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Death in America
Inbunden, 1975
933 kr
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The subject of death is treated as an aspect of cultural history, which includes the ideas about God, sin, death, and damnation imparted to children in Puritan New England; nineteenth-century America's grim acceptance of, if not relish for, death; consolation literature in the nineteenth century; …
Shaping of Somali Society
Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 16-19
Inbunden, 1982
1280 kr
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While recurrent drought, war with neighboring Ethiopia, and a staggering refugee crisis have recently propelled the African nation of Somalia into world headlines, remarkably little is known about the history of this East African country. For the first time, Lee Cassanelli makes available a …
Albertanus of Brescia
The Pursuit of Happiness in the Early Thirteenth Century
E-bok, 2016
1228 kr
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Albertanus of Brescia is an important figure in the cultural history of late medieval and Renaissance Italy. He is best known among literary scholars for the influence of his writings on Brunetto Latini, John Gower, and Geoffrey Chaucer. In addition, his sermons have received attention as part of …
Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
E-bok, 2011
614 kr
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Although social sciences such as anthropology are often thought to have been organized as academic specialties in the nineteenth century, the ideas upon which these disciplines were founded actually developed centuries earlier. In fact, the foundational concepts can be traced at least as far back …
Backwoods Utopias
The Sectarian Origins and the Owenite Phase of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663-1829
Häftad, 1971
385 kr
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The new society that the world awaited might yet be born in the humble guise of a backwoods village. This was the belief shared by the many groups which moved into the American frontier to create experimental communities-communities which they hoped would be models for revolutionary changes in …
Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Häftad, 1998
671 kr
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Although social sciences such as anthropology are often thought to have been organized as academic specialties in the nineteenth century, the ideas upon which these disciplines were founded actually developed centuries earlier. In fact, the foundational concepts can be traced at least as far back …
Transcendentalism in New England
A History
Av Octavius Brooks Frothingham
Inbunden, 1972
1296 kr
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the …
Evolution and the Founders of Pragmatism
Inbunden, 1972
1071 kr
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the …
Letters of Obscure Men
Inbunden, 1972
1103 kr
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the …
Guide to Women's History Resources in the Delaware Valley Area
Av Trina Vaux
Inbunden, 1983
1103 kr
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the …
Economic Report on the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area, 1985
Av Anita A. Summers, Thomas F. Luce
Häftad, 1987
385 kr
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the …
Economic Development Within the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area
Av Anita A. Summers, Thomas F. Luce
Inbunden, 1986
1071 kr
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This book focuses on economic relationships within the eight counties in the Philadelphia Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area. Long-term economic developments, changes in socioeconomic profiles between 1960 and 1980, and patterns of employment are examined on a county by county. Special attention …
Invitation to Law and Social Science
Av Richard Lempert, Joseph Sanders
Inbunden, 1986
1144 kr
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This innovative work treats law as the set of rules governing how people should act in society, and it demonstrates how the legal system attempts to deter antisocial behavior. Comprised of three sections. the book explores different ways in which law decides issues of responsibility, how cases are …
There's Nobody There
Community Care of Confused Older People
Av Anne Opie
Inbunden, 1993
1103 kr
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There's Nobody There is a study of family members who care for, and those suffering confusion caused by Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. The authors describe the experience of caregivers, often the caregivers' own words, and assess the impact of community care policies on their lives.
Tales from Inside the Iron Lung (and How I Got Out of It)
Av Regina Woods
Inbunden, 1994
1276 kr
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Regina Woods, just weeks before her fourteenth birthday, contracted polio. Within a few days, she was paralyzed from the neck down, unable even to breathe by herself. What is most profound about this book is that-while it is an account of catastrophic loss-there is so much triumph in it.
Torture
An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil
Häftad, 1996
454 kr
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"Torture has ceased to exist," Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in 1874. Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of every three countries. This book is about torture in Western society from earliest times to the present.A landmark study since its original …
Singing in the Spirit
African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City
Av Ray Allen
Inbunden, 1991
933 kr
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Draws on field recordings and interviews with dozens of local New York singers to tell the story of sacred quartet singing in New York City's African-American church community, tracing its evolution and its role in worship and culture.
