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This study asks: how did the logic of Puritanism square itself with the increasingly hostile assumptions of the early Enlightenment?; and, faced with a new intellectual world largely opposed to Puritanism, how did Puritans try to maintain credibility?

The increased textile demands of World War II, Gross explains, only forestalled the mills' inevitable demise.

Goldberg's broad scope and use of both traditional and unusual sources-including folkways, poems, songs, and novels-allow readers to understand the movements both as part of a national framework and within the context of the state and local cultures that were their primary concern.

This book develops a scientific approach to the study of clinical acid-base physiology, giving emphasis to the areas of most significance in diagnosis and therapy.

But the gains had been significant, including advances in natural history and medical geography, and in understanding the general circulation of the earth's atmosphere.

Indeed, all the Church Fathers were convinced that healing sometimes came from evil sources: Satan and his demons were able to heal, for example, and Asclepius was a demon "to be taken very seriously indeed."

The result is an insightful study of Arendt's thought in its complex historical context.

Essays examine not only the prominent role that biomedical and clinical researchers have played in defining Alzheimer disease, but the ways in which the perspectives of patients, their caregivers, and the broader public have shaped concepts.

The volume includes six articles Tocqueville wrote during the same period calling for the emancipation of slaves in France's Caribbean colonies.

A ''thought-provoking and probing (book) which forces the reader to consider critically the lot of a large segment of our population today" (Stephen C. Reingold).

The book features an appendix including the original Hebrew/Aramaic texts for the reader's reference.

The hard-won recognition that divine authority and human freedom ultimately cannot be in conflict must never be taken for granted, and the irony that the thought of Paul has repeatedly been invoked to undo that recognition truly does make this insight one of 'the permanent elements.'"-from the Introduction

In Preserving the Family Farm Mary Neth focuses on these relations-of gender and community-to shed new light on the events of this crucial period.

Thus, the negotiation and ratification of major cooperative accords will continue to be shaped by verification compromises and coalitions.

His book remains an engaging introduction both to the concept of the hero in Hellenic civilization and to the poetic forms through which the hero is defined: the Iliad and Odyssey in particular and archaic Greek poetry in general.

Threats and Promises challenges the conventional wisdom and is an original contribution to the field of international politics.

Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation.

Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats tap into this remarkable resource to reveal how individual political identities developed and political choices were made.

His analysis reveals major problems in the way in which the idea of cultural, as distinct from economic or political, imperialism is formulated.

In analyzing the formal and social aspects of this performance context, Gentili illuminates such topics as oral composition and improvisation, oral transmission and memory, the connections betweek poetry and music, the changing socioeconomic situation of the artist, and the relations among poets, patrons, and the public.

Although the book has plenty of the "how toof religious practice, Being a Jew is in the end an eloquent reflection on Judaism's deepest theme: living life as a way of serving God.

Exploring a range of competing representations, Gould asks whether Carmen is a dangerous femme fatale, a liberated woman, or, as Nietzsche saw her, a warrior in the vanguard of the battle between the sexes.

"-Kenneth J. Reckford, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Approaching issues from a variety of perspectives, Salamon covers topics such as the theoretical basis of government-nonprofit cooperation and recent efforts to cut federal spending.

His appendixes of critical documents and his reflections on the Bill of Rights and on the Emancipation Proclamation set this volume apart from other treatises on the amendments to the Constitution.

Throughout, he progressively broadens the definition of lyric to the point where it becomes the basis for defining epic, rather than the other way around.

This is a biography of a major American inventor. Elmer Sperry contributed greatly to the technological changes occurring between 1880 and 1930. Characteristic of his various inventions were feedback controls which have made automation a fact of life.