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Written in 1941-42, these highlights capture the excitement of newspaper life in the heyday of print journalism.

With a renowned style, Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. This collection of 70 political pieces drawn from Mencken's Monday columns in the "Baltimore Evening Sun" during the 1920s and 1930s shows the "Sage of Baltimore" at his satirical best.

Controversial even before it was published in 1930, Treatise on the Gods collects Mencken's scathing commentary on religion.

These thirty-five essays-each a stick of dynamite with a burning fuse-have been selected from six volumes originally published between 1919 and 1927.

In the second volume of his autobiography, Mencken recalls his years as a young reporter.

Mencken covers a range of subjects, from Hoggie Unglebower, the best dog trainer in Christendom, to his visit to the Holy Land, where he looked for the ruins of Gomorrah.

Here Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.

Thompson, Karin Wulf, Avihu Zakai.

Grese draws on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects to present a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "nativelandscapes.

If moods are as contagious as colds, and wickedness is as debilitating as a bad diet, the inquiries of the eighteenth century still have much to tell.

brings the story into modern focus and again charges the reader with the responsibility of caring for the life of the Bay.

Despite the specter of anti-semitism, signs of success and acceptance were everywhere.

To the Digital Age offers a captivating account of the intricate R & D process behind a technological device that transformed modern society.

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Eventually, Haas concludes, Alexandrian society achieved a certain stability and reintegration-a process that resulted in the transformation of Alexandrian civic identity during the crucial centuries between antiquity and the Middle Ages.

This translation, with a new introduction by Gerard Fergerson, provides modern readers with interesting insights into the inconsistencies and injustices of democratic Jacksonian society.

Because it provided the dominant framework for the "development" of poor, postcolonial countries, modernization theory ranks among the important constructs of twentieth-century social science. This title offers the intellectual history of a movement that has had far-reaching, and often unintended, consequences.

The accounts, representing the experiences of girls and women from different classes and geographical regions, include the trials' vastly divergent outcomes ranging from burning at the stake to exoneration.

Illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, New Worlds, New Animals gives readers a new respect for and understanding of the role of zoos in social and cultural history.

The proceedings of this event-which proved epoch-making on both sides of the Atlantic-were first published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1970 and are now available once again, with a reflective new preface by editor and symposium convener Richard Macksey.

She confirms the importance of the Cambridge Camden Society, which provided the theoretical atmosphere and practical examples that helped to establish new standards of excellence in American architecture.

It explores long-forgotten aspects of old English law, such as theftbote (an early form of "victim compensation"), deodand (an animal or article which, having caused the death of a human being, was forfeited to the Crown for "pious uses"), and the blood test for murderers.

The author explores how both money and language give "worth" by providing a medium of exchange; how the development of money led to a revolution in philosophical thought and language; and how words transform mere commodities into symbols at once aesthetic and practical.

In the end, the Get-Out-the Vote campaigns shed light not only on the problem of voter turnout in the 1920s, but on some of the problems that hamper the practice of full democracy even today.

Insecure times strengthened their conviction that writing could be publicly serviceable, persuading readers to invest in their government, in their fellow Americans, and in the idea of America itself.

Illustrated with more than 70 photographs, maps, drawings, and other images, Designing America's Waste Landscapes is a cogent and compelling inquiry into the scientific, environmental, and aesthetic parameters of cutting-edge waste management technology and design.

In establishing this relationship between mood and voice, Pfau moves away from the conventional understanding of emotion as something "ownedor exclusively attributable to the individual and toward a theory of mood as fundamentally intersubjective and deserving of broader consideration in the study of Romanticism.

"Foundation philanthropy's legacy for domestic social policy,she writes, "raises a point that should be emphasized repeatedly by students of the policy process: Rarely is just one entity a policy's sole author; almost always policies in place produced unintended consequences."

Relating patients' experiences and bringing readers up to date on promising new treatments, Life After Stroke offers hope to stroke survivors and their families.

Borgeaud's challenging and nuanced portrait opens new windows on the ancient world's sophisticated religious beliefs and shifting cultural identities.