Designs of Darkness in Contemporary American Fiction
Inbunden, 1990
1235 kr
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In Designs of Darkness, Arthur M. Saltzman examines some of the ways in which fiction has traditionally conspired to promote a goal-oriented vision of the work of art-and explores the ways in which postmodern (or postrealist) fiction consistently and unavoidably subverts the clarity of this vision. …
International Law and Pollution
Inbunden, 1991
988 kr
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The topic of the essays in this book, the threat posed to our environment by various sources and types of pollution, is a matter of serious and growing concern. The contributors are leading international experts from a variety of legal systems and backgrounds and include Andronico Adede, Ian …
Sociosemiotic Theory of Theatre
Av Jean Alter
Inbunden, 1990
1106 kr
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Analyzes the basic duality of theatre (the play is happening on a stage, but the story is happening at some other place and time), exploring how the two aspects both compete and complement each other and suggesting the social factors that impact the total process.
Planning for Serfdom
Legal Economic Discourse and Downtown Development
Inbunden, 1991
988 kr
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Robin Paul Malloy examines efforts at urban development and revitalization as prototypical examples of a monumental transformation in American law. His investigation reveals that America has rejected a belief in the marketplace, individual freedom, and autonomy, and has instead opted for an …
They Watch Me As They Watch This
Gertrude Stein's Metadrama
Inbunden, 1991
1235 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleGertrude Stein wrote almost one hundred plays, many of which were published and performed during her lifetime. In "They Watch Me as They Watch This," the first full-length study of Stein's plays, Jane Palatini Bowers focuses on the …
Language Change in South American Indian Languages
Inbunden, 1991
1074 kr
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South American Indian Languages are a particularly rich field for comparative study, and this book brings together some of the finest scholarship now being done in that area.
English Alliterative Tradition
Av Thomas Cable
Inbunden, 1991
1235 kr
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The meter of Middle English alliterative poetry, Thomas Cable contends, holds the key to a reinterpretation of both Old English meter and iambic pentameter, which in turn provides a new understanding of Middle English meter itself. Drawing upon recent insights in linguistics, Cable articulates a …
Dissident Postmodernists
Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon
Av Paul Maltby
Inbunden, 1991
1235 kr
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Critics who hold that postmodernist art is essentially adversarial and apolitical have ignored the historical context of the postmodern focus on the problems of language. Paul Maltby examines a major current of postmodernist fiction that can be read as a dissident response to developments of late …
Development of Nomadism in Ancient Northeast Africa
Av Karim Sadr
Inbunden, 1991
1074 kr
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Nomadism was one of the most important strategies for survival, and it is still the strategy of choice form many cultures in Africa and the Near East. Nomadism can be best understood through an examination of its origins, by asking why and how nomadism emerged as a way of life.
Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania, Volume 1, 1682-1709
A Biographical Dictionary
Av Craig W. Horle, Marianne S. Wokeck m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
1355 kr
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the …
Chronicle of San Juan De La Pena
A Fourteenth-Century Official History of the Crown of Aragon
Inbunden, 1991
1042 kr
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By the end of the fourteenth century, the Crown of Aragon had reached the height of its power and was the most powerful Christian state in the region. Under the rule of King Pedro IV, its navies controlled the western Mediterranean and held the balance of power in the eastern; at the same time, its …
Dante As Dramatist
The Myth of the Earthly Paradise and Tragic Vision in the "Divine Comedy"
Inbunden, 1991
1235 kr
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The overwhelming concentration on questions of allegory in Dante studies, Franco Masciandaro contends, has come at the expense of considerations of the poem's literal dimension. And while the dramatic quality of the Divine Comedy is often recognized, few critics have made it the object of sustained …
John Gibbon and His Heart-Lung Machine
Inbunden, 1992
1106 kr
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John Heysham Gibbon, Jr., M.D., was the first researcher to develop a heart-lung machine that could fully support an adult's cardiac and respiratory functions during surgical procedures to repair defects in the heart and lungs. The difficulty of such a task can be seen in the number of people who …
