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SynnottJeffrey A. TurnerErica WhittingtonJoy Ann Williamson-Lott

SynnottJeffrey A. TurnerErica WhittingtonJoy Ann Williamson-Lott

She employs Julia Domna as a case study to explore the creation of ideology between the emperor and its subjects.

Backscheider looks to archival materials, literary analysis, biographical evidence, and a configuration of cultural and feminist theories to prove her groundbreaking argument.

Given the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for kids involve killing. This title offers a study of this pervasive theme of murder in children's literature. It adds to the body of inquiry into America's ongoing fascination with violent crime.

This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.

The book includes appendices with translations of German primary sources and discussion questions.

They often lived lives of apparent desperation.

The Poetics of Consent reveals the ways in which consensus and collective decision making determined the authoritative account of the Trojan War that we know as the Iliad.

News and World Report, MSNBC Online, and other international venues, this groundbreaking work will be a landmark in the study of ancient warfare.

O. Wilson

Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.

Extensive primary research and a rubric that can be applied to burgeoning democracies offer readers valuable tools and information.

Extensive primary research and a rubric that can be applied to burgeoning democracies offer readers valuable tools and information.

The resulting picture of the emotional agency of criticism opens up a new angle on Blake's literary and visual legacy and offers a vivid interrogation of the practical potential of theoretical discourse.

Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.

Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.

Based on extensive reviews of medical literature and archives, this historical perspective on medical decision making and risk highlights personal, professional, and community outcomes.

These "images of the fetus may be produced by machines,the authors write, "but they live vividly in the human imagination."

Yet many of us still like amusement park rides that scare the devil out of us; they dare us to take risks.

Wasson, Stephen A. Watts

Oliver's study is rigorous and detailed but contemplative in its approach, examining the larger meanings of mankind's first adventures in "the heavens."

Suitable for anyone working with problems of linear and nonlinear least squares fitting, this book includes an overview of computational methods together with their properties and advantages. It also includes topics from statistical regression analysis that help readers to understand and evaluate the computed solutions.

This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance.

Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic is unique both in its focus on literary fiction as a formal and sociological category and in the range of examples it brings to bear on the question of Paris as an imaginary capital of diasporic consciousness.

Arranged chronologically and thematically, the book highlights how ideas about the appropriate relationships among science, scientists, and the state changed over time.

A guide to the Chesapeake's fishes. Suitable for both anglers and students of the Bay, it includes detailed descriptions of physical characteristics, range, occurrence in the Bay, reproduction, diet, and statistics from fisheries research.

Vaught's deeply researched exploration of baseball's rural roots helps explain its enduring popularity.

In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured on to Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later founded and ran the American Red Cross. This book tells the story of this charitable organization from its start in 1881, through its humanitarian aid during wars, to its relief efforts of the 1930s.

Baker and McAdoo, in league with Wilson, offer Craig the opportunity to deliver a fresh and insightful study of the period, its major issues, and some of its leading figures.