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Reintegrates a life that began with familial attachments and achieved youthful marvels of invention and experiment with an Arithmetic Machine and Vacuum Experiments. In this title, the author argues that love for his father spun the wheels and filled the void.

It's 1975. Bud Salem, 18-years-old, is fleeing his mother's TV church and meets a woman pitching oranges in the Mojave. She's Sylvia Cushman, a 45-year-old housewife, who loves driving alone through the desert. After sharing adventures in Detroit, New York, and Amherst, the travelers part...

In recent years, the Republic of Guinea has shed its reputation as one of the most tightly controlled state economies in Africa, leaving behind a cloistered era marked by an extraordinarily closed economic and political system. This title presents an overview of the Guinean economy, and its evolution.

A study of global food security that is focused at the household level. Filled with dozens of revealing figures, charts, and tables, including a food security index that ranks developing countries in terms of their vulverability to hunger, it provides a basic introduction to issues of food security.

Aiming to steer a balanced course between those who attack Freud and those who defend him, this work argues that there are both blind spots and hidden strengths in psychoanalysis. The author draws on history, deconstructionism, feminism, anthropology and Eastern meditative disciplines.

This text introduces organizational psychology from a cross cultural perspective. It provides a foundational overview of the current major theories in organizational psychology, and illuminates the impact of cultural differences on organizational dynamics.

Explores the eroticization of death in the literature, art, and music of the nineteenth century, and in the popular culture of our time. This book investigates the various art forms where the conjunction of love and death is found and provides an explanation for this bizarre match.

A collection of essays on the quotidian in philosophy, cinema, theater, photography, and other visual arts in postwar France, published in conjunction with an exhibition of contemporary French artists at the Grey Art Gallery of New York University in spring 1997. Includes many color photos. No inde

New edition of Judt's Essay on Europe to celebrate his life and works.

A political analysis of the years between 1944-1956, reprinted to commemorate the work of Tony Judt

A unique exploration of French Marxist politics over the past 150 years

Edited by a Supreme Court Justice, these are essays on the role a judge must play in the legal process across a wide-spectrum of democracies.

An exploration of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

A collection of essays which not only surveys the challenges that sexuality poses to Jewish belief, but also offers fresh perspectives and insights on the changing place of sexuality within Jewish theology - and Jewish lives. It covers topics such as monogamy, inter-faith relationships, reproductive technology, and homosexuality.

Since the 1989 fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, Romania, arguably the most regimented of states in the Soviet bloc, has struggled with the transition from totalitarian state to democratic nation. In this insightful examination of modern Romania, Tom Gallagher provides an overview of Romania's unique political and social history, focusing on both its national identity as well as the legacy of Soviet rule. Gallagher provides an in-depth look at Romania since 1989, focusing on the government's attempts at economic reform, engagement with democracy, problems with corruption among the ruling elite, as well as the weakness of civil society and the resilience of implacable expressions of nationalism. Ultimately, Gallagher argues that thus far democracy has essentially failed in Romania. In fact, he warns that Romania is on its way to becoming one of the most unequal states in Europe and quite possibly a future trouble-spot unless efforts to resume much-needed reforms are undertaken.

A collection that outlines the events of the Whitman's life which gave rise to his many letters and literary reminiscences. It records the poet's daily activities.

A two-volume set which aims to prove that Whitman's prose has a quality no less original and distinctive than his poetry.

Discussing letter-writing, this collection of nearly 3,000 letters written over a half century reveals Whitman. It covers the last seven years of Whitman's life, giving an almost day-by-day account of his long struggle with various ailments, and his stoical acceptance of constant pain.

Offers an overview of earlier research on children's human figure drawings, concerning development, their use as an intelligence test, their use as a projective test, and sex differences.

This collection tackles the theme of isolation and the breakdown of mediating social institutions. It is, in part, a response to Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone as well as an attempt to create a broader idea of civil society.

In this sensitive and richly rewarding book Barbara L. Wood, a clinician with many years' experience working with adult children of the chemically dependent, gives clinicians informed and practical advice on how to treat the damaged self of these individuals. She offers strategies for intervention, along with step-by-step principles that tell the therapist how best to create an environment to help patients.

Do immigrants fit into and affect the polity and society of the country they enter? What changes can or must the receiving state make to accommodate them? What changes in culture and ethnic identity do immigrants undergo in their new environment? This title addresses these questions and more.

This four-part volume identifies the problems and issues in late 20th and early 21st-century history education, working towards an understanding of this evolving field. It aims to give both students and teachers insights into the best way of developing historical understanding in pupils.

An introduction to key conceptual debates and approaches in contemporary political sociology. Topics addressed include globalization, the rise of new social movements, neo-liberalism, citizenship, political culture and political participation.

The origin, condition and future of the "Black Jews" of Ethiopia has been a source of debate. This study of the history of this community aims to demythologise the history of the Falasha and to consider them in the wider context of Ethiopian history and culture.

A witty and provocative re-evaluation of the phenomenon known as Jerry Lewis, an accomplished yet controversial figure in American cinema.