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With contributors of divergent backgrounds and intersecting interests, Consequences of Theory proposes an agenda for the 1990s that demonstrates the continuing vitality of theoretical questions within the academy and in the public world of cultue, politics, and history.

Indeed, modern anthropology, as well as classics, owes a debt to Fustel de Coulanges, whose early insights in The Ancient City remain valid and provocative today.

Kraft offers an illuminating case study in the impact of technology on industry and society-and a provocative chapter in the cultural history of America.

Mysticism, Connor argues, lies at the heart of Bataille's double identity as an intellectual and as a kind of anarchic prophet.

If rhetoric is seen as language's capacity to differ from literal statement, and if "to differcan mean "to disagree,then the reading of the rhetoric of literature and theory here is an attempt to capture the logic of a text's own disagreement with itself.

Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralistmodel of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting potor "pure pluralistmodel.

Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of "the grotesque body" to analyze eroticism in the cinema, and explores issues including the "translinguistic" critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism.

With the renewed interest in the mind-body relationship as well as in the role of placebos in new and alternative medical procedures and therapies, the findings of this book are especially timely.

In America's Welfare State, Edward Berkowitz offers a concise and informative historical overview of this costly and often frustrating area of domestic policy.

In discovering the expectations and presuppositions that underlie all the perceptions, the reader learns to "readhimself as he does the text.

The authors conclude with important recommendations for improving academic support, exploring various financial options, providing early encouragement-in other words, for recognizing the factors that influence students' decisions, and knowing when to pay attention to them.

The third volume covers Jackson's reelection to the presidency and the weighty issues with which he was faced: the nullification crisis, the tragic removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi River, the mounting violence throughout the country over slavery, and the tortuous efforts to win the annexation of Texas.

Her study helps us not only to understand the contraceptive revolution as such but to appreciate the misinterpretations that surround it.

The book concludes with a survey of recent developments on coloring graphs on surfaces.

The story of how each age understood the nature biblical poetry, Kugel concludes, is a key to understanding the Bible's place in the history of Western thought.

Although few physicians, nurses, dentists and other health professionals perform laboratory test themselves, they need to be able to interpret their results and understand findings. This text offers an explanation of the necessary details in probability and statistics in a non-technical treatment.

Common Labour traces a dark picture of powerlessness, depravity, and rage in the lives of America's canal diggers.

Is it fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? Arguing against the common view that it is, this work sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by means than by precept, all aspects of discourse.

Focusing on the new science of psychoanalysis, Gilman looks at the strategic devices Sigmund Freud employed to detach himself from the stigma of being Jewish and shows how Freud's work in psychoanalysis evolved in response to the biological discourse of the time.

Miller contends that the modern capitalist state musters a variety of mixed messages about the nature of citizenship and the self. Using case studies, he examines mass entertainment, political discourse, and methods of resistance to powerful cultural forces.

Douglas reveals the origins of a corporate media system that today dominates the content and form of American communication.

Its unique synthesis enlarges the scope and critical power of both reader-response and feminist thought.