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  • av Carolyn G. Heilbrun
    489,-

  • - Essays in History, Art, and Literature
    av William Chapman Sharpe
    465,-

    Steven Marcus analyzes the breakdown of the city as signifying system in the novels of Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon, writers who question whether the indecipherable contemporary city has any meaning left at all.

  • av Michael Rutter & Norman Garmezy
    529,-

    Stress, Coping, and Development in Children is a work of signal importance to psychologists and to every mental health professional involved with infants and children.

  • av John Hollander
    509

    His purgatorial mock-journal--dwelling on loss and gain, on difference and effacement, on places and the place of writing--leads into a sequence of captivating prose poems, where imagination centers on the word and language celebrates its own creation.

  • - A History of Policies and Activities
    av A. Hunter Dupree
    559,-

    In an extensive new preface, he discusses developments through the 1980s, paying special attention to the expansion of government-university partnership in the warek of Sputnik.

  • - Terms, Laws, Court Decisions, and Arbitration Standards
    av Matthew A. Kelly
    509

    In addition to defining terms and identifying laws and decisions, Kelly frequently includes succinct descriptions and analyses of their historical significance and evolution.

  • - Studies in the History and Theory of Literary Criticism
    av Robert Weimann
    489,-

    A new concluding chapter, written especially for the Johns Hopkins edition, presents a coherent and systematically developed survey of those poststructuralist positions most relevant to the placement of "Structure and Society in Literary Historywithin the critical context of the mid 1980s.

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    469

    Now revised and abridged to make it more suitable for classroom use, the paperback edition contains a new preface and revised chapter introductions.

  • - A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era
    av Arthur Pierce Middleton
    505,-

    Colonial life and commerce, shipbuilding and the merchant marine, privateers and self-protection-all are treated with insight, drama, and thoroughness in a fascinating maritime history, long out of print and now made widely available for the first time.

  • - Literature/Derrida/Philosophy
    av Geoffrey H. (Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature Hartman
    515

    Distinguished critic and scholar Geoffrey Hartman explores the usefulness of Derrida's style of close reading for English and American scholarship and establishes its relevance to the division that has arisen between European and Anglo-American critical approaches.

  • - Psychological Approaches to American History
    av Robert J. Brugger
    505

    Brugger carefully balances classic problems, new approaches, and thoughtful commentary. More than a sampler of the best in psychohistory, "Our Selves/Our Pastseeks to explore

  • av Jurg Niehans
    465,-

    While mathematics is used extensively, the required tools do not go beyond the elements of multivariate calculus and nonlinear programming, this making the book appropriate as an introductory text for graduate and advanced undergraduate studies in economics.

  • av John Hollander
    499,-

    This poem is an attempt to make sense out of what was apparently in them."

  • - Dickinson and the Limits of Genre
    av Sharon (The Johns Hopkins University) Cameron
    509

    Lyric Time is written for the literary audience at large--Dickinsonians, romanticists, theorists, anyone interested in American poetry, or in poetry at all, and especially anyone who admires a risky book that succeeds.

  • - Latin America
     
    489,-

    In a systematic review of the political experiences of Latin American and European democratic nations, these original and throught-provoking books propose a significant new comparative framework for understanding the dynamics of political change and the conditions necessary for democratic stability.

  • - Chile
    av Arturo Valenzuela
    505,-

    The fate of democratic governments throughout the world is a topic of growing concern. The crises of modern history, from the Machtergreifung by Hitler through the downfall of democracies. In a systematic review of the political experiences of Latin American and European democratic nations, these original, thought-provoking books propose a significant new comparative framework for understanding the dynamics of political change and the conditions necessary for democratic stability.

  • - A Critical Reading
    av Avrom Fleishman
    465,-

  • - Social Implications of Genetics in a Diverse Society
    av Joseph S. Alper
    549,-

    Presenting a wide array of perspectives, this book emphasizes the need to ensure that research into genetics research does not result in discrimination against people on the basis of their DNA.

  • av John M. Braxton
    505,-

    They argue that a formal code of ethics for undergraduate teaching would serve the dual purpose of improving undergraduate education and elevating the status of college teaching.A groundbreaking study of contemporary academe, Faculty Misconduct in Collegiate Teaching is required reading for all university and college instructors and administrators

  • av Mott T. (John B. Magee Professor of Science and Values Greene
    509

    Greene builds on the work of modern scholars but contributes scientific precision and tenacity to debates in areas as diverse as archaeology, early art history, Egyptian fractions, Indo-Iranian religion, classical Greek verse, and Plato's "problem of knowledge."

  • - A Diasporan Sourcebook
    av Margaret (Research Associate Williams
    269

    Composed in accordance with Greco-Roman epigraphic conventions but written by Jews, these texts-some only recently discovered-constitute an extraordinarily rich source of information about the values and practices of Jews in antiquity.

  • av David W. Levy
    485

    In The Debate over Vietnam, David Levy examines the bitter national discussion that eventually raged over the propriety, the necessity, and the morality of that involvement.

  • av William H. Wilson
    505,-

    Wilson sees the movement as its founders did: as an exercise in participatory politics aimed at changing the way citizens thought about cities.

  • - Teams and Teamwork in Higher Education
    av Estela Mara (University of Southern California) Bensimon
    505,-

    Based on interviews with administrative teams on 15 campuses, this book examines teamwork, considering how and why people on leadership teams think and act as they do, how they learn and communicate, and how they bring their hopes and values into play in the conduct of administrative work.

  • - National Sovereignty and International Intervention
     
    515,-

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  • - The Origins of Unbelief in America
    av James C. (Director Turner
    515,-

  • - The Nature of International Crisis
    av Richard Ned Lebow
    515,-

  • av W. E. Knowles Middleton
    519

    Nearly 200 figures and diagrams depict the wide variety of barometers studied by the author over his long career at the Smithsonian Institution.

  • - American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935
    av Hasia R. (New York University) Diner
    465

    Seeking the reasons behind the Jewish support of the black struggle for racial justice, this text shows how - in the wake of the Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta - Jews came to see that their relative prosperity was no protection against the same social forces that threatended blacks.

  • - A Property Rights Approach to American Land Use Controls
    av William A. (Profesor of Economics and Hardy Professor of Legal Studies Fischel
    399

    Economic and legal theory, William Fischel contends, suggest that payment of damages under the taking clause of the Constitution may provide the most effective remedy for excessive zoning regulations.

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