of the Southern past.

Exploring the Universe: Essays on Science and Technology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Day, P. / Day, Peter, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Much of our present knowledge of the universe has come from observations made over the centuries with ever more powerful telescopes, operating from isolated mountain tops. But the Hubble Space Telescope, the first to be launched into space, is revolutionizing our ability to picture ong>andong> understong>andong> the universe. In Exploring the Universe, astronomer Alexong>andong>er Boksenberg shows how a star is born ong>andong> how the magnificent pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope will enable us to explore the universe in ever more depth. This selection of ong>essaysong> from experts in their fields - exploring subjects from magic bullets derived from traditional folk medicines, to the role science can play in understong>andong>ing the work of Mondrian ong>andong> other artists - taken from the Royal Institution's Evening Discourses provides an authoritative ong>andong> accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science ong>andong> technology.

Reply to Lectures on the Nature, Subjects and Mode of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Samuel Williams, PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing LLC, NA

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