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Clarifies the reasons why the first attempt to secure meaningful civil liberties occurred in the World War I era.

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This edition reprints the first published version, that of 1893. Misprints and errors have been corrected and are identified in "A Note on the Text." Footnotes indicate changes in wording Crane made for the 1896 edition and explain slang...

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The distinguished folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand has selected 26 essays, arranged in four sections of increasing sophistication and difficulty, to introduce the beginning student to the best in modern folklore scholarship. As he writes in the Pref...

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The second edition traces the development of the genre from the 1920s to the 1970s. The section on the documentaries of the 1970s is introduced by his own survey of the filmmaking of the period, "From Political Activism to Women's Consciousne...

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Stone is undoubtedly one of the world's leading authorities on contemporary music notation and its problems. As head of the Index of New Musical Notation, he collected and categorized the myriad new devices appearing in published music of this cen...

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Since its publication in 1968, The Double Helix has given countless readers a rare and exciting look at one highly significant piece of scientific research Watson and Crick's race to discover the molecular structure of DNA. In this Norton Critical...

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During the age of Romanticism and revolt the trauma of the French Revolution worked itself out in the texture of the developments stimulated by the Industrial Revolution, though the solutions formulated by contemporaries were put to the test at a ...

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An authority on regulation who has served on the Council of Economic Advisers calls attention to the explosive growth in regulation since the late 1960s a its effects and examines movements for reform and deregulation.

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Essays discuss the nature of the modern state and its relationship to society justice, defense, terrorism, war and world affairs.

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Developmental psychologist Margaret Donaldson shows that much of the intellectual framework on which we base our teaching is misleading. We both underestimate the astonishing rational powers of young children and ignore the major stumbling block t...

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The author discusses the conditions which made global imperialism possible, and examines the results of the nineteenth-century scientific and technological revolution, as well as the political relations among the Great Powers. By concentrating on ...

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A first-year German reader.

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It is widely held that the struggle to overthrow the corrupt regime of Porfirio Diaz fundamentally transformed the structure of Mexican society, bringing social justice for downtrodden peasants and workers. Ramn Eduardo Ruz refutes the traditional...

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This book introduces the arts of Greece as they were executed between the death of Alexander and the Battle of Actium, when Greece finally lost her independence and Augustus assumed control of Mediterranean.

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In the lucid style and engaging manner that have become his trademark, Robert L. Heilbroner explains and explores the central elements of Marxist thought: the meaning of a "dialectical" philosophy, the usefulness and problems of a "...

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Folklore scholar Jan Harold Brunvand assembles the best-known urban legendsincluding "The Hook," "The Spider in the Hairdo," and "The Baby-Sitter and the Man Upstairs"and provides an enlightening and entertaining anal...

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He demonstrates the enormous diversity and constant change that characterized every aspect of music during this period. By dividing his text into twenty-year spans, Downs is able to trace the development of musical style. Within each span he looks...

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The book begins with a thorough coverage of a number of elementary matters. This may be regarded either as a review or as a reorientation in preparation for the systematic presentation that follows. Beginning in Part Two ideas that are more specif...

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A panoramic study of American music details the historical events, personalities, and cultural influences that have played a significant role in the development of the various types of music in the United States.

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Through portraits of four figures-Charles Willson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap, and Noah Webster-Joseph Ellis provides a unique perspective on the role of culture in post-Revolutionary America, both its high expectations and its ...

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But a series of shocks-social, economic, intellectual, and, finally, political-gave an increasingly distinctive twist to the ideology of nationalism that developed in the South. By 1860, through agreeing with the North over constitutional fundamen...

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Examines the relationships among the mass media, political parties, and presidential elections, noting the media's effects both on a candidate's success and his actions in office.

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All genres, styles, and instrumental combinations are included. The minor composers who labored industriously throughout Europe to supply the growing audiences with the latest in musical fashion are generously represented. For the geniuses of the ...

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Aristotle's doctrines are basic to every critical discussion of Greek tragedy and of other literary forms. Although the Poetics has often been denounced or rejected, such rejection is usually the result of a misunderstanding of what Aristotle...

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