This text is a study of the thinking which underlies recent theory about literary history. Through analysis of particular literary histories - most of them contemporary works - Perkins elaborates on fundamental problems that arise in the writing of literary history.
An examination of the ethical dimensions of land use decisions and policy, on the premise is that all land use decisions invariably involve ethical choices. Beatley is co-author, with Philip Berke, of "Planning for Earthquakes".
In offering an account of the relationship between urban architecture - especially vernacular architecture - and the spatial arrangement and development of cities in North America, this book shows how changes in the built environment parallel changes in urban economies and human culture.
This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion-across generations-of "the fundamental discourse of poetic structure."
Lowenthal, The United States and Latin American Democracy: Learning from History.
Based on a program developed at the National Institute on Aging in association with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Staying Dry is the book that will put you back in charge.
A distinguished group of authors reflects on problems currently enlivening the space shared by philosophy and literary theory in a series of chapters that range in scope from Plato to postmodernism.
Today's nuclear world can't afford such lessons.
As a fictionalized account of life on the Chesapeake Bay at the turn of the century, Run to the Lee has the same appeal to all ages as Gilbert Byron's own beloved novel, The Lord's Oysters.
Supreme Court, from its antecedents in colonial and British legal tradition to the present.
Richly detailed and warmly nostalgic, Miss Susie Slagle's is about to charm a new generation of readers.
and judicial sources can and cannot be used to discover that Greek and Roman men thought about women.
Joyceans, teacher, their students, and all other readers will find cause for rejoicing in ULYSSES.
Goodall and Margaret Pelling, this book sets forth Williams Budd's thoughts on typhoid by reference to an unsuccessful essay he submitted for the Thackeray Prize in 1840.
At the same time, by bringing modern methods to bear on the period, this remarkably comprehensive collection goes far to redefine the field and to make America's colonial past more lively and more intelligible than ever before.
The third section, "nipples rise to spirit", traces a child's growth to middle age, with particular reference to sex and family, while "the presence of Presenceredefines the religious experience.
Students of economic development will benefit especially from its intelligent explication of conflict-oriented theory and technique.
The task was to canvass current knowledge and pinpoint areas of needed research regarding two topics: first, the experience of the free colored as a measure of the character of slavery and race relations; second, the fundamental roles of this group in the evolution of the respective societies."-American Historical Review
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